Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 231 Mid-Autumn Festival Chapter

Shen Yuanshan held the basket in front of them like he was presenting a treasure: "Sister-in-law, brother, we will cook shrimp tonight and snails tomorrow."

There are not many shrimps, so give each person one.

That river had been touched by someone before, so there weren't many shrimps, but there were a lot of snails.

I guess they caught a lot of shrimps, so snails are no longer rare.

Ji Wenhe looked at the basket and said, "Wash the shrimps and stir-fry them with some hot sauce later."

Shen Yuanshan nodded: "Okay, I'll go then."

"I'll go back and help." Shen Wenshan got up and packed up, putting the unsold noodles in the basket at Lan Qiuhua's house.

When Shen Rongshan came back, the meal was just ready.

"Brother Shen, sit down and rest for a while." She poured him a glass of water and handed it to him.

He took the bowl and drank it all in one breath, then looked at her and said, "Yuanshan is back."

"I'm back. I went to the mountain to check traps." Ji Wenhe held the empty bowl and asked him, "Do you want more?"

Shen Rongshan shook his head and sat on the bench: "I went to Baiyun Mountain today and met Dali and the others. Shen Guyan said he would come to Shenjia Village during the Mid-Autumn Festival to talk to you."

"Okay, I'm not going anywhere at home, just come find me."

The Mid-Autumn Festival is on August 15th, and on the 14th I go to deliver goods and also purchase new goods.

"Brother Shen, how about this, Fourteen, I won't go to town with you. You deliver the goods to Boss Yang. She recognizes you."

Shen Guyan didn't say when he would come, in case the two of them missed each other.

"Okay, Yuanshan and I will go, and we can buy the shoes at the end of the month."

I didn’t buy cloth shoes last time, and I plan to purchase some in the middle of the month.

"Okay." Ji Wenhe lifted the lid of the pot and served the rice out to cool it down.

"Yuanshan caught a lot of snails today, but not many shrimps, so two per person."

She counted and there was not one extra.

Shen Rongshan turned around and looked at the busy figures in the house: "When the season comes, many people go to the river to catch shrimps. Some people go before dawn."

"By the time we go there, all the shrimps in the river will have been fished out."

They had to sleep, so they ran to the river in the middle of the night.

"Can we buy shrimps during the Chinese New Year?" Ji Wenhe asked.

"We have it during the Chinese New Year, but it's expensive, 56 yuan per pound, and it gets more expensive as the year draws to a close."

"It's not just shrimp, other things are also going up in price, pork, mutton, fish..."

She knew this. It was the same in her previous life. Everything would go up in price at the end of the year.

"Wait until the Chinese New Year and see if I have some extra money, and buy some shrimp and mutton."

At this time, Shen Yunshan came down from the mountain: "Brother, there is nothing in the trap."

"I'll go dig a trap in the east some other day."

I haven't caught any prey for half a month.

Ji Wenhe shouted, "It's time to eat."

The dinner table.

Shen Rongshan looked at the person opposite him and said, "Wenshan, you will go out with me to sell goods tomorrow, to the village in the north."

"Ask how many people want pork. The rice harvest will start next month."

"Okay." Shen Wenshan nodded, "Will we sell our grain this year?"

All three of them looked at Ji Wenhe.

She replied: "No, I'm tired of eating dark noodles and brown rice every day. I'll keep the rice for myself. It's too expensive to buy in town. Besides, we can't sell that little piece of land for much money."

"And we don't know how much we can harvest. If there's a lot, we can sell some. How long has it been since you last had rice?"

Judging from the conditions at home, I haven’t eaten it for several years at least.

Shen Yunshan thought for a moment and replied, "We haven't eaten rice since our eldest brother left."

We usually eat black noodles because they are cheap and rice is too expensive.

"I haven't been there for a long time." Shen Rongshan replied.

Life in the military camp was very difficult. They only had black noodles and wild vegetables for three meals a day. They could not even have rice.

Ji Wenhe looked at the twins' fleshy cheeks and said, "We won't sell this year. When we have more paddy fields, we'll keep some of the harvest for ourselves and sell the rest."

If you mix brown rice and rice together, it can last for a long time.

Looking at the person on the right: "Brother Shen, should we plant corn in the spring or wheat in the second half of the year on the wasteland?"

Planting crops early is a recipe for failure in cultivating the soil and wasting the seeds.

Shen Rongshan thought for a moment and said, "It's a bit early to talk about this now. Let's talk about it next year."

He himself hadn't thought it through yet, and was afraid that the land wouldn't be well maintained and the crops would be wasted.

"Wen He, I'm going to Aunt Miao's house after dinner. You go to bed first and don't have to wait for me."

Shen Erniu and Shen Anguo have gone to the town to find work, and Shen Liang is at home.

He originally wanted to go with the two of them, but Miao Zhaodi wouldn't let him and told him to stay at home and heal his arm before going.

"Okay, you go."

She heard from Lan Qiuhua that the injury on Shen Liang's arm was not serious and did not break any bones or muscles.

His mother forced him to lie down at home these two days.

Miao Zhaodi's home.

After dinner, the father and son sat under the eaves, looking towards the gate of the courtyard.

When Shen Rongshan came over, he saw this scene: "Uncle Zhuan, Brother Liang, have you finished your meal?"

The two nodded.

"Rongshan is here." Miao Zhaodi came out of the kitchen with a smile on her face, "Come in quickly, I'll bring you a stool."

"No, Aunt Miao, I want to talk to Brother Liang."

Shen Liang stood up and said, "Let's go and take a walk at the foot of the mountain."

It's not dark yet, and it's windy and cool.

Arriving at the foot of the mountain, Shen Rongshan asked, "I see that things between you and Uncle Zhuan seem to be getting along a lot better."

The two of them could sit together without any cold faces or quarrels.

Just now Shen Shuzhun smiled at him, and in the past he just nodded casually.

He raised his left arm: "This cut has brought us back to the way we were before."

If he had known it was that simple, he should have cut his arm earlier.

"I'm happy for you guys to be able to talk it out."

"Thank you, Rongshan." Shen Liang turned and looked at him, gratefully.

"I didn't do anything, why thank me?"

All he could do was come over and talk to him, letting him vent his inner depression. He couldn't help with anything else.

The two chatted for a while, and when it got dark, they said goodbye and left.

When he got home, the twins were waiting for him to take a bath in the river.

When I came back from taking a shower, Ji Wenhe was already asleep.

Because of the hot weather, she never let him get close to her.

Shen Rongshan lay beside her, remembering that she asked him to go back to the room to sleep. It was very cold at night, and she would always unconsciously lean against him and squeeze him.

He suddenly began to look forward to winter.

In a blink of an eye, it is the 16th, and tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Shen Rongshan and Shen Wenshan went to the town to deliver goods and purchase goods.

Bring half a pound of meat to Shen Ping's family, and buy half a pound of pork belly and half a pound of lean meat for yourself.

I also asked him to buy four mooncakes, as we eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but I don't know how much each one costs in town.

Ji Wenhe sat on a small stool, bent over, and cut grass in the vegetable garden.

"Wen He, I'm busy."

Turning around, I saw that the clothes she was wearing were better than usual, without any patches, and she was carrying a basket on her back: "Aunt Zhou, you are going back to your parents' home to give gifts."

Zhou Xiaoyu smiled and nodded: "Yes, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I will go and take a look, you are busy, I will leave first."

"Hey."

Some people in the village went back on the 13th. Most of them lived far away from their parents' homes and it took a day to go back and forth.

Shen Guyan estimated that he would be back today.

Just as I was thinking about it, their voices came.

"sister in law."

"sister in law."