Chapter 138: People in the Village(1/2)
This was the first time Su Mo came to Zaohua Village and asked people and found Li Ercai's home.
He patted the knocker on the wooden door.
Someone inside shouted: "Who is it?"
Li Ercai opened the door and saw that it was the daughter of the village chief.
He smiled and said, "You haven't eaten yet, eat together here."
When I walked in, I saw Chen Zhuo having dinner here.
Seeing her coming, Chen Zhuo put the big bone on the table.
Su Mo looked at him. His thin lips were a little greasy. Unexpectedly, people who looked cold and noble would chew meat in such a big mouthful.
"I'm here to call you back for dinner."
"oh".
Chen Zhuo stood up after hearing this.
Li Ercai quickly stopped and said enthusiastically: "Don't leave, I've eaten here, eat here."
"And with this Ni'er, let's eat at my house."
Su Mo looked at Chen Zhuo. She didn't care. She was just polite and called Chen Zhuo back for dinner.
If he thinks it is delicious, then here.
Li Ercai's mother was sitting also fumbled enthusiastically to move the stool.
Su Mo took it and said to her, "Auntie, stop busy. I'm going home now, and the house is still waiting for dinner."
"Tell me to my family that I can have a meal here."
Chen Zhuo looked at her and said directly.
Su Mo felt a little strange. Chen Zhuo had just come to her house for a day and seemed to be very familiar with him.
Li Ercai and his mother pulled her very enthusiastically.
Su Mo had no choice but to say, "Then I'll go back and say it."
Li Ercai smiled and said, "Don't worry about going back and talking so much."
As he said that, he left the yard, found a high place, and shouted to the bottom: "Captain Su, your daughter is having a meal at my house."
His shouting could make it feel like he could have been more than ten miles away. Zaohua Village is not big, and the villagers live from door to door, only Su Changfeng's house is on the hillside below.
He had just arrived in Zaohua Village at the beginning, and the villagers here were a little disgusted.
However, more than ten years have passed, and the villagers have long since stopped minding.
Li Ercai's mother went to fry a few more vegetables.
Su Mo wanted to go over to help, but it was very difficult to see her as a blind woman.
Li Ercai smiled and said, "Don't worry, although my mother's eyes are not good, she is more flexible than me in her life."
What Li Ercai said is true.
Soon, Li Ercai's mother prepared a few dishes.
There are stewed with winter melon, cucumber peeled eggs, and a sweet shredded apple and steamed date cake.
The most common ones in Zaohua Village are apples and big red dates.
The roadsides are all planted, and there is no rainfall here, but the apples and dates are very sweet and are particularly easy to live.
Any bird can grow by soaking the dung, so wild jujubes and wild apples are everywhere on the mountain.
Wild apples are smaller than those grown by the villagers themselves. They are not as sweet as they are sour and sweet, and they are all red like jade.
The children in the village were tired of eating, so no one stole fruit or anything.
Every family has it.
Even if there is no plant in the yard, there will definitely be some on the roadside outside the yard wall.
Just talk about Li Ercai's family. Although there was a strange banana planted in the yard, the yard was covered with apple trees.
Su Mo saw it when she came.
Su Mo picked up a piece of silk-pulled apple and ate it.
"Is this an apple outside the yard?"
Li Ercai's mother nodded with a smile.
"It's a wild apple."
Although she was blind, she looked at people very kindly.
"It's all bird species on the mountain."
"They can fly to the highest point of the ridge, where wild apples are the best, and birds choose the best to eat, so the seeds sown are naturally the best."
"Even such apples can't be bought in the city."
Although wild apples grow in other parts of the village, they are mostly on hillsides and not in villages, so naturally most of the birds are farther away from the crowd.
If the geese like to fly into ordinary people's homes, it is often auspicious.
Apples are auspicious trees, and many of them represent peace. Su Mo looked at the yard.
There is a wide flat ground at the entrance of this house, and it does not look like the door of other houses facing the walls of another house or the door of other houses.
This is a rare good house facing in the village.
There are so many apple trees growing around the yard.
But why does the vigor that should have flowed in from the main entrance of the gate always seem a bit secluded after the vigor that is supposed to flow in from the main entrance?
Su Mo looked at the banana tree.
This place is not like Jiangnan, where bananas dot the scenery of the courtyard. It is a plateau, and most bananas are not growing well.
Planting banana trees here makes the yard feel a little misty, but it makes Su Mo feel that the banana trees are a little bit secluded.
I looked at the house again. Although the house was very simple, it was clean and tidy, especially the warm kindness of the old woman.
This home should look like a good place.
I don't understand why Li Er is so poor.
Of course, many families in the village are not very wealthy, but the house is good and they are doing so miserably, so Li Er is considered one.
Su Mo quickly took the sweet soup of sour jujube apple lotus seeds handed to her by Li Ercai's mother.
"The lotus seeds were obtained by Ercai going to the countryside. They raised them themselves in the lotus pond, and they were specially eaten by others. They were very well-raised and fragrant. You can try them."
The blind woman seemed to like young girls very much, with kindness on her face.
This sweet soup really smells fragrant.
It’s great to see cucumbers and fresh lotus seeds that are not easy to buy in winter on the table.
This Li Ercai is not particularly useless either.
"Brother Ercai, what did you use to exchange it with others?"
Hearing her call her "Second Brother", Shen Zhuo looked at her.
Li Ercai didn't care about these details and smiled and said, "Here, it's this wild boar meat."
"During the Chinese New Year, every household needs pork to fry pork balls and make dumplings, so my wild boar is very popular."
"Didn't the other villagers go hunting?"
Li Ercai laughed.
His mother also laughed, carrying and having honor.
"Not everyone can beat this wild boar. If it is arched by its fangs, it will not be able to move for a year or two."
"Oh, then your archery is good."
Li Ercai was not humble either.
"I don't know other places, but in our village, I asked myself that no one can catch up with me."
Su Mo scooped up a spoonful of sweet soup with a spoonful of sweet soup, but Shen Zhuo picked up a big big bone for her and put it in a bowl. Although the bones were very big, there was a lot of meat on it and it smelled very fragrant.
She didn't know where to talk.
Put down the spoon: "Then did Brother Ercai encounter any strange things going up the mountain this year?"
"Strange thing..."
Li Ercai thought hard.
"No".
"It's just that this winter is very cold, and the wild animals on the mountain are difficult to catch, and many of them may starve to death."
To be continued...