The pace of going home is always more brisk. Zhao Xueer felt happy and even wanted to hum a tune. However, something seemed to have occurred to her, and she was still happy in the end.

Arriving at the door of her house quickly, Yun Xiaotang heard her sister's call in the yard, jumped up from her stool, and trotted to open the door for her sister.

As soon as she entered the yard, Zhao Xueer locked the door, "Chun'er, Tian'er, look what sister caught?"

Yun Xiaotang and Zhao Tian'er gathered around and saw Zhao Xue'er taking out a fish from the bamboo basket!

The two little guys quickly covered their mouths with their hands to prevent themselves from screaming. They had fish to eat!

Carrying the Tengman with the fish tied up, Zhao Xueer walked into the kitchen, untied the Tengman, put the fish into the basin, and scooped a few ladles of water into it. As soon as the fish was free, its gills bulged and it flicked its tail.

Swimming in the basin.

After carrying the fish basin out of the kitchen and placing it on the ground, Zhao Tian'er walked over, stared at the fish, and poked the fish curiously.

"This fish is still alive."

After giving the fish to her younger siblings to play with, Zhao Xueer took a hoe and dug up the soil in a corner of the yard, planning to open a small vegetable garden and plant the wild leeks and shepherd's purse she had picked from the mountain.

Yun Xiaotang helped pick out the pebbles from the renovated soil.

One dug and the other picked, and soon a small field was basically formed. Zhao Xueer went to the kitchen to pick up some branches and inserted them outside the small field. A small vegetable garden was completed.

Although it looks a bit crude, it is possible to grow vegetables. Taking out the wild leeks and shepherd's purse from the bamboo basket, Zhao Xueer first cut the wild leeks and shepherd's purse from the middle with a knife, and then cut off the shepherd's purse from the middle, leaving the roots.

The vegetables were planted by her in the vegetable garden.

After doing this, she started to prepare to kill the fish.

She raised the knife with her hand, chopped off the fish head and put it on the plate. Then she used the blade of the knife to cut open the fish and took out the fish bubbles and other debris from inside.

Yun Xiaotang reached out and poked the transparent fish bubbles, while Zhao Tianer went back to the kitchen to help get the salt shaker.

Taking the salt shaker, Zhao Xueer put a little salt on the fish, then went back to the kitchen to find a hook to pass through the fish body, and hung the fish under the eaves, ready to be dried and made into cured fish.

After cleaning the fish and soaking them, she picked up the plate with the fish heads and prepared to make a pot of fish head soup.

Wash the washed wild leeks and ground vegetables. After the water in the pot boils, first throw the wild vegetables into the water, then put the fish heads into the pot, cover the pot and cook the fish head soup.

For a while, Yun Xiaotang and Zhao Tian'er stood under the eaves and looked up at the hanging fish body, staring like greedy cats.

"Sister is really amazing. I went out and caught a fish and came back." Zhao Tian'er opened his mouth and sighed.

"This fish can be eaten outside for a long time. It's really great."

Yun Xiaotang nodded, but what she was thinking about was waiting for spring. She wondered if she could catch some grass carp giving birth from the mountain streams and raise them in a big tank at home. In this way, the big fish would give birth to small fish, and the small fish would grow into big ones.

Fish, if you repeat this, you will always have fish at home.

In the kitchen, staring at the fish soup in the pot, Zhao Xueer was also thinking about this problem.

After the beginning of spring, the production team will start to work. Regardless of men, women, old or young, as long as they can walk and have physical strength, they must work. The task assigned to the younger village children is to herd cattle.

From morning to evening, until the cow is full, take the cow back to the cowshed.

Not only was it not safe for her to go to the mountains after dark at night, but the key was that she couldn't see the road clearly and couldn't see her fingers.

Therefore, the key is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Nowadays, every household is not allowed to raise livestock and poultry privately, and the land is shared by production teams. Everyone is extremely busy during spring plowing and autumn harvest every year. To distribute food per head, of course, the more diligent the better.

Even if the harvest is not good in the past two years, people in the village will go to the fields whenever they have free time, hoping that the dew will fall from the sky, the harvest will be better, the grain will be distributed more, and the food will be fuller.

Years ago, because of the work points left by my father and mother, their family was allocated some rice bran and sweet potatoes. When the next year, there are no mature people in the family to work, the children will herd cattle and catch insects in the fields.

It is the end of the year and there is not much food left.

…

As she was thinking about something, white smoke was rising from the pot. Zhao Xueer came back to her senses and opened the lid. The milky white fish head soup with wild vegetables was already cooked.

Wrapping the pot handle with a towel, pouring the fish head soup into a large basin, Zhao Xueer called her younger brothers and sisters who were still staring at the fish drying under the eaves, and went back to the main room to eat.

The fish head soup was steaming hot, and Yun Xiaotang took a sip while blowing on it. Probably because there was no onion, ginger, and garlic, the fish soup had an earthy smell, but it did not affect its deliciousness.

Picking up the fish that Zhao Xueer picked for her in the bowl, Yun Xiaotang swallowed it in one gulp. The fish was tender, smooth and delicious.

The fish in the mountains that have not been contaminated by sewage are indeed fresh.

After eating, Zhao Tianer helped his sister clean up the bowl while Yun Xiaotang picked up the rag and wiped the table.

After that, the three of us had nothing to do. You looked at me and I looked at you.

Or Zhao Xueer thought that the firewood in the kitchen was about to burn out, so she decided to go to the back mountain to collect firewood.

Yun Xiaotang and Zhao Tianer followed, and the three of them marched towards the back mountain neatly again.

However, this time the person standing in the middle is Yun Xiaotang, her brother is on her left hand, and her sister is on her right hand, holding hands as they go to the back mountain.

Holding the hands of her brother and sister, Yun Xiaotang jumped up and down along the way, playing the role of an innocent and lively four-year-old child.

The real child Zhao Tianer was also led by his sister and jumped up and down involuntarily.

Finally, he let go and the two of them chased each other to see who could reach the back mountain first.

"Well, let's see who of us can reach the tree first."

After saying that, Yun Xiaotang started running with her short legs, "Run~"

Zhao Tian'er was stunned and quickly ran after him.

The steady sister Zhao Xueer followed behind, watching this scene with a smile.

Yun Xiaotang increased her foot strength, and just when Zhao Tian'er was about to overtake her, she made a fork and her toes touched the root of the tree.

"Hey, my legs, my waist."

At this moment, Yun Xiaotang calmed down, holding one hand on her waist and humming.

Zhao Xueer stepped forward, helped Yun Xiaotang up, stretched out her hand and patted her buttocks gently, "Don't do such dangerous actions next time. How can a child have a waist?"

Yun Xiaotang was embarrassed, what a familiar saying "Where did the kid get his waist?"

Although she said this, Zhao Xueer gently rubbed her sister's waist and squeezed her legs.

Zhao Tian'er knelt down and said, "Sister, let me carry you on my back."

"No, no, no, I'm fine now." Yun Xiaotang said with a smile.
Chapter completed!