Chapter 5

Behind him came the scream of black eggs. Wu Tao got on the car, happily got into the green garden corridor covered with vines, and glided to the green gray porch.

"Dad, mom, I'm back!"

A call, but no one answered. Only a big black dog with shiny oil rushed out and circled around his people and car.

I touched big black's head and parked the cart at home. On the coal stove in the yard, the tea has been steaming. The light is on in Grandpa's room. 80% are reading, and the remaining 20% are reading and answering letters.

The mulberry leaves of a flat car at the door of the east house are fresh. It seems that parents must be busy in the east house sericulture room.

Find a thermos and fill it with boiling water. Then refill the well water and put it back on the coal stove. As soon as I saw that the furnace was almost flameout, I had to find the tongs and replace them with new charcoal.

"Brother!"

Hearing his brother Wu Jiang's voice, Wu Tao scolded: "where are you going? I don't care if the water on the stove is boiling?"

"I played with black eggs at Aunt Hua's house..."

"You lie!" The black egg's howl was still in his ears. The boy dared to lie when he opened his eyes. Wu Tao turned around and caught a glimpse of the white ice cream left at the corner of his brother's mouth. "Where did he run to steal food?"

At the age of eight, Wu Jiang's eyes turned around. They felt that they could not escape their brother's eyes, so they had to be honest.

"Brother, my parents are so busy that they haven't cooked. I'm starving. So just now, black egg said to invite me to have ice cream, so I went. "

At present, it is the busy mulberry season. My family has raised three silkworms this season, and the three East houses are full. Now the silkworms are big. They eat two or three hundred kilograms of mulberry leaves every day, full of a flat cart.

Go to pick mulberry leaves before dawn every day. You can't come back until afternoon. Mulberry leaves must be mixed with liquid medicine after being picked and prepared before they can be sprinkled on silkworms. When the silkworms are finished, they have to pull and eat more, so they have to change the silkworm plaque and pour out the silkworm sand

After this busy trip, there was no time to cook seriously. It's strange that Xiaojiang didn't shout hungry.

"All right, aren't you hungry for a while? I'll cook. "

"Brother, you can cook. Why don't I know? Is it scrambled eggs? Mom said that those eggs are not allowed to eat. I'll leave them for your high school entrance examination to supplement nutrition. "

At the age of Wu Tao in his previous life, he really only knew how to scramble eggs. That's what he learned in kindergarten.

Now, why is it difficult to cook a meal?

When I walked into the kitchen, I saw that the pot was not washed and the bowl was not washed. There were leftover chili and garlic on the chopping board. Besides, I don't even have half a green vegetable, let alone fish and so on. As for the only meat at home, that is eggs and duck eggs, which have long been hidden in the cabinet by my mother.

Fortunately, there is also their own Japonica Rice in the rice jar and half a bowl of oil in the oil bottle.

That's enough.

Throw a pile of bowls and chopsticks into the basin and throw the towel gourd pulp: "come, Xiaojiang, come and wash the bowl!"

"Ah? Brother, I can't wash! My parents never let me wash the dishes. "

"Mom and dad are busy, but they can't protect you! You must not only wash it today, but also clean it, otherwise you are not allowed to have dinner. "

"Brother, brother, brother, why are you going?"

When Wu Tao walked out of the courtyard, his voice came back: "pick vegetables!"

There is rice and no vegetables at home. Fortunately, at this time, there should be green goods in the vegetable garden outside the yard.

When I came to the vegetable garden behind the house, I saw that the cucumbers on the two rows of shelves were growing well. I picked a few similar ones and put them in the basket. This is the first dish.

Looking back, there was a row of tomatoes against the fence, only a finger big fruit, far from being edible.

The two rows of eggplant, beans and plum beans in the back have just grown. As for the square melon seedlings on the fence wall, they only blossom and bear no fruit.

A large family, old and young, can't just eat cold cucumber?

For a time, Wu Tao was also a little embarrassed that it was difficult for a skillful woman to cook without rice. Looking at the trumpets on the square melon seedlings, I thought my mother was too busy to care about the vegetable garden. So many flowers must be pinched off in order to make the remaining squash grow bigger.

Thinking of this, Wu Tao was moved and had a dream!

A moment later, looking at the small half bowl of square melon vines in the basket and the arranged square melon flowers, Wu Tao knew that there was another dish.

Into the depths of the garden, looking at the three stubbles of leeks that had just spread their leaves, Wu Tao clenched his teeth, cut it, cut a plate!

After stepping over the leek field, we came to the east of the garden. It was a small piece of melon field, which couldn't make a dish. Just as he was about to return home, Yu Guang suddenly caught a glimpse of loofah vines on the fence wall.

Sweeping along the loofah vine, I found that two feet long loofahs had grown. Hey, the four dishes are finally together.

With a long sigh of relief, Wu Tao turned back and went out of the vegetable garden, preparing to go home. Aunt Hua next door showed her head, waved to him and said, "are you cooking today?"

"Yes."

"That's great!" Aunt Hua tut said, "take down the leek and I'll choose it for you. When you choose it, let the black egg send it to you."

"Why bother you?" Wu Tao declined.

Without saying a word, aunt Hua took out the leeks from the basket and said, "I'm fine at home, black egg, and I have to cry for a while."

"Thank you, aunt Hua."

Watching aunt Hua go home with leeks, Wu Tao sighed to himself that every family has a difficult Sutra to read.

Originally, he felt that his family could not even get together the dishes for a meal, which was pathetic enough.

But when I think of aunt Hua alone, a discontented woman in her thirties, carrying the oil bottle of black eggs alone, the women are full, and the whole family is not hungry, let alone the pain.

What's more, aunt Hua's charm is well-known in all parts of the country. When she married black egg dad, Wu Tao was only as big as Wujiang, but she still looked straight and had only one idea in her mind. The bride was really beautiful as his grandmother.

Putting aside her miscellaneous thoughts, she turned back to the yard and was welcoming her mother, Zhang Huilan, who came out with a large plaque of silkworm sand.

"Oh, Tao is back?"

"Yes!"

"The meal has to wait. The silkworms in a room are not finished yet."

"Come on, mom, you and dad are busy sericulture. I'll cook the meal and keep it so that you can have a hot meal after you're busy. "

Zhang Huilan looked suspiciously at her eldest son, who had never been to the kitchen. At present, it's the only way to do it. Even half cooked is better than cooking hungry.

I'm really tired.

When I entered the yard, I saw that the dirty bowl beside the well was still there, but Xiaojiang disappeared without a trace.

"Xiaojiang, don't you want to eat? Come out and wash the dishes! " Wu Tao's tone was not polite at all. He was definitely a brother.

Zhang Huilan came back with an empty plaque and said, "I'll wash the bowl. Jiang Bi is still small."

"Mom, don't always protect him." Wu Tao put down his basket and said, "black egg is one and a half years younger than him. Now he can do anything at home. If you look at Xiaojiang again, you can't even wash the dishes! "

"Who let the black egg die when he was young, dad? No one hurts? I don't have to suffer like him. " Zhang Huilan took it for granted.

Wu Tao was a little angry and didn't take my mother's words, but his tone became colder and colder: "Xiaojiang, I count to three and won't come out to wash the dishes again. I promise the jade emperor that you absolutely have no food!"

"One, two..."