"Brother Qi, what do you think we should name our child?" Fang Nuo asked Shen Gongqi, touching his belly.
"I'll look through this in a dictionary first. When I find good names, I'll write them down. Then you can choose one," Shen Gongqi said.
"Well, you have to choose a good-sounding name for our child, otherwise it will be a lifelong name," Fang Nuo said.
"Hmm, I'll definitely take it well," Shen Gongqi said.
The two sat for a while, and then the rain stopped outside. The family finally left the house and moved to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
After dinner, they had just washed up, and not long after getting on the kang, it started to rain again.
This time the rain was much heavier than during the day, and it continued to rain all night.
It stopped the next morning. At eight or nine o'clock, the sun came out.
Shen Gongqi packed up the house and went out to pick mushrooms.
He would do whatever he promised his wife.
The morning after he went out, he came back with a basket full of various mushrooms. After lunch, he went out for a run through the mountains again.
Even though Fang Nuo was at home, he sorted the mushrooms he brought back and put them in the sun, leaving some for the day.
During the few months she was at home this year, she hatched a brood of chicks and secretly raised them in a chicken coop in the backyard.
Shen Gongqi was afraid that the chickens would run into the vegetable field to eat vegetables, so he used bamboo to surround the chicken pen for the chickens to move around.
Fortunately, Aunt Dahua and her family usually come here from time to time. Other times, they are the only ones at home, so Fang Nuo dared to secretly raise more chickens.
Moreover, their family lives in a relatively remote area, and not many people usually come here.
After several months of feeding, those chickens have grown into half-sized chickens.
Fang Nuo thought about killing the rooster from last year and making chicken stewed with mushrooms for dinner at night.
Just do whatever you want. In the afternoon, she finished processing the mushrooms and boiled a pot of hot water.
After the water boiled, I went to catch the chicken and killed it myself in the kitchen. Shen Gongqi came back before I could remove the chicken feathers.
When he entered the yard, he didn't see his wife. He put down the backpack and heard a sound from the kitchen.
Shen Gongqi walked into the kitchen and saw his wife sitting on a small stool by the stove, plucking a chicken in her hand. ?
"Daughter-in-law, why did you kill the chicken by yourself? Did you hurt yourself?" Shen Gongqi looked at it, hurriedly walked over and squatted down, took her hand and looked again and again.
"You're back, let's eat chicken stewed with mushrooms tonight," Fang Nuo said after he finished reading and made sure he was not injured.
"Okay, let's make whatever you like to eat. I'll take care of the rest. You go scoop out the hot water and wash your hands." Shen Gongqi said, taking the chicken in her hand and putting it in the basin. , helped her get up to wash her hands, sat down where she was just now, and continued to remove the chicken's feathers.
Fang Nuo went to wash his hands, then went out and carried the basket he brought back into the kitchen, found a big basin, and poured out all the mushrooms in it.
Then he sat down on a small stool and sorted out all the mushrooms.
Then use the hot water in the pot, blanch the classified mushrooms one by one, and soak them in cold water.
Waiting to clean it tomorrow, she took out the mushrooms she left at noon and cleaned them again.
I went out to the vegetable field again and brought back some peppers, onions and garlic. I washed them and chopped them for later use.
Over there, Shen Gongqi also cleaned the chicken inside and out and brought it into the kitchen. He went to the cutting board and picked up a knife and quickly chopped it into pieces.
After the chicken was chopped, he went to light the fire. Fang Nuo began to blanch the chicken and then rinse it with clean water.
Clean the pot, boil the water, add oil to heat, put the ginger and garlic in and sauté until fragrant, then add the cleaned chicken pieces, stir-fry until the outside of the chicken is a little brown, then add warm water and simmer Cook for fifteen minutes, then add the mushrooms and continue simmering for another twenty minutes.
Five minutes before serving, add the chopped green and red pepper segments, stir-fry a few times, and then serve.
There was chicken tonight, so Fang Nuo also prepared a stir-fried lettuce and a bowl of pickles to go with it.
After finishing the meal, the family started to have dinner. This was Yaya's first time to eat mushrooms. She liked the smooth texture of mushrooms very much.
When Fang Nuo heard her say that mushrooms would be her favorite dish from now on, he complained in his heart that there was nothing she didn't like to eat.
"Brother Qi, are there many mushrooms in the mountains today?" Fang Nuo turned to look at his man and asked.
"There aren't many mushrooms today. After all, it just rained and some mushrooms haven't grown yet. We have to wait for a day or two. Then there may be more mushrooms than now," Shen Gongqi said.
"That's it, then you can rest at home tomorrow. You can also go there in two days," Fang Nuo said.
"Okay, tomorrow happens to be when Jun Yu and I go to the next village to help others build a house. It's just a day's work. After the work is done, I will go to the mountains to pick mushrooms the day after tomorrow," Shen Gongqi said.
"Really? When did you take the job?" Fang Nuo asked
"This was introduced by the captain's uncle. Jun Yu asked for help and asked me to join him. I thought it could increase some income for my family, so I agreed," Shen Gongqi said.
"Okay then, do I need to prepare breakfast and lunch for you?" Fang Nuo asked him as he thought of some people who hired people to work and were unwilling to provide food in order to save food.
"No, there are still plenty of leftovers tonight. I'll get up and pack them up tomorrow, pack some in a lunch box and take them out." Shen Gongqi thought that his wife was pregnant now, and he couldn't bear to get up early to prepare breakfast for himself.
"Then you can gather some dry firewood, make a small fire, and put the lunch box on it to heat it up. Don't eat cold food, as it can easily spoil your stomach," Fang Nuo explained.
"Yeah, yeah, I understand," Shen Gongqi nodded and responded.
"You have to do physical work tomorrow, so you have to eat a chicken leg to replenish your energy in advance." Fang Nuo said, and put a chicken drumstick in the pot into his bowl.
"You eat too." Shen Gongqi also gave her the chicken wings she liked to eat. He also didn't forget his daughter and gave her a chicken wing root.
The family of three were all a little stuffed after eating tonight, mainly because the food today was so delicious that they didn't stop using their chopsticks for a while.
Finally, the three of them cleared the dining table, went out of the house, and walked around the courtyard for a while.
When his stomach was no longer so full, Shen Gongqi went to fetch water and heat it in the pot.
When the water was just warm, he scooped out the water and washed the dishes.
Then he fetched water to bathe Fang Nuo and Yaya first. After they finished washing and returned to the house, he started to wash himself.
The whole family washed up and lay down on the kang, thinking that they would have something to do tomorrow, so they went to bed early.
Shen Gongqi got up early the next day and moved very gently so as not to wake Fang Nuo up.
He left the house quietly, washed up outside, went to the kitchen to pack some food in a lunch box, packed it in a cloth bag, poured a bottle of Liangbai at home, packed it and carried it out.
When Fang Nuo woke up, the temperature around him had long since disappeared, and the person he thought had been gone for a long time.
