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Chapter 79 Polenta

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    Winter is cruel, it makes everything lifeless.  For farmers who rely on the sky and the earth to sustain their lives, the cruelest thing is that they have no food to fill their stomachs.  People are iron and rice is steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.  Fortunately, they still have a year left, but the food is a bit simple.  Polenta and pickles have almost become the table meals of most people in Qingxi Village in this season. Only those who have a good life can occasionally use rice and white noodles to reconcile the monotonous taste.  After several years of hard work, Li Changqing's life has improved a bit, but Yang Yi is a budget-conscious person and still saves money on food and expenses. Every night's dinner is still only corn porridge, but the family's luck lies in Yang Yi's skillful hands.  Not only does she make good polenta, which is thick enough to always reveal the fragrance of corn, but also because of the sauerkraut she pickles, the family can always improve the taste experience.  Although Chen Yu and Chen Piao have entered junior high school and have more homework, they will still help out when they get home and finish their homework.  Peanut peeling is the primary job of the family nowadays. We must try our best to peel the peanuts at home before the New Year, then pick them clean, pack the peanut seeds in bags and put them away, waiting for this year's oiling, next year's sale or sowing.  It's the end of the year year after year, and winter is the time to reserve everything for next year, so they can't be sloppy at all.

    It's already eight o'clock in the evening, but there are not many peanuts left in the bag on hand. It happens that there are too many people today, so everyone should hurry up and open a new bag tomorrow, so wait until the bag of peanuts opened today is peeled.  When it was over, Yang Yi started to prepare vegetables for dinner. Today she made the delicious sauerkraut, which is Chen Yao's favorite dish. She thinks this simple dish is the soul of the dinner table throughout the winter.  As soon as Yang Yi brought the filled corn porridge into the house and put it on the cabinet lined with rags, she began to nervously go out to prepare.  But as soon as she walked out of the house, she was startled by a noise.

    "Why do you eat corn porridge every day?" Chen Yu saw the corn porridge on the counter, and suddenly threw out the small dustpan in his hand along with the peanuts.  In fact, Chen Yu was hungry. He was already hungry when he was in school, and after working for half a day after school, he was already full of expectations for dinner, but when he saw the corn porridge, which he didn't like the most, he couldn't help it.  The feeling of grievance filled her heart like this, and that disappointment erupted together with the grievance.

    "What's wrong with the corn porridge, the corn porridge is delicious, I haven't seen on TV that eating more corn porridge is good for your health." Yang Yi was just trying to comfort the child, and she was also comforting herself.  She also felt sorry for the children, but there was no way that there were many children in the family. In order to save money for their schooling, she really saved it between her teeth.  Night is not like daytime. During the day, you have to do a day's work, so you have to eat more good food like white flour or rice to replenish your energy.  After dinner in the evening, there is no such a large amount of labor, and it doesn't matter if you almost eat.  Besides, in this man-eating winter, rice and flour are extremely expensive.  She had to calculate and calculate carefully.

    "I don't want to eat, I eat corn porridge every day." Because of hunger and loss, Chen Yu suddenly threw out the small dustpan full of peanuts in his hand, and the peanuts scattered all over the ground.

    People are not their own masters, more often, emotions are the masters of people.  This moment finally triggered the fragile nerve deep in Yang Yi's heart that had been wrapped up under the strong appearance.  Poverty, tiredness, repeated and heavy housework day after day, unreliable natal family, ostracized husband's family, men who are busy making ends meet, children who are starved for food, she even thought of her tragic fate of not being admitted to college, at this moment  , she felt that fate was too unfair to her. She lived so hard and worked so hard to manage her life with her husband. She never expected anyone's love, but why couldn't even her own children understand herself?

    "Get out if you don't eat." Yang Yi yelled at her second daughter.  Chen Yu was frightened. She was almost the boss of the family since she was a child, and almost everyone in the family wanted to follow her wishes.  Because she has a special ability, that is, when she is angry, she can not talk to people for several days.  Li Changqing and his wife have always felt guilty for not giving their children a better life, but the sisters are really afraid of that stern face, and the expressionless expression without words still forms a deterrent invisibly.  When making polenta before, Yang Yi would always prepare the leftover rice porridge or noodles for her, but she didn't see it today, she thought she could continue playing with her own temper and wait for the food she wanted to eat, but she didn't expect it  Yes, she caused a storm.

    "Why are you so spoiled and spoiled? Every day, the whole family depends on you. Are you an emperor or a princess? I've worked so hard every day to serve your meals, and I'm still so picky. Polenta porridge  Dislike it, we used to eat peanut skins, but you are used to it, let you eat the bark for a few days and you will be fine." Perhaps it is really too much grievance that is suppressed in my heart and there is nowhere to vent it.??, Yang Yi's voice was several times higher than usual. Now she is no longer afraid of others laughing at her hardships, but wants the whole world to hear her grievances as a rural housewife.

    "You, if she doesn't eat, just cook something else for her. As for being so arrogant, why scold the child?" Li Changqing really doesn't know how to educate children. His love for children has always been clumsy and foolish.  Usually nothing, Yang Yi would just despise him and say a few words about him, but today, his words are so unscientific and even more inappropriate.

    "You're dear, you go and do it. I feed pigs, donkeys, peel peanuts, prepare meals for school, and clean up. It's all from me. I'm tired, my back hurts like hell, and I want to eat something warm."  Why don't you do it for me because you are my own father?" She just wanted to vent her grievances, but tears flowed down her face.  She seldom shed tears. In Chen Yao's memory, the last time she shed tears was when she was hospitalized.

    "Mom, don't be angry, the second sister knows she was wrong." Chen Piao hurried forward to persuade her, she was afraid, she was afraid that her mother would be admitted to the hospital again.  Chen Yao didn't dare to speak, but just watched everything in front of her silently.

    Chen Yu saw her mother crying, and she shed tears unconsciously.  Those tears were mixed with dissatisfaction with life, but more of it was guilt towards my mother.  No matter how ignorant she is, she also sees the hard work at home. Now that she is sixteen years old, she understands that life at home is not easy.  She didn't mean to make her mother cry, she just imagined that, as usual, maybe a little tantrum would save her from eating polenta, which she really hated.  But her proud character kept her from saying a word, and she just cried silently.

    "If you don't eat it, don't eat it. I don't care who doesn't eat it. I eat the food I cook myself." No one dared to speak anymore, even Li Changqing and Yang Yizhen lost their temper, he was afraid.  The whole family quietly sucked on the polenta in the bowl, with the pickles and melon seeds made by Yang Yi, except for Chen Yu.

    Chen Yu silently went to the next room to do her homework. This house is so small, she could only escape to another house no more than five meters away, and because of the lack of fuel, this house did not even have a fire all day long.  , It was as cold as an ice cellar, but she stubbornly insisted on writing homework under the lamp.

    After eating, Li Changqing continued to peel peanuts with a small dustpan. Normally, Yang Yi would continue to work together after eating, peeling peanuts.  If she can work faster at night, she can spare more time during the day to make some clothes or shoes for her family.  At that time, she would always nag Li Changqing while working, "My eyes are growing on the TV, I have already done a dustpan, and your third part has not been finished yet." But today, she eats by herself.  After the meal, he put the quilt on himself without saying a word, and was already lying down in bed.

    The dishes are washed by Chen Yao, and now both sisters are in middle school, only she has more time.  Chen Yu kept writing until the whole family was asleep, and then she groped into the bed in the dark.

    The next morning, when she finished washing her face, her mother had already cooked her breakfast on the gas stove.  The gas stove is only used when in a hurry, because gas is still very expensive for them.  She saw her mother go to the yard to sieve grass for the old donkey and mix food for the old black pig before she opened the pot and wanted to finish eating quickly and go to school.  Even the polenta had to be eaten because she was really hungry.  It's just that when she opened the lid, her eyes suddenly became moist.  That is her favorite noodle, and there is an egg on it.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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