Author: Sleeve Cream
I have four brothers in my family, and I am the fourth oldest, the youngest in the family. So at home, my task is to herd cattle and sheep and cook meals.
As always, I would drive the cattle and sheep home before sunset and prepare meals for the adults to come back before they came back from their work.
On this day, the cattle and sheep did not seem to listen to me, running east and west, always unable to get back. Fortunately, there was the help of the dog brother of Hongxing Village, and when I drove the cattle and sheep home, it was almost dark.
I thought that if I couldn't make the meal before the adults came back, I would have to make my dad suck on the cowhide, and I shivered at the thought of it.
I hurried to the fire, but the lighter did not seem to listen to me, and it did not catch fire, so angry that I broke the lighter into two pieces and threw it into the pig dung pit.
I couldn't wear my shoes, so I went directly to Tian Er's house to borrow a box of matches, and when I made a fire, I quickly put the pot on the tripod. Cut the pumpkin on the stone grinding into several halves and put it in a pot to cook.
Then I fed the pigs in the pen, and by this time I was sweating profusely, but I thought that I had not yet cooked corn rice (made of rough cornmeal), so I quickly replaced the pot for pumpkin with the pot for corn rice.
Shortly after the pot was put on a tripod, my mom and dad and three brothers all came back, each carrying a basket of pumpkins and resting breathlessly on the ground. By this time, it was already dark.
"Old Fourth, is the rice cooked?" The eldest brother wiped the sweat from his forehead with the corners of his coat.
"When it's cooked, I'll wait for you to come back and eat it." At this time my heart beat faster, the corn rice was still on the tripod, I quickly ran into the kitchen to see, the fire under the tripod was dying, I added some fine wood into it, and the fire was booming.
"Old fourth, hungry, hurry up and serve." My dad took off his dirty, smelly short sleeves.
"Oh, here it comes, a big pot of pumpkin was cooked today." I brought the pot to the table and put it down. The second brother also came out with a bunch of dishes and chopsticks.
The third brother took the bowl and first filled a bowl of pumpkin soup and drank it.
I saw that the corn rice was almost cooked, so I served it out. Everyone filled a bowl of corn rice, soaked in pumpkin soup, and ate it with relish.
When everyone was eating almost the same, the third brother went to serve a bowl of pumpkin soup.
"Old Man, did you put eggs in the pumpkin soup tonight?" The third brother jumped up happily, as if he had seen the taste of mountains and treasures.
"No, I just cooked pumpkins." I said with the corn rice in the bowl.
"So what is this?" The third brother used a spoon to hold out a piece of what looked like egg white.
My dad looked up and said, This is, which is an egg. ”
"Huh?" Everyone shouted out in unison.
The second brother's fist came directly to my brain shell, and I hadn't reacted yet, my brain was buzzing.
"Okay, old man two, I guess old four didn't have time to wash the pumpkins." My dad picked up a rag from the ground and wiped his mouth and said.
"Yes, second brother, everyone is full, forget it." The third brother also followed.
After everyone finished eating, they went back to their rooms, and they all snored and went to sleep, and I finished collecting the dishes and chopsticks and went to sleep.
I was five years old, in 1984.