After returning home from the mountain, Jiang Wenzheng was sitting in the yard playing with A Yi. Su Yuanyuan thought of the soybeans she bought before, so she simply soaked them in water and prepared to make soy milk for A Yi at noon.
New Year's Day is only three days away. Su Yuanyuan was thinking that she hadn't made some food for A Yi yet. Suddenly she remembered that she bought a lot of peanuts and dried fruits when she went to town. After thinking about it, she might as well try making peanuts.
sugar.
Su Yuanyuan sat in the yard and peeled the peanuts one by one. Baozi on the side wanted to make trouble, but Su Yuanyuan hit it on the head with a peanut shell. After a muffled sound, it reacted and ran away.
Jiang Wenzheng was also helping her peel the peanuts. The sunshine had been very good these days, and the weather was getting warmer. His legs were still covered with blankets. He pinched the edges of the peanuts with his slender fingers and pressed lightly, and the shells cracked with a kaba sound.
Cut in half, the round peanut kernels are lying inside.
Su Yuanyuan was stunned just by looking at his slender fingers. She then turned her head and looked at her short and thick chubby hands, which she hid in her sleeves out of shame.
A basket of peanuts was peeled quickly. Su Yuanyuan put them in a pot and heated them. After they were fragrant, put them on a plate. Use a rolling pin to crush them. She also added a lot of brown sugar and kneaded them according to the proportion.
Each small strip.
Then add sugar to the pot and boil it to make syrup. Use chopsticks to pick up long strips and put them in the syrup. After drying and hardening, the simple peanut candy is ready.
Ayi ate the peanut candy like a greedy cat, not forgetting to put two pieces into his pocket.
"Brother Tiezhu taught me how to catch fish, and I want to give him a piece of it."
Su Yuanyuan smiled and touched Ayi's little head.
"Well! Our Ayi is a good boy and knows how to share!"
Seeing A Yi running out to play, Su Yuanyuan remembered that during the previous Chinese New Year, she had to offer oil to pay homage to the Stove Lord.
Jiang Wenzheng seemed to have never heard of such a custom. He asked Su Yuanyuan while filling the pot with firewood.
"What is over-oiling?"
"The more you go, the more you get!"
Su Yuanyuan explained to Jiang Wenzheng using homophonic pronunciation. While speaking, she put vegetable balls into the oil pan.
Jiang Wenzheng was amused by his superstitious look. Why didn't he see it before? He was quite superstitious.
"Brother! I'm here to bring you something!"
Jiang Xuan's loud voice sounded in the yard, and Su Yuanyuan took the lead to go out, only to see a thin young man standing in the yard with a wild boar weighing more than 100 kilograms on his shoulders, and his body was still stained with the blood of the wild boar.
Su Yuanyuan did not dislike him, but welcomed him in enthusiastically and brought him a plate of freshly fried meatballs.
The economic situation of families in mountain villages is generally not very good. Most of their source of income comes from men going up to the mountains to hunt. But now that animals are hibernating in winter, most people living in the mountains have no source of income, let alone wasting oil to fry meatballs.
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The hot meatballs are still steaming, and when you take a bite, they are full of oil. After deep frying in hot oil, they are crispy on the outside and soft and waxy on the inside.
Jiang Xuan ate each bite with joy, thinking that the wild boar was a good gift.
But such a big wild boar put Su Yuanyuan in trouble.
Although she was a doctor, she didn't dare to do such a bloody thing. Jiang Xuan saw her dilemma, rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the wild boar.
Jiang Wenzheng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly stopped Jiang Xuan and said, "I'll do it."
Jiang Xuan blinked and made room for Jiang Wenzheng.
Jiang Wenzheng saw Jiang Wenzheng holding up his knife and slashing the belly of the wild boar without using too much force. He wrapped the two knives outwards around the wild boar's neck, picked up the pig skin with the back of the knife, and stretched out his hand to cut the pig skin.
He picked it out easily.
Jiang Xuan, who was standing aside eating meatballs, watched Jiang Wenzheng peel the meatballs neatly, narrowed his eyes with pleasure, and couldn't help but praise him.
"You are indeed my brother."
Su Yuanyuan was a little trance watching Jiang Wenzheng's sharp sword skills. She always felt that this man was not as simple as he appeared. She was not as rude as a country man. He was literate, liked reading, and exuded a noble aura, but he
He is also very strong, and although his fingers are long and slender, they have a thin layer of calluses, making him look more like a martial artist.
Suddenly, she remembered what a man once said to her, "Don't ask about me."
Why?
Su Yuanyuan looked at the man's back and couldn't see clearly at all. She always felt that there were many mysteries surrounding this man, waiting for her to solve them one by one.
Since he wouldn't ask, she would explore on her own. One day she would understand this real man.
In the evening, Su Yuanyuan cut the pork into small cubes with the skin on, and she found a strong branch to string the pork on.
She also mixed all the spices in the kitchen together, and touched them all on the pork, which was red, and then put the pork under the fire pit to smoke.
While we were chatting, the aroma of barbecue wafted out from under the fire pit.
Jiang Xuan was impatient, so he took out the pork with A Yi.
As soon as the pork is roasted, a lot of oil comes out of it. As soon as it leaves the steaming oven, the golden pork on the surface is still bubbling with hot oil.
Jiang Xuan took a chopstick and broke off a piece and stuffed it into Ayi's mouth. Ayi's hot little face wrinkled up, but the little mouth kept chewing, and steam came out.
Jiang Xuan himself also ate a piece. It was fat but not greasy, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The seasoning on the surface just solved the fatness and fishy smell of the pork. When chewing it, the sweet and spicy taste bloomed on the tip of the tongue, making people unable to stop.
"Brother! If you marry a wife like this, what else can a husband ask for?"
Jiang Xuan looked like he was enjoying himself, stuffing meat into his mouth as hard as he could, while Jiang Wenzheng looked at him with a look of total disgust on his face, and dismissed you after just one meal.
After washing up in the evening, Su Yuanyuan lay on the bed and counted her steel coins carefully.
"Fifty Wen, one hundred Wen...two thousand three hundred Wen..."
The more she counted, the happier she became. She held the cloth bag containing the money in her arms and kicked her legs happily.
"Wow! Jiang Wenzheng, I am a little rich woman!"
Jiang Wenzheng pulled the quilt over her and responded to her with a smile, "Yes, yes, little rich woman."
Su Yuanyuan lay on the kang, holding the sleeping little Douding in her arms, and began to dream about her future life.
"When we make some more money, let's move to the town. I will also send Ayi to the best school, and I will also save money to treat your illness!"
Jiang Wenzheng smiled and looked at Su Yuanyuan's longing face, and couldn't bear to interrupt her.
He lay next to her, keeping a close distance, but the woman next to him didn't care. While describing, she gestured with her hands and feet, touching him with her elbow several times.
"What about you?"
After hearing what she said, the man next to her asked her softly.
What am I?
Su Yuanyuan was confused.
"You use the money to make plans for this family for me and Ayi, why not make plans for you?"
Su Yuanyuan was stunned by his question, and suddenly felt a sense of loneliness.
