Xiang Jin and his family still made ten dishes with soup and vegetables for lunch, including one soup and nine dishes.
For soup, she made a lettuce and pork belly soup. The dishes were Sixi meatballs, boiled sausages, braised rabbit meat, ants on the tree, minced pepper fish head, steamed sea bass, mapo tofu, boiled beef, and hand-shredded pot.
Chicken, and fried vegetables.
Looking at the food that was different from the one they had yesterday, Grandpa Zeng said, "Girl Jin knows how to cook. Look at the dishes she has made in the past two days. There is no repetition."
Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao also said yes, and Aunt Liao said, "We eat with Girl Jin every day, and I have learned a lot of dishes now."
Yang Juyun looked at her eldest daughter with pride.
Xiang Jin served each of them a bowl of shredded tripe soup, "They are all home-cooked dishes, not worth mentioning. Besides, there are some repetitions in the dishes. Look at this boiled sausage, stir-fried vegetables, and
The cooking methods for this boiled beef are similar."
Grandpa Zeng lowered his head and took a sip of the soup, "Well, this soup is delicious and fresh!"
"Yes, the color is also nice, it's milky white, and it will warm your stomach when you drink it," Grandma Mo also nodded and said with a smile.
Xiang Jin said, "If it tastes good, drink more. We still have Guotou."
After the meal, everyone enjoyed themselves. Grandpa Zeng stayed for a while after eating, and then went back to deliver food to Mr. Hu Caiji, while Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao stayed to help.
Xiang Jin and the others are making dumplings.
Xiang Jin decided to make dumplings with three kinds of fillings and three colors today.
One is a dumpling stuffed with celery and beef, one is stuffed with lotus root and pork, and the other is stuffed with scallions and mutton.
Yan Chen gave her such a big piece of lamb leg. They couldn't enjoy the fresh flavor, but she liked it very much.
They asked her what to do next?
Xiang Jin said, "First chop the beef into fine pieces, then wash and chop the celery.
Chop the pork and cut the lotus root into very fine pieces. Oh, pay attention to the mud inside the lotus root. If you find out, you need to clean it, then chop it up, sprinkle it with a little salt and marinate it first.
Then squeeze out the water inside it.
I'll make the mutton stuffing myself later." After saying that, Xiang Jin took a cleaned lotus root and cut two pieces to demonstrate for them, "Hey, it's just this big lotus root."
After she finished giving instructions, Xiang Jin's mother and Aunt Liao began to cut meat and lotus roots. Grandma Mo rolled up her sleeves and said, "Then I'll make the noodles."
Xiang Jin said, "Grandma Mo, don't worry, I'm preparing some materials." Then she picked up a red pumpkin that her grandfathers had given her before and started peeling it.
She peeled a small circle off the top of the pumpkin, then cut it off, then dug out the pulp of the small toothed pumpkin, cleaned the pumpkin, cut it into thin slices, and put it on a plate.
Then she picked up another carrot, peeled the carrot and cut it into thin slices, put it on a plate, and then put the two plates into the pot to steam.
Grandma Mo said she would light the fire, but Xiang Jin was afraid that she would stain her clothes and refused to let her go, so she asked Xiang Lan to light the pot.
Grandma Mo said, "Hey, what's this? I wear it at home every day." Then she sat down in front of the stove, picked up a handful of firewood, lit it, and put it in the stove.
Xiang Lan looked at her sister, and Xiang Jin waved, "Go, go, you don't have anything to do here."
Xiang Lan turned around and ran out, and then Xiang Jin went to get her spinach. She decided that she would make an emerald crystal dumpling today.
Half an hour later, the pumpkin slices and carrot slices were steamed, and they were all very mushy. Xiang Jin took them out of the pot and put them aside to cool. After adding the boiling water in the pot, she steamed them again.
Boil the spinach in water, then scoop it out and set aside.
"Grandma Mo, that's it. There's no need to burn the pot anymore."
"No more fever?" Grandma Mo stood up.
Xiang Jin said, "Well, let's not burn it anymore." After saying that, Xiang Jin poured the steamed carrots and pumpkin slices into two bowls, then picked up a small spoon and crushed the pumpkin slices into puree.
shape.
Grandma Mo asked, "Does this carrot have to be crushed like that?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yeah, yes, they have to be crushed out. Later, they have to be filtered into two colors of water, and then mixed into the dough, so that the dumplings made will be colorful.
This dumpling is for food, so no pigments or harmful substances can be added. If we want to make it a nice color, we still have to extract it from the ingredients."
After hearing this, Grandma Mo couldn't help but look at her and joked, "Why do you, a girl, only have so many ideas?"
Xiang Jin said, "Actually, that's not the case anymore. I mainly want to make it to give my uncle and aunt some advice, and then make their food unique and more competitive in the town."
It's a pity that she doesn't have a blasting machine or a juice machine. If she had these things, she could get the juice she wanted in a few clicks, so it wouldn't be so troublesome.
Grandma Mo then found a spoon and crushed the carrot with her.
Aunt Liao heard this and said, "Girl Jin is like this, she is always thinking about us relatives and friends."
Xiang Jin said, "Actually, it's not entirely true. I saw it in a book and thought about giving it a try."
Aunt Liao said with a smile, "You're still modest."
Grandma Mo also laughed.
After Xiang Jin crushed the pumpkin puree, she then went to process the spinach. She had to squeeze out some spinach juice.
"Girl Jin, you said you need to filter this carrot juice. How do you make it?" Just when she was putting two new plastic bags on her hands, Grandma Mo's carrots were also crushed.
alright.
"Oh, it's okay, Grandma Mo, leave it there and I'll take care of it," Xiang Jin responded.
"Oh, good!"
Xiang Jin squeezed out the spinach juice, then found a piece of clean gauze, put it over the mouth of a deeper bowl, then mixed the cold boiled water into the carrot puree, and then stirred it.
scattered.
"The pumpkin puree can be mixed directly into the dough, but the carrot has a stem and will have granular substances in it, so it needs to be filtered out," she said and asked Grandma Mo to help her put the gauze on it.
After stretching the mouth of the bowl, she was about to start filtering.
Grandma Mo nodded and obeyed.
After Xiang Jin prepared these things, she asked her mother to mix the dough, and she came to adjust the fillings, "Mom, one dough for each color, and the spinach juice will be mixed into the dough for making crystal dumplings later.
, just use the ordinary flour and... for the other two colors."
"Okay," her mother put down her work and quickly replaced her.
"Girl Jin, come here and see if Auntie's chop of meat is suitable?" Auntie Liao waved to Jin.
Xiang Jin walked over, picked it up with chopsticks, looked at it, and then said, "Okay, Auntie, it's just right!"
Aunt Liao laughed heartily, "Then what about this beef?"
“This beef is chopped just right!”
"Well, then I also have a talent for cooking, huh?" Aunt Liao smiled more and more happily.
Grandma Mo and the others laughed.
Xiang Jin said, "You have a talent for cooking, and the dishes you cook are not bad at all."
Aunt Liao's eyes widened, "Oh my, with your words, Auntie will feel relieved."
Xiang Jin was a little dumbfounded, then Aunt Liao continued, "Girl Jin, you come and mix the stuffing. Do you want me to chop the mutton for you, so that we can go faster?"
Xiang Jin thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
So Aunt Liao took the piece of mutton again and started to cut it, "Hey, girl Jin, how did you preserve this meat? You don't have a refrigerator at home, and you don't marinate it, and it's almost a week old. How?
It’s still so fresh and hasn’t changed in flavor?”
Xiang Jin asked, "Do you know the Northeastern and Mongolian people? Many of them don't use refrigerators in winter because it's very cold there. It snows heavily every day in winter, and the temperature is usually well below zero.
They preserve food, especially meat. They just put a tank in the yard, and then put all the fresh meat directly into the tank. After a while, it was as frozen as ice cubes.
Some people just throw a snow pit in the yard without a vat, and then bury the fresh beef and mutton in the snow pit. When they want to eat, they take a piece out of the snow pit and leave the rest.
The ones that fell continued to be buried in the snow pit.
As long as the snow does not melt, they can keep the ingredients there. The ingredients will not rot or go bad for at least a month or two, and they will still be as fresh as fresh.
I learned from their method and buried the mutton in the snowdrift in the yard."
Aunt Liao then said, "Hey, are these people smart?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Each place has its own unique way of life and habits, so many places are worth learning from."
"Well, that's right!"
We were not in a hurry today, and Aunt Liao and Grandma Mo joined us, so Xiang Jin and the others made a total of six to seven hundred dumplings. There were almost more than two hundred dumplings of each color, and six dustpans were placed.
That's a lot.
This is what Xiang Jin and the others planned. They would take fifty dumplings of each color and filling for their two uncles and their families, so that would be three hundred. Her grandmothers are currently divided between their two uncles.
This gift had to be given separately, so she had to get a hundred more from her grandparents.
Then came Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao. She decided to give them twenty more of each kind. However, both of them refused, saying that they had already given away so many yesterday. If they still wanted to take them today, what would they do?
When do I need to eat?
Xiang Jin persuaded them that these kinds of fillings are all different, so they can try them all and compare which one tastes better. If they like it, they can make it themselves when the time comes.
Xiang Jin also persuaded Aunt Liao, "Auntie, isn't your grandson coming tomorrow? If he is not used to eating shrimp dumplings, you can cook him some other dumplings. These dumplings are all colorful and beautiful.
, children should like it.”
Her words convinced Aunt Liao, so she agreed to accept it. Grandma Mo thought that her old wife was a gourmet and liked to eat all kinds of weird and different flavors, so after hesitating for a while, she agreed.
Received.
Because everyone ate dumplings in the morning, they didn't cook dumplings in the evening, but they had dinner at noon, so Xiang Jin and the others cooked some porridge in the evening, and randomly prepared some vegetables to serve with the meal.
Grandpa Zeng went back to feed the dog at noon and didn't come over. He probably thought that everyone was busy making dumplings, but he didn't know how to make dumplings. Sitting here alone was boring, so he just stayed with them.
.
Xiang Jin asked Xiang Lan to call Grandpa Zeng over for dinner. Grandma Mo said she should go back and call him, and she happened to take the dumpling back with her.
Aunt Liao said that she should take that dumpling back first, so as not to make the journey difficult at night.
Xiang Jin has no problem with her, and then Xiang Lan doesn't have to go.
After they left, Xiang Lan rushed to her sister and asked her quietly, "Sister, how much red envelopes did Aunt Liao and Grandma Mo give you?"
Xiang Jin said, "I don't know," she hadn't even opened it yet.
Then Xiang Lan whispered to her with a smile on his face, "Let me tell you, Aunt Liao and Grandma Mo both gave me one hundred."
"One hundred?" Xiang Jin was surprised, "So many?"
"Well," Xiang Lan nodded, and then took out two hundred yuan from her bag and showed it to her, "Well, this is from Aunt Liao who has a red line on the note. This is a new one.
It was given by Grandma Mo and the others."
Xiang Jin was startled. Nowadays, people usually give New Year's red envelopes to their children for a few yuan or ten. Some families with good financial conditions would consider it a big deal to give them only twenty yuan, but they didn't.
They were given a hundred seals. Xiang Lan and others, big and small, were all sealed with a hundred, so she probably was too. Then she took out the two red envelopes in her pocket and opened them. It turned out to be a red envelope.
100, I have to say that this is a very big move on their part.
Xiang Jin asked Xiang Lan to keep her own money, and then she took the money and red envelope in her hand to find her mother. She felt that she still had to talk to her mother about this matter and let her know.
Her mother was also surprised when she saw it. Xiang Jin suggested to her mother, "Aunt Liao's grandson is coming tomorrow. Although we won't be at home tomorrow, I think we should still leave a red envelope for them. In this way, you can
Give him my one hundred yuan," Xiang Jin said, then directly put the one hundred yuan in her hand into her mother's hand.
Her mother recovered from the surprise, "It should be, it should be," but her mother did not take her money, "I have it here, it was given to you by your Aunt Liao, just take it."
Seeing that she refused to accept it, Xiang Jin gave up and said, "Okay, then you can give it to her, but when you give her the red envelope, don't give it in front of Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo. We don't know who they are.
What do you think, don’t put others in danger when the time comes.”
Her mother said, "I know, I know. Later I will ask your Aunt Liao to come in and help me cook some food. Then you can block your Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng outside."
"Can!"
After dinner, Xiang Jin's mother asked Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng to take care of Ah Hua and the puppies tomorrow. She said they would be back tomorrow afternoon.
Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng nodded in agreement and told them to go back to their parents' home tomorrow without worries. They would have everything at home and they wouldn't go anywhere tomorrow.
Xiang Jin and her mother felt at ease, and then they said they were going back, so they were not inconvenient to ask them to stay and sent them directly to the door.
When she came back, Xiang Lan opened her hands to her mother, "Mom, you haven't given me or my sister any new year's money today?"
"Oh oh oh, wait a minute," Yang Juyun said as she took out a handful of money from her bag, took out two pieces of money and handed them to the two sisters.
Xiang Lan’s ticket is worth ten yuan, and Xiang Jin’s ticket is fifty yuan.
Xiang Lan saw that he only got ten yuan for her, but her sister got fifty yuan, and she was a little reluctant to accept it.
Her mother said, "Why are you talking so much? You're a little kid. What do you need so much money for? Besides, you don't do anything every day. Everything in our family is supported by your sister.
Yes, you should give fifty to your sister."
Xiang Lan said, "My sister supports everything in the house, so giving her fifty is too little. Why do you have to give one hundred to my sister? Look, Aunt Liao and Grandma Mo both
You got one hundred for each of us, aren’t you a bit stingy for giving us this?”
Yang Juyun was startled for a moment, and her eyes flickered when she looked at Xiang Jin, feeling a little uncomfortable.
"Okay, Xiang Lan, don't talk nonsense. Our mother's money is going to be reserved for our future life. How can we pay back so much money?" After saying that, she handed over the fifty yuan her mother handed her directly.
He handed it to Xiang Lan, "Hey, I sealed this for you!"
"Thank you, sister," the little girl immediately smiled, and then casually took away her mother's ten dollars.
"Huh?" Her mother looked at Xiang Jin with disapproval, "Why did you give her so much money?"
Xiang Lan wrinkled her nose and gave an unconvinced "hum" to her mother.
Yang Juyun frowned when he saw it, glared at her and said, "Take all your money and give it to me. I'll keep it for you."
Xiang Lan refused to do it and told her to keep it herself.
Yang Juyun said, "Hey, what do you think you, a kid, do with so much money in your hands? What if you lose it?"
Xiang Lan said, "I won't lose it! I haven't lost the money I saved before, and I won't lose the money I saved in the future. I want to keep my own money!"
"Hey..." Yang Juyun was about to argue with her when Xiang Jin said, "Can't we just let her keep it by herself? Why does it have to be left to you to keep?"
"Well, it's not like you don't have any money, so why did you confiscate my money?" Xiang Lan agreed with what her sister said.
Yang Juyun said, "Daughter, I didn't mean that. I was just afraid that she would lose it, so I will keep it for her."
Xiang Jin said, "She should learn to manage her own finances since she was a child, instead of you taking care of it for her? She is a girl. As long as she is used to handling big and small money since she was a child, she has a certain financial foundation. When she grows up, she will be able to manage her own money.
Do you know that you will not be easily tempted by money and will not easily take the wrong path?
You keep it for her? She can't see or touch the money. Is the money yours or hers?
Let me tell you, she will always be thinking about it with regret. The less she has, the more she wants to have it.
Just like when she couldn't eat the good food at Lao Xiang's house, she wanted to eat it more and more, looking for something to eat at every turn. Lao Xiang's house said it was delicious. Have you forgotten?
You see, after we left Lao Xiang’s house, we lived on our own. We had food and clothing as we wanted. She had good food and clothing every day, and she could drink good food at any time. So look at her, she’s doing okay now.
Want to eat?
No! As long as she has eaten it, tasted it, owned it, and knows what it tastes like, she won’t think about it anymore.”
Don't think that she doesn't know what her mother is thinking. In fact, she is just like most parents, she just wants to defraud the children's money to their adults.
If she hadn't had her own opinion and had absolute say in the family, her mother would have asked her to hand over the money.
Xiang Lan nodded vigorously, "Well, I don't even feel like eating it now! Even if Xiang Yao and the others sometimes bring it to me, I might not even be able to eat it."
Xiang Jin's mother remained silent.
Xiang Jin continued, "So from now on, as long as it is her own money, whether she earns it from digging medicine or what our relatives and friends around us give her during the holidays, she will keep it by herself, and none of us will
Don't get your hands on her money."
When Xiang Lan saw that her sister was constantly defending herself, she admired her sister so much, and at the same time she looked at her mother expectantly.
After being silent for a while, Yang Juyun finally nodded, "Okay, then you two sisters will keep your money for yourself from now on!"
Xiang Jin thought to herself: Of course, she has to take care of her own money! When she turns eighteen and has her own ID card, she will open her own account directly!
Seeing that she finally relented and no longer coveted her money, Xiang Lan jumped up happily, "Yeah!"
Seeing her high energy, Xiang Jin said, "You can keep the money yourself, but you can't spend it randomly, you know?"
"Yes, yes, yes, I know!" The little girl nodded politely, "Don't worry, I will never spend it randomly. I have saved all the money well."
Xiang Jin said, "When grandpa comes back, use his ID card to open an account in the town. You can deposit the whole money directly into the bank, and you can keep the dime bills in your hand."
, I will use it for my pocket money when the time comes.”
"Ah? Use grandpa's ID card to open an account? Then will the money belong to grandpa and not mine?" The little girl was a little unhappy.
Xiang Jin said, "No, the bank card has a password. As long as you don't tell others the password and you are in charge of the bank card, no one else can take the money, and it will always belong to you.
Remember, you can’t give your bank card to others, and you can’t tell others your bank password, including me and mom, you have to control this yourself.”
The little girl nodded vigorously, "Oh, I understand. You can't give your bank card to others, and you can't tell your bank card password to others, including my sister and mother. Then this money will always be mine!"
"Well, that's right!"
The little girl raised her head and said, "Okay, then I will save the entire hundred," the little girl said happily, "I will go to my grandpa's house tomorrow, and I will earn some New Year's money to come back.
I can save more."
Xiang Jin couldn't help but rolled his eyes and educated her, "You can't always rely on others to get it from you. The key to making money and saving money is that we have to know it ourselves, right?"
It's good to dig up medicinal materials like you did before, and it's also good to collect the waste products at home. In short, you have to remember that you have to earn your own money with your own hands. Only what you earn is truly yours.
, what others give you can only be regarded as friendship and sponsorship from others, and what is given to you as charity. People with backbone will not rely on others!"
"Oh, I got it."
Seeing that she seemed to understand everything, Xiang Jin didn't ask her to understand everything immediately. He just took his time, and when she slowly instilled it bit by bit in the future, she would always be able to understand.
"Sister, can I go to the street with my mother to sell braised pork during the weekends? If that's what I sell, then the money can be mine?" the little girl asked.
Xiang Jin's mother poked her in the head and said, "What a beautiful idea. Are you going to sell the meat I braised? Should I use you to sell it? Those people are all old customers who come to me directly to buy.
What's the deal with you standing there and sharing my money with someone who comes to buy braised pork? That's still a good deal!"
The little girl groaned.
Xiang Jin said, "The most important thing for you now is to study hard. When you read the book in the future, how many kilograms of braised pork can you buy with one month's salary? I can't even tell you!"
"Wow, there are so many?" The little girl was immediately surprised.