When Xiang Jin returned home, Aunt Liao had already returned and was helping them cook with Xiang Nan in the kitchen.
After Xiang Jin put the paper and pens he bought back into the room, he took the pork and vermicelli back to the kitchen. When Aunt Liao saw it, she said, "Oh, why did you buy so much meat? But I only used it today."
No, I've already cut the bacon."
"Bacon? Where's the bacon?" At first, their bacon and a large barrel of rapeseed oil were all locked in Mrs. Zhang's house, so there is no bacon in their house now, and even now they have the only one left at home.
The small half pot of rapeseed oil was also brought here because it had been used in the kitchen.
Xiang Nan sat in front of the stove to cook a pot and said, "Grandma and the others brought them here."
Xiang Jin was surprised, "Grandmas are here?"
Aunt Liao put a big bamboo basket on a large cleaned aluminum basin to make rice, and replied, "Well, here we come. Not only your grandma is here, but your grandpa and second uncle are also here."
, they are all working in Huangye Bay right now."
Xiang Nan then added, "Grandma and the others also carried a large basket of rice and noodles for us. The noodles are so thick, there are three big handfuls of them. There are also baskets of eggplants, cucumbers, winter melons, and several large ones.
Pimple vegetables.”
The so-called pimple dish in their mouth is actually what everyone usually calls lotus white.
Seeing her gestures, Xiang Jin felt strangely moved in her heart. Her grandparents, as well as her uncles, were really kind to her mother, a daughter and sister.
Then Xiang Jin said, "Then I'll salt the meat and marinate it there, and then put it in the well to marinate it."
"This is okay," Aunt Liao kept moving her hands.
Then Xiang Jin asked Aunt Liao how many people were eating at home today and how many craftsmen came. Aunt Liao told her how many people there were.
Xiang Jin knew it in his mind and cut the meat he bought into two equal parts.
Aunt Liao asked her when she saw her, "What are you doing?"
Xiang Jin said, "I figured that with so many people eating, one meal would require more than two kilograms of meat, so I divided it into two meals. I cut it out first and then pulled it directly from the well.
Come up, take a piece, cut it and fry it, so you don’t have to worry about cutting it again later.”
Aunt Liao said, "How can you only eat two meals with so much meat? You can eat four meals at least and cut it into four pieces."
Xiang Jin was speechless, "So many people only eat a pound of meat in one meal?"
Aunt Liao pretended to be annoyed and gave her a look, "It's very good to eat a pound of meat in one meal. In rural areas like ours, it's common to go ten and a half months without eating meat.
, which means that life as a craftsman will be a little different than before.
In fact, there is no difference. It's just that when cooking, you put more oil in the vegetables, so that the vegetables will taste more fragrant. Otherwise, how can you have a good family if you eat meat every day?
Listen to my aunt and divide the meat into five pieces, then take it to the well and pound it."
"oh!"
Xiang Jin learned the lesson, and then divided the meat again.
Then I heard Aunt Liao praise her generously, "The meat you bought today is good. It has more fat and less lean meat. I will buy it this way in the future. This way, I won't waste any oil and the fried vegetables will be more fragrant."
The corner of Xiang Jin's mouth twitched slightly. She actually wanted to say that she had no choice, because there was only one pork seller in the town today, and when she went there, there was only one with fat left.
She was afraid that the fat meat would be gone by then, so she hurriedly cut off more than four kilograms.
However, she still remembered what Aunt Liao said, that is, cutting off more fat in the future would save some fuel.
The pork in this era is good, pure local pork. When frying the meat, you don't need to add any oil. Just cut it into slices and fry it directly in the pan. A pit of oil and water will melt out in a short time.
It’s not like in the future, when all the pork you eat is feed pigs, you have to add additional oil when frying the meat, otherwise it will easily stick to the pan, and the water in the pork is relatively heavy, and it will crackle during the cooking process.
Splashing everywhere.
If one is not careful, the cook may easily burn his hands and face by the splashing hot oil, which is really dangerous.
But the meat at this time will not be like that.
For lunch, Aunt Liao cooked pumpkin rice, stir-fried bacon and roasted eggplant, and then made a soup using the rice soup and a few handfuls of fungus picked from the two big cypress trees in front of the house.
After lunch, everyone rested for a while, and then said they were going to work again. Xiang Jin felt that these people were really hardworking and hardworking, and it was really hard to make money in this era, so he hurried back to the house.
I went to get a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid for each of them.
The masons were all surprised. After someone took the Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid, they said, "Oh, you are really serious?"
Craftsmen like them rarely meet such warm-hearted owners no matter whether it is cold in winter or hot in summer. After all, they are making money from others, not helping others. How can the owner be so kind to prepare this for you?
Be prepared, they would rather you charge less for your work.
Yang Juyun was also surprised. She didn't tell Xiang Jin to buy these before, but she didn't expect that she would consider it so thoughtfully. At this time, Yang Juyun felt that her eldest daughter was becoming more and more capable.
Xiang Jin said, "The sun is strong, so it's better to take precautions."
Then Mason Sun said, "But it's okay. There is a slope not far away. We shoveled a piece of land in the morning. If the heat is too hot and we can't stand it, we can hide under the shade of a tree for a while."
But little girl, you also bought Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid, so there won’t be any problems.”
Xiang Jin nodded, and everyone was about to go out to work. Then Aunt Liao brought them a few bottles of boiling water that had been prepared before, and then gave them a small half bag of her own tea leaves, saying,
Drink tea to quench your thirst in the hot sun.
Xiang Jin and the others felt warm in their hearts, but they did not refuse, and at the same time they also kept this feeling in their hearts.
After putting away the pots and pans, Xiang Jin and Aunt Liao refined the pork suet she bought in the town that morning.
There was nothing else to do after that, so Aunt Liao went back to the house for a lunch break, while Xiang Jin asked Xiang Nan to do her homework, while she hid in the house and drew pictures.
Now that she has special drawing paper, she has to enlarge the size of the house structure diagram she drew in her homework book.
At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, Aunt Liao suddenly knocked on the door and called her, "Xiang Jin, Xiang Jin?"
"Hey, Auntie, what's wrong?" Xiang Jin put down his pen, then stood up and walked to the door and opened it.
Aunt Liao said, "I saw a handful of vegetable seedlings placed under the water tank in the kitchen room. What, do you want to plant them?"
Xiang Jin slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, "Yeah, I'm going to fall for you. Look, I forgot about this?"
Aunt Liao asked, "Where are you going to plant it? I'll plant it for you?"
Xiang Jin said, "Yesterday, we cleared a piece of land for a garden when the water rose. There is still a piece left that has not been planted. My mother said that we will plant some carrots in two days. I think it is better to use it to plant cabbage first."
Aunt Liao nodded, "Okay, then I'll plant it for you."
Xiang Jin grabbed her and said, "Auntie, don't worry. Let me tell you, I bought a lot of seedlings. The old man who bought the nursery said there were as many as a hundred plants. Our family can't grow that much."
If there is more, you can plant half of it."
Aunt Liao didn't agree, "Hey, how can that be done? You still need craftsmen. I won't plant the vegetables because they are so expensive. You can plant them yourself."
Xiang Jin said, "Auntie, our family doesn't have that much vegetable garden land. If you don't plant it, I will plant the rest and throw it away. What a pity that would be."
Aunt Liao frowned and thought for a moment, "That's right, okay, then I'll plant it. If you don't have enough vegetables, you can just go to my land and cut it."
Xiang Jin grinned, "Okay!"
Xiang Jin then greeted Xiang Nan and asked her to stay at home and guard the house, while she and Aunt Liao went to the fields to plant vegetable seedlings with hoes and buckets.
After arriving in the field, Aunt Liao dug a hole, while Xiang Jin separated the vegetable seedlings one by one and threw them into the hole. Then Aunt Liao squatted down and taught her how to plant.
"Now, just like this, first bury these seedlings with soil, and then use both hands to push them inward. The roots of these seedlings will be fixed, and then they will not be afraid of wind and rain.
Already."
Xiang Jin nodded and followed what Aunt Liao taught her.
Then Aunt Liao said, "Yes, that's it."
Xiang Jin raised his head, with a relaxed and cheerful smile on his lips, and this scene happened to be caught by Yan Chen who came back from town with a casual glance.
Facing the afterglow of the setting sun, he only felt that the smile on her face was extremely dazzling.
In the past, when I saw her smile, she was always polite and distant, distant and indifferent, which was not real at all.
But that smile just now was extremely rare, and it was quite sincere. It was also obvious that she was in a very good mood!