"Sister, you really won't spend my money, will you?"

"Really. ”

"Oh. ”

After a while, "Sister, you're really not going to spend my money, are you?"

"Well, really. ”

"Oh. ”

……

"Sister......

"Chen Yubin, you're enough, I won't spend your money, okay, let's talk about it, let's spit out my cherries if I talk about it." "Xiaoxi is going crazy, since he came out of shopping, he has been talking and talking, and he can't stop eating.

Chen Yubin looked at the fried stream, took the cherry in his hand, and muttered: "I don't ask anymore, it's true, it's not okay to ask." Then, after touching the lollipop in his pocket, he grinned again.

After Xiaoxi bought salt and baking powder, he bought five more lollipops, two for himself and three for his younger brother.

After arriving at the second aunt's house, the second aunt who was pulling grass in the field said, "Second aunt, I bought the salt back and put it in the stove for you." ”

Chen Cui raised her head and smiled: "Well, okay, then I won't come back, you just go to the stove room." ”

After putting things out, he said to the second aunt not far away: "Second aunt, let's go back, and my mother-in-law is still waiting to use yeast." ”

"That's right, slow down on the road!"

"Well, second aunt, let's go. ”

When I got home, I gave the baking powder to my mother-in-law, "Mother-in-law, we bought it back." "A look of praise on his face.

"Well, Xiaoxi, Bin Bin is awesome, you can help your mother-in-law buy something. ”

After taking the baking powder, the mother-in-law took a porcelain basin to scoop the flour, beat two eggs, put in the baking powder, added an appropriate amount of water, and began to mix the noodles after cleaning her hands.

After mixing the noodles, put a piece of gauze on the basin to prevent dust. Once done, place the basin on the board and start doughing. In the summer, the temperature is high, so you don't need to heat it up.

After making the basin, the mother-in-law cut the cowpeas into cubes, put them in the porcelain basin for later use, and cut a piece of bacon that had been washed last night into cubes, and put half of it into the basin with cowpeas.

And they took out a large handful of washed leeks, which they had made when they went to buy baking powder. Finely chopped and diced bacon in another porcelain bowl and set aside.

After getting this done, my mother-in-law sat down to rest for a while, and then quickly began to make lunch.

At noon, it was porridge with pumpkin and sauerkraut added to it, and now the pumpkin is slowly starting to ripen.

At Xiaoxi's house, there are three meals a day, and generally only the noodles are porridge for breakfast in the evening, and porridge or dry rice (rice) at noon.

Well, the pumpkin is very floury, very sweet, and so delicious. In the summer, the porridge was cooled, and it went down in two bites, which was very exciting.

After lunch, the dough has risen. After the bubbles burst, the dough exposed by the cracks is in the form of threads.

Because he had to steam steamed buns in the afternoon, his grandfather didn't go to herd the cows, and his mother didn't make cloth shoes.

When the farm is not working, my mother usually makes cloth shoes for the family and knits sweaters and pants. At this time, rural people generally made cloth shoes for children to wear, and few people bought shoes, and the cloth shoes on Xiaoxi and his brother's feet came from their mother's hands.

After pouring the dough from the porcelain basin on the cutting board, Chen's mother cleaned her hands and began to knead the dough, with a scoop of noodles next to it, and sprinkled dry flour on the cutting board while carrying it, which was used to prevent the dough from sticking to the cutting board.

Grandpa took out two vegetable pots and began to season, Grandpa Chen is a good cook.

The mother-in-law was not idle, and began to pick up firewood from the back of the eaves (the eaves behind the house are very long beyond the earthen wall, so they are used to pile firewood) to the stove room one by one, holding the stick firewood (that is, the thick branches of the tree, cut into sections one by one), and from the hall to carry some large firewood, which is a tree put in winter, the trunk is split into the size of the pot hole, and after the air is dried, it is piled up in the hall, this kind of firewood is resistant to burning.

When the noodles are ready, the filling is delicious, and the firewood is enough, the mother-in-law washes her hands.

Mom rolls the dough and kneades the dough into a small ball of dough, grandpa holds a rolling pin to roll the bun skin, and the mother-in-law wraps the buns.

Because making steamed buns is slower than rolling the skin and kneading the dough noodles, grandpa and mother would stop from making steamed buns from time to time to prevent the dough sheets from sticking together after a long time.

A few turns of the left hand, a few pinching of the right hand, and a beautiful bun is born.

About an hour later, when the buns were almost ready, Grandpa asked his mother-in-law to start boiling the pot.

I filled the cauldron with a large pot of water, and then put the steamer on again, just right. The steamer was still found by the mother-in-law in the morning, washed and dried.

Boiled the pot, put a large firewood on the shelf, and after a while, the water boiled, and the pot was steamed.

Pick out the washed plantain leaves, spread them on the steamer, and put the buns on them, this is to prevent the buns from sticking to the steamer. There are several clusters of tall banana trees behind the creek house, and the banana leaves are used every time the steamed buns are steamed, which is very fragrant.

With steamed buns, how can there be less steamed buns. Putting the white and chubby buns into the steamer, the mother-in-law watched the fire, and the grandfather and mother began to re-knead the remaining dough and knead it into small dough, but this dough was much larger than the dough of the buns.

The steamed buns in Xiaoxi, which they are used to, are all wrapped into rounds. The palms of the two hands are closed together and open upwards, holding the bottom of the contact with the board, and the two hands are turned around, and a round white and fat steamed bun comes out after a while.

Put the steamed buns into the steamer, add firewood, and steam for about 20 minutes, and the steamer will be filled with bursts of meat fragrance.

Grandpa said "Okay", and Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin prepared the bowl.

After uncovering the steamer and sandwiching a bun in the bowl for Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin, the mother-in-law withdrew, and the grandfather spread the steamer layer by layer on the board to cool, and everyone began to eat.

Chen Yubin looked at the bun inserted in the chopsticks, and said puzzledly: "It's obviously white, why is it so black?" and then took a bite hard.

Because the flour used is homemade and has not been bleached, the steamed steamed buns are not as white as those sold outside, but the wheat flavor is stronger than those sold outside.

Xiaoxi still wanted to eat steamed buns, so she divided half of the buns into her mother, and then ate a steamed bun.

Because the dough of the steamed bread is not sweetened at the beginning, the steamed bread has a faint taste when it is first entered, and then the starch in the steamed bread is broken down into maltose by the salivary amylase in the saliva, and the strong wheat fragrance sweeps the taste buds, and then the whole mouth is filled with sweet fragrance.

After eating a steamed bun, Chen Yubin saw his sister eating steamed buns and secretly swallowed his saliva, he also wanted to eat it!

After a few people have eaten enough, the steamer continues to cool on the board, and everyone goes back to the house to make up for the nap.

After about an hour, the adults got up, and the two little ones were also woken up, so that they would not be sleepy at night.

At this time, the steamed buns were cooled, and two large baskets were used to pack them, and for the rest, Xiaoxi, Chen Yubin and his mother each brought a basket (this is what the two little ones were fighting to go), which contained the buns, which were sent to the neighbors. It was only sent to the three families in the courtyard, and there were basically five or six for each family.

Dinner is very simple, cook a pot of white porridge with clear soup and little water, although the rice is less, but the big firewood boiled for a long time, boiled thick, the porridge is very smooth, mellow. Then there are steamed buns and steamed buns in the afternoon.

I ate half of it like a stream, drank a bowl of porridge and was full, and when I was done, I felt that the porridge was very fragrant, and drank another half bowl.

At night, after her mother falls asleep, Xiaoxi enters the space and completes her daily tasks.

"Well, steamed buns, fragrant, one more, tsk tsk......"

Listening to her brother's dream words, Xiaoxi covered her mouth stiffly, afraid that the laughter would be revealed and wake up her mother. Oops, it's really uncomfortable!

The next day, after breakfast, my mother-in-law found a basket, packed more than 20 steamed buns, and said to Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin: "Let's go, why don't you go and send steamed buns to the second aunt." ”

Because she asked the second daughter to go home to steam steamed buns the day before, saying that she was busy at home and didn't come, the old lady packed a basket after breakfast and prepared to send it.

Because she had to make breakfast for her two sons every day, and only after sending her sons away, she fed the pigs and chickens and cleaned up the house, and then went out to do the work in the fields, and the second aunt had just cleaned up the house, and heard it.

"Second Aunt"

"Mom, why are you here?" Chen Cui looked at the three people who came not far away, and asked in surprise, and then remembered what Xiaoxi said yesterday, thinking that it was her mother who saw that she didn't go, so she sent it, sure enough.

The mother-in-law handed over the basket in her hand and complained: "It's so close, I asked Xiaoxi to call you back yesterday, but you didn't come, so I had to bring it to you today." ”

"Mom, Xiaoxi, Binbin, come and sit. After speaking, he took the basket in his hand back to the stove room, and brought out a plate of melon seeds.

"Mom, you eat here at noon, I'm alone every day. ”

Because the two elder brothers eat at school at noon, except for weekends, the second aunt eats alone at noon.

"Listen to Xiaoxi, you said that the family is still busy, and the grass in the field has not been hoeed yet?"

"I finished hoeing the grass in the field in the distance, and I wanted to pull it by hand on the piece in front of this door. ”

There are more than two acres of land in front of the second aunt's house, of which half an acre is used as a vegetable garden and planted with pigweed, and there is more than one acre of fully planted corn left.

"Let's go, I'll give you a hand. ”

I spent the morning in the grass, the rice made by the second aunt at noon, a bacon fried kraft vegetable (this kind of dish, mainly for pigs, people rarely eat, however, remove the leaves, cut the rod into shreds and add meat to fry, and the taste of cabbage is very similar), a bacon fried meat spicy.

After the meal, a bowl of boiling water and a stir-fried sauerkraut with chopsticks is a bowl of soup, delicious and sour.

After eating, the second aunt washed the dishes, the mother-in-law chatted with the second aunt in front of the stove, and the two babies were sitting on the chair and drowsy.

After washing the dishes, the mother-in-law said that she was going back, and the second aunt took out the basket that the mother-in-law had taken when she came.

The mother-in-law took the basket, called the two little ones spread out on the chair and went home, and the second aunt sent them.

When they got home, they couldn't wait to fall on the bed and slept in the dark.