Old Man Chen moves quickly, works carefully and carefully, these bamboo skewers look thicker than toothpicks, and the burrs on them are also ground clean.

"I'll give it a try. Xiaoxi casually picked up two bamboo sticks from the dining table, returned to the board, closed the lotus lid, and tried to insert and fix them with bamboo sticks.

"Grandpa, yes, that's it. "The two bamboo sticks were inserted into the lotus root, and the lotus root lid was fixed.

Xiaoxi picked up all the bamboo sticks on the dining table and asked Old Man Chen to get more, these were not enough.

I used a few bamboo sticks to seal the lotus root cover to death, so as not to leak in the water when I boiled it in the pot later, so that the glutinous rice lotus root cooked out was more watery and not delicious.

Stuffing glutinous rice into the lotus root hole is a delicate task and a test of patience, so it takes some time. When Chen Yubin peeled all the lotus roots in the pot, the creek was filled with three sections.

Seeing this, he wanted to come to help, but Xiaoxi knew that he was not a patient person, and was afraid that he would not be careful and pretend that the lotus root hole was not real, so he urged him to go to the fire without his help.

Old Man Chen took the freshly chopped bamboo skewers, and saw that Xiaoxi had only loaded a few lotus roots for half a day, so he cleaned his hands to help.

Xiaoxi casually said some precautions and went about his work. For Old Man Chen, she has nothing to worry about.

Seeing that there was still a small half pot of glutinous rice, there were only two lotus roots left that were not filled with glutinous rice, and Xiaoxi took out more than ten lotus roots with mud, washed all the mud, and invited Chen Yubin to continue to peel the lotus roots.

Wash the cauldron inside the stovetop. The chestnut boards boiled in the pot had already been scooped up and handed to Chen Yubin and Granny Chen next to the fire to peel their shells.

Put all the lotus roots filled with glutinous rice into the pot, and put most of the glutinous rice roots of more than 30 sections and almost 40 sections in the pot, and add water to cover the lotus roots.

Granny Chen, who was sitting by the fire, came over without being called this time and burned the pot.

Brook glanced at her in confusion, but didn't say much. "Mother-in-law, increase the firewood, don't be afraid of the fire at this time. He grabbed a few handfuls of dried red dates and cut some brown sugar and threw them into the pot, and covered the pot.

If you add a lot of firewood to the pot hole, you don't need to sit there, and it can burn for a long time, as long as you move it in from time to time to avoid burning inside, and the firewood outside the pot door falls to the ground, which ignites the firewood.

The family sat by the fire. Seeing Xiaoxi coming, Old Man Chen pointed to the peeled pots of chestnut boards on the dining table and asked, "Xiaoxi, what are you doing after you peeled so many chestnut boards?"

Without waiting for Xiaoxi to answer, Chen Yubin hurriedly squeezed to Old Man Chen's side, pulled his sleeve, and said loudly: "I know, I know." ”

Seeing that Old Man Chen turned his head and looked over, he said proudly: "My sister said that I want to make chestnut cakes, and chestnuts are chestnut boards." "I'm afraid that Old Man Chen will be like him, and he doesn't know what a chestnut is, and added.

Old Man Chen listened very calmly, turned his head very calmly, and looked at the stream suspiciously, "Hehe...... Grandpa, what Binbin said is true, I am going to make chestnut cakes, chestnut cakes are delicious, suitable for all ages, soft and sweet, better than pumpkin pie. ”

Although he was very dissatisfied with Old Man Chen's distrust of him, but when he heard the food at this time, Chen Yubin didn't care about anything, so he had to sip his saliva and asked in surprise: "Really?"

Xiaoxi nodded, she believed in her craft. However, yesterday because there was no oven at home, the jujube cake was steamed, and the steamed jujube cake only tasted worse, and nothing else.

However, it is not good for chestnut cakes, making chestnut cakes still have to be baked delicious, and steaming can't make them crispy.

Xiaoxi remembered a variety show she had watched in her previous life, and people didn't have an oven, so they didn't make cakes anyway. So, Xiaoxi is ready to learn to learn from others.

Put away the thoughts of flying, although I think a lot, but I just suck it. "It was really delicious, I ate it once. ”

"Ah~ Why haven't I eaten it. Without waiting for Xiaoxi's words to fall, Chen Yubin interjected urgently.

Old Man Chen had a straight face and glared at him, as if to say: Why are you so rude, interjecting other people's words at will.

Chen Yubin's neck shrank in fear, but he still looked at Xiaoxi dissatisfied.

Xiaoxi smiled slightly and explained: "It was at the house of the aunt my mother knew, who gave me a piece, and I tasted it." After dinner that night, my mother said to go out for a walk, and you said no, you want to watch TV at home. ”

If you don't go by yourself, you'll suffer.

Chen's mother has a good friend in Beijing, who is also from other places, and rents a house not far from the house rented by Chen's mother.

The aunt was very kind to Xiaoxi's two siblings, and she also sent them delicious food every once in a while, so Xiaoxi made an excuse to say that it was her, and Chen Yubin would not suspect anything.

"Ah~" Why was he so lazy that day and didn't go, and so did his sister, and he didn't bring him some back.

Seeing that Chen Yubin's resentment was almost filling the house, Xiaoxi said funny: "Okay, I'll make it later, don't you know what it tastes like if you taste it?" ”

Although his face was a little better, Chen Yubin still frowned and said aggrievedly: "The taste is different." "Who knows if your cooking is delicious.

Xiaoxi pretended to exaggerate and said arrogantly: "What I made (eating), then I also said that so many of my recipes are not in vain." ”

The funny room of people laughed, Chen Yubin even laughed out of his nose, and hurriedly covered it embarrassedly, causing everyone to laugh even louder. Xiaoxi shook her hand and handed over the toilet paper. Because I was smiling.

Chen Yubin took the toilet paper, wiped his nose, blushed, and ran to the creek to make trouble with her. Xiaoxi told him to forgive again and again, and Chen Yubin gave up.

After laughing, Brook remembered what to make for the oven.

"Master, those adobe bricks on the side of my mother's house, are you still useful?"

"What are you doing?"

"Master, this chestnut cake is going to be baked, we don't have to bake it in a pot, do we?" said Xiaoxi with a frown.

There is a man in the village next door to Xiaoxi who is good at making shortbread, and every year when the Chinese New Year is approaching, he will take care of the guy's work and go door to door to make cakes for people. They called it a beater, and they called the beater.

The main thing is a pan with a diameter of seventy or eighty centimeters. The flour and salt are made by themselves, and the rest of the seasoning is made from the beaten cakes. Because if you want to do it well, not only the craftsmanship, but also the seasoning must be kept secret, if someone knows which seasonings are used, it is not only his family who makes cakes in the village.

The shortbread is also sweet and salty, the sweet one is added with white sugar, and the skin is sprinkled with white sesame seeds, which is crispy and sweet. The salty ones are sprinkled with black sesame seeds, which are very crispy, and the dregs are still removed when you eat them, so you have to pick them up by hand. Xiaoxi is very fond of salty shortbread.

It's just that in the past two years, it's rare to come to make cakes, probably because everyone goes to the street to buy them, which is convenient, and there are fewer people who need to beat cakes.

Actually, the main thing to make cakes is in that pot. The pot has three holes in the rim and threaded it with iron wire, and the other end is tied to a wooden stick, like a large scale, except for the weighing stone.

Set up the pan, light the fire underneath, put the finished shortbread in the pan, and cover the pan. From time to time, I fiddled with the fire with tongs, and from time to time I turned over the shortbread in the pot, and I had to make shortbread. He did it all by himself, and Granny Chen just sat on the side and chatted with him.

The freshly baked shortbread is delicious. It is the crispest and crispest time, and even the sesame seeds on it are delicious and full of fragrance.

She doesn't have such a pot at home, so she can only make an oven to come out.

Old Man Chen still doesn't understand, there is no pot, what does she want these bricks for.

"If you don't use it, I'll think about using those bricks, building something out, and seeing if it can be baked. Xiaoxi smiled very flatteringly.

"Okay, I can't use those bricks, anyway, I put them there, you can use them. Seeing that the creek was going to be used to build a rack to bake chestnut cakes, Old Man Chen said indifferently. After using it, if you have other uses in the future, you can still use it again.

It wasn't until soon later that Old Man Chen looked at the adobe bricks in his hand, and he was terrified, and he really didn't know what to say. He made them use it, he said he didn't need it, and now, it's been ruined like this......

Alas~ sighed, for the sake of the chestnut cake, he didn't care, threw down the brick in his hand, and put it for the next time he made chestnut cake.

Wujiao and black are all described as black, very black and very black. Wujiao is also descriptively coke, so there is no black and black.

"Oh~ You're so nice, grandpa. Chen Yubin put his arms around Old Man Chen's neck and sprinkled coquettishly.

As long as Old Man Chen doesn't keep a straight face, he is still not afraid.

"Alright, we'll go move the bricks and put things up now. With a shout, the three of them set out. Granny Chen stayed at the top of the house, and she had to watch the fire of boiling glutinous rice lotus.

Half of the vegetable garden next to the old house was originally a mud house, but then it fell down somehow.

For example, all around the windows are made of adobe bricks, and some adobe bricks are also used in other places. When the house collapsed, Chen's mother and Mr. Chen picked up the bricks one by one from under the clods of soil and stacked them all on the edge of the eaves.

In fact, adobe bricks are green bricks, but they are just a name here.

Two or three hundred bricks were taken out of the mud-walled house, and some of them were used to build toilets. Because the bottom is a good square stone, but the upper part is made of adobe bricks, and only two walls are built, so there are still about a hundred bricks left.

The three of them moved bricks to the courtyard dam head outside the door of the stove room. Old Man Chen had ten horses, five Xiaoxi, and Chen Yubin four horses, and they had been moved in a few trips, and they didn't even let go of those half-cut bricks.

Throwing down the half-cut adobe bricks in his arms, straightening his waist, patting the ashes on his clothes, Old Man Chen said to Xiaoxi without raising his head: "Xiaoxi, if these bricks are not enough, there are still some behind the eaves, I will go and move some for you." ”

The back of the eaves refers to the eaves of my father's house, that is, the back of the eaves of the house where they live now.