In another day, it will be the winter solstice, and if it is a previous year, Qinghe should have started to buy and prepare early. But there was an injured Erbai in the family, and she had to take care of her in everything, so the progress was delayed a lot. In order to catch up, I can only close the door for a day and prepare at home.

She washed the stone mill and needed to dry it.

So Qinghe carried the dried soybeans into the kitchen, and Mr. Xiaohuo got up. Then the water in the pot is evaporated and dry, and the soybeans are poured in one go. Slowly stir-fry until the skin of the soybeans changes color slightly, cover the pot and simmer until the fragrance comes out, and Qinghe shovels the soybeans out of the pot.

Qinghe stir-fried the soybeans over low heat so that they would not taste raw and tasteless after grinding. This is the method she came up with when she was a teenager, and she only let people do it once and won the praise of her family, and since then Qinghe has fallen in love with this feeling.

She loves the kitchen and can't wait to be in it all the time. Her parents were open-minded and did not restrain her with the style of Miss Boudoir. Qinghe was grateful and said that he would serve them for the rest of his life and cook food for them for a lifetime.

At that time, Qinghe's mother kissed her intact left cheek, and quietly pointed to her father and said to Qinghe: "Let's eat it and give it to him, and when the time comes, he begs you, and you can do it so hard." After saying that, the two looked at each other and smiled.

Qing He held the wooden handle of the stone grinding, reached out and touched the left side of his face, if he didn't touch it carefully, he couldn't feel the faint scar, the narrow and pink scar, which destroyed the beauty of that face.

Although no one who understands the reason has ever mentioned it, it does not mean that it does not exist!

The stone mill moved slowly again, and the sound of crushing beans creaked, and Qing He, who remembered the past, was slightly depressed.

The place where she lived was not very large, only two rooms, on the left and right were sleeping places, and in the middle was a small hall. There is a place to put sundries next to the small hall, but the windows are facing the small courtyard, and the lighting is good.

"Qingqing!" Erbai rubbed his eyes and opened the curtain to look out, and when he saw Qinghe's drowsiness, he flew away, waved his hand excitedly, and ran out.

"Why did you wake up so early? Yangyang didn't go to class today, I slept late, and you still got up. ”

"No, I'm better than him."

Erbai stood next to him and looked curiously, but didn't say what he thought.

That kid can compare to me, hmph, I woke up immediately when I heard movement outside. Ahh

She was about to grab the handle in a hurry, but Qing Hege opened her hand.

"What do you do?" Qinghe was afraid that Erbai would make trouble, so he didn't let her touch it.

Erbai was aggrieved, pointed to the handle and said, "Qingqing, I want to help you, you rest." ”

Qing He was a little embarrassed that he blamed her for wrong, pulled his hair, and said softly to Erbai, "You got up early in a hurry, but you rinsed your mouth and washed your face, and when you eat, I'll replace you, let's go." ”

Erbai thought about it, his hands and feet were quick to wash and eat, and when he came back, Qinghe had already ground the soybeans.

She watched Qinghe slowly hold the bean flour, and she was really a little anxious.

Does Qingqing hate me anymore, because I've been doing her a favor these days and making her angry? Why don't you let me help her!

Qinghe saw her come back, took the time to look up at her, saw Erbai pouting and looking sullen, secretly wondering what was wrong with her, before she could speak, Erbai asked her.

"Qingqing, don't you like me anymore?" Erbai doesn't like to talk nonsense with people, and he is also straightforward to Qinghe, except for those hidden little things, joy, anger, sorrow and joy are all on his face.

"What's wrong?"

"You don't wait for me!"

Qing He followed Erbai's hand and saw her pile of bean flour, and couldn't help laughing. She cleaned up first and tied the mouth of the bag to prevent the powder from being discarded by moisture. Then, she took another bag out from behind the stone mill and handed it to Erbai.

Erbai took it suspiciously.

"Nerd, what's in there? I'm afraid I have nothing to do, I have free labor, but I'm happy to be idle. Qinghe took the soybean flour and wanted to go back to the kitchen, and when he bypassed Erbai, he whispered in her ear and said: "I'll leave it all to you, Erbai is really powerful, Qingqing also likes you." ”

The hot breath when she spoke sprayed on the slightly cool ear pinna in the cold wind of Erbai, stirring up small bumps alternating between hot and cold.

After Qing He finished speaking, she walked away, and her laughter floated in the air.

She could see Erbai's ears turned red, which was amused, and she couldn't help laughing. When I walked to the kitchen, I couldn't stand it, and I laughed with my hands on the door.

"I didn't expect Erbai, who is usually active, to be so amused." Qinghe took a look and found that Erbai was still standing there in a daze, maintaining the posture just now.

Qinghe was funny and called her loudly.

"Erbai, I didn't punish you for standing, hurry up, it's too late." When she said this, Erbai jumped as if he was frightened and almost hit the stone mill.

Qinghe thought it was very funny, and decided to tease Erbai more in the future.

So of course, Qinghe would not know about Erbai's inner excitement and collapse.

Qing, Qingqing, she, she kissed me!!

While grinding peanuts, Erbai touched his hot ears, and a silly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In addition to soybeans that need to be stir-fried, black sesame seeds are also needed. There are two white ground peanuts outside, and Qinghe fried sesame seeds inside. The sesame seeds have a strong aroma, and the flavor is stir-fried over low heat, and gradually wafts out.

As soon as Qinghe fried the sesame seeds, someone knocked on the door. The aunt next door came in curiously to take a look, looked at the black sesame seeds on the plate in amazement and asked, "What is this food for the green girl?" ”

Qinghe made an explanation, and the aunt didn't understand it very well, but when she heard that it was eaten on the winter solstice in previous years, she smiled and smiled, nodded again and again to indicate that she knew, and also ordered a pound of powder.

"Girl, your powdered sugar is cute for my grandson, I can eat thirty or forty balls a day, and my little belly is not afraid of going bad."

When Qing He heard this, he instructed uneasily: "Auntie, children don't digest very well, and it's easy to accumulate food if they eat too much, so you should watch it." The aunt pulled Qinghe and explained it several times, and only after getting Qinghe's answer did she leave satisfied.

The two of them grinded all the peanuts, sesame seeds, and soybeans in the afternoon and put them in bags, and Qinghe was tired enough to lean on the door. It doesn't seem like it takes too much effort, but there's actually a lot to do.

It has to be fried and grinded, if it weren't for a second white, it wouldn't be finished in a day. Qingyang was sent out by Qinghe to play, this child is usually restrained, he wants to go to school, and he goes back to the store to help Qinghe, and he doesn't have time to go out to play. His peers are running outside every day to catch bugs or something, and he hasn't experienced it.

Qinghe thought of the joy on Qingyang's face at noon, and felt a little sad in his heart.

The child is precocious, how heart-wrenching.

Erbai leaned over, half-squatting and looking up.

Qinghe had just finished thinking about things, and he was almost frightened by Erbai when he turned around. Fortunately, she held on to the door frame, clutched her chest and glared at Erbai.

"What are you doing to scare me?"

It turned out that Erbai felt that Qinghe's feelings were low and wanted to comfort her, but seeing that she had been staring at the ground, he squatted down and wanted to know what she was looking at.

"Scare Qingqing, I was wrong." Erbai innocently apologized to her.

Qinghe could smell the aroma of peanuts coming from her mouth, stretched out his finger and tapped her forehead, "You, you must have eaten it again, how do you look like a mouse, I won't embroider a cat for you in the future, just a mouse." ”

How could Erbai follow her, holding Qinghe's hand and behaving coquettishly, it was not easy for Qinghe to change his words.

"Okay, okay, it's still a big cat."

Qingqing said that a big cat is a tiger, but now it is still a kitten. I don't know why it's still small, I'm clearly a big tiger, amazing. Rats are ugly and greedy, Qingqing often chases and beats, I don't want to be a mouse!

Where did Qinghe think that a joke he made casually was taken seriously by Erbai, and since then, Erbai is really no longer so greedy. Of course, that's another story.

Because the next day is the winter solstice, the Qinghe sisters and brothers and Erbai are busy preparing for tomorrow in the evening. I was sweating all over the night.

"Yangyang, I left the candy in the kitchen, bring it to me." Qinghe's hands were full of powder, and when Qingyang heard it, he responded with a sloppy action and ran out.