Chapter 50: Snacks
Early the next morning, Xu Heer and his mother went to the street to buy vegetables, Chen Xukun also followed, he had never seen an open-air vegetable market, a narrow road, on both sides of the vegetable sellers, from time to time there were motorcycles or bicycles through, fortunately it did not rain, the road was not muddy, but the discarded garbage still attracted a lot of flies. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Chen Xukun frowned and followed behind their mother and daughter, such a hygienic environment, can the dishes really be eaten?
Seeing that he had been frowning, Xu Heer stood beside him and explained: "Don't look at the mess here, but most of the vegetables are grown by themselves, and my family also has a vegetable garden, and the meat is also transported from the slaughterhouse in the town, which is very regular." What do you want to eat today? ”
Chen Xukun was still frowning and saw Meng Fangtian stop at a pork stall, the board containing the pork was yellow and dark, and it looked like it had been used for a long time, Xu Heer poked his head and said to his mother: "Mom, let's eat pork liver at noon!" I want to eat stir-fried pork liver! ”
Meng Fangtian nodded, asked for a pound of pork liver and two pounds of pork ribs, to say that one of Xu Her'er's favorite foods is fried pork liver, and the other is chicken gizzards, which has never changed over the years, every time she goes home, whether it is Ma Hongmei or her grandmother or grandmother, she will make these two dishes for her to eat.
The three of them continued to walk forward, Meng Fangtian greeted others along the way, Xu Hel took Chen Xukun to go shopping, and squatted down in front of a little girl with two braids, Chen Xukun looked down and saw that it was a purple-black thing like the horn of a bullfight, Xu Hel picked up a face and introduced: "This one, it's a water chestnut!" When you go home, you can cook it in water and eat it, which is the most common snack we ate when we were children! As he spoke, he asked the little girl for a bag, and Xu Heer picked up more than a dozen.
Then Xu Heer saw the stall selling tender peanuts again, and suddenly his mind moved, so he turned back to Meng Fangtian and asked her grandparents or aunts if they had planted peanuts, Meng Fangtian was very helpless to tell her that her grandfather had planted some peanuts this year, and her little daughter had a special habit of eating peanuts, she didn't like to eat fried peanuts, she only liked to eat peanuts that had just been pulled out of the ground and had not been dried or peanuts that had just been picked and boiled in salt water, so she asked this, Meng Fangtian knew, Xu Her will go to his grandfather's field to pull peanuts when he comes home later! In fact, Xu Herer is not greedy, but these things are not only a taste, but also childhood memories and fun.
Xu Heran was very happy to see her sister come back with a bag of water chestnuts, she also likes to eat this thing, but for many years outside, she rarely eats it, the sisters happily washed the water chestnut and then put it in the pot to cook, and picked up a tomato that her mother bought to cook soup, washed it and ate it in two halves. The sisters sat under the eaves, the sun was not yet hot, and the cool breeze did not even require a fan.
Meng Fangtian smiled and explained to Chen Xukun: "The most suitable thing for the two sisters is to eat these little things in the summer, there used to be a big grapevine in the yard, and every summer the two sisters would walk around under the tree every day to see which grape was ripe and picked off, so it is impossible for our grapes to wait until a bunch is all red, and they will pick them before that!" ”
Chen Xukun just finished washing his face, and his heart was also refreshed, so he smiled and said: "Actually, raising two daughters is quite interesting!" ”
Meng Fangtian nodded: "Indeed, when I was a child, these two sisters often fought, sometimes I was impatient and drove them out to make trouble by myself, sometimes I would go home hand in hand with good hands, and sometimes I would go to their grandmother to tell each other, I was really annoyed to death at that time!" ”
Chen Xukun smiled happily: "The two of them are sitting together now, I can imagine the situation back then!" ”
At this time, Xu Heer finished eating half a tomato, washed his hands and came over to ask Meng Fangtian: "Which piece of land in Grandpa's house planted peanuts?" If it's close, I'd like to pull some back, and my sister wants to eat it too! ”
Meng Fangtian and Chen Xukun glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "Just downstream of the stream, your grandfather often planted peanuts in that field!" ”
Xu Heer nodded and looked at the sun again: "While the sun is not too hot, I'll go pull some now, it's not far away anyway." As for the straw hat at home, I want to wear a straw hat! ”
Xu Heran walked over at this time and said with a smile: "You don't wait for the water chestnut?" ”
Xu Her said: "You keep it for me, I'll be back soon!" ”
Xu Heran pulled his sister's arm: "Don't be in such a hurry, it's okay tomorrow!" ”
Xu Heer frowned slightly, a little anxious: "This kind of thing has to be done immediately as soon as I think about it, otherwise I won't necessarily want to eat it tomorrow!" ”
Meng Fangtian took out a straw hat and gloves from the house, and said to the eldest daughter, "You just let her go!" He then said to his youngest daughter, "Remember to pull some more, and when it's ready, I'll give some to your grandparents and grandmother." Pluck it clean, too, and remember to check if you missed peanuts! ”
Xu Herr took the tool, answered the call and ran out, Chen Xukun also wanted to follow to see how to pull peanuts, but was stopped by Xu Heran: "You wait a while, I'll go decorate some water and snacks, and we'll go over together later." She's probably been in the city for a long time, and when she comes back, she goes crazy everywhere! Even so, Xu Heran still prepared tea and snacks intimately, and also took two small shovels and gloves.
Chen Xukun took these things and followed Xu Heran to the peanut field, although Xu Heran was pregnant, but the walking speed was still very fast, Chen Xukun was a little worried about the child in her belly, and reminded her loudly, Xu Heran thought that his feet were too fast, so he slowed down.
Xu Heran asked as he walked: "You came to this day, what do you think of our village?" ”
Chen Xukun looked at the greenery: "The environment is not bad, it's just ...... Well, it's still a little uncomfortable. ”
Xu Heran looked up at the road ahead and squinted: "This is normal!" If you really feel bad, just say it, and if you hold it, we won't see it. ”
Chen Xukun nodded: "I think after Hull came home, the whole person was different!" Get lively and energetic! ”
Xu Heran smiled: "Hull was a very lively little girl when she was a child, and then she has been studying and studying, and she has become less willing to go out and not very willing to move. She can be like this this year, I think it's already a good progress, it's better for girls to be lively, what do you think? ”
Chen Xukun smiled and nodded: "I'm afraid that she will change back to her original appearance after she goes back to school!" ”
Xu Heran sighed: "It's all her own choice." My sister is also pampered, she hasn't suffered much, and she doesn't know what it is, and I don't know if it's because of her father's death, she is more resistant to strangers and is not easy to get acquainted with! ”
Chen Xukun comforted: "Like you said, this is her own choice. As long as she doesn't go bad, no! ”
Xu Heran smiled: "I am very relieved of this!" She's occasionally a little bad, but she doesn't really have a bad heart. ”
The two walked and chatted, and when they arrived at the peanut field, Xu Herer had already pulled out more than ten clumps of peanuts, and the peanuts were originally grown together, looking like a large patch. Xu Heer saw that his sister and Chen Xukun were coming, so he commanded: "Chen Xukun please take these peanuts under the tree, sister, you can pick peanuts under the tree, don't come down to the field!" ”
Xu Heran nodded, Chen Xukun put on gloves and helped the pile of plucked peanuts to the shade of the tree, and then took a small shovel and straw hat and followed the ground.
The three of them worked at the same time, and soon ended the trip to pull peanuts, it was almost 11 o'clock at this time, the sun was rising, and on the way back for a few people, Xu Heran picked some bamboo leaves, and in such weather, he still had to drink some bamboo leaves to underwater fire.
After returning home and washing his hands and face with well water, Xu Hel found that Chen Xukun's arm had some reddened scratches, but fortunately there was no bleeding or redness, so he asked him to soak in the cold water.
At this time, Meng Fangtian was cooking with Ma Hongmei in the kitchen, Xu Hel poured the peanuts into a bamboo basket, turned on the faucet to rinse the dirt on the peanuts, and then poured them into the basin and brushed them with a small brush.