Ju An brushed the jar, wiped it inside and out with a piece of dry cloth, and then placed the jar sideways under the porch, and the mouth of the jar was facing the sun, so that the water vapor in the jar evaporated faster.

When he walked into the house, he said to his mother: "The jar has been painted, and I have wiped it with a cloth, where to dig the mud, I will dig it."

My mother smiled and said, "This time we don't use mud to paste the eggs, this time we use plant ashes mixed with wine and salt to make the paste."

Ju An was puzzled and said: "Didn't we all use mud before, how to use plant ash this time."

My mother said: "In the past, the old way at home was to use grass and wood ash, but then no one burned grass and firewood for cooking, so it was changed to mud, and now you have pine ash here, which is better, and the pickled eggs are more delicious."

"Mom, I was worried about the pine ash at home some time ago, and the gray mother who had finished the barbecue several times was put away, and I kept the pickled duck eggs, so you don't have to dig the mud this time," my sister said with a smile.

He laughed twice: "Mom said okay, then listen to Mom." After speaking, he saw that his mother was preparing to fry tofu, and said, "Mom, fry a few more pieces, okay, get me two pieces first, put pepper and salt, and relieve my cravings."

My mother smiled and nodded to the sister next to her and said, "I'm going to get a piece of tofu, it's the piece left just now." Took the tofu that my sister brought and washed it on the water, cut it into tofu pieces about three or four centimeters wide and one centimeter thick, and then put oil in the pot, turned on the fire, and fried the tofu, and after a while, the golden tofu fried on both sides came out of the pot, and my mother sprinkled pepper and salt on each piece of tofu, and then put it on the plate, and handed the plate to Ju'an: "Here you go, I went to my brother and didn't bring anything back, and I brought a bunch of tofu back."

Ju An put a piece of tofu into his mouth, found it very hot, sighed a few times, and then ate the tofu into his stomach, at this time his sister also took chopsticks over, and the sister and brother ate around a plate of fried tofu.

Ju An said while eating: "Mom, you know how expensive tofu is in the United States, a pound of tofu is this kind of tender tofu, and it costs more than ten yuan to hold the yuan."

As soon as my mother heard this, she immediately picked up her chopsticks, took a piece of tofu from Ju'an's plate and tasted it: "It's nothing special, the tofu at home is all one dollar a piece, and it's not as delicious as at home, and a piece of tofu is more than ten yuan, isn't it a pit person."

"It is estimated that Americans eat less and cook less, so of course things are more expensive," my sister thought about and gave an answer.

Mom nodded as well. After a while, the fried tofu on the plate was swept away by the two sisters and brothers, and Ju An smashed it and said, "It's really delicious." My mother and sister laughed.

At noon, there were only three people in the family to eat, Ju'an's mother and sister, and my mother made a few portions of home-cooked tofu and gave Thomas a plate each.

After lunch, my mother and sister finished their housework, and began to pickle the salted duck eggs, Ju An also helped by the side, my mother took out the duck eggs collected during this time, and then put them in a large basin, put water on them and let Ju An and my sister each wash carefully, and then see if there is any bad one to pick out, after washing, wipe the water on the duck eggs with dry gauze, and place them on the table to dry.

My mother found the pine ash in her collection, added wine and salt to the pine ash, then added some cold boiled water and stirred it into plaster, and then waited for the duck eggs to dry and smeared them directly.

While everyone was chatting, Nancy came back to drink coffee and handed over the plate, and saw a few people placing more than 60 duck eggs on the table, and asked strangely, "Are you going to boil duck eggs to eat?"

Ju An explained: "Either we prepare salted duck eggs, or put them in a jar, wrap them in mud, and leave them for a month."

Nancy asked strangely, "Isn't the duck egg stinky, can you still eat it, it's terrible."

Ju An couldn't stand her choking, so he had to say: "When it's ready, you can taste it, it's delicious, it's much more delicious than fresh duck eggs."

Nancy shook her head and said, "I don't want to eat, it's terrible" After speaking, she said to Ju An: "Please tell your mother, the food delivered at noon is delicious, I like it very much, by the way, what's its name?" I also want to learn how to cook and eat by myself."

Ju An said: "Home-cooked tofu is a kind of roasted tofu with ham sausage, fungus, etc., first cut the fried tofu in half, so that it is easy to taste, and then cut the ham sausage into small dices, soak the fungus, and then put in some water, and burn it."

Nancy said, "It sounds easy, I'll learn it when I have time."

Ju An smiled and said, "Yes, I can teach you if you want to learn when the time comes." Nancy said thank you, put down her plate, turned and walked out of the house.

My sister asked, "What did I tell you?" ”。

"I said I could teach him how good the home-cooked tofu my mother made and I wanted to learn it, and when I first came here, I asked him what we were doing, and I told him to pickle duck eggs, and then told her to pickle them for a month, and she thought that things would be bad after a month and she couldn't eat them," Ju An said.

My sister and mother laughed when they heard this.

Ju An followed and said: "Lao Mei's last newspaper article mentioned that preserved eggs are the most terrible food in the world, and they can't accept the taste, color or something, saying that it is a pungent smell, a strange taste, and a devil's egg." ‘

My mother and sister laughed out loud when they heard this, and as soon as they finished laughing, their mother became worried: "Then San'er, let's take a Chinese daughter-in-law, you married a foreigner, you can't eat this, you can't eat that, how can you get by."

Ju An was stunned for a moment and said: "Why are you involved in this aspect again, look at what you are worried about, okay, okay, it is estimated that the duck eggs are dry, let's wipe the mud." So saying, he went out of the house and brought in the jar.

Wipe it into the jar with your hand, and use it just when it's dry.

Then, Ju An and his sister began to smear mud on the duck egg skin, wiped it and handed it to the mother to let the mother put it in the jar, the whole wipe was finished, it took more than half an hour before and after, there was no way that the mother was too strict, the thick wipe was not good, the thin was not good, the harmful Ju An reworked more than a dozen duck eggs, so that the mother was satisfied, and so the mother put the duck eggs in the jar, Ju An looked, what a coincidence, just put a small jar.

The old mother found a thick plastic cloth to cover the mouth of the jar, took a strip of cloth and said to Ju An: "You have great strength, tie the mouth of the jar tightly." Tie the mouth of the jar tightly according to what my mother said, and then move it to the corner of the kitchen, the place designated by my mother, and the final work is completed.

After all this, the three of them were completely idle, made a pot of tea, and Ju An, his mother and sister sat under the porch to rest.

Ju An said to his mother: "Mom, don't go back at all, let my sister and brother-in-law take Tongtong back, how tiring it is to take a plane for more than ten hours."

My sister also said: "Yes, Mom, you and Dad live here in San'er, the air here is good, and Dad likes to ride horses."

Mom thought for a while and said: "You and Ran Ran Tongtong have gone back, how boring I am here with your father, I can't understand what they American devils say, if the third child has something to do in a few days out, will I chat with your father?" I don't know anyone here, and everyone lives so far away that they can't even make a mess."

Ju An thought about it, my mother is comfortable here, but who is my mother and father to talk to, it is estimated that there are few Chinese in the whole Lewiston except for himself, and after thinking about it, he said: "Okay, I will send you and my father, sister and brother-in-law back to China, and then I will come back."

My mother smiled and said: "Just send it to the airport, you will come back when we get on the plane back to China, you will be tired and panicked after a day's flight back and forth, and your brother-in-law will not know the way home when you arrive in Jiangnan?" ”。

My sister also said: "Well, you can just send us on the plane back to China, and when we get to Jiangnan, we will get in the car and go home directly."

"How did Ran Ran go back, did my brother say it?" Ju An asked.

The mother replied: "Your eldest brother said that he would pick him up at Jiangnan Airport, and when the time comes, he will fly directly to the south with Ran Ran, if he doesn't have time to pick him up, he will go home first, and he or your sister-in-law will take a few days off to pick up Ran Ran."

Ju An calculated for a while and said: "If you have any situation in Jiangnan, find a big hotel to live in first, don't always worry about saving money, your son and I are five-star every time, I can't live if I am small, and I can't live in a four-star rate, I know it" Ju An told his mother with a smile.

My sister smiled and said: "Why are we going to play in Jiangnan for two days, I haven't lived in a five-star hotel since I'm so old, so mom, we'll take our two children to play in Jiangnan for two days?" Anyway, someone is thinking about paying for it."

"You just think about playing, there are people everywhere who are fun, I don't have that sin" The mother touched Ju'an's head and said happily: "Our three sons are out of breath, I know that I love my mother, if only I could give birth to a grandson soon."

Ju An was stunned for a moment, why did he go around and around here, and after thinking about it, he understood, just as Ju An had seen someone say before, Chinese women raised a son and began to look forward to their grandson after they were twenty-five years old, and since then they have had an extraordinary desire to be a grandmother.

And the last time my brother took his parents to take advantage of the National Day to go to the capital to play, and finally my mother came back tired enough, saying that she was not going out, so where is the tourism, and I went to suffer. So now when the word travel is mentioned, my father and mother can't help but shake their heads, and answer again and again that you don't go, don't go.

After thinking about it, he said: "I'll call Wang Fan in two days, and let him pick you up when you get to Jiangnan, and let him take you if you want to play in Jiangnan for two days."

The mother thought for a while and said, "Don't bother Wang Fan, this child, people are busy with work, and it's not good to trouble others."

Ju An said: "Don't be, you just listen to my arrangement for this matter."