23 in Christ

Because of the rain, it got dark earlier than usual, and when the He family returned, it was almost dark. Yang Liu looked around the house for a long time before she saw a few figures slowly moving towards her yard, she stood in the corridor with the candlestick, one hand around the candle flame to block the wind, and shouted. When they got closer, Yang Liu found that not only the three of them, but also Li Wu and Goudan had returned.

Seeing Yang Liu come out to greet them, Li Cong grinned: "Lady, we're back." ”

He Shi's face was calm, and he nodded slightly when he saw Yang Liu going out to pick them up, Li Wu and Goudan said hello, but obviously the interest on his face was not high. It seemed that something was wrong, and Yang Liu became more and more cautious. After a while, several other people who heard the movement also came out one after another.

"Come in, I have something to say." He Shi looked around, and his eyes fell on Yang Liu: "Who is cooking tonight?" ”

Knowing that it was Yu's value, He looked at himself, obviously not wanting to listen. Yang Liu is not an uninteresting person who took the initiative to ask: "I'll come." "It seems that I have entered the door, but I am not yet part of the family.

Without waiting for He to look at Xiuxiu, Xiuxiu stood on Yang Liu's side: "Sister-in-law, I'll give you a hand." Xiuxiu knew that even if she didn't say this, the He family wouldn't let her participate.

He also had no intention of letting Xiuxiu hear their conversation, so he nodded and sent a few children to the stove room together.

"Xiuxiu, let's cook dry rice tonight, put a few sweet potatoes underneath, it doesn't cost much rice than cooking porridge. Make a big pot of soup, and drink it if it's not enough, what do you say? ”

Xiuxiu also wants to eat dry rice, there are many Li families, and only by cooking a big pot of porridge can he barely mix water to be full, don't think about dry rice, except for farming and festivals, he has almost never cooked it. Not to mention noodles and the like, if you really have noodles, you may not be able to be full for two or three catties of a meal. Xiuxiu was a little moved, and remembered that her mother's face was wrong when she came back tonight, and she was a little stunned: "Or, next time." ”

"Just tonight, I'll carry something around." Yang Liu really wanted to eat dry rice, so she didn't dare to drink two bowls of porridge when she got up in the middle of the night. In the past few days, she has lost weight significantly, most obviously her breasts, which are not as thin as they are here. I'm still a child, Yang Liu comforted.

Yang Liu made up his mind, and all his worries were left behind. Let Xiuxiu raise the fire first, boil some hot water to buy vegetables, she pulled a few sweet potatoes and potatoes, looked at the little cabbage stacked in the corner, wanted to add a few more dishes, looked at the rain outside and shook her head, this kind of romantic thing to walk in the rain, at least the road surface should be paved with cement.

Yang Liu broke two garlic sticks from the wall and handed them to Dashan to let him and the dog finish peeling them. Goudan shook his head at that time: "The gentleman is far away from cooking." ”

What Yang Liu hates the most is this tone: "You're not an adult now, let alone a gentleman, so peel garlic for me honestly." ”

Adults and gentlemen, the two concepts that don't match each other at all, Goudan thought for a long time before he understood, he put his hands behind his back, took a few steps back and forth, shook his head and sighed: "Only women and villains are difficult to raise." ”

"I'm a woman, you're a villain, half a pound and eight taels. I am an elder, you are a junior, and the elders tell you that as long as you don't violate etiquette, you have to do it obediently. After Yang Liu finished teaching, he bent down and patted the dog's head again, and said softly: "Dear Li Wenhan, do you understand?" I want garlic. ”

was patted on the head by Yang Liu so affectionately, the dog was a little surprised, he is not a child, okay? He looked at Yang Liu and saw that this beautiful fifth aunt had bright eyes and a smile on the corner of her mouth. He was a little embarrassed to lower his head and go to peel garlic with the mountain.

Dashan covered his mouth and smiled, he had already started peeling garlic, and he didn't have the idea of a gentleman cooking, as long as his stomach was full, he should cook by himself. If no one cooks for him, can he still starve because of this sentence? Words are dead, people are alive, and they can't be so dull.

Qiaoqiao had already obediently gone to fetch water and vegetables, and even washed it without hot water, which made the willow particularly squeamish. She originally intended to use the hot water to wash the vegetables herself, but now she has coincidentally washed the vegetables, and she simply cooks with this underwater rice.

Yang Liu divided the neatly washed vegetables into two halves, one half was placed in a wooden basin and poured boiling hot water, and the other half she planned to stir-fry. Xiuxiu poured the washed wood into the pot, stirred, and peeled the sweet potatoes and potatoes.

White plate oil, although cheap, is still a lot more expensive than usual because of the rain. Yang Liu rinsed the plate oil, cut the plate oil into thin strips, and then cut it off with a few knives at will. The work of burning the fire was taken over by Qiaoqiao, Xiuxiu had already brushed the pot, and the fire was also burning vigorously, Yang Liu asked Xiuxiu to help scoop a small half scoop of water to the bottom of the pot, and then held the cut plate oil on the board into the pot. There is a reason why water is put in the pot when boiling oil, so that it is easy to produce oil, and the oil will not splash everywhere, and the oil is tender and the color is beautiful.

Dashan and the dog squatted there after peeling the garlic and muttered, and they didn't know what they were talking about, probably still angry with the willows. There was already lard boiling out of the pot, Yang Liu looked into the jar of oil, afraid that the oil would splash out, and wanted to see if there were any water stains, but found that there were scorched vegetable residues in the oil jar, black, black and yellow, Yu must be troublesome, and there was a spatula directly scraped in the jar. Yang Liu opened her mouth, and caught a glimpse of the dog who was there, and finally endured it, so Qiaoqiao pressed the fire in the pot, she scooped water from the Ding pot between the middle pot and the side pot to clean the jar inside and out, and then wiped the water inside, and scooped the oil in.

The oil came out little by little, the plate oil slowly became golden, the smell of meat overflowed all over the room, and the iron pillar followed the willow since he entered the stove room.

"Tiezhu, it's not good yet, when the oil residue is fried, the fifth aunt will get some salt and fry it to taste." I remember when she was a child, when she was hungry for oil residue, her mother would not let her eat it, saying that she would not want to eat meat after eating oil residue without salt. At that time, she knew whether she was bluffing herself, but later there was no way to verify, because every household ate barrels of blended oil, and plate oil residue or something was rare.

"Okay fifth aunt, you just let me take a bite, just eat one." Tie Zhu dragged Yang Liu's clothes and coquettishly, stretched out a finger, and whispered with a trumpet in both hands: "Only give me one person, don't let my brother and them see it." ”

Yang Liu smiled, this kid still wants to eat alone. She looked at the pillar and told him to wash his hands first. As soon as Tie Zhu heard it, he knew that there was a play, so he turned around and ran out of the stove room.

"Sister-in-law, Tiezhu is really close to you." Xiuxiu smiled.

Yang Liu pressed the plate oil with a spatula, shoveled some more, looked at it, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is jealous?" Come on, come on, sister-in-law feed you first. As he spoke, he took a strip of oil residue and sent it to Xiuxiu's mouth.

"Sister-in-law!" Xiuxiu stomped her feet, turned her face away and avoided it, she is such a big person, can she still be like an iron pillar of gluttony?

"If you don't eat it, you'll be cheaper for me." Seeing that Xiuxiu didn't eat, Yang Liu gestured, and just wanted to send it to his mouth, but when he saw Qiaoqiao, he beckoned: "Come here." ”

Smelling the smell of meat, she was also greedy, but she was embarrassed to say it, afraid of other people's jokes. At this moment, Yang Liu called her, and she threw away the tongs and came over.

"Open your mouth."

Qiaoqiao opened her mouth, and Yang Liu put the oil residue in her mouth, but was caught by the iron pillar who was returning from washing her hands, and the kid immediately complained: "Fifth aunt, you give it to your sister, don't give it to me." ”

How could Yang Liu be panicked by a child's words, and straightened up: "What's the matter, did the fifth aunt let your sister help you taste it?" ”

"Really?" Tie Zhu's eyes flashed, obviously a little unconvinced, he held Yang Liu's legs and stood on tiptoe to look into the pot, and saw that there was still a lot of oil residue, so he generously didn't care, and pointed to the pot: "I want to eat oil residue." ”

"Good, good." Yang Liu took a bowl and shoveled about four or five pieces of oil residue to the iron pillar, saying that he would put more salt in it later.

There was only oil residue and a little bit left in the pot, and Yang Liu sprinkled a spoonful of salt into it and stir-fried it twice, and asked Xiuxiu: "Where do you put this oil residue?" ”

Xiuxiu was straining the rice into the fence, turned her head to look at the pot and said, "Put it in the copper basin." ”

It doesn't seem to be much, and the copper basin takes up some space. Some of the willow was left in the pot, and the rest was simply served in a large porcelain bowl. He scooped half a spatula into the bowl of the iron pillar, let him eat it with a few brothers and sisters, then turned around and cut the peeled sweet potato into pieces, and when Xiuxiu brushed the middle pot, he poured the sweet potato in the melon scoop into it, scooped most of the scoop of water, Xiuxiu then put the half-cooked rice on top of the sweet potato, and used a wooden shovel to spread the rice and cover the sweet potato.

Yang Liu was cutting shredded potatoes, and said without turning his head: "Spread the rice a little, I want to eat the pot." ”

Xiuxiu smiled and glanced at Yang Liu, she didn't expect that she was so big that she was still hungry for this, and the iron pillar next to her also shouted to eat it when she heard this, Xiuxiu said yes again and again, and covered the pot with a lid.

Xiuxiu wiped her hands on her apron and asked, "Sister-in-law, what else are you going to do?" ”

Yang Liu's hand kept moving, turned his head and pointed to the wooden basin with his chin: "Help me scoop up the little cabbage and put it on the plate, it's almost hot." ”

Yang Liu plans to cook sauerkraut soup, which is best with dry rice, but it doesn't seem to be made with sauerkraut. She picks this most convenient, blanches the leaves with hot water, chops them and stir-fry them with the oil residue, and cooks them with rice soup, which is so ordinary that it can't be more ordinary, but the taste is excellent.

Xiuxiu answered, stretched out a finger to probe the temperature of the water, and when she saw that it was not hot, she directly reached out and scooped up the scalded cabbage, wrung out the water, put it on a plate, and poured the water into the swill bucket.

"What else is there to do?"

Yang Liu was not polite, his eyes swept around, and when he saw that the garlic paste was also pounded, he shook his head: "No, you help watch the fire, don't steam the rice." "Because it takes a little time to put sweet potatoes underneath, start with a high fire, and when the rice pot starts to smoke, you have to steam it slowly on low heat, so that there will be no paste and pot.

Soak the shredded potatoes in cold water, wash the cutting board, chop the cabbage and put it on the plate, and tell Qiaoqiao to burn the fire in the pot. When the pot is hot, pour the chopped cabbage into the pot and stir-fry it with the oil residue a few times, then pour half of the rice soup into it, cover the pot, and wait for it to boil. During this time, she picked two more dried chili peppers and chopped them with a knife, the willow is not spicy, but she has to serve the shredded potatoes with dried chili peppers and shallots, so that there are red, white and green, no matter what the taste is, at least it looks like she has an appetite.

The fire is burning, the rice soup is also hot, the pot is open in three or two, Yang Liu took a chopstick garlic paste into it, smelled the fragrance and put the soup up. Yang Liu first cooked to taste salty, and then after a long time, she had experience, and she could tell what kind of dishes she was doing and what seasonings she lacked just by the aroma of the dishes, of course, provided that she had eaten all of these dishes.

Yang Liu lived with her mother, and lived the life of ordinary people, just some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar with some vegetables and meat, and she didn't eat any abalone and sea cucumber with a swollen face and a fat face. In addition to wasting money to satisfy the appetite for a meal, I will have to live with porridge and side dishes this time in the future, and I can't increase the price of two taels of meat, why bother? Yang Liu is also used to it, so she can only spend her mind on these ordinary ingredients and make some different dishes. Yang Liu didn't dare to pat her chest and promise that she would do it, but if she opened a home-cooked restaurant, she would still be able to take it.

After the soup was served, the pot was cleaned with a pot brush made of sorghum, and the willow was fried with some oil residue and shredded potatoes. Ancient times are not as good as modern times, summer vegetables can be eaten in winter, here is what is produced in the season, what is eaten on the dinner table, can you not get tired of eating? Yang Liu suddenly wanted to split up his family, he was the master of his own house, and he could eat whatever he wanted.