Qi Baoping came back for less than a day, and then took a bus back to work on Monday morning.

Shen Mengxi didn't see their mother and son sit down formally and talk about this matter, as if Qi Bao was willing to go home, and everything was over.

Lu Xiuzhi's mood was as bright as a rainbow after the rain, smiling and muttering by the stove, "I'll just say that my son isn't the one who doesn't know what to do." ”

Qi Baoping was not an active person, and his silence did not matter to anyone. Shen Mengxi knew that he still had a mustard in his heart, she looked at him, hoping that he could pour out his thoughts and relieve his emotions, but Qi Baoping just smiled gratefully and pulled her pigtails.

Qi Youheng's vegetable garden is not big, but it is enough to be self-sufficient.

These days, Shen Mengxi helped Lu Xiuzhi harvest and dry autumn vegetables when she came home from school, and when the family population was small, she went on the bench.

Lu Xiuzhi was both relieved and distressed.

The frost-free period in Jiayang is very short, and Shen Mengxi sometimes wonders, how did these melons, fruits and grains grow after only being hot for three or four months?

The first thing Shen Mengxi did was to pick up all the mushroom girls in the garden, the ripe mushroom girls were yellow, sweet, and full of seeds, she picked a small basket and shared it with Shang Jing and Ge Yanling to eat.

The tomatoes were also out of the garden, Qi Health put the persimmons in the vegetable cellar for storage, and Qi Baoliang also sent a basket of persimmons, red, yellow, and green.

A few old cucumbers on the cucumber seedlings were planted, and the last batch of tender cucumber buttons with thorns on the top flowers were also picked, washed one by one, rubbed off the thorns on them, and controlled the moisture, Lu Xiuzhi likes to pickle cucumber buttons with sauce, she found a small jar of fermented bean curd, the clerks of the non-staple food store at home, the most important thing is this kind of small jar and small jar, they also have a few tin biscuit buckets printed with children's photos, and two enamel deep basins with lids filled with alabaster.

Scoop out the miso from the miso jar and put it into the bean curd jar, twist the cucumber that has been drying for two days and bury it directly into the misen, the cucumber with the sauce fragrance, and the fragrance of the cucumber, especially suitable for chopping and mixing millet porridge to eat, or cut a slice and sandwich it into the steamed bun, which is very delicious.

Garlic eggplant is more troublesome, you have to steam the whole eggplant, after cooling, cut it vertically on the eggplant, and then smear the minced garlic mixed with salt into the belly of the eggplant, close it, yard it into the pickle jar, seal it and wait. The salinity and temperature of garlic eggplant should be well controlled, otherwise it is easy to become sour eggplant, Lu Xiuzhi always puts the garlic eggplant jar in the side building, and it is almost frozen in winter, but Qi Baoan loves to eat garlic eggplant with ice ballast.

Lu Xiuzhi successively pickled leek flowers, sweet garlic, cowpeas, Buluk, and blue bumps, and the vegetable cellar also stocked fresh cabbage, radishes were buried in the sand, and potatoes were placed in the small vegetable cellar in the kitchen

The long winter is coming, and the days when radish and cabbage, potatoes and pickles dominate the table will begin again.

Speaking of pickles, we have to talk about the wife of Jin Chengzhi, their family is a dynasty, Aunt Jin is very good at making Korean pickles, the spicy cabbage she makes is bright in color, sweet and spicy in taste, a hundred times better than ordinary pickles, nearby neighbors, and even the entire county, who can get a piece of the pickles of the old Jin family, think it is a thing worth boasting about.

Lu Xiuzhi loves to eat very much, and last year she got a small plate, and she ate it sweetly, but she was embarrassed to ask for it again.

The Jin family's pickle practice has been kept secret, and since ancient times, the Chinese have been accustomed to hiding secrets, preferring to lose them rather than pass them on.

When Qi Baoliang came to deliver cabbage this year, Aunt Jin saw it, and saw that the cabbage was gratifying, so she asked for a few, Lu Xiuzhi generously gave her ten, and Aunt Jin boasted about the cabbage planted carefully.

A week later, Aunt Jin's granddaughter Jin Xiangyu sent a small pot of spicy cabbage, and Lu Xiuzhi sighed and took it happily.

Jin Xiangyu stood at the door, holding her hands behind her back and said, "My grandmother has been making a lot of pickles for a year, and she has given them away, and she is so tired that her back hurts and her hands hurt, and as a result, my family can't eat much!" ”

Although Lu Xiuzhi didn't care about a teenage child, her face was also scornful, she vacated the basin and wanted to get her a big sandy watermelon that Qi Health had just divided, but Jin Xiangyu grabbed the basin and ran out, "My grandmother won't let me ask for your things, saying that the cabbage has been topped!" ”

Hearing the sound of the door next door, Lu Xiuzhi shouted loudly through the courtyard wall, "This kid! Why run so fast! ”

He said to Shen Mengxi again: "The Korean pickles made by your Aunt Jin are the most delicious!" ”

Shen Mengxi rubbed the spokes of the bicycle and said casually, "Is it difficult to do?" ”

"That's North Korean pickles, how can we!"

"I will!"

Jin Xiangyu's shout came from next door, "Qi Baozhu, you brag!" ”

Shen Mengxi didn't raise his head, "Heh, you still need to brag, isn't it just to put some sugar and some apples?" ”

On the courtyard wall, Jin Xiangyu was furious: "You dare to peek at my house to make pickles!" Shameless! ”

"It's funny! Jin Xiangyu! The whole world is that your family is Korean, and your family can make pickles! ”

Next door came the sound of Aunt Jin scolding her granddaughter to go back to the house, Lu Xiuzhi was still waiting for her to show her face on the wall, and then explain to her, who knows, with a bang, the door was closed.

Lu Xiuzhi was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed, and reprimanded her daughter, "You just talk nonsense!" ”

"Ride my beloved little motorcycle" Shen Mengxi wiped the bicycle by himself, there was a motor sound at the door, Lu Xiuzhi went to open the door, and Qi Health pushed a happy motorcycle into the door.

"Wipe the car beads, and wipe the motorcycle for my brother along the way!"

"You can pull it down, Zhuzhu's hands are all dirty, you wipe it yourself!" Lu Xiuzhi disagreed.

"Mom, I'm teasing her!"

Last month, he spent more than 1,000 yuan to buy this red motorcycle, and it was very fashionable to ride it out, and the return rate was 100 percent.

Qi security guards also learned to sneak around, but when they returned one day, the paint fell off the fuel tank, the handlebar was broken, and he was kicked by Qi Health, and he was scolded by Lu Xiuzhi for three days.

The postal green was given to Qi Baoan, Qi Baoan's old bicycle was given to Lu Xiuzhi, and Qi Baoping's car was simply taken to the regiment headquarters.

In this way, when I go to work and school in the morning, the Qi family has a car, which is the envy of the neighbors. Shen Mengxi rode and heard the blue bicycle, few primary school students ride, or ride such a dazzling car, to the school, every day around a circle of people to see, she put the car in the guard room, let the doorman help take care of it, sometimes, the students want to ride a circle, she also generously handed over the car keys.

However, Zhang Liang and Qi Weiming were very angry, and they worked hard every day to dispel the thoughts of those boys who wanted to ride.

On this day, Lu Xiuzhi suddenly asked Shen Mengxi, "Girl, do you really know how to cook Korean pickles?" ”

"Yes."

"You tell your mother the truth, your mother doesn't scold you, are you really watching the old Jin family make pickles?"

"No, their family probably did it secretly, when did you see their family do it, it was suddenly brought out one day."

Lu Xiuzhi nodded in agreement.

"I saw it in a magazine, it's in the library, you can find it yourself!"

Lu Xiuzhi put her mind at ease, in the past few days, the sister-in-law of the Jin family next door spoke awkwardly, she was suspicious of her daughter's sentence of sugar and apples, maybe she really said it, and people became suspicious.

She deliberately went to Jin's house, hugged a big watermelon, and said that her daughter was watching it in the library, and she had never peeked at her house cooking pickles.

Aunt Jin smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Aunt Lu, you see that you came over to say it on purpose, you think too much, this pickle, isn't it just our family that can make it, the whole of China, will make a lot of it!" Isn't it? Don't think about it, Xiangyu, that kid, talking nonsense! ”

Lu Xiuzhi couldn't laugh anymore, put down the watermelon, and went home. I was so depressed that I didn't eat dinner.

This Lu Xiuzhi is the most powerful with her family, and she can't keep up with the words she talks to people outside, and she regrets it only when she returns home, "I should have said at the time, I didn't think much about it, my girl would have done it!" ”

"Ah, I shouldn't have given her the watermelon back then!"

Shen Mengxi looked at Lu Xiuzhi like this, shook his head and smiled.

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