The man who put the guy in place laughed and gathered around the table and began to eat and drink.

To tell the truth, now those of them who bury their heads in the heavy work every day, what they are looking forward to most is not the time when they pay their salaries, but the time when they get up early and have dinner every day.

After all, the second room mother is sincere, and she will definitely not lose the salary of the big guy.

But such a delicious and oily meal, they can't eat it at home all the time on weekdays.

Not only a few of them, but also those women who knew that the Lin family's daughters had good cooking skills, every time they came to visit the door when they came to the second room to cook, they would say that they felt their stomachs gurgle when they smelled the fragrance.

With this opportunity, some little daughters-in-law or daughters-in-law at home who are pregnant and uncomfortable and can't eat, often ask Wang and Lin Baoru about dishes.

came and went, and the Wang family had a lot with the village. And the woman became acquainted with her.

No, the zongzi in Lin Baoru's pot has not yet been cooked, and someone is already shouting Wang outside the door.

"Auntie, are you in the courtyard?" The people in the village are sincere, and before they see the figure, they will move first.

The Wang family was still cutting the pig's large intestine in the stove room, but Lin Baoru, who was sending Cai Ru to eat with a few small ones in the courtyard, heard the sound first.

She heard the familiar voice and hurried out. Before I went out, I saw the daughter-in-law of the Lizheng family, Qin and Sister-in-law, coming over with a basket. On the top of the basket, there are five or six steaming rice dumplings, and they are cute to look at.

"Sister-in-law Qin, hurry up and enter the courtyard, the house has just started to eat, you can also come and eat."

Sister-in-law Qin smiled and handed over the basket in her hand, "I won't keep it, there is still a pot of zongzi to cook at home, so I can't delay." As she spoke, she also ordered the two zongzi with red ropes tied to the top of the basket, "These two are filled with bean paste, and I can eat a whole stone at a time, and you can taste it for Caihe and Xiaoshan when you go back." ”

"Hey, it's hard for my sister-in-law to always remember those two little ones, they can eat a rarity this time." Lin Baoru pulled her sister-in-law and said, "My family also made a pot of zongzi the night before, but because I didn't prepare in advance, I only wrapped Jiangmi red dates, and I really didn't think of wrapping a few bean paste fillings." ”

The two said a few words, and the sister-in-law Qin hurriedly wanted to go back, but Lin Baoru remembered the pork liver and pig ears that were still marinated in the stove room, and hurriedly pulled people into the courtyard.

"Sister-in-law, this is homemade, it's not a rare thing, but it tastes good, the current meal on this hot day is just right, you take it back and try it with your uncle and aunt." Lin Baoru took a big bowl of braised pork with pressure, and in order to eat, she also specially scooped half a bowl of self-made spicy sauce. "This juice is poured with chili oil and vinegar and cold water, no matter whether you eat it or pour cold powder, it is refreshing, and my sister-in-law will take it back and try it."

The farmer's family still exchanges gifts, most of them are based on their hearts, especially those who are close to each other, that is, they send a handful of budding rice noodles, which are all heart.

So Sister-in-law Qin took the object handed by Lin Baoru and didn't refuse. She said a few more words to Lin Baoru, and then walked out with a smile.

When the men who were eating were in front of them, Sister-in-law Qin also said hello to a few people, and praised a few words of Baoru's sister's cooking skills were really good, but she couldn't help but want to eat and take it.

This is an exaggeration, which caused the big guys to laugh again.

The Lin family's two-room workshop yard was lively and laughing, that is, a few Cairu and Caihe on the small bench, listening to everyone praising their eldest sister, they also looked like a proud little one.

Seeing the smug expressions of a few small ones, Ginkgo Biloba sister-in-law couldn't help but smile and looked at Lin Baoru with emotion: "When I first got married, I saw that these little ones were all falling with the wind. Don't talk about protecting you, even if they say a word by themselves, they are like kittens who have no confidence. I didn't expect it to be less than a year, and they all looked like little adults. ”

Caihe listened to the words of her sister-in-law Ginkgo, hurriedly put down the chopsticks that were pulling the rice, looked up proudly and said, "Because we have all grown up, we are all one year older after the New Year, and we are not the children we used to be." ”

As she spoke, she looked at her eldest sister with a small pout, and asked pleasantly, "Yes, eldest sister, I can work for my eldest sister just like my second sister." ”

"And Xiaoshan, Xiaoshan will also eat by himself......" Xiaoshan looked up with an increasingly fleshy face, and eagerly showed that he was different.

It's Cai Ru who is a little older, and he can't help poking the face of Cai He next to him and saying, "When you grow up, you're still coquettish with your eldest sister, are you ashamed!" ”

Cai He blushed, smiled and leaned towards the eldest sister, tilted his head to look at his second sister, and said proudly: "I'm not ashamed, no matter how big I look, I'm smaller than the eldest sister." ”

However, Xiaoshan looked at his third sister's skinless and faceless appearance a little blind, so he thought about it with his chin on his chin and finally said angrily: "That Xiaoshan has not grown up yet, you can be coquettish with the eldest sister ......"

As soon as these words came out, they directly made Ginkgo sister-in-law laugh. She sandwiched a chopstick pickled vegetable for Xiaoshan, and said with a serious smile: "Well, that Xiaoshan can eat more, eat more and grow up quickly......"

Xiaoshan looked at the fragrant braised vegetables burned in the bowl and was a little distressed. After eating too much and growing up, I can't be coquettish with my eldest sister.

But the dishes in the bowl are so fragrant, and the eldest sister's marinated pork liver is soft, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes. There is also the crunchy fried enema, which is full of meaty aroma when you bite into it......

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, endured it, and finally couldn't hold back the eating.

Although you can't be coquettish with your eldest sister when you grow up, you can protect your eldest sister when you grow up.

Lin Baoru didn't know the entanglements in Xiaoshan's heart, she saw the little guy's cheeks bulging and bulging, and her heart was also happy.

I think that at the beginning, when she first crossed over, this little guy didn't have any strength at all, let alone serving a bowl, even holding a spoon would make his hands tremble.

It's like in the blink of an eye, the little one who has a few taels of flesh on his body, and who sleeps desperately every day to keep from starving, is all fat and strong.

Lin Baoru couldn't remember it, at that time, she was thin and dry, and she didn't have a pound or two when she picked it up. But now if you want her to hug Xiaoshan, it's okay for a while, and if it's a little longer, she can't hold it.

Wang looked at his youngest son's appearance of burying his head and eating quickly, and said with relief: "It's also Baoru's cooking is delicious, in the past, when I cooked, I never saw him so happy." ”

As she spoke, she shook her head in frustration, causing Caihe and Xiaoshan to hurriedly move to her side to comfort her.

Caihe's little human spirit, the first-class will coax people, coupled with Xiaoshan's ignorant echo and unintentional help, in just a few words, it makes everyone's small fangs disappear.

Wang couldn't hold back his energy anymore and laughed along.

After eating, the workman did not delay much, and went to the front yard to greet the work. No matter what, none of the men who shouted at the walls and mud were lazy, and even the masons and his apprentices were in full swing.

After waiting for a while, Lin Baoru had just received a newly formed soap block with Cairu, and he heard a burst of excitement from Caihe and Xiaoshan outside.

She looked over and saw that the two of them were staring at the wheat they had soaked before.

Lin Baoru raised her eyebrows, and said in her heart that the malt was good. Thinking of this, she simply didn't do anything else, got up and went to steam the millet on the morning bubble, and waited for two hours to boil.

It was also a shame that when the family was separated, the grandmother thought that it was not cost-effective to give them the wheat that was husked, so she sent them away with a small urn of wheat seeds with sand. Now, it's just right for her to malt.

If the wheat has been shelled and polished, it will not sprout for three or five days, let alone boil maltose.

While sifting the freshly steamed rice, Lin Baoru remembered the things that her grandmother taught her to boil sugar in her previous life. Beanie boxes

At that time, most of the people in the village who boiled maltose would use glutinous rice. But only grandma has only used millet for decades, she didn't understand at the time, so she chased grandma and asked.

At that time, her grandmother told her that not to look at others is a method used by ten families and hundreds of families, and it may not be good.

At that time, she was still a little puzzled, and it was not until she grew up later that she realized that in fact, as long as it was a grain with high starch content, it could be made into maltose, just like the glutinous rice commonly used by people in the village. It's just that the glutinous rice is sticky, and even if it is fermented very well, it is not easy to filter out the soup. Naturally, the sugar yield is not as good as that of millet.

"Sister, can I help you roll out the malt?" Cai Ru saw that her eldest sister was still busy, so she volunteered to serve the malt.

Lin Baoru had boiled maltose a few times before, so in terms of process, Cairu was also very familiar. Now, when you get started, you are naturally familiar with the road.

Lin Baoru saw that she was rolling it very carefully, so she smiled and said: "After a while, it will be boiled into sugar water, and it should be let Caihe please you first, otherwise this maltose will not be given to her." ”

Cai Ru was teased by her eldest sister, and she was not ashamed, and nodded seriously, thinking that it was true.

"But that girl just wants to eat it, I'm afraid that if she eats our sugar, she will say something to make us happy." Cairu's words are really true, Caihe, who is used to being more and more childish, is now very greedy.

Especially greedy for the strange food that her eldest sister studied, and the maltose that is sweeter than the candy cube in the seller's place is her favorite.

The eldest sister's maltose is not a lump, and she usually eats it in a ball with two chopsticks, just like the honey they encountered when they went to the market in the past.

Cai Ru had only seen the honey sold, and had never tasted it, but she felt that the honey was definitely not as delicious as the sugar boiled by the eldest sister.

waited until the evening, Lin Baoru saw that the millet mixed with crushed malt was almost fermented, and then he worried about the soup with the help of Cairu.

The milky white soup slowly flowed through the gauze into the wooden basin on the side, but after a while, a small half basin oozed out, which was enough to boil a small pot.

If you want to make maltose, it's actually not that difficult. But if you want to really operate, it is a very patient test, especially when boiling the filtered milky malt and rice juice, but if you are not careful, you will paste the pot.

And as long as the pot is pasted, that pot of maltose will be bitter.

The milky white juice in half of the basin gradually decreased, and the color became clearer and yellower, and at last when it was not stirred, the color completely turned into a crystal clear orange.

The sweet smell spread from the stove room, and it led to Cai He, who was still playing with the hill in the yard, and came over.

"Eldest sister, is the sugar okay?" Cai He's eyes were at his eldest sister, and her sparkling eyes made Lin Baoru smile.

"Alright." Lin Baoru said, and wiped Caihe's lips with chopsticks that had just been stirred with sugar juice, so that Caihe licked his mouth like a little gluttonous cat.

Then, her eyes lit up and she cheered directly, "It's so sweet." ”

Lin Baoru and Cai Ru looked at each other and smiled, and then squinted and listened comfortably to Cai He's rainbow fart that didn't want money. That look, Cai Ru felt overjoyed when she heard it, and she smiled and squeezed her eyebrows with her eldest sister.

The two of them meant that they just remembered what they said at that time. I thought that this girl had to eat sugar before her mouth was sweet, but she didn't expect that she would start to like it as soon as she smelled it.

The sisters took Xiaoshan and laughed and teased for a while. Afterwards, Caihe diligently brought the bowl over, so that his eldest sister could scoop out the boiled sugar in the pot and dry it.

Xu felt that there was a fire, and the left and right sides had burned firewood, so Lin Baoru simply put it in the pot and roasted a small plate of pork jerky.

Now there is no honey at home, so she can only use freshly boiled maltose to reluctantly replace, but fortunately, the roasted dried meat is also very delicious, salty and sweet, and it still makes people have an endless aftertaste after the stomach.

When it was dark, when the mothers were enjoying the coolness, Caihe was reluctant to eat those pieces of pork jerky.

In the end, it was Lin Baoru who knocked on the heads of a few people, and said funny that he would do it for them again, which made Cairu Caihe and Xiaoshan cheer and divide the dried meat.

Of course, they won't eat such delicious snacks alone. At least, more than half of each piece was thrown into the mouths of their mothers and eldest sisters......

The family was gossiping noisily, and the big breeze was blowing comfortably with the Wang family. And the small ones are running all over the yard, and even the small hills with small legs and feet are also very excited to play.

Sometimes, when a few people pass by their eldest sister and are hugged by the eldest sister's arm, they will laugh uncontrollably.

Wang listened to Caihe's laughter a few times, feeling both relieved and his ears hurt.

In addition to the increasingly decent house with a second room, Li Lang and the shopkeeper of the Liu family's rouge shop have often come to pick up the goods these days.

Lin Baoru did not hide Li Lang's dealings with the Liu family, but in order to prevent estrangement, she also made it clear to others in advance that the beauty soap provided to the Liu family was added with many precious spices, which was most suitable for noble ladies and ladies.

Even if it was given to Li Xianglang, it was not suitable for the people he came into contact with, but it was easy to smash his hands.

Li Lang doesn't account so much, after all, these days, he really makes a lot of money with soap beans and beauty soap. Not to mention the profit of the soap beans themselves, it is the women and girls he met when he walked the streets and alleys shouting and selling, every time he bought something, where could he just buy a piece of soap beans?

Those cheap rouge gouaches, children's gadgets and candy nuggets can always be carried and sold a lot.

Now it's only half a year, and he calculates that it is already better than the two years of trading in previous years.

It is also because of this that every time Li Shanglang comes to settle the bill, he will bring some small items to a few children in the second room of the Lin family. Later, he knew that Lin Baoru wanted to keep accounts and buy pen and ink, so he asked someone to bring a new account book and abacus from the county and send it.

No, it's still the fifth day of the new year, and Li Lang came to the door again. The old lady in his family has poor bones, and her legs hurt when she walks a little, but she is always depressed at home, and Li Lang is also distressed.

So in the case of calculating that the money saved in his hand had a surplus in addition to treating his mother, Li Xianglang simply gritted his teeth and bought a mule, and also bought a car board. If he goes far to do business, he can save his feet, not to mention, he can also bring his wife.

Compared with ox carts, mules have good foot strength and are agile when walking. live, the only drawback is probably that you can't have children. However, the mules eat less, so it is easy to feed.

After closing the stall on the fifth day of the new year, Li Langlang saw that the sky was still bright, so he drove a mule cart and carried his mother to Taoxi Village.

First, his mother always remembered it since she knew that the Lin family's daughter-in-law was her childhood playmate. Second, this new month, it's time for him to settle the bill.

There were a few good days in April, and there were many people in the town and nearby villages who hired girls, and almost left nothing left of the dozens of soap beans and beauty soaps he had hoarded in his hand. He took the letter to the Lin family, and he thought it was time to prepare to come out.

When Lin Baoru went to Lizheng's house to return the basket and came back, he saw Li Xianglang helping his family to collect firewood from the corner of the wall and into the yard. And his own mother hugged the hill, and sat under the eaves with a woman wrapped in a blue cloth turban and talked.

I don't know what to say, the Wang family, who was originally red-eyed, nodded again and again.

Lin Baoru saw that the woman was somewhat similar to Li Xianglang's appearance, and guessed in her heart that this was probably the aunt Xiu who had a good relationship between Wangjiazhuang and her mother.

She entered the courtyard, said hello to Wang, looked at the woman and said, "Aunt Xiu, it's thanks to you that you're here, or my mother will still be thinking about it." Today, when she was still thinking about going back to deliver zongzi, she would go to Grandpa Seven's house to have a look. ”