Chapter 35: Cooking Dinner
"Dad, you're in a hurry, I washed my hair outside, this head is uncomfortable to death, and now it's refreshing!"
Yang Ruoqing grinned, in order to let her father relax, she even stroked a few strands of bangs on her forehead and winked playfully.
Yang Huazhong and Sun were slightly stunned by their daughter's action, and both of them immediately laughed happily.
Seeing the sad faces of her parents, she finally showed a smile, and Yang Ruoqing also felt a sense of accomplishment!
"Qing'er Dad, you lie down and rest, I'll cook! Qing'er, you ran for a while, and you were tired, go back to the house to rest, and call you after your mother has cooked the meal! Sun stood up straight, explained, turned around and hurried out.
"Dad, I'll help my mother take a hand, you can rest." Yang Ruoqing said to Yang Huazhong, and after getting Yang Huazhong's nod, she jumped up and followed to the stove room.
In the stove room, a soybean oil lamp was lit on the stove, and in the corner of the wall, in the temporary small stove built by Uncle Chang Geng, Sun stuffed the firewood into it, just lit it, and a fire came out.
The Sun family was not idle at home during the next day, and scooped out the fifty catties of rice that the old Yang family had divided when they split up. I went to Chang Gung's house, borrowed their stone mortar, scooped more than seven catties of white rice, and brought back the rest of the rice husks and piled them at the stove.
When Yang Ruoqing came in, she was suddenly squatting there to wash rice, and then the light of the small stove picked out the layer of rice husks floating on the water, and then scrubbed the rice three or two times before adding water again, covering the lid, and putting it on the small stove, adding a handful of pine hair to the bottom to make the fire more vigorous.
"Qing'er, why are you coming to the stove room again?" Sun turned around and prepared to clean up the basket that Yang Ruoqing had brought back, and saw that Yang Ruoqing had already brought the basket over.
"I'm not tired, come and watch my mother cook." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.
"Hey, what's there to see? Xinchong rice, I grabbed a handful, let's boil some porridge at night, last day, your osmanthus aunt took eggs and dry spicy seeds, wait for the porridge to be ready, and then get a dry spicy scrambled eggs for you two to make porridge! Sun said.
Thinking of that spicy dry spicy, Yang Ruoqing's saliva couldn't help but slide down!
Yang Ruoqing immediately shook her head: "Mother, don't scramble eggs at night, didn't we say that the eggs will be kept for my father to boil?" Besides, my father's wound is not suitable for eating too spicy food, which is stimulating! ”
Sun suddenly said, "What should I do?" I didn't add any ingredients to the white porridge, how can I swallow it? ”
Yang Ruoqing blinked and pushed the basket in front of Sun: "When the porridge roars, let's put this wild vegetable in it, I dug a lot of wild vegetables during the next day, enough for us to eat for two days!" ”
Sun took the bamboo basket in Yang Ruoqing's hand, found a sieve and spread it on the ground, and poured the basket upside down.
"My good girl, shepherd's cabbage, mother-in-law, okra...... Oops, what a fresh matsutake mushroom! Sun looked at it the same, with an expression of excitement and surprise on his face, especially the matsutake mushrooms, which were plump and tender, and had the smell of earth.
Suddenly thinking of something, Sun raised his eyes and stared at Yang Ruoqing with a nervous expression: "Qing'er, what are you...... Going to the back of the woods? ”
Yang Ruoqing nodded and said with a smile: "Don't talk about wild vegetables on the ridge, the weeds are about to be pulled out, I'll go to the woods behind the village to try my luck, hey, luck is really good!" ”
"Hey, you kid!" Sun didn't know what to say, and his face was afraid: "I won't go again!" ”
"Why, mother?"
"The woods are not clean! Everyone in our village has to go in together, and alone, even we adults don't dare! Sun said.
"What's not clean? It's nothing more than a big forest, and it's easy to get lost when it rains and there is rain and fog inside! Yang Ruoqing was a little puzzled and said: "Besides, there are a lot of wild vegetables in there, and there are a lot of fresh matsutake mushrooms in there!" ”
"Good girl, you just have to ask so much, just listen to your mother's words, don't go to the forest in the future, your mother won't hurt you!"
In the depths of the forest, there is an earthen kiln, I heard that more than ten years ago, the earthen kiln was still burning adobe bricks, and then I don't know what happened, the earthen kiln collapsed, and a few people who didn't have time to escape were buried alive in it.
After that, no one dared to go to the earthen kiln, and I heard that it was still a little haunted!
Further back, if a child in the village died, he was wrapped in a straw curtain and thrown to the earthen kiln. The woods are connected to the sleeping cow mountain behind, and the beasts in the mountain are so hungry that they go to the earthen kiln to forage for food.
Even the middle-aged people in the village have to go in groups of people in the blue sky and day to gather loose hair, and even so, they don't dare to go inside!
A few days ago, my daughter was so sick that she couldn't live, and her mother-in-law said that if she couldn't stand it, she wrapped her in a straw curtain and sent her to the earthen kiln from the back door as soon as possible......
These things, the Sun family decided not to tell his daughter no matter what.
Seeing Sun like this, Yang Ruoqing knew that no matter how much she asked, she couldn't ask anything famous, and she didn't force it. He also squatted down, and picked up wild vegetables with Sun from the light of the fire in the small stove.
She washed all these dishes in the stream, and she only needed to pour water on them to chop them into the pot, so it didn't take much effort to make them.
The mother and daughter were picking up the wild vegetables and matsutake mushrooms, and they lowered their heads and whispered together.
The shepherd's cabbage is a little old, and the taste will be a little bitter, so Sun washed the shepherd's cabbage with water, kneaded off the bitter water inside, chopped it, and then spread it evenly on the sieve to dry. Air-dried shepherd's cabbage foam, turning back to make dumplings, making shepherd's cabbage baba, or eating it directly with chili sauce is a very good side dish!
The fresh and watery mother-in-law Ding washed and chopped them, then washed two matsutake mushrooms, cut them into thin slices, and put them together in a small boiling pot.
Yang Ruoqing was tinkering with the shepherd's cabbage here, and said to Sun's: "Mother, this shepherd's cabbage foam is almost done, I'll go back to the house and get the chili sauce sent by Aunt Dayun to mix the shepherd's cabbage!" ”
"Okay, here you go!"
After a while, Yang Ruoqing came back, holding a small sauce-colored jar in her hand, but her face was a little unsightly.
"Girl, what's wrong with you?" Sun leaned over and asked.
"Mother, look at this jar!" Yang Ruoqing handed the jar to Sun.
Before Sun took it, she saw the mouth of the jar at a glance, as well as the body of the jar, with a circle of hot sauce remaining, she took the jar into her hand and weighed it: "Oh, why is it so light?" ”