Chapter Seventy-Three: Autumn is Busy
The Zhuang family pays little attention to it, especially in the past few years, and those old customs have been almost thrown away.
Therefore, there is no need to worship the moon on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, at most, Mrs. Zhou put a table in the courtyard and put a few moon cakes, which is considered to be the same meaning.
The production team will have a day off, Zhou Antai's family will have to return to Xinglong early tomorrow morning, and Zhou An and his wife will also have to go up the mountain to work, so the big guys will go back to sleep after chatting together for a while.
The next day, August 16, everything returned to normal, those who should go to work went to work, and those who should work went to work.
Zhou Tiantian didn't have anything to do at home, so she helped Mrs. Zhou clean up and pick all the vegetables in the vegetable garden.
It looks like it's going to rain in the past two days, so I'm afraid that there will be frost after a rain, so it's safer to pick all the beans and eggplants.
People in the Northeast have few vegetables in winter, and in addition to radishes, cabbage, and potatoes, they can eat dried vegetables, pickles, and sauerkraut.
Especially pickles, people in the Northeast eat pickles almost all year round, even in the summer, when there are many vegetables, pickles and miso are indispensable on the dinner table.
There are so many kinds of pickles that can be pickled in autumn, and the traditional mustard gnocchi is a must-have.
Others like celery root, chili leaves, tender beans, tender chilies, and tender eggplants can be pickled, and even some people can even pickle green tomatoes as pickles.
The daughters-in-law in the family were busy working to earn their share, and the work of pickling pickles fell on Mrs. Zhou.
Fortunately, Zhou Yanyan also had three days off, and she was helping at home, and Zhou Tiantian also followed, so she didn't panic.
So the sisters, under the instruction of Mrs. Zhou, picked tender beans, tender chili peppers, and chili leaves, washed them, scalded them with boiling water, and salted them.
Wait for the pickle to be almost done, then cut in the green onions, and grab a bowl when eating, which also tastes very good.
Cut the cucumbers and marinate them, then stack them and press them with a weight to push the water out of them.
Then mix with ginger, garlic, soy sauce and other seasonings, marinate for a period of time, and eat breakfast to drink an extra bowl of porridge.
As for garlic eggplant and pickled celery root, none of them can be missing, and at this time, people who are a little tired from working are a little tired, and those who cook in winter can save a lot of worry.
The Zhou Yanyan sisters also understand this truth, so no matter how busy and tired they are, they don't complain.
"Tiantian, help grandma brush all these celery roots and clean them."
The old lady dug out a basket of celery roots from the garden, poured it into a large pot and added water, and Zhou Tiantian took a brush to clean them one by one.
The old lady and Zhou Yanyan had other work to do, so they turned around and went to the vegetable garden again.
"Tiantian, I'll help you." Zhou Tiantian was lowering his head to brush the celery root, when he heard the familiar voice sound. You don't have to look up to know that this is Qin Lina here.
"Lina, why are you free to come here today? Are all the work done at home? ”
Zhou Tiantian is reluctant to have too much contact with Qin Lina, and there is another reason, that is, the mother-in-law of the Qin family is too capable of scolding, and the voice of the mother-in-law of the Qin family can be heard clearly across the road, to be honest, it is quite annoying to hear these all the time.
Zhou Tiantian was more worried that Qin Lina would come over before she finished her work, and the Qin family's mother-in-law would scold people again.
"My grandmother let my uncle take it away, saying that my aunt was pregnant with a baby, and asked my grandmother to take care of it for a while, my grandmother has not been at home recently, and no one cares about me and scolds me."
Speaking of the Qin family's mother-in-law, Qin Lina had a feeling of relief, she was really afraid that her grandmother was at home, and she was worried that what she did wrong would be a beating and scolding.
"Oh, that's fine." Zhou Tiantian nodded, the mother-in-law is not at home, and Qin Lina's life can be better.
"I've finished my homework, it's okay anyway, I'll help you brush the celery root, let's hurry up together."
Qin Lina said, picked up the brush next to her, and started to help Zhou Tiantian work.
Not to mention, it is worthy of working at home all day long, this speed is much faster than Zhou Tiantian, and Zhou Tiantian is really not comparable to the speed of work.
Zhou Tiantian sighed, she deserves to be the heroine, she really looks like everything.
Unlike her, although she has a twenty-year-old soul, she didn't do these things in her previous life, and in terms of work, she really can't compare to Qin Lina.
Forget it, there's no need to compare with her, everyone has their own strengths, they are the heroine, and the all-round is the standard.
Qin Lina worked very quickly, and with her help, she was really quick to finish brushing, so the two of them cooperated and lifted the big basin aside, and the sewage in it was poured into the ditch.
After that, I poured water back into the basin and washed the celery root again, and it was basically the same.
It was almost noon at this time, so Zhou Tiantian hugged Chai He to make a fire and heat the food in the pot.
Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Yanyan also pulled out all the mustard greens in the garden, cut the tassels and cut the roots and piled them there, and just went back to the house, "Yo, Lina is here, and she is still helping Tiantian work?"
What a diligent little girl, don't leave at noon, eat here, there's nothing wrong after eating, you play with Tiantian. ”
In the past, Zhou Tiantian and Qin Lina were very good, and they could be said to be inseparable.
Mrs. Zhou didn't know that her little granddaughter had changed her core, and she thought that these two little girls still had a good relationship.
"Grandma Zhou, no need, I'll just go home and cook something to eat.
My grandmother is not at home, I went to my aunt's place, and I won't come back until a while, and my father is not at home at noon, so I can deal with it myself. Qin Lina glanced at Zhou Tiantian and pursed her lips.
"Hey, you have to do it when you go back alone, how troublesome, just stay and eat together, there's nothing good at home, just deal with it, there's nothing to do in the afternoon, you and Tiantian can play casually."
Mrs. Zhou is this temper, how can she take care of someone who looks pleasing to the eye.
Qin Lina's child is not easy, such a family with such a background is quite pitiful, and Mrs. Zhou who can help her try her best to help.
"Then thank you grandma, grandma, I'll help you stir-fry, I'll stir-fry, I'll do what I do at noon."
Qin Lina's eyes were shining, with a look that she had never seen before, and she followed behind Mrs. Zhou with an envious expression and said.
"No, no, you can go into the house with Tiantian to play, just stir-fry two dishes, it's simple."
How can Mrs. Zhou let Qin Lina stir-fry? So he smiled and drove the two girls to the house to play, and quickly started to fry the vegetables.
Recently, the production team has been very busy, and most of them are in the mountains, so there are few people in the Zhou family to eat at noon.
Qin Lina stayed at Zhou's house for a meal, and played with Zhou Tiantian for a while in the afternoon, but later Zhou Tiantian said that she was sleepy and wanted to take a nap, so Qin Lina said goodbye and wanted to leave.
Mrs. Zhou took out some thick clothes and shoes that Zhou Tiantian wore last year, and gave them to Qin Lina for her to keep them on.
Qin Lina ate and took it at Zhou's house, she was very embarrassed, and finally thanked her again and again before leaving.