Chapter 32: Fishing with a Rabbit

Mai Xiaohuan burned the burritos, and took the time to make a pot of egg drop soup, she prayed silently while cooking, this group of people should leave quickly after breakfast, otherwise they won't know what to eat for them at noon.

More than 20 people, how many cakes do you have to bake! After Shan Cuihua learned the essentials, she took the shovel in Mai Xiaohuan's hand. As soon as their breakfast was ready, two people dressed as family members walked in from outside, and it turned out that the two of them went to the county seat early in the morning, and not only bought a whole bag of rice and flour for the Mai family, but also bought meat buns and wontons.

I knew they would buy breakfast, so where did I have to be busy early in the morning! The two family members who were holding the breakfast said to Mai Xiaohuan with a smile: "These buns are for the young masters and your family to eat, and the cakes are left for us to eat." ”

"You stinky five autumns, what do you want to do! Go back to your car and eat steamed buns, a few of us still want to try Xiao Huan's craftsmanship! Tang Yujun stretched his waist and walked out of the door, he also wanted to sleep for a while, but the Mai family's cows, sheep, and chickens got up early in the morning to practice their voices, and they couldn't pretend not to hear!

"Aunt Mai, good morning!" Tang Yujun greeted Shan Cuihua warmly, Shan Cuihua wiped her hands on the apron carelessly, she looked at the two girls nervously, and didn't know how to respond to Tang Yujun's greetings.

Mai Xiaohuan told Tang Yujun that the village was not interested in asking for good morning, as long as he called his aunt, Mai Xiaofang was even more polite, and directly ordered Tang Yujun to set the table and chopsticks.

There are three kinds of side dishes for the burrito, boiled bean sprouts, jam and pickles, and crispy cucumbers cut into shreds and rolled in the cake are particularly delicious. Drink a bowl of egg drop soup with chives floating on it, such a breakfast is much more delicious than meat buns and wontons.

Mai Xiaohuan saw a few people gobbling up, picked up some steamed buns and handed them to his family, just so that everyone took this opportunity to change their tastes.

After eating, Tang Yujun didn't want to leave, Qu Hao walked up to Mai Wang and Shan Cuihua and solemnly saluted them, saying that he wanted to recognize Mai Xiaohuan as his sister.

No one expected him to have such an idea, to be honest, Mai Xiaohuan had a good impression of Qu Hao, and at first glance he was a humble gentleman, much more reliable than Tang Yujun and others.

Seeing that his daughter did not object, Mai Wang and Shan Cuihua had no opinion, Qu Hao told the Mai family that after he went back to his parents, he would choose a day to officially visit Mai Wang and his wife, and then take Mai Xiaohuan to Qingcheng County to meet his family.

Mai Xiaohuan didn't dare to think about it so long-term, if Qu Hao was really the son of the county guard, would his family let him recognize a little village girl as his godsister? Qu Hao immediately changed his words with Mai Xiaohuan. Tang Yujun came to Mai Xiaofang and asked her if it was okay to bow to her, and Mai Xiaofang replied happily, "Okay!" If you want to call me sister, I have no problem. ”

I have an opinion, Tang Yujun walked to the carriage outside the door in Mai Xiaofang's cheerful laughter, he wanted to discuss it with Qu Hao, and he would follow him next time, he didn't believe that he couldn't clean up a little girl's film.

Finally sent a few young masters away, Mai Wang put on an ox cart, pulled a few children, and after meeting with Zhao Butcher's family, he headed towards the mountain that Zhao Butcher said.

Along the way, Mai Xiaohuan was thinking, fortunately it was warm here, otherwise where would there be sweet potatoes to dig at the end of October, like his former hometown, it was already very cold at this time, even if it was not frozen, it was frosty, and the sweet potatoes would have been hard to ask if they were still outside.

Zhao Butcher said that there are two sweet potatoes on this mountain, one is larger and the other is slightly smaller. Maiwan said that he already had a lot of storage, so it would be good to dig up the few pieces.

The two families found a place and went their separate ways, and Mai Xiaohuan walked around with a bamboo basket on his back, picking fungus and monkey heads. The next day, Mai Yonghe stayed at home to dig the cellar, and Mai Xiaohuan also stayed to dry the fungus he picked.

After working for several days, the Mai family has already stored two cellars of sweet potatoes, and even Shan Cuihua, who is particularly good at living, feels that there is no need to dig anymore.

Mai Xiaohuan was anxious, but she didn't dare to say her thoughts, and after thinking about it for several days, she planned to start with some small snacks first, and then develop other projects when everyone accepted them.

Mai Xiaohuan selected some dug up, badly shaped sweet potatoes to beat the skin, put them in clean water and soak them, after a while, take out the slices cut into thin and uniform slices and put them in the pot to steam, take them out and cool them after eight or nine medium cooking, spread them out one by one and put them on the bamboo sieve, and turn them over once a half a day.

She also selected some small sweet potatoes to wash, peel, and cut into thin slices, then rinsed off the starch on the surface, controlled the moisture, and placed them evenly in a sunny and ventilated place.

About two or three days later, Mai Xiaohuan saw that the raw sweet potato chips had dried up, and took them back to the bottom of the pot and lit a fire. Sprinkle with fine salt and a little seasoning and start stir-frying, wait until the sweet potato slices are slightly yellowed, remove the heat, continue to stir-fry, when the sweet potato slices turn yellow, quickly get out of the pot, and after it is cold, Mai Xiaohuan will share it with everyone to eat. With a crispy texture and a moderate salty taste, this is a great snack to make.

After the sweet potato is dried and dried, it has been praised countless times, such a snack is durable, and the taste is good, not only children love to eat, adults also like its tenacity. Shan Cuihua took Mai Xiaofang to be busy for several days, and saved a bag full of dried sweet potatoes.

"What's the best way to eat this sweet potato?" As if she is addicted to work, Mai Xiaofang now wants to develop a new way to eat sweet potatoes, because the ingredients are sufficient, and you can eat them on the spot if they are broken, so you don't have to worry about waste at all.

Yes! But is it okay to expose yourself too much at one time? Mai Xiaohuan dried the starch accumulated over the past few days, tried to recall the steps of making the cool skin, and after five or six failures, finally made the finished product.

Of course, the cold skin had to be mixed and eaten, Mai Xiaohuan carefully studied the seasoning, and two days later, a plate of crystal and tender mixed cold skin was served on the table.

"Xiao Huan, is this what you have been eating for several days? The second brother will taste it for you first. "Mai Yonghai has long been hungry, and he believes that he must be good at what his sister has been studying for several days.

The entrance of the cold skin is a particularly smooth and tender feeling, and with the ingredients, it is as refreshing as it gets.

So the Mai family has another job, take out those small, injured sweet potatoes to make sweet potato flour, steamed dry food can be put some, sweet potato cake and steamed buns mixed with sweet potato noodles are much more delicious than simple mixed noodles dry food.

"It seems that our family can try to plant some next year." Shan Cui Lace was busy working, while chattering, wild ones are limited after all, and now no one knows the use of sweet potatoes, and in another two years, wild sweet potatoes may not be easy to find.

Now the question is, who knows how this thing is grown! Mai Xiaohuan moved out of the inn again, she told herself what to do, it didn't seem to be difficult.

After all these days, Mai Xiaohuan has already forgotten that Qu Hao wants to admit that she is a godsister, and she is brewing her own money-making plan.

Shan Cuihua originally planned to send Mai Xiaohuan to learn embroidery, but unfortunately the embroiderer's eyes were getting worse and worse, and now one of her apprentices was teaching instead of her, because of this, Shan Cuihua became hesitant, afraid that the money would be spent, and she hadn't learned anything by then.

"Or just wait for the New Year and the weather is warm before going to school! Xiao Huan can eat a lot of good things at home. Mai Xiaofang's proposal was unanimously approved by the family, anyway, Mai Xiaohuan was only nine years old after the New Year, although it was late to learn embroidery, it was too late.

Mai Wang made a big cage and prepared to sell rabbits in the county, but since raising rabbits until now, the family has not sold them once! Mak suggested separating the white rabbit from the other colors. The grey and black and white ones can be sent to the restaurant, and the white rabbits can find a lively place, preferably close to the streets of the wealthy, to see if they can be sold to the ladies and young ladies.

Shan Cuihua thought this method was good, and the next morning, Mai Wang used a large cage to contain more than 20 variegated rabbits, and a small cage to contain six snow-white rabbits without a trace of variegation. After entering the county seat, Mai Yonghai found a bustling street, put down the cage containing the white rabbit, and he and Mai Wang turned around and went to the restaurant.

Mai Xiaofang wanted to shout, "Sell the white rabbit." Stopped by her sister, Mai Xiaohuan took out two cabbage leaves, and the sisters squatted on the edge of the cage to tease the little rabbit.

After a while, several young ladies and young ladies dressed in silk and with little maids gathered around.

"Do you rabbits sell?" One of them asked.

Mai Xiaohuan pinched the arm of the second sister who was about to speak, and took advantage of her stunned to speak first: "My father and brother have gone to find a buyer, let the two of us just watch here, and we can't sell rabbits without permission." ”

When did my father and second brother say this, Mai Xiaofang stared at her sister, and finally simply closed her mouth, she didn't have as many eyes as her sister, let her toss it, in case she suffered a loss, it would not be too late to open her mouth.

"How about selling me one, you can sell up to a hundred copper plates in the bazaar, how about I give you one hundred and fifty copper plates?" A young lady helped the Mai sisters analyze the market, and she saw that she was a shrewd housewife.

"This lady, it's not a matter of more money and less money, my father met an old lady on the way home from rabbit hunting yesterday, she asked my father to take rabbits into the county today, saying that the grandsons and granddaughters in the family like small animals, and they want to buy a few more!"

A little girl of seven or eight years old crouched on the edge of the cage and refused to leave, she poked this and touched that with her fingers, and there were now only six little white rabbits in her eyes.

Seeing this, a big girl beside her came over to discuss with Mai Xiaohuan: "You can sell one to my young lady, how about I give you 300 copper plates." ”

So much, Mai Xiaofang wanted to nod, but when she turned her head, she saw her sister shaking her head, yes, let's continue to feed the rabbits! Dealing with others is such a thing, and I don't have a sister in the business.

Mai Xiaohuan is not in a hurry, the fish are all hooked, will it be far from falling into the fish basket?