Chen Hongru was timid and delicate, like a frightened little white rabbit, hiding behind Zhang Jing's back and looking into the kitchen with one foot in the door, although her stomach was purring non-stop, she still watched Zhou Lanxiang vigilantly, always ready to run away if something was wrong!

Zhou Lanxiang carefully cut the mustard gnocchi pickles, and observed the little girl out of the corner of her eye, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that Xiao Jin would indeed like this.

That kid has loved to pretend to be a little adult since he was a child, and now that he has grown up and has the ability, he likes to worry more, and he is in charge of her sister from head to toe, and she asks everything carefully, otherwise she will not be at ease, and of course it is even more so for her daughter-in-law.

So I definitely like a little girl like Chen Hongru, the poor one makes people want to take care of it, and it seems that she doesn't have any ideas, she is obedient and well-behaved, and the donkey who talks to Xiao Jin is just right.

As for Chen Hongru's knowledgeable youth, Zhou Lanxiang is not very worried. It is said that the conditions at her home are not good, and there is no condition to find a relationship for her to return to the city, and when all the educated youth return to the city, it is already in the early eighties.

The biggest difficulty now is that Chen Hongru is afraid of Xiaojin, no matter how good he is, he doesn't dare to look at it.

So she had to deal with the young people, and beat the side drum to help Xiaojin at the critical moment.

She didn't plan to tell Chen Hongruming that this kind of thing was in a hurry, anyway, she had to stay in Mopantun for more than ten years before she could return to the city, and there would be time for the two to get to know each other in the future.

Zhou Lanxiang planned to soak the thinly chopped mustard shreds in water, and explained to the onlookers while soaking: "Raw mustard gnocchi has an astringent taste, and it is also an old pickle that has been pickled for at least two years, and soaking it with water can remove the astringency, and it doesn't taste so bitter and salty." ”

She just discussed it with everyone, and in the future, she will cook and the young people will come to see, and she will tell everyone how to make these meals in the Northeast while she is cooking, and everyone will be able to start by themselves when she leaves next spring.

She said it tactfully, but Ji Yuan was an understanding person, and immediately said that she would study hard, so that Zhou Lanxiang would not think they were stupid and teach everyone more.

Of course, there are also those who disagree, in addition to eating bud rice flour cakes, cooking bud rice ballast, porridge is sorghum rice, millet seeds, these throat-wrenching coarse grains, even rice and white flour can't be seen, what is there to learn? There is no oil, except for salt, the supply and marketing cooperatives always have soy sauce, and soy sauce is often out of stock, what kind of dishes to learn from her? Learn how to boil cabbage potatoes in salt water?

Thinking so, Zhou Lanxiang really didn't do anything special, just the salted boiled potatoes, cabbage and cornmeal cakes they usually eat, but this fragrance makes people hungry to swallow saliva one after another, and their stomachs sound like cannons!

It's so easy to wait until the food comes out of the pot, everyone rushes to it, and even the three who are sick gobble up their appetites better than at home!

In the blink of an eye, a large pot of soup and cakes was eaten cleanly, and even the soup base in the pot was poured into a scoop of water and boiled, and the four male intellectuals drank a bowl of delicious food!

Zhou Lanxiang saw that they had finished eating, and rushed home to cook for Xiaoshan and Xiaojin after explaining a few words, and did not say anything to anyone alone.

Grandpa Han said that it is best to pay attention to getting along with people, and sometimes it will not work out if you use too much effort.

And she also has to taste Chen Hongru well, dealing with the object is a matter of both parties, her family Xiaojin is also a good young man, of course she has to help him take care of his palms.

Zhou Lanxiang left, but the educated youths still didn't leave the kitchen, and everyone was discussing the matter of taking turns on duty.

Ji Yuan saw that everyone didn't speak, and was the first to say: "Sister-in-law Lan Xiang is right, our kitchen really has to be cleaned up." ”

In the past, everyone took turns to cook the dishes, washing the dishes by themselves, as for cleaning the kitchen, washing pots and pans, it was their turn, who washed it before cooking.

But today Zhou Lanxiang explained before leaving, they have to clean the kitchen thoroughly, it is too dirty here, there is tower ash hanging on the wall, the cobwebs on the roof of the shed are one after another, the ground is gray and soil, and it has not been thoroughly swept for a long time, and even the mud brought in by the autumn rain is still dry there! The cracks of the green bricks on the stove are covered with black dirt, let alone the pots and pans that are stained when you touch them.

The worst thing is the two big iron pots, before they went to the countryside, they used small pots and briquette stoves at home, where have I seen this kind of big iron pot with a large bucket of water that is not satisfied, no one knows how to clean it up, the pot is rusty on the edge, and the bottom of the pot is thick and I don't know when the paste bottom can't be shoveled down, let alone the bottom of the pot that has never been cleaned up.

In order to be able to cook today, Zhou Lanxiang cleaned up a pot for them, and told them how to get it while cleaning up, and left the rest to them to do it themselves.

It's not that she doesn't want to stretch out her hand, but the old captain explained that he only let her cook, and nothing else has to be done. The old captain clicked and she understood, he didn't let her do too much to make this group of educated youths habitually out of trouble. After all, they just came to the team, the old captain took care of it, but it still had to be managed, and the sticks and carrots could be used together to make the donkey grind well, and she couldn't spoil the old captain's business.

And she asked them beforehand whether to wash the dishes, wash the pots, wash the rags, use cold or hot water? Sure enough, cold water was used, because it was necessary to save firewood. It was starting to snow heavily, and it took two days for the kang in their house to burn a small bundle of budding rice stalks.

When she entered the door, she noticed that the educated youth point only had the straw firewood distributed by the team, and the little wooden halberd sent by the team in the spring was a little bit left, and she wanted to boil hot water to wash dishes or something, they must be distressed by the firewood and have opinions.

But it was absolutely not okay for her to use cold water, she came back with a stomachache during her period, and it hurt even worse when she touched the cold water. After getting married, she had to wash the family's clothes in the water with ice ballast in the winter, and the pain was so severe that she was covered with cold sweat and even rolled on the kang.

Besides, Xiaoshan Xiaojin is so worried about her body, let alone touching the cold water, seeing that she is going to go to the ground to quickly bake the cotton shoes to warm up, how can she not cherish the hearts of the two children, and spoil herself for irrelevant people.

Zhao Jing sat on the only small pony in the kitchen, listening to Ji Yuan's arrangement of duty, she didn't speak, and turned the male intellectuals next to her with her elbow, Liu Aimin immediately remembered what they just muttered, and pushed her glasses to look at Ji Yuan: "Sister-in-law Lanxiang is here to cook for us, shouldn't she do the kitchen work?" What's the matter with her giving us a task? Should we talk to the captain? ”

Ji Yuan didn't speak, Zhang Liming, who was standing next to him, rolled his eyes and spoke first: "If you want to say it, Uncle Maizi has explained, and Sister-in-law Lanxiang is only cooking, what do you think people mean by saying it several times?" Find someone to cook for us, but I didn't say find someone to work for us. "Why is your face so big! Still looking for a babysitter to serve you?

Zhao Jing turned around and moved Ma Zha farther away, ignoring Liu Aimin, Liu Aimin stared at Zhang Liming so angry that his face turned red: "She was sent by the team to cook for us, and she took the team's work!" Shouldn't she do the kitchen work? Sweeping the floor, chopping wood, carrying water and washing dishes, this is all kitchen work! Why doesn't she brush the pot and sweep it? A rural woman thought she was the master of the provincial hotel! ”