"Like ears?" Xia Huai touched his ears, he really couldn't imagine what the dumplings looked like, "Then let's go buy meat and make dumplings for my mother to eat, her ears will be frostbitten every year." ”

Xia Yan nodded, and followed Xia Huai into the butcher's shop.

Xia Huai stared at the meat, pointed to a piece of fatty pork belly and asked, "Boss, how much is this meat a catty?" ”

The owner of the butcher shop glanced at the two of them with his peripheral vision, and replied perfunctorily: "Thirty wen a catty." ”

"That's... Then give it to me... Hmm..."Xia Huai's face trembled when he heard the price, and he looked at Xia Yan tangledly, "Sister, how much should we buy?" ”

"Five pounds of pork belly and five pounds of tenderloin."

When the butcher shop owner heard this, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face and said, "Little girl, I have fresh and good meat, what do you like, you pick it, I will pack it for you." ”

Xia Huai pulled Xia Yan aside and asked quietly: "Yan'er, it costs hundreds of dollars to buy so much meat, do we have enough money?" ”

Xia Yan gave him a reassuring look and instructed the butcher shop owner to cut the picked meat into strips, wrap them one by one and put them in the basket.

After taking out four taels of silver from his arms and giving them to the butcher shop owner, Xia Yan asked Xia Huai to lead him to a grain and oil shop, bought five catties of rice and five catties of noodles, and bought two catties of oil and a small jar of salt, leaving nineteen taels on his body.

This kind of flower method made Xia Huai's heart drip blood, and when he came out of the grain and oil shop, he couldn't help but ask: "Yan'er, how much did we sell today's radishes?" ”

Xia Yan pretended to smile mysteriously, stretched out his fingers and compared a two, Xia Huai guessed: "Two two?" Well, no, I spent more money on buying things today. Those twenty taels? ”

Xia Yan nodded and said, "The radish is fifty wen a catty, and we sold it for thirty catties." And the cook I taught Ruyi Zhai made two dishes, one is worth ten taels, so I got a total of twenty-one taels today. ”

"Twenty-one taels!" Xia Huai shouted excitedly, and then remembered that this was on the street, so he quickly covered his mouth and looked at the people around, and exhaled reassuringly, "My mother and I can't earn three taels of silver a month, so much money is almost enough for us to use for a year!" ”

Seeing Xia Huai so happy, Xia Yan sighed, but she was not happy at all, you know, every grass sold in the space costs a hundred taels, and she can only buy a blade of grass now.

The two of them walked around the street again, bought a rabbit fur earmuff for Yan's, bought some green onions, ginger and candy by the way, and brought four strings of sugar gourds home happily.

As soon as he entered the house, Xia Huai flew to Yan's side, took out the earmuffs and handed them to Yan's like a treasure, and said proudly: "Mother, look, this is a gift that my sister bought for you, do you like it?" Bring it to us. ”

Yan looked at the warm and soft earmuffs in her hand, and was speechless with emotion, and after a while, tears wet her clothes.

"Oh, mother, why are you crying again." Xia Yan pouted, "There is a big happy event today, and you are still crying." ”

Yan wiped his tears and smiled softly: "Mother is happy, mother doesn't cry." Yan'er, tell my mother, what's the big joy? ”

"Yan'er and her brother sold the radish today, earned more than 20 taels, and bought a lot of delicious food, is it worth being happy?" As he spoke, he took out the wrapped candy and sugar gourd from the basket and handed them to Yan, "Mother, you eat." ”

Yan looked at Xia Yan in surprise and found that his daughter had really grown up. Although the radish tasted good, it was something that had never been seen before, and Xia Yan and Xia Huai, two children, went to sell things, and it was indispensable to be lowered by others. So she originally thought that these things would sell for a few hundred wen at most, but she really didn't expect her baby daughter to be so capable.

She took the sugar gourd with relief and took a bite, well, sure enough, it was bought by her daughter, and it was sweeter than all the sugar gourds she had ever eaten.

Seeing that Yan's food was so happy, Xia Yan took another one and handed it to Mu Fan.

Mu Fan took the sugar gourd and looked at it curiously, asking, "What is this?" ”

"Sugar gourd, haven't you seen it?"

"Nope."

Hearing Mu Fan say this, Xia Huai seemed to have found a sense of balance, and pointed at Mu Fan while eating his sugar gourd: "You are really a dirty bun, even more earthy than me." You've never seen something as common as a sugar gourd. Dirt buns, hahaha......"

Mu Fan didn't pay attention to Xia Huai, he didn't like to eat sweets, he raised the sugar gourd in his hand and took a serious bite, paused for a moment, and quickly finished the rest of the part.

"How about the buns, does this sugar gourd taste good?"

Mu Fan nodded.

"Yan'er said that the winter solstice will make dumplings for us to eat, do you know what dumplings are?" Xia Huai looked at Mu Fan with some pride, "Anyway, you don't know this dirt bun, so I'll tell you reluctantly." This dumpling is a kind of ear-like food, and you won't freeze your ears in winter. How's it going, is my Yan'er the best? Follow Yan'er to have meat to eat. ”

Hearing that Xia Yan was going to make something fresh to eat, Mu Fan's eyes lit up and he nodded harder.

Looking at the daily bickering of these two people, Xia Yan felt infinite emotion in his heart, and only Xia Huai's rough character could continue the conversation every day in Mu Fan's ignorance and nodding and shaking his head.

After the four of them finished eating the sugar gourd, Xia Yan and Yan prepared the ingredients for making dumplings. Take out two catties of pork belly and two catties of tenderloin and cabbage and radish and chop them together, add green onions, ginger, salt, cooking wine, etc.

Yan asked curiously while helping beside him: "Yan'er, is this food also taught by the gods?" ”

"Yes, mother, the fairy said that you freeze your ears every year, so you specially gave me how to make dumplings."

"Thank the gods for their mercy."

The two of them worked until midnight, and finally made the preparations, and decided to marinate the rest of the meat into bacon tomorrow so as not to spoil it.

Early the next morning, the mother and daughter got up early and started making dumplings. Although Yan had never made dumplings, he made rapid progress under Xia Yan's patient teaching, and after a while, delicate dumplings appeared in Yan's hands.

There was nothing to say all night, and in the blink of an eye, it was the day to eat dumplings.