Chapter 20 Strategy
When Lin Tong entered the kitchen, Wang Guihua was reporting to Xu's mother, "The eldest brother said to let the sister-in-law sleep more." I'll help my sister-in-law make breakfast today. ”
Hearing the sound of the door opening, as soon as he turned around and saw her, Wang Guihua grinned first, "I just said that my sister-in-law didn't get up, isn't this coming?" ”
Lin Tong smiled at her and nodded, called "Mom," walked to the stove kang and asked in a cheerful tone, "What are you doing this morning?" I'll get it! ”
This night, she has almost fused the memories of the original owner, and making a fire and cooking is also something she used to do, but it is not difficult for her.
Mother Xu's face was not very good-looking, but she didn't say anything when she came in, "Eat big porridge for breakfast, your second brother and sister have already made it last night, you go and pick up some pickles and cut everything, just steam the big cakes." ”
Lin Tong responded happily, took the bowl and asked, "Guihua, where are the pickles?" ”
Wang Guihua pointed to the jar in the corner, "The mustard lump is in the jar above." ”
Mother Xu saw that she had scooped up two pickle gnocchi, and pointed to the jar below, "There are cucumbers and celery in the bottom there, and some of them can be fished out too." ”
Lin Tong changed the bowl, moved the jar on it to the side, scooped a few cucumbers and twisted them, fished up celery and green onion leaves, put the jar away, and rinsed the pickles with water.
Mother Xu saw that she was working neatly, so she entered the east house, Lin Tong put the rinsed pickles next to the vegetable pier, picked up the kitchen knife, shredded the pickle gnocchi and put it into the bowl, and chopped the pickles such as celery and cucumber and put them into another bowl.
Wang Guihua had already steamed the big cakes left last night into the pot, covered the lid and turned around to see the two bowls of pickles she had cut, opened her mouth, she wanted to tell the newly married sister-in-law, "This pickle can't be cut like this, it takes a lot to cut into shreds, it has to be cut into strips, and it is thick to resist eating." ”
Last night, the man's displeased warning sound sounded in her ears again, and she swallowed the words that came to her mouth, thinking: cut everything, she can't turn it into a strip if she says it, so be it!
Wang Guihua said: "Sister-in-law, I put the big cake in the pot, I'll go back to the house to see the child first, the junior should almost wake up." ”
Lin Tong then remembered that she still had a small son, "Go ahead, it's nothing, I'll do it alone." ”
In addition to burning the kang in winter, you also need to light the stove, so that the house will be warm, Lin Tong boiled hot water on the stove, picked up a shredded pickle and tasted it, "Oh my God, why is it so salty!" ”
Lin Tong stood for a while, looked at the half of the meat oil in the oil jar, and knew that the Xu family was actually not short of oil, and just killed four big fat pigs that had been raised for a year a few days ago.
It's just that the family is used to being thrifty and uses oil very sparingly.
She simply cut some shredded green onions, boiled some oil in another large pot, and poured them into the chopped pickles, and put the shredded green onions in the pickle strips, and poured some vinegar into them.
Although it is still salty, it tastes much better.
Seeing that the big cake was steamed, and the big dumpling porridge was sticky and glutinous, she took out a big cake and cut it into thick slices, put it in the pot and put it on the kang, removed the fire in the kang pit, wiped her hands and went back to the house to call the two of them.
Xu Nian had already woken up, and was wiping his face with the dry and hard blackened towel dipped in water, and the droplets of water on the other end of the towel fell on his chest, and the padded jacket was already wet.
"Mom", Xu Nian grinned happily when she saw her, and screamed softly in a long voice, throwing the towel in her hand into the basin.
Lin Tong said angrily: "Why don't you let your father wash it, see if the padded jacket is wet!" ”
Xu Nian smiled stupidly, "I'll wash it myself." He was a little proud, "I used to wash it myself." ”
Lin Tong kissed her little face and teased him, "Oh, Xiao Nian's little face that she washed by herself is so clean and fragrant!" ”
Xu Nian giggled proudly.
Lin Tong hugged Xu Nian to the kang, took off his shoes, helped him take off the padded jacket, and patted his little buttocks, "Go to the quilt first, I'll ask if you still have a padded jacket?" ”
She had just taken the padded jacket to the warm wall and hung it, and the hot warm wall was baking and would soon dry, when Xu Zhenhua came in with a large hug of firewood.
"What, your clothes are wet?"
Lin Tong said: "Yes, there is a big wet piece in front, you will freeze and catch a cold on this cold day, I will ask if there is a padded jacket, and change it for him first." ”
Xu Zhenhua put down the firewood and patted his hands and sleeves, "No need to ask, whose children don't have extra padded jackets, are they soaked?" If you don't see it through, put it on first, and it will be dry after eating in a while. ”
The children of this era are really not so pampered, they are all skinny!
Lin Tong accepted the memory and knew that what he said was right, "That's okay, then bake him after eating." ”
After thinking about it, she picked up the padded jacket, simply took it to the stove, and roasted it on the fire, so slowly, there was a loud voice from Xu's mother outside, "Why don't you come to eat?" You have to be invited to eat! ”
Lin Tong touched the hot padded jacket, although it was still a little wet, it was dry and hot inside, and he was busy putting it on for Xu Nian, urging the man, "You go first, or mom should be in a hurry." ”
Xu Zhenhua didn't move, "It's not bad for a few minutes, let's do it all together!" ”
Lin Tong was very happy, and found another advantage of him, as long as he wanted to, he still cared about people, and he was very diligent, since yesterday afternoon, he came in with firewood to add fire.
Lin Tong wanted to hug Xu Nian, but as soon as the child slipped out, he got off the ground, pulling her with one little hand, and the other went to hold his father's, and then looked up at them beautifully, "Mom, Dad, let's eat quickly!" ”
Xu Zhenhua was a little dissatisfied, why did he call his mother first, and then his father?
But he was very smart and didn't say it, he only came back once in five years, and he didn't meet his son for a few days, unlike Lin Tong in the past two years, who often came to coax him, take him to play, and give him delicious food.
The child is the most innocent and not pretending, and he is also the most sensitive, who is good to him, of course he can feel it, so he likes this new mother so much.
Wang Guihua has already put all the rice on the table, big porridge, cornmeal flatbread, two bowls of pickles, a bowl of sauce, and a few green onions with only green onions.
Mother Xu's face was very gloomy, and when she saw Lin Tong, she counted down, "Tell me how bad you are, don't say that this pickle is cut so finely, and there is oil in it, and the oil doesn't cost money, why don't you know how to live so much?" ”
Lin Tong smiled and was not angry, hugged the old lady's arm and said coquettishly: "Mom, I saw that there was a lot of oil, so I put a little bit of it, I didn't put it much, I didn't waste it at all, you can rest assured!" I fried the flatbread with the remaining oil base in the pot, you taste it, isn't it much more delicious? ”
As she spoke, she picked up a piece of fried and somewhat hard cake and stuffed it into the old lady's mouth, "Mom, you can taste it, not only does it not cost oil, but it is also very delicious." ”