Chapter 138: Picking Up the Cheap (Three Watches)
Since eating a meal of stewed sauerkraut, even the whole family has fallen in love with this hot and sour taste, and after a few meals, Cui'er ate all the jars of sauerkraut that Cui'er had accumulated at the beginning. Even Aunt Lu and Lian Qinghe's family, who were given two bowls of sauerkraut by Cui'er, also loved this taste very much, and they came to Cui'er to visit the door.
Aunt Lu's eldest son's family has not come back from working in the county, and the younger son goes out to play every day and is not at home.
And since the last time Cui'er was frightened because of Cui Yunniang's matter, Aunt Lu has been worried about Cui'er's body, and she came to Cui'er when she had nothing to do, and accompanied her to talk and do housework.
"Cui'er, what's the name of that sour stew you gave me last time? It tastes weird. When Aunt Lu came to Cui'er's house, she helped Cui'er work, and at this time she was helping Cui'er turn over the dried eggplants in the basket, chatting with Cui'er.
"Auntie, that's sauerkraut." Cui'er heard that Aunt Lu liked her stewed sauerkraut, and her heart was delicious, she put down the kitchen knife in her hand to cut radishes, and wiped the sweat on her forehead, "This sauerkraut is pickled with Chinese cabbage, which is similar to the pickles you taught me, if you like it, you will pickle some together later." ”
"Is it pickled with Chinese cabbage? I see you cut that dish so thinly that you don't even know what it was made of! It would be good if we used Chinese cabbage, we have a lot of Chinese cabbage, this thing is not expensive, if you can make some fresh food, Huaizhi can also eat more. Aunt Lu heard that it was cabbage. I felt that it was more feasible to pickle the sauerkraut at home, and thought that if my children could eat more because of the sauerkraut, I couldn't help but nod my head again and again.
Cui'er looked at Aunt Lu very happy, and couldn't help laughing. There was a joy of recognition on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, "Auntie, if you are interested, let's do it, the big vat of sauerkraut and green mountains have been washed, we just need to accumulate cabbage." ”
"It's a good feeling!" Aunt Lu listened to Cui'er's words, her eyes lit up, and she nodded busily, thinking that her Huaizhi loved to eat this sauerkraut, if she could learn it, she would go back and pickle a big vat. It would be nice to add a new dish to the house. "Huaizhi didn't like to eat in winter, not only could not grow any meat in a winter, but also had to lose some weight, if there was this sauerkraut, the child could eat more bowls of rice this time." Aunt Lu said with a smile. It's good to imagine that your own locust branches look like Cui'er's little tigers, round and chubby.
Because Aunt Lu came, even Qingshan was not worried that Cui'er was stuffy at home, he brought tools, closed the door of his house, and went to the mountain, there is still a lot of work waiting on the mountain, and now Cui'er is not in good health. Even Qingshan didn't dare to take her for fear of her danger, and even when he took the big girl and the little tiger up the mountain, there were few.
The big girl and the little tiger saw that Aunt Lu and Cui'er were busy with interest, and followed curiously, and the two little wolves, Tuan Tuan and Yuanyuan, also followed behind their buttocks and appeared upside down.
After the large vat of sauerkraut was washed and dried, it was put into the hut where the tea was roasted, and a curtain was covered on it. Just let go of the curtain and you can use it, and the big stone before, even the green mountains have been washed and put on the ground, and you can just wash it with water later.
Cui'er and Aunt Lu first boiled two large pots of boiling water, and after boiling, they put them in the pot to dry. Because the weather was slightly cool, it wouldn't take long for the water to cool down, and after the water part was done, the two came to the courtyard together.
"Cui'er, what are you doing with this sauerkraut?" Aunt Lu looked at the cabbage that was a little wilted in the yard, rubbed her hands excitedly, and just waited for Cui'er's order, and she helped Cui'er accumulate sauerkraut.
"Let's first go to the old canopy and bad leaves and roots of this cabbage, leaving a good place in the middle, if you want to eat this sauerkraut early, cut it into shreds and scald it with water, if you want to keep it and eat it slowly, just put the whole cabbage into it." As she spoke, Cui'er used a kitchen knife to cut off the roots of the cabbage in her hand, and broke off some broken vegetable leaves wrapped outside and threw them aside, and when Sister-in-law Mu came, she chopped off the rotten vegetable leaves and fed them to the chickens.
"Mother, I want to help too!" When the eldest girl heard that Cui'er and Aunt Lu were accumulating sauerkraut, her eyes lit up, thinking of the sour and delicious sauerkraut, the eldest girl couldn't help but suck her saliva, and began to help Cui'er transport cabbage.
Although the late autumn sun is warm, the air is already slightly cool, Cui'er and Aunt Lu are sitting in the yard cleaning up cabbage, with some exercise, and there is even a slight sweat on their bodies. The two big girls and little tigers, who helped Cui'er transport the cabbage before and after running, were already sweating their foreheads, their little faces were flushed, and they were excited as if they were having a holiday.
Cui'er worked very quickly, and after a while, she cleaned up a bunch of cabbage under her hands, and Aunt Lu was used to doing the work at home, and after understanding Cui'er's requirements, the movements under her hands were more neat than Cui'er, and a wall of cabbage was stacked next to her.
"Auntie, it looks like winter is coming, and she has been married for several months, have you ever been back?" Cui'er was busy with her hands, chatting with Aunt Lu.
"Isn't the Huazhi family's family separated? In the first two months, they were busy separating the family, but now, the fruit on the mountain is the time to come down, and the young couple are busy with the fruit, and they can't care about going home. Aunt Lu thought of her daughter's flowers, and her face was happy and worried.
The joy is that after Huazhi got married, the people of the in-laws really divided the family according to what they said at the beginning, and Huazhi and Du Ming, the third son of the Du family, were divided into two rooms, two acres of chestnut forest, and some fragmentary things, closed the door to live their own small life, very leisurely.
The worry is that the pampered daughter at home will be wronged or something when she goes to the Du family to be a daughter-in-law, and there are not many jobs in the mountains and forests, Aunt Lu is very afraid that she will not be used to hardship, and she is afraid that she will not have a good time with her little son-in-law.
Cui'er listened to Aunt Lu babbling about the situation of the Du family and her worries. But there is no impatience at all, isn't Cui'er's own feelings for the big girl the same? If the eldest girl gets married in the future, she will definitely be worried when she is at home, for fear that she will not be able to eat and dress after she gets married.
Kung Fu in the blink of an eye. The two of them cleaned up a lot of cabbage, cut the big cabbage in half, and used the remaining smaller ones directly.
Because Cui'er's belly was a little big, it was not easy to bend over to work, so Aunt Lu followed Cui'er's words, carefully stacked the Chinese cabbage in the sauerkraut jar, sprinkled a layer of sauerkraut with a layer of salt, and stacked it layer by layer. It didn't take much effort to stack most of the cylinder.
The cabbage was put into the jar, and Cui'er had the impression that the jar of sauerkraut should be full, so she talked to Aunt Lu about the rest in detail, and continued to go back to the yard to clean up the cabbage. When the two were tidying up the cabbage in the yard, someone came to the door. The person who came was none other than Lian Qingshan's younger sister Dong.
Dong was wearing a slightly gray clothes, holding Ermao, and led Da Mao to Cui'er's house, Da Mao also took an old leek in his hand, and after the family of three entered the yard like this, Dong looked at the pile of cabbage in the yard of Cui'er's house. There was a green glow in his eyes.
But fortunately, Cui'er had beaten her twice before, which made her have some scruples, and said hello to Aunt Lu and Cui'er, and Dong pulled the leeks out of Da Mao's hands and handed them to Cui'er, "Sister-in-law." I didn't take anything to see you, the leeks at home were cut and eaten with scrambled eggs. ”
"Come on, come on, what else do you bring?" Cui'er looked at the leeks in her hand. Only then did I know that I was given a gift by the Dong family, and I suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.
This Dong family is very protective of food, and if she wants to take something out, it is like picking it up and down on her ribs, which hurts so much. Now she took the initiative to get something out, although it was a handful of leeks, Cui'er also knew that this younger brother and sister were asking for something bigger, either to ask for an egg for the children to eat, or to want something else.
Cui'er's family has a lot of chickens, and in addition to the eggs they eat, there is a lot of surplus. Cui'er doesn't want to sell it to the town, most of the time, it's someone in the village who has a happy event, so they come to get food or something else in exchange for some eggs, and Cui'er is also used to using eggs when she goes out to give gifts.
But even so, there are still a lot of eggs left, Cui'er thought that even the two children of the Qinghe family were not fat, so she sent ten or twenty eggs over every once in a while, which could be regarded as her own aunt for the children to make up for their bodies.
This Dong is a calculating, seeing that the frequency of his eggs is not high, so he thought of an idea, the eggs at home are almost eaten, she took the children around, brought some vegetables or other gifts as gifts, and when she went back, she could bring back some eggs for the children to eat.
Cui'er looked at Ermao who was grinning at herself in Dong's arms, and sighed in her heart, although Dong's eyes are a little shallow, but he is not a vicious person, and the two children he gave birth to are also good. I used to speak badly because I couldn't get benefits from myself, but now I can get benefits from it, and I'm very close to myself.
As long as you ask for something, then there is no need to be afraid, Cui'er thought of this and smiled at Dong, "It's tiring to find a stool to sit on and hold the child." ”
"Big girl, take your big hairy brother to get the fruit to eat." Cui'er looked at the big girl who was still burying her head and moving cabbage, and said to her, while even Qinghe's eldest son Da Mao stared at the two little wolves who were following Xiaohu, and his eyes didn't blink, and his envy was overflowing.
"Sister-in-law, do you still have the sauerkraut you gave to our family that day?" Dong sat on the stool next to her with Ermao in her arms, and explained her intention straight to the point, she looked at Cui'er with burning eyes, as if she could see a large pot of sauerkraut from Cui'er's face.
Cui'er listened to Dong's opening to ask for sauerkraut, and nodded to herself secretly in her heart, she guessed correctly just now, this Dong is really here to ask for something.
"Yo, it's really unfortunate, our family has eaten all the sauerkraut before, isn't this still busy accumulating sauerkraut, if you like it, just learn how to get it with me, and go back and accumulate a big vat at home by yourself, and you can eat it in winter." Cui'er said to the Dong family, although her words were very polite, her expression was unquestionable.
Cui'er felt in her heart that although the Dong family had experienced too few things and was reluctant to make money, she was the mother of Da Mao and Er Mao, and she was also a good eye for Lian Qinghe.
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No omen's surprise plus more sent ~ This week's emerald color is the ancient saying that the wind is blowing, plus the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday emerald color appeared in this text The third disciple leisurely afternoon tea, vow to decide to add another one more today ~ Let the relatives enjoy watching the holiday ~
Thank you for your continued support, this chapter is more ~Happy Mid-Autumn Festival~