Aunt Lu is used to doing work, so she came to the kitchen with Cui'er and Huazhi, rolled up her sleeves and tied her apron, and was ready to cook beans.

Cui'er was worried about the sauce and picked and cleaned the soybeans by the way when she was cooking yesterday, and soaked the soybeans with water. Now the soybeans have been soaked and swollen, and they are round and full, which is very gratifying to look at.

"These soybeans have to be cooked well, and after they are soft and rotten, they can be made into sauce cubes." Aunt Lu asked Cui'er and Huazhi to put the soybeans in the pot and boil, boil the water over high heat, and then simmer slowly over low heat, until the soybeans were boiled soft and rotten in the past half an hour, and they could be pressed into bean puree with a light press of a spoon.

"Just leave it like that, and wait until it's cool." Aunt Lu looked at the yellow and red bean particles that had been boiled in the pot and said, "It's just right to dry the water vapor, and it's also convenient when it's pressed into puree later." ”

The three of them put out the fire in the stove and went out of the kitchen, and came to Cui'er's house to sit under the big tree, because Cui'er and the children often sit or play under the tree, even Qingshan took advantage of the time when he was not busy, and used the leftover wood to build a wooden couch and put it under the tree.

"What are you? It's nice to sit on! Aunt Lu sat on the wooden couch and moved left and right, feeling that this thing was stable and cool, and her heart was very strange.

"This is made by Qingshan, I heard that it is called a wooden couch in the south, which can be used to sit and sleep, and it is almost the same as our kang." Cui'er explained with a smile, looking at Hua Zhi looking at the wooden couch with envy, and then joked, "If Hua Zhi likes it, let Brother Qingshan fight another one, and accompany him to Litou Village when the time comes, this is also our intention." ”

"Sister-in-law......" Huazhi couldn't help but blush with red clouds on her face when she heard Cui'er talk about her marriage. I'm sorry.

"What's the matter, don't we women have to go through this, I heard Aunt Lu say that the Du family kid values you very much, what are you thinking?" Cui'er's eyes sparkled. watched the originally hearty and neat flower branch turn into a shy little flower.

"Mother, look at your sister-in-law......" Hua Zhi's cheeks were crimson and wanted to hide behind Aunt Lu, but she pulled her out, "Girl, what are you hiding, and you are not an outsider, if you have anything to say in your heart, just talk to your sister-in-law, your sister-in-law is more knowledgeable than us, and you learn more." ”

"Auntie. How can I be as good as you say, but I care about what Huazhi's husband's family is like, and I'm afraid that she will be angry in the future. Cui'er was relieved that Aunt Lu valued herself so much, but she also felt very pressured. At the moment, he smiled at Aunt Lu and Hua Zhi and said.

"Sister-in-law, I know you're good to me!" Hua Zhi said shyly, although he was still a little shy, but he told everything he knew, "This Du Jiaming brother is eighteen years old this year, I heard that he is a hard-working person, although the family is not rich." But it is also a family that can eat well and wear warm clothes. ”

"Oh, the kid that Huazhi said is Du Mingbei?" Cui'er looked at Huazhi with a smile and said to her future husband, "Have you seen that Ming'er Huazhi?" ”

"Sister-in-law......" Hua Zhi looked at Cui'er and said to the point, her face turned even redder, and she nodded shyly. After listening to Aunt Zhao talk about the Du family, my mother inquired that Brother Ming often fetched firewood to sell in the town, so she pulled me to the town to pick up flower cloth, and looked at it by the way......"

"This look, do you like it?" Cui'er couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Aunt Lu is doing a good job, let's be daughters, marrying someone is a lifelong thing, why do you have to choose someone who looks pleasing to you to marry, right?" Like I picked the green mountains myself, how smooth my life is! Cui'er muttered the latter sentence in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it.

"Cui'er is right, my daughter, I feel very distressed, we can choose a good son-in-law for her, naturally we won't push her into the fire pit, right?" When Aunt Lu heard this, she said proudly.

"The old Du family is the only surname in Litou Village, I heard that the old couple of the older generation fled the past, and there are three brothers in Huazhi's life, Huazhi said that this is the third, the first eldest brother and a second brother have already become a family, the old couple is easy to talk, and the two concubines are also honest people, there is no burden and there is no need to bother. And ......" Aunt Lu said this quite proudly, and paused again, quite a bit of a betrayal.

"Good aunt, if there is anything else, just say it quickly, don't you see that I'm in a hurry!" Cui'er couldn't see that Aunt Lu was selling Guanzi, and urged eagerly.

"Also, the matchmaker Aunt Zhao told me that after the Du Laosan gets married, the Du family will be separated, and the chestnut forest of the first * acre of the family will be divided into several sons to raise, although the Du family will still live together in the future, but the money will go to each room and the meal will be eaten." When Aunt Lu said this, her eyes were shining, many people in the village were brothers but not together, because a little money made relatives become enemies, if they could split up early, Huazhi could eat whatever she wanted, and she could do whatever she wanted, but it was not better than being a little daughter-in-law in front of her mother-in-law?

"Really? That's great! When Cui'er heard this, she also became happy. Cui'er has a vague thought in her heart, that is, Litou Village can sell mountain goods to make money, and she can naturally rely on Shantun, as long as you grasp the way out of the mountain, and then find a good way to sell goods, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

With a good way, you must not just make money yourself, right? Naturally, it is necessary to pull acquaintances to do it, and if it is really possible at that time, Aunt Lu's family, Aunt Chunzhu's family, Yinhuan's family, and even Qinghe's family will all be pulled, and they will earn money together, and they will be earned by people close to them.

"Is the son-in-law I picked good?" Aunt Lu said very proudly, "The three boys of the Du family, they are very strong, I heard that they have been working in the mountains since they were children, and he will know how to do it in the fruit forest, and if they divide the family in the future, I can make up for them a little more if I am generous, and they will live a good life and have a few more children......" Aunt Lu gently touched the hair of the flower branch, and said with a loving face, with some tears in her eyes, obviously reluctant to flower branches.

"Mother......" Hua Zhi looked at Aunt Lu like this, and couldn't help but have a sour nose, as if she had lost the joy of marrying just now, and was full of reluctance to leave her mother.

"Look at you kid, how old you are and still like a little girl......" Aunt Lu said while hugging the flower branch tightly. Then he turned around and wiped his face, "Your little sister is chatting here, Auntie, I'll go see how the beans are doing." After Aunt Lu finished speaking, she didn't wait for Cui'er and them to answer. I hurried out of the East House.

"Sister-in-law......" Hua Zhi looked at Cui'er looking at herself with a playful face, couldn't help but blushed again, and said with a smile.

"Huazhi, take good care of yourself after you get to your mother-in-law's house, if there is anything you can't tell your mother, come and tell your sister-in-law, if you marry out in the future, sister-in-law is also your mother's family." Cui'er looked at Huazhi's shy and timid little appearance, and her heart was slightly sour.

In his previous life, his parents loved him, and they were reluctant to marry him. It's the same as Aunt Lu's reluctance to flower branches, Cui'er still remembers her wedding when her mother held back tears and looked at her smiling, loving her parents so deeply......

"Good!" When Huazhi heard this, she finally collected her tears just now. It fell without warning, and the flower branch lay softly in Cui'er's arms, and the tears that flowed down silently made Cui'er's clothes wet a lot.

Cui'er thought of her parents' love for her in her previous life, and their reluctance when she got married, just like Aunt Lu's reluctance to flower branches, Cui'er still remembers her wedding when her mother held back tears and looked at herself smiling. I love my mom and dad so deeply...... Thinking about it, Cui'er's tears couldn't stop flowing.

"Cui'er, Huazhi, come on, the beans are cool!" After a long time, Aunt Lu called Cui'er and Huazhi from the kitchen. There was a slight nasal tone in his voice.

"Here we go!" Huazhi and Cui'er, who had just cried hard, looked at each other's red eyes, and felt that they were funny, so they helped each other wipe their faces before walking to the kitchen.

Treier went into the kitchen. Seeing that Aunt Lu's eyes were also red, knowing that when she was in the kitchen, Xu had also cried, her daughter was going to get married, how reluctant she was.

"Come on, the beans are cold, let's hurry up and beat the sauce cubes, and we have to go home and cook." Aunt Lu looked at Cui'er's eyes and was also red, knowing that it was her daughter who was crying, she endured the reluctance in her heart, and said loudly to Cui'er, it sounded like usual, but she ignored the thick nasal voice.

"Good!" Cui'er and Huazhi both responded, washed their hands, and according to Aunt Lu's command, they pressed the beans in the iron pot into bean paste with a spoon used for stir-frying.

In the big iron pot, most of the beans were boiled, Cui'er and Huazhi were on one side, crushing the beans carefully, and Aunt Lu was next to him directing how to press them, where to press them, etc., until their hands were sore, and the beans were crushed into puree.

"Okay, let's make the sauce block, you see, I'll make a piece first, and you two will make it later." Aunt Lu scooped up a large lump of bean puree in her hand, put it on the cutting board that had been washed and dried just now, calculated the size of the sauce block, and dug out a quarter of the bean puree fiercely, forming a large ball.

Aunt Lu's hands kept rubbing and patting, rolling the bean paste round without gaps, and then put the bean paste dumplings on the cutting board one by one, paused to change the direction, and then changed the direction, and after a while, a large piece of bean paste was made into a large sauce block slightly larger than the board bricks.

"Okay, that's it, you look at the degree of dryness and wetness, and follow it in the future, it's too dry and hairy, and if it's too wet, it should be rotten, but you have to grasp it well." Aunt Lu looked at the formed sauce cube in her hand, she was very proud, and taught Cui'er hand in hand.

When Cui'er and Huazhi made the remaining bean paste into three sauce cubes, Aunt Lu looked at the sky and prepared to leave, "You put this sauce cube in a cool place to dry, remember to ventilate, save it, and wait for a few days to grow green hair, it will be fine." After Aunt Lu finished speaking, she led the flower branch and left.

Cui'er looked at the four pieces of red paste that were drying under the windowsill, and she still didn't quite understand how this thing turned into her own dark brown and fragrant sauce.