Chapter 156: New Year's Goods (2)
When it was time for lunch, Cui'er thought that Da Niu and Xiao Hu were a little disappointed when they went to town today, and Da Mao and Er Mao didn't come to the house often, so she planned to cook more delicious food, so that the children could be happier and eat more.
Having made up her mind, Cui'er is ready to get some meat to melt, prepare to make a meat piece, fry a meatball, and stew a sauerkraut, which the children like to eat.
The place where Cui'er took the meat was the "snow box" that she asked Lian Qingshan to toss, and when it was snowing heavily, Cui'er came up with it on a whim.
This "snow box" is a place that is made in the middle of the snowdrift after the clean snow is piled into a snowdrift, and because the temperature is very low, it can play the same role as a modern refrigerator by putting perishable food in it.
Because there is snow all around, and then carefully covered with wooden boards, when there is sun during the day, although the temperature is slightly higher, because there is a lot of snow around, it will not melt the food stored inside, and at night, the temperature drops, and the snow around it will freeze, so that the food will not spoil the next day.
Cui'er took out two pieces of pork from the "snow box", one is fat and thin pork belly, which is best used to stew sauerkraut, and the other is the front groove meat, which has more lean meat and less fat, which can be used to fry meat segments and croquettes.
Take the meat into the house, put it in a basin and soak it in water to thaw, and let Lian Qingshan fish out four or five sauerkraut plants, ready to stew and eat at noon.
The raw materials that can be used at home are nothing more than all kinds of beans, eggs, white flour or glutinous rice flour, yellow rice noodles, all kinds of dried fruits in the mountains, plus potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkins, etc., it is really difficult to make delicious snacks.
However, the difficulty does not mean that it cannot be done, Cui'er thought about the various raw materials at home, and decided to make some food with sweet potatoes today, as for what to do. Since you want to fry the meat croquettes, then fry the sweet potatoes by the way.
When Cui'er had cut all the five sauerkraut in the pot and the meat was almost melted, Cui'er cut the pork belly into evenly sized slices. Cut the lean part of the front groove into diced meat the size of a fingernail, which is ready to be used for meat segments, and add a part of the lean meat to chop into meat filling and prepare for the croquettes.
When the ingredients were ready, Cui'er rummaged through two large sweet potatoes, peeled them and cut them into hob pieces, put them in a dustpan to dry for water, and waited for them to be fried in a pot with some starch.
Cui'er is busy in the kitchen here, and the big girl is playing in the house with her younger brothers. Lian Qingshan looked at the children in the house, playing very well. He didn't bother them, he grabbed a branch, took a knife, sat on the edge of the kang and carved something.
Cui'er was busy stewing and frying for a while, and when it was almost time to eat, the fragrance had already wafted out of the kitchen. The big girl looked at the kitchen curiously, wanting to see what to eat at noon, Da Mao and Xiao Hu were also looking forward to it, only Ermao, who was not yet sensible, crawled quickly on the kang, chasing the helpless fortune that was disturbed by the little kid.
When Cui'er brought the delicious food to the table, the children's admiration and cheers rang out one after another. Delicious pork belly stewed sauerkraut, fried pork pieces, croquettes, potato slices cut into various small animals or flowers and herbs, fried carrot slices, and sweet sweet potatoes with frosting......
The family sat around the dining table, and when they were about to start the meal, they only heard a sound outside the door, and Lian Qingshan went out to take a look. It was his younger sister Dong who was pulling his younger brother Lian Qinghe to walk into the yard in a hurry.
"Qinghe, you're back so soon?" Lian Qingshan looked at Lian Qinghe's empty hands, calculated the time, and the two of them went to the town in the morning, and they arrived at their own house at this time. The time you can spend in the town is very limited!
"Yes, big brother, when we arrived in the town, we saw that there were many people, and there was nothing left, so we went back." Lian Qinghe was dragged by the Dong family to go into the house, but he was very embarrassed, and stood straight in the courtyard, and the Dong family couldn't move.
Smelling the aroma of food wafting from the house, looking at the face of his young wife, Lian Qinghe felt that his face was hot, he and his daughter-in-law were both children from poor families, but when his daughter-in-law was fine, she liked to take advantage of others, especially her eldest brother, which made Lian Qinghe's heart very uncomfortable.
"Osmanthus, can't you stop for a while?" On the one hand, he is the eldest brother who saved his life, and on the other hand, he is the daughter-in-law who gave birth to two children...... The sturdy Lian Qinghe was in trouble at this time, his face was quite painful, and he couldn't help but scold.
"Qinghe, why do you talk to your daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law!" Lian Qingshan frowned and said, obviously a little dissatisfied with his younger brother's attitude, "If there is anything you can talk about, when you get to my brother, just in time for dinner, put everything back and go into the house to eat!" ”
Lian Qingshan was the first to enter the house, followed by Dong who succeeded in rubbing the rice and Lian Qinghe, who was a little annoyed, after entering the house, Rao is Dong imagined that her child would make delicious food when she came, but she was still startled by the fragrant food on the table.
There are so many fried foods, and there are so many stews with so many slices of meat, and fragrant rice...... Dong looked at the food on the table, his eyes were hot, and while he was glad that he went to the town and came back quickly, he could eat such a hearty meal, and on the other hand, he was jealous that his eldest brother's family had money to eat delicious food, but it fell into the hands of his sister-in-law and their children, and he wanted to get some cheap, and he had to rack his brains.
Cui'er sat on the kang, looking at Dong's envious and jealous expression, who didn't know what this younger brother and sister with only a pinnose was thinking, and sighed secretly, Cui'er didn't care about the people of this small family, beckoned Lian Qinghe and Dong to sit down, and went down to the ground to get a bowl of rice.
Lian Qingshan ate with his younger brother's family, and his interest was very high, he tossed out a small half jar of wine from the cabinet, and drank wine with Lian Qinghe, you and me, without thinking that his younger brother and younger siblings would go into the house to eat, and whether the food they originally cooked was enough to eat.
Fortunately, Cui'er thought that with Dong's temper before, Xu was going to come back to rub rice, and made two more bowls of rice, and now that the two of them have come to eat, they will not be overstretched. Cui'er came back with a bowl of rice, only then did she notice that Lian Qinghe and his family entered the house empty-handed, thinking of Dong's previous thoughts of wanting to rub some New Year's goods with his own family, he felt that no matter whether the Dong family bought New Year's goods in the town or not, his determination to rub New Year's goods with his own family was very good, and he sighed in his heart, this stinginess is really stingy.
Cui'er is pregnant, her stomach is hungry fast, and she is eating her favorite food in front of her, even if there is an eye-catching person like Dong, and she still has New Year's goods in her heart, Cui'er still eats very sweetly.
And because of the presence of the Dong family, Cui'er doesn't have to take care of Da Mao and Ermao while taking care of the big girl and Xiaohu, Cui'er's burden is a lot easier, and the food is also comfortable, which invisibly reduces the unhappiness in her heart before.
The warm and bright room, the steaming and delicious meals, Lian Qingshan and Lian Qinghe talking, and the two women taking care of their children respectively, this scene was harmonious for a while.
Cui'er looked at the Dong family who held Ermao in her arms and fed her, but from time to time she gave Da Mao a piece of meat, the calculating look on her face faded, and when she was left with soft maternal love, she didn't have the same bitter feeling as before, which made her whole person look a lot softer.
Cui'er gave the eldest girl and Xiaohu a dish of chopsticks each, and then lowered her head to eat, thinking in her heart that if she took Lian Qinghe's family to get rich in the future, how likely it would be that the Dong family would no longer be stingy.
After thinking about it for a while, thinking that this might be half and half, Cui'er sighed, thinking about the idea of pounding mountain goods with Lian Qingshan next year, whether to let Lian Qinghe also join in it, and after thinking about it for a while, she still couldn't make up her mind.
Seeing that the children have eaten almost, Cui'er no longer restricts them, and they can eat whatever they like, at this time, Dong rubbed to Cui'er with the rice bowl and looked at Cui'er with envy, "Sister-in-law, it seems that you have bought a lot of New Year's goods today, and you have to use two catties of pork for this meal, right?" ”
Looking at Dong's face begging for New Year's goods, the shining eyes made Cui'er feel very awkward, but Qingshan and Qinghe were drinking over there, and the children were eating delicious food from each other, Cui'er really couldn't bear to quarrel with Dong's family, and was pregnant with the unity of this family.
"Brother and sister, I didn't buy this meat today, I bought it before and then froze in the house." Cui'er said to Dong, "I didn't buy anything for the New Year today, so I bought a pack of dim sum from the Qian family's shop, and bought some frozen pears from other mountain people." ”
"Sister-in-law, don't be funny, if you only buy these, where are you willing to use so much meat? If it were me, I wouldn't be reluctant! Hearing Cui'er say this, Dong covered his mouth and smiled, with a reluctant expression. Then he came to Cui'er and said, "Although it's cold this day, the meat is so easy to hold!" ”
"Sister-in-law, when we arrived in town today, we saw that the Qian family's shops were sold out, and Qinghe and I didn't buy anything, if you buy New Year's goods, will you give me a little bit?" Dong said that he was on the point, and looked at Cui'er with burning eyes, hoping that Cui'er would immediately agree to divide half of the New Year's goods.
Looking at the cheeky Dong family, and then turned his head to look at the two brothers who were drinking and drinking, Cui'er held her forehead and had a headache, so that the younger brother and sister who were ready to bargain on themselves like a dog skin plaster, how is this good!
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"Good Doctor", ISBN: 3261782, author Ruoke, introduction: Emergency doctor Ye Fei traveled to ancient times, with the legend of fairies, doing things to help the world, and wandering among the noble ministers~~