Chapter 9: Dinner

Kou Xi is not the little daughter-in-law who just entered the door and didn't dare to stretch out her hand to do anything.

She has been by Huo Dagui and Li Cuilian for many years, and she is a good hand at home and abroad. Where to put something at home, she Kou Xi didn't know.

At this time, Huo Tianyi ran to his mother's hut and lifted the plank of the potato cellar. took out two large potatoes and happily ran over and handed them to Kou Xi.

Kou Xi pulled Huo Tianyi to the vegetable garden outside and took a red-skinned round radish in the middle of a pile of radishes. I walked into the tofu shop and took two pieces of tofu back to the house.

Her house, like all the old houses in the Northeast, opens to a corridor. A door on the right-hand side leads in, and inside is a room. Opposite the window is a small ondol, and behind the wall is Kouxi's kitchen.

Even if you don't cook, you usually have a bundle of firewood on the stove in the kitchen. Boil a hot water to wash your face, and burn a hot kang to sleep when the weather is cold. Except for a bag of salt, there was nothing else in the seasonings and grains, but the plates, bowls and chopsticks were complete.

At this moment, Kou Xi walked in with something, thought about it and said to Huo Tianyi, "Do you want to eat meatballs?"

Huo Tianyi was just when he was greedy, and he had already circled around Kou Xi when he was taking things. Hearing Kou Xi's inquiry, the little face nodded again and again: "Think, auntie, when will you be able to do a good job?"

"Go to the kitchen and scoop me two bowls of noodles and come back, and I'll make you two more cakes to eat." "Kou Xi has thought about it, and now he can take Huo Tianyi to get something from the kitchen over there. When I get off work tomorrow, I have to buy everything such as rice, flour, and oil by myself.

As soon as Huo Tian went to turn over the bag, he naturally wanted to alarm Li Cuilian, who was slamming the door. She said viciously: "What kind of pancakes? How much oil does pancakes cost?"

Huo Tian rolled on the ground in anger, and began to howl at the top of his throat. Huo Dagui was distressed, and scolded Li Cuilian angrily: "You don't keep food for you, can't she cook it herself?" You also have to pick two bowls of noodles, do you look good when you say it?"

"Eat some noodles and get ....." Li Cuilian shook her hand angrily and shouted at the hut: "Tianyi,, you go and send two bowls of noodles." Tell her to roll out the noodles and not the pancakes!"

Gao Liman drooped his face and carried two large bowls of noodles to the east house, and saw Kou Xi on the stove cutting shredded radish with a kitchen knife. Pouted and said, "Mom doesn't let you use oil, you just order your own noodles." ”

After saying that, he turned around and left, muttering as he walked: "Use a broken radish to coax my son around." If it weren't for you to buy him something to eat after work, I would have scolded you!"

Kou Xi saw Huo Tianyi staring at him pitifully, pouting and muttering: "I can't eat pancakes, auntie, I want to eat pancakes!"

"You can eat it without oil, and it's the same for my aunt to make you steamed cakes. Auntie asked you, what did you eat at night, are you still hungry?" Kou Xi asked the child if he had not been injured at all, and cut the shredded radish and put salt to kill the water.

Here, the potatoes are shredded and placed in the basin, and the shredded potatoes are kept rubbed and then the potato starch precipitated at the bottom of the pot is pulled out. Add shredded radish, crushed tofu and starch and a little flour and stir clockwise.

Kou Xi thought about it and went around the yard again, dragging a dried chili pepper from under the window. Then he opened the door and went into the kitchen to get a head of garlic, a green onion, and a rolling pin. After thinking about it, he lifted the meat sauce jar and picked out a piece of lard, and took an egg from the box under the cupboard.

When I got up, I saw Gao Liman smiling instead of smiling, with an expression that had caught her little handle.

"Is one enough for Tianyi?" Kou Xi raised the egg in his hand.

"Are you really giving Tianyi food?" Gao Liman didn't believe it, and decided to chase after his daughter and watch his son eat the egg.

"Isn't it just to make noodles, why do you need oil?" Gao Liman deliberately said in a loud voice: "I see you picked a big piece!"

"Tianyi is so big, that one is not as tall as the green onion in my hand. I'll add him some oil and water and a poached egg, nutritious!" Kou Xi responded in the same loud voice: "I'm his own aunt, can I still harm him?"

"You're so kind?" said Goryman, pouting in disbelief.

"If I hadn't seen that he was the only one in the old Huo family, would I be able to take care of him? You are also a mother, don't always think about hiding your son's food, think more about how to replenish his body!" But half of the wall was glass, so that it would let in the light. When Li Cuilian heard this, she paused to stretch her legs and get off the kang.

Seeing that Huo Dagui was looking at her, he stretched into the basket on the kang with an unnatural expression. I took a piece of tissue paper ten centimeters long and three centimeters wide, and pinched a handful of dry tobacco. He rolled it up neatly, took out a match, lit a dry cigarette, and took a deep breath. A spicy taste poured into her nose and throat, and Li Cuilian was fascinated with satisfaction. After smoking for a while, she threw the cigarette butt under the kang. He spit out a mouthful of phlegm on the ground: "Ahem.... Phew!", wiped his mouth with his palm, and lay on the hot kang head.

On the other side, Kou Xi returned to his house and met to drive out the medicine. Roll the dough into a palm-wide pancake and set aside.

Burn the fire, brush the pot, and put the meat and oil cubes. Quickly cut the dried chili shreds, green onions, and minced garlic. When the meat oil turned into an oily soak of water, Kou Xi threw in shredded green onions and dried chili peppers. Then he threw all the shredded potatoes into the country, and kept stir-frying with a spatula.

When the shredded potatoes are about to come out of the pan, throw in a handful of minced garlic. The aroma of shredded potatoes immediately filled the entire room, and Huo Tianyi's gluttonous insects, who were sitting in the room watching TV, were enough to come out again.

"Auntie, when can I eat it?" Huo Tianyi looked at the plate of shredded potatoes and couldn't help drooling.

"Soon, just a little bit. Kou Xi said with a smile.

The shredded potatoes were served, and there was still a little oiliness in the pan. Kou Xi threw a handful of shredded radish into it and stir-fried it with the green onion and garlic cloves. Scoop a scoop of water from the water tank and pour it into the pot. The water is boiling over a simmer, and the small fire is gurgling. Here, the dough cakes that have just been driven out are pasted on the edge of the iron pot, and the dough cakes are just pasted in a circle.

After pasting the dough, the water in the pot is boiling. Kou Xi grabbed the radish and tofu stuffing with his left hand, squeezed the stuffing out of the tiger's mouth with a little force, and grabbed the balls with his right hand and threw them into the soup.

The radish and tofu balls are cooked by boiling in the hot soup, and the steamed cakes that take time are steamed. Kou Xi covered the pot, broke a bud rice pole and threw it into the stove. There was faint smoke on the lid of the pot here, and Kou Xi's subordinates cleaned up the stove neatly.

Although she has moved to the city to live for many years, she did not expect that the work on the stove has not decreased at all. The stove was wiped clean, the lid of the pot was lifted to steam the cakes, and the tofu balls were all floating. Kou Xi smashed the egg and threw it into the pot, saying that he would give the child a poached egg.

"Tianyi, put the kang table and eat!" Kou Xi shouted.

Leave two steamed cakes in the pot, a small half of shredded potatoes. I brought in a pot of radish and tofu ball soup, five or six steamed cakes, and a plate of shredded potatoes.