The old man slept little and woke up at four o'clock. Old man Kou woke up first, sat up with his clothes on, and saw Kou Xi sleeping sweetly next to his grandmother.

But after a while, the old lady also woke up. Through the light outside, I saw my wife in a daze. The old lady suppressed her voice and asked, "Why did you get up?"

"Hey... I can't sleep!" Old Man Kou looked at Kou Xi and said in a low voice, "I don't know how I'm doing over there?"

"As someone else's daughter-in-law, how can I be a girl in my mother's house. Old Mrs. Kou turned over and looked at Kou Xi with a loving expression.

"Men are not at home, they live with their mother-in-law. She hadn't done much work at home before, so she was definitely angry. The old lady sighed: "At that time, we had just gotten married, and you were still supporting me at home, and I was not less angry." ”

"I heard it yesterday!" the old man said in a low voice: "There are several members of the family, do you need her a mouthful of food? I also know that she can't even eat a hot meal when she gets home from work at night." Hey....."

Speaking of this, the old lady's nose was sour: "If you don't take it back." ”

"How can that be done? Married people live in their mother's house every day, so it's not nice to say!" the old man sighed: "This is not right!"

"What should I do then?" the old lady was a little anxious, and her voice was a little raised: "You can't let her be angry there every day!"

"Call Yazhi and ask her to help watch. The old man whispered: "This is how to live, there are difficulties to solve difficulties." Let's help the head of the family. When you pickled the pickles, you took her portion, didn't you say yesterday that you wanted dried potatoes and eggplants? You can get it out for her in the next two days, don't let her run out of food. ”

"Well, I'll give her some more steaming food, and let her take it with her when she leaves. When the dried potatoes are ready, you lead Dewang to send them to her. By the way, order Huo Dagui well, don't think that our old Kou family is easy to bully!" "The old lady was also a powerful figure in the village's propaganda for the liberation of women.

Kou Xi closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep to listen to these words in his heart, only to feel a sore pain in his chest. Where she couldn't see, her family loved her like this. has the opportunity to be reborn, and she must give her grandparents the best old age.

After a while, Kou Xi woke up, smiled and said that he would go to the kitchen to cook and honor the two old men. The old lady wanted to see her current craft, so she just came in with a bundle of firewood and silently gave her a hand.

Seeing Kou Xi's quick movements, he took out the leftover sorghum rice from the cupboard. Add water and put it into the pot to make sorghum rice porridge, put a steaming rack on top of the rice porridge, and put a few bud rice flour cakes on the shelf. After thinking about it, I went to the vegetable garden and picked four eggplants. Wash it and put it on a plate next to the bud rice flour flatbread, ready to steam it together.

There are two large cauldrons in the kitchen of the Kou family, one pot for cooking and the other pot for boiling pig food. In the past two years, the old lady has been old, and she has replaced two sheep with no pigs. Naturally, the cauldron is idle, and occasionally guests at home will use the cauldron to cook.

At this time, Kou Xi instructed her grandmother: "Just add this handful, I'll use this pot to scramble an egg." ”

The green onions in the field, the eggs laid by the little hens raised by the house. In the past, when Kou Xi was not married, the family raised about 20 hens every year. Every day, you can collect a large basket of eggs alone, and you can't eat inexhaustible. Not to mention that there are more than a dozen female ducks, who have laid duck eggs and put away salted duck eggs, and the duck eggs at home are continuous throughout the year.

Kou Xi skillfully took out six or seven eggs, grabbed two eggs with one hand and knocked them on the edge of the pot, and threw the eggs into the basin. Heat the pan here and drop a piece of lard. Kou Xi held a basin in one hand and chopsticks in the other, stirring the egg mixture clockwise and quickly. When the oil is six or seven minutes hot, throw the pot of egg wash into the pot and stir-fry. When the egg was solid, she took out a spatula and put it in the basin. Scoop a piece of lard to dissolve, cut the green onion into large pieces and throw it into the pan. Pour in the eggs and scoop a spoonful of homemade miso into it with a small spoon. The taste of green onion fried eggs is complete, and the green onion leaves and oily eggs are very appetizing.

The lid of the other pot was opened, and a white heat rushed to the roof of the shed. Kou Xi picked up the bud rice flour cake and came out, and tore the eggplant into strips by dipping it in cold water. Seeing Kou Xi and his quick wife, Mrs. Kou put the steamed eggplant strips in a small aluminum basin, put vinegar, soy sauce, salt, garlic paste, and chili oil and mixed them. With a small pot of large cakes in one hand and cold eggplant sticks in the other, he entered the house.

came out again and brought sorghum rice porridge and scallion popping eggs in, and greeted the old lady with a smile: "Grandma, don't forget to take the dishes and chopsticks!"

But she didn't know that Mrs. Kou secretly wiped her tears behind her back, and muttered in a low voice: "It's only been a few days since I went out......"

Kou Xi didn't work at home before she got married, and she usually cooked for the old lady who burned firewood. She usually wears a chili pepper to dry vegetables, and she does a quilt with cotton wool. It's not hard for her to crochet a sweater or sew something with a sewing machine.

It's just that the farm work at home has never been touched, and independent cooking has never been done.

Therefore, when Mrs. Kou saw Kou Xi's technique, she was comparable to being a housewife for more than ten years. I thought that Kou Xi had been subjected to her mother-in-law* since she got married, and she didn't know how much she had suffered in her mother-in-law's house behind her mother's back. It's not a taste in my heart, and tears can't stop flowing.

The men didn't think so much, and the food on the table served by Kou Xi was very palatable. There is dry food, there is porridge, there is stir-fry, there is pickles. Kou Dewang couldn't help but nodded, and said in his heart that the eighteenth year of the female college has changed, and Kou Xi is much more sensible when she marries.

After the family finished eating quietly, the old lady instructed her son, "Bring me the potatoes from the garden." He also instructed Kou Xi: "There are still four ridges of eggplants behind the house, and if you don't pick them, they will all be old." You picked all the eggplants and a few old cucumbers. ”

Kou Xi used to hate doing this kind of work the most, but now she is willing to work for the old lady. I took down the straw hat hanging on the wall, carried the earthen basket and went to the backyard.

By the time the old man came back from herding the sheep, Kou Xi had already finished picking all the eggplants. At this time, he was squatting in front of him to load new potatoes, raised his head and shouted with a smile: "Grandpa, you're back!"

The old man shook the bag in his hand: "I bought you your favorite pig's head meat,!"

Kou Xi greeted him with a smile and took the pig's head meat from the old man's hand: "Thank you, grandpa, I'll make you two appetizers in a while!"

The elderly like to drink a cup of white wine at every meal and sleep beautifully after lunch. Kou Xi knew his preferences, and took the opportunity to go home this time to honor his old man.

In the house before Kou Xi got married, there were two basins on the kang. A pot of soybean sprouts, a pot of mung bean sprouts. Kou Xi grabbed a handful of mung bean sprouts, added a handful of leeks in the vegetable field and stir-fried a plate.

I took two more freshly sliced potatoes and made a dish of fried potato slices with green peppers.

Wash and slice the two crooked cucumbers, and cut the pig's head meat that the old man bought. I put soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and a little salt to make a plate of cucumber mixed with pork head.

Thinking that the old lady had always liked to eat steamed bud rice milk, she took out a few fresh buds. Rub it into bud rice milk with a cutting board, add chopped green onions and salt and mix well. Pour the mixed pulp onto the corn leaves and place on the steaming rack.

"Oops, it's been less than an hour. Have you made all the rice?" the old man couldn't help but praise when he saw the homely food on the kang table.

On the table was a small pot of braised eggs with egg sauce, and on the plate next to it were neatly chopped shallots, cucumbers, and tender raw eggplant. This is an authentic Northeast dipping pickle. A plate of fried bean sprouts with leeks, a plate of cucumber mixed with pig's head, a plate of green pepper potato chips, a plate of steamed bud rice milk, and a plate of cut salted duck eggs.

Coupled with the thick rice soup in Shuilao Rice, this lunch is the most popular with the elderly.