After eating, the old man lay on the kang and took a nap. The old lady boiled the lard in the pot, cooled the lard, poured it into the yin rice and stirred.

The yin rice is glutinous rice that has been boiled and dried long ago. I fried the peanuts again, and the black sesame seeds came out. Put it out in a basin, Kou Xi peeled the peanut skin carefully, and handed the peeled peanuts to Mrs. Kou. Mrs. Kou then used a rolling pin to grind the peanut kernels into several pieces.

When the lard soaked in the yin rice for about two hours, the old lady pushed the old man Kou: "Get up, fry the rice!"

Kou Xi felt sorry for the old man's body, and dissuaded: "My father can sleep if he wants, you teach me I can do it." ”

"I slept too much at noon, and I couldn't sleep at night!" The old lady didn't care, Kou Xi saw that the old man got up, and hurriedly twisted a wet towel and handed it to him to wipe his face.

The old man took the towel and wiped his face, and praised his granddaughter's thoughtfulness: "I have really grown up, and my eyesight has grown." ”

The old lady's face stiffened on the side, and she glanced at Kou Xi distressedly and did not speak.

Heat up the pot and pour the soaked lard rice into the pot. Because this glutinous rice will swell five or six times, you can't put too much at a time. As the temperature in the pan rises, the rice grains turn into popcorn. Remove the popcorn and set aside.

Heat the pot again, add a small amount of water and some sugar to start boiling the syrup. When the syrup is ready to be shredded, pour the popcorn into the pan. Stir clockwise to mix the syrup with the popcorn evenly.

Put it on the board, hold the rolling pin and roll it hard, try to make the rice grains stick together. Put the pressed rice candy aside to cool, and then brush the pot to dry and continue to make rice candy.

The cooled rice candy was cut into cubes of the same size with a kitchen knife and packed in a bag to be taken with Kou Xi when he left.

Kou Xi pinched a piece of rice candy and put it in his mouth, crunchy and sweet. Grandpa's craftsmanship is really good, and it must be very profitable to make rice candy and sell it during the Chinese New Year.

"Grandpa's craftsmanship is so good, who did you learn it from?" Kou Xi was curious, after all, the old man had always been a farmer. It's a pity that this craft is in hand, and it's a pity not to make money.

"In the past, there was a person named Xu Ergou on the 38th, and his family can't be said to be ancestral, but he knows this craft. One year, his family couldn't help him during the Chinese New Year, and it happened that our family lived in their front yard. I just helped for a few days and learned!" Old Man Kou disagreed: "He can make sugar melons, and you even ate a large piece of candy he made when you were a child." It's easy to do, and I've made it for you. ”

Kou Xi looked confused: "I'm a little impressed, so where is he going now?"

"I'm back to my hometown in Shandong!" Old man Kou was very sorry: "When the Great Northern Wilderness was built, 100 rural villages were to be established in the county. These 100 villages are all people from Shandong, and Xu Ergou and his family have a little craftsmanship and are introduced as talents. At that time, the northeast was all wasteland, and the people above took a board and wrote No. 1 on it, and this village will be No. 1 in the future. Xu Ergou and his family had children here, and when they were old, they wanted to return to their roots, and the whole family moved back. ”

Mrs. Kou thought about their family, and a smile appeared on her face: "Shandong people are capable and willing to endure hardships, and Shandong daughters-in-law are not bad at making shoes, cooking, and working in the fields." Xu Ergou's daughter-in-law has a famous soles in the whole village, and the embroidered flowers on the upper are really similar. After speaking, he sighed: "I will never see you again in this life!"

Kou Xi said with a smile: "The fate of people is like this, there is a fate to meet thousands of miles away, but there is no chance to meet on the other side." ”

Old Madam Kou nodded: "Yes!" She looked at Kou Xi and nodded: "This husband and wife are the same, they have been repaired for a hundred years and have been repaired for thousands of years to sleep together." You and Huo An are a lifelong husband and wife, and you should not see or hear the conflicts that usually come and go in your in-law's house. ”

Kou Xi deliberately pouted, and the old lady said with a smile: "When you reach my age, think back." At the beginning, I was angry with others for eating shredded potatoes and cabbage slices, and I felt angry when I thought about it. ”

Kou Dewang has not been silent for the past two days, and then he said: "Don't wait for the day after tomorrow morning to go home this time, I will send you back tomorrow afternoon." By the way, tell your father-in-law that I will go home for two days after the holiday. ”

Kou Xi didn't think so, and secretly thought that if he went back to his mother's house often, his concubine would not be angry to death!

The old lady steamed the freshly picked potatoes, cut them into slices and left them to dry. By the time Kou Xi was ready to go home, the potato chips weren't dry enough. Kou Dewang waved his hand: "When the dried eggplant and shredded beans are all out, I will send them to her together." ”

He took out a sack and filled it with potatoes, eggplant, beans, gourds, sweet potatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. The father and daughter got into an overcrowded car and returned to Hongqi Town.

Huo Dagui didn't expect his in-laws to send his daughter-in-law home in person, and he also brought a sack of things. hurriedly walked to the courtyard to greet Kou Dewang: "Oh, old Kou, come on, come on, hurry up and enter the house!"

Kou Dewang smiled and said to Huo Dagui: "Brother, you are very good!"

"It's good, it's good!" Huo Dagui glanced at Kou Xi who was smiling: "Why do you want your father to send you back!"

"Ah, I'm also here to do something at the supply and marketing cooperative!" Kou Dewang explained with a smile, and Kou Xi took out the key and opened the door. beckoned Kou Dewang to help him carry the sack into the house.

Kou Dewang pretended to be polite: "Don't take it all to your house, get some for your mother-in-law's house." ”

After speaking, he said to Huo Dagui: "She told me that the vegetable field at home is waterlogged and there is no food to eat. I said let's get some from home, eggplant, potatoes, chili beans, it's not a valuable thing. ”

"Oh, this kid is stupid. Just buy some, and you can get it from your house. Huo Dagui felt that Kou Xi was very sensible, and he actually knew how to pour things from his mother's house to his mother-in-law's house. This is very pleasing to him.

Huo Dagui pulled Kou Dewang into his room and instructed Li Cuilian: "Go, go with two dishes." Today I had two drinks with my in-laws. ”

Li Cuilian nodded and left the house with a smile, and went to Kou Xi to see what good things she had brought back from her mother's house.

Emptied the entire sack and found that there were only some vegetables, and he was immediately angry. Yin Yang said angrily: "That's it, oh mom, I thought it was such a good thing." ”

"This sack is enough for me to eat for two months, and I'm afraid of rotting if I take too much!" Kou Xi pouted: "I can still take a Houqiu back!"

Li Cuilian is a master who suffers if she doesn't take advantage, and pretends not to hear Kou Xi's sarcasm. He put the pile of vegetables in half a sack and carried it to his house.

While walking, he didn't forget to tell Kou Xi: "You clean up and come over to cook." I don't know what your dad likes to eat!"

Kou Xi pushed back neither soft nor hard: "My dad loves to eat elbows, peanuts, pig ears, sausages, and canned meat." Anyway, what do you like to eat!"

Holding Li Cuilian's angry breath in her throat, she muttered sullenly: "I still love to eat, who doesn't know how to eat well." "Don't you spend money on good food? Who pays for this money?

Who's out?

Anyway, it's not Kou Xi!