Chapter 28: A Long Way to Go

These days, Chun Tao is studying the method of boiling vinegar, but he forgot to make pea yellow.

The preparation of pea yellow is simple and easy to use. It's just that the peas here are all skinned, and the peeled yellow peas are used to make pea yellow, so peeling is the most troublesome.

Soak the dried peas in hot water for about 10 minutes, and then you can start to peel them artificially. A bowl of peas, it took about twenty minutes for Chun Tao to peel alone, and it was not very clean.

Is it cost-effective to consume manpower so much? Chun Tao, who has never done business, is settling accounts in her heart while peeling pea skins.

After peeling the skin, the spring peach changed the well water and continued to soak the peas, the water is twice as much as the peas, and it can be soaked for two hours. However, this is summer, and the water has to be changed several times.

The spring peach soaked the beans and went into the house, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it is not cool under the tree, but it is not very cool in the thatched house.

"Done?" As soon as she entered the house, Aunt Zhou poured a glass of water for Chun Tao.

"Hmmm! Two... Hour... Only... That's it. ”

"Okay, my mother will help you remember." Chun Tao doesn't know how to look at the time, it was all reminded by Aunt Zhou.

Chun Tao read the book for a while, and then heard someone shouting outside. "Aunt Zhou, Chun Tao, are you there?"

"Well... It seems to be..."Before Chun Tao finished speaking, Aunt Zhou spoke.

"It's Lamei's girl! It should be here to return the tricks, you go to greet it. ”

Chun Tao opened the door of the house and saw that Lamei had already entered the courtyard. "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to return my mother's things, and when I came to return the bowl that day, I saw my mother's beautiful patterns, so I asked." Lamei closed the door and walked in front of Chun Tao.

"Who knows, you actually painted it. Still hiding it from me. Lamei stood in front of Chun Tao, but she didn't look at Chun Tao.

It's true that I did something wrong, and it's hard to justify. "You have a lot of them, forgive me!"

"Give me a reason."

"At that time, it was to please the future mother-in-law, so I forgot about you."

"You typically have a mother-in-law and forget your sisters."

"No, I..." Chun Tao was about to say something, but was interrupted by Aunt Zhou's voice.

"It's hot outside, you two sisters can't come in and say anything!"

It's about nine o'clock now, it's already a little hot, and Lamei has already turned red all the way. Chun Tao could only coax her: "I'll make you pastries to eat later, just forgive me, go in first!" ”

"It's not delicious, I won't forgive you."

"Okay." Lamei finally looked at Chun Tao and smiled, and the two entered the house together.

As soon as she entered the house, Aunt Zhou couldn't help but mutter: "What are you two sisters talking about behind my back as an old woman!" The face of the sun is red, and he still doesn't come in. ”

Lamei took the water handed by Chun Tao and said, "It was Chun Tao who pulled me to see the vegetables she planted and talked for a while. ”

"When can't you watch that dish! I want to watch it when it's so hot. Although the two of them lowered their volume when they were talking outside, the Zhou family was too small, and Aunt Zhou still vaguely heard something, but she didn't say anything.

"What the eldest lady said is that Chun Tao is worried that the vegetables she planted will not survive, so she is in a hurry."

Chun Tao looked at the two people in harmony, and felt that she was the guest.

"If you can't live, you can't live, just plant it again, on such a hot day, you don't have to toss around." Chun Tao has been busy these days, and Aunt Zhou is looking at it, and she is really worried that her small body will collapse.

"No... It's okay. ”

Aunt Zhou shook her head with a smile and said nothing more. He turned his head to look at Lamei and asked, "Have you finished embroidering those patterns?" ”

"Hmmm! It's all embroidered, so I'm here to return it to you today. After Chun Tao arrived at Zhou's house, she drew a pattern for Aunt Zhou again. Lamei took away the first time Chun Tao painted it.

"So fast?"

"I'm worried you're going to use it, so I'm going to hurry."

"Hey, you young people are just good and energetic, unlike me, an old woman, who swallows slowly and is useless."

"How can there be, it is you who embroider carefully, slow and meticulous work. And your craft is so good, I still want you to teach me where you seem to be a useless person! ”

Two people, you and I, there is quite a kind of business blowing each other. As she spoke, Aunt Zhou really began to teach Lamei some embroidery skills, while Chun Tao sat quietly reading a book.

When it was time for lunch, Lamei was left by Aunt Zhou, and the three of them ate mung bean porridge boiled with spring peaches and mixed with bracken.

"Spring peaches, you can't use an iron pot to boil mung bean porridge." When Lamei helped with the dishes and chopsticks, she frowned when she saw the mung bean porridge in the jar that was a little blackened.

"Why?"

"Cook mung beans in an iron pot, mung beans turn black easily. Don't you know that? Lamei looked at Chun Tao, and the doubts in her heart became deeper and deeper. Besides, I didn't know you could draw! ”

"I... I don't know, I just dreamed about it at night, and I forgot about it after I finished drawing. It's true! Chun Tao didn't dare to look at Lamei, and lowered her head to stir the bracken.

"Dreamed?"

"Hmm!" How can her suspicions be dispelled? "Lamei, I... I..."

"What's wrong with you? If you have something to say, just say it! ”

"I feel, I feel like I've been a little wrong lately, it's just that I've always had some strange dreams, you say, did you say I offended some kind of immortal?" The ancients were the most superstitious, and they should be able to get away with such a reason!

"Probably not! If you really offend the gods, they should punish you, not make you have strange dreams! What Chun Tao said seemed to be true, and Lamei was a little apprehensive when she heard it.

"Don't think about it, definitely not."

"I'm just afraid that you're worried, and I don't dare to tell you." There was some panic in Chun Tao's tone, and Lamei's original suspicion disappeared in an instant.

"It's okay, at least nothing bad has happened to you now! Right? ”

"Could it be that I've been thinking too much lately, so I've been having some weird dreams!"

"Possibly, you! Don't think about what you don't have all day long, so you don't have such strange dreams. ”

"Good!" Chun Tao looked at the smile on Lamei's face and knew that she no longer doubted it.

After lunch, washed the dishes, and the peas were almost soaked. After the water in the pot is boiling, put the peas in a bowl and steam for about a stick of incense.

After steaming, crush it with a spoon and then filter it two or three times with a steaming cloth boiled in boiling water, so that the finished product will be more delicate.

Pour into the pan and add sugar and stir-fry over low heat, until the pea puree will drip off with a spatula and then pull out the matches from the stove.

Then stir-fry until the large pieces drip down, and after dripping, it will not immediately melt with the pea puree in the pan, but slowly blend with the pea puree in the pot.

Because there is no square mold and there is no vegetarian oil at home, the spring peach can only be poured directly into the bowl and let it cool through the water.

It seems that if you really want to set up a stall, you have to order a large square mold. There are also tools for mung bean soup, and if you use a wooden barrel, it looks like it was fed to pigs!

It turns out that business is really not good! It took so long to prepare just to prepare, and it only solved the problem of food, not at all in terms of containers. There is still a long way to go!