Chapter Twenty-Seven: White and Tender Bean Sprouts
Ji Nuan wanted to make a bet with the eldest brother to make two catties of beans to make a tofu trial another day, if he made tofu with delicious taste and beautiful shape and color, the eldest brother would support himself and persuade his father and mother to open a tofu workshop; If she fails, she will listen to her eldest brother in everything, whether she is at home or outside.
Two catties of beans are not worth a few dollars, you don't need beans at home, Ji Lianqiu can pick up some in the field, so she should coax her sister to be happy: "Okay, I'll help you get two catties of beans, and I'll listen to you after I can make tofu, and don't worry about making tofu in the future if I can't do it." ”
How could it not be done, Ji Nuan asked the eldest brother to take herself to the field after a while, she could pick up beans, Ji Lianqiu said with a smile: "I can't take you out easily in the future, I'm afraid that you will bring the bear next time." ”
"Bear's paws are very valuable, why don't we try it." Ji Nuan said to the eldest brother with a mouthful of small white teeth.
Pull it down, if you really touch a bear, you don't have to be scared half to death, Ji Lianqiu told her sister that she would never be allowed to go out without him or her second brother and father and mother, Ji Nuan asked her when she could go out again, and Ji Lianqiu replied to her with the word "Wait".
After pulling grass for another three days, Ji Nuan's family was waiting for the autumn harvest, Ji Ruinian saw his father pulling weeds in the field alone, and brought his three sons to help work for two days.
As the saying goes, an autumn rain is a cold, after a rain, the temperature drops significantly, and then the autumn wind blows, and the bean leaves are blown off in a few days.
Ji Ruinian took his son to sharpen the sickle and pack up the cart, Ji Nuan was like a happy little swallow, circling around his father and brothers. Since playing with Ji Lianshou by the river, Ji Nuan's relationship with him has improved a lot, and Ji Lianlu and Ji Lianxi have also changed their ways to make their sister happy. Except for Ji Lianduo, who occasionally fights with her, except for the eldest brother who sometimes manages her, everyone else is almost the same if they don't say anything to Ji Nuan.
In a blink of an eye, when it was time to open the sickle and cut soybeans, Ji Nuan also wanted to follow the ground, Ji Lianfu asked his sister to wait a few days to follow, and now everyone is rushing to harvest beans, and there is really no time to hunt wild boars and catch big fish.
"Maybe it's a black bear this time, we should prepare more things, we can't pull a cart of stones and hoes in advance, so as to save the time when there is no guy." Ji Lianduo proposed.
Ji Ruinian kicked his youngest son: "You are looking forward to something good happening, okay, if you really say that there is a black bear, we will send you to eat it." ”
Ji Ruinian told his daughter that in the future, their mother and daughter would take care of the family and cook, and they would not have to worry about other things, Gu Shuzhen disagreed: "Your leg is just right, you should stay and watch the house, my waist is fine, I will finish cutting the beans in three or five days, and I can rest in the future." ”
Gu Shuzhen gave birth to so many babies in a row, not to mention that her nutrition couldn't keep up, sometimes she had to work without waiting for the confinement period, washing clothes with cold water in winter, and cutting beans in the autumn to do any work.
Now that the family is separated, Ji Ruinian hopes that his daughter-in-law will take care of her body, and she can do without her, and try not to use her, Gu Shuzhen feels sorry for her husband's leg injury, and she doesn't want him to be too tired, seeing that her father and mother are so affectionate, Ji Nuan suddenly feels that there is nothing wrong with living an ordinary life.
Ji Lianqiu asked his father and mother to take turns to rest, just go to the field and watch them work, as for the seven young men in the family, my father and mother can harvest the soybeans for a day at most if they don't go to the ground.
"That...... I can pick up beans, but this time I promise not to go up the mountain or into the river, can't I? Ji Nuan wanted to pick up some pods and keep them to make tofu.
Ji Lianqiu knew her sister's careful thoughts, patted her little head, and let her rest assured that she had her own soybeans, Ji Nuan added two drops of space well water to the clay pot, since there was more space for that well, Ji Nuan would add some to the water tank at home every day, and some to the meal and bath water.
After the family went to the ground, Ji Nuan helped her mother clean the house, don't look at her young age, she is still very good at work, although she has no talent for cooking, she is absolutely good at tidying up the room and personal hygiene.
Seeing that her daughter was working decently, Gu Shuzhen asked her to slowly clean up a few living rooms, and when she was tired, she rested, she went to sweep the yard and clean up the kitchen, Ji Nuan asked her mother if there were any soybeans left over from last year at home, she suddenly thought that she could eat some bean sprouts, preferably mung beans, and the raw mung bean sprouts tasted better.
When the family was separated, the mother-in-law didn't give anything, and there were really no beans, but the second aunt gave some miscellaneous beans a few days ago, and when cooking porridge or steaming two rice, you can put some, Ji Nuan found some mung beans in those miscellaneous beans, picked them out and soaked them in hot water, and after an hour, they were dried and put on the kang in their own house and covered with a clean cotton cloth.
"Do you want to eat bean rice, my mother will make it for you at noon today."
"Mother, go get busy, I don't eat bean rice." Looking for mung beans by themselves has another purpose, but not to eat it, Ji Nuan quietly brought the mung beans into the space at night, put them in it for an hour to grow two centimeters of buds, and put them for half an hour to eat, because the space is soaked in well water, the mung bean sprouts are white and fat, and I like it when I look at it.
In the morning, Gu Shuzhen went to the kitchen to cook, and saw a basin covered with drawer cloth on the shelf next to the stove, she opened a corner and looked at it, turned around and knocked on the door of the girl's room: "Nuan Nuan, those miscellaneous beans you got yesterday have sprouts, can you still want them?" ”
Yes, Ji Nuan came out of the house: "Mother, that green bean sprout can be fried and eaten, don't throw it away." ”
Gu Shuzhen said with a smile: "Those green bean sprouts are white and tender, I also think it's a pity to lose them, how can this thing be fried, add soup and stew it?" ”
Ji Nuan supports her forehead, I'm a mother, she heard of stewed bean sprouts for the first time today, don't look at Ji Nuan's hands-on ability, theoretical knowledge is definitely not inferior to the chef, she went to the kitchen to guide her mother to cook, told her that the bean sprouts should be fried over high heat, and pour a little vinegar after being cut off and quickly put it out.
When everyone was having breakfast, they couldn't help but ask what it was when they saw a dish on the table that had never appeared before, Gu Shuzhen let everyone taste the taste, she also took a pair of chopsticks, put them in her mouth and chewed them a few times, crisp and refreshing, and a trace of sweetness.
"You all taste it!" It's much better than pickles.
A large plate full of green bean sprouts was divided by a few people in a moment, Ji Ruinian looked at the girl sitting next to him grinning and asked, "Why don't you eat it, such a delicious dish was snatched up by a few of us." ”
"You have to work in the field, and I don't have to contribute, this dish is delicious, if I have green beans at home, I can regenerate some bean sprouts."
Gu Shuzhen promised to go to the second uncle's house to ask for some when she was okay during the day, and give birth to green bean sprouts and eat them separately, of course Ji Nuan had no opinion, and specially raised her chin towards the eldest brother, are you still satisfied with the hand I showed, Ji Lianqiu silently spit out two words "amazing" to his lip sync.
That is, Ji Nuan, snorted arrogantly, and helped everyone fill the clay pot with water, and after the men went to the ground, Gu Shuzhen's mother and daughter cleaned up the house and went to the second uncle's house with the remaining green bean sprouts.