Spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, it rains lightly this day, the weather is still colder at this time, Zhao Yunlan calculates the time, Li Mingren should come back.

The second and third brothers went to see Li Mingren on the day they came back and said that they would be back in two days. In the past few days, the second and third children have also taught Zhao Yunlan and Li Mingmei to read and write under the instigation of Li Mingming, and now Zhao Yunlan will not know how to ask Li Mingmei to ask Li Mingming, and Li Mingming will ask the second brother and the third brother again, so that it will be passed back again, and the Li family suddenly set off a learning atmosphere.

During this time, Zhao Yunlan was cooking, thinking of ways to change the dishes for the big guys, and the Li family liked to eat Zhao Yunlan's cooking more and more.

On the day when the second and third children came back from a short job, Zhao Yunlan took the last meat to burn the radish and ate it, and everyone expressed unanimous praise for Zhao Yunlan's cooking, and the original owner's cooking level was very ordinary. In modern times, Zhao Yunlan cooks by herself, and the taste is okay, of course, it is when the seasonings are complete, and it is delicious to come here to cook, probably because she is willing to put oil compared to the others in the Li family.

Wang came out of the house: "Lan Niang, the boss will come back in the past two days, you go to the village entrance to buy catties of pork from your second uncle Li's house and come back." ”

Second Uncle Li's name is Li Shishi, he is a relative of Wufu, according to the seniority of Old Man Li, Zhao Yunlan, they should be called Second Uncle.

When he was young, Li Shishi followed the owner of a pork shop in the town to go up the streets and alleys to the countryside to catch pigs, and later found some way to go back to the village to do it himself. Li Shishi has two sons, and now there are two pork stalls in the town, one of which is Li Shishi's eldest son. Li Shishi's second son followed Li Shishi to sell meat in the village at home, and served the family's fields, Li Shishi has always been a kind person, the money given by catching pigs has never been lowered, and there is never a shortage of catties or two to sell pork.

Here, Zhao Yunlan has already arrived at the door of Li Shishi's house, looking at this blue brick house, don't mention how envious she is, "Second Uncle Li, I'll buy catties of meat." ”

The price of pork fat here is 15 wen a catty, pork belly is 12 wen, and lean meat is 10 wen.

Li Shishi: "The meat has been sold almost in the past two days, and the new pork has not been harvested yet, and now there are some less than catties of meat left, you can see if it can be done." ”

Zhao Yunlan looked at the small pieces of meat on the meat board, there was very little fat, mostly a small lump of lean meat, and her eyes skimmed at a small piece of pork belly, Zhao Yunlan "Second Uncle Li, weigh this piece of meat for me," Zhao Yunlan pointed to the piece of pork belly, and Li Shishi weighed "half a catty." ”

Zhao Yunlan thought about the money given by the Wang family, gave a pound of fat, and took another piece of fat, and took a piece of lean meat to fight for half a catty, Li Shishi also knew the situation of the Li family over the years, and he couldn't hide anything in a village, remembering that Zhao Yunlan had fallen his head before, and looking at the meat that Zhao Yunlan took, he counted it all according to the price of lean meat.

Zhao Yunlan: "Second Uncle Li, where is this, my mother-in-law has enough meat money, Second Uncle Li doesn't have to be like this." When I get back, my mother-in-law will talk about me again. ”

Li Shishi insisted, Zhao Yunlan had no choice, and in the end it only cost ten yuan. On the way home, Zhao Yunlan thought about what to give to Second Uncle Li's family in return.

The Wang family received the five cents returned by Zhao Yunlan, and when they looked at the meat, they knew that Li Shishi was taking care of her family again. "Fourth, there are still a few winter bamboo shoots dug up before at home, bring them to your second uncle's house."

Zhao Yunlan once again affirmed the character of the Wang family when she heard it, and only then did she know that there were winter bamboo shoots at home, but she hadn't noticed it before. Zhao Yunlan knew that there were bamboos on the mountain, but she hadn't seen anyone dig them in the past few days, and the winter bamboo shoots in her house were usually put in a place where they were not eye-catching, Zhao Yunlan didn't know that there was such a thing at all, if she knew, those winter bamboo shoots would have gone into her stomach.

Zhao Yunlan watched Li Mingzhi take out the winter bamboo shoots from the corner of the wall and walked out, thinking about whether she should go to the mountains again to see if she would dig some bamboo shoots back, thinking about it, she planned to act, Zhao Yunlan called Li Mingmei to go with her, Xiaobao wanted to follow, Zhao Yunlan felt that the rainy mountain road was not easy to walk, so she coaxed Xiaobao to wait for her at home.

The two of them carried the basket to the back mountain, Lijia Village belongs to the geographical location of surrounded by mountains on three sides, most of the bamboos are concentrated on a slope of the back mountain, there are other trees in the back mountain in addition to bamboo, and there are fewer bamboos on other mountains.

Li Mingmei said, "Sister-in-law, after the beginning of spring, this winter bamboo shoot is estimated to be difficult to find." "Zhao Yunlan" Well, let's go and see, if we can't find it, we can pick up shoes and firewood and go back, and it's not an empty trip, it's raining, and the firewood has to be picked up and dried, if not, we can only wait for a while to pull out spring shoots. ”

Li Mingmei recently followed Zhao Yunlan to recognize words, and was amazed by Zhao Yunlan's literacy speed, so she was very convinced of Zhao Yunlan.

The two walked to the bamboo forest one after the other, looking for winter bamboo shoots left and right, and sure enough, these bamboo shoots have grown a lot taller, and there is no way to eat them. After looking for almost half an hour, I saw that the two were not old, Zhao Yunlan thought that they could still be found, and the two sisters-in-law turned around for another hour, looked for six, and finally looked at the eight bamboo shoots in the back basket Zhao Yunlan smiled with satisfaction.

Zhao Yunlan followed Li Mingmei out of the bamboo forest, and the two planned to pick up firewood and go down the mountain, walking while picking it up, they suddenly looked up and saw that there seemed to be a small fungus on the tree over there, a very small one. Zhao Yunlan was very happy, and hurriedly ran over to pick it, and Li Mingmei also ran over, "Sister-in-law, it's fungus, take it back and cook radishes to eat." ”

Zhao Yunlan was only thinking about the fungus slices at the moment, looked at Li Mingmei helplessly, and turned her head to pick up the fungus. This piece of fungus has been picked, and Zhao Yunlan is very happy when she looks at the basket that is almost half a back. I didn't plan to look for other fungus, so the two of them went home with the basket on their backs.

Back at Li's house, the two took out their things, fungus, Zhao Yunlan took them to the kitchen to wash them, and put the winter bamboo shoots aside for the time being. Li Mingmei wanted to see how Zhao Yunlan made that fungus.

Zhao Yunlan thought that if Li Mingren couldn't come back today, then this meat should still be eaten, otherwise this fungus fried meat would be okay without meat.

Zhao Yunlan planned to use that piece of fat to boil oil, after all, now she had taken over all the work in the kitchen, so she decided what to do with the ingredients. After Zhao Yunlan fell his head, the Wang family always felt that they had treated Zhao Yunlan badly, and they didn't bother to ask about the kitchen.

Zhao Yunlan usually fried fat meat, this time she bought pork, the fat meat is very thick, you can boil a small bowl of oil, scoop up a large part of the oil and store it, and get a small half of the pork belly to fry in the pot, and the pork belly can also fry some oil, so there is less oil left in the pot, Zhao Yunlan asked Li Mingmei to help pick some green onions, peel some garlic, Zhao Yunlan still wants to use ginger, but at this time, ginger is expensive, basically only in pharmacies, and there are few gingers sold in vegetable farms.

There are some garlic and green onions planted in the yard of the house. Thinking of garlic, Zhao Yunlan thought that she could make a garlic sprout fried meat, she just happened to be able to eat garlic sprouts in the past two days, and she should be going to eat garlic moss after a while, these fried meats are good. There are just no chili peppers, and I don't know if there are any people growing chili peppers in other places in this era.

Li Mingmei helped to clean up the garlic and green onions, Zhao Yunlan patted the garlic and stir-fried it in the pot with the meat, seeing that the meat was almost fried, she put the fungus in and stir-fried it with some salt, and finally threw the green onion down before getting out of the pot. A fragrant fungus slices of meat came out of the pot, Li Mingmei felt that it was very fragrant, and Zhao Yunlan felt that it would be better if there was bean paste chili sauce.

Zhao Yunlan then took the fat scraps that had just been boiled to cook radish soup, and the greens had not come out in the past few days, so there were only radish cabbages at home. It is said that radish is eaten in winter and ginger in summer, and Zhao Yunlan still likes to drink this oily radish soup.

Today's staple food is cornmeal and brown rice steamed together, and of course cornmeal is more abundant. I didn't see Li Mingren when the meal was almost ready, Li Mingren would come back as soon as possible when he came back before, and dinner hadn't arrived yet, so I guess I shouldn't come back today.

Li Mingren didn't give the second and third children a definite time before. The Li family looked at the fried meat with fungus on the table, thinking that this was not a waste of meat, but seeing that Zhao Yunlan ate a piece first, and smelled it so fragrant, everyone still couldn't resist the temptation of meat, and as a result, this plate of fried meat with fungus was eaten after a while.

A few small ones in the family are still unsatisfied, and even Xiaobao still wants to eat. Li Mingming helped Li Mingmei clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and the second and third went to fetch water to prepare to boil the hot water for washing at night.

Zhao Yunlan took Xiaobao to eat in the yard, Zhao Yunlan thought that the Li family, under the leadership of the Li family, both men and women are treated equally, and the housework that should be done will be shared, except for Li Mingren's accident.