Chapter 43: Peace Charms
"It's still a thoughtful girl, I didn't even pay attention to what your father said. Okay, I happen to have that kind of brown sugar at home, I'll bring it over later, and make some too. ”
Xu Qingzhi washed his hands, "I'll pack it with you." ”
Wang Yanmei got the two flavors of stuffing ready, put them in two basins, and began to roll out the bun skin.
After a while, Xu Fuqiang also came back from outside, he just went to the brick factory to ask about the current price of bricks, and negotiated to go up and pull it today.
Xu Qingzhi remembered the amount of menu set by the guest last night, and said: "Dad, I'm afraid it won't work in the morning, I have to pick vegetables, I'm too busy alone." By the way, Mom and Dad, do you know any reliable people who can help pick vegetables together? Today's dishes are a bit much, how much is the right amount of money a day to hire someone? ”
"Generally, your father and I go to help others do small jobs, the normal price is one hundred a day, the better one is one hundred and two a day, and the generous one is one hundred and fifteen." Wang Yanmei has already begun to roll out a few skins in her hands.
"Then how much is it appropriate for our family to invite someone to pick vegetables?" Xu Qingzhi asked.
Xu Fuqiang waved his hand, "Don't waste this money, you don't need to invite someone, Dad can finish it." ”
Xu Qingzhi felt that she was coming back to care for the elderly, and she was usually very happy picking vegetables, but if she was five hundred pounds, she would not be happy!
She picked up a bun skin casually, scooped up half a spoonful of brown sugar and put it in the middle, wrapped it skillfully in her hand, and said, "Dad, five hundred catties, you can't finish it." ”
"What, five hundred pounds!" Xu Fuqiang was taken aback and stared at his daughter in surprise.
Xu Qingzhi nodded, "Yes, so you can hire a few people today to see if it is suitable, if there are more and more people buying vegetables later, just relying on a few people in the family, you will definitely not be able to get busy." ”
Small picks are pleasant, big picks hurt the body.
She wants to retire! She doesn't want to pick so many vegetables!
Xu Fuqiang was still in the shock of five hundred catties, and Wang Yanmei had already started to recommend people with a smile, "Your Aunt Zhou is a neat and neat person, and she won't gossip." Let's count it according to one hundred and two a day, and it's not stingy. There are also a few aunts who play waist drums with their mothers, and they are not bad. ”
"Okay, Mom, you can call them later and ask if they are free, if you are willing to pick vegetables, count one hundred and two first." Xu Qingzhi already had a delicate small bun in his hand, and put it aside to sprinkle flour to prevent the bun from getting wet.
"Eh, I know, when did you learn to make buns? It's so good-looking, it's better than the ones who sell buns outside. Wang Yanmei asked.
Xu Qingzhi paused, looked at the bun, and some memories in the immortal cultivation world surfaced, and then said casually: "I learned it in the state city." ”
"I wanted to make buns during the Chinese New Year last year, but you still said that you couldn't, but the wrapping turned out to be so good." Wang Yanmei said with a smile.
"Not then, but later." Xu Qingzhi said, and wrapped another brown sugar bun with skillful movements in his hand.
Wang Yanmei looked at Xu Fuqiang's steamed buns, and suddenly laughed, "I know, look at your father's buns, I'm afraid it's a steamed bun." ”
Xu Qingzhi looked at it and laughed out loud, "Dad, I'll teach you how to do it." ”
"Okay, if my daughter teaches me, I'll learn one of them."
Not long after, Xu Zijun also went downstairs and joined the ranks of Bao Baozi.
After wrapping the buns, it was only half past seven in the morning, so you can imagine how early the whole family got up today.
However, Xu Qingzhi found that in the village, most people generally get up early, and basically get up at dawn.
If you meet the day of the market, you have to go before dawn, especially the ribs, these are popular, you can grab them if you go early, but you can't go late, and at nine o'clock, the vegetable market will be over.
Wang Yanmei put the buns on the steamer to steam, called the sisters she knew one by one, and talked about picking vegetables.
Some people haven't eaten breakfast yet, Wang Yanmei happily said that she steamed buns at home and came directly to the house for breakfast.
After hanging up the phone, Wang Yanmei said strangely: "I know, why hasn't your grandfather come yet?" You drive up there to look for him, I met him yesterday, and I specially asked him to come to the house to eat steamed buns this morning. ”
As soon as the words fell, Xu Dongru walked in from the door.
"Ah Gong." Xu Qingzhi and Xu Zijun shouted in unison.
Xu Dongru responded, reached out and took something out of the pocket on his chest, and took it out for a long time before taking it out, "I got up early in the morning and went to the temple to offer incense, and asked for two peace blessings for your two sisters and brothers, so that Master Ma would bless you two with peace and health." ”
The peace charm is a red cloth bag with a piece of paper inside, which is held with a red rope and can be hung around the neck.
When he was a child, Xu Qingzhi and his friends went to the mountains to play and fell.
Ah Gong asked her for a peace charm, she didn't understand it at that time, and went to dig out the paper in the bag, wanting to see what was written, but Ah Gong gave her a lecture, saying that it would not work if she pulled it.
Xu Qingzhi didn't believe in these either, but the old man believed in Buddhism, and she naturally respected it. Regardless of whether the peace charm can really bless peace, she continued with joy on her face, put it around her neck, and said: "Thank you, Grandpa, I will go to the temple to ask for a longevity charm for you." ”
"Where is there longevity in this world, the emperor who wants to live a long life is not dead, your grandfather and I have lived for more than seventy years, it is enough to have such a good body." Xu Dongru saw that his grandson was still in his hand, knowing that young people don't believe in these now, so he found a step for himself, and said: "You don't have to hang it around your neck, just carry it on your body, I can bless you with safety in fourteen days." ”
It was inconvenient for Xu Zijun to wear it when he went back to school, so he had to take it off every time he took a shower, so he put it in his pocket.
When the buns were almost ripe, the aunts who helped pick the vegetables also came.
A pot of hot buns is out of the pot.
Everyone started eating steamed buns together.
This brown sugar bun is the best when it is hot. At that time, the dough was still soft, and when you bite into it, some of the hard brown sugar melts inside, and when you take a bite, it is simply delicious for those who love sweet buns.
Xu Fuqiang was very happy to eat, the memory filter of the sugar buns, and listening to his daughter-in-law say that his daughter specially mentioned that he loved to eat, and he ate more deliciously.
And today's meat buns are clearly better than sugar buns.
As soon as the bun is bitten, the meat and the green onion are perfectly blended together, and some oil and water flow out, the bun skin is soft, the meat is delicious, and the green onion brings the impact of fragrance.
Coupled with these buns, most of them are very good-looking, and they all look appetizing.
Some of them ate breakfast, and couldn't help but taste a meat bun and said: "Yanmei, your scallion meat bun is also too delicious, better than the bun made by the one who sells buns in the market, well, it's too fragrant." I came here for breakfast, can I eat another one? ”
"Let go of my stomach and eat, there are too many steamed buns at home, and I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it." Wang Yanmei said with a smile.