Zhou Huilan wanted to ask again, but Granny Duan shook her head, pulled Yaoyao, and teased the little duckling who was still unsteady on the road.

Other people's affairs can be listened to with just one ear, and Zhou Huilan doesn't plan to care about it.

It's just that it's only been two days, and Granny Duan's walking has almost returned to normal, and Lu Changqing also said that it is magical, and Zhou Huilan is thinking that it should be the effect of the ancient well water soaking the beans.

Although the well water can't be taken out, the food can also have an effect, and now the land in this courtyard has been cleaned up, but she still has some seeds left, which were originally going to be planted in the space, but this can only wait for the evening.

Yaoyao was bent on playing with the duckling, and Zhou Huilan was not interested in asking her to go out to buy things, so she had no choice, so Zhou Huilan went out by herself.

If you sell soy milk, you can't use the big iron pot at home, you have to buy a guy to serve it, and there are small bags for distribution.

The tricycle didn't land, but the alley of the Duan family was narrow, and she couldn't push it back when she bought the tricycle, so Zhou Huilan planned to borrow the Lu family's use first, and asked Lu Fengxia when she came out just now, and her aunt readily agreed.

Zhou Huilan pedaled the tricycle and bought all these things step by step.

Originally, she planned to buy vegetable oil, but when she went to the grain and oil store to see the dirty oil drums, she changed her mind, went to the pork stall and bought ten catties of lard, planning to go home and refine the lard herself.

After shopping, she was not in a hurry to go home, but pedaled a tricycle around the end of Gulou West Street, just now and Aunt Fengxia inquired about the nearby kindergarten, the nearest is here, but it is said that it is a kindergarten of the district government, and it is difficult to enter the class.

It is different from the noise on the side of the drum tower, just across the street, the street where the agency kindergarten is located, the whole is neat, the two rows of small buildings are government units, there are no messy small vendors, and the street trees are pruned more regularly than other streets.

Zhou Huilan is very satisfied with this street, and the smoky environment at the entrance of the meat factory kindergarten cannot be compared with this place at all.

But the threshold of this kindergarten is really high, Zhou Huilan wanted to ask about the situation, but the doorman didn't even come out of the communication room, and said to her through the window, "We don't recruit students from the society here!" ”

Zhou Huilan was not angry, she turned around from the street to the end of the street, and she already had an idea in her heart.

When she got home, she lit the firewood stove and sat down with a pot of water, Zhou Huilan put the things she bought back into the kitchen and put them away, washed the lard inside and out, and then cut it into small pieces with a knife and threw it into the water that was not yet hot and blanched it.

Granny Duan, whose legs and feet were almost better, followed her into the kitchen, looking at the room that was quickly filled by Zhou Huilan, her face full of worry.

"Huilan, you have to live frugally, you still have a child, you have to think about the child."

"Mother-in-law, I divorced and divided the money, and besides, I will still earn it, you just have to enjoy the happiness and don't worry about the money." Zhou Huilan said, and took out a small half bowl of salted soybeans from the cabinet, which she made by cooking the useless beans soaked in the space with salt and drying them in the pot.

Mother-in-law Duan used to be from a wealthy background, and she suffered all kinds of hardships in the world, and in the past two days, she saw that Zhou Huilan treated herself better than her own mother, and she also treated her as her own daughter from the bottom of her heart, "Making money is making money, thrifty is thrifty, these two things are not in conflict." ”

"I know my mother-in-law, these I bought to go out to set up a stall tomorrow, don't worry, you can start making money tomorrow."

Seeing Zhou Huilan's confident face, her face has lost weight in the past two days, Granny Duan shook her head helplessly, and her smile was full of pampering, "Don't think about making money at first, it's not easy to do business." ”

"I know, thank you mother-in-law for mentioning it." Zhou Huilan said as she took a big spoon and skimmed out the foam from the boiled pork.

Granny Duan was about to go out, but she just walked to the door, but turned back again, "Huilan, although we talked about the rent of twenty yuan a month at the beginning, but now you take care of my old woman's food and drink, not only can I not ask for this rent, but I should also pay you living expenses." ”

As he spoke, he directly stuffed a silver bracelet with skein into Zhou Huilan's hand.

"The old woman has no money, you take it first, there are still two paintings in the house, and my mother-in-law will sell them when I go back, and then I will make them up to you."

"No, no, no!" Zhou Huilan hurriedly returned the bracelet to her mother-in-law, "Mother-in-law, you said this, you just want to drive me away, you help me look at Yaoyao, and let me toss such a big yard, I should be filial to you, how dare I take your things." ”

"You take it!" Granny Duan is still insisting.

"Mother-in-law, you don't need my rent, and I can't ask for your living expenses, we are fated, I will treat you as my own mother in the future, and you will love me like a daughter, let's never mention this money again, okay?"

Granny Duan's eyes turned red all of a sudden, she quickly turned her face away and nodded in a panic.

Zhou Huilan stretched out her hands and gently hugged Granny Duan, she could understand the loneliness of being helpless and hopeless.

"Let's not mention the money, but I'm an elder, the rules of the ancestors have to give a gift to the junior, this bracelet is my dowry, how many things are gone, there is nothing left, you take it, give it to Yaoyao in the future, it can be regarded as a non-broken inheritance!"

The meaning of these words is not only in the silver bracelet.

Seeing Granny Duan's firm expression, Zhou Huilan obediently took the bracelet and put it on her wrist, "Don't say it, this bracelet is really finely made." ”

"That's not it, our ancestor of the Xu family was on an errand in the palace, and I haven't seen any good things, if it weren't for my father who smoked a lot, he gave birth to a daughter like me and broke the inheritance, alas...... Don't mention it. ”

Granny Duan waved her hand and left the kitchen.

When the lard in the pot was almost rolling, Zhou Huilan quickly took the meat out of the pot with a colander, brushed the pot and added a scoop of water to it, and added two sticks of firewood to the stove to make the fire bigger, and then poured the lard into it.

The fire quickly dried up the water, and the lard came out.

Zhou Huilan hurriedly cut a handful of ginger and garlic, and saw that the lard was almost boiled and thrown into the pot to boil together, and the aroma of the lard with seasoning immediately expanded more than ten times.

The little pig-nosed Yaoyao ran over directly.

"Mom! What do you make so delicious? ”

Zhou Huilan fished out the lard residue and the boiled golden ginger and garlic with a fence, pinched a piece and dipped it in some sugar and handed it to Yaoyao.

"Mom! I still want it, this one is so fragrant! ”

"Wait a minute, this oil residue still has a little oil, wait for your mother to boil it for a while, you can take it and eat it with your mother-in-law." As he spoke, he took out the jar of oil, threw a few soybeans and peppercorns and a spoonful of salt, and then filled the lard into it.

A jar couldn't fit it, so Zhou Huilan took the newly bought lunch box out and finished it, then poured the oil residue into the pot and continued to boil it while pressing, and when the oil was almost out, she took out the oil residue and sprinkled it with sugar, and let Yaoyao take it away.

This method was learned by Zhou Huilan from the master when she was working in a Sichuan restaurant, and the dishes in that Sichuan restaurant were particularly delicious, but because the real materials refused to follow the trend, it closed down after not long.