The water tank was pulled to Yucai Road, and Lin Guoliang left in a hurry.

Lin Lan cleaned the jars one by one, scalded them with boiling water and dried them in the yard.

In the afternoon, Lin Lan, Qiaohui, and Tong Xinglan pulled the retrieved duck eggs back to Yucai Road in their backs.

Zhigang's hands can't be strong, he can't go to the slaughterhouse to help, Brother Yong and Shui Qing can't kill pigs, so there is no choice but Lao Li to go to the slaughterhouse to kill pigs.

The next day, Mr. Gu's family came to a pastry shop again, bought pig's trotters, eggs, and some tonic for bruises, and insisted that Lin Lan accept it.

Lin Lan had to take those things and send them some cakes.

In just a few days, the store collected hundreds of duck eggs, and Lin Lan also ordered a lot of fresh dumpling leaves.

After closing the store that day, Brother Yong helped pull the duck eggs back to Yucai Road.

Lin Lan asked him to carry the duck eggs to the small dam by the well in the back garden, and Brother Yong put it down and pulled the cart away.

There is a small dam in the back garden of the small western-style building, and there are two brick houses built against the wall, and one is built against the wall with an eye stove.

When cooking fried food, Lin Lan came to the back garden to use a wood stove, the big iron pot is easy to use, and the things made taste better.

Xiaodouzi looked at the duck eggs in the basket in surprise: "Mom, why do you buy so many duck eggs?" ”

Lin Lan said with a smile: "Soak salted duck egg dumplings, have you forgotten the egg yolk dumplings you ate last year?" ”

Xiaodouzi shook his head: "I haven't forgotten, egg yolk dumplings and salted meat dumplings, as well as red bean salted meat dumplings, chestnut salted meat dumplings, are all delicious." ”

Lin Lan didn't expect him to remember everything, so she kissed him: "My son has a really good memory." She thought that God was really compensating her for having a baby like Xiaodouzi, sensible and filial, and never gave her a headache.

I used to help feed the chickens and pick up eggs in Lexing, and after coming here, I helped the old man water the flowers and pull weeds, which was distressing to be sensible.

"Hee-hee!" The little bean who was praised by the old lady showed his millet teeth and smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth.

Lin Lan and the others carried the wooden basin and bucket in the house to the yard, and said to the little bean squatting in front of the basket: "Go and bring a few small benches, and my mother and cousin will wash the duck eggs." ”

"Oh!" Xiaodouzi should run away, and after a while, he and Lao Li came to the back garden with two small benches.

Lin Lan saw Lao Li coming, and said with a smile: "Dad, Xiangyang said that your salted meat tastes good, help me marinate a pot of salted meat before the Dragon Boat Festival, and I will wrap salted meat dumplings." ”

Lao Li Le nodded: "Okay, you tell me the number of zongzi to wrap, and I will marinate it for you in advance." He looked at the large baskets of duck eggs, thinking that he couldn't clean them up in two or three hours, "You wash them first, and I'll cook." ”

"Okay, I brought some lettuce in Lexing, rape moss and a few pieces of carmine, and there are meat dishes in the refrigerator, what do you like to eat and watch it."

Lao Li took Xiaodouzi away, and Lin Lan took Qiaohui and Tong Xinglan to start cleaning duck eggs.

Some duck eggs are clean and clean, just scrub them gently, and some are dirty and sticky with grass clippings, so they have to be soaked in water and washed with a cotton cloth to wash them clean.

Tong Xinglan buried her head for a while, and sighed: "Alas! I never dreamed that I would have a day when I was tired of washing duck eggs. ”

Lin Lan glanced at her with a smile: "Teenage girl, there are many things you didn't expect!" ”

Tong Xinglan stuck out her tongue and turned her head to look at Lin Lan: "Cousin, I think you're so strange!" Every time you say we're teenage girls, as if you're much older than us. ”

Qiao Hui smiled and nodded: "That's it, it's only five or six years older than us, and he talks old-fashioned." ”

Lin Lan sighed: "Sister, I have an old heart, I don't know!" "Two lifetimes add up to a person, can you not be old!

Tong Xinglan said with a smile: "Everyone pretends to be tender, but you just say that you are old." ”

A few people talked and laughed, and before the duck eggs were washed, Xiaodouzi came to call for dinner.

Tong Xinglan wiped her hands and asked, "Beans, what did grandpa make delicious?" ”

Xiao Douzi raised four fingers: "Two meat and two vegetables, stir-fried rape moss, lettuce and meat slices, cold radish shreds, and a pot of pea tip ball soup." As he spoke, he looked at the two of them with a smile, "My grandfather's cooking is delicious." ”

"We know." Tong Xinglan and Qiaohui lifted the little beans and shouted in their mouths, "Sit in a sedan chair!" Running to the front yard with a grin.

Lin Lan smiled and followed the three of them to the kitchen, and Lao Li looked at a few people happily: "The food is on the table, let's all go outside to sit, I will come after mixing the dipping water." ”

"Okay!" Several people sat down at the table, and Lin Lan opened the rice cooker and began to scoop rice.

Qiaohui handed over the floral white porcelain bowl: "Cousin, I heard from Sister He Li that the rice cooker sells well." ”

Lin Lan nodded: "Hmm! The rice cooker is easy to use, and the rice is still fragrant from the wood stove. "Going backwards, merchants also use rice cookers to cook firewood rice as a gimmick.

Xiaodouzi looked at Lin Lan: "Mom, you haven't fried the pot for me for a long time, I like to eat the pot!" ”

Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "I'll do it for you tomorrow." ”

After eating, several people continued to struggle with the duck eggs, and Lao Li and Xiaodouzi also took towels to help wipe the freshly washed duck eggs dry.

Tong Xinglan and Qiaohui dried the dried duck eggs in a dustpan, dried the moisture on the surface of the eggshell thoroughly, and several large dustpans were full of duck eggs.

It was only after dark that all the duck eggs were cleaned and dried in the yard.

"Dad, you and Douzi go back to the house to sleep first, and we'll go back to the house after soaking the duck eggs in the jar." Lin Lan said to Lao Li.

Lao Li nodded: "Qiaohui and Xinglan are living here today, right?" ”

"Hmmm! It was dark, and I didn't feel at ease in the past, so I stayed here. ”

"Then I'll lock the courtyard door." Lao Li led Xiaodouzi towards the front yard.

Qiaohui fetches water from the well and pours it into the pot, Lin Lan poured in a bit heavy salt, a small pinch of star anise, a small handful of peppercorns, and a piece of cinnamon into the pot to boil, scoop it into a bucket to cool and then pour in the liquor.

The dried jar was lifted to the hut next to the stove and placed against the wall. Tong Xinglan and Qiaohui stacked the dried duck eggs neatly in the jar, and stopped at a height of half a foot from the edge of the altar.

The two of them lifted the bucket and poured the cold salt water into the jar until the salt water submerged all the duck eggs.

Lin Lan took out four steamed slivers and handed them to Qiaohui: "Cover it with a salted egg, and then press a plate on it." "After pressing the steamed slivers, I don't have to worry about the duck eggs floating to the surface of the water, and I don't have to worry about the uneven soaking of the salt water.

"Hmm!" Qiaohui pressed the steamed rice and clapped her hands, "Okay." ”

Lin Lan covered the mouth of the jar, looked at the time, it was already twelve o'clock, and said with a smile: "Are you hungry when you are busy here?" ”

Tong Xinglan touched her stomach: "A little!" ”

"There's a little wonton in the fridge, I'll cook it for you." Lin Lan turned off the light, and the three of them went back together, cooked small wontons, and then went upstairs to wash and sleep.