After playing with the two of them, Xu An once again told the two to only play in the yard, even if they knew someone else, they had to tell themselves to open the door, and then went out with a vegetable basket and a knife.

This time, the destination was the vegetable garden at home.

The four members of the Xu family were all allocated eight points of land, adding up to a total of 3.2 acres of fields.

However, there are many people in this family, and Xu An, the only one who can be a strong laborer, still has to go to school and study, so these lands are rented to private bosses for planting, and the rent is 300 per mu a year.

The vegetable garden that she is going to go to now was built by Grandma Xu by the river, and other families in the village have also cultivated vegetable gardens by the river, one after another, using bamboo fences to separate their respective vegetable gardens.

According to the memory in his mind, Xu An found his own vegetable garden.

At a glance, Xu An was suddenly petrified, and finally understood why his grandmother didn't answer his words.

Grandma didn't plant green beans this year, but eggplant!

Memories that are too old are not reliable.

With a sigh of emotion, Xu An quickly abandoned all kinds of distractions and focused on what to eat at noon.

"Anzi picks vegetables."

Xu An, who was seriously thinking about what to cook deliciously, was interrupted by a greeting, and looked back at his neighbor Aunt Hong.

Aunt Hong is the same as in her memory, with neat short hair, and her eyes are crooked as if she is smiling when she speaks, and a sense of intimacy comes to her face.

Aunt Hong's original name was Han, and the reason why she was called Aunt Hong was because she wore a red blouse all year round, and the style may be different, but the color was all red.

"Aunt Hong."

"I just received a call from your sister-in-law, saying that she would come to visit your grandmother the morning after tomorrow, and she would come to me if she needed anything." Aunt Han admonished with some worry, feeling embarrassed for Xu Anjia in her heart.

Xu An's sister-in-law was a good person when she was a girl, but her personality has become stranger and stranger year by year since she got married.

In the past, she was quite honest when Xu's father and Xu mother were still there, but in the past two years, she has become more and more noisy, and every time she comes back, she will quarrel with Grandma Xu and break up unhappily.

"Okay, fortunately, Aunt Kuhong ran away in person."

The two exchanged a few words, and Aunt Hong left.

Xu An inspected the vegetable garden, picked two eggplants that would be a little old until tomorrow, put on two green peppers, and went back with the vegetable basket.

When I got home, I saw the two little ones playing with the sand obediently, so I didn't bother them, and went straight to the kitchen and started to cook the lunch meal.

In his last life, after graduating from college and working, he took Xiaokang Xiaole back to live together, practice makes perfect, and he practiced good cooking skills.

Not to mention the expensive and complicated dishes of the delicacies of the mountains and seas, people who have eaten ordinary home-cooked dishes will basically give a thumbs up.

The first thing to deal with is the bone broth, which was soaked in cold water in a basin after it was bought, and now it has been soaked for just an hour, and there is a layer of blood floating at the bottom of the basin.

Remove the bones and put them in a pressure cooker, pour out all the blood, and pour clean well water from the well into the pot.

I found red dates and wolfberries in the seasoning area, cut three slices of ginger into them, added a little salt, and put the lid aside.

Xu An's family does not have a gas stove, and still uses a traditional wood stove, and a honeycomb coal stove is used to make soup.

Honeycomb coal costs four cents a piece, and each time you use it, you can add one to cook for three hours, which is just enough time to cook a pot of soup, which is much cheaper than using gas.

Take out the iron tongs, take out the top two honeycomb coals and put them aside for later use, clip out the bottom burned honeycomb coal and throw it away, and then put the two honeycomb coals out of the front back.

Take out the leaves and other flammable materials from the sack on the side and put them in it and light it, then add a branch with small roots on it, and after seeing the honeycomb coal ignite, take out the new honeycomb coal and put it on top, put it on the pressure cooker, and the soup is finished.

Cut the eggplant into small pieces, marinate with a little salt and squeeze the water dry.

Take out a piece of meat with a bit of fat, cut it finely and chop it, divide it in half and put it on a plate, and keep the remaining half for minced eggplant.

Xu An shouted towards the courtyard, Xu Kang and Xu Le came to the kitchen in a hurry, one person took firewood, and the other set up firewood to burn the fire, and the cooperation was well organized, and they were veterans at a glance.

Heat the oil in the ancestral iron pot, pour in the eggplant when the oil temperature is eighty percent hot, fry the eggplant until it is soft, and then pour the minced meat into it and stir-fry together.

When the minced meat changes color, it is usually necessary to add bean paste, but there is no such seasoning at home, so you can only use green peppers and tempeh to make a fool of it.

To be honest, Grandma Xu is a good hand at growing vegetables and housework, but she is not good at cooking. The level of cooking is probably the degree to which you can eat enough and not eat badly.

Therefore, there are usually only three kinds of seasonings at home: oil, salt and soy sauce.

After the shredded green pepper is also soft, add soy sauce and salt, and after tasting the saltiness, it is finished in the pot and put it in a pot.

Wash the iron pot, measure twice the rice, wash it and pour it into the pot, add water to the second joint of the fingers on the back of the hand.

Set up a bamboo compartment, put in the spiced meatloaf plate, cover the pot, and wait for the rice to cook.

After finishing the work, Xu An asked the two of them to go out and play again, and the meal would take more than ten minutes to cook, and it would be better to simmer for a while when cooked.

But the two of them were reluctant to go out, so they took a deep breath at the minced meat and eggplant on the stove.

"Brother, it's the smell of meat, it's so fragrant."

"Brother, this smell is delicious, I'm going to eat two bowls of rice in a while!"

"Okay, eat more to grow up faster."

"Can you grow to be as tall as my brother?"

Xu An glanced at Xu Le, as a girl, if she grew to one meter eight, it would be too tall. Although he thought so in his heart, he echoed and said: "Two bowls of rice at a time, you can grow taller than your brother." ”

"Taller than my brother, that's how tall it is."

"It's taller than my brother."

"Brother, I also want to eat two bowls of rice, and I will grow taller than my brother."

"Okay, you'll all grow taller than your brother in the future."

In their previous lives, the two suffered for four years in the sister-in-law's house, and even if Xu An intended to supplement the nutrition of the two, neither of them could be higher than Xu An.

Xu Le is 1.62 meters, and Xu Kang is 1.73 meters.

Xu Le's height is considered an average height among girls, not short.

But Xu Kang is a little short compared to the height of more than 1.8 meters among his peers.

Xu's father and Xu's mother are one seventeen eight and one hundred and sixty-eight, and they are all tall in their generation. With this gene, as long as the nutrition is sufficient, it should make Xu Le grow to 1.7 meters, and Xu Kang to 1.85 meters.

Let's aim for this for the time being.

Cooking on a wood stove is very fragrant, but it is also a test of skill. When you can hear a slight 'squeak' sound in the pot, you should immediately remove the firewood and let the residual heat in the stove continue to heat.

After about ten minutes of removing the firewood, you can boil the pot, and you can usually get a perfect pot at this time.

Sprinkle with sugar and fold the pot into several pieces to make a tempting snack.

On weekdays, lunch is eaten on the square table in the living room, but now Grandma Xu is inconvenient to walk, Xu An used two wooden stools to prop up a board, put it in front of Grandma Xu's bed, and moved a few more stools, and the simple dining table was completed.

Maybe it was because Xu An's cooking tasted good, not only did Xu Kang and Xu Le eat two big bowls, but even Grandma Xu added half a bowl of rice rarely.

After eating, Xu Kang and Xu Le sat down on the chairs, lifted their clothes and asked Xu An and Grandma Xu to look at their bulging bellies.

"Brother, the meat is delicious, and the belly is so full."

"Brother, I like to eat meat, pigs are so cute."

"Two little gluttonous cats, let's continue to eat meat at night."

Grandma Xu watched the interaction between the three of them, and stopped talking several times, but in the end she didn't say anything, but just looked at the meat on this table and felt a faint pain in her heart.