"Get out of the way." Haizhu took a stone and threw it on the kitchen knife, and the kitchen knife smashed into the ham inch by inch, and the meat foam fell down the blade on the board, and splashed in a shock.

Dongzhu was summoned by this movement, and when she saw that everyone was surrounding the stove, she sat down under the stove and lit the fire.

Qin Jingniang specially asked Haizhu for a large piece of meat, she took it and handed it to Dongzhu, "It tastes good, you can taste it." ”

Dongzhu hesitated for a moment, reached out and took it, and lowered his eyes to hear the breath above his head heavier.

Qi Laosan took the remaining half of the ham away, and there were only four of them left in the kitchen. Haizhu lifted the lid of the pot and saw that the water was boiling, so she poured the cut ham and winter bamboo shoots into pieces and blanched them.

After blanching the water twice, she said to the person who burned the fire under the stove: "Make a big fire, and the stove will also make a fire, and the winter bamboo shoots and simmer the ham in the clay pot later." ”

She had never seen how to make this dish in her previous life, so Haizhu said that the ham and winter bamboo shoots were fried in oil, boiled with water, transferred to the crockpot, and then threw two pieces of sugar cubes into it.

"Sweetened?" Dongzhu's eyes widened in shock, "Sweet meat? ”

"I don't know, that's what the food recipe says." Haizhu covered the lid, and after a while, the crockpot was steaming, and she brought chopsticks to stir and stir.

The sugar cube melted, but the water wasn't sweet, so she added two more pieces of sugar to it.

Qin Jingniang looked at her indescribably, Dongzhu wrinkled her face, and Fengping just burned the fire honestly and didn't squeak.

"Don't look at me, it's written on the recipe to stew in honey water." Haizhu spreads his hands.

Chapter 42: Taro Bean Paste Cake

"Turtle turtle-" Chaoping rode on the threshold and pointed to the yard and shouted, Qi Laosan walked out to see, and the turtle in the basin crawled out. He went to the kitchen door and said, "Haizhu, your turtle seems to be hungry and has crawled into the yard." ”

Haizhu said "oops", One day in chaos, she forgot the old turtle hiding in the basin and sleeping.

"You watch the fire at home, and I will take the old turtle to the sea to find food." She ripped off her apron and put it on the back of the chair, and explained to the little fire expert: "Keep burning a small fire, simmer over low heat, and the soup will boil without overflowing." ”

The old turtle had already crawled to the gate, and Haizhu went to open the door for it, and the turtle stepped on the wet dirt and went out.

It was dark early on a rainy day, and Haizhu turned the turtle that was going the same way, and she wanted to take it to the dock, although the road was farther, but it was safe.

"Wait a few more days, and when the wooden cart is ready, I will pull the cart and take you to the beach." She craned her neck and muttered to herself.

The doors of the people along the road are closed, the east is laughing, the west is arguing, occasionally mixed with the sound of smashing things, Haizhu up his ears and listens.

The sound of footsteps not far ahead intensified, Haizhu raised her head and looked over, she didn't dare to be sure, the other party recognized her first.

"I heard your second brother say that you have a big sea turtle, thinking that it is you, where are you going to take it at this time?"

It was Brother Shen Sui, Haizhu shouted, "Go to the dock and take it to the sea to hunt." ”

"It's a cold winter day, how cold it is on the dock, come to my house and ask it to help us clean up the fish in the small pond." Boss Shen walked home and continued: "I heard that this rain will rain for five or six days, and the water in the pond will overflow when there is more rain, and the yard will smell fishy. ”

The servant of the Shen family heard the sound of talking and opened the door, and was ordered to trot to the road and lift the big turtle, but Haizhu had to follow.

Shen's second sister-in-law got the letter and went around to the front yard to find Haizhu, and when they met, she said, "I ate the sauce you sent, and it tasted good when I mixed the noodles." ”

"It's also delicious when the barbecue is dipped in meat, you can try it next time, if you are used to eating, I will make it again next time and bring it to you." The two have different living circles, and they don't have much to say together, and they can only talk about eating and drinking. Haizhu said again that she stewed honey ham tonight, "I don't know if it's delicious or not, it's the first time I've stewed meat in sugar water." ”

"Tell me it's delicious, and I'll stew it too."

"Okay—"

There was a great movement on the surface of the water, and the old turtle swam out of the water, and Haizhu was thinking that it would be full so quickly, and saw it sink again.

"Second sister-in-law, go back, it's cold outside, I'll leave when it's full." Haizhu nodded at the surface of the water and said, "We are all acquaintances, so why don't you need to entertain me in the cold wind." ”

The evening was colder than the day, and the second sister-in-law Shen was dressed thinly in order to look good, and she couldn't stand standing by the cold and windy pond, so she didn't pretend to be polite, and said, "Okay, I'll go back to the house first, and you don't have to say hello when you leave." When the weather is warm, you come back to play, and Xiaoliu will come back in a few days. ”

"How's the situation with the bandits?"

At this time, a dry cough sounded in the side courtyard across the wall, and Shen's second sister-in-law swallowed the words that came to her mouth and said, "I don't know the specific situation, you can ask him when Xiaoliu comes back." ”

The old man can control his daughter-in-law's mouth, but his son will not listen to him.

The sturdy servants carried ladders to refill the lanterns, and the courtyard was light, and the heavy raininess was much lessened. Haizhu asked her to keep an eye on the turtles eating fish in the water, so she ran back to get the silver and ran quickly to the street to buy lanterns.

The lanterns were brought back and used, one hanging on the wall of the kitchen and two hanging in the hall. The house is bright, and the mood of the people is much brighter.

The honey ham was stewed for nearly two hours, and Haizhu fried two more plates of dried fragrant rice in the tempting aroma, thinking that if the ham was not stewed well, there would be food.

"It smells fragrant and eats well." When the lid of the pot was lifted, Qin Jingniang sniffed, she scooped a piece of ham with a spoon and asked, "Who tastes it first?" ”

Each closed his mouth and remained silent.

"I'll taste it first." Haizhu boasted that she was more receptive to eating, and she picked up her chopsticks and snatched the brown-red ham meat from the spoon, and the meat hung with thick juice, like boiled lard attached to the meat.

Dongzhu and Feng Ping both stared with their heads up, frowning as she chewed.

"How does it taste?" Qin Jingniang asked.

"Soft and sweet, the juice is sweet and the ham is salty, and the sugar water is stewed, which is mixed with the meaty aroma and saltiness of the ham, not the pure sweetness of the sugar cube melted in the water." Haizhu said that it was very delicious, "Serve it to the table, I will cook the rice noodles and eat them." ”

The water in the pot was already boiling, Haizhu threw the soaked rice noodles into the pot, boiled them thoroughly in the bowl, and Qi Laosan and Grandma Qi, who had been holding in the house for a long time, came out to serve rice.

Honey stewed ham is very popular, the local people's taste is already light, and putting two more peppercorns in the dish dislikes the numb mouth, this sweet and mellow taste is another kind of freshness in their mouths.

Dongzhu and Fengping both scooped ham juice and mixed it in the powder, a mouthful of ham meat and a mouthful of flour, and the fragrant dried meat on the table was never touched from beginning to end.

Eating happily, the mood is naturally very good, and I don't know if it is because Grandma Qi's persuasion has worked, Dongzhu no longer said hard words to Qin Jingniang with a stinky face.

After the meal, Qi Laosan went to wash the dishes, and Grandma Qi fetched water to wash her little grandson's face and feet first, she asked Haizhu how to arrange it at night, "Is your mother sleeping in the same room with the trend?" ”

Haizhu looked at Dongzhu and said, "I'll sleep alone tonight, will you go to sleep with your mother?" ”

"It's too crowded, I don't go over, and it's not that we can't meet during the day." Dongzhu carried the basin into the sisters' hut.

She is not rare, and she happily dragged Qin Jingniang to the room where he slept, and diligently took a basin and scooped water.

When Qin Jingniang saw it, she quickly snatched the basin and went to fetch water.

"Okay, Fengping has someone to take care of, and I can relax for a few days." Haizhu said briskly, "I also went back to the house to sleep." ”

A family of eight people went to bed at the end of the third child, and he had to wait for everyone to lie on the bed, and then bring water in to serve his second brother to wash, once in the morning and once in the evening, and only when he washed diligently could there be no smell on his body.

"Sister, won't you go to the stall tomorrow?" Dongzhu asked as she curled up under the covers.

"Well, Brother Shen said that it will rain for five or six days, and if it rains, he won't go to set up a stall."

"If only we had a shop." Dongzhu muttered.

Haizhu opened his eyes, turned sideways and said, "Do you still want to set up a stall to sell cakes all the time?" Not planning to go back? ”

Dongzhu was stunned for a moment, she forgot that she would go back after the year. She flicked her legs in the bed irritably, she wanted to make money selling cakes, and she didn't want to go back.

"Why don't we go back? We rented a house and lived here. Dongzhu drilled from her own quilt to Haizhu's quilt, hugged her neck and coquettishly, "You don't have to go to sea when we sell cakes, I was very worried about Fengping when you went out to sea." ”

"Go back to your bed." Haizhu pushed away her head, and her hot breath hit her face a little uncomfortable.

"If you don't promise, I won't let go." Dongzhu is cheating.

Haizhu snorted, took out the killer weapon, turned over and held her to tickle her flesh. After such a toss, the heat in the bed was cleared, but neither of the sisters felt cold.

Dongzhu was like a crab in the sand, desperately wrapping herself in a quilt, laughing so hard that she couldn't breathe before she even rolled and shrank into her bed.

"Big sister!" Feng Ping shouted through the wall, "What are you guys playing?" ”

Haizhu didn't talk, Dongzhu ignored him, and he shouted twice before stopping.

"Sleep, we'll talk about it later." Haizhu has already made up her mind to stay after the New Year, but Grandma Qi and Qi Laosan may not be willing, they are not very comfortable living here, and they can't find acquaintances to talk to when they go out to play. It's better to talk about it after the New Year, so as not to have disputes, and the New Year will not be happy.

There was a splashing sound of water in the courtyard, Qi Laosan closed the door and went to sleep, and the courtyard was completely quiet.

Haizhu turned over and was about to sleep, when a hand suddenly put on her shoulder, and she asked faintly, "What else do you want to say?" ”

"It's my mother...... Don't you blame her? Dongzhu lowered her voice, for fear of being listened to, "I still feel uncomfortable." She was a little resentful, she began to doubt her mother's sincerity, and she even felt that her tears were adulterated.

"I don't think I'm right, I always want to work against her." Dongzhu felt that this idea was not good, "When my father was still alive, my mother was very good to me. ”

"She is good to you now, and she will be good to you in the future." Haizhu turned sideways, put her hand on Dongzhu's quilt, and said patiently to this stubborn little girl: "The days are still long, how we will walk and see in the future." ”

"But I probably won't need it anymore." Dongzhu closed her eyes, a line of hot tears slipped into the pillow padded jacket, she said in a thin voice: "I can accompany you to sell cakes, I can make money to buy rice and meat to eat, I have my sister to care about, grandma will discipline me if I do something wrong, you see, if she doesn't accompany me, I will grow up." ”

Haizhu is silent, not living together is definitely not as deep as living under the same roof, not to mention Dongzhu, it is Fengping, when he is a few years older, he may not see his mother for half a month and will not make a special trip to find it.

"Sister, don't you blame her?" Dongzhu insisted on an answer, or rather, wanted to pull an alliance.

Haizhu opened her eyes and looked at the dark roof, she was not the original owner, she tried to substitute for the original owner, if the girl was still alive......

"I've grown up and can understand her." She can't substitute for the original owner, and she has more memories that she has always been an outsider, she said to Dongzhu: "If you have an estrangement from her because of this, you can distance yourself in your heart, and see your mother as a close relative, an amiable aunt, a respectable aunt." But if you choose so, you also have to bear the consequences of this choice, when you grow up and can understand her, it may not be as easy as it is now, no one can always stand in place and wait for you. ”

Dongzhu closed her eyes and thought.

"But there is one thing, you can't hate her, it's not worth hating her for such a thing, and she doesn't have so much sin that her children hate her." Haizhu advised, "I don't want to have a paranoid sister, let alone take care of a sister who has no conscience." ”

This sentence is more effective than any words, Dongzhu stopped thinking nonsense, and the fantasy in her mind to make her mother's regret disappear in a broken way, she silently took back the leg that stretched out the quilt, so that she didn't want to freeze and get sick, and when the weather was clear, she would go to the stall to sell cakes to make money.

Haizhu fell asleep, Dongzhu baked cakes on the bed for a while, and quietly got into another quilt, afraid of waking people up and driving her away, she closed her eyes and didn't dare to move, I don't know when she fell asleep.

*

It is constantly raining and inconvenient to travel, and the family is at home to change the tricks to make delicious fat and grow meat.

On the day of the New Year, Haizhu called the four members of the Zheng family to be lively together, she steamed the taro and kneaded the dough to make cakes, and also boiled red beans, the red beans were boiled for a day, and they were broken when they were twisted, and they were mixed with sugar cubes to make the filling.

Dongzhu has almost stuck to Haizhu these days, Haizhu has to help with cooking, and today too, rolled up her sleeves and kneaded the dough, and followed the board and followed to learn to wrap the filling.

"In the future, your family will have two chefs, Dongzhu will be able to become a chef in less than two years after studying like this, and the salary for a month to be a cook in a restaurant is a lot." Wei Jinhua was very envious, she patted her belly, "Why didn't I give birth to a girl?" ”

Dongzhu pursed her lips and smiled, she said proudly: "I don't want to be a cook, I have learned to cook, and my sister will have food when she comes back from the sea." ”

Haizhu smiled when she heard this, and thanked Qin Jingniang for giving her an intimate little padded jacket.

"It's still a girl." Wei Jinhua became more and more envious.

Feng Ping pursed his mouth, he is not bad, he is very good at burning fire, and his second sister can't compare.

The water in the pot boiled, Haizhu lifted the lid of the pot, put the taro bean paste cake on the grate into it, and commanded under the stove: "Make a big fire." ”

"Hey!" The wind should be especially loud.

After rubbing eight more cakes, Haizhu shouted outward: "Mother, you come in and help me light the fire on the stove, and I'll try to make a few cakes." ”

"No, I can burn it." Feng Ping took out two firewood plugs with flames from the big stove, and said: "I can burn, I can burn the fire, I want a small fire in the stove, right?" ”

Haizhu saw his thoughts, and couldn't help but praise: "Oh, Fengping is so capable, such a well-behaved child turned out to be my younger brother." ”

Feng Ping pursed his lips and smiled, happy, and the fire burned more vigorously.