At noon, I simply cooked a vegetable soup and ate it with steamed buns.

Li Yunlan was just lying on the bed, when she heard the sound of the gong beating outside, she got up and went out, and just as the brothers also went out of the house: "What are you knocking outside?" Qiu Defu saw that the old lady asked, and said that it was the village chief who struck the gong and said that there was something to say.

Li Yunlan waved her hand at them and went back to the room to continue lying down.

The bones couldn't be put away in the hot weather, and Chen had already stewed the bones in the pot, and the rich smell of meat wafted from the yard.

Four children sat in the yard and swallowed saliva.

Li Yunlan asked Liu to cut leeks, and he went into the kitchen to boil lard.

She recalled that every time her grandmother boiled lard, she would sit next to her and wait to eat lard residue, mix it with sugar when she was a child, and dip it in chili noodles when she was older.

When the lard residue changes color, the fire must be withdrawn, otherwise it will be paste, and the fried oil residue will soon be a little browned, so quickly use a spatula to put it up.

Li Yunlan felt the eager gaze coming from the door, and turned her head to see the four children standing at the door, Pearl and Baoyu drooled in anger.

She took the lard residue to the children, took it out and blew it, and one of them fed them a piece: "Just eat a piece, and the rest of the grandma will make dumplings for you to eat." ”

A few little hairy heads chewed on the fragrant lard residue and nodded desperately.

Scoop the lard into the jar, leave some base oil in the pan, beat a few eggs and stir it up, pour it into the pan and fry it.

"Mother, the leeks are washed." Liu Shi carried the basket into the kitchen, sniffed and said, "It's so fragrant." ”

Li Yunlan said with a smile: "Chop the leeks, they must be very broken, and I will make dumplings later." ”

"Dumplings?"

"I saw the food in the county, and I wanted to see if I could make it."

Liu went to cut leeks, Li Yunlan began to make noodles, she can make dumplings and wontons, she has seen grandma and noodles, she has seen her father and noodles, and she has never made noodles.

It's really more water and noodles, more water and more water, and I finally feel that I can knead most of the basin.

Covering the basin with a bamboo grate, she went to chop the oil residue finely, poured it into the leek basin and put the broken eggs into it, and began to mix the filling.

The most laborious came, rolling the dough, and Liu had already wiped the small table clean.

Li Yunlan put all the noodles on the ground, and there was no rolling pin at home, so she took out a suitable thickness from the pyre and cut it with a knife, scraped off the skin, washed it and used it as a rolling pin.

The old and weak women and children of the family all gathered around the small table, looking at what the dumplings Li Yunlan said looked like.

Li Yunlan took out a large agent according to the appearance of her father in her memory, rolled it into a round strip and began to cut it, flattened it and began to roll it out.

None of them were round, but they were all chubby dumplings in her hands.

Under her explanation, the daughter-in-law and grandson began to be eager to try, Chen's wrapped it very well after trying two, Chengcai and Mingyue also got started quickly, only Liu's bag came and went, and it was easy to hold a child than to make dumplings.

After rolling, Li Yunlan felt that his arm was no longer his own, and his waist was very sore.

There are all kinds of dumplings in the large and small grate sieves.

Li Yunlan washed her hands, and the rest was put to the end of Chen's, and she lay down on the cool bed under the tree.

The child is the child who will come to ask when to cook the dumplings, and then run to the gate of the courtyard to see if the father has come back.

Li Yunlan squinted and looked at the blue sky through the treetops, the sky here is really blue!

"It's back, Daddy's back," the two big ones shouted, and the two smaller ones shouted too.

As soon as the brothers entered the yard, the children cheered even louder, and scrambled to say, "Eat dumplings today, grandma made dumplings." ”

"Milk, dad and second uncle are back, cook dumplings, cook dumplings."

Li Yunlan was dragged up by the children, Liu thought that her mother-in-law would be angry, but she didn't expect her mother-in-law to smile and say okay, her mother-in-law has really changed, and the children didn't dare to do this when they saw their grandmother before.

Turning his head to look at his man: "Oh, what did you two do?" This body of mud. ”

"Let's go wash it first, how do you get mud all over your head?" After Li Yunlan finished speaking, she entered the kitchen.

Chengcai volunteered to burn the fire, scooped two bowls of bone broth into the cauldron, added some water to boil, began to make dumplings, added cold water in the middle, boiled again and smothered for a while, sprinkled some green onions in the pot and took out a bowl of twenty for adults and ten for children.

After serving, I added water and boiled another pot, leaving a firewood under the stove, and the lid of the pot was half-covered: "Okay, let's serve it." ”

After they were all seated, Li Yunlan picked it up and took a bite first, it was very fragrant and not as greasy as pork, it was delicious.

For the Qiu family, this is the first time to eat dumplings, this delicate and smooth taste, this oil stains are fragrant, what kind of delicacy is this.

"Mother, you're so good, you'll be able to watch it twice." Qiu Degui praised.

Qiu Defu also knew that he had also smelled it in front of the dumpling stall, and it was so fragrant.

"If you like to eat, eat more, there are still in the pot, not enough to cook, as long as you make money in the future, you can buy some fine noodles and come back to make dumplings to eat."

No one objected to this decision, and they all smiled and nodded.

In the end, the dumplings were boiled until the third pot before they finally put down the bowl, and they couldn't hold up one by one.

Li Yunlan put the rest of the dumplings up, boiled the bone broth into a crockpot, and put it in a big basket for Qiu Defu to hang in the well, saving a night of spoiliness.

After eating too much, Li Yunlan went to the village for a walk to eat.

At this time, many people sat at the door with bowls and chatted while eating, and Li Yunlan saw that they were all vegetable paste or multigrain porridge.

It seems that everyone is having a hard time.

"Roar! Lady De, what did you cook and eat today, and you can smell the fragrance from afar. A thin dark woman asked.

If she didn't know this before, now she has the memory of the original owner, this black and thin woman surnamed Chen, just married into her husband's family a few days after her husband died in an accident, her mother-in-law sprinkled all her anger and resentment on her head, and then two years later was sold by her mother-in-law to the old bachelor Liu Shugen in Xiaoliu Village as his wife.

"You can smell it after two houses, it's quite fragrant, I bought some lard today."

"No wonder, it's so fragrant, my family hasn't bought lard for a long time."

Li Yunlan smiled and continued to walk, she was now a little embarrassed by the woman surnamed Chen.

Mainly on the way to escape from the wilderness in the previous life of the original owner, she almost recruited her way.

Fat Qian also walked outside with a bowl, and when he saw Li Yunlan from a distance, he hid in a neighbor's house.

The woman stretched out her head and glanced out and said, "Defa Niang, are you afraid of your third brother and sister?" ”

Fat Qian took a sip of porridge along the side of the bowl and said, "My younger brother and sister have been chattering since the death of the third child, which is quite mad. ”

"I think it's fine, it's been a long time, and my temper is much milder."

Fat Qian pulled the corners of his mouth and said: "The third child is gone, who will support her!" Anyway, last time because of the children's fight, you didn't see it, that posture ...... Gee... You want to eat people! ”

Seeing Li Yunlan walk by the door, he waited for a while before taking the empty bowl home.