It was now one o'clock in the afternoon. Lu Xiaoxiao had already thought about cooking a pot of preserved egg and lean meat porridge when she saw the time. She had bought various kinds of porridge before when she was preparing supplies, but there were only dozens of servings of each, and the amount was not enough. It's so big that you can't eat it all at once, so you have to save it and eat it slowly.
Lu Xiaoxiao thought that now that she has free time, she should prepare more cooked food in case she is too busy and has no time to cook in the future.
Lu Xiaoxiao took out five kilograms of rice from the space, rinsed it, soaked it in water, heated the fire in the earthen stove, added half a pot of water to the pot, and then poured the washed rice into the pot to cook.
After half an hour, Lu Xiaoxiao opened the lid and saw that the rice had blossomed. She poured two pounds of chopped lean meat and a pinch of shredded ginger into the pot, stirred evenly, then covered the pot and cooked for ten minutes.
Ten minutes later, Lu Xiaoxiao opened the lid of the pot, poured ten sliced preserved eggs and three spoons of salt into the pot, stirred evenly, covered the pot again and cooked for twenty minutes. In this way, the delicious preserved egg and lean meat porridge was ready.
After the porridge was cooked, Lu Xiaoxiao put them into a bucket and put them into the space. When she saw that there was still fire in the stove, she put a hundred eggs in and cooked them as before.
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the time and it was after three o'clock in the afternoon. She thought that the firewood at home was almost running out, so she went to Aunt Caihua's house and asked if she could exchange money with her family for firewood.
Lu Xiaoxiao went into the bedroom and changed her clothes, then took out a pound of cakes from the space, then closed the courtyard door and walked towards the captain's house.
Lu Xiaoxiao came to the captain's house and saw Aunt Caihua feeding chickens in the yard, so she said hello to Aunt Caihua.
When Aunt Caihua saw Lu Xiaoxiao coming, she quickly called Lu Xiaoxiao into the house.
After Aunt Caihua went into the kitchen and washed her hands, she asked Lu Xiaoxiao to go to the kang to warm her body.
When Lu Xiaoxiao heard Aunt Caihua's words, she did not sit on the kang immediately. Second, she handed her the oil paper bag in her hand and then sat on the kang.
Aunt Caihua took the oil paper bag handed to her by Lu Xiaoxiao and asked, "What is this?"
"Taozi cake." Lu Xiaoxiao said after hearing Aunt Caihua's words.
"You kid, you're here right now. What are you bringing with you? You're out with your aunt, right? Quickly put it away and take it home to eat slowly. My aunt has never eaten anything at such an old age. She doesn't lack this kind of food. You are still young, eat more and grow stronger."
Lu Xiaoxiao was a little dumbfounded when she heard Aunt Caihua's words, so she pushed the cake towards Aunt Caihua again with her hands and said: "Aunt, I still have some. If you don't accept it, I won't dare to come to your door if something happens."
After hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, Aunt Caihua had no choice but to accept the cake.
After Lu Xiaoxiao sat on the kang and chatted with Aunt Caihua for more than ten minutes, he said to Aunt Caihua, "Auntie, can I exchange firewood with you?"
Aunt Caihua understood what Lu Xiaoxiao meant when she heard what she said, so she quickly said: "No need to change. When Baozhu and the others come back, it will be enough for you to go to the mountain to pull it a few times."
"Aunt, if it's just once or twice, I can still ask you to help, but looking at my body, I will definitely not be able to chop firewood for several years. I can't let you work in vain all the time. This will make me feel guilty."
Aunt Caihua thought about it. If it goes well a few times, it will take several years. Even if she is happy, her daughters-in-law will definitely complain. Besides, after spring, they have to go to the fields to earn work points. If they go there for one less day, they will lose many work points. The three sons earn ten full work points every day. If they don't work for a day, they will lose a lot of food.
Nowadays, every family is having a hard time, not to mention that for a big family like mine, food is life, and helping others is not that helpful.
After Aunt Caihua figured it out, she opened her mouth to Lu Xiaoxiao and said, "Xiaoxiao, I'm not lying to you. If I have free time to help you, it's okay. But after spring, I have to go to the fields to earn work points. Baozhu and the three of them can't do anything for a day." There are thirty work points in total. One work point costs five cents, which means it costs one dollar and fifty cents a day. One day for them to cut firewood is enough for you for a month. From now on, if you ask the three of them to take leave every month to help you chop firewood for one day, you will pay one dollar and fifty cents. What do you think?"
Lu Xiaoxiao heard Aunt Caihua's words and knew that she was taking care of her. Cutting firewood was much harder than going to the fields to earn work points, but it still counted as the same money, so she couldn't agree without conscience.
"Auntie, I will listen to you for everything else, but I have to pay two yuan for this. Cutting firewood is harder than earning work points, but there is no reason why I want you to help me and make you suffer a loss. If you don't agree, I will find someone else. "
After hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, Aunt Caihua had no choice but to nod in agreement.
Lu Xiaoxiao was very happy when Aunt Caihua agreed, so she asked Aunt Caihua when the hunting team would come back. She said they would be back the day after tomorrow at the latest.
Lu Xiaoxiao later heard Aunt Caihua talk about some things in the village, and saw that it was getting late, so she left and went home.
