Making pickled beans (1)

After the captain left, Lu Xiaoxiao went to the backyard to continue picking beans. She did not return to the yard until the basket was full, and then she went to the well to wash the beans.

After she washed the beans, she spread them on a dustpan to dry, so that she could make sour beans directly tomorrow.

After Lu Xiaoxiao finished dinner, she went into the space to take a bath, and then she went directly to the kang to sleep. She planned to go to bed early tonight because she had to make dried beans and sour beans tomorrow.

"Second sister, please remember to send the tofu to Xiaoxiao tomorrow morning." Mrs. Liu put the prepared tofu into a bucket and put it in the well to chill it before saying to Second Sister Liu.

"Mom, don't worry. I will send the tofu to Xiaoxiao's house early tomorrow morning. You have to go to work tomorrow, so you go to bed early."

"Okay, I'm going to bed now."

After Liu Ermei went to bed, she took a piece of wood to cover the well, and then she also went back to the house to sleep.

The next morning, Lu Xiaoxiao was woken up by a knock on the door. She looked at her watch and it was only half past six. Who came to see her so early in the morning?

"Second sister, why did you come to my house so early?" Lu Xiaoxiao opened the courtyard door and asked Liu Ermei while yawning.

"I'm here to deliver you tofu. I'm afraid the tofu will spoil if it's too late."

"Is your family making tofu again?"

"Well, my mother made some yesterday evening, so I sent you some."

"Thank you, have you had breakfast?"

"I've eaten."

"You sit on the kang for a while, and I'll go to the kitchen to get a bowl."

"good."

After Lu Xiaoxiao went to the kitchen to get a bowl, she took the tofu out of Liu Ermei's basket and put it in the bowl.

"Second sister, you brought too much tofu to my house." Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the bowl full of tofu and said to Liu Ermei.

"Not much, I got you less than a third."

"Next time, don't bring so much. I can't eat that much by myself. Just give me a piece or two to try."

"I see."

"By the way, wait a minute." After Lu Xiaoxiao finished speaking, she walked towards the kitchen. She thought that one of the chickens Chen Guang sent yesterday was not cooked, so she planned to give half of it to Liu Ermei's family as a gift of tofu. .

A few minutes later, Lu Xiaoxiao put half of the chicken wrapped in oil paper into Liu Ermei's basket and said to Liu Ermei: "Er sister, someone gave me a chicken yesterday. You can take half of it and stew it with tofu."

"No, Xiaoxiao, you can keep it for yourself." Liu Ermei immediately took out the oil paper bag from the basket after hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, and then said to Lu Xiaoxiao.

"I can't eat that much by myself, so you take the chicken back. You see, I didn't even accept the tofu you gave me politely. If you don't take the chicken back, then the tofu you gave me will be gone." I don’t want it either.”

Liu Ermei heard Lu Xiaoxiao's words and had to put the chicken away. Then she remembered that she saw the beans drying in Lu Xiaoxiao's yard before entering the main room, so she asked Lu Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, what are you doing?" Are all the beans in the yard going to be dried into dried beans?”

"No, I plan to make sour beans from those beans in the yard."

"What are sour beans?" Liu Ermei asked Lu Xiaoxiao curiously.

"I don't know how to describe to you what sour beans are. If you are free, you can stay and watch how I make sour beans. Then you go home and make them according to my method. In a few days, you will know what sour beans are. ”

(End of chapter)