With the staple food in hand, Shen Zhiyao asked someone for the direction of the vegetable market and drove the donkey cart to buy vegetables.
She bought some courgettes, sunflower seeds and beans, pumpkin vine tips, a few pieces of tofu, a basket of eggs and a few fish, as well as some onions, ginger, garlic, etc., and spent nearly a hundred yuan.
As for meat, she asked about pork. Lean meat costs fifteen cents per catty, pork belly is nineteen cents per catty, fatty meat is twenty-three cents per catty, and suet is even more expensive, twenty-eight cents per catty.
Shen Zhiyao bought fifty kilograms of suet, three kilograms of pork belly and two kilograms of lean meat, and then bought some vegetable oil and sesame oil, spending nearly two taels in one go.
After buying all the things he needed, Shen Zhiyao only kept what he needed to use currently on the donkey cart, and moved the rest into the space.
Driving the donkey cart, Shen Zhiyao quickly headed to Qinglian Lane.
She kept buying and shopping, and before she knew it, it was almost midnight and she had to go back to cook.
The entrance of Qinglian Lane is relatively wide, so donkey carts can go in directly.
The summer evening breeze blew gently through the alleys on the stone road. At this time, almost every house in Qinglian Lane was rising from cooking smoke. Children who were playing wildly outside were running around in the alley, going back to their homes.
Seeing the unfamiliar face of Shen Zhiyao, some people lowered their heads and walked past silently, while others struck up a conversation with a smile. After learning that she was a new resident in the alley, they exchanged a few polite greetings, and Shen Zhiyao responded with a smile. .
"Bai Qiu, Yue Ya, I'm back."
When she arrived at the door of her house, Shen Zhiyao knocked on the door.
"elder sister!"
The door opened, and Shen Yueyue rushed into her arms like a cannonball.
Shen Zhiyao touched her head and led the donkey cart inside.
In the yard, the weeds beside the well and in the corners have been pulled out, and the entire yard has been swept clean.
Moreover, Shen Baiqiu also washed their clothes.
"Sister, I'm here to move things." Shen Baiqiu saw her opening the curtain of the donkey cart and immediately reached out.
Shen Zhiyao first took down the vegetables and meat he bought: "Bai Qiu, you can move the rice, noodles, oil, and other food to the kitchen. Put quilts in one room for each bed. You can take care of other things as you see fit."
After finishing the instructions, Shen Zhiyao went to the kitchen to prepare the dishes for tonight.
Shen Yueya came over to help her, choosing vegetables and making fire.
"Yueyue, go and wash this bunch of grapes, and my sister will do the rest."
Before Shen Zhiyao went home, she took out the grapes in her space and put them in the donkey cart.
When Shen Yueyue went to wash the grapes, Shen Zhiyao had cut the pork belly. Tonight she was going to make a stir-fried pork belly with tofu, a stir-fried pumpkin vine tip, and a fish ball soup.
"Sister, eat grapes." Shen Yueyue took the washed grapes and fed them to Shen Zhiyao's mouth.
When Shen Baiqiu finished moving things, she would feed him the grapes she left for him.
As soon as Shen Baiqiu arrived, he took over Shen Yueya's fire-burning work.
Shen Zhiyao cooked the three dishes quickly, with a small amount of food, and the three sisters were very satisfied with the food.
"Sister, this is the most delicious dish I have ever eaten in my life, especially the fish ball soup!" Shen Yueya touched her belly with a satisfied expression.
After a moment, he shook his head again: "No, the rabbit meat made by my sister last time was also the most delicious. As long as it is made by my sister, it is always the most delicious."
Shen Zhiyao smiled and pinched her little face: "If you are so complimentary, my sister will make more delicious food for you in the future."
Gulu, Gulu.
Shen Baiqiu swallowed the last bit of fish soup in the bowl and nodded in agreement.
He likes to drink fish ball soup the most. If his stomach couldn't hold it, he could still drink ten bowls!
What Shen Baiqiu and Shen Yueya didn't know was that Shen Zhiyao added spiritual spring water to the fish ball soup. She would give them spiritual spring water from time to time in the past few days to improve their physical condition.
After the meal, Shen Baiqiu packed up the dishes and washed them, while Shen Zhiyao made an after-dinner dessert, sugar-oiled fruit.
Shen Zhiyao deliberately fried more sugary and oily fruits. She planned to visit the neighbors later.
The days are long in summer and it's still bright now, so it's a good time for her to go.
Take out an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour and knead it with the dough, let it rest for a while... Shen Zhiyao rolls the dough into long strips and divides it into small pieces, then rolls it into a round shape, heats up the oil in a pan.
"Crescent Moon, the fire has always been in this small fire state."
As a reminder, Shen Zhiyao saw that the oil was almost hot, put the kneaded balls in, and fried them slowly over low heat, stirring constantly.
After the balls are fried and set, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, continue to stir, then take them out and sprinkle with cooked sesame seeds.
She fried three pots in total. When all the sweet and oily fruits were fried, Shen Zhiyao picked one with chopsticks and gave it to Shen Baiqiu and Shen Yueya.
Bright yellow on the outside, crispy and caramelized, glutinous on the inside, moderately sweet but not greasy.
Shen Yueyue took a bite, and her black grape-like eyes lit up, and she said with relish: "The glutinous rice is sweet and delicious."
Shen Baiqiu also likes it very much. He thinks that her sister has a pair of magical hands. No matter what she makes, she can make people's fingers move with delicious food and leave a mouthful of flavor in their mouths.
My sister said that she has a talent for cooking, which is true.
"Sister, what is the name of this delicious pastry?"
Shen Yueya wanted to remember its name, she loved to eat it.
"Sugar oil fruit." Shen Zhiyao put about fifteen sugar oil fruits on a plate and said to Shen Baiqiu: "Bai Qiu, go and get the oil paper I bought. Let's give away some of these sugar oil fruits. To the neighbors.”
"Yes." Shen Baiqiu quickly brought the oil paper over.
Shen Zhiyao gave him and Shen Yueya chopsticks and said, "One serving contains four sugar-oiled fruits. After packing, wrap them in oil paper and put them in this food box."
She also thought about how many pills to put in one serving.
Tai Chi generates two rituals, and two rituals generate four images. In ancient times, the four characters represented perfection and stability, such as stability, accessibility, etc. It was an auspicious number.
Four for each family, neither too many nor too few.
There are nearly twenty families living in Qinglian Lane. After the three sisters Shen Zhiyao wrapped all the sweet and oily fruits, they carried the food boxes and started knocking on the door of the farthest house in the alley to give gifts.
Along the way, Shen Zhiyao found that most of the people were relatively kind. Because this alley was relatively close to the county school, there were several families living in this alley with students studying at the county school.
Of course, she received some gifts in return.
She also learned that a firewood delivery person would come every morning. When the firewood delivery person arrived tomorrow, she could directly reserve firewood with him.
The daughter-in-law of the family named Li who lives at the end of the alley specializes in washing people's clothes to earn money. Anyone in the alley who needs this can come to her.
"The last two."
The last people Shen Zhiyao stayed to visit were the two households on the left and right of their house.
After looking at the two houses, Shen Zhiyao first chose the one on the right to knock on.
The door was opened by a couple in their forties. After they saw Shen Zhiyao and the others, his wife Zhang Dan opened her mouth in confusion: "Little girl, who are you looking for?"
