After finishing the conversation with Gu Xiao, Nie Qianqian entered the east room. Tuantuan was already fast asleep, and the sound of even breathing could be heard. He was lying in an awkward sleeping position, with half of the quilt kicked off, and Nie Qianqian covered him up. Quilt, got into bed.
As soon as she got into bed, Liu Yan turned over and Nie Qianqian whispered: "Mom, did I wake you up?"
Liu Yan shook her head: "No, I haven't fallen asleep."
Nie Qianqian guessed that Liu Yan was still thinking about the incident with Li in the morning, and comforted her: "Mom, it's all over. Don't think about it. Go to sleep."
Liu Yan called out: "Qianqian."
Qianqian: "What's wrong, mother?"
Liu Yan hesitated to speak, her words rolled around in her throat and she swallowed them again.
After she put Tuantuan to sleep, she kept thinking about that incident. Now that she had completely severed ties with the old Nie family, she should tell Qianqian, but she was afraid of how Qianqian would react after she told her.
Liu Yan was struggling in her heart, but in the end she said nothing, "It's okay, just go to sleep."
Nie Qianqian covered herself with the quilt, and soon she felt sleepy and fell into sleep. Half asleep and half awake, she felt that Liu Yan had been tossing and turning, and she heard a faint sigh.
The next day, Liu Yan and Nie Qianqian both woke up early.
Nie Qianqian, as usual, first drank a cup of iced coffee, then exercised her body, mind, and moves.
After returning, she and Liu Yan cooked together.
What Liu Yan cooks is breakfast for the family. In the past, she just cooked whatever was left at home to fill her stomach. This morning, Liu Yan looked at the piles of food in the kitchen and felt like she didn't know where to start. Sweet troubles arise.
Liu Yan finally chose to make wontons. Instead of just wild vegetable leaves, the wontons were stuffed with minced pork and cabbage and added lard. The filling was fragrant just by stirring it.
After wrapping the wontons, I put them aside and put them in the pot. Then I took out the garlic sprouts and scrambled the eggs, adding some pickled mustard for breakfast.
Nie Qianqian was making lunch for Gu Xiao. She had promised to cook for Gu Xiao yesterday. In the past, when Gu Xiao went to the library to copy books, he would bring hard and dry thick flour pancakes from home. You may be full, but you won’t be able to fool around like this in the future.
He is not in good health, and he is not eating enough and malnourished. If you treat his hand disease, his recovery will be very slow.
Nie Qianqian cleaned up the grass carp brought back yesterday, cut it into thin slices, and marinated it in soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, and cornstarch for a while.
She had already unpacked the soy sauce, oil and cooking wine and put them into small earthen jars. She told Liu Yan that they had bought them from a merchant from the provincial capital.
Liu Yan was very curious about these condiments. She touched and smelled and tasted these bottles and jars last night.
After marinating, heat oil in the pan, fry the fish head and fish bones until the aroma is released, add water, pickled cabbage, fish, fungus, bean sprouts, etc. and boil together, and finally remove from the pan.
After Liu Yan finished cooking her own dishes, she stared at Nie Qianqian's cooking intently. She was interested in this matter and observed carefully. After Nie Qianqian basically cooked it once, she learned it.
Liu Yan smelled the fresh and sour aroma of the pickled fish, and her mouth watered. She was amazed, "Qianqian, how did you come up with these recipes? These yellow leaves are cabbage? Why is the color and taste different from cabbage?"
Nie Qianqian: "This is sauerkraut, which is made from pickled cabbage. It is sour and fragrant. The aunt who sells sauerkraut told me how to make this fish."
In addition to the pickled fish, Nie Qianqian also cooked sweet potato pancakes, stir-fried refreshing vegetables, mixed meat and vegetables, and put them in the pot to warm after cooking.
Liu Yan brought breakfast to the table and called Tuantuan and Gu Xiao to have breakfast together. At the dinner table, Liu Yan asked, "Qianqian, are you going to Jishi Hall today?"
Nie Qianqian shook her head. She and Zhang Zhongjing had discussed it yesterday. There was an old man and a child in the family who needed to be taken care of. She would not go there every day, but only once every two or three days.
Nie Qianqian: "After dinner, I'm going to visit Xia Lizheng. The old house is uninhabitable in winter. I still have a lot of money left from selling Ganoderma lucidum last time. I want to build a new house and I'm asking Li Zheng to help me build it."
Liu Yan has been worried about housing since the first day she moved to her old house. Now that she has money and can build a new house, she doesn't have to worry about winter problems. The money must be spent.
After breakfast, Gu Xiao packed up his things and prepared to go to town to copy books. With the oxcart, he could drive the oxcart back and forth to the town, go home every day, and teach groups to study in the evening.
When Gu Xiao got on the bullock cart, he was stopped by Nie Qianqian and watched as Nie Qianqian put a three-layer food box on the bullock cart.
"Let the library's kitchen help you heat your lunch at noon. Don't eat it cold, as it's not good for your stomach."
Gu Xiao smelled the faint aroma wafting from the food box and asked in disbelief, "Give it to me? Did you make it?"
Nie Qianqian: "Of course. Didn't I promise you yesterday that I would cook for you?"
Gu Xiao looked at the food box and Nie Qianqian with a bright smile in front of him, feeling as if the long-drought land had encountered the slightest drizzle. He was silent for a while and replied, "Thank you."
Nie Qianqian waved her hands indifferently and warned, "Be careful on the road."
After seeing Gu Xiao off, Nie Qianqian cut three kilograms of pork, scooped out a bag of white rice, and set off for Li Zheng's house.
In fact, among villagers, there is nothing more popular than pork, white rice and noodles for door-to-door gifts.
The Li Zheng family lives in a relatively central location in the village. It is a large blue brick house that is rare in the village. The yard is very large, surrounded by brick walls, the gate is tall and large, and the wooden boards are very thick.
Nie Qianqian knocked on the door. After a while, someone answered the door. The person who opened the door was Mrs. Zhao, Liu Lizheng's daughter-in-law. Mrs. Zhao was about the same age as Mrs. Nie, but she looked much younger than Mrs. Nie. She was taller and taller. Somewhat plump, with a round face, he looks like a kind person.
Mrs. Zhao was slightly startled when she saw it was the girl from the Nie family, and then greeted with a smile on her face, "Hey, it's Qianqian girl, come in, come in."
Nie Qianqian walked in. The yard was very clean and tidy. On one side were neatly piled firewood, and on the other side were some corn cobs from the autumn harvest. The house was very large, with several rooms facing north and south in the main room and the master bedroom. There are several side rooms in the east and west, as well as rooms dedicated to storing sundries.
Liu Lizheng's family has a large population, with four sons alone. All four sons are married. The Lizheng couple embraced their grandchildren early. The granddaughter Liu Fang is 2 years younger than Nie Qianqian and is not yet married. The grandson of the fourth family is only about 5 years old, and his name is Liu Xiaogang.
At this moment, Xiaogang was playing in the yard. When he saw Nie Qianqian come in, he looked at Nie Qianqian with a pair of big black grape eyes.
Because of Tuantuan, Nie Qianqian fell in love with children of similar age when she saw them. She took out a few White Rabbit toffees from the space, removed the outer packaging, and handed them to Xiaogang, "Xiao Gang, come here, give you some candies." eat."
Xiaogang's eyes lit up and he ran over. He didn't take it directly, but looked at Mrs. Zhao hesitantly.
Old Mrs. Zhao smiled fondly and nodded, "Just take it, thank you sister Qianqian."
Xiaogang was so happy that he reached out to pick up the candy and smiled sweetly at Nie Qianqian, "Thank you, sister Qianqian. Sister Qianqian is so pretty."
Mrs. Zhao and Nie Qianqian both laughed. Mrs. Zhao laughed and scolded: "You little monkey, you haven't eaten the candy yet, your mouth is so sweet."
Xiaogang raised his head and said, "Xiaogang is not being sweet, he is telling the truth."
This Qianqian sister is indeed the most beautiful sister he has ever seen, like a fairy descending to earth.
Mrs. Zhao smiled and said, "Girl Qianqian, please ignore him and come find your Grandpa Lizheng. Come in quickly, he is sitting in the main room."
Liu Lizheng was sitting in the middle of the hall blowing his pipe. When he saw Nie Qianqian coming, he quickly put out the smoke in his pipe and stood up, "Girl Qianqian is here."
After the last reconciliation, he found out that Qianqian girl and the county magistrate were both acquaintances. With this relationship, how could he dare to look down on Nie Qianqian.
Nie Qianqian raised a smile and said, "Grandpa Lizheng, thanks to your help in upholding justice for the reconciliation last time, my mother was able to escape from the Nie family smoothly. I really don't know how to thank you. I brought you something to express my gratitude."
Liu Lizheng and Mrs. Zhao took a closer look and saw that Nie Qianqian was holding about 3 kilograms of pork and 3 kilograms of white rice. These things were not small items for the villagers, and they could not be given away casually.
On the one hand, Liu Lizheng was thinking, the Nie Qianqian family is really different. Yesterday I heard that they bought a bullock cart, and today they can give away so many things. On the other hand, he felt proud, feeling that he had special face in front of his wife. See Coming to his place was very important to Qianqian.
