As Xu Tianxin suddenly became angry, Xu Laoer turned around silently and pretended not to see his third brother's predicament. He turned his back to his third brother and niece and focused on repairing the wood with an ax. He was afraid of being implicated.
Yu Qiniang looked at Tian Xin'er and stopped crying. She immediately ran out of tears and walked into the kitchen carrying the two pheasants she had finished packing.
Yu Qinniang cleaned up the chicken very neatly. She handed the chicken to her mother-in-law, put the chicken offal into a bowl, poured the chicken blood into the basin, and even washed the chicken feathers cleanly.
Yu Qiniang knew that her niece didn't like all kinds of strange smells, so she spread the washed chicken feathers on the window sill of her house, dried them later, and planned to save them to make feather dusters, or save the remaining chicken feathers for planting in the new year next year. Plant next to the seedlings to prevent birds and sparrows from damaging the crops.
After laying down the wet chicken feathers, Yu Qinniang went down to the cellar to check the cabbage, radish, potatoes and sweet potatoes stored at home. She was afraid that her mother-in-law would not have enough hands to look through them and the lids were not tightly closed, which would attract mice.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Xu was looking at two pheasants, planning to keep one to make chicken soup tomorrow morning, and the whole family would have a bowl.
The other one will be used to make dumplings stuffed with chicken and wild vegetables tonight.
The two pheasants are not big, one only weighs about two pounds.
Mrs. Xu thought that she should put more wild vegetables in. I am a poor man who is half-grown. For a family of six, I have to make 240 or 50 dumplings to be half full.
Mrs. Xu made up her mind to lose consciousness and try to eat better in the future. Take a look at her body.
But even if she made up her mind, she was not willing to use too much white flour and mixed in a lot of elm bark flour and sorghum flour.
After all, the fine grain in the wing is on credit. You don't need to be reminded by others, you will feel stressed when you owe money. I always feel uncomfortable eating and drinking before the famine is over.
When the debt is paid off, all the food stored in the warehouse was bought with the money earned. By then, she will make pure white noodles and dumplings for the children, and steam a few meals of white rice.
Mrs. Xu blanched wild vegetables, which were gray vegetables and alfalfa. These could also be used to feed mules, cattle and horses. She had a diligent daughter-in-law who kept a lot of them at home.
"Mom, make dumplings? Let's marinate the chicken and save it for the Chinese New Year. Let's drink some sorghum rice soup in the dark."
Xu Laosi finally figured out what my mother was going to cook tonight.
We ate fish and noodles last night, and dumplings tonight. What kind of family is this?
Mrs. Xu glanced at her youngest son.
The idleness of this day is all because "Three You" can live a better life than the three of them. When she, her granddaughter and Qin Niang are at home, there is no need for so much nonsense.
The three of them have always made sure they are full if they have something delicious to eat, and they have always been lazy if they don't have anything to eat. They never expected that the three men were more attentive than them, and none of them were as big-hearted as Qin Niang.
"Go out and tell your niece, she wants to eat dumplings."
Xu Youyin pursed her chapped lips, immediately fell silent, and took the initiative to take the kitchen knife to help chop the stuffing.
Mrs. Xu glanced at Xu Youyin, then curiously looked at her third son in the courtyard, thinking that it was lucky that someone could shock the three of them.
Whether they are ancient or modern granddaughters, they all have a petty temper.
In those modern days, if her granddaughter really had a bad temper, even she would respect her.
At this time, Xu Laosan in the courtyard was assigned a new job by his niece, making a young man.
The sorghum stalks are also called zhezi. They use the old sorghum stalks to remove the leaves and outer skin. Then use a knife to break the sorghum stalks and soak them in water. When the sorghum stalks are soaked and softened, they are flattened with a sorghum roll, and then the sorghum stalks inside are removed and left. The outer skin is ready to be braided. In the 1960s and 1970s, this braided bamboo was still used to hold grain. It could be large or small, high or low. If it was not high enough, it could be connected higher.
After Xu Tianxin finished throwing the adobe seeds, he blushed from exhaustion and went to the warehouse to take out a pile of semi-finished adobe seeds and threw them to his third uncle.
it is more than words.
While observing his niece's face, Xu Youcang took the pile of semi-finished products and began to weave the grain mats. He wanted to say something several times, but shut his mouth again.
Xu Tianxin, on the other hand, was sitting on the small bench next to his third uncle, picking mushrooms.
She wanted to quickly saw the bamboo to make bamboo salt toothpaste, and her family members in the live broadcast room were urging her, but she was more anxious to dry the mushrooms she picked in case it rained again in two days.
She planned to finish her serious work and have dinner, then collect the flowers and make toothpaste.
It wasn't until Mrs. Xu and Yu Qiniang finished cooking the dumplings and shouted, "It's time to eat," that Mrs. Xu found an excuse to please her niece and said, "Are you hungry? Let's go eat."
Xu Laosan looked at his niece's back, thinking that Xu Tianxin would not talk to him again for more than a month like before, so he scratched his head in annoyance, and was even scolded by his second brother.
Xu Youliang said to his third brother, "Are you angry with me? What a shame."
It's really a toast or a fine, as long as you don't involve him.
Unexpectedly, after the dumplings were served, Xu Tianxin took out the dumplings for his grandma and aunt, and suddenly took another dumpling for Xu Laosan: "Uncle San, do you want to try the chicken and wild vegetable dumplings?"
"Ah?" Wouldn't that be delicious?
Xu Laosan was a little flattered. He stuffed it into his mouth regardless of how hot it was and said, "Eat it."
Xu Tianxin looked at Xu Laosan and smiled: "There are too many wild vegetables, but they are not so delicious. I asked Grandpa Guan that you need to drink the soup for ten days in a row, just ten days, don't worry. Wait until Third Uncle takes good care of himself and then work more and earn more." Money, let me and my aunt make us some pure meat stuffing. Third uncle needs to take good care of himself, and he will buy me some big pears and fruits tomorrow."
Xu Laosan's eyes were a little hot, so he quickly turned slightly to cover his eyes.
He didn't mean to make everyone unhappy.
"Yeah." Third uncle will take the medicine well.
Xu Youyin took over: "Who said that too many wild vegetables are not delicious? It tasted so delicious to me. I wonder what the pure meat tastes like."
Growing up, Xu Youyin had never eaten steamed buns or dumplings filled with pure meat.
Yu Qinniang secretly laughed, and Xu Youliang asked her why she was laughing. She said that she had not lost her temper recently, and she had actually eaten a big steamed bun filled with pure meat. The restaurants in the town made delicious food.
After Xu Youliang listened, he already wanted to complain:
"It seems that you are having a great time while I am away from home."
Unexpectedly, Yu Qiniang deliberately smiled and nodded vigorously at him. If the man doesn't come back, she, her mother-in-law, and her niece will almost forget about these people.
As Tian Xin coaxed Xu Lao San with his kind words, Lao San no longer had a bad temper, and the atmosphere at home suddenly improved. Even though everyone was exhausted from going up the mountain and all hungry, they only said a few words at the beginning, and in the middle they were all eating. The atmosphere was very warm for a while.
"This is the fish scale jelly sent by Guan Ertu, and he asked me to go to the county to help sell it tomorrow morning."
Mrs. Xu dipped the fish scale jelly into the garlic sauce and ate several pieces in a row, "Do you believe it? The old boy didn't tell me the full recipe. In fact, he used female fish scales."
After Mrs. Xu finished speaking, she took the hot and sour chicken blood soup from her daughter-in-law. She specially added some vinegar and chili oil, blew on the coriander foam and green onion floating on it, and drank it in one gulp, which made her body feel numb. I also asked everyone if the dumplings were bland.
Even Xu Tianxin ate deliciously, let alone others.
Xu Youyin wiped the garlic sauce that came out of his mouth and ate dumplings one by one. He said, "I think our salt is good. In the past, especially when cooking soup, it was a bit bitter. Mom, have you switched to a store that buys coarse salt?"
Xu Laoer was sweating even though he had enough food. He didn't want to eat more dumplings because he was afraid that his family wouldn't have enough to eat. He was eating green onions and wild vegetables with dipping sauce. He ate three big mouthfuls of wild vegetables before he was willing to eat one dumpling. Hearing this, he nodded and said: "Salt is good."
Mrs. Xu didn't take up the topic. She ate dumplings from a bowl in one hand and chatted with her daughter-in-law: "You will make some pear soup later. I think the pear the third child carried back was broken, so don't worry about it." I'll boil the lard, and I'll use the lard residue to bake you some lard scallion pies tomorrow morning."
At the same time, the old lady and Gu Sufen in the main room finally arrived home.
When the old lady entered the room, she lay down on the kang and couldn't get up, beating her heart.
Gu Sufen saw that her man was not at home and the old woman couldn't notice her, so she hurriedly took out a long hollow belt from the waistband of her trousers. It looked like a slender cloth pocket with a mess of white flour and rice all mixed together. She was stunned to steal four kilograms in total.
Gu Sufen wanted to steal glutinous rice and rhubarb rice, but there were too few of them and it was easy to be discovered. My sister-in-law’s family had a lot of rice and white flour, especially the rice was packed in a vat, which weighed two kilograms just by pulling it out, so she only stole these two items.
Just after dividing the stolen rice and noodles, Uncle Xu came in from outside with his son Youshu.
"His father, oh oh oh, look at how motherly my brothers and sisters are!"
