Chapter 34 Preparing for dinner
"Dad, don't worry, I washed my hair outside. It felt so uncomfortable, but it feels refreshed now!"
Yang Ruoqing smiled, for To put her father at ease, she even lifted a few strands of bangs from her forehead and winked playfully.
Both Yang Huazhong and Sun were slightly stunned by their daughter's move, and then they both laughed happily.
Caiyi Yuqin finally showed a smile when she saw her parents’ depressed faces. Yang Ruoqing also felt that Beier had a sense of accomplishment!
"Qing'er, father, you lie down and take a rest, and I'll cook some food! Qing'er, you've been running around for a long time and are exhausted. Go back to the house and take a rest. Mom has cooked the food and calls you!" Mrs. Sun stood up straight. "Come on," he said, turned around and hurried out.
"Dad, I'm going to help my mother. You have a good rest." Yang Ruoqing said to Yang Huazhong. After getting Yang Huazhong's nod, she jumped and followed to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, a soybean oil lamp was lit on the stove. In the corner of the small temporary stove built by Uncle Chang Geng and the others, Mrs. Sun stuffed the firewood in and just lit it. There was fire.
Ms. Sun was not idle at home in the afternoon. She scooped out about ten kilograms of the fifty kilograms of rice that was distributed to the Yang family when the family was divided. I went to Chang Geng's house and borrowed their stone mortar to pound more than seven kilograms of white rice. I also brought back the remaining rice husks and piled them at the mouth of the stove.
When Yang Ruoqing came in, she was squatting there washing rice. Then the firelight of the small stove picked out the layer of rice husks floating on the water, and then washed the rice three or two times before adding it again. water, cover the lid, put it on the small stove, and add a handful of pine hair underneath to make the fire more intense.
"Qing'er, why are you in the kitchen again?" Mrs. Sun turned around to pack up the basket Yang Ruoqing brought back, but saw that Yang Ruoqing had already brought the basket over.
"I'm not tired, come here and watch mother cook." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.
"Hey, what's so good about this? I grabbed a handful of newly pounded rice and let's cook some porridge at night. In the morning, your aunt Osmanthus brought eggs and dried chili peppers. We'll wait for the porridge later. Okay, let’s make some spicy scrambled eggs to make porridge for you two!” said Mrs. Sun.
Thinking of the spicy dry spicy food, Yang Ruoqing's saliva couldn't help but slip down!
Yang Ruoqing then shook her head: "Mom, don't scramble the eggs at night. Didn't we agree to keep the eggs for my dad to boil? Besides, my dad's wound is not suitable for eating spicy food. Exciting! ”
Mrs. Sun suddenly wondered, "What should we do? How can we swallow the porridge without adding any ingredients?"
Yang Ruoqing blinked and pushed the basket in front of Mrs. Sun: "When the porridge starts roaring, let's eat it." Put this wild vegetable in it, I dug a lot of wild vegetables in the afternoon, enough for us to eat for two days!"
Sun took the bamboo basket from Yang Ruoqing's hand, and found a sieve and spread it on the ground, rustling the handle! The basket tipped over.
"My darling, shepherd's purse, mother-in-law diced, okra... Oh, what a fresh matsutake!" Mrs. Sun looked at them all the same, with an expression of excitement and surprise on her face, especially that one A matsutake mushroom, plump and tender, with an earthy smell.
Thought of something suddenly, Sun raised her eyes and stared at Yang Ruoqing nervously: "Qing'er, are you... going to the forest behind?"
Yang Ruoqing nodded and said with a smile: "Not to mention the wild vegetables on the field ridge, the weeds were almost plucked out, so I went to try my luck in the woods behind the village. Hey, my luck was really good!"
< br>"Hey, you kid!" Mrs. Sun didn't know What should I say, with a look of fear on his face: "You are not allowed to go there again tomorrow!"
"Why, mother?" "The forest is not clean! Everyone in the village has to go in together. Not even us adults dare to do it alone!" Sun said.
"What's so unclean? It's just that the forest is big, and after it rains, rain and mist rise in it, so it's easy to get lost!" Yang Ruoqing said a little puzzled: "Besides, then There are a lot of wild vegetables inside, and there are also a lot of fresh matsutake inside!”
"Good girl, don't ask so many questions. Just listen to mother. Don't go into the forest again. Mother won't harm you!"
Deep in the forest, there is something. An earthen kiln. I heard that more than ten years ago, earthen bricks were fired in that earthen kiln. I don’t know what happened later. The earthen kiln collapsed, and a few people inside who didn’t have time to escape were buried alive in it. .
After that, no one dared to go to that earthen kiln. I heard that it was even haunted!
Further back, if any children in the village died, they were wrapped in straw curtains and thrown into the earthen kiln. The woods are connected to Mianniu Mountain at the back. The beasts in the mountains are so hungry that they go to Tuyaozi to look for food. As time goes by, no one dares to go through that forest.
Even the middle-aged people in the village have to be in groups in the clear sky before they dare to go in to collect loose hair or anything like that. Even so, they don’t dare to go inside!
A few days ago, my daughter was dying of illness, and my mother-in-law said that if she couldn't survive it, she would wrap her in a straw curtain and take her to the Tukiaozi from the back door...
Ms. Sun was determined to deal with these things no matter what. I won't even tell my daughter.
Seeing Sun's behavior, Yang Ruoqing knew that no matter how hard she pressed, she wouldn't get anything out of it, and she didn't force herself. He also squatted down and picked wild vegetables with Mrs. Sun based on the firelight coming from the small stove.
She has washed these vegetables in the stream. She only needs to drizzle them with water before they can be chopped into pieces and put into the pot, so it takes no effort at all to prepare them.
The mother and daughter were picking up the wild vegetables and matsutake mushrooms while lowering their heads and counting in a low voice.
The shepherd's purse was a bit old and tasted a bit bitter, so Sun rinsed the shepherd's purse with water, rubbed out the bitter water, chopped it, and then spread it evenly on a sieve to air-dry. Use the dried shepherd's purse foam to make dumplings, make shepherd's purse cakes, or eat it directly with chili sauce. It is a great side dish to go with rice!
Wash and chop the fresh and juicy mother-in-law dices, then wash two matsutake mushrooms, cut them into thin slices, and put them into a small boiling pot. Sun put a little salt star seeds in it and used Stir gently with a spatula and close the lid.
Yang Ruoqing was tinkering with the shepherd's purse and said to Mrs. Sun, "Mom, this shepherd's purse is almost foamy. I'll go back to the house and get the chili sauce Aunt Dayun sent to mix it with the shepherd's purse!"
"Okay, you go!"
After a while, Yang Ruoqing came back, holding a small sauce-colored jar in her hand, but her face was a bit ugly.
"Daughter, what's wrong with you?" Mrs. Sun came over and asked.
"Mom, look at this jar!" Yang Ruoqing handed the jar to Sun.
Before Mrs. Sun took it, she saw at a glance that there was a circle of hot sauce on the mouth of the jar and the body of the jar. She took the jar into her hand and weighed it: "Oh, why is it so light? How much?”
(End of this chapter)