village assistant

Chapter 137 It's Hard to Keep a Secret (1)

"No, aunt, no!"

Tan Cifu was so panicked that he hid. Su Xiaoye supported him: "Take it, you're worth it."

Tan Cifu reluctantly accepted it.

Su Xiaoye also had a red envelope. She accepted it readily and said to Yue Yue's mother: "Thank you, auntie. Then we will go back. Take good care of Yue Yue."

Yue Yue's mother asked her: "Miss, you look very unfamiliar. Are you Cigu's girlfriend?"

"I came here to play as a foreigner, and I will go back after a while."

Yue Yue's mother seemed to put down a big stone.

After walking out of the hospital, Tan Cifu complained: "Why should I accept her red envelope when I'm just helping others?!"

"Do you think this is a red envelope? This is hush money!"

Tan Cifu was shocked: "Hush money?! Damn, isn't this an insult to me? Am I talking nonsense?"

"I believe you won't talk nonsense, and you have confidence in yourself, but that may not be the case for them."

"This is too distrustful of me as a person."

"You can't say that you can't believe it. If someone expresses gratitude, you can accept it calmly. Only by coming and going can you last forever."

Tan Cifu opened the red envelope, which contained 20 hundred-dollar bills.

"so much."

"Take it, you deserve it."

The blood on the back seat of the Wuyang Honda motorcycle was dry and gave off a pungent smell. Tan Cifu found a wet rag and wiped it vigorously back and forth until it was clean before saying, "You can sit on it."

Su Xiaoye returned to the village, and when she was still dozens of meters away from Yue Zhilan's house, she said, "I can just get off the car here."

Tan Cifu stopped the car and asked her to get off. Seeing that the tip of her nose and face were red from the cold, he said, "I'm sorry, it's too cold on the back of a motorcycle."

"I don't mind, what do you mind?" Su Xiaoye smiled, took off the helmet and gave it back to Tan Cifu, "See you later."

Back at Yue's house, Yue Zhilan had returned and asked Su Xiaoye where she was: "Xiaoye, I didn't see you when I got home, where did you go?"

"Tan Cifu took me around the village."

"Damn it, you two wouldn't have locked eyes so quickly! Poor Zhu Ning was struck out ruthlessly."

"Don't mention that philandering carrot, okay?"

"Okay, let's not mention it. Let's eat quickly and wash the leaves after dinner. Let's dry them in the shade overnight and start work tomorrow."

The amaranth leaves are long and large. They are stacked one on top of the other and washed clean with running water.It should also be slightly cooked and placed in a ventilated place to dry in the shade.Yue Zhilan's mother soaked the selected plump mung beans in water, and then began to marinate the pork belly with five spices.

All the preparation work is extremely trivial. From this we can see that it is not easy to make a delicious steamed bun.

On the contrary, Su Xiaoye felt that these tasks were tiring and effortless, and she enjoyed them.

The three women worked until about 10 o'clock in the evening, and then stopped at the order of their mother-in-law.

Early the next morning, ten or eight sisters-in-law and aunties came to the house. It turns out that it takes so many people to steam the parcels.

"When the time comes, use a gasoline barrel to boil a barrel, and after it is cooked, each family will share it. It is a kind of cooperation." Yue Zhilan told Su Xiaoye.

Su Xiaoye nodded repeatedly: "The wisdom of working people."

Yue Zhilan took a top pocket and placed it between his knees: "Great scholar, don't sigh for now. Come on, will the package be steamed?"

"Do you think I can wrap and steam it?"

"I know you can't, follow me to do it."

Wrapped steamed buns are a traditional New Year food in City Z. Each one weighs half a kilogram, is pyramid-shaped, and is rich in fillings.Su Xiaoye has liked to eat this since she was a student. The aroma of glutinous rice mixed with the aroma of beans is endless aftertaste.But after more than 20 years of experience in wrapping and steaming, only now do I realize that wrapping and steaming is a technical job.

Yue Zhilan uses three amaranth leaves as the base, then puts glutinous rice, mung beans, pork belly, and half a salted egg yolk in order, then lays the bottom with glutinous rice and mung beans, covers the amaranth leaves, and uses dry water plants three or two times to form a firm wrap and steam it. .

Su Xiaoye learned it very seriously, and when he made a stab, he staggered around.She used her index and middle fingers to lift up the steamed study that was spinning in front of her: "Why doesn't my package look like a pyramid?"

Before she finished speaking, "Wow", her masterpiece was worn out, and the glutinous rice and mung beans were spilled all over the floor.

Yue Zhilan: "Waste."

While working, there is also a time for gossiping.

An aunt said: "The Chinese New Year is about to come, but Yue Yue of Yue Laosan's family has broken her leg and has to stay at home to recuperate. Do you think it's bad luck or not?"

Another aunt said: "She has a lot of money but a weak body. I'm afraid the husband and wife made too much dirty money from contracting projects and should be blamed on my daughter."

The first aunt said: "I heard that Yue Yue broke his leg in the backyard here. Xiaolan, do you know anything else?"

Yue Zhilan shook his head: "I don't know anything. I'm not familiar with them either."

Su Xiaoye was assigned to tie up water plants. She lowered her head and concentrated on her work without daring to breathe.

The more we helped, the busier we became, and by night, a hundred steamed buns were ready.

Tan Cifu came to help set up the stove.Seeing the array of fat and steamed buns, he was very happy: "Xiaoye, do you have a role in this?"

Su Xiaoye's chest puffed up: "Why not? I tied the waterweed knot!"

Tan Cifu: "..."

Yue Zhilan: "..."

They spontaneously discussed the quality of this year's lychee firewood.Su Xiaoye blushed with anger: "Hey! I succeeded in two! As long as the glutinous rice is not missed, it is a success!"

"This year's lychee wood is very good, resistant to burning, and can be dried well in the sun."

"Pork is also very good, and it smells delicious."

Su Xiaoye was left aside and petrified in the wind.

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The steamed buns need to be cooked over firewood for 12 hours before they are fully cooked and delicious.

Tan Cifu did the all-night vigil. Su Xiaoye saw that everyone was taking it for granted, and felt unfair for Tan Cifu: "Xiaolan, you can't always use him just because he is a good person."

"What do you know? He is an orphan and grew up eating hundreds of meals. Only in this way can he feel that he is needed. We also wanted to give him money at the beginning, but he was determined not to want it."

Xiaoye was shocked: "What! Orphan..."

She couldn't help but take another look into the yard. Tan Cifu was sitting under the eaves, tightly wrapped in the military coat given to him by Yue Zhilan's father. The brim of the hat was lowered, revealing his pointed chin.His muscles are tight and his skin is in perfect condition, making him very young.

"Anyway, he is very pitiful. By the way, where did you go for a drive that day? It seems that Yue Yue had an accident that day, right? Did you see anything?"

Su Xiaoye lowered her eyelids and said calmly: "There was no movement when I went out. Who is Yue Yue?"

Yue Zhilan said: "Oh, it's a pity. If only I hadn't gone out that day, I would have missed a good show."

Su Xiaoye was covered in cold sweat and walked away on the pretext of taking a shower.

Rubbing her hands full of bubbles and rubbing her hair, Su Xiaoye thought to herself: "So it's so difficult to keep a secret."

When she came out of the shower, she had completely forgotten Yue Yue.

Only by forgetting someone can you completely keep that person's secret.

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(End of this chapter)