The daily life of the foster brother who catches a beauty in 60

Chapter 29 Bean stuffing

"Sit down behind me to block the wind."

Tong Fuhai turned his face and shouted to Xia Ye.

Of course Xia Ye knew that Mr. Tong was doing it for her own good, so she responded sweetly and shrank behind him.

Qi Yunshan put a large cotton-padded jacket covering his legs on Xia Ye's body.

On summer nights, I really feel the cold of winter, my feet are so cold.

"Village chief, how long does it take to get to the brigade? It's too cold."

When Xia Ye first got on the sledge, she saw three educated youth-looking people sitting on the sledge. Their clothes were not as thick as the locals, but they didn't pay much attention.

"almost."

Weaving in the cold wind, it was really possible to stop talking. Otherwise, if our teeth were frozen, no one would say much during the rest of the journey.

Xia Ye lived at the foot of the mountain, not far from the educated youth point. When the sledge stopped at the entrance of the educated youth point, Xia Ye jumped down quickly.

"Grandpa Tong, Uncle Yunshan, I'm going back first."

Xia Ye said hello politely and wanted to leave, but she heard the complaints of two female educated youths on the sledge.

"Are we going to live in a house like this? We will freeze to death, right? We go to the countryside to support rural construction."

When Xia Ye heard this, she looked back and saw that she was a female educated youth. Although her head was tightly wrapped, the look of deep disgust in her eyes was undisguised.

"The brigade is all made of mud and thatched houses, that's the condition."

The impatience in Qi Yunshan's words was also undisguised.

I'm not ready to continue listening to the excitement on a summer night. Isn't the hot bed delicious? Inexplicably, I felt that this educated youth would never stop. Looking back, I saw that there were three new educated youths, one male and two females.

Xia Ye quickened her pace and soon arrived at the door of her house. When she opened the door and entered the house, she saw Yu Ye and Sun Dingxiang busy doing something in front of the cooking pot. Xia Xiaojun was also surrounding them.

"You're back. Hurry up and warm yourself up on the kang. Have you bought some sticky rice balls?"

"I bought it. When I take off my coat, I'll come over and make bean paste."

Xia Ye brought back a lot of glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice. The quantity was a bit large. Xia Ye didn't want to take them all out for others to see, so she entered the house with a basket on her back.

Xia Ye took off her clothes in a few moments, rubbed her hands and her face, which was almost numb from the cold, and left the bag of sticky rice crumbs, and put the rest in the cabinet in the house.

I also bought some peanuts and nuts from the system mall.

"It's too cold outside today. I'm freezing to death."

"Yeah, Ding Xiang and I were bored in the morning. I thought I would come over here with wool and knit a sweater while chatting. Who knew that you had gone to town? Xiaojun said that you were going to buy glutinous rice balls. There was no one left or right. Whatever happened, the two of us started arguing over the bean stuffing.

You old bean stuffing man can make a lot of bean buns. "

As Yu Ye said this, he grabbed a small handful of bean paste in the basin and kneaded it into a ball in his hand. After a while, a round ball appeared.

"I still met the village chief and his uncle who drove a sledge to pick up the new educated youths. They had to ride on a sledge to go and come back. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to come back now."

Xia Ye walked to the big pot. The pot had been brushed out and was all clean.

"What are you doing?"

"Fry some peanuts and eat them. We'll have delicious yajiya soon."

I took some bean stalks and lit them in the stove pit. When the pot was hot, I poured the peanuts and beans into it.

"I'll fry it, you should hide. The fire is too strong and it will be mushy in a while." Yu Ye snatched the shovel from Xia Ye's hand and quickly turned it over in the pot.

Yu Ye is the oldest among the three, one year older than Xia Ye and Sun Dingxiang. Xia Ye is four months older than Sun Dingxiang, so Xiao Xiaye is the second child in the small group.

"Sister Ye Zi, are you going to knit wool socks?"

Xia Ye turned her head and saw the sweater needles and knitted woolen socks on the table over there, which made Xia Ye's mind move.

"There's nothing to do when I'm free. I can knit a pair of woolen socks and sit on the kang to warm my feet."

Xia Ye felt that she needed it too, and it just happened to be a good way to kill some time. The woolen yarn was sold in her system mall.

"When are you going to make sticky bean buns? Your sticky noodles haven't been polished or soaked yet. They have to be cooked before you can make them."

"I'll go work on my face in the afternoon, and I'll post it in the evening. I'll wrap it up tomorrow."

I know this summer night. To make sticky noodles, you need to put the glutinous rice balls into the tank in advance and soak them in water for a month. Bubbles still form after soaking on the water surface. You can crush the rice balls by pushing them with your hands. Degree.

After adding water a few times, and there is no odor left, you can go to Graphite and grind some water into rice soup. Then put the rice soup into a cloth bag, empty out the excess water, form it into a ball and freeze it. This is the authentic sticky rice. Save face, when you need to make bean buns, just take a ball and freeze it for use.

In the same way, you can also soak corn stubble, the kind grown in the earth. The kind made into sour soup is also very delicious. Xia Ye also made it this year.

For noodles like Xia Ye, which are not soaked and sticky, they need to be fermented. There is not much difference in taste.

"Okay, then I'll come over tomorrow to help you make sticky bean buns."

"I'll come too. Three people can cover it quickly."

After finishing the bean paste group, the three little girls and Xia Xiaojun, a brat, ate melon seeds and peanuts and chatted for a while.

Yu Ye and Sun Dingxiang didn't sit still for too long. They had to help their mothers cook when they got home.

After making an appointment for the next day, the two of them withdrew.

After everyone left, Xia Ye remembered the two firecrackers she bought.

"Xiaojun, come here and see what I bought?"

Xia Xiaojun was a child after all, so he followed Xia Ye to her house with bright eyes. After seeing the two firecrackers in Xia Ye's hands, his face turned red with excitement.

"Sister, are these all for me?"

"It's for you. Just take it apart and play with it. Just put it away. Be careful not to let it get wet and it won't make any sound. Don't put it on the kang as it will burn if it gets too hot."

Xia Xiaojun nodded quickly. When his father was still alive, he would bring him a small firecracker during the Chinese New Year. Thinking about it made him want to cry, but looking at his sister, he wanted to laugh again. He cried and laughed at the same time. His name was Xia Xiaojun. Ye felt inexplicably distressed.

"Okay, let's go back to the house. I'm going to the brigade's mill. Will you go?"

Xia Xiaojun wiped away his tears vigorously and nodded.

"Sister, wait for me for a while, I'll set off the firecrackers, put on my cotton-padded jacket and come out."

Xia Xiaojun ran back and put the firecrackers in the kang cabinet in his room, together with the notebooks and pencils. This shows that these things are equally important in his heart.

After putting on my big cotton-padded jacket, hat and gloves, I didn't forget to put a wooden stake on the door when I went out with Xia Ye, and I kicked it hard with my feet a few times to feel uneasy.

Xia Ye was amused when I saw this. This is a way for rural people to prevent theft when they leave home. It is not so much about preventing theft, but it is more about telling others, ‘No one is home, so there is no need to go in. ’

Seeing Xia Xiaojun like this, Xia Ye decided to come back later and buy a lock for Xia Xiaojun in the system mall and put a lock on his kang cabinet to save him from being so afraid of losing things.

(End of this chapter)