Reborn Leisurely Landlord

Chapter 9
When Father Su returned home this time, the originally deserted home felt a lot more lively.In addition, Aunt Su returned to her mother's house, and Uncle Su couldn't take care of herself alone, so Su Qingdai packed up a wing and let her uncle live in her home.

After returning from the city, Su Qingdai and Su Qingye began to pick glutinous rice and japonica rice that night, and carefully sieved them with gauze before putting them in water and starting to soak them.On the other side, Su's father also led Su Qingcheng to clean the steamer and stone pound that had not been used for a long time, and put them in a shaded place to dry.

This busy, it was eleven o'clock at night.Father Su rushed the children to bed.

After a night without dreams, Su Qingdai got up early the next morning. Hearing the sound of her father cleaning the yard, she felt satisfied. She hurriedly prepared to cook, and checked to see if the soaked rice was ready.

After breakfast, Su Qingdai prepared two clean cauldrons and began to boil water.The stove was thriving, reflecting Su Qingye's round face, flushed and really cute.

Su's father set up the steamer and put the soaked rice in it.On the other side, Su Qingdai was in charge of watching the fire, and on the other hand, she told her younger brother to mix the prepared dried fruits such as almonds, walnuts, peanuts, and raisins together and grind them into powder.After staying for an hour, it was estimated that the pot was about to start, and the uncle Lian next door followed Aunt Lian to the house.

"Hey, it's all ready? Is it time to start cooking?" Aunt Lian smelled the aroma of rice, and immediately narrowed her eyes with a smile. It's so cold, if the pounding slows down after a while, the rice will not be sticky."

Su Qingdai smiled: "That's not true, so we prepared several stoves of charcoal fires, and let us burn the stone pound with charcoal fires to ensure that it will be warm."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Lian's eyes lit up when she saw the hot stone pound in the room: "This is a good idea."

Immediately, the few people stopped talking nonsense and poured all the glutinous rice steamed in the steamer into the stone pound.

On the other side, Father Su and Uncle Lian had also prepared the wooden pestle and stone mortar.At that moment, Su's father was holding the wooden pestle, and Uncle Lian was holding the stone mortar. One pounded it with a stone hammer, and the other turned it over with a wooden pestle, beating them one by one.

Making glutinous rice cakes is a technical task, which requires both strength and quickness, so that the glutinous rice cakes can be beaten evenly and firm, viscous and transparent like mud, but they are also very willful when they are provoked.If the strength is not enough, the stone mortar cannot be lifted up, and the wooden pestle cannot be stabbed down, so the glutinous rice cakes produced will be hard and astringent, which is very unpalatable.

Listening to Father Su and Uncle Lian yelling and shouting, Su Qingdai hurriedly told Su Qingye to watch the fire under the stone pound. Just keep the pound warm.

Then she followed Aunt Lian to prepare the mould, and took some sesame oil to moisten it.Seeing that Father Su felt soft and pliable when picking up the glutinous rice, he immediately ordered his sister to turn off the fire, and asked his brother to pour the ground dried fruit into the stone pound and stir it evenly with the glutinous rice.

At this time, the glutinous rice cakes are ready.Then pour the warm rice paste into the mold that has been prepared earlier to make a round cake or a long strip. After the glutinous rice cake cools down, knock the glutinous rice cake out of the mold.

After being so busy, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.During this period, Su Qingdai had already started to prepare meals. The freshly baked glutinous rice cakes were the most delicious, and Su Qingdai was unambiguous, so she rolled up her sleeves and made glutinous rice cake meat. When the smell of the meat wafted out, Su Qingcheng was already salivating, staring at the big glutinous rice cake. Bowl of glutinous rice cake meat.

They fried two meat and two vegetables, and heated up two taels of millet wine. Father Su and Uncle Lian, who had been busy all morning, stopped working and got together with Uncle Su to eat wine.Uncle Lian ate the glutinous rice cake meat and was full of praise.

Aunt Lian hurriedly asked how to make it, but Su Qingdai didn't hide it, she smiled and talked to Aunt Lian about how to prepare the ingredients, how to put them into the pot, and how to heat them.Aunt Lian was surprised to hear this, and had never heard of such a practice, but the glutinous rice cake meat was indeed tender and refreshing, so she kept it in her heart.

At this time, Su Qingdai didn't know that it was precisely because of the glutinous rice cake meat that the glutinous rice cakes in Qinghe town became famous all over the country a few years later, and many Chinese and foreign tourists came here admiringly.

After making glutinous rice cakes, Su Qingdai packed them in a clean snakeskin bag and put them in the cellar, and steamed them when she wanted to eat them.Because even the uncle's family came to help, Su Qingdai was not stingy, took ten catties of glutinous rice cakes and handed them to Aunt Lian, and sealed a 20 yuan red envelope and put it in her hand.Although Aunt Lian exchanged polite greetings, she still received the red envelope.

In Shao Township, making glutinous rice cakes is a big event, which means a good harvest and good luck in the coming year.Asking someone to make glutinous rice cakes is also not ambiguous, and you must give a red envelope, but there is no regulation on the amount, there are five yuan, ten yuan.

But for Su Qingdai to seal 20 yuan like this, it is considered a big deal in Qinghe Town.Aunt Nalian opened a red envelope after returning home, very surprised.But thinking of the rumors he heard, he felt relieved.The daughter of the Su family looks really promising.

Su Qingdai sealed the red envelope, and did not hide it from her father. She turned around and went back to the house and told her father.He also talked about Auntie Lian helping out several times when his father was not at home, and sealing a big red envelope was a way of thanking Auntie Lian for taking care of him.

Su's father originally thought that his daughter was a bit big-handed, but now that he heard it, he also felt that it would be reasonable to enclose a big red envelope.Thinking about it, I felt that I was really confused, and I was not as sensible as my daughter.But seeing her daughter acted familiarly without any stage fright, I was both proud and ashamed.

In the afternoon, Father Su took Su Qingcheng out to run some errands, and Su Qingdai made medicine for Uncle Su.Yesterday she went to the hospital to inquire about Uncle Su's condition. When she learned about the hemoptysis, the doctor looked embarrassed and insisted on hospitalization.Su Qingdai naturally understands that it is better to be hospitalized earlier than later, but Uncle Su refuses to live or die, so he thinks about passing this year first.So the doctor's prescription was obtained by grinding hard and softly.

The doctor was also kind. Seeing that a little girl like Su Qingdai cared so much about her uncle, she didn't hide it. He even said that hemoptysis is no longer a minor illness. If it is to be cured, it must go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.His prescriptions can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and the disease can only last for a few months.

Su Qingdai sighed while brewing medicine: Doctors in the 90s were pure, and their heart was to save people and treat diseases, and they didn't have so much utilitarian psychology.I will not accept red envelopes with a black heart, and I will not disregard human lives.

Just thinking wildly, I heard my sister who was playing outside rushing towards the door in a hurry.

"Sister, sister, there is a car... a car is coming to our house!" Su Qingye, who was running out of breath, said intermittently.

Su Qingdai was puzzled, car?How could a car come to our house?I'm afraid my sister is confused.Ignoring my sister's yelling, I concentrated on brewing the medicine, and said casually: "Look at you running, there is nothing strange about the car. I'm afraid it's passing by, or going to Uncle Xunlian's house, it has nothing to do with us." , don't make a fuss."

When Su Qingye heard her sister say this, she was anxious to explain.Before he could speak, the sound of engines and horns could already be heard from the ground outside the door.Su Qingdai seemed to think of something, her face changed, her eyes flashed brightly, she put down the medicine jar in her hand and ran out hastily.

Sure enough, a small van parked on the ground of his own courtyard, and several other families, including my aunt and Aunt Jiang next door, were poking their heads.Sun Qiang in the car seemed to have never seen such a compact rural house, and he was a little embarrassed at the moment, and quickly asked, "Excuse me, is this Su Dajiang's house?"

Just as he was talking, he saw a girl running out of the main room.Taking a closer look, who is it if it's not the eccentric Su Qingdai from yesterday?He immediately grinned and said, "Sister Su, I'm in a hurry to bring you something!"

But as soon as Su Qingdai rushed out, she saw a fat man jumping out of the car. It turned out to be Sun Qiang from the printing factory yesterday.While Su Qingdai was surprised, she was also overjoyed.Looking at the van, his eyes rolled, and he already guessed that Sun Qiang was here to deliver the goods.

"Brother Sun, why did you come here in person? We are planning to go to the city to pick up the goods in person tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Su Qingdai smiled and pulled Sun Qiang into the room to sit, and quietly ordered her sister to find her father and come back.

Sun Qiang was also polite, and followed Su Qingdai into the house.Su Qingdai made some tea, sat aside and began to ask about Sun Qiang's couplets and New Year pictures.

It was precisely for this purpose that Sun Qiang came this time, and he hurriedly printed the first batch early this morning.Put some of them in Li Wei and several other stores to try out the effect, and the result is naturally very satisfactory.As soon as those items hit the shelves, they sold out.

Sun Qiang was very happy in his heart, thinking that the Chinese New Year would be over ten days away, since Su Qingdai wanted to buy goods for business, naturally the sooner the better.He happened to be fine, so he thought about delivering the goods to her himself.

Of course, Sun Qiang was also a little cautious.That batch of goods sold well, and his ambition became bigger.Although he can't monopolize the market, he still has some confidence in capturing most of the consumers.He and several partners thought about expanding the printing volume and planned to sell the goods in batches to other provinces.

However, there were too few samples, and he was a little uncertain, so he thought that he would go to Qinghe Village himself, and then get close to Su Qingdai, to see if he could get samples from other series.However, he also knew that Su Qingdai was difficult to deal with. If he couldn't do it, he would give her [-]% of the profit. At worst, he would suffer a little loss. As long as he made a profit, he would not really take the money by himself.

A businessman is a businessman, and he counts profits left and right. Naturally, he will not suffer if he plans this way.Immediately, he wanted to make progress by retreating, since he would give Su Qingdai some sweetness, and then he would make a fortune in silence.

It just so happened that Su Qingdai also had this idea, but she had no capital and no connections, even if she had a stomach full of sample prints, she had nowhere to use them.After this exchange and exploration, knowing that Sun Qiang had this intention, he was overjoyed, so he naturally agreed.At the moment, she didn't care whether Sun Qiang was a guest or not, she hurriedly went to the wing room to get a sketchbook, sat at the table and began to draw.

Then Sun Qiang was thinking about earning money. Seeing that Su Qingdai was so good, how could he be annoyed by Su Qingdai's negligence? He only wished that Su Qingdai could paint more, so that he could earn more.

As he was drawing, Father Su had rushed back with Su Qingcheng anxiously.Before he got home, he bumped into Aunt Jiang next door.Aunt Jiang was also an inquisitive person, so when she saw a van parked in front of Su's family, she naturally fell in love with her.Seeing Su's father running back in a hurry, he thought in his heart that he had already blocked Su's way.

"I said Su Da, you look like a monkey's butt on fire, what are you doing? Someone just came to your house and drove a car, what are you doing?"

Su's father was in a hurry to go back to see that Sun Qiang, and he was not at ease letting his daughter deal with that man alone.Although his daughter is experienced in handling things, he may not be able to help, but if he is not watching from the sidelines, he is really afraid that something will go wrong.

At this time, Aunt Jiang stopped me, so I didn't have the leisurely mind to talk nonsense with her, so I was impatient with her, so I could only vaguely say, "Where are you going, Aunt Jiang? I took my son to Lao Shu's at that time. While chatting, I heard my youngest daughter say that there are guests at home, so she ran back in a hurry. I haven't entered the house yet, so how do I know what to do?"

While talking, he has already left without looking back.

Aunt Jiang was devastated by Su's father and felt depressed. When she looked up, she saw that the women from other families were all smiling and looking at her, as if they were very happy to see her making a fool of herself.Aunt Su's heart was bitter again, she secretly bit her gums, and stared at the door of Su's house with hatred.

(End of this chapter)