take a wife to support the family

Chapter 62

The weather is getting hotter day by day, the sun is shining on the backs of the farmers, and everyone is sweating, acting like they were fished out of the water.

This is also the most important time for farming and building canals. No matter how sunny the sun is, we cannot hide away, otherwise the harvest of the year will be in vain.

When it's hot, people don't like to eat very much. Song Haonian is a strong young man who loves to eat meat. He can't even eat food. He has to force himself to eat a bowl.

He had a heavy workload, and he couldn't keep up with his nutrition for a few days, so his cheeks were so thin that his cheeks sagged. Lily turned around in a hurry, tried his best to adjust his diet, and hoped for rain.

It’s just that the weather is not what people want. It’s cool when it rains, but if you can’t work, you can’t make money. As a farmer, you still hope that it won’t rain, so that you can earn some money and food for yourself.

Lily dug a lot of koji cabbage and chicory from the wild. These two things are the most flavorful when used to make Physalis water, better than celery and rapeseed.

Wash the vegetables and cut off the thick roots, put them in a basket and wash them over and over again. It takes hundreds of times to wash them without leaving any dirt.

Blanch the vegetables once in boiling water, then put them into a relatively large pottery jar, sprinkle two handfuls of flour in a pot of water to make a paste, and pour them into the jar.After cooling, add water to the edge of the jar to seal it, put it in a cool place and let it ferment for a few days.

It's a stupid way to just wait for the soy water to ferment. Lily knew that Wang Xiaofu's mother was good at making soy water, so she brought two eggs to the door to ask for some soy water soup, commonly known as "sour feet".

Aunt Wang's family made syrup every year, and the house kept running out of syrup. On weekdays, there were many people begging her for sore feet. She refused to accept Lily's eggs, so she scooped a bowl full of syrup for Lily, and said with a smile: "Try it."

The syrup is best used to season noodles or rice, and sometimes people who are thirsty will drink it directly.Lily bowed her head and took a sip from the rim of the bowl. She was so sour that she blurted out, "It's so sour!"

After the initial sour taste, there is a mellow aroma and sweet aftertaste. No wonder Mrs. Wang's syrup is famous, just drink it and you will know it is very good.

Aunt Wang then told Lily how to seal the water, how to prevent the water from turning white flowers in hot weather, and what to do when the white flowers bloomed... Lily listened to each of them, and couldn't stop nodding: "Thanks to the aunt telling me, otherwise I would be a fool."

After returning from Wang's house, I poured the sour feet into my own pulp jar, took a scalded and cleaned wooden spoon, stirred it well, and sealed it up again.With sour feet to help ferment, it can be eaten tomorrow at most.

Lily remembered what Mrs. Wang said, that the starch should not be stained with any oily dirt, and thought, this spoon will be used exclusively for scooping the syrup in the future, and nothing else can be done.

On the second day, Song Haonian ate the sour, fragrant and refreshing oatmeal fish.

It is troublesome to prepare fish and fish in slurry water, but it is actually not difficult at all. Let a few basins of water dry first, so that the water will be cold when the fish and fish in slurry water are out of the pot.

Flour is included as usual, mixed with warm water to form a thick paste, dipped with your fingers, it is a bit sticky, and it does not drip down like a thin paste.

Boil a pot of boiling water overflowing with splashes, take a colander and put it on top of the boiling water pot, scoop a spoonful of batter into it, and the batter will slowly drip down through the round hole on the colander.Seeing that the length is about the same, shake it a little, and the dripping batter will be broken and fall into the boiling water, turning into the shape of small fish with round heads and long tails.

All the batter is turned into noodle fish, sinking and floating in the water. After cooking, use a colander to fish it into the cold water prepared earlier, change the water two or three times, and rinse the batter on the surface to make them refreshing. Bouncy.

When Song Haonian came back from work, he was so hot that he was sweating all over his head, and he wanted to draw well water to wash his face, Lily hurriedly called him: "Prepare some hot water, you go and wash."

"Too hot..." Song Haonian muttered, and finally listened to his wife.

He felt that he was a big man, and he wanted to be decisive in major matters, and let his daughter-in-law decide the small things in the family, so he didn't make her unhappy with such trivial matters.

Unexpectedly, the hot water is very comfortable to wash your face and wipe your body. It feels hot when you wash it, but it is so cool that your armpits feel windy after washing, unlike cold water, which makes you burn.

Song Haonian smiled and said: "Daughter-in-law, I know you are smart, but why are you so smart!"

Lily didn't answer, but opened the syrup tank to see that the syrup had been fermented until it was sour and fragrant, and the soup turned into a light white with a slight stickiness, which made people feel refreshed after looking at it.

Scoop out a bowl of gravy water, heat the oil and stir-fry a few times, add some sliced ​​garlic and green onion, pour a lot of water into it and cook, and finally put a little salt, it is a pot of gravy water soup.

Put the soup away from the fire to dry, Lily asked Song Haonian to fetch well water, and according to the method Mrs. Wang said, she put the slurry tank in a wooden basin, and filled the basin with water.The freshly tapped well water is so cold that it is changed every day to ensure that the slurry water is not bad even in the dog days.

When the soup cools down for a while, take a bowl of noodle fish fish, pour a spoonful of syrup and eat it.Song Haonian began to salivate when he smelled the sour aroma: "In this weather, we should eat some syrup to cool off."

He picked up the bowl and took a sip of the soup first. The warm soup was sour and fragrant, and he also shivered. His appetite, which had been sluggish for a long time, suddenly opened up, and he began to dig into the rice.

Lily sat face to face with him and ate, and also felt that the soup was very fragrant, so she drank several bowls one after another.

After eating, Song Haonian licked his lips, "It's delicious, and I'll make rice with starch and water tomorrow. It's just that my mouth is a bit weak..."

When the appetite comes back, others will immediately feel refreshed and become picky eaters.He was quite happy to be picky about lily, and said with a smile, "I will change the taste tomorrow."

Song Haonian put a big head on Lily's shoulder, now it's not too hot, he hugged the person and kept dawdling, whispered: "Daughter-in-law, you are so kind."

Lily dared to touch his head. People say that a man's head and a woman's waist can't be touched casually, that's called disrespect, but seeing him like this, Lily wanted to touch him very much.

After touching it, Song Haonian didn't jump up to say no, instead he hummed a few times enjoying himself, like a big golden retriever acting coquettishly.Lily made her association amused, and burst out laughing.

Song Haonian felt that eating only the syrup was a bit bland, so Lily had to find a way to make some condiments. She still made up her mind on the sauce, the meat sauce was a bit greasy in this weather, so she couldn't eat more, so she finally decided to make some leek sauce.

After she sold the raspberries, she went to the leek grower's house, and said in a good voice that she wanted to buy some leeks, and the family was quite generous: "Flowering leeks are not very easy to sell. If you want them, you can sell them at a low price." you."

Lily bought a large basket of leek flowers for a little money, like little green hedgehogs with white flowers blooming on the thorn tips.Go home and wash it clean, and dry it on a bamboo plaque to dry all the water.

When she woke up in this world for the first time, the house was really bare, except for a bed and two benches, there was nothing in the room.Nowadays, there are just large and small jars, pots, baskets, bamboo baskets, and bamboo plaques...the house is filled to the brim, showing a kind of prosperity and excitement.

Sprinkle salt on the dried leek flowers and kill them for a while. Lily moved a stone mortar from the kitchen, which was dug out with a whole piece of fine bluestone.

The stone mortar is not big, and it only takes more than a bowl to fill it with water. On weekdays, she uses this set of stone mortar and pestle to mash garlic and grind peppercorns, and now she uses it to make leek sauce.

Prepare a few slices of ginger, throw a few chive flowers into the stone mortar and smash them for a few times, and the spicy taste will be released. While pounding, put some ginger in and crush them together, and finally get a jar of green chive flower sauce. When there are too many chive flowers to a certain extent, they are scraped out and put into jars.

Add more salt to seal it, and store it like a jar of syrup, and you can eat it until winter.

That night, the water noodles were served with a plate of leek sauce, which was salty and fragrant. Song Haonian was full of praise and straightened out his daughter-in-law's skill.Lily said proudly: "I know a lot, you will know later."

"I know now!" Song Haonian's appetite also increased, and his breath also went smoothly, while Lily was washing the dishes, he was rubbing against each other, swaying.

Lily said to him: "What are you doing? Tell me to finish washing earlier, and I will drop the bowl later, but it's your fault."

"Daughter-in-law, are you going to take a bath later?" Song Haonian put on a flattering face, "I'll rub your back!"

Lily was stunned for a moment, understood what he meant, and blushed and said, "I can wash myself, so I don't need you to rub my back." She bought two old loofahs, and she can rub her back by herself.

Besides, who doesn't understand his little plan?This person clearly said that he was rubbing his back, but wasn't it her idea to hit him secretly?
Timid women are the most surprising when they suddenly show their generosity, and those who are usually generous are the most provocative when they blush occasionally.

Song Haonian likes to see his daughter-in-law blushing the most, for no other reason, she is usually generous and stable, not like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old lady.

This red face will make you look younger.She is so light that he can hug her with one hand, so the two of them are the real newlyweds, and they can't do without each other.

He twisted Lily's earlobe and whispered, "I rubbed it clean, so you can let me help you."

Lily felt embarrassed and let him go.

She thought to herself, this is my husband, what are you so embarrassed about?
Unexpectedly, Song Haonian, who can barely be regarded as a dignified man and a gentleman at ordinary times, is even more of a hooligan than a hooligan at this time, he was willing to rub his back well at first, he has great strength, and rubbed the lily very comfortably.

Rubbing and rubbing his hands, he went where he shouldn't go, Lily half pushed, and then he squeezed into the bathtub!Lily was dumbfounded, and it was too late to push him out, but the two of them started to move, which aroused his anger.

Finally, after washing, the water in the bathtub was already cold, and there was a big puddle on the ground. It seemed that two people stirred it up.Lily thumped him angrily: "Sweep this place!"

Song Haonian stepped out of the bathtub with a satisfied face, Lily felt that he was intentionally boasting of his good figure, with broad shoulders, thin waist and long legs.

He carried his limp daughter-in-law out of the bathtub, wiped it clean and sent it to the bedroom, not forgetting to show his credit: "Two people wash together, saving water."

(End of this chapter)