Crossing the green wheat ears

Xi Mingwen sent Shuangpi Nai to Jude Building. After tasting it, Sun Ye didn't say a word, and went to Xiyuan's house in a carriage the next day. Of course, Xiyuan wanted to treat him graciously, and cut the mutton into slices to make mutton hot pot; Cut it into pieces, skewered it with bamboo sticks to make lamb kebabs, sat on the bed of the kang and kept saying that he couldn't walk, Xiyuan looked at Sun Ye and laughed.

Sun Ye came this time, in addition to the double-skin milk recipe given by Xie Xiyuan, he also brought a contract, which was the same as the roast duck contract signed last time. There is only double-skin milk on it, and now it is filled with mutton hot pot and mutton skewers. Xiyuan didn't refuse, and signed and signed on it. The two of them looked at each other and smiled, both were very satisfied.

Sun Ye's branch in Wuma County has now opened to welcome customers. Because it is winter, it is freezing and snowy outside, and people's hands and feet are as cold as cats biting when they go out, so they can only cat in the house, which is the so-called cat winter.But it’s boring to stay at home all the time. If you have nothing to do, you will invite two people out to sit in a restaurant, order two dishes and a pot of wine, and chat while eating; .Therefore, the business of restaurants in winter is better than usual, but because there are few vegetables in this season, the dishes in restaurants always eat the same ones, and they get bored after eating, and want to change to new ones.

This provided Sun Ye with a great opportunity. He had some fresh food provided by Xiyuan, and the restaurant attracted a large number of diners. The number of customers is also full. At first, the shopkeeper Qi was worried that the newly opened restaurant would not have enough customers, but now seeing the room full of customers, he is laughing from ear to ear.He is no longer the shopkeeper of Jude Building in Yansui City. As soon as the preparations for the new restaurant started, the owner promoted him to the position of director of Jude Building. The two restaurants each have shopkeepers, and he is in charge.The owner said that he plans to open Jude Building to Binjiang City in the coming year, and he will go to check the situation and choose a store in the spring of next year, and then he will guard Binjiang.Binjiang, that's the prefectural city!

Xiyuan also hopes that the business of Jude Building will be better and better. After all, he still owes Sun Ye 200 taels of silver. Besides, Xiyuan always feels that his home is too small, and he will build a new house next year no matter what. There should be a place dedicated to teaching children to read, Xiyuan thought to himself looking at the few little carrots sitting on the kang and writing seriously.He started to think about the construction of the new house when he was free. This place is located in the north, and the winter is cold. Considering the problem of heating in winter, the houses should be relatively concentrated.

Entering the twelfth lunar month, the New Year is not far away, and every family begins to prepare for the New Year.Some people have yellow rice, so they mix the yellow rice and cornmeal together, then knead the bean filling, knead a piece of yellow rice noodles, put the bean filling in the middle, knead the dough tightly, and roll it into a small ball with your hands. The sticky bean bun is ready.Xiyuan thinks that sticky bean buns are very similar to glutinous rice balls, except that the glutinous rice balls are made of Jiangmi and the bean buns are made of yellow rice.

The grandma of Xiyuan's family also sent out two large pots of yellow rice noodles. The large pots used here are not the ordinary slightly larger pots that are usually cooked at home, but the pots that are almost as big as the big pots at home, so the sticky pots of steamed two pots of noodles Bean buns are enough for a family to eat all winter.

When the noodles are ready, Niang Xiyuan puts an appropriate amount of cornmeal into the yellow rice noodles, and Xi Mingwen reconciles the noodles, because there are a lot of noodles, and the person who makes the noodles needs to be strong.Then the whole family sat around the big basin and began to make sticky bean buns. This year even Weicheng, Xiwei, and Xiyang also got started. Xiyong was young and gave him a piece of noodles for him to sit next to and pinch ducklings to play with.

The little guys were very serious at the beginning, making the sticky bean buns round, but after making them for a while, they started to slip away. You push me, I hit you, and I will paint the tip of your nose with white... West Looking at it from a distance, it didn't stop it.

Grandma and mother saw that the number of buns was enough for one pot of steaming, so they took the cover curtain for the bean buns to the main room, put the bean buns on the steaming drawer of the big pot, then covered the pot and started to steam.

Those noodles can’t be steamed in one day, and the kang is too hot to sleep at night, so I divided it into three days to steam. The steamed sticky bean buns were placed outside, and they froze after a while, and then picked up the bag Put it in the warehouse, take a few when you want to eat, put it on the steamer and steam it.You can also put some oil in the pot, put the bean buns in the pot and fry them with oil; some people’s children are hungry, they just take two frozen bean buns, and let the children sit there and eat slowly, which is both full and time-consuming.

At dinner, Niang Xiyuan ate rice cakes baked with sticky rice noodles. As soon as she put the cakes in her mouth, Xiyuan remembered that when Wei Cheng first came home last year, eating rice cakes made his teeth stick. I also remembered it. I looked up at everyone in embarrassment, and snuggled up to my brother. Because he ate well this year and had goat milk to supplement calcium, his new teeth grew very well. All four front teeth had been replaced, and Xiyuan had banned him from licking with his tongue at that time, so the four small teeth grew neatly.

On the day of Laba, grandma cooked a large pot of eight-treasure porridge with red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, rice, millet, yellow rice, and sorghum rice at home, and put a little peanuts, red dates, and white sugar in it. These are all grown at home. Or something that can be picked in the wild, the eight-treasure porridge boiled out is sticky and fragrant, and everyone sweats after drinking it.The children drank so much that they didn't want to put down their bowls. They all liked to drink sweet things. Usually, Xiyuan not only boiled pear syrup with rock sugar for them, but also forbade them to eat sugar, for fear that their teeth would be damaged, so it was rare to be able to put it like this. Open to eat.

Xi Mingquan and his wife came here with their two children. Although Laba is not as grand as other festivals, it is still a festival. Now that the relationship with the elder brother's family has eased, the family will go to the elder brother's house for dinner whenever they have a chance, and even more I really wish that the two young ones would grow up in Ximingwen's house, and be taken care of by the old lady like Xiyang Xiyong.

Xiyuan still doesn't like this third uncle, but he didn't turn around and leave as before. Now he will greet him, and then say a few polite words, and then find an excuse to do his own business son gone.The old lady and the old man saw that Xiyuan and the third uncle were still unable to get along well, so they didn't force it. The children and grandchildren didn't want to look like black-eyed chickens when they met. They also knew that the third uncle's family was not welcome.

Today is also the same, Xili Hulu eats faster than everyone else, he is afraid that the porridge will be gone after a while, and he asked his mother to serve a bowl to dry. He originally asked his aunt to serve it, but Xi Yuan Niang pretended not to hear.In fact, Niang Xiyuan hasn't forgotten in her heart that the two couples fought against his elder brother for land.Ximing is all Xi Mingwen's blood brother, Xi Mingwen doesn't care about it, she can't say anything, after all, there is an old lady and old man in her house; but Xi Mingwen's forgiveness belongs to Xi Mingwen, but she is as unconcerned as Xi Yuan. Living with this couple in a salty way, the two children of the third family, the young Goudan, looked okay, or maybe they were young and hadn't learned how this pair of parents behaved, and the big one No matter how you look at her, she is disgusting, so she doesn't treat Xiyang Xiyong like she does.When the whole family ate, Xiaoyong didn't say anything about putting out a bowl and putting it aside to dry, so why should a cub bigger than Xiwei be?So she didn't move.The third daughter-in-law saw that the sister-in-law didn't move, but she didn't see her. She took a bowl by herself, put it in the porridge bowl, and put it next to the tiger.

With their family, there was nothing left of the big pot of Laba porridge that grandma cooked, and Xiyuan was frightened by the way the third uncle's family devoured it.Logically speaking, compared with the former Xiyuan's family, the conditions of the third uncle's family can only be better, not worse.This is really free food without money, and it doesn't matter whether the old people and children on the table are full or not, they only put down their chopsticks after eating until their stomachs are full.Grandma also felt that the family's food was too ugly, so she glared at them several times angrily, but they just pretended not to notice.The porridge was gone, and everyone else put down their chopsticks whether they were full or not.

After finishing the meal, before leaving, the third aunt asked the old lady for the pickled vegetables at home. She mainly wanted the spicy cabbage made by Xiyuan. They had a meal at the eldest brother's house a few days ago, and they didn't eat it when they went back. Enough, so taking advantage of the holiday today, the elderly and children in the family are happy, and because of the holiday, the adults will not be angry at this juncture just to be happy.Their calculations are pretty good, but what grandma doesn't understand, now that the third family is here to eat and drink, the two of them feel sorry for the old family, Xiyuan Niang didn't say a word, but she looked at her in her heart. Unhappy, the two couples haven't restrained yet, the old lady opened her mouth to reprimand them, but also thought that today is a holiday, and besides, she has to save some face for them in front of so many juniors.But the old lady didn't do what they wanted, she didn't bring spicy cabbage, but picked a few mustard greens from the pickle jar in the main room, in fact, it was delicious for her grandson to make it.Xiyuan asked his mother to cut the mustard greens into thin shreds, then poured chili oil, put some sesame seeds, garlic, and vinegar, and then mixed it, it was also very delicious.

Seeing that she opened her mouth for a while, the old lady scooped up two mustard lumps, Xi Mingquan was so angry that she stared at her eyes.

"What are you staring at, this mustard greens are delicious when mixed, besides, it's dark outside, you let my old woman go to the cellar to fish pickles for you?" The old lady scolded.In fact, there is spicy cabbage in the barn where the roast chicken is made, but the old lady is unwilling to give it, deliberately saying that it is in the cellar, and the cellar will be very troublesome next time.She was also afraid that the couple would always come to ask for it after they were anesthetized.This wasn't the last time she felt sorry for Huzi and Goudan, thinking that the two children hadn't eaten before, and would serve them a plate when they were having dinner at home, but now she started thinking about asking for it.

There was no way to take the old lady, who doesn't have mustard lumps, Xi Mingquan and his wife didn't take it, and took the two children away.Seeing grandma fighting against third uncle, Xiyuan was angry and funny at the same time.

After the third uncle's family had left, Xiyuan asked the four little ones if they had eaten enough. The little ones hesitated whether to tell the truth, they were indeed not full, like the older Wei Cheng and Xiyang , it can still be seen that the atmosphere of the dinner table is not right.The young Xiyong had few things to think about, so he nodded honestly.

It was already dark, and I was afraid that the little ones would pee on the kang at night if I made porridge, so Xiyuan used a charcoal brazier to roast sweet potatoes and potato chips for them to eat, and took six sticky bean buns and fried them slowly in the pot. Sweet potatoes are bought at the market in Wande Town in autumn. The land in Lianhua Village is mainly black and there is no sandy soil. Sweet potatoes don’t like to grow or be sweet, so every family doesn’t plant them, and they are sold at the market in autumn. It is available and not very expensive.

The sweet potatoes were roasted, and when they were split apart from the middle, the aroma came out immediately. Xiyuan divided half of the little ones, two roasted sweet potatoes, plus a few baked potato chips, basically enough for four children, Xiyuan didn't let them eat sticky bean buns, because it was late and the glutinous things were not easy to digest, fearing that they would accumulate food.The same goes for grandma and grandpa. The two old people did not dare to eat something that was too difficult to digest in the dark. They stopped eating half of the sweet potatoes.Only Xiyuan and Ximingwen's couple ate two sticky bean buns each, and they were all full.

While eating sweet potatoes, the old lady sighed silently in the dark shadow under the lamp.This festival was really bad, and she felt a little sorry for the children.

After the meal, Xiyuan didn't let the little ones go to bed right away, fearing that they would save food, so he led them to sit on the kang and tell stories. "Journey to the West" has been finished, and now we are going to talk about fairy tales. Today we are talking about the story of "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats" in "The Grimm's Fairy Tales".Now Xiyuan is consciously cultivating the children's ability to think about problems and to recognize some ugly phenomena in reality, so when telling stories, they will ask some questions, for example, if you are a lamb, what will you do when the wolf barks at the door? Open the door for it and so on.

Grandpa and grandma sat on the kang and listened with smiles, until the little ones were sleepy, the youngest Xiyong was already dozing off and nodded, Xiyuan's mother came over and carried Xiyang and put them on the kang in the west room to cover them early in the bed.They also lay down and fell asleep in the east house and west. The night in the village was very quiet, and the family gradually fell asleep.