rebirth through food

Pine Nut Candy

Ye Xiaofeng and Lan'er went out to greet him, only to see Father Ye holding a table in one hand, behind Zhang Da and everyone's eldest son Hu Zi.Both hands were not empty, and they both carried tables and benches.

"Uncle Zhang!" Ye Xiaofeng greeted and quickly went to pick up the things in the hands of the two, and Lan'er also helped put them back.

"Xiaofeng, sister Lan'er." Hu Zi greeted honestly, and while everyone was not paying attention, he quietly stuffed a small bag of straw paper to Lan'er.

"Huzi." Normally, this Huzi was close to his family, but Ye Xiaofeng really didn't have any feelings for him when he first arrived, so he could only pretend to be busy. "Father, if this table is used as a dining table, it's still a bit short."

"It's easy to handle. I'll go find some blue bricks." Seeing Lan'er took the small paper bag, Huzi immediately smiled and ran out.

"Father, why don't you accompany Uncle Zhang to the house." Ye Xiaofeng smiled while wiping the table with a rag, "You don't want to drink the wine at noon, I knew you were waiting for Uncle Zhang. Make two of our specialty dishes and let Uncle Zhang try them."

"It's you who thinks well, Zhang Da, hurry up!" Father Ye and Zhang Da also grew up, and they separated when they knew they were teenagers. Later, Father Ye returned to his hometown with his wife and daughter. A house was built next to the house, which shows the deep relationship between the two.

Zhang Da did not refuse, and followed Father Ye into the house.Ye Xiaofeng left Lan'er to wipe the table clean, while he ran to the vegetable garden.

A dish of pork liver in salt water, a dish of patted cucumbers, a plate of fried peanuts sprinkled with fine salt, and a plate of shepherd's purse fried with residual oil, Ye Xiaofeng delivered the four dishes to the kang table one by one.Zhang had already started eating early, and saw Ye Xiaofeng serve the last dish with a smile on his face, "Xiaofeng is getting more and more promising, just now your father praised you, if my son has your skills, I'm about to wake up from sleep."

"Uncle Zhang was joking. I saw my mother cook this when I was a child. These days, I suddenly missed my mother very much, so I imitated my mother and cooked a few side dishes. Fortunately, you and my father don't dislike it."

"Your Xiaofeng is really polite. Although he has never been to school, his speech is better than those wild boys of mine. If you are willing, I would rather exchange my boys for this precious son of yours! "

"Nonsense, those boys of yours are all very strong, they are much more useful than my family's Xiaofeng Peak, don't be dissatisfied." Father Ye scolded with a smile.

"Uncle Zhang baked this cake this morning. I just re-baked it. You can eat it with side dishes." Ye Xiaofeng put a plate of sesame seed cakes in his hand aside and retreated.

In the yard, Lan'er and Huzi who had come back were cleaning the tables and stools, and padded the corners with blue bricks, and the height was almost the same.After the three of them cleaned the tables and benches, they neatly leaned the tables and benches against the wall, waiting to set them up tomorrow.

It was already getting dark, Ye Xiaofeng was busy boiling water for bone soup, and Lan'er also started kneading noodles.Tomorrow, we will use a lot of noodles. Some of them need to be raised for making biscuits, and the other part is for wrapping wontons. Although they don’t need to be raised, they need to be cooked in advance to be resilient. Laner also decided to reconcile them in advance and put them in a cool place. .

Huzi was not considered an outsider, so Ye Xiaofeng unceremoniously ordered him to help break the bones.Huzi did exactly what his father said, Ye Xiaofeng could do it well with only one or two hits of a bone stick that could only be cracked by three or five hits.

Ye Xiaofeng was busy cooking the soup to remove the froth, while Hu Zi helped hold the firewood, and occasionally glanced at Lan'er.

Ye Xiaofeng didn't pay attention to it once or twice, but after a lot of contact, he found something was wrong.This tiger is a few months older than him, he is already thirteen, and people in the mountain village get married early, otherwise Father Ye would not be under forty years old, and the youngest child is ten years old.

Ye Xiaofeng stroked his chin and thought to himself, Lan'er was only in her teens, but she had to be careful.No matter how good Huzi is, he can't be kidnapped at such a young age!

Thinking of this, Ye Xiaofeng smirked, and moved the tiger back and forth in different ways, anyway, to reduce his time with Lan'er.

Lan'er didn't react at all, Huzi was exhausted, but he was a simple and honest person, how could he guess that this was Ye Xiaofeng's deliberate mischief, he was so tired that he was out of breath.

Father Ye in the back room heard the movement and cursed, "You brat, do the work yourself, don't bully the tiger!"

Next to him, Uncle Zhang persuaded, "Second Brother Ye, what are you doing? Huzi is still not the same as at home here. If he can help out with some work, maybe he can learn some skills! Come on, let's have a drink!"

"Drink, drink..."

Lan'er covered her mouth and stood by the door laughing.Although Ye Xiaofeng has the appearance of a ten-year-old child, he is already a 19-year-old adult in his heart. He realized his childishness only after being scolded by Ye's father, and his face was quite embarrassed.

But Huzi didn't care at all, "Xiaofeng, if you have something to do, just ask me to do it, and let Lan'er sister rest."

This action changed Ye Xiaofeng's view of Hu Zi a lot. Unexpectedly, this Hu Zi looked thick but was actually very thin. He didn't really want to be chased around by him, the main reason was that Lan'er would get tired.

Ye Xiaofeng looked Huzi up and down, if Lan'er liked it, it would be good to marry him, anyway, with his elder brother around, everyone would get rich together, and he was afraid that his sister would not be able to live in hardship.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiaofeng cleared his throat, "Huzi, do you want to go to town together tomorrow?" Before Huzi could answer, Ye Xiaofeng added, "Lan'er, too."

"Yes, yes!" Hu Zi was full of surprise.

"Okay, it's settled, we'll go tomorrow after closing the stall." Ye Xiaofeng added a handful of firewood to the stove without raising his head.

"Then... I'll come to help tomorrow!"

"Okay."

After the three of them tidied up everything, Hu Zi left.Father Ye and Zhang Da chatted while eating, telling Ye Xiaofeng and his siblings to leave them alone and go to sleep on their own, the siblings didn't refuse after thinking about it.

Getting up early the next day, the siblings washed up and went to bed.Lan'er took out a small bag of toilet paper from under the quilt, opened it and sent it to Ye Xiaofeng.

"What?" Ye Xiaofeng was lying on the pillow thinking about something with half-closed eyes, when the straw paper bag was delivered to him.On the straw paper are a few pieces of sugar, small triangular sugar granules, with a few pine nuts inside. "Pine nut candy? Where did it come from?"

"Brother Huzi gave it to you." Seeing that Ye Xiaofeng had taken a piece, Lan'er took one into her mouth too.

"Eat less sugar at night." Ye Xiaofeng warned, and threw the one in his hand into his mouth.

This candy tastes good.Although it is made by local methods, it has a natural taste and no messy additives.

Ye Xiaofeng squinted his eyes to half-melt the sugar, couldn't help but crunch the sugar into pieces, the fragrance of pine nuts filled his mouth instantly. "tasty!"

"Brother, I'll give you another piece." There were four candies in the paper bag, just enough for one person to take two. Ye Xiaofeng shook his head, and decided not to eat it at night.But this candy is really delicious, I will go to the town tomorrow to buy a few more and save it to eat slowly.

With the sweet taste in his mouth, Ye Xiaofeng fell asleep slowly, and came to the courtyard in the high wall again in a daze.