Young rich peasants

"Brother Lei, the steamed fish from yesterday's meal was really delicious, what's the black thing on it?" Zaozi asked during the meal.

Lei Shounuo didn't respond, he repeated it again.

"Huh? Oh, that one, it's olive horn."

"Olive horn?"

Lei Shounuo explained, "It's black olives."

Mei Xiaodi said: "Our family can also do it, and now there are new olives coming out."

During the days when I was pregnant with little Ayue, the jujubes were not fishy at all. After giving birth, they may have rebounded, and I became very fond of fish. Recently, I have also started to learn to cook various river dishes.

Southerners love to eat steamed fish, and they are also good at steamed fish. Zaozi has made ordinary steamed fish a few times, simply adding ginger, onion, garlic, oil, salt and soy sauce.The feeling of adding olive horn this time is very fresh, and he wants to learn it very much.

Gaoliang County itself does not grow black olives. When the season comes, the sellers in the county will go to the next county to buy them and bring them back to the market in Gaoliang County to sell.

Mei Xiaodi asked for dozens of catties. After moving home, everyone in the family who had time to spare helped the leaders to sort out the bad ones and throw them away, leaving even-sized ones that were not infested by insects.Little Ah Yue crawled around on the ground, sat in the pile of black olives, picked up things and stuffed them into her mouth, and stuffed her mouth full without paying attention.Zaozi simply picked him up with a strap and coaxed him to sleep.

The selected black olives are boiled in boiling water until they are seven or eight mature. This is only a rough idea. In short, they should not be overcooked.After cooking, Mei Xiaodi and Xiao Song took out the big iron pot, set up bamboo baskets and waited under the overturned big pot, and the hot boiled water filtered through the gaps, leaving behind the steaming and fragrant black olives.

After a while to cool off, the three of them moved to the patio together, and sat around each other on a small wooden bench.

Each person took a cotton rope, tied one end to the basket, and held the other end in his hand.Going around the black olive can strangle the pulp and turn it into two triangles, and the core will fall out by itself.After this, fill the fine salt into the black olive horns, knead them slightly, put them into a vat that has been scalded with boiling water in advance, spread a layer of salt, and then pile up until all the olive horns are put away.Difficult to say, it is not easy to do what you see by hand, because it is necessary to remove the core and fill the salt one by one, and the combination of tens of catties cannot be done in one or two strokes.

After putting all the black olives in the tank, you only need to wait a month to eat them.In order to satisfy his gluttony, Mei Xiaodi also bought some ready-made olives with purple-black skin and red meat, the meat was soft, and he frowned after tasting a little jujube.

"It's so salty, like melon salty."

Mei Xiaodi said: "I put so much salt, it's no wonder it's not salty. It can be eaten with plain porridge and rice, or it can be added to other dishes like melon salted meat cakes, plum vegetables, braised meat and steamed fish. "

Recalling the steamed fish with olive horn, there still seems to be a slight fragrance left on the tip of the nose. Unfortunately, I didn’t buy fish at home today, and the porridge for breakfast was gone. Now the kitchen only has scrambled eggs with green onions, pork offal soup, and seasonal vegetables from the vegetable garden. and rice.

Xiaosong said: "I know how to make fried rice with this, it's delicious." Zaozi was immediately excited, and quickly asked Xiaosong to teach him how to do it.

Depending on the weather, it was time for dinner. Xiao Song gathered all the materials he could find at home, corn, radish and celery.Peel out the corn kernels, dice the radishes, celery and olive horns, and set them aside.

Zaozi volunteered to take the wok and shovel, and Xiaosong was on the side to guide, "Pour the oil and fry the diced corn and radish... Then pour the rice, the rice is here, it tastes better with overnight rice... Fry it dry, now you can put the diced celery , Stir fry for a while and add olive horns, it’s better to stir fry evenly.”

"It's not difficult."

"It's quite simple, convenient and delicious, and the most important thing is to save money." Xiaosong said shyly.

Stir-fry a few times at the end, and the fragrant fried rice is ready to cook.Lei Shounuo, who was busy outside, led the housekeeper back, and Ah Wei arrived later.After setting up the dishes and chopsticks, the family ate a delicious fried rice with olive horn.Maybe it’s because we eat less olive jelly at ordinary times. Everyone has a great appetite and often refills their meals.Ah Wei was sitting in the middle, and when he was going to the kitchen, he passed by Xiaosong. Xiaosong's nose moved, and he suddenly grabbed Ah Wei's clothes, sniffed twice, "Smell of powder?"

Awei froze immediately, Zaozi sized up everyone suspiciously, Lei Shounuo and Lei Guanjia also had unnatural expressions.He followed Xiaosong's example and sniffed Lei Shounuo's clothes. It was okay, and there was a faint smell of saponin, but he was usually sweaty.

Mei Xiaopai said calmly: "Eat first, then go back to your room and talk about other things."

Only then did Xiao Song let go, and Ah Wei ran away as if fleeing.Lei Shounuo picked up the rice in the bowl and stood up, "I'll go get the soup."

After entering the kitchen, Lei Shounuo's face turned cold, and he asked Ah Wei, "How did you get it?"

Ah Wei panicked and said: "I, I don't know, after you left, I helped that brother fall down."

"Did you come back after taking a shower?"

"Uh, why do you still have to take a shower?"

...Lei Shounuo sighed heavily, "If Xiao Song presses the question, just say that you helped someone and accidentally offended him. You can't tell what happened today."

Ah Wei nodded fiercely, and after finishing the meal, he couldn't help asking: "Boss Lei, why didn't you tell Zao Ada? It seems that Xi Lang's little father will continue to find brothers for you..."

"Shut up!" Lei Shounuo put down the bowl angrily, "You still ask if you can't mention it! I can handle this kind of thing. There is no need to alarm the family."

Ah Wei kept silent, Lei Shounuo washed his face with water, and said, "Go out, we've been in the kitchen for too long."

The two came out one after another, and Zaozi asked, "Brother Lei, where's your bowl?"

"Put it directly in the sink." Lei Shounuo said with a smile, "Come on, give me my son, and you can eat more."

In the evening, Ah Wei and Xiao Song's room was fine, because Xiao Song is not the kind of person who is particularly suspicious, otherwise, if they fight, something might happen.Lei Shounuo barely breathed a sigh of relief, but felt guilty at the same time.

It’s nothing to say about today’s events. He took Detonator and Ah Wei to Yizhuan County. Some peddlers contracted dysentery and couldn’t deliver the goods. They were in a hurry and needed to find someone to replace them, and they needed to buy some for Zhu Miao. I took it from Mangyele corner in Gaoliang County, and said that Xiaorong was going to make ancient rice dumplings.It was all serious business at first, but I didn't expect to be caught by Xi Lang's little father when he was preparing to return.

He stood guard on the road he had to pass, and even brought a few people who were famous for hosting weddings, and forced them to "welcome" them to the teahouse.A cup of two pieces, several people sat in the box and stared at each other.

Among them, the most conspicuous one was a young man who was dressed up beautifully, his face was as thick as wall dust, and he smiled with his lips pursed, which could be described as ferocious.

How could it be that Lei Shounuo didn't know what Xilang's little dad meant, this person was his "carefully selected" concubine for him.

Xilang's little father shook his cattail fan and said with a smile: "This brother has a house and land. Although the six brothers in the family are all brothers, every one who gets married and gives birth to a boy is a boy, and even several children are boys! There are a lot of children. People are rushing to marry him back. I saw that those people are far inferior to Boss Lei, you are young and promising, so I racked my brains to keep him to you. Of course such a good man should be left to good people, you said... ...Isn't it?" Leaning closer, he smiled ambiguously.

The corners of Lei Shounuo's mouth twitched, and Ah Da was not specially designed for breeding pigs to give birth to boys, this kind of statement sounded very inexplicable.He sternly refused and left, the smell of powder all over the room made him want to sneeze.

Later, he and Housekeeper Lei found a place to take a bath and dry their clothes, so as not to cause quarrels when they returned home with a vulgar smell.Unexpectedly, Ah Wei stayed until the end to help him, and half of the boy's face was rubbed with powder on his clothes, which was discovered when he washed the clothes later.

This time it's been fooled, what about next time?Lei Shounuo really didn't want to assume such a thing as "there will be a next time".So I wrote a letter to Xi Lang's little father, expressing his rejection righteously - the other party is an elder, he can't be beaten or scolded, it's annoying enough.Ordinary people should stop when he initially refused, but now that he has clearly expressed his attitude, no matter how much he talks to himself, he should understand.

Zaozi didn't know that these things had happened, and lived a leisurely life.He later bought fish and made steamed fish with olive horn, which was very successful.

On the day he planned to try making scrambled eggs with olive horn, there happened to be guests at home.It's just that this guest is a bit...

"Zao Ada cooks? Are you in charge of the house?"

Isn't this Xi Lang's little father?Who is that boy next to him?

"Hey, why don't you talk?"

"Ah, hello, Brother Lei is in the house. Do you want me to go find him?" Daddy picked up little Ayue to drop by, while Xiaosong went to buy groceries.

"Go ahead, just say that I have found another suitable partner for him."

object?Zaozi paused when she took off her apron, then tilted her head, "What object?"

"The concubine!" Xilang's little father looked around, "You are too careless as the main house... You should find the person first, it is very common to take a concubine, so don't worry about it."

Zaozi was stunned, and the side... room... was Lei Ge's second Ah Da?Why did Brother Lei marry another brother?

Lei Ge's pillow is no longer himself, but another person who suddenly inserted himself... Zao Zi's hands and feet were cold, and he took a step back and leaned against the wall. Look at your hands again, touch your face, it's different.

He has grown up, grown up for a long time.

Xilang's little father glanced at him for some reason, and said angrily, "I've never seen such an inappropriate principal room." He led the boy into the main room and sat down, pouring tea and eating snacks on his own.

Zaozi's thoughts were mixed, and in a short period of time, countless thoughts and guesses flashed through his mind, the more he thought about it, the more pessimistic he became, and the more he thought about it, the more sore his eyes became.

Mustering up the courage to look up, the boy squeezed the almond cake that Lei Ge bought for him in distaste, took a bite and threw it away.

Mei Xiaopai came back with little Ayue in his arms, and as soon as he entered the door, he realized that something was wrong. There were people he didn't know sitting in the main room, and Zaozi, who usually warmly entertained guests, was hiding in the corridor next to the kitchen door, hugging his knees and not knowing what expression .He squatted down and patted Zaozi's hand, "Is there a guest?"

Zaozi rubbed her trousers, raised her head, her face was frighteningly pale.

The little dad was startled, he quickly helped him up and sent him back to the room.I'm afraid the people outside are the reason, put little Ah Yue into the small wooden bed to play with the rattle, he walked out of the room with a straight face.