Self-guided daily life after rebirth

The old man happily bent down and patted the big yellow dog's head, then got up, exhaled, and walked into the yard with his hands in his hands.

I didn't see my granddaughter and grandson-in-law, so the two of them should be staying in the house, right?

The old man thought.

Obviously the sun is pretty good today and it's warm outside, but these young people don't know why they just like to stay in the room and don't come out.

The old man glanced at the humming air conditioner in the courtyard, sighed, and then walked slowly to the door of the house where his granddaughter and grandson-in-law lived. He was subconsciously trying to reach out and twist the doorknob to get in, but suddenly remembered something, so he stopped. , raised his head, and shouted softly:

"Tongtong, Xiaotong, are you two in the room?"

A clear female voice immediately came from the room:

"It's there."

Then there was the sound of trampling messy footsteps and the opening of the door.

The door opened.

The girl with wet hair appeared in front of the old man's door and asked him:

"Grandpa, are you back? Do you want to make lunch?"

My granddaughter has always been smart, and she can guess what he wants to say by observing his words... Of course, the old man is not surprised.

So he nodded:

"Yes, it's already 11:30. Your parents, grandma, and Zhizi won't come back at noon. Your grandma called me and asked me to cook for you two... What are you having for lunch, Tongtong?"

"What to eat..."

Su Tong was silent for a moment, then turned her head in consideration, and asked Su Tong:

"What are we having for lunch?"

Su Tong was dumbfounded.

He said in his heart that I only choose phobic patients, how can I know what to eat for lunch today-not to mention the unfamiliar places, he doesn't know what dishes are in the kitchen refrigerator.

But a man can never say no, especially in front of his wife.

So he sucked his teeth, frowned and thought for a while, and then asked the old man:

"What else do you have at home?"

The old man immediately smiled and pointed in the direction of the kitchen:

"There are too many dishes. After all, it's the Chinese New Year. Your grandma and I have prepared a lot of dishes... Let's go and see?"

"okay!"

Su Tong immediately agreed, and then went to the kitchen with the old man to see what the dishes were.

Su Tong, who had just taken a bath, felt that she had nothing to do anyway, so she followed her husband and grandfather to the kitchen.

When Lao Su buys home appliances for the old couple, he follows the highest standards, such as a large double-door refrigerator and a 4K large TV. In short, as long as it is useful and can be bought, it will be arranged.

The old couple is thrifty, but they are not stingy about the cost of living, so they don't feel that the home appliances bought by Lao Su are too expensive.

So the home kitchen is well equipped.

Su Tong opened the refrigerator, glanced at the ingredients inside, and then turned to look at the old man.

The old man just kept looking at them with a smile and didn't speak.

Su Tong's heart skipped a beat, and he thought of the dishes the old man cooked during Chinese New Year last year.He simply stopped looking at the ingredients, and turned his head towards the old man with a smile on his face, asking:

"Grandpa, how about you give Tong Tongliang and me some cooking skills?"

The old man was taken aback when he heard the words:

"I?"

"It's you." Su Tong ran behind the old man and pushed him towards the refrigerator, "The dishes you cooked last year were delicious, and I still remember the taste, so since your cooking skills are so good, why don't you show us both, The two of us will help you, Tongtong, what do you think?"

Su Tong didn't need to think about what this embarrassing thing was going to do, so she followed suit, and followed suit, giving full play to her advantages as a beautiful girl to fool the old man:

"Yes, yes, grandpa, haven't you always been very good at cooking? Su Tong's cooking is actually very unpalatable. If you want him to cook, we probably have to hold our noses for lunch..."

The old man's expression finally wavered a little.

The young couple secretly looked at each other and laughed silently.

Many times, for the elderly who stay at home all the year round... what makes them happy and happy is not acceptance.

but what to pay.

For example, make arrangements for New Year’s goods, clean up the room for the son and daughter-in-law who are going home for the New Year, and cook a lunch for the grandchildren.

For the elderly who have worked hard and diligently for most of their lives, giving has become a fixed behavior pattern and inertia engraved in their bones...

Because what they want to see is the gratitude and smiles that they get after paying for their children.

[to be continued]

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Chapter 6

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Most of the elderly who live in the countryside all the year round, men and women, know how to cook.

The days are hard and the life is not easy, and the children of the poor families take charge of the family early.

There are many reasons for this, and it can probably be simply summed up as a problem left over from history—but no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that the old man has good cooking skills.

So the lunch is naturally made by the old man.

I took the rice field eel bought yesterday and kept it in the house, put some oil in the water basin and let it sit until the rice field eel vomited sand, and then started to process the fish that was killed and marinated yesterday.

Don't need the body of the fish, just the head of the fish is enough.

Of course, it’s not a fish head with chopped peppers, it’s just a simple frying in a pan, and when both sides are golden, add water and simmer on high heat.

Boiling fish soup.

"If you want the stewed fish soup to look as white as milk, you have to fry it before stewing it in the pot. Look, that's it."

The old man explained to the young couple quite proudly.

People are different, but everyone has unique skills or specialties.

The old man is usually taciturn, honest and honest, but now when he is wearing an apron and cooking, his eyes seem to be shining, and his face is full of confident smiles.

He was very happy.

The young couple are not stupid either, and they immediately became enlightened after hearing the old man teach them how to cook:

"That's it, I remember."

"Yeah, I remember that too."

Actually didn't care at all.

Su Tong is a person who has lived two lifetimes, and has a high level of knowledge, so he naturally knows some small skills in daily life.

And Su Tong learned to cook from the chef at home, of course he also knows this trick - in fact, his cooking skills are much better than the old man's, and he can even talk back confidently.

Are you teaching me to cook?

But of course he wouldn't talk back like that, and he wouldn't even have such an idea.

Under the adoring gaze of the young couple, the old man cheerfully turned around to deal with the rice field eel.

Take a nail and nail the head directly on the cutting board, then cut it open with a knife, remove the internal organs, and then rub it up and down with refined salt to remove the mucus.

"Xiaotong," the old man waved his big hand to order Su Tong, "you and Tongtong go to the vegetable garden to plan some onions."

The countryside has always relied on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and even the freshness of the ingredients has the characteristics of adapting measures to local conditions.

White radishes, carrots, and sweet potatoes were all kept in the cellar by the old man. Green onions were special, so they dug a hole anywhere and buried them in the soil, and planed them as they needed.

The young couple saw it when they came back for the Chinese New Year last year, so they naturally knew it.

So there was nothing to ask, and he simply agreed, then turned around and left the kitchen, heading straight for the vegetable garden.

The Su family has two yards.

One is inhabited, and the other is the yard where the deceased old lady used to live—it’s just deserted because it hasn’t been lived in for a long time.

The old lady and the old man have a fairly typical thinking of Chinese people. They don't see any land vacant, and they always want to plant something when they have nothing to do.

Just do it.

Anyway, empty is empty, it is better to plant some food.

Pepper, beans, loofah, cucumber, pumpkin, Chinese cabbage, chicken feathers, spinach, coriander, some sesame or sweet potatoes in the middle, and a fruit tree planted in the middle, the small courtyard that was originally in decline will be full of vitality.

The whole is very good.

Although it's winter now, and the beautiful vegetable garden in the past is now only bleak, but we can still look forward to the prosperity of the coming year.

The young couple opened the simple door of the vegetable garden and walked in, looking for traces of their old man's previous digging.

And Su Tong thought of something while walking, couldn't help but smiled and asked:

"Hey, what a shame, did the old man dislike the two of us staying in the kitchen... getting in the way, and that's why he asked the two of us to dig onions?"

Su Tong was taken aback, recalling the excitement and pride on the old man's face with a strange expression, and immediately felt that the young lady's guess was not impossible:

"One thing to say and one thing to be sure, I feel that the old man... seems really happy just now."

"As long as you're happy, didn't the two of us just say that to make the old man happy?"

"...That's true."

As he said that, he walked and stopped all the way, and finally found the pit where the old man buried the onions.

The young couple did not bring tools when they came, because when they came to dig onions last year, the old man told them that there might not be two old shovels or shovels left in the vegetable garden, just look for them anywhere.

So the young couple searched in the yard again, and finally found a shovel at the door, so Su Tong carried the shovel to dig.

It hasn't snowed in my hometown for a long time, the soil is loose and has no moisture, so it hasn't frozen yet.

So Su Tong quickly dug out two or three scallions from the pit, held them in his hand, and then directly plunged the shovel into the soil next to him.

Done.

The young couple headed home quickly.

When he got home, Su Tong took the initiative to pick up green onions under the big peach tree outside the gate with a small bench.

Pinch the rotten leaves with your nails, and peel off the outer layer of green onion leaves that are stained with soil, revealing the crisp and tender green onion white in the middle, and then remove the messy roots.

Su Tong finished processing a few green onions one by one, put them in the vegetable basket carried by the eldest lady next to him, then patted the dust on his hands, and joked with a smile:

"Look at this green onion, it is long and wide, just like Missy, your face is tender and round."

Then she was glared at by the eldest lady:

"Don't sing, don't sing, my phone was out of battery just now, and it's fully charged after you say this."

"Isn't that nice?"

"It's good, it's good, but the battery is full. If you keep singing, what should you do if the battery blows up?"

Talking and laughing all the way, and then came to the kitchen.

The old man had already chopped the rice field eel into eel segments. When he saw that they brought in the green onions, he quickly grabbed them on his mobile phone, washed them roughly, and then cut the mess with a sharp knife and cut them into slices with an oblique knife.

"Tongtong, there are chicken feathers I bought two days ago in the kitchen, you go and wash them."

"Xiaotong, go and see how the fish soup in the group is doing. If the water boils, switch to a low heat and simmer slowly."

In the small kitchen, the old man has turned into a state banquet chef at some point, issuing various orders with dignity.

And the young couple didn't know when they would become apprentices playing lottery, so they could only obediently follow the old man's orders to do their own work.

The fireworks are ups and downs, and the fragrance is permeating.

Segments of eel and scallions are rolled in the oil pan, spicy millet and fish head are blended in the thick soup, chicken feathers and garlic are full of tempting flavors.

It doesn't take much work.

The fish head soup garnished with millet and spicy shallots is out of the pot, the fried shallots are finished, and the stir-fried chicken feathers are also served on the table.