Because they arrived late and there were so many people, Xiaoqian and Aunt Rong discussed it and decided to make soup for everyone.
The servants in the kitchen and Mrs. Fang washed and broke the cabbage brought from the city, while Mrs. Qian and Aunt Rong chopped up the bones and boiled them in a large pot, adding various spices to it.
Man Bao and the others were still sitting outside talking at the beginning, but after smelling the aroma, they couldn't help but find it in the big kitchen. It happened that Zhou Lijun and his brothers dragged the cut branches back, and when they smelled the fragrance, they said, "I'll give it to you." Auntie will help, you can drag it up the mountain by yourself."
Zhou Liwei couldn't help complaining, "Second sister, are you helping with your skills, or making trouble? It's not as good as me."
"Shut up, I can't cook, can I wash vegetables?"
"Where are there any dishes to wash right now?"
Zhou Lijun had left them and ran away, Zhou Lizhong reached out and patted his shoulder and said, "Let's go, don't try to be lazy."
In fact, there are quite a lot of dishes to be washed in the kitchen.
When Xiaoqian and the others came to the capital from Qili Village, they brought a lot of soaked bamboo shoots and sun-dried vegetables.
There are still a lot left now, besides the cabbage stored in the cellar some time ago, Xiaoqian also stored the cucumbers sent from the Baijiazhuang.
The cucumbers that were taken out were softer, but they were almost the same as fresh ones when cut, and the fragrance was even stronger, so it was not bad.
Even Mrs. Liu was surprised, they were all stored in tanks and processed in the same way, but the cucumbers preserved by Xiao Qian's were fresher, more tender and not easy to spoil than those preserved by Aunt Rong.
As for the soup pot, there should be more vegetables.
They took out these dried vegetables, soaked them, cleaned them, washed and sliced cucumbers, soaked some sun-dried yam slices, washed and sliced the lotus root they bought earlier...
If it wasn't for the lack of time, Xiaoqian would like to make some tofu or distribute some bean sprouts.
Speaking of this, she couldn't help but said to He Lijun who was sitting on a small stool washing vegetables: "I asked, there is no stone mill in the village, and our family has to prepare a stone mill to make tofu in the future." .”
Man Bao said: "Buy one."
Xiaoqian struggled, "But it's too wasteful for us to use it for our own use. This is not in our village. I still make tofu every day for the store or take away. This is what I eat."
After thinking for a while, Bai Shan said, "We can build a shed next to our house to make the ground more solid, so that people in the village can use it. It will not only be lively, but also make it easier for elder brothers and sisters-in-law to blend in with everyone."
Bai Shan immediately turned against the monarch and said, "Buy one."
Li Jun washed the soaked dried vegetables and picked them up, and said: "Sister-in-law, you have nothing to say about this matter, you have to ask grandpa, now grandpa has to check my account twice a day."
Although she still holds the money and the account book now, the old Zhou will ask who paid the money from her in the morning, and in the evening how much money was spent today...
Yin, who was curiously picking up the mud on the lotus root, couldn't help but ask, "Is stone mill expensive?"
Man Bao nodded, "It's precious, the stone material is better, in our Luojiang County, it is estimated to cost about 800 Wen, I don't know how much it costs here."
Zhou Lijun also nodded, "My sister-in-law wanted to buy one for my aunt in the store, and my grandpa thought it was expensive."
Yin may be a little confused, eight hundred Wen, is it very expensive
When Bai Erlang saw that he had peeled the mud off the lotus root and wanted to cut off the head with a knife to wash it, he hurriedly stopped him with "Oh, oh my", and said, "Wash it first before cutting off the head, otherwise the dirty water will flow into it. "
Mrs. Fang had just finished breaking the cabbage. When she turned around and saw a few people washing such a small amount of vegetables that the ground was wet, she couldn't help but waved them away, "You are here to help, you are here to make trouble, hurry out Go out, I have to clean up the kitchen for you in a while."
The maids and mother-in-law who kept their heads down and honestly cleaned things were afraid to speak, but they actually thought so in their hearts.
Man Bao handed the washed cucumber to Bai Shan, watched him cut the cucumber with a few knives, and said to Fang: "We washed it very clean."
Fang looked at the two-finger-wide cucumber that Bai Shan had cut out, and said nothing. This thing was cut like this, so they can't cut it again
Bai Shan has tried his best to control the thinning, but before this kind of thing was done by Daji, at most he would light the fire, but...
He said solemnly: "Sister-in-law four, it's comfortable to eat large slices of cucumber."
Fang said: "How long does it take to cook this?"
Bai Shan: "You can eat it raw."
Yin Ju looked at the pile of cucumbers with a tangled expression and whispered, "I think ripe ones taste better."
Man Bao said directly: "I don't like to eat cucumber, I like to eat lotus root."
Old Zhou came in from the outside with a big wax gourd in his arms, put it on the ground, and said to a group of people in the room: "This is a gift from the head of the village. Let's wash and cut it together. I also invited the head of the village to come over for dinner." .”
Although they are familiar with each other, they are foreigners after all, and they have to establish a good relationship with the villagers and village chiefs here.
There are too many villagers, so let's build a good relationship with the chief.
Fang responded on behalf of everyone, and then waited for her father-in-law to leave, and immediately forced out all the teenagers in the kitchen.
Man Bao immediately washed his hands and went out with the others, then sighed and said: "I guess it will take two to three quarters of an hour to eat, I'm really hungry."
Bai Shan also sighed, "Fortunately, we had an extra breakfast in the morning, otherwise we would be even hungrier."
Bai Erlang nodded along with Man Bao, deeply agreeing.
Yin or: ...
Since they were not allowed to help in the kitchen, and they were not needed to cut wood on the mountain, they decided to set up a table.
With so many people, of course it is impossible to eat at one table.
The adults are at the same table, and the young people are at the same table.
Even Daji and the others set up two tables in the side room.
When Xiaoqian finished cooking the soup, Fang and the others also cut up all the vegetables and meat.
Everyone took it to the table and ate it while it was hot, talking at the same time.
It was the first time that Yin had eaten such a soup pot when he grew up. Because of his illness, he always ate delicately. Occasionally, in order to accommodate him, the food was mostly bland.
He knew that his grandmother often asked the small kitchen to cook big meat for her. Because of this, he didn't even like eating with his family.
If you eat a meal with him, all the eight people except him will have another meal. Why bother, he might as well eat it by himself, they are at ease, and he is also at ease.
Sitting on the chair, Man Bao saw Changshou and Xu An still standing with their hands down, and waved: "You and Daji go down to eat, Yin or we will take care of it."
Changshou and Xu An looked at Yin He.
Yin returned to his senses, nodded slightly, "You guys go."
Changshou pulled Xu An to salute and then retreated.
Bai Shan also took good care of Yin He, first served him a bowl of soup to warm his stomach, Bai Erlang pouted when he saw that the two were so considerate to him, but as if they couldn't see him.
He put the bowl between Bai Shan and Zhou Man, they looked up and looked at him inexplicably, "What are you doing?"