“These were all secretly grown by my sister-in-law’s family; they weren’t bought.”

Seeing Ning Jing's annoyance, Fu Hongxing explained with a smile.

Ning Jing listened with some curiosity.

"Can I grow peanuts myself? Are sunflower seeds easy to grow?"

Fu Hongxing nodded: "Sunflower seeds are easy to grow. If you want to grow them, ask Sister Guihua for some sunflower seeds when spring comes. Throw a few sunflower seeds in the corner of the wall. When they grow up, you can knock the sunflower seeds off the flower heads and stir-fry them in a pan."

If you want some peanuts, we can buy them in the county next time!

These sunflower seeds can be planted anywhere and grow easily without much effort.

But if these peanuts are discovered, I doubt I'll get away with it.

Hearing Fu Hongxing say this, Ning Jing naturally knew that peanuts were much rarer than sunflower seeds.

Fu Hongxing couldn't help but reach out and touch Ning Jing's head, explaining, "These peanuts can be pressed for oil, but the village usually doesn't keep them; they're all handed over."

"On our side, we didn't plant rapeseed this year. Otherwise, even after we handed it in, each household could still get some rapeseed oil from the rest."

"Rapeseed oil?"

Ning Jing was curious. When she transmigrated, she only experienced the autumn harvest and the subsequent planting of corn, soybeans and sweet potatoes.

No one around had mentioned planting rapeseed.

Hearing Ning Jing's curious question, Fu Hongxing turned his head and glanced at her.

"Sister-in-law, I want to eat fried peanuts."

Si Ya swallowed hard, looked up, and said in a charmingly sweet voice.

Ning Jing's attention was immediately diverted. Looking at the half-basket of peanuts, she smiled and said to Siya, "Okay, but Siya has to shell half of these peanuts."

"As for the other half, your sister-in-law will fry some peanuts for you."

She plans to fry the peanuts in oil today, then add some salt and sugar and mix them together; it will make a great snack to go with drinks.

When Siya heard that her sister-in-law had agreed to fry peanuts for her, her eyes lit up immediately.

However, she was precocious despite her small size and knew that she couldn't peel peanuts quickly with her small hands, so she asked her second brother and third sister to help her peel them.

This year's New Year's Eve dinner was the most sumptuous meal Xiuhua and her children had ever had in their lives.

After boiling the salted pork in water, some MSG was added, and then it was taken out and cut into one-centimeter-thick pieces.

Then I chopped garlic, scallions, and ginger, poured in soy sauce, and stirred it to make a dipping sauce.

After bringing the frozen carp inside to thaw, I made a few cross-shaped cuts on its body, then poured some oil into the pan and added some salt. This effectively prevents the fish skin from sticking to the pan after it's cooked.

Once the carp is fried until golden brown on both sides, add the garlic, ginger, and rice wine.

Fu Hongxing traded this rice wine with an old man in the village. The old man loved to drink, but buying wine was just too expensive.

There was no other way but to do it secretly.

But you need rice to make rice wine. If you're just making it for yourself, you'll never have enough to eat all year round. Where will you get so much rice to make wine for yourself?

So he secretly traded the rice wine he made for rice and grain coupons.

The three catties of rice wine that Ning Jing was holding were some that the old man had painstakingly saved up, intending to drink them secretly and slowly by himself.

However, the family is really struggling to make ends meet.

Fu Hongxing traded five jin of rice for it, plus an extra yuan.

The old man reluctantly gave him the three catties of rice wine. Fu Hongxing had originally thought that he should have a drink on New Year's Eve.

Unexpectedly, Ning Jing used so much rice wine to cook dishes.