Wei Yuyan thought that if the chick ate all of these, it might get indigestion.

"good".

Xiao Lei obediently took two sticks, pinched half of it out, and covered it with the chicken feed bowl so that the earthworm couldn't escape.

"Qianqian, go get some water and wash your hands with your brother. Come over here to eat and drink."

Wei Yuyan poured herself some cooled boiled water from the kitchen; she was thirsty herself.

"You're here, sister-in-law."

When Wu Qian heard that there was food, she quickly washed her hands and ran over.

"Sister-in-law Xiuhua gave me red dates, five for each of us, come on."

Wei Yuyan thought she would save a few to make white fungus soup later.

"Wow, red dates, they're so sweet!"

Wu Qian took a bite, and her eyes narrowed as she smiled.

"Sister-in-law, why aren't you eating?"

Wu Lei took the red dates and looked at Wei Yuyan, wondering why she wasn't eating them.

"I just ate at Sister Xiuhua's house, and I'm full. You guys eat, I'll go heat up the food."

How could Wei Yuyan explain that she wanted to save the red dates to cook with white fungus? So she had to make up a white lie.

After collecting the remaining red dates, I started a fire to steam the leftover rice from lunch. In this kind of weather, we can't eat cold rice.

There will be pig intestines for dinner, as well as leftover vegetables from lunch, so we don't need to cook any more dishes.

"Xiao Lei, Qian Qian, this is pig intestines. Try it and see if it's good."

Wei Yuyan put a piece of pig intestine on each of their plates.

"Mmm, delicious."

After finishing his meal, Wu Lei picked up another piece of food and put it in his bowl.

"It doesn't taste good, it smells bad."

Qianqian pouted.

"Qianqian doesn't like it, so she eats potato ribs and mustard greens. Xiaolei and I will eat this."

Wei Yuyan thought that Qianqian must have a very sensitive sense of smell and disliked even the slightest bad smell.

She thought the pig intestines were incredibly delicious; if she were to sell them, they would fetch at least several tens of coins per serving.

The Zhang family.

"Now that you're in charge, open your mouth!"

Sister-in-law Xiuhua picked up a piece and brought it to Brother Zhang's mouth.

"Hmm, what kind of dish is this? Intestines? Pig intestines? How come it tastes so good and doesn't smell bad at all?"

Brother Zhang knew it was pig intestines as he chewed it because he had eaten pig intestines before, but the taste wasn't very good.

He never wanted to eat offal again, but he never expected that one day he could eat such delicious offal.

"You smelled a stench on the oxcart today, didn't you? It was from the pig offal your sister-in-law bought. I even said it stinked."

She finished cooking it in the afternoon and brought me a small bowl. I tasted it and thought it was delicious.

Next time I'll buy some offal and ask her to teach me how to cook it.

After saying that, Sister-in-law Xiuhua picked up another piece of pig intestine with her chopsticks.

"My sister-in-law's cooking skills are really good. The pumpkin pancakes last time and the pig intestines this time are both very good."

Brother Zhang couldn't resist pouring himself a small glass of wine.

"Oh dear, the doctor said I can't drink alcohol."

Xiuhua's sister-in-law frowned.

"I poured it for you, hehe, I'll have a taste~".

Brother Zhang shamelessly took a small sip and then placed the cup in front of Sister-in-law Xiuhua.

In the evening, the three of them sat in the yard to wash their feet. Since they hadn't sweated in the weather, they didn't take a bath.

"I'll make you steamed buns tomorrow morning, and we'll go chop firewood in the afternoon, how about that?"

Wei Yuyan was thinking that she would chop wood tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow she might be able to go to the deep mountains. If she could find ginseng or lingzhi, she would be rich.

It's probably big enough to build brick and tile houses; these mud houses just can't be made to look refined.

Wei Yuyan is now thinking about whether she can build a new house next year, which would be so comfortable to live in.

"Sister-in-law, I want to eat two steamed buns for lunch tomorrow."

Qianqian thought she wanted to eat more after finishing what she had eaten in town today, but her stomach was too small to eat much.

"Okay, let's see if my sister-in-law's cooking is good tomorrow."

Wei Yuyan is good at making steamed buns, but there are too few seasonings here. She didn't buy any soy sauce, and there are no flavor-enhancing seasonings at all.

"It must be delicious. Everything my sister-in-law makes is delicious."

Wu Lei showed his support.

"Okay, no need to wash anymore. Dry yourself off, or you'll catch a cold."

Wei Yuyan felt the water wasn't very hot anymore, so she prepared to go to bed.

"OK".

The two children obediently wiped their feet, poured water, and went back to their room to sleep.

Wei Yuyan had a good sleep in the afternoon, so she couldn't fall asleep now. She leaned against the bed and started reading until almost midnight before she finally fell asleep.

The next morning, unsurprisingly, I slept in late again. When I got up, Xiao Lei had already cooked the porridge.

It wasn't actually that late, around eight o'clock. But the two kids don't have much to do at night, so they just go to bed and sleep. How can they sleep in the morning?

"Xiao Lei, your sister-in-law overslept today."

Wei Yuyan couldn't help but tease herself.

“Sister-in-law, you worked hard yesterday. It’s okay to sleep in a little longer. There’s nothing much going on at home. I’ll just cook some porridge this morning.”

Xiao Lei thought his sister-in-law must be exhausted to have slept for so long.

"It's just plain white porridge, no pickled vegetables."

Wei Yuyan felt that buying the jar was urgent, but actually, plain porridge was quite delicious, with a rice aroma.

"Sister-in-law, I'm feeding the chicks earthworms."

Wu Qian is feeding the chicks the half of the earthworms that were left over from yesterday.

"Qianqian is great."

Wei Yuyan lifted the lid to check how the rice porridge was doing.

"That's about it, it should have been 45 minutes."

Xiao Lei glanced at the pot and started removing the firewood.

"good".

The three of them simply drank a bowl of plain porridge.

"Sister-in-law, if there's nothing else, I'll take my sister out to play."

After Xiao Lei finished washing the dishes, he greeted Wei Yuyan, who was kneading dough.

"Okay, go have fun. Come back early for lunch and have some steamed buns."

Add salt and oil to the flour, then slowly add warm water and knead into a smooth dough.

Wei Yuyan mixed a pound of wheat flour today and covered it to ferment. Since there was no yeast powder here, it had to ferment for a while longer, otherwise it wouldn't taste good.

Wash the pork belly thoroughly, remove the skin, and save the skin for a stir-fry at lunchtime; it won't taste good wrapped inside.

Add scallions, ginger, pepper, and other seasonings, and stir the meat filling in one direction until it becomes firm. This will make the filling for the buns more delicious.

After preparing all that, Wei Yuyan didn't rest. She tidied up the house, washed the bibs and underwear she had changed out of yesterday, and sewed up the children's torn clothes.

Actually, at first glance, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong at home, but if you look closely, there's still a lot of work to be done. For example, Wei Yuyan wanted to plant more vegetables in the garden, but the soil hasn't been loosened yet.

Wei Yuyan still wanted to go to the deep mountains first, then go home to rest for a few days and tidy up the chores at home.

After doing all that, the dough had fermented enough, and Wei Yuyan started making steamed buns. One pound of flour plus water weighed about one and a half pounds, and she made a total of twenty steamed buns.

After wrapping, cover and let it ferment for about 15 minutes.

"Sister-in-law, we're back."

Xiao Lei's voice rang out; the two children had returned.

"Sister-in-law, we're back for steamed buns."