Deng Qingling, a recent college graduate, struggled to find work due to the pandemic, so she returned to her hometown. Her grandmother, who passed away from illness, left her a silver bracelet.
...Deng Qingling slept until 4:30 in the morning and got up.
She went to the kitchen and started to cook the soup base and put the dough out of the space.
Then I started kneading the dough to make noodles. After the noodles were ready, I started chopping the fillings. The fillings for buns and wontons have not been chopped yet.
Deng Qingling had just started chopping the meat when Liang Xueying got up to help.
"Mom, you should go back to sleep for a while. This is not a big deal. I can do it by myself." Deng Qingling said.
Liang Xueying: "No, I've had enough sleep. I'll help you do it, so you can rest for a while."
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Deng Qingling gave her the task of rolling out the bun wrappers.
Liang Xueying rolled out the bun wrappers while Deng Qingling prepared the fillings.
The two of them made the dumplings together and waited for them to be done.
Deng Qingling opened the door and moved the iron stove and table to the side of the door, and started to light a fire to steam buns and heat eggs.
Then Deng Qingling kneaded the dough to make noodles, and Liang Xueying rolled out the wonton wrappers.
When Deng Qingling smelled the fragrance of tea eggs, she knew it was almost time.
The two of them had just sat down and made a few wontons when a customer came to buy something.
At the beginning, Deng Qingling was the one who greeted the customers. Later, as more and more customers came, Liang Xueying helped to pack up the food and collect the money.
While Deng Qingling, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy, Guo Haochen and the others woke up one after another.
Originally, Guo Haochen also wanted to help, but there were too many people in the store.
Deng Qingling asked him to look after his younger brothers and sisters, and brought them some steamed buns and tea eggs, and asked them to sit in the inner part of the hall to eat.
The children were a little nervous and scared when they saw people coming and going in the store, so they ate breakfast obediently and went back to the backyard to play.
Time passed slowly, and by around 9:30, there were no more customers.
Deng Qingling, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law finally have some free time.
"Mom, I'm going to cook wonton noodles. Do you want some? If you want, I'll cook more." Deng Qingling looked at the remaining wontons on the tray and turned to Liang Xueying.
"Just cook some wontons for me." Liang Xueying said.
"Okay." After saying that, Deng Qingling picked up the tray and went into the kitchen.
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After cooking, Deng Qingling also scooped out two tea eggs for Liang Ying, and she added a lot of pickled cabbage and chili peppers to the wonton noodles.
Sauerkraut and noodles go well together. The sauerkraut is sour and spicy, which is very appetizing. It tastes very delicious when paired with light wonton noodles.
While Deng Qingling and her friend were eating, the other children came out from the backyard. Seeing how happily they were eating, the children felt they were hungry again.
I couldn't help but swallow my saliva secretly.
Guo Haochen and the other older kids were too embarrassed to say they wanted to eat, after all, they had just finished eating not long ago.
(Children get itchy stomachs when they see people eating)
Zhou Jiahua and Guo Haojie were still young. When they saw others eating, they wanted to eat too, so they walked straight to the table.
"Grandma..."
"Uncle, I want to eat too." They said in unison.
Deng Qingling, who was eating seriously, looked up at them, then lowered her gaze to the red and green wonton noodles in her bowl.
It is not suitable to give such spicy food to such a young child.
Besides, these were her leftovers, how could she have the nerve to give them to them?
"What do you want to eat?" Deng Qingling said to them with a smile.
"This and eggs." Zhou Jiahua pointed to the tea eggs in front of Liang Xueying and the wontons in her bowl.
"Eat eggs." Guo Haojie nodded.
Liang Xueying, who was sitting opposite Deng Qingling, broke the remaining tea egg and gave it to the two of them.
She was just about to scoop up the wontons from the bowl and give them to Zhou Jiahua when she heard Deng Qingling say:
"Go ask my brother to get you some eggs. After I finish these two mouthfuls of noodles, I'll make you some wontons."
As soon as she finished speaking, Guo Ningwan and Zhou Jiazhen said they wanted to eat too.
Deng Qingling saw that Guo Haoxi and the others wanted to say something but were too embarrassed to do so, so she smiled and said, "What do you want to eat? Ask big brother to get it. You are already grown up, and you still wait for your mother to bring it to you."
Hearing this, Guo Ningwan directly pulled his elder brother to the store door to get the buns.
She had a full breakfast and didn't feel hungry when she was playing in the backyard. But when she saw her mom and grandma eating so happily, she felt hungry again.
You must eat a meat bun.
No, she also wants to eat a tea egg.
Guo Haochen is fifteen years old this year and is half a head taller than Deng Qingling. He usually follows adults to work in the fields and is very strong.
It's okay to let him get the buns. The steamer in the store is six layers high and it's quite high when placed on the table, about 1.5 meters high.
Seeing Guo Ningwan pulling Guo Haochen to get the buns, Guo Haojie and the others followed them out.
Deng Qingling smiled and shook her head, then lowered her head and ate the wonton noodles in the bowl, even drinking up all the noodle soup.
Then she sat there and made wontons. Deng Qingling made about twenty wontons and then stopped making any more.
If you cook too much, the children won’t be able to finish it.
After all, the buns in the store are quite big, and you will feel almost full after eating one.
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Near noon, Guo Haochen and the twins followed Deng Qingling to learn how to make wontons.
The ones with broken skin and exposed fillings are kept for ourselves, and the others that look good are cooked and served to customers.
When there are guests, Deng Qingling will cook wontons. After they are cooked, Guo Haochen will bring the wontons to the table for the guests.
The twins just sat there obediently making wontons and collecting money. After the customers left, they helped to clear the dishes and wipe the table.
At about twelve o'clock, Liang Xueying and other children came back from visiting Uncle Li in the back street.
Originally Liang Xueying didn't want to go, after all, they didn't know each other well.
As for why I went to visit Uncle Li's house.
It was when Guo Haojie and his friends were eating tea eggs in front of the store that they were seen by Uncle Li’s grandson Li Jinjin.
He just stood there and watched them eat.
Guo Ningwan thought that when they came yesterday, her mother seemed to be quite familiar with Grandpa Li, so she scooped out a tea egg for Li Jinjin.
But who knew that Li Jinjin was just a little big shot in the community, and he became familiar with Guo Ningwan, Guo Haoran and others right away.
He also said that he had a TV at home, so he invited Guo Ningwan and others to his house to watch TV.
As soon as they heard there was something to watch on TV, Guo Haoran and the others happily followed them.
Liang Xueying came to the house later, and there was a group of children!
How can I feel at ease?