Chapter 28 River Level
After listening to the conversation, Shen Yueyao's expression became slightly cold.
Shen Yueyao packed up the things and bought some rags and pig offal when she returned.
With Su Erya's help, Shen Yueyao can do housework more easily.
You can also make more roujiamo.
For the next five consecutive days, Shen Yueyao would go to the town to set up a stall every morning.
In total, he set up the stall for seven days and earned 3,298 coins.
But after deducting the expenses of the past few days, including the money for buying medicine for Su Daya, there are only 2,916 coins left.
One thousand wen is one tael of silver, which means Shen Yueyao now has three taels of silver in her hand.
After selling everything at the stall in the morning, Shen Yueyao went to buy six pounds of meat and went home to prepare dumplings for dinner.
It was mid-morning when Shen Yueyao returned home.
Su Erya was sitting on a small bench in the yard peeling kudzu root.
Ever since she knew that Pueraria root was a good thing, Su Erya went to the mountains to dig Pueraria root when she had nothing to do these two days.
She dug another large basket of kudzu root and was sitting in the yard peeling it.
Dabao and Erbao were helping to wash in the yard.
Actually, washing is just like playing.
In the past, the two treasures would go up the mountain to collect firewood, but now Su Erya can come to her uncle and aunt's house, and she can chop the firewood and bring it over, so Dabao and Erbao don't have to work hard.
In the past, when Su Erya wanted to help, she could only secretly get some branches for Dabao and Erbao to take away, and she didn't dare to come over, for fear that her third aunt would be unhappy.
But now she feels that Third Aunt is really nice, maybe there was some misunderstanding in the past.
Su Erya automatically made up an explanation in her mind.
Hearing the noise and seeing Shen Yueyao coming back, Su Erya excitedly stood up and ran over to help Shen Yueyao carry the wooden bucket and put the backpack away.
"Aunt San, you're back."
"Well, I'm back. I bought a few pounds of meat. We'll make dumplings in the afternoon and cook them in the evening."
When Su Erya heard about eating dumplings, her eyes lit up with excitement.
These days, she not only learned a lot from her aunt, but also had enough to eat every meal, and every meal was very delicious.
When Su Erya heard about eating dumplings, she couldn't believe it.
Only those who are well-off can eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year.
People like them never had the chance to eat dumplings in the labor camp before.
After coming to the village, they could only eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year in the past two years, and those were just vegetarian dumplings made with whole-grain bread. Even so, they were already very content.
Thinking of dumplings during the Chinese New Year brings back endless memories.
But Aunt San said, let’s have dumplings for dinner, or dumplings with meat filling?
Su Erya was stunned.
"Aunt San, how about this meat?" Su Erya wanted to ask how much of the meat should be cut for making dumplings, but she didn't know how to start, for fear that Aunt San would think she only knew how to eat.
Shen Yueyao said: "We have made some money from setting up the stall these days. You have worked hard these days. All this meat will be used to make dumplings. We will make dumplings with cabbage and meat fillings."
Su Erya looked at the meat in surprise, "Are all these meats used to make dumplings?"
To be honest, she had never seen so much meat at once.
It looks like a lot.
Thinking about the meat dumplings, she felt like her mouth was watering.
Even Dabao and Erbao knew what dumplings were, and they both looked over with shining eyes.
Shen Yueyao looked at the expressions of Su Erya, Dabao and Erbao, and felt a little sad. She guessed that they had not eaten much meat or good food since they were young.
Before, she made braised pork offal, which was not real pork.
Only cooking with pork can give you the real taste of pork.
Shen Yueyao came in, got a basin of water, washed her hands, and said, "Well, I've made them all. Make more so that mother and Daya can eat dumplings together."
"Even if you can't finish it, you can still make fried dumplings with oil the next morning and they'll be delicious."
Su Erya couldn't help swallowing just by listening to it.
I had a full meal this morning, but why do I feel hungry just hearing about dumplings?
Su Erya happily put the meat away.
She quickly made a cup of kudzu root powder.
Melt the boiled water in the pot, then pour the boiling water into the bowl and stir until it becomes transparent. Add some sugar in the middle.
The candy was also bought by Shen Yueyao after she finished selling things at the stall two days ago.
I bought some, mainly because sugar is quite expensive. I bought some, one for seasoning when cooking, and the other for making Pueraria root powder.
Add some sugar to make it taste better.
"Aunt San, you must be tired too. Have a bowl of kudzu root powder."
Shen Yueyao was not polite either.
It is indeed a bit tiring to set up a stall early in the morning, but I feel fulfilled when I can make money.
Shen Yueyao said, "You guys drink some too."
Su Erya said: "We had a bowl of it after breakfast."
Su Erya refers to her, Dabao and Erbao.
Because she had to go to the morning market and make so many roujiamo, Shen Yueyao didn't have time to eat breakfast. She just ate a few bites in a hurry to fill her stomach. Naturally, she didn't have the leisure to drink kudzu root powder.
After Shen Yueyao came back from the town, she relaxed and drank a bowl of kudzu powder as usual.
Ever since the kudzu root powder was dried a few days ago, Shen Yueyao taught Su Erya how to brew the kudzu root powder.
After Su Erya learned how to make it, she thought it tasted delicious.
Only then did I realize that Pueraria lobata is really a good thing.
Shen Yueyao nodded.
After eating a bowl of kudzu root powder, Shen Yueyao said: "Today at noon, I will teach you how to make kudzu root vermicelli with kudzu root powder. You can make a kudzu root vermicelli dish and a willow bud scrambled eggs."
"Steam some rice for lunch."
They mostly ate noodles before and had never eaten rice.
Shen Yueyao thought that eating vegetables with fragrant rice was also delicious.
Su Erya was startled, suspecting she had misheard, "Willow bud?"
She never knew that willow buds could be used as food.
It was only during years of famine that people ate leaves and tree bark. I heard that they were very unpalatable and indigestible.
So unless they are extremely hungry, no one will eat leaves or bark.
Dabao and Erbao were listening nearby. Erbao tilted his head and whispered, "Brother, is it a willow tree? Can willow trees be eaten?"
Dabao said seriously, "You can't eat it."
The two people talked quietly, and Shen Yueyao also heard it.
She squatted down, touched Dabao and Erbao's hair and said, "February is the time when the willow trees just sprout in spring. The willow buds at this time are very tender and delicious when used to cook or make dumplings."
"You guys can go play with us later."
Su Erya was listening nearby and understood what was happening.
But these few days, she realized how good her third aunt's cooking skills were. She could make ordinary things delicious.
She believed her Third Aunt, and if her Third Aunt said it was delicious, then it must be delicious.
After boiling the rice at home and steaming it, I added a few more pieces of firewood to the stove and let the firewood burn while continuing to steam the rice.
Afterwards, Shen Yueyao took Su Erya and Dabao and Erbao to the river.
When she arrived at the river, Shen Yueyao found that the water level was very shallow.
But the river is very deep. According to the traces above, the river should normally be very deep.
“Why is the river so shallow?”
She originally thought that there was a lot of water in the river and there should be a lot of fish. After the ice on the river melted, she could catch some fish and take them home to cook.
I never thought it would be like this.
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