When Su Qingluan returned home, the meal was almost ready. Today was another stew of pickled cabbage and pork, but the pork was larger and fattier than the previous one.
"So much meat!" Su Qingluan said with a smile, "Mother really spent a lot of money this time."
"What nonsense!" Yang said with a smile. "You've been working too hard lately and have lost a lot of weight. Now that we can stop and take a breath, I thought I'd give you some more meat to replenish your body."
This time, Yang knew Su Qingluan's preference, so she cooked the fat for a longer time so that the fat in it would gradually melt into the sauerkraut soup.
This way, the originally sour and astringent leaves absorbed the rich broth, becoming softer and easier to eat. This time, because there was more sliced white meat and more fat, the sauerkraut tasted even more moist than last time.
Although there was no delicious blood sausage this time, which made the two little guys Su Xuanhe and Su Xueyan quite dissatisfied, the broth was richer than last time and they still enjoyed it very much.
Seeing her younger brother and sister eating with their mouths full of oil, Su Qingluan couldn't help but shake her head: "After dinner, you two should go to the yard to digest the food!"
Su Xuanhe raised his head from his own bowl, his little mouth slick with grease. "But Sister eats more than us, can't we help digest the food together?"
Su Qingluan rolled her eyes. "I'm taller and older than you, so it's only natural that I should eat more! Besides, I have work to do later. Why don't you do it for me?"
Su Xuanhe quickly shook his head like a rattle: "I still have to review my lessons later!"
Su Qingluan sneered: "Now you only know how to study and don't want to work. Be careful that you will become a lazy nerd who doesn't know the difference between grains!"
"I won't become a nerd! I can work too!" Su Xuanhe was unconvinced.
"Then clean up the dishes later." Su Qingluan gave her brother orders without feeling any pressure at all - besides, it was his own request, wasn't it?
After dinner, Su Qingluan began to worry: Although it is said that too much debt is better than nothing, but Liu Yunniang has two debts.
Su Qingluan thought that she couldn't hold a thank-you banquet for Mu Xingzhi and neglect her good friend. It would not be good to favor one over the other.
However, Mu Xingzhi's thank-you banquet is in four days, and time is tight. To design dishes and purchase ingredients in such a short time, four days is actually a bit tight.
So the matter of preparing another table will have to be put on hold.
But in fact, in terms of Su Qingluan's personal emotional priority, Liu Yunniang ranks ahead of Mu Xingzhi.
Therefore, although it was too late to prepare a thank-you banquet for Liu Yunniang, and if she forced herself to do it, it would only be a coping mechanism, but before going to Mu Xingzhi, Su Qingluan still remembered that she had to make some snacks for Liu Yunniang.
Unlike her cheerful appearance, Liu Yunniang actually likes sweet snacks and has a bit of a "girly heart" - she likes flowers, plants, and cute things.
It’s just that in the past, due to limited conditions, we had to keep everything simple.
Since the Liu family moved out of the shabby alley, Liu Sheng's legs have gradually recovered, and Liu Yunniang's hobby that has been suppressed for a long time is like a bubble that finally floats up, rises to the surface of the water, floats in the air, and sees the sunlight.
Although she often suppressed her hobbies due to her still-tight family situation, Su Qingluan had heard her friend sigh with envy more than once about which wealthy businessman's daughter ate what kind of dim sum. The sweet aroma of the dim sum wafted pastries as she walked by, but she couldn't bear to buy a single piece.
Su Qingluan knew what kind of snack it was. It was a kind of pastry with red bean paste and date paste filling, and the outside was covered with layers of crispy crust with a little white sesame seeds. It was fried in a lot of oil, and the aroma was so tempting that it made people salivate.
In fact, Su Qingluan happened to know a kind of pastry that met Liu Yunniang's requirements, but when she thought about how she had made it for Mu Xingzhi before, she felt a little guilty - yes, it was lotus pastry.
In fact, Su Qingluan originally wanted to make dragon beard pastry. However, although dragon beard pastry is sweet, crispy and soft, its appearance can only be described as "cute" at best. Compared with lotus pastry, it is slightly inferior in terms of appearance.
However, the lotus pastry had already been made for others, and when Liu Yunniang gave it to her friends, she always felt that what she was eating had already been eaten by someone else.
Suddenly, Su Qingluan's eyes lit up: Although the lotus pastry has been made, there are still areas for improvement?
Su Qingluan did what she said. She returned to her room, moved the small coffee table in her room to the leeward side of the hallway, lit two oil lamps, and then used the lamplight and the natural light coming in from outside to barely design her new lotus pastry.
In fact, the general method has not changed much, but this time, Su Qingluan changed the filling from the original red bean paste and red dates to lotus seed paste.
And although Liu Yunniang likes sweet food, Su Qingluan planned to add sugar when making the puff pastry and dough, so she was afraid that she would get sick of it, so she made some improvements to the filling.
Of course, to make the puff pastry, you need to put it in a refrigerated environment for a while, and now the temperature outside is close to zero degrees, which is just enough to serve as a natural refrigerator.
In order to give her friend a surprise, Su Qingluan did not tell Liu Yunniang that she was coming, but instead inquired about the time when the Liu family would set up their stall in advance, estimating when would be the best time for her to visit.
So the next afternoon, when Su Qingluan knocked on the Liu family's door, Liu Yunniang's first reaction when she opened the door was not the surprise of seeing her friend, but: "Qingluan? Why are you here? Is there something wrong with that batch of fruit jam again?" As she said that, she let Su Qingluan into the house.
Su Qingluan, who had just stepped into the Liu family's threshold, paused and said inwardly:... Thank you so much, but please accept my kindness.
The corners of her mouth twitched as she raised the wooden food box in front of the two of them: "Here, the snacks we promised you!"
"Oh my!" At this time, Liu Yunniang finally showed a little bit of the "surprise" that Su Qingluan had expected. "Is this made for me? I'll take you to the front hall first. My father and mother just came back from town and are resting and chatting there!"
"It seems that Uncle Liu has recovered well recently." Su Qingluan said with a smile.
"Isn't it?" Liu Yunniang took the food box and said with a smile, "Ever since he started this stall business, he seems to be recovering faster. I'm just worried that one day his leg will hinder him again."
Su Qingluan smiled and said, "As long as I have a job to do and something to look forward to, I will naturally get better quickly."
The Liu family's two-story courtyard only took a few words to reach the inner hall, where they could hear faint voices.
I heard the sound of the door opening outside, and then Madam Xi's loud voice came from inside the door: "Yunniang, who is here?"
"Madam Xi, it's me!" Su Qingluan also responded loudly.
Madam Xi naturally recognized Su Qingluan and hurried out to greet her: "Young Lady of the Su family, what fragrant wind brings you here?"
Liu Yunniang shook the food box in her hand: "Qingluan is bringing me some snacks!"
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