Chapter 433 Borrowing a Car
The next day, at four o'clock, many ships went out to sea at the dock.
After resting for so many days, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and everyone wants to seize the time to earn more money for the New Year.
Zhou Chenglei also got up early in the morning and went out to sea.
Although it stopped raining, it was still very cold, especially in the morning. Jiangxia did not go out to the sea today because Zhou's mother said to make rice cakes today.
Jiang Xia woke up at 6:30, before daybreak, and was woken up by the swearing of Zhou Bingqiang's wife next door.
He cursed very loudly, probably at Wen Wan, calling her his nemesis.
The sounds of quarrels can often be heard in the village.
It's either the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarreling, or the sisters-in-law quarreling, or the neighbors quarreling, or the parents quarreling with the children.
Whose daughter-in-law would make a noise if she slept in?
If the cousin takes away the cousin's toys, there will be a quarrel! If the chicken of the east family pecks the vegetables in the west family's vegetable garden, there will be a quarrel! ...
Anyway, they can cause quarrels over anything, and most of the quarrels are between those few families. Jiang Xia has become accustomed to it.
It's just that today it's too close and too early.
She got up, brushed her teeth and washed her face, then went downstairs to see Zhou's father eating breakfast: "What time did Dad come back last night?"
Jiang Xia went to bed at nine o'clock last night. When Zhou's father came home, Jiang Xia was sleeping soundly and had no idea.
It was Zhou Chenglei who went downstairs to open the door. He had been waiting for his father, thinking of going to bed at eleven o'clock. Just when he was about to go to bed, his father came back.
Father Zhou smiled and said, "I came back at eleven last night."
Jiang Xia asked casually: "Is Zhou Guohua okay?"
"The doctor said that the pubic bone was broken. Fortunately, it was not displaced and the fracture fragments were not large. However, it will take three or four months to heal."
Father Zhou had never heard of the pubic bone before.
I really learned a lot last night.
When Jiang Xia has time recently, he will also read the medical book about female pregnancy that Zhou Chenglei asked Dr. Gao for.
We just know that the pubic bones are two very small bones located in the front of the pelvis. The two bones are connected by ligaments and fibrous cartilage tissue. This area is called the pubic symphysis.
When a woman gives birth, the gap between the pubic symphysis widens to facilitate smooth delivery of the fetus.
When a woman is pregnant, her hormone secretion is vigorous. In order to accommodate the development of the fetus, the pelvis will be stretched and widened. If too much force is applied during delivery, it may cause separation of the pubic symphysis or even damage the ligaments.
If the recovery is not good, it may cause pubic pain, back pain, abdominal pain, uterine prolapse, urinary incontinence, unsightly body shape and other problems.
Jiang Xia stopped reading after seeing this. She had to give birth to three children at once!
I plan to study how to recover after giving birth.
She used to often hear her colleagues who were already mothers say that they always had back pain after giving birth.
Jiang Xia went to the kitchen to get breakfast, and Zhou's mother was already frying rice in the kitchen.
Jiangxia has never made fried rice cakes, which is also a delicacy from Zhou's mother's family.
Zhou's mother hasn't done this for many years.
I have never been full these years, so I have to add sweet potatoes to my meals or cook sweet potato porridge.
Where can I get rice to make rice cakes? Life has been better this year, and now we eat rice instead of sweet potato rice, so she planned to make some for the children.
We are also planning to make 50 kilograms of rice cakes and 30 kilograms of almond cakes, which can be used as gifts during the Chinese New Year.
The almonds were a New Year gift sent by Zhou Chenglei’s comrades-in-arms.
Jiang Xia held a bowl of millet and sea cucumber porridge and sat on a small stool, helping to watch the fire while eating breakfast.
Today we will make fried rice cakes first. It is not easy to fry 50 kilograms of rice until it is cooked and fragrant, so Zhou's mother fry it in three times.
The rice should be fried until it turns a light golden color, not too burnt, so that the rice cakes will be fragrant. After frying the first batch, Zhou's mother's hands became a little weak.
Zhou's father came over to help, and the two old men each fried a pot.
At this time, Zhou Bingqiang's wife came in and said with a smile: "What are you doing? It smells so good!"
Zhou's mother: "Make some fried rice cakes, what's up?"
Zhou Bingqiang's wife smiled and said, "Isn't Guohua still in the hospital? He needs to stay in the hospital for a while. I would like to trouble A Lei to drive me to the city to bring some clothes and food for the father and son."
Father Zhou: "Alei went out to sea."
Zhou Bingqiang's wife: "Not today, let's do it tomorrow! As the end of the year approaches, the buses going to the city are packed with people. I'm afraid I won't be able to squeeze into the bus with my things."
Jiang Xia: "I'm not free tomorrow either."
Zhou Bingqiang's wife: "Then the day after tomorrow!"
Jiang Xia said directly: "I'm not free the day after tomorrow. I've been busy every day lately. There's a lot of work waiting to be done at home. Aunt Qiang, you should check when the production team's tractor is available!"
Zhou Bingqiang's wife heard this and said, "You all don't have time? Then lend me the jeep! I'll ask Jia Guohong to drive me there and take Wen Wan to the hospital for a dressing change. She sprained her foot and it's not convenient for her to ride a tractor. Otherwise, I won't bother you. Don't worry, Jia Guohong can drive."
Jiang Xia: "She just sprained her foot, not her butt. Why is it inconvenient for her to ride a tractor?"
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"You can lend me the money, but you need to give me two hundred dollars first! One hundred dollars for gas, one hundred dollars for car rental, and you need to buy insurance and find a lawyer to write a guarantee. If anything goes wrong, you will be fully responsible. The car owner has nothing to do with it because the owner doesn't agree to lend it to you! And you have to guarantee to compensate me with a brand new car. If it's worn out or dirty, I will buy a brand new one. When you have everything I said ready, I can lend it to you!"
Zhou Bingqiang's wife: "..."
I have never seen such a shameless and rude person! Zhou Bingqiang's wife left.
Jiang Xia heard her going back to the next room and cursing, and she also cursed Wen Wan.
Zhou Bingqiang's wife went to the vegetable garden cursing, and soon everyone in the village knew what Jiang Xia had said.
Of course Jiang Xia doesn’t care about these things, it’s better to know.
*To make fried rice cakes, you need to fry the rice, peanuts and sesame seeds. The fried rice cakes with crushed peanuts and sesame seeds will be more fragrant.
However, the one with chopped peanuts couldn’t be kept for as long as the one without, so Zhou’s mother only made ten kilograms of the one with peanuts.
The peanuts and sesame flowers from the field were fried and sent over.
After the rice was fried, Zhou's father took it to the rice mill in the next village to grind it into powder.
Take it back, add it to the cooked syrup, then pour in the peanuts and sesame seeds, mix them together, then put it into a specific cake mold, press it tightly, and then knock it out. This is also called knocked rice cake.
The beaten rice cakes are moist because of the syrup, and they need to be placed one by one in a large iron pot and dried over low heat.
The rice cakes made in this way are fragrant and sweet, but a little hard.
Not just a little bit, it's very hard!
Jiang Xia tasted one and almost broke his teeth!
She laughed and said, "This can even be used to make teething biscuits for children!"
I have bad teeth and can't bite it off.
But it is really fragrant and delicious, and nothing else is added except rock sugar.
Jiang Xia and several children were responsible for making rice cakes, while Tian Caihua and Zhou's father and mother were responsible for drying them.
The stoves in both the old house and the new house are used.
Later, Grandma and He Xinghuan smelled the fragrance and came over to help.
I was busy until Zhou Chenglei came back from sea, and finally I finished.
Jiang Xia handed him a rice cake with the word "Fu" on it: "I made this, try it."
Zhou Chenglei took it, put it in his mouth, and it was extremely hard!
"tasty."
The harder it is, the better it tastes.