Duolu turned his little head as if sensing something, and saw Yu Rujia pulling on the back of his clothes. He immediately raised his two little arms and hugged her arm, calling out softly, "Auntie."
Yu Rujia put the little boy down and tapped his little nose: "Roasted sweet potatoes are delicious, but they're hot when they're fresh out of the oven. Wait until Uncle Guojing has finished cooking them before you eat them, okay?"
Duolu happily replied, "Okay, let's wait for Uncle Guojing."
Duofu, who was standing nearby, asked, "Has Auntie ever eaten this before?"
Yu Rujia: "I've eaten it. It's quite delicious when I eat it occasionally."
Hearing her, the most discerning eater, admit that it was delicious, Duofu no longer showed any disgust towards the dark-colored thing: "If Auntie says it's delicious, then it must be delicious."
Gao Guojing laughed and scolded, "You good-for-nothing Duofu, you don't even believe me? I'll make you eat less later."
Duofu said ingratiatingly, "I believe you, I believe you the most, I trust Uncle Guojing the most."
Gao Guojing roasted seven or eight sweet potatoes, each of which he had carefully selected and weighed about half a pound.
Yu Rujia took one and broke it open. A sweet aroma immediately wafted out, and Duoshou, who was standing at her feet, couldn't help but drool: "Auntie, I want to eat it."
Yu Rujia took a bite; it was a little hot, but the sweet and soft texture made her reluctant to spit it out. She breathed out several times before swallowing the sweet potato.
Yu Rujia: "It's a little hot. Let it cool down a bit before you eat with Uncle Guojing."
Duoshou had seen what she had just done, and although he wanted to eat, he obediently waited.
Duolu was different. She clung to Gao Guojing's arm and said in a spoiled tone, "Uncle Guojing, I want to eat, please let me eat it?"
Unable to resist the sweet, childlike voice, Gao Guojing surrendered, saying, "Okay, okay, Uncle Guojing will give you some to eat right away."
As she spoke, she picked up a roasted sweet potato and demonstrated: "Look, you can't eat the black outer layer. You have to break the sweet potato open and eat the yellow part inside. Be careful, it's hot. When you eat it, touch it with your tongue first, and only bite off a little bit when it's not hot anymore."
"You can't take a big bite right away, you'll burn your mouth, understand?"
On the other side, Duofu received an explanation, touched each of the roasted sweet potatoes on the ground, picked out one that wasn't so hot, broke it open, and tried it himself. It was soft, sticky, and sweet.
Although Duofu wanted to eat more, seeing Duoshou staring at him expectantly, Duofu sensibly handed a roasted sweet potato to Duoshou's mouth: "Duoshou, take a bite."
Duo Shou obediently took a bite, and the sweet and glutinous texture, even sweeter than boiled sweet potatoes, instantly won over his taste buds: "Delicious, big brother, have some." The two brothers ate one bite after another.
Duolu also took a bite of the sweet potato that Gao Guojing handed him. Among the children, Duoxi was the only one without anything in his mouth, and he immediately became unhappy and pounced on Gao Guojing, who was still squatting.
She held onto the arm with both hands that was holding the sweet potato, and stretched her neck to reach for it.
The little guy didn't bite accurately, and his mouth was full of black outer skin. He immediately opened his mouth and spat it out several times, then cried pitifully, complaining, "Bad, bad."
Seeing this, Gao Guojing immediately broke off a small piece of soft, glutinous sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth: "Alright, Uncle Guojing will give this to Duoxi to eat."
Once he tasted the flavor, the earlier shock vanished from Duoxi's little head, and he became engrossed in the delicious taste.
After the whole family finished eating roasted sweet potatoes, their mouths were all blackened, so they lined up to wash their hands and mouths at the hand pump well.
After everyone finished washing up, Yu Rujia announced, "Let's make sweet potato starch today."
When the grain was distributed in December, she exchanged it for several hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes. She had been thinking about making some sweet potato flour to eat, but she was too lazy to do it.
Gao Shujing was busy connecting the power, and after finally finishing, Yu Rujia forgot about it again.
Seeing Gao Guojing's roasted sweet potatoes today reminded her of this matter. With Gao Guojing as her helper, Yu Rujia decided to make sweet potato flour.
Duolu: "Auntie, is sweet potato starch delicious?"
Duoshou patted him on the shoulder: "Auntie's ideas are sure to be delicious."
Duofu: "I want to do it with my aunt."
Yu Rujia: "Okay, thank you all for helping Auntie."
She loves tofu, whether it's soy milk, tofu pudding, soft tofu, dried tofu, or other soy products.
There's a stone mill in the village, but so many people use it that on certain holidays, you have to queue up if you want to make tofu.
Yu Rujia didn't want to go outside to grind tofu, it was too troublesome, and she didn't want to queue up. Some time ago, she asked the multi-talented Gao Shujing to make a stone mill, and today was the first time the stone mill was put to use.
First, I had a few kids wash and cut some of the sweet potatoes, and then Duofu and the other kids continued washing the remaining sweet potatoes.
The weather was nice today, sunny and warm, and with the temperature stabilized, the temperature at home was over 20 degrees Celsius. A sweatshirt was enough, and there was no need to worry about getting cold from getting wet. That's why she agreed to let Duofu help the kids with the chores.
Yu Rujia took the knife away to avoid hurting the little ones, and then she and Gao Guojing started grinding the sweet potatoes on the stone mill.
The ground sweet potatoes need to be washed and rinsed several times.
After placing the sweet potato pulp in a wooden bucket to settle, Yu Rujia said, "Okay, that's enough for today. We'll continue tomorrow."
Duolu slurped his saliva: "Auntie, will we have sweet potato flour to eat tomorrow?"
Yu Rujia: "It won't be possible tomorrow. We'll have to wait a few more days before we can eat."
Thinking about the sweet potato flour, Duolu would check the progress of the sweet potato production several times a day.
While the sweet potato flour was being rolled into sheets and laid out to dry, Duolu secretly broke off a piece and ate it; the little guy's curiosity was always so strong.
Once he tasted it, Duolu forgot about his sneaky eating and ran to Yu Rujia, saying, "Auntie, the rice noodles don't taste good."
Yu Rujia knew without even thinking what good deed he had done.
Yu Rujia: "Serves you right. Who told you to eat before the noodles were even ready? Have you forgotten what happened to you when you sneaked food before? If I find out you're sneaking food again, I'll make you watch us eat once the noodles are ready."
Duoshou gave him a push: "You never learn your lesson. You should watch us eat."
In order to let the children taste the sweet potato starch as soon as possible, Yu Rujia specially asked Gao Guojing to cook a pot of thick soup to cook the starch on the day the starch dried.
Duofu and the little ones stood guard at the courtyard gate because Yu Rujia said that they could only eat noodles when Gao Shujing returned.
Forgetting that he had just complained about the taste of sweet potato starch a couple of days ago, Duolu asked the same question for the nth time: "How long until Uncle comes back?"
Duofu: "My uncle has been coming back around this time for the past few days, he should be arriving soon."
With drool dripping from his mouth, Duolu said, "Uncle is so slow."
Duoshou raised his little face and said, "Uncle is back." He then ran outside, followed by the three little ones.
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