"Send some to my grandparents and maternal grandparents," Li Yulan said as she took pumpkin seeds out of the pumpkin.
Even if Aunt Zhao only received two pounds of the pumpkin, and the seeds were removed, there would still be plenty left.
We definitely can't finish it in one or two meals.
It would be better to send them to relatives.
Hu Xiuying looked at the pumpkin and thought for a moment, "How about we make pumpkin pancakes and send them to your grandparents and maternal grandparents?"
"Do we have flour and glutinous rice flour at home?" Li Yulan asked, looking up at her.
Yes, we have glutinous rice flour.
There was no more flour.
After all, her family doesn't eat noodles; they are all pure southerners who only eat rice or rice noodles.
They occasionally eat steamed buns and dumplings, but these are bought from state-run restaurants; they don't know how to make them themselves.
I occasionally buy dried noodles from the supply and marketing cooperative, but I would never make noodles myself by kneading and rolling out the dough.
Therefore, the Li family did not have flour, and since they didn't know how to cook, they wouldn't waste money buying flour.
"Then let's make pumpkin cakes with glutinous rice flour."
"How about we make some pumpkin steamed cake?" Li Yulan suggested. "Let's buy some flour tomorrow..."
"Steamed rice cakes require leavening the dough, and we don't have that at home."
"Isn't Aunt Zhou on the first floor from the north? Her family seems to make steamed buns and mantou often. They should know how to make leavened dough, right?"
"Why don't you take some things tomorrow and ask Aunt Zhou to help you make the dough? Making pumpkin steamed cake doesn't use much oil, and it'll fill your stomach too."
Hu Xiuying nodded in agreement after hearing her daughter's words; it was indeed worth a try.
"Also, take some pumpkin seeds to Aunt Zhou. She lives on the first floor and can grow some things there."
Residents on the first floor of a tenement building have some advantages over those on the upper floors, such as growing vegetables.
The Aunt Zhou that Li Yulan mentioned is particularly good at making use of space. There isn't much space on the first floor to grow vegetables, but she still managed to squeeze in a lot of vegetables wherever possible.
Aunt Zhou should really like the seeds of this giant pumpkin that can grow to weigh dozens of kilograms.
"Okay, bring me some." Hu Xiuying looked at the pumpkin seeds her daughter took out from the bamboo basket next to her and thought it wouldn't be a problem to give some to the neighbors.
With so many pumpkin seeds, and not much space to grow them at home, it should be enough to give some to relatives and neighbors.
Hu Xiuying sat next to her daughter and watched as Zhou Cunming took Li Cong to take a bath. She quickly asked her daughter if she had been mistreated at the Zhou family home.
"Your mother-in-law really has a bad temper. Has she ever bullied you?"
"I heard that she beat up the previous foster mother of the Zhao family's little girl and even made her lose her job."
"She's never really liked you. Did she bully you when you went back?"
Li Yulan was her only child, and she had been pampered and cherished by her since she was a child, unable to bear the slightest grievance.
She was genuinely worried that her daughter would be bullied by Chen Suwen after going to the Zhou family.
Hu Xiuying completely overlooked her daughter's temper; Li Yulan was not the kind of person who would swallow her anger.
"Don't worry, Mom, I wasn't bullied."
Li Yulan also explained to her mother that Pang Zijuan losing her job had little to do with Chen Suwen; it was because she herself abused the orphan of a hero that she lost her job.
Hu Xiuying nodded haphazardly, still harboring suspicions about Chen Suwen and worried that she might harm her daughter.
Sigh, Cunming is a very good son-in-law, but he has a mother like that, which is a big problem.
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