While the cowpeas are still tender, pick more in the afternoon to make sour beans. Sour beans are no worse than dried radishes and can be eaten with rice or porridge.
Cut some and fry them at noon, and steam the rest into buns later.
The fried cowpeas for lunch were rather light. Xu Xiangjuan didn't let Guagua just eat chicken and drink chicken soup, and occasionally put cowpeas in her bowl for her to eat.
Later, when their lives got better, they all started to eat a combination of meat and vegetables.
He eats whatever his mom picks for him. Gua Gua won’t eat it on his own initiative, but he still likes it the most.
After lunch, the dough was cut into small pieces. After Xu Xiangjuan finished feeding Niu Niu, she led Gua Gua to make steamed buns.
When she was in a good mood, Xu Xiangjuan also shaped the dough. She used scissors to cut out the ears and tails, pinched them, embedded green beans on them as eyes, and pinched other details, and the little rabbit was made.
After making the little rabbit, she showed it to her daughter and said, "Guagua, this is a rabbit. Mommy will steam it for you later."
When he heard that it was food, Gua Gua resisted the urge to catch the rabbit and said, "Good mom, is it delicious?"
“You’ll know whether the melon tastes good after you eat it.”
Half of the small dough is used to make rabbits, and the other half is made into normal steamed buns, and the steamer is filled with three layers.
Now whenever she cooks something, she will send a portion to her parents. After all, her parents really love her as a daughter.
Guagua is still a child after all, and can’t wait. He asks his mother when he can eat the rabbit every half a minute, “Okay, mom, when can we eat the rabbit?”
First put the chopped firewood in the stove, Xu Xiangjuan took out the matchbox, struck a fire, and used the dry yellow leaves she picked up to start the fire, "We'll steam it later. Guagua is going to go with mom to cut cowpeas. Help mom bring them back. Each time you bring back, you can eat one more rabbit."
If this crop of cowpeas is not trimmed, it will get old. Also, her daughter cannot be fed into a fat child when she is young. If she can eat on her own, she will blame her mother for feeding her fat when she grows up. She must exercise when she is young.
The child's father has to walk for an hour or two every day to earn his salary, so of course the little girl can't waste the family's food.
In order to have food, Gua Gua took on the job of moving the cowpeas.
Xu Xiangjuan tied up the bundles of vegetables with straw after cutting them. She had straw at home, and she used to use it to bundle vegetables and sell them at the market. This year, she stopped selling vegetables after she had her baby. Next year, she won’t sell them after her baby is weaned, as they won’t make much money, so her family can just grow them and eat them.
After tying a bundle, Guagua put it on the kitchen floor. Guagua held the bundle of cowpeas in both hands and walked with it. It was quite interesting to watch such a small person walking.
After Guagua moved for the second time, she also went back to the kitchen with Guagua to adjust the fire until the remaining firewood was almost burned out.
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The town middle school has been under construction for almost six years, but the cafeteria has not been completely completed this year. Construction of the cafeteria began at the beginning of this year and was stopped in the middle. Students and teachers all bring their own lunch boxes. Those students and teachers with better conditions will go to the small restaurant next to the school for a meal several times a month.
The canteen has not been built yet, but there is a rice steamer for teachers to steam their own lunch boxes. It is only open once a day, at a unified time. If you miss the time today, it will not open. You can't steam for a long time, so you can only heat rice, not cook.
After the last class, Zhou Chengning and several colleagues went to heat up their meals.
My colleagues and I went to a small restaurant next to the middle school for a bite to eat yesterday. We only go there a few times a month. Since we are not rich, we still have to come to the cafeteria to steam our own rice.
Although they have no money, they are not as pitiful as Teacher Zhou, whose wife controls all the money at home.
Previously, the school collected a tea fee from teachers as a token of appreciation for the year. It was not expensive, only 20 cents. It was collected on the same day the notice was given. Teacher Zhou did not have any money on him, so he borrowed 20 cents from a colleague and paid it back the next day.
It's incredible that this man doesn't have even a penny.
There was a teacher who had worked with Teacher Zhou for several years, even before Teacher Zhou got married. On the day of the two-cent incident, while Teacher Zhou was on his way to class, he told them that before Teacher Zhou got married, he was just like them and could still have a good meal. But after getting married, his wife was strict and his life was hard. Most of the other teachers had bicycles, but Teacher Zhou walked to and from get off work every day.
The same goes for shoes. I wear Liberation shoes and cloth shoes alternately all year round.
Colleagues were also divided into groups. Some of them sympathized with Teacher Zhou and forced him to go with them on several occasions to have a good meal. They treated him to a good meal instead of eating yellow and black mixed rice with dried radish and green vegetables all day long.
The dried radish is very crispy when you take it out directly, but the taste is greatly reduced when it is steamed in the steamer. In addition, the dried radish is very sour, and it will taste bitter in the mouth if too many people eat it.
Teacher Zhou’s lunch box often didn’t even have dried radish in it. The worst times were when there was only a layer of chopped green onions. At that time, colleagues would simply pick up a few pieces of food from their own lunch boxes and give them to Teacher Zhou with their chopsticks.
They all wanted to tell Teacher Zhou’s wife not to abuse Teacher Zhou like that. It’s a different era now and it’s not okay to abuse men.
When I asked Mr. Zhou where his monthly salary went, he always said he gave it to his wife and spent it at home.
Zhou Chengning was a little embarrassed about his colleagues treating him to a meal. He had no money to treat them, and he was embarrassed to ask his wife for money to treat his colleagues to a meal. After all, there were only a few people, and it would be bad if he didn't spend some money... so he simply didn't treat them.
After being dragged there two or three times, Zhou Chengning refused to go no matter what.
His colleagues sympathized with him and felt sorry for him, but he felt that he lived a good life and had eaten meat. Although his wife did not take him to school and was concerned about the children most of the time, he was not as miserable as they said.
Today, four colleagues got together. The lunch boxes were steamed and taken out. Everyone found a seat and sat down.
Zhou Chengning felt a little swollen today. For the first time after his marriage, he straightened his back in the cafeteria and even opened the lunch box with a sense of ritual.
Pushing the lunch box to the middle, Zhou Chengning said, "Do you want to try my lover's cooking?"
The other three colleagues looked at the white rice, the mushrooms and the red-sauced chicken pieces, and they thought the rice was really delicious.
The three of them hesitated, and Zhou Chengning continued, "Each of you take some meat. I've already eaten last night. My wife piled a lot of meat for me, enough for me to eat."
The meat looked delicious, but Mr. Zhou didn't know when he would be able to eat it again, and maybe he would have to eat it in several meals. When his colleagues heard him say this, they picked up some mushrooms. Mr. Wang said, "I like mushrooms."
Teacher Sun: “I like it too.”
Teacher Liu: “Mushroom smell.”
After the mushrooms are imported, they are indeed fragrant!
Zhou Chengning simply picked out the larger pieces of meat and gave one to each of the three teachers. Only after he was done did he pull the lunch box back in front of him.
Even without meat, Zhou Chengning could finish the little bit of rich soup in the lunch box with relish. It was so delicious.
The food is better than that of the small restaurant next to the school.
Chicken goes really well with rice, and the three teachers finished their meal quickly. Teacher Liu said carefully, "Teacher Zhou, how could your wife bear to... huh?"
It's been a few years, and this is the first time I've seen Teacher Zhou bring such a luxurious meal. How could he bear to put so many pieces of meat? And it tasted very good.
"My daughter wanted to eat chicken yesterday, so we slaughtered a chicken and stewed it. My wife specially filled a small box for me and asked me to treat you to a few bites of meat. I can't always let you suffer the loss."
He knew that everyone thought his wife was not good and always spoke up for him. They had too deep a prejudice against his wife, so this time when there was chicken, he invited his colleagues to eat meat and, by the way, "clear the grievances" for his wife.
Teacher Wang: "Teacher Zhou, don't blame me for talking nonsense. Did your spouse do something to let you down? For example, did he spend all your money?"
He didn't dare to say whether he had someone else outside. Such words would hurt any man's dignity.
"No, my wife told me last night that she would buy me a bicycle."
Teacher Sun: "You are ready to buy a bicycle. Are you sure you have done nothing wrong?"
It has to be said that it is impossible not to suspect that Mr. Zhou's wife, who is usually famous for "abusing men", suddenly loves men.
Maybe he really did something wrong and wants to make amends?
The author has something to say: The first day of the short holiday + the number of collections has exceeded three digits, so here is the second hot update!
No matter what the reason is, everyone should pay attention to safety when going out during the long holiday. Fairies who go out to travel and play should keep their documents, bags and mobile phones safe.
Also, I wish you all a happy short vacation~~
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