Li Qingyun kept one basket of picked cowpeas to eat fresh, and she planned to blanch the other basket and dry them into dried cowpeas. She could then soak them and use them in stir-fries, stews, or meats. The same goes for eggplants. She could cut them into strips, dry them, and eat them in the winter. This is the secret of northerners to store winter vegetables.
Although she can make room to keep it fresher, she still has to do some cover-up.
With these vegetables, I can plant some winter vegetables, and add them to the vegetables I bought in the space before, so I won’t have to worry about the supply of vegetables this winter.
Dinner was beef stewed with tomatoes and loofah and egg soup.
Although there wasn't much meat stored in the space, it was enough for them to eat for a long time. An adult and a child couldn't eat much in one meal, so they cut half a pound of beef, stewed it in a small pot, added various spices, and the flavor came out immediately.
The tomatoes are freshly picked, sweet and sour and juicy, which neutralizes the fishy smell of the beef and complements it perfectly.
After stewing the beef, she began to blanch the cowpeas, dry them in the sun, and cut the eggplant into strips.
Dabao accompanied Erbao to learn how to roll over. Dabao taught tirelessly for a whole day, and the baby finally showed some signs of rolling over.
After drying the vegetables and stewing the beef until it is soft, make some delicious loofah and egg soup and eat it with the white flour buns you bought earlier, and it will be a perfect meal.
Dabao didn't notice any difference in the meat and thought it was the same pork his mother had bought before.
After dinner, I was enjoying the cool air in the yard.
"Tingzhou family, are you home? I'm your Aunt Jiang." There was a knock on the door.
It was Aunt Jiang who came. Li Qingyun was so busy today that she even forgot about the appointment with Aunt Jiang to measure the size.
"I said I would come in the morning, but I got busy and forgot, so I came now. I hope I didn't disturb your rest?" Aunt Jiang said politely.
"No, we are also enjoying the cool air in the yard. It's too hot and the children can't sleep." As she said that, Li Qingyun quickly got a stool for them to sit on, then stood up to make a bowl of sugar water and brought it out.
"Stop working, don't be polite." Aunt Jiang thought it was just a bowl of plain water, so she didn't say anything polite. She took a sip and tasted the sweetness. It was sugar water. In this era, going to someone's house and being given a bowl of sugar water was a great honor.
Once again, I sighed in my heart that Li Qingyun was capable and generous.
"Thank you for the sweet soup, but don't do that next time. We're all from the same village, so there's no need to be so polite. Otherwise, how will I feel comfortable coming here again in the future?"
"Look at what Auntie said. It's just a bowl of sugar water. It's not worth anything. I should be thanking you for not taking the labor fee for making my clothes."
"Speaking of clothes, I really have to thank you for the piece of floral fabric you gave me. My daughter loves it so much. As soon as she got it back yesterday, she asked me to make clothes for her. She wore it today and went to the movies in the city with her boyfriend." Aunt Jiang was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
The two chatted for a while, measured each other's sizes, and agreed on the approximate style.
Aunt Jiang gave her two dollars, saying it was money to buy cloth. Li Qingyun thought that the cloth was free anyway, so she didn't charge her more and returned her fifty cents. They were both happy.
We sent Aunt Jiang away with laughter and conversation.
After washing myself and my two children, I washed and hung out the clothes and diapers, and then prepared to rest.
Before going to bed, I was still thinking about planting the winter vegetables tomorrow morning, and the toilet at home is so convenient that I have to find a way to clean it and make it more clean and convenient.
After a hard day, it's easy to fall asleep.
She was so soundly asleep that she didn't know that her cheap husband was on his way home.
A military vehicle was driving on the road. Jiang Fan and the driver Xiao Song took turns driving and it wasn't too tiring.
Jiang Fan's family also managed to borrow this car, and also provided a driver. The two of them escorted Gu Tingzhou back to his hometown together.
When Jiang Fan's parents knew that Gu Tingzhou had saved their son, they put down their work and came to the hospital to visit him in person. They promised that if he needed anything, they could ask for it and they would do it as long as they could.
But Gu Tingzhou didn't ask for anything, he just asked to be discharged from the hospital early and go home to recuperate.
However, with his current position, it is impossible for him to have a special car escort. The journey is too long and taking the train is not realistic, so he needs their help.
Jiang Fan's father admired this young man very much, not only because he was his son's good friend, but also because he saved his son.
More importantly, he has the drive and ruthlessness to fight hard, like a wolf cub. Once given the opportunity, he will grow into the wolf king.
He did not ask for anything in return for saving their life, but just suggested a simple matter to give them a way out.
This made him admire his son's good friend even more.
Even if others don't ask for anything, you can't take the life-saving favor lightly.
So he gave a heads-up and directly approved three months of paid leave for Gu Tingzhou to recuperate, and also gave him the military merit this time.
At the same time, he also asked Jiang Fan to personally escort him home, and of course he would also give him some help in his career development, but that's all in the future.
Gu Tingzhou was lying on the soft back seat, with a lot of thoughts in his mind. He was about to return to his hometown which he had not visited for decades. He felt a little homesick and had trouble falling asleep. Now, nothing was more important than his two children.
Gujialing Village
I was awakened by my second baby's biological clock at six o'clock. I changed his diaper, cleaned his diaper, put on a diaper and fed him milk. Then he fell into a deep sleep again.
Because they have been eating well these days, both kids have obviously gained some weight and become rounder. They are no longer the skinny ones with pointed chins and monkey cheeks.
After a night's rest, Li Qingyun regained her energy, even though life in the countryside was hard and there were many things to do.
But over the past few days, she has gotten used to it. Since she can't change her life, she has learned to enjoy it.
She would not go to work to earn a cent. It was too tiring and hard. She had worked so hard to maintain such good skin, and she didn't want to ruin it. All women love beauty.
But she will take good care of the family and her two children, and keep her private plot of land in good condition so that the family will have enough food and drink.
As for the living expenses given by her cheap husband, she will spend them on the children in the future. She will definitely not suck the blood of her mother's family like her original self. As long as they dare to ask for money, she will make them spit out everything they have eaten.
Speaking of which, the Li family will probably come to ask for money soon, right?
In the past, Li Zhaodi would usually come back with the money, and her family would come to her house two days later.
After Li Qingyun washed herself, she started to make breakfast. There were white flour buns at home, so she heated up two and steamed a large bowl of egg custard, which was enough for two people.
When life first started to improve, Dabao would always eat a lot at one meal until he was full. For example, if she, an adult, could eat three big meat buns, he could finish two.
Li Qingyun knew that this was the aftereffect of long-term hunger.
So she didn't try to persuade him, but just tried to give him a sense of security, letting him know that he would always have enough to eat and would not go hungry again.
By yesterday, he no longer wolfed down his meals, but stopped when he had enough.
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