Xiao Hechuan looked at his nephew, and he remembered that he was the uncle and the elder, and as an elder he should not compete with the younger for food.
Although he also wanted to eat it, the few times he had eaten white rice were very unforgettable. Compared with eating cornmeal porridge and steamed buns made of two grains of flour every day, being able to eat white rice for every meal has become the highest ideal of many ordinary people in their lifetime.
"I don't want to eat. I'm full. You eat it by yourself!" Xiao Hechuan moved his eyes away from the white rice and pretended to be serious like an adult.
Jiang Sui watched from the side and felt very uncomfortable.
She thought to herself, that’s enough, Xiao Hechuan, I feel sorry for you.
In his current situation, he is just a child.
The time she spent with the Xiao family made her experience the family love and warmth she had never experienced before, and she felt at home for the first time.
Putting aside her initial selfish motives, she now really hopes that the Xiao family can live well and in harmony.
If such a large family wants to eat unlimited white rice for every meal, what kind of financial resources would be needed?
She has to do something for them and make some contribution.
Goudan finally finished the bowl of almost cold white rice by himself, and he felt very satisfied just eating it.
Little did he know that Mr. Zeng outside the kitchen had already heard it. He sighed helplessly and thought to himself, I really met a family of good people.
People took the money and provided them with good food and drink, but they themselves still ate simple meals.
However, he did not tell Su Yanqing about this, for fear of adding to his psychological burden.
This is the way the world is, it is too realistic. There are too many things that are beyond our control and everyone’s life is hard.
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It was mid-May, and it had not rained for a month. The people were eagerly waiting for the rain because the crops in the fields needed water.
Su Yan had been staying in the Xiao family for about ten days.
Xiao Lanlan brought him meals every day. When she went to the vegetable garden in the morning, she saw many beautiful wild flowers growing on the roadside. She picked a bunch, tied them up with grass, and placed them on the table at the head of Su Yanqing's kang.
When Su Yanqing woke up, he saw this bright light, and his mood for the whole day became brighter because of it.
Xiao's mother went down to the cellar in the morning and took out several large bags of sweet potatoes. As a result, some of the sweet potatoes had sprouted, while others were rotten.
Last month, the sweet potato seeds I saved had sprouted and were all planted. Now the remaining ones are kept for my own consumption.
As a result, I didn't pay attention to them during this period and most of them were damaged, which is such a pity.
You can cut off the bad parts, but there are so many of them that you can’t finish them in a short time. Isn’t it a waste?
Adding up these bags, it would be at least over 100 kilograms, which made Xiao's mother feel troubled.
When Jiang Sui saw the sweet potatoes, he understood Xiao's mother's troubles, so he suddenly had an idea and came up with a good idea.
These sweet potatoes cannot be eaten all at once, but they can be made into sweet potato flour.
Sweet potato noodles are chewy and bouncy, and when made into hot and sour noodles they have a unique flavor that whets the appetite. Jiang Sui himself is a loyal fan of hot and sour noodles.
So she told Xiao's mother her thoughts.
When Xiao's mother heard this, she was confused as to what sweet potato flour was. Why had she never heard of it?
"Sui Sui, can sweet potatoes be made into noodles? I've only heard of noodles and wonton wrappers, but I've never heard of sweet potato noodles."
When Jiang Sui heard that there was no sweet potato flour in this era, he was instantly happy.
Wow, this is a business opportunity that comes right to her doorstep. If she can make it, it will be the first of its kind.
"Mom, if you haven't heard of it, I'll make it for you. It's delicious, and I'm sure it's much better than noodles. It's a waste if I don't process these sweet potatoes, so I might as well make them into noodles!"
Xiao's mother thought, what she said makes sense, so let her do it.
"Okay, just do it, and I'll help you."
They got to work right away, and the mother and daughter started working.
Making sweet potato flour is also simple. First, wash the sweet potatoes and cut off all the rotten parts. You can use it to feed chickens or use it as fertilizer in the fields.
Peel the skin and cut into cubes. There was a small grinding wheel at home, which came in handy. The mother and daughter worked together to grind the sweet potatoes into pulp.
When Zhou and Xiao Lanlan heard that they were going to make sweet potato noodles, they also came to help.
The four people worked quickly and ground more than 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes in just one morning. After several filtering and washing steps, they were allowed to settle in a large vat overnight. When they poured out the water the next day, the filtered sweet potato starch was at the bottom.
Because we only had a bamboo colander at home and not the modern iron colander, it was a bit troublesome to eat the sweet potato noodles ready-made as they couldn't form the shape.
But Jiang Sui still had a solution. She found a wooden basin, washed it inside and out, boiled a pot of water, took some sweet potato starch and added water to it and stirred it evenly. She put a spoonful at a time into the bottom of the basin and spread it out, preparing to use boiling water to blanch it into sheets of sweet potato skin, and then cut it into strips to make ready-made sweet potato vermicelli.
As for the remaining sweet potato starch, in order to preserve it for a long time, it is better to put it in the sun to dry while the weather is good. Whenever you want to eat it, you can just take it out and add water.
It was the first time for Xiao's mother to see such a novel way of eating. She, Zhou and Xiao Lanlan watched Jiang Sui tinkering with this thing with curiosity.
Jiang Sui spent a long time boiling so many sweet potato skins and stacking them neatly together. There was no other way because the bottom of the wooden basin was too thick and the sweet potato skins were not easy to shape, so it took a long time.
The sweet potato noodles were already prepared, and then the time came to prepare the seasoning for the hot and sour noodles. She cut a small piece of pork belly into minced meat, chopped green onions and minced garlic, took chili powder, poured soybean sauce on it, and fried a meat sauce on the spot.
The flavor of chili mixed with the flavor of meat and sauce is very mouth-watering.
Then she fried a bowl of peanuts, chopped coriander and green onions, added seasonings to the chili powder, and heated oil to make ready-made chili oil.
There are still not enough seasonings. If she had peppercorns, cumin, sesame seeds, cinnamon and star anise, she could make a more fragrant chili oil.
But it was okay. In the end, she cut the sweet potato noodles into strips and boiled them. Everyone had a bowl. She added salt, a little vinegar, and chili oil to the bowl. She took two bones that she used to make bone soup for Su Yanqing and boiled them into broth as the soup base. Finally, she added a spoonful of meat sauce and sprinkled with coriander and chopped green onions. A bowl of slightly rough hot and sour noodles was ready.
It is definitely not perfect for Jiang Sui, but it has already had good color, aroma and taste. In everyone's eyes, the smell of it made them drool.
"Sui Sui, is this the hot and sour noodles you mentioned?" Xiao's mother couldn't help swallowing.
Jiang Sui raised a very bright smile and said:
"Yes, everyone, stop standing there and try some. Serve a bowl to Mr. Zeng and Mr. Su as well."
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