In the Youth League Courtyard.
Liu Yao was sitting by the ditch in the yard washing clothes when she suddenly stopped, sniffed her nose, and half-closed her eyes as she said, "Huh? What a nice smell! I smell fermented glutinous rice. It reminds me of the fermented glutinous rice, brown sugar, and eggs my mom makes. It's so fragrant. Do you smell it?"
Wang Mengmeng still lowered her head to wash the shoes in her hands, moved her nose and concluded: "I smell the smell of alcohol."
Chen Yetu sat in the yard, holding a bag of bricks in one hand and a needle and thread in the other. He looked at the entrance of the Youth House and smiled, "It was something Xiyue had in her hands that came out."
"Xiyue? Where is she?" Liu Yao opened her eyes and looked around when she heard the name.
"Comrades, I'm back." Ning Xiyue's face was filled with joy. As she walked into the door, she began to shout, "Does anyone like wine lees? If you do, bring a bowl and fill it up."
"What, sake lees! I like it, Xiyue, wait for me."
Liu Yao stood up happily, rubbed her hands in clean water a few times, and then excitedly rushed into the kitchen to get a bowl. Before others could react, she disappeared.
The others were amazed at Liu Yao who disappeared at the kitchen door. They couldn't even begin to catch up with her speed.
"Yaoyao, bring out a ladle." Ning Xiyue shouted towards the kitchen.
"Okay, let me wash it, right away." Liu Yao's voice was full of impatience.
Ning Xiyue shook her head helplessly. They were all foodies. She looked at the others and said, "Don't just stand there. If you like it, go get a bowl and fill it up. I have half a bucket of wine dregs here, enough for you to eat."
"Okay, I've never eaten food made with wine lees, so I'll try it today." Wu Guifang also walked towards the kitchen.
The others were also tempted by the sweet smell in the air and went to get their bowls.
When Chen Yechu smelled the aroma, she felt like eating fermented rice chicken. She was so tempted that she ran back to the kitchen and got a bowl.
Ning Xiyue wanted to call out to her, telling her not to bother, as she was going back to the kitchen, but when she saw Chen Yechu running very fast, she stopped calling out.
Liu Yao came running over with a bowl in one hand and a gourd ladle in the other, her eyes already fixed on the bucket: "Xiyue, the ladle is for you."
Ning Xiyue looked at the small bowl in her hand and smiled helplessly. This child ran the fastest and took the smallest bowl: "Your bowl is too small. Why don't you bring a bowl for vegetables? It's full before you can even put a spoonful in it."
"It's okay, it's enough. I'm afraid I'll get drunk if I eat too much." Liu Yao handed the bowl to Ning Xiyue's gourd ladle to fill it with lees, and smiled with satisfaction.
"Okay, come find me in the kitchen if you're not satisfied."
A gourd spoon is full after only half a spoonful is poured.
"Thank you Xiyue."
Liu Yao carefully carried the lees away from here. She looked at the lees in the bowl again and again. Finally, she couldn't help it and pursed her lips to take a sip, looking very happy. After swallowing it, her expression of enjoyment was a little bit weird. She said to herself:
"Well, Mengmeng should like it very much. I have to go back and add some brown sugar to make it taste better. I want to make fermented rice wine egg drop soup."
Ning Xiyue was amused by her cute expression. The lees after brewing rice wine and filtering it without adding sugar are not as sweet as fermented glutinous rice. They are mostly sour and not very delicious for people who like sweet food. They need to be processed and cooked with other things to be delicious.
After Liu Yao left, other people from the Youth League Institute also ran over with small bowls about the same size as Liu Yao's, and lined up in front of Ning Xiyue, waiting for Ning Xiyue to help them scoop out the lees.
Ning Xiyue withdrew her gaze and concentrated on helping them scoop. Since the bowls they brought were very small, there was still a lot of lees left in the bucket after each person filled a bowl, and the bucket went from more than half a bucket to less than half a bucket.
Looking at the half-bucket of wine lees, Ning Xiyue had many ideas about cooking with wine lees: wine lees chicken, wine lees duck, wine lees eggs, wine lees meat, wine lees everything...
It’s beautiful just to think about it.
The processing fee of one dollar is worth it. Not only do I get ten kilograms of rice wine, but I also get half a barrel of lees. It's totally worth it.
Ning Xiyue also quickened her pace and followed Chen Yechu to the kitchen. She had a mission to complete today, so she had to work faster.
After returning to the kitchen and putting the wine and lees away, he closed the door and went to Aunt Liu's house. Aunt Liu's son Zhang Jianjun was about to go to study at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, and he needed a lot of money. He exchanged all the eggs he had saved for Ning Xiyue.
Ning Xiyue went to Aunt Liu's house to exchange eggs, which was done every fifteen days. This time, Ning Xiyue brought back twenty-five eggs.
When Ning Xiyue took the eggs back, she saw three winnowing baskets for drying herbs on the shelf at the kitchen door, which were filled with various small gifts and notes. When she opened them, she found that they were all small gifts from her friends in the Youth League Institute, all thanking her for the wine dregs she had just given.
Ning Xiyue felt very touched when she saw these gifts. With the give-and-take, their friends in the Youth League Institute were really harmonious and friendly, helping each other, which was heartwarming.
She put away these little gifts, opened the kitchen, and immediately took out twenty-five eggs. She held the small end in one hand and half-covered the big end of the egg with the other hand, picking them against the light.
Nine fertilized eggs were selected from twenty-five eggs.
Including the eggs she had picked out earlier, she now had a total of twenty fertilized eggs.
Ning Xiyue gave twenty eggs to the robot butler to help her hatch chicks. From now on, she will have chickens whenever she wants to eat fermented chicken.
There were sixteen eggs left, and Ning Xiyue beat them all and used them to make a big bowl of delicious wine lees poached eggs.
She put wolfberries, red dates and brown sugar in it, and also rolled a handful of small glutinous rice balls and cooked them together. With the aroma of the lees, the taste was sweet and delicious, and it was a great tonic.
Ning Xiyue ate two eggs and drank two small bowls of sweet soup before stopping.
Looking at the big pot of fried eggs with wine lees in front of her, Ning Xiyue took out an extra-large bowl, filled half of it and put it in the system backpack to store it and eat it as breakfast later.
She left five eggs and a bowl of soup for her second brother to eat when he came back, and Ning Xiyue packed the remaining two eggs and a bowl of soup in a lunch box.
After washing the pot, I fried another plate of peanuts, sprinkled a little salt on it and served it.
Finally, he took out a small bamboo tube filled with wine from the space, which could hold two kilograms of rice wine.
After finishing everything and closing the kitchen door, Ning Xiyue carried two lunch boxes and a bamboo tube of wine and walked lightly towards Aunt Yang Liu's house.
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