The next morning at 5:30, Lu Ting got up, washed the pickled cabbage, drained the water and set it aside.
After finishing the work, I went to the shed to catch two chickens, boiled water and killed them. I put one in the electric soup pot and took the other out later to eat at noon.
When Su Yan got up, the chicken soup was already ready. Looking at the chicken soup noodles on the table, Su Yan was a little worried that her stomach would burst when she gave birth.
It is true that pregnancy requires more nutrition, but one cannot eat too much. She ate a small bowl of chicken noodle soup and then stopped.
After Lu Ting finished the remaining half pot of chicken noodle soup, Su Yan took the pot out of the space and left it for her son to eat.
Because she had to make kimchi sauce in the evening, she prepared all the dinner when she went back to her mother's house to cook at noon. When she got home from work in the evening, she brought the food out directly from the space. Fortunately, Lu Yiming came back from his grandmother's house just when it was almost time for dinner.
Lu Ting looked at the food on the table and then at the stove outside the house, and he knew what was going on, but he didn't say anything.
After dinner, Su Yan said to Lu Ting, "You come wash the dishes and clean up, and take care of the child. I'll go back to my room to clean up, and you can come in after my son falls asleep."
"Do you want my help?"
"No need, just take good care of Yiming."
"I'll help you clean up after Yiming falls asleep."
Lu Ting knew that his wife was going to go into the space to pickle cabbage. He pickled thirty cabbages last night, and he had to prepare a lot of sauce for pickling spicy cabbage. It was already past seven o'clock, and it would probably take until nine o'clock.
Su Yan closed the door and entered the space, but this time the door was not locked, so that Lu Ting could come in after he was done.
As soon as she entered the space, Su Yan went to the field and picked five white radishes, ten pounds of carrots, a basket of onions, and a basket of leeks.
Go back to the kitchen and wash the vegetables, shred them as needed, and cut them as needed.
Throw the apples, pears and garlic into a blender and beat them into a paste. Pour them into the glutinous rice paste prepared in advance, add two kinds of coarse and fine chili powder, table salt, raindrops and shrimp paste, then pour in shredded white radish, carrots and leeks and mix them together. A large aluminum basin full of hot sauce is ready.
Just as I put on my gloves and prepared to smear the cabbage, Lu Ting opened the door and walked in, "Yan Yan, I'm coming in."
Su Yan immediately left the space and asked, "Are you done?"
"It's half past eight. It's cold and my son is already asleep."
Su Yan then realized that an hour had passed unknowingly. How could time go by so quickly? She had just finished preparing the sauce.
"Move our big pickle jar into the room first."
Anyway, there are only some pickles in the pickle jar, so I'll move it back to the space, clean it, and use it to pickle sauerkraut in a few days.
"Yan Yan is going to use that jar to store kimchi?"
"No, I pickled thirty cabbages this time, and that jar can only hold five at most. Once the kimchi is ready, I'll move out a bigger jar."
"Okay, take out more so we can make kimchi pancakes. Yiming really likes kimchi pancakes."
Lu Ting returned to the living room and put the pickles in the jar into a bag. Since Yanyan didn't want to eat the pickles, he would take them back for his parents tomorrow.
The two returned to the space, Lu Ting went to clean the jar, and Su Yan continued to sit on the small stool and spread hot sauce on the cabbage.
With Lu Ting's help, all the kimchi were evenly spread in half an hour. There was still some hot sauce left in the bowl, and Su Yan used it to pickle the green onions.
"We'll take a break this week. Let's dig up some cabbage heads from the fields to make pickled mustard greens. We'll also go to the medicinal herb fields to dig up some platycodon and pick some perilla leaves to make kimchi."
"Okay, make some more kimchi now. It will be difficult to prepare these next year when your belly gets bigger."
"Yes, you can buy 40 blocks of firm tofu these days. I'm making fermented tofu in the space."
The temperature in the space is higher than outside, so tofu is easy to ferment and produce mold mycelium. Since we are making moldy tofu, we might as well soak another 30 kilograms of soybeans to make three jars of spicy moldy beans.
Lu Ting asked nervously, "Yan Yan, can you eat such a dish when you are pregnant?"
"I can eat a little with porridge, but I don't eat it every day. If I don't make some jar vegetables in winter, I can't wait until the rainy season to make them.
Prepare more while my belly is still small. I'll prepare the cured fish and meat in two weeks. Once that's done, it'll be time to prepare for the New Year's shopping."
"Yeah, time flies so fast. A year has passed in no time."
For the next two weeks, Su Yan pickled various vegetables in her space: kimchi, fermented bean curd with red oil, spicy moldy beans, pickled mustard greens, perilla kimchi, platycodon kimchi, pickled papaya shreds, and hot and sour radish strips...
Lu Ting's scalp tingled as he looked at the jars and urns of all sizes in the warehouse. "Yan Yan, there are about 10 to 20 jars of various vegetables. Are you planning to give them away?"
"Your parents and mine both need to prepare something, but this year they didn't prepare anything. Your mom will definitely know that you bought so much old tofu.
Tomorrow you take a jar of moldy beans, a jar of fermented tofu, and a jar of kimchi to your mother, and I will take them to my father's place myself."
"Okay, tomorrow night I'll go catch some fish from the pond and dry-cure them. I'll kill the pig a few days later, and then I'll kill the sika deer together."
"We can kill the pig first, as it's kept fresh in the refrigerator. We can kill the sika deer on the 29th of the lunar year, and eat fresh venison on New Year's Eve."
Everyone is very busy during the New Year period. Lu Ting has endless meetings to attend, and Su Yan has endless work to do in the hospital, especially since she has chosen orthopedics. When winter comes, people suffer from pain here and there, and the number of patients with fractures increases.
They were busy at work during the day and still had to work in the space at night. Su Yan couldn't smell the fishy smell and didn't show up to kill fish or pigs.
While Lu Ting was busy making cured fish and meat, Su Yan was steaming rice wine, steaming glutinous rice cakes, frying peanuts, frying cat ears, frying Sanzi, and making peanut candy, orange candy and egg pancakes.
Of course she knew that nougat was better than peanut candy, and cookies were better than egg pancakes. In order to suit the characteristics of this era, she could only make cookies and candies of this era so that they wouldn't have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to queue up to buy New Year's goods.
After receiving those jars of vegetables, Hua Min would receive various New Year goods from his eldest son every noon, including candies, biscuits, preserved fruits, dried meat, fruits, vegetables, chicken, duck, fish and meat, in short, everything.
Chen Yuhe saw her uncle bringing back all kinds of New Year's goods like an ant moving house. She was a little shocked and anxious because as his children, they had not prepared anything.
In the evening, she asked Lu Jin, "Lu Jin, your brother prepared so many New Year's gifts for our parents, but what should we do if we haven't prepared anything?"
"Every year, my eldest brother prepares a lot of New Year's goods. Let's give our parents a month's salary during the New Year."
"So do we need to prepare anything else?"
Lu Jin didn't expect Chen Yuhe to be so easy to talk to. If he told Zhu Ting that he would give his parents one month's salary for the New Year, Zhu Ting would definitely say that his parents had high salaries and didn't need him, a poor son, to show his filial piety.
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