The same applies to Shui Qing's family.
The rice wine business cannot be interrupted; it is the legitimate source of income.
Yan Qiu and Xing Hui were still only responsible for brewing wine, while Fan Jin and Fan He delivered rice wine to the prefectural city every day.
The shopping list that came back gradually changed from daily necessities to preparations for the Chinese New Year.
Red paper, paper-cut window decorations, new shoes, fabric, pastries, candy...
Ling Ran was still in charge of feeding the livestock.
Fan Jiang and Bai Ziqian switched from chopping firewood to digging for winter bamboo shoots.
Winter bamboo shoots are sweet and refreshing, and they taste delicious whether stir-fried or stewed with old hen.
Moreover, winter bamboo shoots are wrapped in a thick outer shell, making them particularly durable and able to be stored for a very long time without spoiling.
In winter, when there are few dishes to choose from, these are rare and delicious fresh vegetables.
The two dug basket after basket, not only to leave enough for their own family to eat, but also to send a lot to their uncle.
Shuiqing was the first to make cured pork and sausages.
My mother gave me a big basket of it before, but she thought that salted meat was unhealthy and that I should eat less of it.
As a result, it turned out incredibly delicious when stir-fried with garlic and green peppers—to hell with being unhealthy, this is the healthiest ingredient ever!
Besides, these are additive-free ingredients. Compared to additives, how can a little extra salt be unhealthy?
Anyway, our ancestors ate it for hundreds of years and were fine.
So not only was cured pork made, but sausages were also made at the same time.
Then, we'll have Chinese sausage and scallion oil claypot rice, Chinese sausage and hand-shredded cabbage, stir-fried Chinese sausage with garlic sprouts, and Chinese sausage and egg fried rice all on the menu!
After finishing the cured pork and sausages, we started making rice cakes and glutinous rice balls.
While you can cheat in the marketplace, making things by hand has its own unique charm.
Of course, she wasn't the one who did it.
They were a group of children.
Things you make yourself always taste better.
After the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, life became even busier: cleaning, washing bed sheets and blankets, grinding tofu, slaughtering chickens and ducks, steaming buns, making dumplings and baozi...
Shanshui Village has only one stone mill, and people line up from morning till night to grind flour and beans.
Shuiqing's family doesn't need to squeeze in; they bought a new stone mill a long time ago and put it in their yard for their own use.
Fan Jin also bought a donkey, which could carry people and goods, and could also pull a millstone in his spare time.
On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, after Fan Jin returned from the county town, he first sent his mother New Year's gifts: winter bamboo shoots, soybean flour, glutinous rice flour, and homemade tofu.
When Fan's mother saw the tofu, she grinned with delight. She also found the glutinous rice flour acceptable, as it was, after all, a refined grain.
He grimaced when he saw the soybean flour and winter bamboo shoots.
Bamboo shoots are everywhere on the mountain and are worthless. Besides, they're good for removing excess oil, and eating too much of them can cause heartburn!
She also has soybeans; if she wants some, she can just go to the stone mill and have them ground.
Sun Jinhua rummaged through the contents with two fingers, and finally commented coolly: "Soybean flour dipped in glutinous rice balls is delicious."
"But this soybean flour tastes best with sugar. You've only given me soybean flour and glutinous rice flour; it won't do without sugar!"
Fan Jin pursed his lips and remained silent.
After returning home, I rode my donkey again, carrying the same three items, except with more winter bamboo shoots and less fragile tofu, and headed to Niutou Town to deliver them to my parents-in-law.
Mrs. Hu was overjoyed to see the winter bamboo shoots and kept saying that all three of them loved to eat them.
Upon seeing the soybean flour and glutinous rice flour, he repeatedly praised them, saying, "Both of these need to be ground very finely, which is not only time-consuming but also very tiring. It's kind of you to think of everything."
Finally, upon seeing the tofu, though it was completely broken into pieces, I was overjoyed: "This is perfect for making tofu balls, and it saves so much time and effort!"
Fan Jin listened quietly, his eyebrows curved, exuding a refined and gentle air.
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