Chapter 512
Ye Han felt a sense of satisfaction from doing handicrafts today. After putting all the lemons into the jar, she said with a sense of satisfaction:
"Miao Miao, is it that simple? Just leave it there?"
Su Miao smiled, her eyes curved into crescents, and nodded repeatedly:
"Yeah, let's leave it like this for now. When it's exposed to the sun, the salt will slowly seep in and force the moisture out of the lemon bit by bit.
Add a little salt every day and shake it to ensure that the salt is evenly distributed. After a few days, move it and put it in a cool place.
The lemons in the jar will gradually change color and turn brown after about a month. Their volume will also shrink due to the loss of water, almost to half the size.
Then we can combine the two jars into one! When it’s done, you can take one back home. It’s delicious when you eat it with porridge or rice.”
Ye Han quickly waved his hands and said, "There's so much in one jar, how can we finish it? We can just take a small box. We'll come back for more after we finish it. Anyway, we'll be close by in the future."
Once the lemons are processed, the pickling process is complete.
Su Miao took out the jelly from the refrigerator and made some sweet soup. She ate it with Ye Han and Jia Yin while watching TV and chatting.
More than half an hour later, the men returned with full loads. Su Yuanzheng pulled in a cart of vegetables, and then Tang Ziyi and Ye's father carried a large round table from Uncle Li's house.
After the table was set up, new guests arrived. Two middle-aged men and women with outstanding temperament and upright posture were standing outside the yard holding a little girl and knocked on the open gate.
Tang Ziyi saw his parents outside the door and immediately called out, "Mom and Dad, you're here. Let me introduce you to Uncle Yuan Miaomiao."
The two men walked into the yard with their daughter, smiling. As the hosts, Su Yuanzheng and Su Miao put down their work and went to greet them.
Tang Ziyi walked over to his parents, turning to Su Yuanzheng and Su Miao first, and politely introduced them: "Uncle Yuan, these are my parents and my sister. Mom and Dad, these two are the Uncle Yuan and Miaomiao I often talk about."
Su Yuanzheng smiled broadly, looking at the Tang couple sincerely, praising them wholeheartedly, "No wonder Ziyi is so well-rounded. I can tell today that this is inherited from the same family."
This was a beautiful statement, praising the other family as a whole, bringing them closer together and setting a more relaxed tone for their interactions.
The Tang family and the Ye family have been friends for generations. They frequently interact with each other and have a very close relationship.
They all had generous and magnanimous personalities, and with the Ye couple's enthusiastic mediation, the Tang couple and the Su father and daughter soon became like old friends who had known each other for many years. They had a great time talking to each other and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
Especially Tang's mother, she likes girls very much, so a few years ago she would rather violate the rules and give birth to her little daughter.
The elders of both families held high positions, which smoothed out the relationship.
Mr. and Mrs. Tang are very capable, young backbones, and hold important positions, so they were not demoted. However, the opportunities for promotion that should have been available in the past two years have to be postponed.
However, this is nothing for the couple who are happy to have a daughter.
Ye Jiayin has been loved by Tang's mother since she was a child. Now that she has met such a lovely girl like Su Miao, she likes her very much. The four ladies started chatting warmly as soon as they met.
Tang's father placed two bottles of Moutai on the round table and said with a smile, "I'm so sorry to bother you. It's really that kid Ziyi has been showing off to us ever since he ate your family's cooking.
When I was still in Nanning, you always told me that you missed me every time I called you, and you also told me that you missed me very much when I came back. My mother tried the lemons I brought from your house a few days ago and liked them very much. She even drank a big bowl of porridge with them.
So we wanted to come along for a food tasting too, and brought two bottles of wine, so we can have a drink later."
"Oh, you're too polite. Miaomiao and I just arrived in the capital, and we have to thank Ziyi and Jiayin for their busy work and help, so we can settle down so quickly."
I won’t say any more polite words. Seeing that most people have arrived and it’s already two o’clock in the afternoon, I’ll quickly prepare the meal.
Today's head chef is Su Yuanzheng, the deputy chef is Su Miao, and the rest of the people volunteered to help in the kitchen.
However, these kitchen helpers were not very "honest". Su Miao took out a bowl of sour radish from the jar, and they ate half of it in a blink of an eye.
"Is this white and tender thing also a pickle?"
Mr. Tang picked up a piece of sour garlic curiously, looked at it carefully, and his face was full of confusion.
"Maybe it should be called kimchi? The pickling time is not that long, it can be eaten in a week, but I think it will take half a month to soak for the sour taste to come out, so it is more suitable to use it in cooking." Su Miao explained patiently.
“It tastes a bit like Laba garlic, but not quite the same.”
After taking a bite, Tang's mother said thoughtfully.
"Chili peppers are also from the Allium family, so they also have a garlicky smell. They are quite common in our area."
A group of people were busy chatting in the kitchen and yard, just like a festival.
Because braised food takes a longer time to cook, it is put into the pot first.
On the stove, the braising pot was bubbling and emitting an enticing aroma.
If everyone could still hold back from drooling at this point, the sour aroma of the fried lemon duck and fried pork offal would really make them unable to hold back, and they would all crowd into the kitchen and stare at the stove.
Seeing this, Su Miao took out the jelly and mung bean porridge from the refrigerator to satisfy everyone's cravings first.
Tang Ziyi insisted on not drinking the sweet soup, he wanted to save some space for his feast later.
As time went by, the other dishes were prepared one after another, and the braised food was almost cooked.
Su Yuan was about to start cutting the braised food when he said to his daughter, "Miao Miao, go ask the neighbors to come over. Once the braised food is cut, we can start eating."
Because Tang Ziyi had gone to inform the neighbors just now, he accompanied Su Miao.
I had already informed the neighbors in advance, and as soon as I invited them, everyone came immediately.
The main guests invited were the families around, all of whom sent representatives, more than ten people. Together with the Su family and their friends, there were exactly two tables.
When Tang's father and mother first arrived, they attracted the attention of the neighbors. The military jeep they drove made a "bang bang" sound and was now parked at the gate of the courtyard.
The neighbors were secretly discussing that this newly moved southerner really had a wide network of contacts, with military vehicles and luxury cars even coming.
The people of the capital are eloquent, and their words come one after another like a rapid-fire cannon.
In a short while, the whole yard was bustling with laughter and joy.
Some neighbors couldn't help their curiosity and asked openly or secretly which unit the Tang and Ye couple worked for.
Except for Mr. Ye's job which was of a special nature and could not be disclosed, the rest of the people were not at all arrogant. They chatted with everyone enthusiastically and shared interesting stories in their lives. The atmosphere in the yard became more harmonious.
From then on, the way everyone looked at the Su family father and daughter changed a little, with more enthusiasm and less contempt.
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