After Gao Mingcheng helped his grandmother and the others put down their things, he locked the door again and took his grandmother and the others to the clothing store to have lunch.
This had been agreed upon long ago, so the beauties who stayed in the clothing store started preparing meals at ten o'clock, but she was responsible for eating and Hu Yinchen was responsible for cooking.
In August, Hu Yinchen stopped working at Gaoming Wanjia and returned to Gaoming Cheng.
Compared to taking care of a baby, it is easier to do some chores here, and you can also spend time chatting and laughing with familiar people. When the kindergarten officially opens in September, Hu Yinchen will be responsible for the kindergarten's kitchen and take care of the children's three meals a day. In addition to her, she will also hire someone to help wash and cut vegetables.
When Gao Mingcheng brought his people over, a sumptuous meal had been prepared, including old duck soup, braised pork, braised grass carp and other seasonal vegetables.
Nowadays, eggplant and pepper are almost must-have dishes on the table. They have high yields and are delicious when eaten with rice. Even if we don’t eat them at every meal, we basically eat them every day.
Gao Mingcheng has been enjoying bitter melon these days. He went to Guangzhou a while ago. Not to mention the heat, the food outside was not good. Even if he bought a lot of fish and meat, the food was either not tasty or too greasy. Therefore, he specifically requested bitter melon these days.
Bitter melon can relieve heat. It can be fried with eggs, minced meat, or stir-fried as a vegetarian dish. There are many ways to eat it.
Gao Mingcheng served a bowl of old duck soup to his grandmother, and gave the stewed duck legs to Xiao Xuxu and Xiao Yuanyuan. The two children did not sit at the table, but ate in the yard.
Grandma looked at the table full of delicious food and at Mr. and Mrs. Gao Mingcheng, and her heart was filled with joy. The sadness of leaving home disappeared in an instant.
The grandmother didn't want to live in the county from the bottom of her heart, but she came here anyway for the sake of her grandchildren, granddaughters-in-law, and little great-grandson.
Thinking of the many dishes she brought and the fact that the kindergarten had all the pots, pans, and bowls, the grandmother said, "Mingcheng, Duomei, and Shufang, you guys should come to the kindergarten to eat in the evening. I'll let you taste Xiuman's cooking."
He Xiuman also immediately expressed her opinion and warmly invited them to have dinner with her.
Although the kindergarten house belongs to Gao Mingcheng, it will be considered a new house after they move in, so Gao Mingcheng and his family should be invited to dinner.
Gao Mingcheng did not refuse. He agreed with a smile and said that he would close the shop early today and then go over there to eat.
After this was decided, He Xiuman began to plan in her mind what dishes to cook in the evening.
They brought a lot of dishes, but most of them were fresh vegetables and previously made dried vegetables. As for meat dishes, there were only chicken and dried fish.
It's already noon, and it's not convenient to go out to buy groceries. Besides, she doesn't even know where to buy groceries.
It seemed that they were not familiar with the county town, so Gao Mingcheng asked Hu Yinchen to go to the kindergarten in the afternoon to help Xi Nainai and her family get familiar with the surrounding environment and the kitchen utensils in the kindergarten kitchen.
There were many people eating at home, but Hu Yinchen refused to sit at the table. She sat next to the stove with her bowl in her hand and ate. When she heard Gao Mingcheng mention her, she immediately responded.
Hu Yinchen is a native of the county town and is very familiar with the county town. As for the kindergarten, she has also been there to take a look. After helping with cooking this afternoon, she will also be familiar with the kitchen.
After all, that's where she'll work in the future!
Gao Mingcheng said that once the kindergarten officially opens, Hu Yinchen can have a holiday with the kindergarten. This kind of stable holiday makes Hu Yinchen very satisfied.
After lunch, because the sun was scorching outside, we didn’t go to the kindergarten right away, but stayed in the clothing store and chatted with each other.
Although Gao Mingcheng has the best relationship with his grandmother's family, Gao Shufang can also talk to his grandmother's family. After all, when they lived in the village, the two families were neighbors.
Even Zhang Jinling, when she first married Gao Mingli, lived in Gaojia Village for a while. Although she was not very familiar with Xinainai's family, she was not unfamiliar with them.
Now everyone is sitting together and chatting, and after a few words, the relationship between them seems to have become a lot closer.
Gao Mingcheng opened the refrigerator and took out some homemade popsicles. These homemade popsicles actually didn't taste as good as those produced by food factories, but they were healthy!
Gao Mingcheng has tasted ice cream from later generations and has to say that the flavors are very rich and there are many varieties, but, one has to eat it and one cannot read the recipe list!
Once you look at the recipe, if you understand what those additives mean, I’m afraid the ice cream will not taste as good.
The recipe for homemade popsicles is much simpler. Just boil a pot of mung bean porridge, add rock sugar, and after it cools down, put it into molds and freeze it.
You can also make milk popsicles. Melt the milk powder, add a little sugar, and then freeze it. The frozen popsicle is actually a piece of sweet ice.
But this icy and sweet taste is enough to capture people's hearts with just one bite in the midsummer.
Even my grandmother had a milk popsicle. It was a white milk popsicle that tasted icy and cool and had a strong milk flavor.
After eating popsicles, Gao Mingcheng sent his grandmother's family back to the kindergarten, because they still had to clean up the house and prepare for the evening dinner party. Besides, Xiao Yuanyuan was still young and was used to taking a nap. If there weren't so many people around, she and Xiao Xuxu would have fallen asleep by now.
After Gao Mingcheng sent the children to kindergarten, he began to teach them how to use electrical appliances.
The grandmother was old and her eyesight was not very good, so she didn't dare to touch those electrical appliances and only asked Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman to learn them well.
"Grandma, these appliances are very sturdy and cannot be broken!" Seeing Grandma's expression as if she was afraid to touch them, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but laugh. He even took Grandma's hand to open the refrigerator door.
Because the refrigerator has just been plugged in, the temperature inside has not cooled down yet. After opening it, it looks like a cabinet.
Gao Mingcheng said: "When you take things out of the refrigerator in the future, you'd better be quick and close the door immediately after taking them out. Otherwise, it will waste electricity and the refrigerator will break down easily."
Hearing that the consequences were so serious, Grandma Xi hurriedly reminded Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman to remember not to leave the refrigerator door open for too long in the future.
As for her, the grandmother said that she would never touch the refrigerator!
Yes, in the grandmother’s heart, she still doesn’t dare to touch these extremely expensive electrical appliances.
When Xi Nainai's family went to clean the room, Gao Mingcheng called Hu Yinchen to cook a big pot of mung bean porridge to make popsicles.
The kindergarten's kitchen has a large space. After placing two freezers and a refrigerator, there is still a lot of empty space. There is also a long table for employees to eat.
The freezer and refrigerator are already plugged in, and Gao Mingcheng plans to make a large batch of popsicles in the next day or two.
This year, there was a problem with the cold storage of the food factory, and the production of popsicles was low, making it difficult to buy popsicles on the market. Therefore, Gao Mingcheng decided to give a popsicle to every parent who brought their children to visit the kindergarten!
He bought a lot of molds, sticks and wrapping paper. These homemade popsicles are low in cost, so he wouldn't feel bad even if he gave them away every day for a month!
He brought the mung beans, rice and sugar for making porridge himself. In addition, he also took a few packets of milk powder. He would make milk popsicles after the temperature of the freezer dropped.
"Okay." Hu Yinchen responded and started to work. She looked at the empty five-layer shelf next to the stove and asked, "Mingcheng, is it time to prepare rice, oil and seasonings?"
Gao Mingcheng also took a look at the empty shelves, which were used to store some vegetables, rice oil and seasonings. So he said, "I'll buy them and send them over later. We'll start cleaning up tomorrow. We'll clean every corner of the kindergarten. We'll have lunch here, so you need to get ready."
"Okay." Hu Yinchen responded while working, and asked her whether she would be responsible for buying groceries after taking charge of the kitchen, or whether Gao Mingcheng would buy them and deliver them.
Gao Mingcheng was a trouble-maker, so he said, "You will be in charge of most of the purchases, but you must keep a good account book. If I have extra vegetables in my field, I will send them here. After the garden opens, I will formulate a menu based on the season, and you will be responsible for purchasing. As for those who need to help in the kitchen, you can just call someone you know to come over, as long as they can work efficiently."
"Okay, okay." Hu Yinchen smiled even more. Who doesn't want to make money these days?
Government departments are not accessible to ordinary people, and factories are not accessible to older women either. Therefore, there are still many unemployed middle-aged women in the county.
Hu Yinchen had no job before. She started working for Gao Mingcheng's family because of Zhao Dongmei's introduction. She has been working there for more than two years.
While Hu Yinchen was cooking porridge, Gao Mingcheng drove away to buy rice, oil and seasonings.
Having a car is convenient. You can go anywhere quickly. And because he bought a lot of things, I was able to negotiate the price.
But after doing some calculations, Gao Mingcheng thought of a simpler solution.
Xiao Jinfeng's transportation company often has to go to the provincial capital, and most of the condiments in the county are also purchased from the provincial capital. Therefore, he can ask Xiao Jinfeng to bring him a batch of condiments in the future.
We didn’t need it before, but now that the kindergarten has opened, we use a lot of seasonings every day. Add to that the ones we use at home, and we don’t have to worry about not having enough of them even if we have to buy them in boxes.
Gao Mingcheng made a trip and bought all the rice, oil and seasonings. He looked at the hundred eggs on the shelf and remembered that he had a lot of salted eggs at home. He decided to bring some more salted eggs when he came over for dinner in the evening.
The clothing store was the first house he built. At that time, he was short of money and the land he bought was not large. Over the years, the place was filled with all kinds of things, so Gao Mingcheng decided to move out as much as possible.
Apart from anything else, eggs no longer need to be sold at the clothing store. Except for those eaten at home, all other eggs can be kept here. Then you can boil an egg for the child every day. This will definitely ensure that the eggs are used up quickly and the child grows well!
While Gao Mingcheng was busy with these things, Gao Zhuang was also busy killing and plucking chickens.
They brought five chickens from home and now they are going to kill them all. Two of them will be stewed in the evening and the remaining three will be frozen for later consumption.
It’s not that they don’t want to raise chickens. In fact, the kindergarten is quite large and there is a small flower garden. But raising chickens in the city is already a bit out of place, let alone raising chickens in a place like a kindergarten.
That would really lower the standard of the kindergarten!
Just think about it, if there is chicken manure everywhere and a foul smell in the air, what good will it do no matter how beautiful the house is or how complete the facilities are?
Therefore, Gao Mingcheng had long said that chickens cannot be raised here.
Xi Nainai and the others would never do anything to embarrass Gao Mingcheng, so they not only killed the chicken immediately, but also cleaned up the chicken manure.
Gao Mingcheng saw that Gao Zhuang had already plucked the chicken feathers, so he walked over to help and said, "Let me gut it!"
Gao Zhuang hurriedly said, "Brother Mingcheng, you take a rest and let Xiuman do it!"
He Xiuman came over with a knife, washed the chicken first, then put it on the chopping board and gutted it. There are two ways to gut a chicken, one is to gut it from the spine, the other is to gut it from the abdomen. He Xiuman was used to gutting it from the abdomen because she felt that this way less force was needed.
There are many bones in the spine, so you need enough strength to break them open at the beginning, but you can't use too much force, otherwise you will hurt the internal organs in the abdomen.
It would be fine if it hurts the heart and liver, but if it hurts the gallbladder and intestines and pollutes the stomach, the chicken will no longer taste good.
He Xiuman was working here, and her work was going smoothly. She smiled and said, "Brother Mingcheng, your kitchen is really nice, spacious and bright! The sink for washing vegetables is also very useful, and the chopping board is also wide enough."
Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "Just get used to it."
He looked down at his watch and found that it was already four o'clock. Since his help was not needed here, he prepared to go back to the clothing store. At five o'clock, he would bring Xuanmei and the others over for dinner.
After saying hello to his grandmother, Gao Mingcheng left.
When he left, a large pot of mung bean porridge had been cooked and was cooling in a large copper basin.
Hu Yinchen also took the initiative to help He Xiuman and planned to stew the chickens first. These were old chickens and needed to be stewed for a long time.
In addition to stewed chicken, fried chicken offal with peppers is also a good dish to go with rice. After cleaning out the internal organs of five chickens, it can just make up a plate of dish.
In addition, fried dried fish with chili, scrambled eggs with chili, stir-fried cowpea, loofah soup, sweet potato leaves, etc. are also arranged.
But these still seem to be missing.
So, grandma took out two packets of powder. Both powders were white, but the contents were different.
They are both sweet potato starch and Castanopsis powder.
After being processed, dried and ground into powder, the Castanopsis bitterus can be preserved for a long time. When you want to eat it, dissolve it in water, put it in a pot and heat it until it solidifies, then soak it in water to remove the astringency, and then you can eat it.
The method of making sweet potato starch is more convenient. After dissolving it in water, pour it into the pot and stir it until it becomes a solidified paste. Put it on the chopping board, cut it into pieces with a knife, then add oil to the pot and stir-fry it with chili peppers. It has a unique taste, sticky and chewy.
These sweet potato starches were saved from last year. As for this year, I guess I won’t make them again. Although I planted sweet potatoes in the fields, I don’t raise pigs at home. They have also moved to the county, so making sweet potato starch again would be a bit of a waste. (End of this chapter)
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