After calculating the time, Shen Anning rode his bike home with the basket on his back. When he arrived at the courtyard, he looked at the time and it was half past four.
The eggplants and cowpeas were both ready-made in the fields. I took the vegetable basket and went home, picked four long eggplants and a handful of cowpeas from my private plot, and put them in a basin of water.
Chop the pork belly into small pieces, add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, sugar, starch, beat an egg, and marinate for half an hour.
Cut the pork tenderloin into thin slices, add a few spoonfuls of potato starch directly, then add oil, salt and water and stir until the batter becomes yogurt-like and hangs on the meat slices. Heat oil in a pan, put the meat slices in and fry them, then fry them again. Put the prepared sauce and shredded green onion and ginger into the pan. The secret to the sauce is to add a lot of white vinegar, so that the meat will be crispy even when it is cold.
Shen An Ning had just put the prepared sweet and sour pork on the table when she heard shouts coming from outside the yard. She walked out quickly and saw several aunts and sisters running towards the educated youth site.
Her younger brother and sister were not at home either. She went into the house and put her niece into the space first. Then Shen An Ning closed the door and ran to the educated youth point. She had a hunch that the new educated youth she met in the town must have caused trouble.
After passing Aunt Sufen's house, Shen Anning saw a group of people gathered at the gate of the Youth League Courtyard. She hurried inside, trying to squeeze in.
There were so many people, and everyone was talking at once, it was a mess. Shen Anning couldn't hear what they were saying at all. Outside the crowd, her aunt and her sister-in-law saw her and kindly sent her into the crowd.
Shen An Ning, whose facial features were squeezed so hard that she wanted to cry, lowered her head and rushed through without hesitation.
After finally entering the door, Shen Anning took a deep breath, looked at the three groups of people standing very clearly in the yard, straightened his messy hair, and walked over.
"Village head, Party secretary, and director's wife."
When the women's director saw Shen Anning, she pulled the corners of her mouth stiffly, "Hey, Anning, you're here."
Xu Hongxia, Sister Wanli and several other female educated youth stood at the door of the bedroom, looking at the new educated youth opposite. Both sides refused to give in. Shen Anning stood there, feeling a little embarrassed.
A female voice rang out, "Village head, Shen Zhiqing's yard is quite big, it should be okay to rent us two rooms."
"That's right, Village Chief. The house at the educated youth camp is too small, and the village can't find another house for us. Now we can rent the educated youth's house with our own money, right?"
Xu Hongxia was so angry that she rolled up her sleeves and said, "What are you talking about? We've already told you that the rooms at the educated youth camp are small, and the kangs are small too. Now there are eight of us here, and we have two rooms. You two are squeezing into one room each, and you insisted on living on your own. Damn it, we can't possibly give up our room to you two. You're so shameless."
"Also, let me say it again, if you want to stay, stay, if you don't want to stay, forget it. You guys are the ones who have too much trouble all day long."
Shen Anning finally understood that the newly arrived educated youth wanted to live alone, which was interesting.
Cao Yu and Zhao Jie looked at this situation and knew that they could not get any good results, so they could only turn their eyes to Shen An Ning.
"I'm sorry, my brother is eight years old this year, and we have a niece who is less than one year old. The house is very noisy every day. It's really not convenient for you two girls to live there. But there are two aunts in the village who have one or two empty rooms. You can rent them." Shen Anning is not a fool. Looking at the expressions of the two people, she knows what they are planning. Is she dissatisfied with her life? She is looking for trouble.
In fact, Cao Yu and Zhao Jie also regretted it very much. They came from well-off families with some influence. They had originally thought that they could get a room to live in, but they never expected that these people at the educated youth site would be so soft-hearted.
The two of them came from the same place, and no one knew what was going on with their families. They insisted on sending them to a place like Northeast China as educated youth. They could clearly arrange jobs for them, but they still made them come here and wait for news.
The current situation is too unfavorable for them.
Shen An Ning looked at the mess in the yard and guessed that they must have just started fighting.
Look at the village chief and the party secretary.
The village chief spoke very reluctantly, "Well, Cao Zhiqing, Zhao Zhiqing, you two just destroyed something from the educated youth camp. Look at these wooden basins and barrels, and the vegetables in the fields. You have to pay for it, right? Besides, this is the only room we have in the village. You can squeeze in and live in these two rooms. If you don't want to, there are empty rooms in the village. You can pay the rent. We can discuss whether it's annual or monthly."
Wang Zhoushan and Wang Liqiu were really impressed by these young people. Nowadays, every household has enough food and clothing, and it is good enough to have a place to live. But they are still picky. In their opinion, they have never suffered hardship and pain, and going hungry for two meals is more effective than anything else.
Shen Anning watched the two old men arrange things without saying anything more. After watching the two troublesome female educated youth carry their luggage out, he helped Xu Hongxia and the others to clean the yard.
Xu Hongxia was sweeping the floor, angry and angrily saying, "An Ning, you have no idea how outrageous those two women were. They started to pick and choose as soon as they came in. Seeing that our house is full of stuff and the space is so cramped, they became even more demanding and even wanted to live there themselves. They're just dreaming. And that old woman from the Liu family at the end of the village, next time you see her, ignore her. She's the one who spread the news of you building a yard. We live in the same village, but she's the only one who's so nosy."
Looking at Xu Hongxia's angry look, Shen Anning wanted to laugh, "You, don't be angry. Anyway, they didn't get to live here in the end. If they don't live together, there will be less contact. Just ignore them."
Seeing that the cleaning was almost done, Shen Anning didn't stay any longer, "Sister Wanli, Hongxia, I'm leaving first. If you don't have enough vegetables in the yard, go to my place and pick them. Anyway, we can't finish them at home."
When she got home, her younger brother and sister still hadn't come back. Shen An Ning didn't care. She put her little niece in the cart and continued cooking. She coated the eggplant with starch and stuffed the meat into it. She fried it in the pan until it was set, then added the sauce. She fried the cowpeas and garlic cloves together with the oil, added the seasoning and stir-fried them. She took the ribs that had been prepared in the space.
I looked at the time, it was half past five, so I put the food in the space to keep it warm, then boiled a pot of hot water, and sat on the doorstep to feed Shen Zixi. Today's meal was spinach noodles and two spoonfuls of meat paste.
The little guy likes it very much, and his mouth moves all the time, which is very cute.
In the evening, the twins came back from the mountain and were very angry after learning about this incident.
At the dinner table, Shen Anning thought about what happened today. From the fact that Cao Yu and Zhao Jie wanted to rent her house today, it can be seen that some people in the village have opinions about her.
"An Yu and An Xuan, we must be more low-key in the future. Remember not to tell others what we eat every day, and we must also patch up our clothes appropriately."
In short, they live in a low-key manner and treat others with kindness. If anyone still finds fault with them, Shen An Ning will definitely pay them back tenfold.
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