Chapter 68 Eating Roll Noodles
Taking Hu Bingxin outside, Su Zi taught her how to grind the mill step by step.
I thought the young lady was just trying it out casually, but unexpectedly, she became more and more excited as she played, and she still felt unsatisfied after grinding the soaked rice.
"It's polished, what's next?" Hu Bingxin's face showed a look of exploration of the unknown.
Whenever Su Zi looked at her, he couldn't help but associate her with Hu Bingxin from Xia State.
I couldn't help but soften my tone of voice.
"Next it needs to be steamed." Seeing that the eldest lady couldn't wait to see the finished product of the rice noodle rolls, Ni Ruoan signaled her to take Hu Bingxin to do the next step, while he would be responsible for the finishing touches and cleaning.
Su Zi brought Hu Bingxin to the kitchen. Hu Bingxin tried everything from making a fire to boiling water. Looking at her manicured hands and learning to make a fire like her, Su Zi always felt a sense of disconnection.
The steaming tray for steamed rice rolls was bought by them when they went to the market. It has handles on both sides and is shaped like a frying pan.
"First brush a layer of oil evenly on the bottom of the pan to prevent the rice rolls from sticking to it and being unable to be removed."
Hu Bingxin was very eager to try. After Su Zi demonstrated how to steam one, she started to ask him to let her try.
From beginning to end, the eldest lady did not show any dislike for these jobs.
Su Zi had no choice but to stand by and guide her step by step.
The eldest lady was very smart. The first one she steamed broke, but the second one looked pretty good.
Roll up all the steamed rice noodle skins and place them neatly in a winnowing basket with a piece of gauze next to it.
The rice paste prepared by Su Zi was probably enough to steam about twenty rolls. After steaming, Hu Bingxin looked at the neatly stacked rice rolls in the winnowing basket, took out her cell phone, and took a 360-degree photo.
"Dad, see? I steamed all of these." She sent the photos to her father.
The other party replied quickly and the two chatted back and forth.
Su Zi kept looking at her with a smile.
"Is that all?" After chatting for a few sentences, Hu Bingxin asked again. She keenly felt that Su Zi was more tolerant of her, which made Hu Bingxin feel a little strange.
"Well, just cut it up when you eat it later. Now let's prepare the ingredients for the rice rolls."
To eat rolled rice noodles, you need to add pickled radish, pickled cabbage, fried soybeans, chili oil, onions, garlic, and tomato juice.
The local sour radish is made by pickling red radish, which turns red after being pickled.
The kitchen knife was too sharp, so she didn't dare let Hu Bingxin cut the vegetables, so she asked her to peel garlic and pick onions.
Chop the pickled radish and cabbage into small pieces, and chop the tomatoes into small pieces. Prepare a bowl of warm water, put the chopped tomatoes in, and stir.
The chili peppers have been fried before, so there is no need to fry them separately.
She moved quickly. After preparing a series of ingredients, she cut the rice roll into pieces, pinched the scattered parts with her hands, and shook it, and the rice roll skin fell into a strip.
The four of them surrounded her and watched the new delicacy being created in Su's hands.
After putting the ingredients on, the first bowl of perilla was given to Hu Bingxin, "It has been mixed evenly and can be eaten directly. Try it and see if you are used to it."
"Thank you Susu~" Hu Bingxin took it, took a photo first, and then tasted it.
Su Zi had been paying attention to her reaction, and only heard her say "hmm" and her eyes slightly widened, "It's delicious!"
The rice noodle skin is smooth and delicate, sour and spicy, and the chili oil inside does not overshadow the flavor and has just the right fragrance. Whether it is fried beans, pickled radishes, or sauerkraut, they all give people a feeling of being indispensable.
"I was worried that you couldn't finish it. If it tastes good, eat more." Su Zi smiled, and the dimples on her face were faintly visible.
"Su Zi, come on, get me a bowl." Seeing Hu Bingxin eating so happily, Bai Youyou started shouting.
"The second one is for you, mix it yourself." Su Zi put the ingredients in place and handed it to Bai Youyou.
Bai Youyou looked at her indignantly, what a biased person.
Su Yuehe and Ni Ruoan refused to associate with this childish guy and took action on their own.
Five people, each holding a bowl of rice noodles, sat on small stools and lined up at the kitchen door, looking at the gradually dormant mountains while eating their first meal of the day.
While eating, Bai Youyou, who had become familiar with Hu Bingxin, asked, "Xinxin, after we finish eating we are going to go up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes, do you want to go?"
"Of course I'll go!"
Su Zi looked at her and said, "Then your clothes are not suitable for going up the mountain. If you don't mind, you can wear mine. I've already washed it."
"No, I've never dug sweet potatoes before. When I saw you guys picking persimmons a few days ago, I envied you for being rich. I regret not contacting you earlier. I really want to pick persimmons. By the way, do you want to pick chestnuts today? I saw those bloggers picking chestnuts. I want to try this too."
"We don't have enough time today, so we can go tomorrow. We are going to make dried sweet potatoes and pumpkin tomorrow."
Plant in spring, harvest in autumn and store in winter. Autumn is the harvest season and also a busy season. Now that life is better, it is more convenient to eat anything, so except for snack processing factories, few people do these things.
But, dried sweet potatoes and dried pumpkins are the snacks that Suzi remembers.
"Hehe, luckily I had the foresight to bring extra luggage. You guys can take me out to play in the next few days."
"Okay, let's go, pack up and go up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes."
Su Zi bought a small plot of sweet potatoes from a villager and told them that he would dig the potatoes himself.
When they arrived at the place, the sweet potato vines had withered. Su Zi demonstrated to them. Seeing sweet potatoes being dug out from the ground one by one by Su Zi, Su Yuehe and the others were very happy. They put down their backpacks and started to harvest sweet potatoes like Su Zi did.
"Wow, my sweet potato is so big!" Hu Bingxin stuck out her butt, fiddled with it for a long time, held up a sweet potato weighing almost half a pound, and laughed heartily.
There is no sign of dislike for the soil at all.
Su Zi looked at the one-pound sweet potato at his feet and gave Hu Bingxin a thumbs up, "Great, you are the sweet potato queen today."
"I am the queen!"
Su Yuehe and Ni Ruoan also followed Su Zi's example and tacitly put the big sweet potatoes they dug out into the backpack so that the eldest lady wouldn't see them.
Looking at the sweet potatoes that had been dug out piled up into a small hill, everyone felt a great sense of accomplishment. When they carried the sweet potatoes down the hill, although they were tired, their faces were filled with satisfaction.
This is probably the joy of harvest.
After returning home, Su Zi picked out a few small ones and put them under the stove. When he lit the fire, he used the residual heat from the stove to roast the sweet potatoes.
"Xinxin, what do you want to eat for lunch?"
"I want to eat clay pot noodles, the kind you eat at the market." Su Zi and her friends had eaten it once at the market, and Hu Bingxin saw it. She had been thinking about it ever since. Although she had eaten other clay pot noodles in the meantime, none of them were red like the one they ate, and they looked delicious. They were very light, and the chili peppers that went with it were not tasty either.
"Clay pot noodles..." Su Zi thought for a moment, "There is no clay pot at home, it is not convenient to cook, let's go to the market to eat."
"Great!" Hu Bingxin raised both hands in agreement, adding one to the new experience!
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