After dinner, Kang Shaojie and the other two rushed to wash the dishes and clean the Lin family's yard. They took the leftover bones outside to feed the dogs. They took care of everything without Lin Dan's instructions. They were very diligent and considerate. They also fought hard for every meal in the future.
Lin Dan sincerely thanked the three people, and covered the newly built cement slope with a few wooden boards to prevent the villagers coming and going from damaging them. Then he took down a piece of bacon and a few pieces of cured tofu hanging under the eaves, boiled them in boiling water for five minutes, washed them clean, and then mixed three equal parts of rice, glutinous rice, and sticky rice together, washed them, and steamed them on the stove until half-cooked.
Kang Shaojie, Cao Muchen, and Shen Jiayi were so full that they rubbed their bellies while circling around the black girl, chattering non-stop with questions.
"Why are you cooking again after you just finished eating?"
"Is it a midnight snack cooked for us?"
"Dan, you are so nice to your brothers!"
Lin Dan endured it silently for a while, and when he saw that they were getting more and more outrageous, he explained, "I'm steaming the rice and will bring it to school to sell tomorrow morning."
"What are you selling this for?"
Of course it’s for money! This question was so stupid that Lin Dan didn't even have the desire to answer it. She just glanced at him and continued to work. She washed the collected Artemisia annua, chopped it up, rubbed it slowly, and drained off the green juice. After that, she put it in a winnowing basket and baked it on the stove over low heat. This would remove the bitter taste of the Artemisia annua and leave only its unique aroma. She then cut the cured tofu and bacon into cubes, stir-fried them in a pot, then turned to low heat and simmered them slowly, gradually sprinkling several seasonings to increase the smoky flavor of the cured tofu and bacon.
Cover the pot and let the aroma and fat of the food slowly ferment in the pot. Lin Dan then chopped the wild onions, ginger and garlic, poured them into a bowl, added a little pepper oil and light soy sauce and stirred evenly.
The flavors of various ingredients are mixed together, yet not chaotic. The sweet aroma of rice, the rich aroma of cured meat, the spicy and strong flavor of wild onions, minced ginger, and minced garlic all come together and produce a wonderful chemical reaction. In just a moment, this rich and overbearing aroma spread out, disturbing the entire Six Star Village.
A passing villager shouted at Lin Shuanzhu, "What a sin! What are you doing? I haven't even finished my farm work today and I have to come back!" It was obvious that he was attracted back by the fragrance.
Kang Shaojie, Cao Muchen, and Shen Jiayi were clearly full, but they were still drooling over the big pot of bacon. They are not hungry, they are greedy.
"It's too bland, how about letting you brothers have a taste?" Kang Shaojie looked eagerly at the little girl squatting at the stove and burning firewood.
Several photographers had not eaten dinner yet and were already very hungry. They felt even more anxious when they smelled the smell. want. I couldn't wait to dive into the pot and eat my fill.
Unfortunately, Lin Dan was not so easy to talk to this time. He waved his hand and refused, "No, I have to do business tomorrow. I can treat you to dinner, but I can't give you the food I sold for free. Let's put it this way."
"Little girl, you are quite principled. Tell me, what work do you need your brothers to do? How about a bite of meat in exchange for it?" Kang Shaojie rolled up his sleeves, revealing his strong biceps.
Shen Jiayi and Cao Muchen also quickly rolled up their sleeves, with serious expressions as if they were ready to go through fire and water for Lin Dan. The three were just having fun when Lin Shuanzhu shouted from outside: "Dan, scoop out a bowl of bacon. Wanfu from Aunt Six's family refuses to eat."
Lin Dan ran outside with a firewood stick in his hand and said loudly, "Sixth Aunt, please go back. I have to sell the bacon tomorrow."
A middle-aged woman holding a large bowl showed an indignant look. She did not dare to argue with Lin Dan, who was as strong as an ox. She could only glare at the honest Lin Shuanzhu. Lin Shuanzhu's face turned red. He was about to persuade his granddaughter to be more generous, but Lin Dan spoke again: "Grandpa, you have to go to the city for surgery to remove the steel plate in three months. Where will the several thousand yuan for the surgery come from? I don't want to find a way to earn some money. Do you still want me to kneel down and kowtow to others at the door of the hospital this time? This family comes to ask for a little, and that family comes to ask for a little. How much meat do we have for them to share?"
Thinking of the scene where his granddaughter had to take care of other people's excrement and urine in order to earn money, Lin Shuanzhu suddenly felt ashamed. He gave away the favor as soon as he opened his mouth, but it was his granddaughter who suffered! How could he be so confused!
"Dan, from now on I won't make decisions on my own. You have the final say in the family. Okay?" he asked in a flattering manner.
Lin Dan nodded, but his eyes were fixed on the middle-aged woman. The woman's face turned slightly red. Thinking of her crying grandson at home, she argued again: "Who said we should give it all away? Just give a little bit to my Wanfu to moisten his mouth. Look at how stingy you are!" However, as soon as she finished speaking, four women came to the door of the Lin family with bowls and said: "Old Lin, my child is crying and shouting for your bacon. Can you please give me some?"
The middle-aged woman was stunned for a moment, and then her face became redder and redder. You know what, if Lin Dan really made her a bowl, would she give it to the people who came later or not? In order not to offend anyone, of course we have to give it, but haven’t we given it away one after another?
Lin Shuanzhu also realized his own carelessness. He just looked at his granddaughter again and again, unable to raise his head. I am old and confused. From now on, I should talk less and do more.
Lin Dan was not afraid of offending anyone, so he just said that the bacon at home would be taken to the town to sell and would not be given as a gift. Several women left unwillingly, and they couldn't help but mock Lin Dan, saying that people in the town needed some meat to eat, and she would definitely have to pay for it. Later, a few more people came to the Lin family to ask for meat. They all brought large bowls and had no idea how to be polite. That’s how it is in the countryside. If there are any good things, they can’t be hidden. If you are a little thin-skinned, the cheap things will be taken away by the people around you.
Seeing Lin Dan rejecting everyone one by one, the three young men blushed with embarrassment. They dared not mention eating bacon again and took the initiative to look for work.
"Uncle Lin, do you want to water your fields?"
"Uncle Lin, do you need to weed your fields?"
"Of course we do. At this time every day, the vegetables in the fields need to be watered and weeded. Come on, here are hoes, buckets, and shoulder poles. Let's get to work!" Kang Shaojie found a bunch of tools from the corner and urged his friends to go to the fields to work.
Seeing the three young masters sweating profusely in the Lin family's vegetable garden, Jiao Xiao'e, who was exhausted in her own field, almost fainted from anger.
Lin Dan stood at the door and looked at the three people, a smile in his eyes.
She returned to the kitchen, carried the steamed glutinous rice off the stove, poured the stewed diced bacon and cured tofu into the rice bucket and stirred it evenly. Originally, community rice was not cooked like this. The bacon and cured tofu did not need to be stewed. They just needed to be cut into cubes and mixed with rice and steamed in a steamer. But people in Taohua Town have strong tastes and prefer greasy, spicy, sour and salty food. Lin Dan observed carefully and found that the people here loved to mix the remaining broth into rice after eating meat. They even invented a special dish called rice with broth, which is even sold in restaurants. Lin Dan is best at cooking food according to different regions and tastes, so he naturally changed the way the community rice was prepared.
The boiled bacon is richer in fat, which makes the glutinous rice shiny and oily, and the aroma of meat fills the air. Lin Dan stirred again and again to make the flavors more evenly mixed, then poured the chopped and seasoned wild onions, minced ginger, minced garlic, Artemisia annua and other ingredients into the half-cooked glutinous rice and stirred. He would get up early tomorrow morning to steam it and take it to school to sell.
After doing all this, she fished out three glutinous rice cakes from the water tank, fried them in a frying pan, then used a spatula to press the soft glutinous rice cakes into a large, thin, crispy cake. After that, she cut them into three pieces, spread chili oil and fermented bean curd on them, and wrapped them with sour beans stir-fried with minced garlic and sesame oil to make fried glutinous rice cakes, which she kept hot by the stove.
The photographer who followed Zhou Cuicui has become Lin Dan's exclusive photographer. At this moment, he is drooling over three crispy and fragrant wraps.
Lin Dan smiled at him, then took out a few more glutinous rice cakes, fried them into cakes one by one, wrapped them with various appetizing pickled vegetables, and wrapped them with clean oil paper. She did not take the initiative to invite the photographers, but walked outside and said loudly: "Okay, come back, it's getting late, it's time to call it a day."
The three young men, who were already exhausted, cheered for a while, then carried their hoes and shoulder poles and ran quickly to the Lin family. When they saw the hot glutinous rice cake rolls, they were almost moved to tears.
"I'm hungry again after just over an hour of work! I didn't expect there would be a midnight snack, hehe..." Shen Jiayi laughed awkwardly as he picked up the burrito and took a bite. With a click, the crispy outer shell was bitten open, and the smell of burnt fragrance filled the air. The inside was soft and sticky, and could be pulled into threads. The tiny grains of salt melted on the tip of the tongue and blended with the sweet inner core. The taste was simply indescribable. At the end of the meal, there were also crispy and delicious sour beans, spicy and fragrant chili oil, and fermented bean curd. All kinds of delicious flavors burst out one by one, making people want to howl like a wolf!
The more Shen Jiayi ate, the brighter his eyes became, and there was a constant crunching sound in his mouth. Kang Shaojie and Cao Muchen also buried their heads in eating. The hard work they had just done disappeared at this moment.
"Dan, you are the god of cooking, I love you so much!" Kang Shaojie said vaguely.
"Oh, brother, I want to eat this kind of cake tomorrow. I'll come to water the fields for you tomorrow, okay?" Cao Muchen said with a red face.
Lin Dan smiled without saying anything, brought the remaining burritos to the table outside, and waved to a few photographers, signaling them to come and eat. Several photographers remained unmoved and continued to film the three teenagers eating heartily, but every few minutes one of them would stagger over to the table, take the burrito with his back to the camera, and then take a bite when given the chance, with a happy expression on his face.
No wonder the rich landlord would degrade himself to work as a farmhand for the little girl. Just for her cooking skills, it's worth it!
That night, Lin Dan slept exceptionally soundly and woke up at four in the morning. After washing up, he steamed the fully flavored community rice dumplings on the stove. After that, he helped Lin Shuanzhu get up, helped him wash his face, and cooked him a bowl of noodles. After working for half an hour, an unusually strong aroma began to waft from the wooden barrel used to steam the community rice. As the aroma spread, the dogs in the village began to bark one after another, followed by the crying of children and the scolding of adults.
Lin Shuanzhu pushed his wheelchair to the entrance of the main hall and vaguely heard someone next door complaining angrily: "Oh my god! It must be that girl from the Lin family cooking again!"
Lin Shuanzhui didn't know why he felt like laughing, but before he could even open his mouth, he saw three black shadows suddenly jump in front of his door, scaring him so much that he almost jumped up. What is this? A starving dog?
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