Chapter 48 Chapter 48 You are poor, I am poor too
As Xu Yunfan was thinking this, he unknowingly walked to the village entrance.
They came back early today, around ten o'clock. When Qin An saw them come back, he happily chatted with them for a few words, then took the two meat buns and went to eat.
The lard I bought is still very fresh, but the weather is really too hot. If I keep it any longer, it will probably start to smell.
Qin Run put the things he bought in place one by one, and then went into the kitchen to get busy. He planned to refine the lard first, and then cook.
Qin An quickly ate a meat bun, and when he realized he was no longer hungry, he hurried to help light the fire. He couldn't do heavy work, so he could only do small things within his ability to help Qin Run share some of the housework.
"Brother, are you refining the oil? Are you buying fat meat again today?" Qin An was happy. If there was fat oil to refine, it meant that he would have oil residue to eat later.
Add some salt to the oil residue and mix it, it will be very fragrant, crispy and delicious. It tastes good when fried or boiled with vegetables.
Qin An felt that the oil residue was delicious when cooked with the vegetables.
"Ang'er, have you finished eating the buns?" On the way back, Xu Yunfan was sweating all over. He had just come back from the well to fetch water to wipe his face.
Qin An sat on a low stool and turned to look at Xu Yunfan. "Well, brother, I'm going to refine the oil. We'll have some oil residue to eat later."
"You like eating greasy residue so much?"
"Uh-huh."
Qin An nodded vigorously several times to confirm that he really liked it, "The oil residue is very fragrant."
Xu Yunfan smiled and said, "If you like, eat more when you eat. You look like the seven dwarfs."
As he spoke, Xu Yunfan went into the kitchen, took out the flour he had bought and began planning to make bread.
There are surprises every day, and that’s how life becomes hopeful!
The current temperature is too hot, and it is difficult to control the optimal temperature for natural fermentation of flour. If you are not careful, the dough will fail to ferment successfully and will go bad.
In the absence of baking powder, you can also use white wine for fermentation. White wine can accelerate the fermentation of flour. Knead the dough, then dig a small hole in the middle of the dough, pour in two small cups of white wine, and cover the dough with a clean wet cloth. After about ten minutes, the fermentation effect can be achieved. However, Xiao Qin's two brothers don't drink, so where does the white wine come from?
In the end, Xu Yunfan decided to let the flour ferment on its own.
"Qin Run, where is the white sugar I just bought?" In the grocery store, Xu Yunfan reluctantly bought a hundred wen, which is a little over a pound of white sugar. This stuff is much more expensive than brown sugar.
If it were Qin Run himself, he would be reluctant to buy it, but since Xu Yunfan wanted to buy it, Qin Run had no reason to be reluctant, because the money he had was earned by Xu Yunfan.
Although Xu Yunfan wanted to buy such expensive sugar, Qin Run still bought it without any reluctance.
"What are you going to do here?" Qin Run was very curious about what delicious food Xu Yunfan was going to make.
Xu Yunfan kept it a secret, "Of course I'm going to make something delicious. You'll know when I make it. Okay, go and refine your oil!"
Hearing this, Qin Run smiled and became even more excited.
Xu Yunfan took the eggs from the cupboard that Qin Run had specially exchanged for in the village. He beat three of them into a large bowl, then added sugar and stirred it evenly with chopsticks.
Pour in flour and stir until it becomes flocculent, then knead it into dough with your hands.
Xu Yunfan took the dough out of the basin and placed it on the chopping board, kneading it like rubbing clothes until a glove film was formed. This is the key to making the bread stringy.
Xu Yunfan rubbed it for a few minutes, pulled off a small piece and took a look. After finding that it had good toughness and ductility, he knew that it would be fine if he kneaded it into this shape.
Putting the kneaded dough back into the bowl, Xu Yunfan felt that the temperature was not too hot, so he found a clean white cloth to cover it and let it ferment naturally.
Qin An watched the fire diligently. After Xu Yunfan kneaded the dough, he didn't know what to do. It was not his turn to cook. He wanted to go to the backyard to rub corn, but he felt a little pain in his palms.
Xu Yunfan had been breaking corn for several days in a row, and his palms were burning with pain. He thought he was about to get blisters.
This would require him to pick corn alone, and he was a little reluctant. He decided to take a rest for half a day and it would not be too late to do it in the evening.
It was a rare opportunity for Xu Yunfan to be lazy, so he felt at ease doing so.
Bored Xu Yunfan took a break and returned to his room. He opened his suitcase and found his bag of snacks. He took a casual look and discovered that there was a large bag of coconut candy inside.
This coconut candy tastes good and is very fragrant. Children, no, even Qin Run should like it very much.
Xu Yunfan took a few coconut candies, stuffed the rest back in his bag, closed the suitcase and went out.
In the kitchen, Qin Run had already refined the lard and was about to cook when Xu Yunfan came in.
"Hungry? The food will be ready soon."
Qin Run said this, speeding up his hands. Qin An looked up at Xu Yunfan, then lowered his head and stuffed in another piece of firewood.
Xu Yunfan put his hands behind his back, smiling, "Don't worry, I'm not very hungry yet. Qin Run, open your mouth, I'll give you something good to eat."
"What?" Qin Run asked, then opened his mouth obediently.
As soon as he opened his mouth, Xu Yunfan stuffed something into his mouth.
Qin Run subconsciously took a hold of it, and suddenly, a sweet fragrance filled his entire mouth.
"Sugar?" Qin Run asked vaguely. He didn't know what kind of candy Xu Yunfan gave him, but this strong and fragrant taste was the first time he tasted it.
This candy is sweet and fragrant when you put it in your mouth, with a rich flavor that leaves a long-lasting aftertaste. It is different from any candy you have eaten before.
Seeing Qin Run looking dumbfounded, Xu Yunfan asked him, "How is it? Is it delicious? Is it sweet?"
Qin Run slurped his saliva, which was constantly secreted due to the sugar content. "Delicious, sweet!"
Qin An looked at his elder brother and brother-in-law, stopped stuffing firewood into the fire, and looked at Qin Run, "Brother~"
It wasn't that he was greedy, nor did he want to eat whatever Qin Run had. He was just simply curious about what delicious food his elder brother was eating that made him look so intoxicated.
Even though we were eating delicious duck that night, my brother didn’t act like this.
When Qin Run heard the word "brother", he subconsciously wanted to spit out the coconut candy in his mouth and give it to Qin An.
With Xu Yunfan here, he definitely wouldn't let Qin Run do that. "You eat yours, I have more."
Maybe some people would think Qin Run is dirty, and he gave the candy he had sucked to his younger brother. It’s just a coconut candy, is it that serious?
But for the poor, it really is that difficult.
Xu Yunfan didn't think it was a big deal. Aren't many kids like this when they were young? When they had something delicious to eat, they would take turns taking a bite.
He also saw children playing together in the park eating lollipops, taking turns sucking on them, just like they did with ice cream.
Xu Yunfan tore open the coconut candy package and threw it into the fire, then handed the candy to Qin An, "Brother An, this is yours."
Qin An looked at the candy on Xu Yunfan's fair palm, but didn't take it immediately. Instead, he looked at Xu Yunfan, "Brother, I've taken it. Do you have any left?"
He was afraid that if he took it, his brother-in-law would have nothing to eat.
If Goff doesn't have anything to eat, he won't take it.
Qin An's words made Xu Yunfan very happy. "Yes, here, I'll give you a few more. If you go out to play and meet three eggs, Xiaoshan, or your little friend, you have to know how to share, okay?"
Although sugar was very precious in the Dayan Dynasty, Xu Yunfan felt that Qin An's childhood was more precious because he could make friends and have several friends to play with.
Xu Yunfan stuffed a candy into Qin An's mouth. Before he could think of how to describe the surprise the candy brought him, Xu Yunfan took out a few coconut candies, grabbed Qin An's little paw with one hand, turned his palm up, and put a few candies on it.
"Brother, are these for Dadan and the others?" Qin An counted them and found that there were seven candies. After giving them to Dadan and the others, there were still two left.
Xu Yunfan nodded. "Well, they can each have one, and you can use the rest as you wish."
The dishes in the pot were cooked, and Qin Run quickly found a plate to put the dishes on, and reminded him: "Second brother, when you give candy to Dadan and the others, remember to tear the bag before giving it to them, okay?"
Qin An looked up at Qin Run who was busy working and asked in confusion, "Why?"
"Because this was brought by your brother...Brother Xu from overseas. If other people knew that your Brother Xu had such a good thing, it would be targeted by thieves." Qin Run said.
Qin An became nervous when Qin Run said this. In his memory, thieves were extremely hateful. It was because of them that his grandmother disappeared and his elder brother was accused of being unclean.
If Goff is targeted by thieves, he will definitely be bullied.
Qin An didn't want his brother-in-law, who was so kind to him, to be bullied, so he kept Qin Run's instructions in mind.
After dinner, Xu Yunfan told Qin Run to hurry to Fang the hunter's house to discuss the hiring of workers.
"I'll go right away." Qin Run took a straw hat and prepared to go out.
Qin An finished washing the dishes and left the kitchen. Seeing Qin Run walking out, he called out, "Brother, where are you going?"
Qin Run stopped and said, "I want to go to Uncle Fang's house, what's wrong?"
Hunter Fang's house is not close to the village. It is at the foot of the mountain on the other side, about eight or nine hundred meters away from Xiao Qin's house, which is not very close.
Although the two families are far away from each other, the Fang hunter family, like Aunt Qin's family, has a good relationship with the Qin family.
However, the conditions of Fang Liehu's family were really limited. When Qin Run was in trouble, they were even more troubled than Qin Run. In terms of money and food, they really could not do much to help.
But in previous years, when Qin Run was too busy with the work in the fields, the Fang family would come to help as much as possible.
Every family has its own difficulties. The financial situation of Fang Hunter's family is not good. When they are not going up the mountain to hunt, they try to find some work in the town to make a living. Otherwise, what will the family eat?
Therefore, there is actually not much they can do to help Qin Run, but what is valuable is their intentions.
For this reason, when Xu Yunfan talked about hiring workers, the first person Qin Run thought of was Fang the Hunter.
The two families were not close to each other, and Qin Run had been busy recently, so he hadn't been to Fang the Hunter's house for a long time.
Qin An remembered that when they had few vegetables to eat during the winter, it was Grandma Fang who brought a few handfuls of dried vegetables to give to the two brothers.
He knew that Grandma Fang had difficulty walking and rarely went out. She seldom walked around the village and had not been to their house for a long time.
"Brother, I..." Qin An hesitated. On the one hand, he wanted to break corn kernels at home, and on the other hand, he wanted to go see Grandma Fang whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
Xu Yunfan came out of the main room at some point and stood under the eaves. "Brother An wants to go too? If you want to go, then go. What are you hesitating about? There's no rush for family matters."
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