Chapter 43 Making Pickles



The two laughed for a while before continuing to walk home, chatting along the way about what they would do when they went to work, what they would do during their breaks, and what they would buy with their wages.

Huang Lili kept talking along the way, and Tong Yiya would respond from time to time. When they reached the fork in the road, they said goodbye and parted ways.

Tong Yiya returned to the orphanage, went into the house and put down her schoolbag, then thought about graduating soon, so she prepared to celebrate. She took out some sausages from her box, put some rice in a casserole, and went to the kitchen.

When Aunt Juan saw her coming in with something, she smiled and said, "Do you want to make it yourself today?"

"Yeah, this sausage has been here for a long time. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. If we don't eat it, it will go bad," Tong Yiya replied with a smile.

"The stove is over there, cook it yourself, and tell me if you need anything."

"Okay," Tong Yiya agreed. She washed the rice first and put it aside to soak. Then she took some hay and firewood, lit a small stove, put the casserole on the stove to cook, and asked Aunt Juan to help watch over it while she went to the yard to get two green vegetables.

Then wash it clean with water in the yard, go back to the kitchen to cut the vegetables with a knife, wash the surface of the sausage with hot water, slice it, and wait for the rice in the casserole to dry, then reduce the heat, put the sausage slices and vegetables on the rice, pour some oil on the edge of the casserole, cover it and simmer for seven or eight minutes, then use soy sauce to make a sauce.

After simmering in the casserole for seven or eight minutes, pour the prepared sauce on it, cover it and simmer for another five minutes, then you can eat it.

Tong Yiya cooked a lot today, so she mixed it in the kitchen, gave half a lunch box to Aunt Juan, and then took the casserole back to her room to eat. Otherwise, the children in the yard who smelled the food would all look in from the kitchen door, and she would not be able to eat if they were watching her.

When she returned to the room, the children didn't dare to come near her door, so she could have a peaceful dinner. After she finished her meal quickly and washed the casserole, she took out today's homework and started writing.

Although she is about to graduate, she still cannot fall behind in her homework during a single day at school. In two days, it will be the day for the transaction with Brother Long. She plans to go there a day in advance and leave all her things there, so she doesn't have to go the next day.

After graduating from school, she will start preparing to go to work. She has never had much contact with accounting in her previous life, so she still needs to teach herself first. There seem to be books on this subject in the space, and she will go into the space and take a look at them when the time comes.

She spent an hour finishing all her homework for the day, tidied herself up, and seeing that it was already dark outside, she got up, took her bucket and thermos, and went to the kitchen to get some hot water.

I fetched some hot water and went back to the house to wash up. After closing the doors and windows, I turned off the lights and went to bed early. Then I slipped into the space, went to the gym to exercise for two hours, fed the animals, and then took a shower.

After taking a shower and blowing her hair half dry, she went to the study to look for books on accounting. Soon she found it on the bookshelf. After flipping through it for an hour, she was able to understand some of it. Seeing that it was getting late, she left the space to rest.

The next morning, when they arrived at school, Tong Yiya and Huang Lili received a notice from the teacher that they had both passed the graduation exam with good grades. They were told that after today's class, they would not need to come later.

The teacher also asked the two to work hard in the future and come to school less often.

The day's classes passed quickly. After school, the two talked about what they were going to do in the next few days, and then made an appointment to go out together the day after tomorrow to buy some things they needed for work, and then went home separately.

Tong Yiya went out early the next day. She first went to the back alley to put the things she wanted to trade with Brother Long there, and took away the money and things from the last transaction.

It was already noon when she finished all these and walked out of West Street. She thought that she would go to the factory cafeteria to eat in the future, for fear of encountering any dishes she didn't like.

I thought that while I have some free time today, I might as well get a few jars, take out some vegetables that can be pickled, go back to the orphanage, pickle some in the afternoon sun, and then if I don’t like the food in the cafeteria in the future, I can add my own dishes.

Thinking of this, she started walking towards the orphanage. In an alley surrounding the orphanage, she observed that there was no one around, so she entered the space. Then she went to the warehouse to find a few small jars of Pu water, and went to the fields to get some vegetables suitable for making pickles. She put them all in a basket, loaded them on her back, and then left the space.

She returned to the orphanage carrying a full basket of things. When she entered the yard, she saw Aunt Juan washing things. When she saw her come back with a big basket on her back, she hurriedly got up and came over to help her take the basket off her back and put it on the ground.

Looking at the basket full of vegetables, Aunt Juan asked, "Why did you bring back so many vegetables? We have plenty in our backyard."

"I was thinking of working in a factory in the future, and I was afraid that eating in the cafeteria would be too expensive. I happened to meet an old lady selling vegetables, and I thought of buying some and drying them in the sun for a while, and then making them into pickles at night. Then they can be considered vegetables, right?" Tong Yiya smiled and told Aunt Juan her idea.

"That's fine, but what are you going to put them in?" Aunt Juan looked at the basket full of vegetables and thought there was nothing to put them in.

Because Tong Yiya was afraid that the jar would shake and break when she was packing the vegetables, she stuffed the edges with vegetables. At first glance, you can see that the basket is full of vegetables.

Tong Yiya didn't respond, but smiled and moved the vegetables away, revealing three small jars inside, each of which could hold seven or eight kilograms of water.

When Aunt Juan saw the jar, she kept praising her for being smart and asked her where she bought such a small jar, saying that she rarely saw such a small jar.

The jars bought by people in the county can hold more than 20 to 30 kilograms of food, because now most of the family eats together. If the jar is small, they have to prepare a few more jars. The space at home is small, so how many jars can be placed there? Therefore, they buy larger ones.

Small jars like the one Tong Yiya took out are not sold even by those who buy jars far away, so Aunt Juan asked her where she sold them, for she was afraid that she was being cheated.

In the end, Tong Yiya could only say that she couldn't eat much by herself, and now the weather was hot, and the food would go bad if pickled for too long, so it would be better to make a few small jars so that it would be convenient to pickle it again after eating.

After chatting with Aunt Juan for a few words, he said that he had to wash the vegetables and dry them in the sun, otherwise the sun would be gone soon.

After saying that, he went back to the room, put down his bag, took out a small stool, went to the kitchen to borrow a large vegetable washing basin, filled it with water and washed the vegetables twice, wiped the clothesline in the yard clean, and then hung the washed vegetables on it to dry.

After drying all the vegetables, she cleaned the three small jars inside and out, placed them under the eaves, and found a clean board to turn them upside down to drain out the moisture.

After finishing everything, she went back to her room, made herself a cup of milk powder, drank it, and then lay down on the kang to take a nap.

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