Chapter 44: Visiting My Mother's House



Because she didn't understand the temperaments of the three Gu Decong brothers, Chen Xuanxuan could only arrange them to sleep in the kitchen.

After Chen Xuanxuan's mother-in-law came back with her two grandsons, she didn't say anything.

After eating a big bowl of eight-treasure porridge, she washed her face and went to bed.

Next to the kitchen, they all slept on straw.

And Chen Xuanxuan consciously improved her life in the past few months. The main room next to the kitchen has been directly divided into two rooms, front and back, by Gu Yanzhang using wooden boards and yellow mud walls.

The wooden beds in the front room are for the children to sleep. The small, slightly closed space in the back became the place where Chen Xuanxuan and Gu Decong slept.

A dreamless night.

After Chen Xuanxuan woke up, she made breakfast for the whole family.

Today she was going to make buckwheat noodles.

She had already prepared the soup for the buckwheat noodles. She hadn't finished the spicy snails she had made a few days ago.

After cooking two pounds of buckwheat noodles, she poured all the spicy snails that had been heated in another pot into the bowl of noodles.

The noodles said that the noodle soup was spicy and the snails were delicious.

When Gu Decong and his brothers tasted this, their eyes lit up and they praised it for being delicious.

"Seventh Auntie, your skill in making noodles is better than some of the master chefs in the county."

Chen Xuanxuan felt a little guilty after hearing this.

Strictly speaking, these things are not her craftsmanship. Thanks to all kinds of seasonings, she was able to make the noodles, spicy snails, and other things taste good.

"Since you think it's delicious, you can eat more."

Seeing their mother being so polite and generous to these strangers, Chen Xuanxuan's children still felt a little uncomfortable.

Worried that their delicious noodles would be eaten up by these tens of thousands of people, Gu Dazhu and Erzhu subconsciously ate faster.

After eating the noodles and drinking the soup, Gu Dazhu passed his bowl of noodles and soup over.

"Mom, I've been feeling hungry lately and my appetite has been growing. Can I have another bowl? I didn't feel anything after the last bowl of noodles..."

Knowing that her sons were all growing up, Chen Xuanxuan hesitated for a moment and gave all the noodle soup in the pot to them.

"Come on, there's no more noodles in the pot. Just drink some of the noodle soup! The soup made from noodles is quite nourishing."

After eating and drinking enough, Chen Xuanxuan asked Gu Dazhu and Erzhu to stay at home and help their grandmother look after the house.

She went to her bedroom in person.

In a very small wooden box, she found some good things she had accumulated over time.

There is a transparent bag containing 11 neatly arranged egg yolk crisps.

Last night, Chen Xuanxuan quietly ate one.

The brand of the egg yolk crisp is "Pan Yi Pan". If you don't look closely at the packaging, most people will easily mistake it for the big brand - Pan Pan.

Although this egg yolk crisp is sold very cheaply. But the boss lady who sells the goods is also very caring.

The boss lady left a message on the Qionghehe app saying that all the egg yolk crisps are made by her at home.

There are five layers of egg yolk crisps in total.

The innermost is the yolk of the salted duck egg. Next

is the red bean paste wrapped in the egg yolk. After that, there is a layer of snow-white glutinous rice flour skin, and then the thin and crispy thousand-layer crisp.

After applying a layer of golden egg liquid on the outer shell of the egg yolk pastry, sprinkle a layer of black sesame seeds on it.

A plate of dozens or even hundreds of egg yolk pastries, after being baked for a long time, the baked taste is particularly fragrant. The appearance and taste of the egg yolk pastry are also delicious.

In the past, Chen Xuanxuan could say that this thing was a snack that she was almost tired of. However, in the eyes of farmers in this era, this delicious snack that is only the size of a baby's fist is really uncommon.

If you insist on going to the county town to buy it, you may not be able to buy it.

Since Chen Xuanxuan doesn't have much money now and the egg yolk pastry is not that good, Chen Xuanxuan hesitated and kept 5 egg yolk pastries at home.

She planned to keep them for herself.

As for the other six egg yolk cakes, she took them to her parents' home, intending to ask them to do something for Gu Decong and his brothers.

Chen Xuanxuan also knew that six egg yolk cakes were not enough for gifts.

After thinking about it, Chen Xuanxuan suddenly decided that she had to come up with something good.

So she took out another 200-gram bag of rock sugar. Feeling that the rock sugar was too much, she took out a small handful and put it in her wooden box.

Six egg yolk cakes, one or two rock sugars, plus dozens of golden thread dates, and a chiffon cake as big as a woman's palm... Chen Xuanxuan used a few pieces of oil paper and red silk thread she bought on the Qiongheihei app to carefully wrap them, and then she put them in her clean new basket.

Gu Decong was a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old. Although he had not married, he had lived in the county town for a long time. He was very familiar with the prices of various things in the county town.

Gu Decong saw with his own eyes that when Chen Xuanxuan took them out, there were four good things in the basket. Gu Decong could not help but carefully calculate in his mind how much these snacks cost... Some

of these snacks were things that he had never seen even at his age.

Rock sugar was relatively rare. Rich families might eat it often. But for a small family like them, how could they afford it on ordinary days?

And the red dates, though they were very small, they were red, round and bright.

Just now, their aunt gave them a few red dates. They tasted them and felt that the red dates were particularly fragrant and sweet.

Especially the red date kernels. Although there was no flesh on them, they sucked and chewed them again and again. The red date kernels were sweet and sweet, as if they touched people's hearts.

Gu Decong thought that this little bit of red dates would cost at least dozens of coins.

Not to mention dozens of coins, 10 coins was at least worth it.

Gu Decong quietly estimated the price of the four things that Chen Xuanxuan wore.

He thought these foods seemed insignificant, but they were beautiful and exquisite in appearance, and they must have cost hundreds of coins. It would be most decent to use them as gifts.

Gu Decong and his brothers followed Chen Xuanxuan and went directly to Chen Decai's house. After finding the old lady Liu, Chen Xuanxuan personally handed the snacks in her hand to her eldest brother.

Chen Daming was a filial son.

He opened the packages of snacks brought by Chen Xuanxuan with great expectation, and couldn't help but pick up a golden egg yolk crisp and handed it to his mother Liu, so that she could taste it carefully...

"Mom, you see how filial this third sister is to you. This is the first time I have seen such exquisite food. I also know how it tastes..."


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