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"Hey, I'm here." Jiang Che stood up, rubbed his sun-bleached eyes, walked to the kitchen, and helped serve the dishes.
"Wow, this white radish looks fresh today." He picked up a white radish with chopsticks and tasted it before he even sat down in the main room. "Not bad, wife, not spicy at all, sweet and crunchy and delicious."
"Is it really delicious?" Wei Xuan was still worried that there wasn't enough time and the soup hadn't been soaked enough to fully appreciate the flavor.
"It's really good. How could I lie to you? If you don't believe me, try it yourself."
Wei Xuan took a bite of the radish he picked up with doubt: "Hmm! Sweet and crispy. Let's have noodles tonight." Clear soup noodles will definitely taste better with this radish.
I don’t know if it was because they were too tired from working in the morning, but both of them ate a lot at noon.
After having dinner and taking a nap, Wei Xuan went to the kitchen to cook the sauce for pickled sweet garlic. After it cooled down, she put it into the jar together with the soaked garlic cloves.
The sun was shining brightly today, so Wei Xuan went to look at the Chinese mustard greens drying in the yard. She touched them and felt that they were almost ready for the next step.
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Making sauerkraut is quite simple. Simply put the dried Chinese mustard greens into a jar, press it tightly, then add salt water and soak it.
For pickled mustard greens, you need to blanch them in a pot first, then cover them with a lid and simmer overnight before taking them out to dry. Once they are dried, take them back and steam them. Repeat this three or four times before they are ready.
Wei Xuan was usually busy at work, and by the time the pickled mustard greens were ready to be put into the jars, it was already the night before the beginning of winter. That night, Jiang Che brought back a few pounds of mutton and said to Wei Xuan in a boastful manner, "Wife, look at what this is?"
Wei Xuan leaned in to take a closer look: "Mutton?" She had never eaten mutton since she came here.
"Well, I saw some for sale at Angkor this morning, so I bought some. Let's make mutton soup tonight!"
"Okay." Wei Xuan also wanted to drink it. Mutton soup is delicious even without any ingredients.
Then that night, the two of them drank delicious mutton soup.
After eating and drinking, Jiang Che said to Wei Xuan: "Tomorrow is the beginning of winter, let's go home and eat."
Wei Xuan was a little full after dinner, and the room was warm, so she leaned back in her chair and was about to doze off. It took her a long time to react after hearing what he said, and she nodded lazily.
The two of them rarely go home, so it is normal for them to go back occasionally during the holidays.
However, neither of them expected that when he came back this time, Brother Jiang once again mentioned the matter of letting Jiang Che take the college entrance examination.
Didn't it happen half a month ago? Jiang Che and Wei Xuan had already forgotten about it. After all, they thought it had little to do with their family.
Except for Wei Xiaolong who will take the college entrance examination next year, no one wants to go this year, including themselves.
So now when Brother Jiang mentioned it, Jiang Che was a little confused.
Father Jiang agreed with what Big Brother Jiang said, and said to Wei Xuan who was also at a loss, "In addition to Xiao Che, Xiao Xuan can also take the exam and give it a try! After all, there is no loss if she fails, and it will be a happy event if she passes."
How come there is no loss? Isn't losing face a loss?
No matter how the Jiang family tried to persuade them, the two of them stuck to one principle: not to talk back and not to agree.
After Jiang Che and Wei Xuan left, Brother Jiang still felt sorry: "Why don't I want to go? If I were not older than you, I would go."
"Okay, if he doesn't want to go, then he doesn't have to go." Jiang's mother thought that her son was doing well the way he was now. He didn't have to go to college. Of course, it would be even better if he gave her a grandson next year.
Only Mrs. Jiang secretly curled her lips after hearing what her husband said: Don't you know how capable your brother is? And he's still taking the college entrance exam? How ridiculous! It's better to dream about it.
Thinking of this, she looked at her son sitting beside her and felt better. She felt that her husband was really stubborn. It would be more reliable to wait a few years and count on her son than to count on Xiao Che to go to college.
Anyway, no matter what others think, Jiang Che has made up his mind not to take the exam. When he left the house, he forgot what Brother Jiang had just said.
Commented on tonight’s dumplings with Wei Xuan.
Wei Xuan also felt that the dumpling filling was a bit salty tonight. Thinking of the sauerkraut at home, she said, "Then you can bring back some meat tomorrow and we can make sauerkraut dumplings at home."
Jiang Che thought this was a good idea and agreed to it immediately.
After the beginning of winter, the weather gets colder day by day.
Wu Yun had talked to Jiang Che several times before, saying that he wanted to make the sauce and make more bacon and sausages this year.
Wei Xuan thought about it and agreed. The policy will change next year, so it would be good to make more money this year.
However, Wei Xuan plans to stop selling the nine-layer cake and hawthorn cake before that. These two items have been sold for several months, and they will probably be even harder to sell when the weather gets colder.
Since they had agreed to take on the job, Jiang Che and Wei Xuan devoted themselves to it. They were so busy that they didn't even have time to go back to the Jiang family to celebrate Laba Festival this year.
However, the harvest was also huge, as evidenced by the fact that their cash boxes were full again.
Jiang Che had taken the change from last time to the post office or to Wu Yun for exchange every once in a while. Now there was another box of change, and it took the two of them a full half hour to count it all.
In the past two or three months, Wu Yun directly sent them the meat of three whole pigs. In addition to making bacon, sausages and sauces, they also did not stop braising meat every day and even increased the supply.
Except for the bacon and sausages left for their own consumption, all other goods at home have been sold out. The total profit made is 1,216 yuan, not counting the few cents left over. Adding to the previous 3,000 yuan, the two of them now have more than 4,000 yuan in their hands.
Wei Xuan sorted the money into stacks and put them away: "One stack is one hundred, you can just take it directly when you go to exchange it next time."
Jiang Che nodded to indicate that he understood. Thinking that the Chinese New Year would be tomorrow and they hadn't even had time to make a new piece of clothing this year, Jiang Che couldn't sit still and wanted to drag Wei Xuan to go shopping in the department store.
"It just so happens that the previous industrial coupons have not been used up yet, so I will go and spend them all today."
Wei Xuan was also very tempted. After working for such a long time, she decided to reward herself with this.
So, the two of them changed their clothes and rode out on their bikes.
When they arrived at the department store, they went to look at clothes first. This time Wei Xuan was ruthless and bought all the nice clothes no matter how much the price was. They bought a coat for each of themselves and a pair of shoes. They left and went to other counters only after they had spent all the money they had.
Jiang Che felt that he had too few tickets. His wife only bought one piece of clothing. It would be better if she could just pay for the purchase without tickets.
Wei Xuan didn't know what Jiang Che was feeling, but she was quite open-minded about it, because she knew that this day was not far away, and now they just needed to make money and wait for this day to come!
Next, the two of them went to buy something for Wei Xuan to use on her face, which was the same kind of vanishing cream that Jiang Che had given Wei Xuan before. This time she bought three boxes, one for herself, one to give to her mother-in-law at Jiang's house tomorrow, and one for Wei's mother.
There were a lot of things in the department store, but since they didn't have tickets, they could only stop and look. In the end, they bought some milk candies and two cans of milk powder and went home.
On the way home, Wei Xuan asked Jiang Che where he got the milk powder tickets.
Section 27
"Didn't you send malted milk to your parents-in-law last time? This stuff is specially supplied and may not be available at other times. I thought it could replenish my body like milk powder, so I asked Brother Wu to keep an eye out for it for me. It just so happened that he gave me two tickets some time ago, and I used them today."
Wei Xuan was very happy to know that Jiang Che cared so much about the Wei family's affairs, so she cooked a dish that Jiang Che liked in the evening.
Jiang Che looked at the pork with preserved vegetables on the table and asked in confusion, "What good day is today? Didn't you tell me to eat less fatty meat?"
After the pickled mustard greens were made, Wei Xuan made pork with preserved vegetables once, and Jiang Che fell in love with it completely. Wei Xuan also liked to eat it, but she preferred to eat the preserved vegetables soaked in soup, while Jiang Che preferred to eat the glutinous fat on top, and he would eat one piece at a time without stopping.
Wei Xuan was worried when she saw this. Even though he was young, it was not good to eat too much fatty meat. So every time she made preserved vegetable braised pork, she would deliberately choose meat with more lean meat and less fat. Even though Jiang Che had given her advice several times, she still did not change.
But the preserved pork with preserved vegetables served on the table today was mostly fat, so it was no wonder that Jiang Che asked this question.
Wei Xuan was too embarrassed to say what she was thinking, so she pretended to be angry and glared at him: "Eat it if you can!"
"Hehe," although he didn't know why, he could clearly feel that his wife was in a good mood tonight, so Jiang Che's thoughts became a little crooked, and he thought of some scenes that were not suitable for children.
Wei Xuan thought his smile was strange and asked him what he was laughing at.
"Nothing, nothing, eat quickly."
"It's weird." Wei Xuan muttered and didn't take it seriously.
It was only when they took a shower and went to bed at night that he realized that this guy must have eaten too much fat that night and had no place to use his energy, so he used it all on her.
The couple tossed and turned until midnight, and Wei Xuan almost couldn't get out of bed the next day.
It was not until they went to Jiang's house for dinner in the evening that Wei Xuan gave Jiang Che a good look.
Tonight, all the Jiang family members were present. Jiang's second sister, who had not been seen for a long time, also came back with her two daughters. Only Jiang's second brother-in-law did not come.
Second sister Jiang told her family that she had something to do and that's why she couldn't come. Big brother Jiang and Jiang Che, who knew the inside story, didn't say anything, and the others didn't think much about it.
Jiang Che and Wei Xuan went home that night and whispered to each other. They guessed that Jiang's second brother-in-law must have felt that he was beaten by Jiang Che last time, so he was too embarrassed to come here today.
But this person was not very important to the two of them, so they just said a few words about him and then passed it over.
They then started discussing what to bring back from the Wei family this year.
This year is the same as last year. I spent New Year’s Eve at Jiang’s house, went back to my parents’ home for one night on the first day of the New Year, and returned to the city in the afternoon of the second day.
But what was different this year from last year was that when the two of them went back to their parents’ home on the first day of the new year, they saw not only the Wei family, but also Wei Xuan’s two uncles who came with their families.
Wei Xuan's second uncle only has one son and one daughter. The eldest daughter is Wei Xuan's eldest cousin Wei Yue. Wei Yue married far away and is not here today. She will not be back until the second day of the Chinese New Year. So today, besides the second uncle and aunt, only their youngest son and his family came to the second uncle's house.
My second uncle’s youngest son is named Wei Junliang. He is the same age as Wei Xuan’s second brother. He will be 27 years old after the Chinese New Year and is already married with children.
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