Chapter 116 Rhubarb
After Aunt Yang sent Lin Guorong out, the captain squatted on the table, looking at his empty pot, and reached out to pull his wife: "Ah Feng, have another sip!"
"That's enough. Why did you drink so much?" Aunt Yang waved his hand away. This old man didn't talk so much nonsense when he was young, but when he got older, he would keep nagging after drinking a little. Aunt Yang didn't like to listen.
The captain's son also advised: "Mom, please let my dad drink a little more. It's a rare opportunity for him to drink. Let him enjoy it. He doesn't have any other hobbies, just a sip."
"Afeng, I'm happy. It's rare for me to be so happy. You know that..." The captain looked at her eagerly.
Aunt Yang finally softened her heart and took the jar from him: "Okay, okay, I got it. I'll pour you another jar."
The captain took the enamel pot, took a sip, and said to Xia Zhizhi with a chuckle, "Xia Zhiqing, you came late. You don't know how hard it was when I followed my father here. There was no firewood to burn in the winter, so we went up the mountain to collect firewood. The grass roots were all collected dry. The grandchildren next door looked at us..."
Xia Zhizhi gnawed on the goose's paw and responded with "hmmmm" responses.
By the time Xia Zhizhi finished eating the wings, she had heard these words for the fourth time.
Everyone had almost finished eating, and Aunt Yang wanted to clear the table. The captain held his wife's hand tightly and said, "Ah Feng, I fell in love with you at first sight. You don't know that the wicked turtle grandson from the next village wanted to do something bad, and I almost..."
Aunt Yang was arguing and arguing, and there was no point in talking to a drunkard, so she could only vent her anger by cursing: "I told you to drink less, drink less, but you wouldn't listen. Every time you drink two buckets of horse urine, you keep nagging and you can't stop all night. You've told the same shit eight hundred times. If you die soon, I'll let your son carve your name on the tombstone!"
After scolding the captain, Aunt Yang said to Xia Zhizhi in a gentle voice, "Xia Zhiqing, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. This is what drunkards do."
Then he turned around and scolded the captain: "You sleep in the west room tonight. I won't heat the kang for you. I told you to sleep on a cool kang. Remember this lesson well!"
My goodness, Aunt Yang is such a kind person on weekdays, but she actually knows how to curse people.
Seeing that the captain was so angry that he couldn't calm down for a while, Xia Zhizhi rolled her eyes, twitched her fingers, got off the kang, pulled the dog in from the yard, pulled it onto the kang, and then put the dog's paw into the captain's hand.
The captain has a yellow dog at home. The dog has a good personality and only barks at night when it hears noise or sees strangers.
The dog was a little scared and tried to retract its claws.
After all, it has been educated at home, and Aunt Yang would never allow it to sleep on the kang.
The captain let go of his wife, held the dog's paw tightly with one hand to prevent it from escaping, and then picked up a bone on the table to feed it: "It's Dahuang, come and eat some vegetables."
Dahuang was scared, but couldn't resist the temptation of the bone. He tucked his tail and flew around with his ears tucked in, humming as he ate the bone.
The captain touched its head and said, "Da Huang, you have only been here for a few years, so you don't know. When we first came here..."
Aunt Yang was stunned for a moment, probably because she didn't expect it to be like this, but she also thought it was pretty good.
Aunt Yang happened to be free, so she picked up the leftovers on the table and put them in the kitchen, for fear that the dog would get greedy and eat them.
Xia Zhizhi also followed her to the kitchen.
There is also a dish of sauerkraut stewed with pork on the table today. There is not much meat in it, but the sauerkraut tastes particularly good, fresh and salty, sour and fragrant, and the soup is also delicious.
The sauerkraut was pickled by Aunt Yang herself. Seeing that she liked it, Aunt Yang said she would give her a bowl of it and let her take it back.
Arriving at the kitchen, Aunt Yang took out the steamed red bean and mixed grains from the big pot and said, "My eldest son is going to visit his father-in-law tomorrow. I'll make some sticky bean buns for him to take back. Zhiqing Xia can also take a few back to try later."
Xia Zhizhi had never eaten sticky rice dumplings before, so she nodded repeatedly.
This pot of mixed grains includes red beans, glutinous rice and peanuts, which have been steamed. Pour glutinous rice flour into the pot and mix evenly. Then roll it into balls and steam it. Aunt Yang said that you can also roll it into a nest shape, which will cook faster.
Xia Zhizhi watched from the side and took note of the steps. If it was delicious, she would ask Ah Ju to prepare it for her.
When the dumplings came out of the pot, Aunt Yang gave her two while they were still hot and asked her to eat them with some sugar.
It's her fault that she ate this shortly after finishing her meal. If it were someone else, they might not be able to finish it.
The sticky bean buns dipped in sugar were sweet and soft. As a southern girl, she had no resistance to sticky food. She ate and praised them, making Aunt Yang smile from ear to ear. When the bean buns were cool, she gave her a full bowl of them.
It was just her. If someone else came, Aunt Yang would not be willing to give it to them, after all, food with glutinous rice in it was considered fine grain.
It was already dark, and her aunt was worried about her going back home alone, so she held the pickled cabbage basin and said, "I'll take you there, and I'll bring the basin back with me."
When Xia Zhizhi went back, she turned her head to look at the captain, who was still chatting. Ah Huang was half asleep with his eyes half closed. The captain shook him and said, "Ah Huang, it's still early. Don't sleep. I tell you, at that time..."
Aunt Yang said, "Don't worry about him. He's going to talk all night."
When we returned to the educated youth point, Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong were just about to go out, and we met them at the gate. Seeing that she was taking a long time to come back, they called Cui Zijin and were about to pick her up.
Xia Zhizhi came up to them with a bowl of sticky bean buns and showed off: "The bean buns made by Aunt Yang are fragrant and sticky, so delicious!"
Jiang Xiurong emptied the bowl of bean curd and pickled vegetables. They were about to send Aunt Yang back, but Aunt Yang waved her hand and said, "Stop it now. Send it back to me and I'll send it back to you later. No one of us will sleep tonight, so let's just send it back and forth."
But they were worried about letting Aunt Yang go back by herself, so they asked Cui Zijin to make the trip. He was a grown man, and Aunt Yang didn't worry that he would be bullied walking alone at night, so she agreed.
Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong had never eaten bean buns before. When they saw the plump bean buns, they felt a little hungry.
In fact, they have been tortured by their own cooking skills these days. After all, it is difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. Not only Cui Zijin and Jiang Xiurong miss Tang Mingli, Xia Zhizhi and Han Youran are also thinking about him. Who would want to eat something bad when they can eat delicious food?
It just so happened that Xia Zhizhi's kang was not heated, so she heated a few on the stove in her room.
When Cui Zijin came back from seeing people off, the bean buns were still hot. Everyone dipped them in sugar and ate them with relish.
Jiang Xiurong studied the ingredients in the bean buns while eating: "I think this shouldn't be difficult to make. Let's make some when the time comes. It should be able to be stored in the winter. When you don't want to cook, just heat up a few."
Han Youran nodded as he ate: "We can also put some dried fruits or preserved fruits in it to make it into a variety of flavors, which will make it more interesting to eat."