Travel through 1972 with a space mall

When Su Jiao returned home, she found Ye Yao and Goudan kneeling in a circle in the yard, sticking out their butts and mumbling as they didn't know what they were doing.

"Yao Yao, what are you doing?" Su Jiao stepped forward and asked softly.

Ye Yao heard a voice behind her and turned around to find that Su Jiao was back. She immediately stood up and acted coquettishly: "Sister-in-law, you are back. We are playing with the little ants."

Su Jiao looked at the completely destroyed ant nest and couldn't help but feel sorry for the ants. Why are they playing with the ants? It's just these monkeys who are playing with the ants unilaterally.

"You are all so good. You didn't go out to play today. You have been at home. As a reward, can I make tomato sauce for you?" Su Jiao knelt down and patted the dust on Ye Yao's body and said with a smile.

"Okay! Thank you, sister-in-law." She said excitedly, raising her little hands. Although Ye Yao has never eaten tomato sauce, she likes to eat tomatoes.

"Thank you, Aunt Jiaojiao." Several other little ones also got up from the ground and thanked Su Jiao.

Su Jiao gently patted the dust off the bodies of the little monkeys, stood up and said with a smile: "Then you can go and wash your little hands, then go to the kang and wait."

"Okay" several little guys responded in unison.

Su Jiao went inside and took out a washbasin to fill up the water. She watched the little ones line up and wash their hands obediently, then went inside and stepped on the stools to get on the kang.

Su Jiao opened the quilt on the kang and took a look. The noodles still needed to ferment for a while. She told several little ones not to move around and then turned around and returned to the kitchen.

Su Jiao took out the tomatoes from the basket and cleaned them.

Add water to the pot and heat it up. Gently score the heads of the washed tomatoes with a cross and put them into the pot. Simmer for 3 minutes. Remove the tomatoes from the pot, peel them and cut them into small pieces.

Scoop out the contents of the pot, pour the tomato chunks into the pot, Su Jiao takes out a few pieces of rock sugar from the mall space and adds them, stir and simmer over low heat until it becomes thick and thick, and the delicious tomato sauce is ready. .

I filled a small half bowl for each of the four children and took them to the kang.

The little guys looked at the red and sweet tomato sauce and opened their mouths and exclaimed: "Wow!"

"It's delicious and sweet. Sister-in-law, you can eat it too." Xiao Yeyao couldn't hold back at first and ate a big spoonful. Her eyes brightened instantly. She immediately scooped a spoonful and handed it to Su Jiao and said.

"It's delicious, thank you Yaoyao." Su Jiao pinched Ye Yao's face and happily ate the tomato sauce in front of her.

Ye Yao continued to eat from the bowl with satisfaction.

Other friends followed suit and took a large spoonful into their mouths.

"Hmm, it's so delicious. Thank you, Aunt Jiaojiao." The little ones said in unison.

"You're welcome, as long as you like it." Su Jiao responded.

In this day and age, sugar is a luxury product. Tomato sauce with rock sugar is sour and sweet, which is not suitable for children's appetite.

Su Jiao opened the quilt and saw that the noodles had fermented, so she returned to the kitchen with the basin and started preparing lunch. Remembering that she had promised her brother and sister yesterday to make minced pork and eggplant, Su Jiao thought for a while and decided to eat minced pork and eggplant for lunch and the leftovers from the morning. pickles and sorghum steamed buns as staple food.

When the sorghum buns were just ready to be steamed, several little guys came to the kitchen carrying clean bowls.

Seeing that Su Jiao was about to make lunch, Goudan Ermao and the other children said goodbye to Su Jiao in a sensible manner. After making an appointment with Ye Yao to play together in the afternoon, the little guys skipped away.

Su Jiao knew that in this day and age, food and clothing were scarce, and relatives had to bring their own dry food during the New Year and festivals. She had already given tomato sauce to several little ones in the morning, and Su Jiao didn't want to go too far, so she didn't try to persuade them to stay.

The steamed buns came out quickly. Su Jiao took a bite. They were fluffy and soft. It was a success. Su Jiao broke off a small piece for the little follower behind her, and the little guy nodded in agreement.

Su Jiao saw that Ye Mingyuan was coming back soon, and was about to start cooking.

Take out two whole eggplants that were left behind when drying vegetables, a few cloves of garlic and green onions, and soak the marinated pork belly in water to remove the salt.

Cut the eggplant into thin pieces and pass through the water, smash the garlic, cut the onion into chopped green onions, and chop the soaked pork belly into minced meat.

Heat the pan and pour oil, simmer the garlic slices, put the minced meat into the pan and stir-fry until cooked, pour in the watered eggplant, stir-fry until the eggplant is soft and tender, add chopped green onion, salt and other seasonings, stir-fry a few times and it is ready to serve.

Sure enough, Su Jiao's estimate was accurate. Just as Su Jiao was serving the dishes, Ye Mingyuan walked to the entrance of the courtyard.

Ye Mingyuan met Sun Tonggang next door, also known as Tiezhu's father, on his way to work. Just came back together.

As he got closer and smelled the aroma of the food at Ye Mingyuan's house, Sun Tonggang couldn't help but ask what he had been wondering about for many days: "Mingyuan, when did your wife learn to cook? It still smells so good. She has been told in the village since she was a child. It’s so delicious and lazy to cook, I’ve never heard of him having such skills.”

"Who likes to eat and is too lazy to work? You are talking about your wife, right? My daughter-in-law has been loved by her parents since she was a child, and her three brothers and sisters also love her. It is because she does not need to work at all, not because she is too lazy to do it. My wife still has to cook when she marries me, that is I don't have the ability to wrong her anymore. There is also cooking. Does my wife still need to learn? My wife is a high school student and is very smart." When Ye Mingyuan heard that Sun Tonggang "slandered" his wife, he said he couldn't bear it at all. , replied immediately.

After saying that, he didn't care about Sun Tonggang's reaction and entered his courtyard without looking back.

Sun Tonggang was speechless for a long time due to Ye Mingyuan's machine gun-like words. It took him a while to react. He looked at Ye Mingyuan who had already walked into the house and said in a low voice: "I didn't say anything. Isn't this all the truth? Why? Still angry.”

"You're back, go put down the kang table and get ready to eat." Su Jiao turned around and saw Ye Mingyuan coming back and said with a smile.

"Okay," Ye Mingyuan smelled the aroma of the food at home and looked at his wife's smiling face. His face instantly brightened and he responded immediately.

When he came to the west room and placed the Kang table, Ye Mingyuan thought of Sun Tonggang's words again and couldn't help but get angry. People in the village were talking nonsense all day long about his nice wife. If she heard someone say bad things about her daughter-in-law again, don't blame him for being rude.

Ye Mingyuan has completely forgotten all the superb operations of the previous owner. Now his mind is filled with how good Su Jiao is. It has to be said that Ye Mingyuan has a little bit of love in mind.

Minced pork, eggplant and pickles are a perfect side dish, and paired with the fluffy sorghum buns, it's a delicious meal.

The minced pork and eggplant suited Xiao Yeyao's liking very well, and the little guy ate one more piece of steamed bun than usual.

In the afternoon, the whole family performed their duties. Those who went to work went to work, those who cut pigweed went to cut pigweed, and those who went out to play continued to go out to play.

Su Jiao finished cutting pigweed in the afternoon and then went to the mountain to dig wild mushrooms and collect firewood. This trip up the mountain was uneventful. She neither encountered pheasants nor wild mandarin ducks. Su Jiao saw that the sky was almost dark, so she went down the mountain and went home.

Su Jiao went home and passed by the old elm tree. She saw Ye Yao and Goudan playing games happily, so she didn't disturb the little ones. She went straight home to get a dustpan and went to the river to clean the wild vegetables and fungi in the basket. clean.

After taking the wild vegetables and mushrooms home, blanching them and drying them in the yard, Su Jiao sat in her kitchen and felt worried. She didn't know what to eat at night. She had already finished all the meat she had brought out on the street in the county town a few days ago. Now that everyone in the village doesn't have enough to eat, it would be too conspicuous for her to go to the county town, so she might as well keep a low profile.

Su Jiao felt that it was terrible to have a baby but not be able to use it.