Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

Zhao Yeqing remembered the rabbit skin from before. After soaking it in alum that day, Mu Xi tanned it and hung it up. He said that there was too much fur on the back and he pieced it together to make a carpet for her.

Thinking of this, she felt that she couldn't bear to look at these little rabbits.

After putting fresh fodder in the rabbit pen, Zhao Yeqing picked up the snow cake at his feet and went back to the living room to sit and blow the fan.

Mu Xi followed Mu Xi to the mountain. Xue Bing preferred to stick to Zhao Yeqing. When she was busy, she would squat nearby and play by herself. When she saw that she was finished, she stepped closer to him.

Zhao Yeqing picked up Xuebing and rubbed it hard in its soft fur. Xuebing loved to be clean and would not move when taking a bath. Mu Xi would get wet every time.

Then Mu Xi was severely punished by Mu Xi - he just wouldn't jerk it off, no matter how coquettishly he behaved.

Every time she couldn't help but wanted to hug Mu Xi, but Mu Xi stopped her, but even so, Mu Xi still liked Mu Xi more.

Angry, Zhao Yeqing gently poked its forehead and scolded the little white-eyed leopard.

Now Guo Mu and Xue Ping have grown up a lot, and they can already feel some pressure on their hands when they are held in their arms.

The two have also begun to show some interest in meat. When cooking, they will wiggle their noses next to the meat and sniff it, but they will not bite. Mu Xi said that in another month, they can start feeding minced meat mixed with milk. .

Mu Xi has been back for so long, but she has not been to his house. He has been busy since the day he came back, and she has not seen him sort out the things at home. Zhao Yeqing held the snow cake and pushed open the door of his house.

The old wooden door creaked open. The layout of Mu's house was almost the same as hers. The tables and chairs in the living room were covered with dust-proof cloth. The doors to the rooms on the first floor and the kitchen were not opened.

The second floor is different. The Mu family does not have a terrace. There are three rooms on the second floor, and the doors are all closed. It is getting dark and the light is a bit dim, making it look gloomy.

There was also a stale smell throughout the house.

Zhao Yeqing opened the door to the living room on the first floor and all the windows in the corridor on the second floor to ventilate the room.

Only then did she notice that there were cracks on the walls inside the house, which must have been caused by the ground cracking.

There was a lot of white wall dust on the floor. Zhao Yeqing put the snow cakes in the yard, took brooms and mops from home, and cleaned up the upstairs and downstairs.

She didn't do anything in the room, and she didn't think it would be good to just open it to others.

She hasn't been home for many years, and she hasn't been to the Mu family's house for even longer.

Every bit of it reminded her of the two old men from the Mu family who were very kind to her, and also reminded her of her grandparents, which made her nose feel a little blocked.

The four elderly people all died at home. She was not afraid at all even though she was standing in a house with no lights on.

In fact, she used to be very timid and never dared to turn off the lights and sleep at night. Later, after her grandparents passed away, she was no longer afraid. She felt that if something happened, her grandparents would definitely be around to protect her.

Mu Xi has been busy in the past few days since his return and has not yet gone to pay homage to the graves of the four old people. Zhao Yeqing plans to make some dumplings tonight, place chopsticks at home to pay homage, and kill a chicken to offer sacrifices another day.

Dumplings are a favorite of all four elderly people. They are soft and chewy, and they also symbolize reunion.

She eats dumplings every Chinese New Year. She likes pork and cabbage, and Mu Xi likes pork and green onions. We have all the ingredients at home, but I don’t know if wild boar dumplings will taste weird.

She did not grow cabbage, but only planted cabbage in the small vegetable garden. The cabbage grown at home was crispy and sweet. She threw the outer layer to the rabbits and kept the tender inside for her own enjoyment.

Pick fresh onions, ginger, and garlic from the ground, add a small bunch of peppercorns, and soak in warm water for half an hour.

Chop the wild boar meat into pieces. Zhao Yeqing chose the fattest part, which is only as thick as a finger. The minced pork still needs some fat to be delicious.

Add onion, ginger, garlic, and pepper water to the minced wild boar meat in batches to remove the fishy smell. Add a small amount at a time. Stir with chopsticks after each addition until the water is absorbed by the pork before adding the next time.

Mincing meat is a manual job and requires constant beating in one direction. After the water is absorbed, the meat filling becomes firmer. Your hands will become sore after a few minutes and you need to rest for a while before continuing.

After adding all the water to a small bowl, add a little sesame oil into it, beat an egg and mix well.

Chopped green onions and chopped cabbage need to be salted in advance to pickle them out of the water. Use your hands to squeeze out the water and mix them with the pork evenly.

I used to work in the city, and if I wanted to make dumplings by myself, I would buy ready-made dumpling wrappers from the market. Now I can't afford to be lazy, so I can only roll them by hand.

The dough for making dumplings does not need to be fermented. You only need to add salt and warm water to the flour and knead it well, which saves time.

The water should be added little by little to avoid adding too much at once and causing irreversible loss. You can only keep adding flour to absorb the water, and finally you will have a large bowl of noodles that you can't finish in a week.

This is her experience of failure.

Add water and stir with chopsticks until all the flour becomes fluffy, then you can start kneading.

Your hands must be free of oil and water, otherwise the dough will stick to your hands.

There is no table in the kitchen of Zhao Yeqing's house. There is only a cooking table connected under a large cabinet. This is a common combination cabinet in rural areas. There are many spice jars placed on it, so the space is relatively small.

In the entire kitchen, apart from the cabinets, there is a large stove and sink, and there is no wooden shelf for storing things.

The older generation doesn't pay much attention to these things when cooking, and they put whatever they can't put on the ground.

Zhao Yeqing felt that it was necessary to make a table and put it in the kitchen. Now the kneading dough can only be moved to the dining table in the living room.

Knead the fluffy flour into a ball. This time, the proportion of water is just right. It will be kneaded in a few times and it will not stick to your hands.

After kneading the dough, you need to put it in a bowl and cover it with plastic wrap. In twenty minutes, the dough will turn from crumbly to very smooth.

At this time, you can take it out, sprinkle flour on the kneading mat, put the large dough on it and knead it for a few times, dig a hole in the middle, roll it into a donut shape, and then cut it into a cylindrical strip. This is better than rolling it directly. Growth bars are simpler.

Divide the long strips into small pieces, round them, and then use a rolling pin to roll them into a round shape for the dumpling skin. This step is the most difficult part for her.

After working for a long time, the rolled out dumpling skins were still square or diamond-shaped, and the best ones were a few round ovals. Zhao Yeqing looked at the strange-shaped table and his forehead twitched.

She gave up, as long as she could wrap it up.

She had to quickly turn this pile of weird things into dumplings before Mu Xi got home.

In order to distinguish the two different fillings, the pork and cabbage wrap is in the shape of an ingot, and the pork and green onion wrap is in the shape of a willow leaf.

Her hands were so fast that she wrapped all two kinds of dumplings just before Mu Xi came in, and placed two large plates on the table.

Mu Xi's trouser legs were stained with a lot of mud, and his body was also dusty.

Zhao Yeqing's face was full of surprise, "You two dug a tunnel?"

The words in Mu Xi's mouth seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Can you explain to me what that big hole at the intersection is?"

Oh huo

She now knew what she had forgotten.