butcher's little man

Tian Amu and Yang Xiaoguo's Amlin Miao were sitting in the small yard of their house, pouring the apricots picked by the two elder brothers out of the basket and putting them in a large wooden basin to pick carefully.

The yard of Tian Xiaoman's house is in the southeast corner of the village. Because it is not very close to the center of the village, it is not convenient to carry water, so his grandfather gritted his teeth and drilled a well at his house.As a result, it is more convenient than other houses, whether it is washing things and watering vegetables, and neighbors also come to his house to fetch water.

After picking, Tian Amu pulled two buckets of water from the well, washed the apricots one by one, and put them in a basket to wait for the water to dry up.

"My Yang Xiaoguo, I said why did you drag me here in such a hurry, it turned out to be making sauce again." Aunt Yang didn't know how she gave birth to such a gluttonous brother, who followed Xiaoman everywhere all day long Looking for something to eat.

But his own sauce can't be boiled well, and it always sticks to the pot. No, he has to come to Shen Ying every year, and help the children with him.

"That's not true, my Xiaoman bowl has not been put down, and I said that I want to make sauce," Tian Amu looked helpless, "We as Amu should not help him, otherwise, these two people will make a mess." It won't be finished until dark."

He and this Lin Miao were married in the same year, and the men can talk to each other, so the relationship between the two of them is better than others.

"Mum, you speak ill of me again!" Tian Xiaoman heard this sentence as soon as he left the room, and his actions were obviously fast!

"How dare I speak against you. Later, if you sue your father, he must be in a hurry with me." Tian Amu said with a smile.

Hehe, when did father dare to be anxious with you, it is obvious that their father and son are oppressed every day!

Tian Xiaoman ignored them, and went around under the apricot tree at home, picking some apricots that didn't grow well and were not yet ripe.The steps of his sauce are the same as those of others, but he has a little trick, that is, every time he boils apricots, he will put some immature ones in addition to those.

The apricots here are relatively sweet. If you pick the ripe ones and put them down, the boiled sauce will get greasy if you don’t eat much, but the sauce he boiled is sweet and sour. Yang Xiaoguo can eat it with steamed buns every time. big bowl.

Although the family members also knew this little secret later, the sauce they made was not as good as Tian Xiaoman's. This can only be attributed to personal talent.

After the apricots were dried, four people sat in the yard, each with a knife, and cut out the apricot core from the apricots and put them in a small wooden basin. After the apricots were dried, the almonds could be knocked out.The apricots here are all sweet apricots, so the almonds can be eaten raw, but Tian Xiaoman doesn't like to eat raw ones, so he would fry them with some salt every time.

After removing the core, cut the pulp into small pieces and put them in a basin.After a while, the two baskets of apricots they picked ended up under the knives of four people.

Tian Amu has already washed the big pot used to boil things, and Yang Xiaoguo is also very active in bringing a small jar of caramel from home, which is actually maltose, which was finally taken out of his mouth. Only when he really wanted to eat would he pick a little with his chopsticks.

"Just right, I just said that it seems that there is not enough sugar at home. If you have some, I don't need to add honey."

"Honey," Yang Xiaoguo rolled his eyes when he heard honey, and said, "Xiaoman, I'm thirsty, can you..."

"Drink water if you're thirsty, don't be polite to me, there's a well outside!" Tian Xiaoman interrupted him, looking greedy, as if he didn't know what he was thinking?

"Oh, Xiaoman, you are bad, I think...I want to drink...that." Yang Xiaoguo hesitated, after all he was too embarrassed to ask directly, his face was thinner than Xiaoman's.

"Which one is that? What do you think?" Tian Xiaoman giggled, pretending not to know.

"You bad boy, don't tease Xiaoguo," Tian Amu came in with a tray, on which were four bowls of honey water and the white sugar cake that Tian Fu entrusted someone to bring back from the county. "It's the same for you, Mu, just watching your brother being bullied?"

Lin Miao didn't care about his jokes either, he just liked to see his brother slumped, and every time Tian Xiaoman teased Xiaoguo, he would look happily.

Yang Xiaoguo didn't care about these, he was used to being teased by Tian Xiaoman, anyway, he could achieve his goal every time, and he didn't care about the others.At this moment, he is holding honey water in one hand and white sugar cake in the other, eating a sip of white sugar cake and drinking a sip of honey water, not to mention how beautiful it is.

This white sugar cake was bought by Tian Fu in the morning, and the villagers brought it back while it was still hot, but the journey was far away, and it was already completely cold when it reached Tian's family.But it still tastes soft and elastic.Although there are only a few pieces of white sugar cake, it is more troublesome to make in practice, so the price is not cheap.Another reason is that the sugar it uses is not the caramel used by ordinary people, but sucrose that has been extracted and decolorized. The color is like frost, also called "frost sugar". The pastry is called white sugar cake because of its color.

But Tian Xiaoman didn't care about the white sugar cake and the brown sugar cake, he only knew that he had to eat it quickly, otherwise he would be eaten up by Yang Xiaoguo.Seeing the two children eating cakes, the two adults also looked at each other and smiled. They still scrambled to eat the delicious food, which is usually the case when they are alone.

After eating, let’s get down to business and start cooking the sauce.Tian Xiaoman pushed the two adults into the yard, let them sit and rest, and chat, while he took Yang Xiaoguo by one hand, and went to the kitchen with him.

Tian Xiaoman was very serious when making food. He first poured the apricots in the pot into the pot, and then asked Yang Xiaoguo to heat up the fire and bring it to a boil.His hands kept stirring the pot, and he didn't care to wipe off the sweat that kept rolling down his forehead.Yang Xiaoguo is also sweating all over, but for the sake of delicious food, this is nothing.The souls of foodies were burning on the two of them!

After the apricots were slowly boiled until they became mushy, Tian Xiaoman put down the caramel and the sour apricots he had cut separately to boil. "Small fire," Tian Xiaoman said. If the fire is boiled over a high fire, the finished product will smell like rice crackers.Yang Xiaoguo cooperated very well, and quickly pulled out a few burning firewood from the stove, and put them into the ashes below, and the big fire turned into a small fire in an instant.

Slowly cooking on a low fire, the pot also emits bursts of tempting sweet and sour fragrance, which makes the mouth salivate when it smells.When the sauce was golden, Tian Xiaoman asked Xiaoguo to turn off the fire.

He found two big pots, you took one spoonful and I shared the other with Yang Xiaoguo. In the end, they put the remaining spoonful in a bowl and ate it with a spoon.The apricot jam eaten in the mouth is sweet and sour, it will not make people feel tired, and it will not be too sour to eat. When you have a bad appetite in summer, eat a bowl of apricot jam boiled by Xiaoman. Bowl of rice.

"Xiaoman, the apricot jam you boiled is really delicious. What should I do if I can't eat it when you marry me?" Yang Xiaoguo said distressedly, biting the spoon, her face wrinkled, obviously this matter made him worry and troubled long time.

"Wh... What are you talking about getting married?" Tian Xiaoman blushed with embarrassment. After all, he was an unmarried brother, and he was quite shy when talking about this matter.He obviously forgot that he liked Brother Zhang Bin one by one before.

"No?" Yang Xiaoguo tilted his head and thought for a while, "But my mother said that someone came to your house to propose marriage, and Uncle Tian and Aunt Tian have already agreed." He knew that Tian Xiaoman liked Zhang Bin, but he thought it was unrealistic. In fact, Zhang Xiucai didn't pay much attention to them.Moreover, he thinks that men who can cook are more likable than men who can read, such as Brother Tian Fu!

"I haven't agreed yet!" Tian Xiaoman showed a super fierce look. He didn't listen carefully when his parents told him about this last time. Now he only knows his family from Liushupo whose surname is Li. I am also embarrassed to ask again, does this mean that he should marry?

Zhang Bin has already let go. In fact, the first few days of sadness were not because he rejected him, but because of the shattering of Guan Fulang's belief and his denial of him.But that doesn't mean he's going to marry someone who only knows his surname! !

"Oh," Yang Xiaoguo nodded half-understood. Did he still agree to it?Isn't it all up to father and mother?

When dinner was about to be prepared, Yang Xiaoguo followed his mother home with the jar in his arms. He wanted to give his father a taste of today's harvest.

Only Tian Xiaoman was left lying on the bed alone, not knowing what he was thinking...