Four Foods in the Mountains

That night, Lu Yunchuan and Cen Ning washed up and sat on the kang.

Cen Ning poured out the money from the purse and counted it one by one.

Three days in a row, I went to the town to set up a stall. The firewood at home and the cabbage and radishes in the field were almost sold out. The jar of maltose sent by Cen Ning had already been sold out. Yao Chunling saw that they wanted to sell sugar and sent another pot of homemade hair. When the good malt came, another jar was made, which was equivalent to selling two jars of sugar in total.

Cen Ning put away the money bag, and said happily: "Now I have enough money to buy a whole pig. This year, I can bring back some more New Year's goods."

He also said: "The firewood and vegetables are sold out, so I won't go to the stall starting tomorrow, and I can take a good rest at home."

When he first started making bean crisp candy, he didn't expect to sell so much at all. Now that he has earned some money to buy new year's goods, Cenning is satisfied. Now that the firewood and vegetables at home are sold out, he doesn't want to continue. Sugar is sold in the town.

Driving up the mountain road in winter is difficult, Cen Ning feels sorry for Lu Yunchuan who has been busy for a whole year, and wants him to rest at home.

What's more, selling bean crisp candies is to sell fresh ones. Those who want to taste the taste have already bought them in the past few days. If you continue to sell them, you may not be able to make any money. It is better to prepare for cat winter and Chinese New Year at home earlier. .

The winter market is over, the last job of this year is done, and then they can stay at home safely and wait for the New Year. Lu Yunchuan and Cen Ning lay down, feeling relieved.

Feeling happy, he blew the oil lamp, and when Lu Yunchuan came up to him, Cen went to greet him for the first time, and he couldn't even care about his embarrassment.

In the morning of the next day, Cen Ning got used to getting up early a few days ago, and he woke up at the o'clock.

Opening his eyes in a daze, he heard Lu Yunchuan's soothing breathing before realizing that he didn't have to go to the town anymore. He stretched his waist under the blanket, and Cen Ning retracted comfortably into Lu Yunchuan's arms. inside.

Lu Yunchuan had been exhausted for the past few days, and he was still asleep at the moment. Cen Ning usually felt excruciatingly painful when he got up early, but now he could sleep in but couldn't fall asleep.

He was lying on the bed, thinking about something in his head.

There is still more than a month before the New Year, and the bacon at home is almost finished, so I have to buy pork quickly and make bacon stuffed sausages. The bacon and sausages are hung all over the yard to count as a new year.

There are few chickens in the family, and they have to rely on them to lay eggs. This year's Chinese New Year will not kill chickens to make smoked chickens. I will bring a few more chicks back to raise in the spring of next year.

There are already a dozen handkerchiefs in the sewing basket, and I will embroider a few more in the past few days, and sell them in the town before it snows, which is another good fortune...

Before going back to sleep, Cen Ning thought vaguely that he and Lu Yunchuan could have a good year together this year.

It was already mid-morning when the two of them woke up. After working for so long, they had a good night's sleep for the first time in a long time.

Feeling refreshed after a full sleep, Cen Ning went into the kitchen to light a fire, thinking about making a delicious meal today.

In the past few days, I have been eating in the town at noon and morning. It is okay to taste fresh food occasionally in the town. If I eat too much, I still feel that the home-cooked food cooked in my own big pot tastes better.

After not eating dry rice for a long time, Cen Ning scooped out the rice and planned to steam the rice and stir-fry two dishes to eat.

It was not too early, so I ate breakfast and lunch together.

Lu Yunchuan went to the hen house at the back, fed the chickens, touched the eggs, and said to Cen Ning, "I'll go to Wu's house and ask if there is anyone who wants to kill pigs recently, so I can find someone to buy some meat back."

"Okay, if you have fresh meat ready, you can cut some back and cook it for lunch."

After hearing this, Lu Yunchuan turned back to the room, took the copper coins and went out.

After steaming the rice, Cen Ning ran to the backyard to pluck a cabbage. There were still some cabbages and radishes in the backyard vegetable patch, and he planned to keep them for himself.

In fact, the vegetables in the field will be clearer and sweeter after the frost, but the mountain roads are not easy to walk after the snow, so they are sold early.

Remove the cabbage from the cabbage, blanch the cabbage in cold water again, cut into slices, put the bacon in the hot pot and stir-fry, Cen Ning soaked some mushrooms in water, and planned to stew bacon and cabbage to eat.

There was still a lot of stone-milled chili sauce left at home, so Cen Ning wiped his hands and wanted to go to the village entrance to buy a piece of tofu and come back to stew tofu with chili sauce.

Tofu is delicious all year round, and it is especially delicious in winter. In addition, it is cheap, and a piece of tofu can cook a plate of dishes, and many people buy it.

Cen Ning was afraid that they would be sold out if he went late, so he hurried towards the entrance of the village after closing the courtyard door.

I don't know what to do at the entrance of the village, it was crowded with people at this time, it was as lively as a wedding ceremony.

Cen Ning walked forward while watching, and after two steps, he heard the voices of villagers talking.

"Oh, this is really a Wenqu star descending to earth, our village actually has a master scholar!"

"Grandma of the Shen family burns incense and worships Buddha every day, and it's not in vain. This boy from the Shen family is very promising. In the future, he will follow his grandma to become an official in Fucheng to enjoy the blessings."

"Hey, the second son of the Shen family hasn't married yet. He is a boy from our village. The fat water doesn't flow to outsiders' fields. He should appoint a girl in our village. It can't be cheaper to go to other villages. The younger sister happens to be of age, she looks like a flower, most of all..."

"But shut up, you can hear the calculations in your heart from ten miles away. The boy from the Shen family is now a scholar, and he is suitable for marrying a rich lady from a rich family. Don't make any foolish plans for your little sister." .”

This is the way people in the village chat. They start arguing within a few sentences, and after a quarrel, they can continue talking as if nothing happened.

"Hey, so who, isn't that boy from the Lu family a scholar who took the exam with the boy from the Shen family? Why don't you see his family coming out to announce the good news?"

"Stupid you, of course you didn't pass the exam!"

"Didn't pass the exam? Didn't Wang Fengyu say her son was smart every day, even the teachers in the private school praised it? Why did the boy from the Shen family pass the exam and hers didn't?"

"Her mouth is open to the Buddha, what else can she say? Don't listen to her showing off. If her kid passes the exam this time, according to her virtue, don't you know?"

"Too."

Cen Ning listened to it and roughly knew what was going on, but he kept in mind what Yao Chunling had said to him and forbade him from having any contact with that person, so he didn't stay or listen too much. I turned a corner and ran to buy tofu.

Going home with a bowl of tofu, Lu Yunchuan also came back and was sitting in the yard.

Cen Ning said, "I went to buy a piece of tofu, stewed it with chili sauce, and served it with rice."

Lu Yunchuan nodded, and followed Cen Ning to the kitchen: "I came back after cutting a piece of fresh meat. The Wu family said that there is a family in another village asking them to kill pigs in the future. Can you ask them for us? We bring it back."

"That's a good thing, but it's a little troublesome for them."

Lu Yunchuan also felt embarrassed to bother the family, thinking that if the family agreed to sell it, he would go and carry it back by himself, but Wu Erhe saw that he wanted it, and insisted on leaving it to him.

"I guess it depends on the friendship between you and Brother Zhu." Lu Yunchuan said.

Most of the meat Lu Yunchuan bought was lean, so Cen Ning planned to make a soup with boiled meatballs.

The meat for making meatballs had to be smashed into fine meat paste. Lu Yunchuan took a knife to help chop the meat, while Cen Ning cut tofu to make stewed tofu in spicy sauce.

The lean meat was chopped into puree, sprinkled with cooking wine, minced ginger, sweet potato powder and salt, and Cen Ning knocked two more egg whites into it. The meat with the added eggs was kneaded into balls and formed more easily.

After the minced meat was stirred into a viscous state, the water in the pot was boiled. Cen Ning washed his hands, took a spoon and rolled the minced meat into balls in the palm of his hand, dropped them into the boiling water one by one, and waited for the balls to float. Put in the pre-soaked dried vegetables, and the raw boiled meatball soup is ready.

The meatballs cooked in this way are tender and smooth, and have no meaty smell.

A pot of boiled meatball soup, a bowl of spicy tofu, a bowl of stewed bacon with cabbage, plus rice and steamed buns.

Instead of busying themselves with work, the two enjoyed a meal on the small table in the kitchen.

Adding another bowl of dry rice to Lu Yunchuan, Cen Ning thought about it, and told Lu Yunchuan what his aunts said when they were buying tofu.

"I heard what those aunts said, it seems that the boy from the Shen family passed the exam, but the one over there... didn't pass the exam."

A few months ago Lu Yunrui went to Fucheng to test for talents, Wang Fengyu had always been an arrogant person, and she boasted in the village, making everyone think that Rui boy was a stable master of talent.The village head also specially asked Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan to let them relax.

It may be that the epidemic has delayed the release of the list this year, which is extraordinarily late.

After hearing what Cen Ning had finished speaking, Lu Yunchuan scooped a spoonful of meatballs for him, and said without changing his expression, "It doesn't matter to us whether we pass the exam or not. Lu Yunrui failed the ranking, and they closed the door by themselves and made a fuss."

Half a village away, in the Lu family's house on the other side, it was about to rain.