Chapter 59

"Auntie, look, the moon is coming out."

"Hey, yes." Jiang Xue looked up, and saw a half-circle moon hanging in the sky.

Standing and looking up several times, Jiang Xue suddenly said: "Dabao, look, does the moon look like half a cake?"

"Uh...Auntie, are you hungry again?" Jiang Dabao asked cautiously before finishing his meal.

"Good boy, you treat me as your aunt and I'm a pig, I'm still holding on." Jiang Xue pretended to be angry and stared: "Whether I'm hungry or not, it's like a cake if I'm not."

Jiang Dabao shrank his neck quickly, begging for mercy, and said, "Yes, yes, aunt is right, that's half a cake."

"It must be half a cake!" Jiang Xue said childishly.

When Jiang Xue and Jiang Dabao were laughing, the moon seemed to know that it was a joke, and quickly hid in the clouds.

Jiang Xue curled her lips, and then said to Jiang Dabao: "Tomorrow morning, let's eat noodle cakes. There are just two catties of noodles. Let's make egg noodle pancakes with a little pickled mustard. It tastes good too."

Jiang Dabao nodded subconsciously, and then realized later that his aunt was thinking about what to eat tomorrow.

Aunt Jiang, who was sewing clothes in the main room and watching the two, looked up at this scene, only thinking it was funny and warm.

The next day, Jiang Xue got up very early.

After washing, she went into the kitchen, took out flour and eggs, and took out a catty of milk.

Add flour and eggs to milk and stir to make a batter, then wash the pot and prepare to fire.

When Xu Shi heard the movement, Jiang Dabao also got up. Seeing that she was about to light the fire, he hurried over and said, "Auntie, I'll come."

"Okay, just turn on another stove and cook some millet porridge."

Jiang Dabao originally wanted to say that it would be good to eat noodles, but when he looked to the side, he found that Jiang Xue had washed the millet, so he swallowed his words and obeyed obediently.

Pour a little peanut oil on the hot iron pan, Jiang Xue spooned a spoonful of batter into the pan, made a circle with the spoon, and flipped it with chopsticks after two or three seconds.

An orange-yellow noodle cake with a fragrance is just fine. It is thin and about the size of two palms.

With a bowl of batter, Jiang Xue made a total of twenty egg noodle cakes.

The noodle cakes are spread out, and the millet porridge is also cooked.

The two of them left the kitchen with an egg noodle pancake, a bowl of mustard greens, and a millet porridge pot.

The pickled mustard was brought out by Jiang Xue two days ago. She directly took ten packs of pickled mustard, cut the package and poured all the pickled mustard into a sea bowl. Anyway, it is cold now, and it will not spoil after a few days.

In order to get out her winter clothes quickly, Mrs. Jiang went to bed late at night, so naturally she woke up late.

She only got up when Jiang Xue and Jiang Dabao were about to go out after breakfast.

"Godmother, I went out with Dabao. Remember to have breakfast. If we don't come back for lunch, you can eat it yourself. There are three or three eggs boiled for you in the pot. There are vegetables and meat at home. You can eat it if you want." do it yourself."

After Aunt Jiang responded, she told the two to pay attention to safety, watched them go out, and then sat down at the table.

Lifting the covered bowl on the table, Aunt Jiang was a little startled when she saw the orange-yellow noodle cake. She thought it was cornmeal, but she didn't expect it to be thin white flour.

A person in the city can only get two catties of fine grains for a month, and it seems that the girl should have used all of it.

Why did she oversleep? If she got up earlier, she could stop her a bit and add some other noodles.

After Mrs. Jiang took a bite, she felt even more distressed. There must be eggs in it, and there must be a lot of it. It seems that some sugar was also added, because it is a bit sweet...

Jiang Xue didn't know that Aunt Jiang was fond of food again habitually, so she took Jiang Dabao out of the city, all the way to Zhaojiazhuang.

Passing by the wooden house where she lived before, Jiang Xue subconsciously looked in the direction of the wooden house, but she didn't see anyone.

With Jiang Dabao around, there was no chance of getting lost. The two left the city and walked for almost two hours before arriving at Zhaojiazhuang.

When strangers enter the village, dogs will naturally be barked.

Now is the slack time for farming. People in the village either sew, mend, or wash, or take some work and gossip with others while doing some work at their door.

It was not the first time Jiang Dabao came to Zhaojiazhuang, everyone was familiar with it, but for Jiang Xue who was with him, everyone couldn't help but look at her.

This girl looked like she was from the city, with long red lips and white teeth, black hair, bright eyes, and the clothes she wore were fine and thick without patches.

There is definitely not enough food in the city. From time to time, people will go to the countryside to find fellow villagers' homes to exchange some agricultural and sideline products to improve their meals, and Zhaojiazhuang is no exception.

Before entering the village, Jiang Xue told Jiang Dabao what she meant, so when Jiang Dabao met someone who asked him, he also said what Bai Xi wanted.

Jiang Xue took the opportunity to express her desire to find some agricultural and sideline products. People who have this intention are more willing to talk to her, while those who don't have much stock at home can only watch enviously.

An aunt in her forties brought Jiang Xue home, which happened to be next door to Uncle Zhao's house.

There are adobe houses in the countryside, facing south, and the courtyard walls are low fence walls. Every household has chicken coops in the yard, and some even have pig pens.

I don't know if it's the cold weather, but the pigs in the pigsty look listless.

Jiang Xue glanced at it. At this time, the pigs raised did not have the fat of future generations, but raising pigs costs feed. If there is no food, it is not easy to raise them to be as big as future generations.

Probably seeing Jiang Xue glance at the pigs in the pigsty, Aunt Zhao smiled and said, "My family has raised two pigs this year, and I handed over one to the public two days ago, and the remaining one will be killed by our family in half a month. If Comrade Jiang wants to buy pork, he can come and cut some."

When Jiang Xue heard it, she immediately smiled and thanked her.

It's one thing to come or not, anyway, let's talk about it first.

Aunt Zhao's backyard also has private land, but there is nothing in the land now, and the vegetables and fruits have already been harvested.

Jiang Xue also bought eight catties of dried beans, potatoes and pickled cucumbers.

Potatoes and pickled cucumbers cost [-] cents a catty, and dried beans cost [-] cents.

Vegetables in the non-staple food store only cost two or three cents a catty, but they require a non-staple food ticket. People who eat commercial food also have a number of non-staple food tickets every month.

Although Jiang Xue had space, she didn't need to buy it, but she came all the time, and it was all right to act.

He took out the money and asked again, the eggs cost [-] cents a catty, and Jiang Xue asked for [-] catties, which was still more expensive than the non-staple food store, but the non-staple food store asked for egg tickets, which was naturally cheaper.

Speaking of it, selling chickens raised in the countryside to the Ministry of Purchase is actually two cents cheaper than urban residents buying them at non-staple food stores.

The purpose of the state's unified purchase and marketing is to ensure people's basic living needs, and it does not make money, otherwise it would not have such strict restrictions on the household registration of food in the city.

(End of this chapter)

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