Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

Chapter 470 Chapter 471

There was no need to go to the store on the Mid-Autumn Festival, so Lin Lan took a rare nap and woke up naturally.

Putting on a lavender muslin dress, she opened the curtains and saw Li Xiangyang carrying flowers and watering the flowers and trees in the yard, and Xiaodouzi rolling a hoop in the yard.

Feeling the gaze from upstairs, the two turned their heads to look over. Li Xiangyang smiled and said, "It's nine o'clock, aren't you hungry?"

Xiaodouzi put her hips on her hips and looked at Lin Lan: "Mom, hurry up and have breakfast."

"Go down now!" Lin Lan turned back and opened the curtains, folded them up and went downstairs after being washed.

Lao Li came in with a cabbage and a vegetable basket: "The tomatoes are old and have fallen to the ground, and the cabbage is also covered with moss. Cut off the moss and cook noodles for you."

Lin Lan hurriedly said: "Dad, please let me go."

"Okay! In the morning, I chopped some soaked cowpeas and Chaotian pepper and fried a bowl of saozi. It's hot and sour. Both Douzi and Xiangyang said it was delicious."

"The weather is very hot, I'm afraid it's going to rain." Seeing that there was still a stainless steel pot on the stove, Lin Lan opened the lid, and the water in the pot was bubbling.

"It looks like it's going to rain today. While I'm idle at home today, I dug up the taro in the field, pulled out the radish, and dried some shredded radish to pickle and eat."

Lao Li cut off the vegetable moss, put it in the Shau Kei, turned around and left the kitchen.

Lin Lan took a tomato and washed it under the tap, took a bite, it was sour and sweet, and it was very refreshing.

The weather is hot, and the vegetables grown in the vegetable field grow wildly, and they often grow old before they can be eaten.

Just as Lin Lan finished cooking the noodles, Xiaodouzi ran into the yard crackling: "Mom, the chrysanthemums you planted are blooming, look good!"

"Really, mom, let's take a look after eating the noodles." Lin Lan saw that his head was sweating profusely, "Go to the handkerchief and wipe off the sweat."

"I want to take a bite of noodles." Xiaodouzi opened his mouth, and Lin Lan fed him a mouthful, "Does it taste good?"

Xiaodouzi frowned: "It's so sour, sour, I don't like it."

"It's good to eat something sour in hot weather, appetizing!"

"No, I'll go play with Brother Dandan."

"Okay, don't run into the street."

"Understood." Xiaodouzi turned and ran.

Lin Lan also knew that her taste was a bit strange during this time, after she was full, she washed the dishes and went to look at the chrysanthemums.These flowers were all sent by Yao Xiuyun not long after they moved here.

It looked similar when I planted it, but I didn’t expect that the flowers that bloomed were purple, yellow, and deep red. The blooming petals were as silky as silk, which was really beautiful.

The two golden osmanthus trees are also in bloom, and the clusters of brilliant golden flowers on the branches are blooming one after another. Standing in front of the flower trees, the air is filled with sweetness.

Lin Lan walked around the yard, orange trees, cherry trees, and pear trees...all of them had been planted. Lao Li even found a fig and planted it in the corner of the yard.

Walking to the back garden, I saw Li Xiangyang and Lao Li in the vegetable field. Several kinds of vegetables were planted in the vegetable field in the backyard. Some of the candels were still blooming with purple flowers, and some had withered.

The vines are everywhere, and the vines are covered with small lilac trumpet-shaped flowers.

Li Xiangyang pointed to the bamboo basket: "Xiao Lan, you see we picked a lot of tomatoes."

Lin Lan walked into the vegetable field and saw that the bamboo baskets were almost full: "I didn't expect to plant more than a dozen, and there are so many!"

Li Xiangyang sighed: "If you send some to Shuiqing Ayong and the others, we won't be able to finish it. It would be a pity if it goes bad!"

Lin Lan thought for a moment and said with a smile: "You can make ketchup. Bread dipped in ketchup and steamed buns dipped in ketchup are both delicious."

"Okay, later you say I'll do it!"

Lao Li pointed to the cowpea and green beans with withered and yellow leaves on the bean stand: "There are also those cowpeas, pick them, blanch them and dry them to eat."

"Okay!" Lin Lan helped Li Xiangyang finish picking the tomatoes, and went to pick the red wattles before picking the cowpeas.

Some of the cowpeas and green beans on the vines are shriveled. They are picked and dried to be used as seeds for next year.

The three of them worked in the field for more than two hours before picking all the vegetables that should be picked in the field. They picked a dozen old winter melons and old pumpkins.

Li Xiangyang said: "There will be no more pumpkins in the vegetable field next year."

Lin Lan thought for a while: "Just plant a tree and pick some tender pumpkins to eat."

"Oh!" Li Xiangyang pulled up the dry bamboo poles of the vines, "Only autumn cucumbers grow the best."

Lin Lan nodded: "Pull the radish and cabbage, dig out the ground, sprinkle some spinach, rapeseed, small cabbage, big greens and children's vegetables."

"Ok!"

Lao Li looked at his watch: "Xiang Yang, it's already 11:30. I'm going to kill a duck. You dig some taro and come back to roast the duck."

"Okay!" Li Xiangyang tied up the unused bamboo poles with rope, put them in the backyard hut, came out with a hoe, and started digging taro.

Lin Lan lifted the radishes and cabbage to the eaves and put them away. She used a knife to peel off the radish stalks and roots, cleaned them and began to shred the radishes.

Li Xiangyang came over with the taro, saw the shredded radish in the dustpan, and said, "I think Mom's pickled mustard is delicious."

"Yeah! Xiuyun ate it and asked me for it!" Lin Lan spread out the shredded radish, took it to the yard and put it under the eaves to dry, then went back to the house to continue chopping radish.

After a while, Li Xiangyang also came over with a kitchen knife: "Dad said he cooks, let me help you shred radish."

Lin Lan smiled and said, "I'll leave the remaining radishes to you. I'll wash the cabbage, dry it, and eat the sauerkraut."

The two were so busy that Xiaodouzi called for dinner, so they dried all the shredded radish and cabbage.

Back in the front yard, Lao Li and Xiaodouzi had already put the food on the table, and Lin Lan saw golden corn cakes on the plate.

Lao Li smiled and said: "Seeing that there are Baogu noodles, I beat a few eggs and mixed the noodles, and put them on the side of the pot. The taste is not bad."

"Mom, Baoguba is delicious, I've already eaten two yuan." Xiaodouzi looked at Lao Li, "Grandpa, I will learn to cook from you in the future."

Old Li nodded cheerfully: "Okay! Only a man who can cook will be able to please his wife."

Xiaodouzi shook his head resolutely: "I don't want to beg for a wife, I'll make it for you to eat!"

Lao Li picked up a duck leg and put it in his bowl: "Little glib, you will make us happy."

Lin Lan smiled and said, "That's right, when I grow up, I cry and beg for my wife."

"No, my wife is the most troublesome." Xiaodouzi picked up the duck leg and took a bite angrily.

All three of them laughed.

"Stinky boy, I don't know where I heard it."

After eating, Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang blanch the picked cowpeas and green beans together, spread them out on the mat to dry, and marinate the others that can be pickled.

Wash the Erjingtiao and Chaotianjiao, and then dry the sea pepper, pound the sea pepper noodles, and soak the small cucumber in the jar.

Cut the top of the tomato into a cross, use a knife to pluck out the tomato stalk, bring to a boil in a pot, put in the tomato and blanch for 1 minute, take it out, let it dry for a while, peel off the skin, and place it in a porcelain basin.

After tearing off all the tomato skins, crush them, put them in a pot, add rock sugar, and cook on low heat for more than half an hour.

When the tomato juice becomes thick and there is no water, add salt and mix well, scoop the tomato sauce into a small jar while it is hot, seal it, and put it in the refrigerator after cooling.

(End of this chapter)