good old days

Chapter 61 Mung Bean Cake

The overall structure of Chen Xiuyun’s house is not much different from the small courtyard where he lives now, but he has transformed the stove, which was like a shack, into a serious kitchen, but the walls of the kitchen are useless even with adobe. The earth wall is directly made of a mixture of yellow mud and straw, and the work is done by the wall-stacking master in the village.

There are three main rooms, one main room, two small houses, and a room built on the east side, which is made of the same material as the kitchen.

The three houses at the front are the most costly. The ground floor is paved with red bricks, the beams and tiles on the roof also cost a lot of money, and the food for the workers every day is also a considerable expense.If it wasn't for Chen Yi's gift of fish and chicken, she would have spent even more.

Chen Xiuyun saw that there was not much money left in her pocket, her face showed no abnormality, and the corners of her mouth were even bubbling.

"Xiuyun, 200 yuan is not enough for your family to build this house." Mrs. Lin asked curiously.

This is definitely not enough. Who didn't build a house?The total of the three rooms is zero and zero, and there is no room for three hundred.

Chen Xiuyun said with a smile: "I went home to visit relatives years ago, and my parents gave me a lot of travel expenses."

When Chen Xiuyun said this, whoever came around to watch the excitement would not be envious.Chen Xiuyun is an educated youth who went to the countryside, and her family is still in the Shanghai stock market. She has mailed things to her all these years.

Jiang Xinyu stood in the crowd, looking at the house that her family was about to build.

The walls of this kind of adobe house are very thick, [-] to [-] centimeters thick, so the sun can't penetrate them in summer, and they can keep you warm in winter.However, if it rains heavily, the outer wall may be washed away, and the rain may soak the adobe wall. The wet adobe is mud, and the house may collapse.

Jiang Xinyu has a deeper understanding of the current poverty.

"Xinyu, go home and cook a pot of mung bean and rice porridge." Chen Xiuyun was arranging for Jiang Xinyu to go home and cook, while Chen Yi came back with a pig and half a rib on his bicycle.

Chen Yi handed the ribs to Widow Wang who was standing with the aunt and aunt in the crowd.

Widow Wang muttered, "What are you doing with ribs? They're all bones."

The aunts also said that it is better to replace it with meat.

Chen Xiuyun asked Chen Yi to help bring the pigs and gave Chen Yi the money for the pigs in front of everyone.

It was not the first time that Chen Yi helped bring things to Chen Xiuyun, and the people in the brigade were no strangers to it.

Chen Yi put one foot on the ground and the other on the pedal, looking at Jiang Xinyu: "Go, I'll take you back."

The eyes of the aunts and aunts looking at Jiang Xinyu made her face burn slightly.

Now everyone in the whole team doesn't know that the two of them are "dating". If it wasn't for the fact that the original owner's father died not long ago, or if she wasn't still in school, someone would have urged them to get married.

Jiang Xinyu felt that even if she did not marry Chen Yi in the future, she would not be able to find anyone else in this brigade.

When Chen Yi wanted to send her home, even her mother didn't have any objection, and she had a tacit attitude. As for Widow Wang, although her attitude towards her these days was not as enthusiastic as before, it was reasonable.

Jiang Xinyu was sitting in the back seat of Chen Yi, and when she passed the educated youth spot, she met Su Qingqing's eyes, she looked away expressionlessly, and she felt unlucky when she saw this female educated youth.

The last time Su Qingqing and Jiang Baoqin pulled each other's hair at night because of Song Minghan, but Su Qingqing hasn't done anything with her for a while now. Su Qingqing probably hates Jiang Baoqin more than her now.

At the door of the house, Chen Yi took down the cloth bag and brought it in for her, "There are still two pig panties inside."

Jiang Xinyu said: "You wait, I have something for you."

She went into the room and wrapped a portion of the cold mung bean cake that had just been made before going out in oiled paper, and then took it out to Chen Yi.

Chen Yi had already smelled the fragrance, and he raised his brows slightly, "You made it?" He didn't even know that she could cook these foods.

Jiang Xinyu nodded, "I still have to ask you to make a pressing mold for me..." After she said her request, she added: "If possible, the carved ones are better."

Chen Yi roughly understood what she meant, and nodded, "I'm going home."

Jiang Yuzhu took the pig pancreas into the house to be processed, picked out the fascia and put it aside, and added it to Xiao Hei when he was going to make dog food.

Jiang Xinyu washed all the mung beans left at home and cooked them together with the rice. Adding a lot of water made the rice thick, and when they were cooked, they added some sugar. Grate, put the steamed buns in and distill.

When the cooking was almost done, Chen Xiuyun came back.

"Mom, come here and see what delicious food I made." Jiang Xinyu's eyes were full of excitement.

Jiang Yuzhu felt that the younger sister would be beaten soon.Food at home has been short of food recently, but my younger sister still uses it to make pastries. Although the taste is really good, her mother will definitely get angry too.

Jiang Xin gave Chen Xiuyun a piece of the mung bean cake cut into pieces as if offering a treasure. After tasting it, Chen Xiuyun found it sweet and soft, with a milky smell. Her little girl didn't say she made it, but she thought it was a new snack from the supply and marketing cooperative.

"What did you use to make it?" Chen Xiuyun asked.

Jiang Xinyu: "Mung beans."

Chen Xiuyun opened the cabinet and saw that there was not a single mung bean left, her face turned green.How much mung beans did this cost?She bought this mung bean on the black market years ago. She usually gives out some bean sprouts and doesn't cook soup much.

Seeing that Comrade Chen Xiuyun's expression was not right, Jiang Xinyu hurriedly said: "I just used a little, and the rest is in the pot."

Jiang Xinyu said: "Mom, I thought of another way to make money."

Chen Xiuyun squinted at her, "Just this mung bean cake?"

Jiang Xinyu asked back: "Can't you?"

"Mom, one catty of mung beans can make nearly three catties of mung bean cakes, and the peach cakes in the supply and marketing cooperatives sell for seventy-five cents a catty, so you can tell me whether my cooking is delicious? Can't a catty sell for seventy-five cents?"

Jiang Xinyu feels that making mung bean cakes is much easier than making red date cakes. One pot can only make six yuan. Her pot is big, and it is not a problem to make six catties of mung bean cakes in one pot.

Chen Xiuyun suppressed the anger in her heart, "Why did you cut it like this?"

Jiang Xinyu chuckled, took out her pencil case, the pencil case was shiny, pressed the mung bean cake into it, cut it carefully, and let it cool down.

After Jiang Xinyu finished speaking, Chen Xiuyun asked again: "How does the milk smell come from?"

Jiang Xinyu: "I put a little malted milk." The mung bean cake is made of lard. She was afraid that it would have a bad taste, so she pressed it with malted milk, but she didn't expect the taste to be not so good.The rustle has a milky taste, who would not like it?

Chen Xiuyun wanted to beat someone up again.

But thinking of how poor the family is now, compared with red date cake and hair cake, it seems that this mung bean cake is more profitable.

She didn't say that the little girl was ruining the food, and quickly cleaned up the pig offal that Chen Yi brought back. After turning it over and washing it several times, Jiang Xinyu had already put the steamed buns and rice porridge in the pot into a clean wooden basin , add water to the pot, add spices, Chen Xiuyun began to marinate fat intestines.

(End of this chapter)