Who understands? I took the library with me to farm

Chapter 5 Want to eat noodles? Roll it out yourself

It dawned early in the spring morning, and He Miao was awakened by the dazzling sunlight shining in from the window.

The two of them slept far apart last night, one at the west end of the kang and the other at the east end of the kang.

At this time, Feng Yuanlang was still sleeping soundly.

He Miao tucked him in, got off the kang, put on shoes and clothes, and there was a "dong dong" sound outside the door.

"Third sister-in-law, are you and third brother awake? Mom asked me to bring you face wash." Feng Xiaoxi asked softly at the door.

"It's Xiaoxi, come in!"

Feng Xiaoxi pushed the door open with her elbow and entered the house. She put two towels on her shoulders and held a small wooden basin filled with warm water in her hand.

"Third sister-in-law, my mother said that the beginning of spring has just passed and there is still air conditioning in the morning, so she specially mixed some warm water for you to wash your face."

Xiao Xi put the tub and towel on the table and turned to leave.

He Miao thought she was going to help in the tofu shop as usual, so he called her sister-in-law.

"Xiao Xi, after you have breakfast and then go out, I will make some dough for you."

Xiao Xi's hand was already on the doorknob, and she turned back and swallowed.

"I can't eat the food cooked by my sister-in-law this morning. I have to help my mother go to the village to deliver wedding cakes to the folks. I won't be back until noon."

Seeing He Miao's confused look, Xiao Xi explained: "You and my third brother are getting married. Although we don't have to go to the wedding hall or hold a banquet, we have to advertise it widely so that everyone knows that our third brother is married." My dear, I have a daughter-in-law, so I am very happy!"

This little girl is very polite when she talks.

He Miao nodded and sent her out. He quickly twisted a towel and dipped it in warm water, then wiped his face quickly.

The men in the family have all gone out to work, and the sisters-in-law are watching the children sleep in their rooms.

Feng Liu and Xiao Xi were loading wedding cakes into bamboo baskets in the courtyard.

He Miao went over to help. She had seen this kind of cake in a book called "Chronicles of Ancient Villages" before going to bed last night, also known as dragon and phoenix cake. The crust of the cake was printed with patterns of dragons and phoenixes or mandarin ducks flying together.

Life was hard, food was precious, and the cakes in front of me were smaller and thinner than those described in the book.

"Sister-in-law, when you get up early and your stomach is empty, let's eat some cake first."

Feng Xiaoxi packed up the two small baskets she was going to carry, and she also had two more cakes. She took one to nibble on, and then handed another to He Miao.

"Miao'er, there is still some cake left in the kitchen cupboard. If you are hungry or greedy, go find it and eat it. Your sister and I will go door to door delivering cakes. If there is anything at home, please discuss it with your sisters-in-law. "

After Mrs. Feng Liu finished her instructions, she took Xiao Xi out.

He Miao finished the cake in several bites, but it didn't taste good.

Adding too little oil to the dough will cause the crust to become dry and fall apart.

The filling is white sugar, sesame seeds mixed with peanut kernels and walnut kernels. There is very little sugar, which highlights the bitterness of the pecans.

This is a rare delicacy in the village. It's great to have a piece or two of it when a wealthy family is having a wedding.

He Miao patted the dirt on his hands and turned to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Pour out some flour and water to make a dough, set aside a wide-mouthed bowl, and cook for two-quarters of an hour.

Then wipe your hands and go to the backyard vegetable patch.

A few commonly eaten vegetables are grown in the private plot at home, and there are cucumber seedlings next to it.

He Miao picked a cucumber with yellow flowers on top, rubbed it on her clothes twice, and started to gnaw, picking vegetables while gnawing.

Finally, I picked out two green onions and a handful of coriander, and washed them in the basin next to the vegetable patch, and made noodles as side dishes later.

After finishing the cucumbers and washing the vegetables, we went to the front yard again.

Under the west fence are a poultry house and a cattle pen, where they raise several chickens, ducks, geese, and two cows, a ox for plowing and a calf cow.

He Miao chose an old hen in the chicken coop that seemed to have a good temper and plucked up the courage to get the eggs.

"Hen, I don't mean any harm to you. I won't eat you today. I just want to eat the two eggs under your butt. They are not your babies yet. Calm down and don't blame me." She thought to herself, While slowly reaching out, he quickly took out two eggs.

I went back to the kitchen and took out the dough, and kneaded it for a while longer to increase the chewy texture.

Then take a rolling pin and roll it into a round cake, fold it and cut it into thin strips, sprinkle some thin powder in the middle to spread it out, and the hand-rolled dough is ready.

He put the noodles in the pot with a sieve closed, watched the heat, added an appropriate amount of salt, and within half a moment, two bowls of hot Yangchun noodles were cooked.

Green green onions are floating on the thin noodles, a few drops of sesame oil are floating on the soup, coriander leaves are dotted on the edge of the bowl, and two soft-boiled poached eggs lie on the bottom of the bowl.

He Miao pulled out a small wooden tray, placed the noodle bowl firmly on it, put two pairs of wooden chopsticks on it, and carried it back to the house.

As soon as I reached the door, the door to the east room opened with a creak.

Li Huahua leaned on the door frame, grabbing a handful of five-spice fried melon seeds and spitting out the skin while chewing them.

"Hey, third brother and sister, this smells so delicious so early in the morning, it has brought out my greedy self. What are you doing?"

He Miao stopped, turned around and said, "Yangchun noodles, sister-in-law, they smell so good, can you smell them?"

Li Huahua immediately stuffed the melon seeds in his arms, jumped out of the threshold, and came over to take a look.

"This smells really good, what? You just made two bowls? You can't, right? Is there still more in the pot?" Li Huahua asked frantically three times in a row.

He Miao smiled brightly at her and moved back the hand holding the plate slightly.

"Sister-in-law, I really only made these two bowls. I'm going back to have dinner with my husband first, excuse me."

Li Huahua: "..."

He Miao didn't mean to make anyone angry, but he just didn't want to follow his sister-in-law's wishes and feel at ease to eat the food he had worked so hard to cook.

She is not a cook or an old woman from the Feng family. Anyone who wants to eat it can roll it out themselves.

"That's right, sister-in-law, wipe the scratches around your mouth and don't tickle the lapels of your clothes."

He Miao added another sentence, snickering and entering the room.

In the room, Feng Yuanlang was tidying up the kang mat in an orderly manner, and all the quilts and mattresses were piled up neatly.

He Miao was shocked as soon as he entered the room. This silly husband was quite nimble.

"Daughter-in-law, you are back. My mother taught me to clean the house every day when I wake up. Do you think Yuen Long is doing well?"

When Feng Yuanlang saw He Miao come in, he couldn't wait to praise him.

He Miao put the noodle bowl on the kang table and said with a smile: "You have tidied up well. I will reward you with a bowl of fragrant noodles!"

The two sat cross-legged and ate facing each other.

Feng Yuanlang praised while eating: "It's delicious! It's so fragrant! I've never had such delicious noodles."

After eating the noodles, Feng Yuanlang took out the comic book and continued reading.

He Miao had nothing to do, so she simply spread out a small blanket to catch up on her sleep.

About half an hour later, there was a noise outside the house.

Li Huahua squatted on the pony, crying and wiping tears from his eyes.

"Mom, the third daughter-in-law made soup noodles in the morning and added sesame oil. It's sesame oil! At least there must be four or five drops. Not to mention that the third wife eats alone, but she still eats well! This is not fair, mother!"

Fortunately she didn't see the poached egg lying at the bottom of the bowl, otherwise she would have cried even harder.

At this time, Feng Liu and Xiao Xi had returned from delivering the wedding cakes and were cleaning up the residue in the bamboo basket.

Li Huahua cried for a long time, but neither of them responded. Seeing that no one paid attention, she cried even more sadly.

After Mrs. Feng Liu finished packing her things, she glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law helplessly.

"Xiao Xi'er, go call your second sister-in-law and third sister-in-law out. Mom has something to say. You take the two little ones and go out to herd the cows. Don't get too close to the river."

　One of Xiaomiao's principles of dealing with things: if you can manipulate others, you must not be manipulated by others!
  　　
  　
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