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Chapter 28 Scrambled Eggs with Toon Sprouts

Eating a simple lunch is just to wait for the evening meal.

Steam the lily with a pot of yellow rice, blanch the Chinese toon sprouts, chop them into pieces, and the aroma hits your head.The eggs were cracked open on the edge of the bowl, and one of them turned out to be a double-yolk egg, which surprised Lily very much.

Sprinkle two grains of salt into it, and stir in one direction with chopsticks until the egg yolk and egg white are evenly mixed together.Add the crushed Chinese toon sprouts and stir well, then you can stir-fry.

Eggs eat the most oil, and scrambled eggs need more oil to taste better.In the countryside, many people put a piece of gauze in the oil pot, and every time they cook, wipe the pot with the gauze to see if there is oil.

Lily usually does the same, but today it is rare to eat eggs, so she decided to be extravagant, and poured two bottle caps of oil into the bottom of the pot, seeing that the oil tank had already gone down by half, she couldn't help feeling a little distressed.

Heat up the oil until it smokes, the egg liquid slides in and stir-fries, and a strong aroma fills the whole kitchen, Lily can't help but take a deep breath.

The tender buds can’t withstand more frying. As soon as the eggs solidify, the lilies scrape out the vegetables. See if there is still a little oil on the bottom of the pot, and then add some water to cook a gray vegetable soup. This dinner is quite hearty.

The yellow rice is soft and glutinous, the eggs are tender and smooth, and the toon sprouts are delicious and fragrant. After taking a sip of the gray vegetable soup, Lily smiles unconsciously.

Simple tea and light rice, sweet as sugar.

Don't throw the eggshells left over from cooking. Lily used eggshells to grow flowers in her previous life. If you put the eggshells that have been broken in half upside down at the roots of the flowers, the flowers will grow extraordinarily well.

She crushed the eggshells and mixed them with rice husks to feed the chickens, hoping that the chicks would lay eggs soon.

The next day Lily began to embroider the insoles.There are two kinds of embroidery. One is to embroider on delicate cloth with special embroidery needles and stretchers. It is very fine and not commonly used.The other is to use sewing needles and colored thread to fill in the pattern like a lily.

Lily has a background in painting, and made some improvements on the painted magpie climbing plum pattern to make the layout better.Black thread embroiders the branches of plum blossoms, green thread embroiders a few leaves, red thread embroiders plum blossoms, and the magpies are colorful, and there are all kinds of colors.

The insoles can't be embroidered in a day, but Lily has bright eyes and nimble hands and feet, and she has just finished embroidering the trunks of two plum trees in one day.

It's also because she strives for perfection and pays attention to the unevenness of shades. If she only needs to fill in a single color, she can finish the embroidery quickly, but the color is rigid and unsightly.

From Qingliu Town to the west, there are several ravines, far away from the main road, and there are no people.In spring, wild flowers bloom in the ditch, and adults do not let children play for fear of being picked up by wild wolves.But the child couldn't help being mischievous by himself, calling his friends to play if he didn't see a mistake.

Lily was embroidering plum blossoms. Suddenly, her heart moved. The house was bare, and she wanted to pick some apricot flowers to decorate the house.

An embroiderer will be very tired all day long, and she always has to rest for half a day while she embroiders, just to go out to relax.So I put away my needlework and went out with a basket. Not only did I pick flowers, but if I saw edible wild vegetables on the road, I could pick a basket by the way.

The valley has no elegant name, so it is called Xigou, Donggou, Xiaodonggou and so on according to the direction. Lily goes to the smallest Xiaodonggou, and the shallow valley is not afraid of encountering wild animals.

At this time, the apricot blossoms in the town had passed their prime and began to wither, but the apricot blossoms in the ravine were just in bloom. From a distance, it looked like the ravine was covered with a layer of pink, white and pink smoke.

Lily had already picked half of the basket of Huihui vegetables on the way, but it was not full because she wanted to leave room for flowers.There is no need to pick an extra place, just pick a few apricot blossoms nearby and fold them off.

She has aesthetics, and she does not fold flowers casually, but thinks about the shape and direction of flower branches, and specially picks those that are as curvy and graceful as folded flowers, and each branch can be drawn into a painting.

The family didn't need much, so I only broke off four or five lilies, and hurried home before they wilted.First go home and find a clay pot to fill with water, pick a branch and put it in it, put it on the table in the bedroom, the whole room will be different all of a sudden.If they are kept in water, most of them can live for ten days.

Lily put the remaining few branches in a basket and gave one to Mrs. Liu Yi's home. On the way, she met a neighbor who picked toon with her and gave her a branch as well.

There were still two more branches in the basket, and Lily carried them to Liu's mansion and gave them to Mrs. Sheng.This apricot flower is the most worthless thing. It can't be eaten or worn. It just makes people's eyes bright.

There is no shortage of flowers in Liu's mansion, and Lily's doing so is more than half to show that she has not forgotten Mrs. Sheng.On the contrary, the little maids in the kitchen liked it very much. They asked Mrs. Sheng to ask for a branch, cut a few hairpins on their hair, and it would make them look good all day.

The little girls in Liu's mansion love to join in the fun, the little girl from the kitchen walks around the mansion wearing flowers, everyone wants hairpin flowers, but the apricot blossoms in the town have already fallen, so they have to come to Yang Baihe one by one.

Aunt Sheng saw that Lily was only smiling, but she didn't agree, so she hurriedly helped her out: "Go and go, you will know to make trouble! The family is busy with their own housework, how can I have time to send flowers to your ancestors every day?"

An older girl in the young master's room said, "Good aunt, we won't let this sister-in-law give it away for nothing. She gives us flowers, so we just pay for it."

Lily waved her hand: "I didn't plant this flower, I just gave it away once, how dare I take money from girls?"

Aunt Sheng pushed her, "According to me, you are welcome, you will accept the money they give you." The girls also chirped and urged her to agree.

Lily bowed her head and thought for a while, then smiled and said: "Then I will give it to you for a few days, and the girls don't care how much you want to reward me. It's just that the flowers fall quickly, and one day it will be gone after a wind or a rain, and I can't give it away any more. , girls, don't blame me."

Although Lily is full of intentions to make money, today's incident was purely accidental. I didn't expect that a few apricot blossoms could make money.The apricot blossoms are about to fade, but the peach blossoms will still bloom for a while.Spring and summer flowers bloom continuously in Xiaodonggou, as long as the girls in the family are willing to ask for them, she will have no worries about not having flowers for them.

The next morning Lily went to Xiaodonggou to pick the flowers. The petals in the morning had not been exposed to the sun, they were soft and light red, and there were dewdrops on the stamens.

Such apricot flowers were sent to the Liu Mansion, and everyone really liked them, even the young mistress of the Liu Mansion asked the maid to pick two of them to put in the vase, and gave Lily an extra [-] bucks.

After delivering the flowers, Lily went home to make insoles. The insoles pressed under the bed were almost dry, so she took them out and glued several layers of cloth with paste, and still pressed them under the bed.

Observing the shape of the pistils of the apricot blossoms, she also had confidence when embroidering the plum blossoms. She no longer embroidered blindly, but embroidered with a fluffy effect, which looked like real pistils.

Plum blossoms have red petals and yellow stamens. The color is sober and elegant. When embroidering magpies, she uses bold colors. Use bright colors that should not appear on magpies, otherwise the magpies will be embroidered black and ugly.

(End of this chapter)