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Chapter 80 Fragrant Boiled Corn

Once the beans are cooked, the corn cobs will swell up, and they are ready to eat.

Previously, Lily asked Wang Xiaofu to buy some melon and vegetable seeds. Wang Xiaofu was clever, not only bought common seeds, but also asked someone to spare a bag of corn seeds that he had never seen before.

Everyone just treats it as something fresh and grows it casually, only Lily knows that this thing is precious, and it is carefully taken care of.

It’s not yet time to harvest corn, but the tender corn cobs are standing there, and when you pinch it, the juice splashes everywhere, and the lily’s saliva is about to come down. After all, I couldn’t hold back, and cut down two plants, branched and leafy. Drag it home.

The corns at this time were not as big as the ones Lily used to eat in her previous life, they were much thinner, and there were not so many corns on each corn stalk. One mu of corn can weigh several thousand catties, and the yield is already very impressive.

Lily cut off the corn cobs with a knife, and put them in the corner of the wall with the green leaves outside, so as not to wilt in a while.

She chopped a section of corn stalks, tore off the outer skin and chewed it in her mouth. It was sweet!

Lily was overjoyed. She remembered that when she was a child, the corn stalks were watery and sweet, similar to sugarcane, and even the way to eat them was the same. When she grew up, she never ate sweet corn stalks.

The corn stalks were placed in the ground, and when Song Haonian came back, he would cut a section for him to eat, Song Haonian said: "Hey, this stuff is similar to sugar cane, it's delicious."

It means that the chewed slag is more than sugar cane.

Lily let him eat corn stalks, boiled water, and tore off the outer leaves of the corn cobs, leaving only a few pale yellow leaves wrapped around the corn cobs, and put them in the pot to cook.

After a while, the sweet fragrance came out of the pot, and the sisters-in-law of the neighbors came to ask: "Danian's, what is this delicious?"

Lily smiled and said, "Didn't I grow some corn? I heard that people in the north often eat it, but we don't see it here. It looks almost cooked today. Let's cook a few and try."

"I've heard people say that I haven't eaten it in the north for many years. Our emperor asked someone to bring it back from overseas. I don't know what it tastes like...Can it be cooked like this?"

The neighbor's sister-in-law is wary of this kind of food that she hasn't eaten before, and she plans to wait and see to see Lily's reaction before deciding whether she wants to try it.

The tender corn boiled in water for a quarter of an hour, and Lily picked them up with long bamboo chopsticks, calling Song Haonian: "Idiot, come and taste."

Song Haonian didn't have any doubts at all, his daughter-in-law said he could eat it, Lily tore off the corn husk, and carefully picked out the corn stubble, said: "Just chew it directly, be careful not to burn it."

Song Haonian thought to himself, my wife is treating me like a child, it hurts so much, he didn't talk too much, as soon as he bit into it, his eyes widened: The corn kernels are tender and sweet, chewing them is full of water and tender, without any crumbs.It is said to be sweet, but the taste of grain is very strong, which clearly reminds him that it is a kind of grain.

After taking a few bites, Song Haonian knew where the corn was the best. He broke off the part near the tail, peeled off the part he gnawed, and handed it to Lily: "It's delicious here."

Lily took a small piece of corn and took a bite, squinting her eyes because it was so delicious—it tasted just like the boiled corn she ate when she was a child!
No matter how hard I look for it after I grow up, I can't find such a pure taste.

The tender corn is fragrant, after all, it is not rice. If you eat too much, your stomach will feel uncomfortable. Lily keeps two or three for yourself, and asks Song Haonian to go out and disperse the rest. There are not many, and it will be gone in a while. Everyone taste it smell.

Seeing that Song Haonian and Baihe are both healthy, the neighbor's sister-in-law believes that this food can be eaten, and she also gives a share to her own men and children. Also try it.

She patronized others, but forgot to leave a mouthful for herself.

Thinking of the corn in the field and the sweet potatoes planted at Mr. Liu's house, Lily is gearing up, there are still many meals and snacks she can cook, with corn and sweet potatoes, there are many uses for her.

Since then, no matter how greedy I am, I don’t want to chop tender corn and eat it. I just want to wait for them to mature. The corn kernels will grow and harden one by one. At that time, I will harvest them and save some for next year’s seeds, and the rest will be used as seeds. Slowly adjust various diets.

Speaking of keeping seeds, except for cabbage, radishes, and courgettes, which cannot be kept, Wang Xiaofu will still ask Wang Xiaofu to bring them from the city next year. Lily knows how to keep seeds for pumpkins, cowpeas, and lentils.

Some beans grow the largest and strongest, and the lily will not pick them when they are delicious, but let them stay on the shelf to continue to mature. They will not be picked until the pods turn yellow, and they will be bundled into bunches and hung under the eaves to dry. , The coming Qingming Festival can be planted after peeling it off.

When the pumpkin is to be eaten, the pulp is taken out, and there are many pumpkin seeds in the pulp, some of which are dried in the sun to be used as seeds, and the rest can be fried and eaten.

People often say that the melon seed face is a face shaped like a pumpkin seed with a pointed chin, but it is not the sunflower seeds that Lily used to eat in her previous life—such a narrow and long face is not good-looking.

One pumpkin vine can grow seven or eight pumpkins. In order to make them grow bigger, Lily specially planted seedlings. Four or five pumpkins grew on one vine. When the yellow color comes out, it can be picked when the whole body turns golden yellow.

Lily went back to the Liu Mansion to talk to Mrs. Sheng, and then she talked about her own corn: "I boiled some corn while it was still tender, it's sweet and fragrant, it's really delicious."

Aunt Sheng said: "Yes, I also ate this food when I followed our master in the provincial capital, and I said it was delicious. Only our master doesn't like the taste, so we never grow it at home."

If you want to say what new crops will be added to Qingliu Town, it must start from Master Liu's farm, not to mention others, it is the sweet potatoes on the ten mu of land. As long as this year's harvest is good, next year every household will follow suit and plant them.

Master Liu didn't like corn, he never planted it on the farm, and no one followed him, so the corn in Lily's land was the first in Qingliu Town.

She heard Mrs. Sheng say she likes to eat, so she smiled and said: "Then I will cut two trees later, and the aunt will try something new. It's just that I planted less this year, and I want to keep more seeds. Now I dare not eat more. I will plant them next year. If there are many more, let’s satisfy our hunger.”

Mrs. Sheng laughed and said, "That's your fault."

Lily made it clear, and she didn't feel annoyed at her stinginess, on the contrary, she felt that he was a man of success: if she didn't care about the work at home to please her, she would also look down on someone who cared about his head and his back.

After joking for a while, because Yingchun was missing, Lily talked about her sister again: "Is she still obedient?"

Mrs. Sheng said: "Yingchun girl is a hearty girl. She can't wait for idlers to compete with her, but she is still young, so she is a little impatient."

Lily's face blushed, Mrs. Sheng was using this as a euphemism, since she mentioned that Yingchun was impatient, she must be really impatient, and she also made Mrs. Sheng feel a little unhappy, so she said this.

"Although she is younger, she should be sensible. We sent her to the house to teach her how to deal with people, not to flaunt her prestige, and she has no prestige. If she If there is anything wrong, auntie just talk to her, after seeing a lot in the future, she will know the benefits of auntie!" Lily didn't excuse Yingchun, but urged aunt Sheng to take care of her.

People say that the prime minister is a seventh-rank official, and Aunt Sheng has been working in the Liu Mansion all her life, and the townspeople dare not mess with her.She has airs, but she is not a bad person. She is quite old-fashioned and warm-hearted, and she is a rare understanding person.

Lily knows that her father is weak and her mother is confused, so what can Yingchun learn from them?Among other things, she was as petty and quick-tempered as Zhu Shi learned that Yise, which gave Lily a headache.

If Mrs. Sheng is willing to give advice to Yingchun, Lily would like to ask Yingchun to kowtow to recognize Mrs. Sheng as her godmother.It's just that Mrs. Sheng is in charge of the luscious place like the kitchen in Liu's mansion, who can't curry favor with her among the girls in the mansion?I never thought of adopting a daughter-in-law.

After all, Lily is a sensible person. Mrs. Sheng was a little dissatisfied with Yingchunyuan, so she let it go in her face, and said: "Little girls are competitive, and it is common for them to be competitive, but now they are still angry in the room. You Go see her and persuade her a few words, I'm afraid she will still listen."

Lily bid farewell and went to Yingchun's room. As soon as she opened the door and went in, she saw the girl without raising her head and said, "Get out!"

"Which one to call out?" Lily asked with a smile, not annoyed.

Only then did Yingchun hear that they were not the little sisters working together, but the eldest sister.She usually looks down on the eldest sister's soft temper, but now she feels aggrieved, and treats her as a confidant, and she is about to cry when the circles of her eyes turn red.

Lily watched her cry for a while before persuading her: "You always say that San Niu urinates, why do you cry so hard?"

"You don't know the pain in my heart!" Seeing the eldest sister, Yingchun asked, so she couldn't help complaining a few words about her own thoughts.

Lily laughed dumbfounded after hearing this, she still said it was a big deal, she made a fuss for a long time, but it was just the little girls trying to force it, one was not convinced and the other was awkward.

Originally, Yingchun was smart and high-minded, and she was an outstanding girl among all the little girls, but she didn't have a backer in this mansion. There were a few girls who had worked in the mansion for two or three generations, and their backgrounds were deeper than hers. Many, comparing the two, naturally no one will accept the other, and troubles will arise over a small matter.

Aunt Sheng was being impartial, and the two of them hit [-] big boards each, telling themselves to reflect on themselves, and she was even more serious about Yingchun, telling her not to make such a publicity, and to see how other big girls acted prudently.

Yingchun snorted and said: "I have no foundation in this mansion, if I become more stable, anyone can give me anger!"

She has endured hardships and suffered tiredness, but she has a temper of firecrackers.

As she spoke, she lay down again angrily, face inside and pretended to be asleep.

Lily pushed her with a smile: "You are even mad at Mrs. Sheng, she is helping you."

"Why did she help me?" Yingchun didn't believe it.

"Think about it, my mother has worked in this mansion for decades, you two little girls are just arguing, it's really big, the masters of the mansion are partial to you, or are they partial to you?" over there?"

"Ms. Sheng really told you to restrain yourself for your own good. Don't be ignorant of good people. Let me tell you, you should pay attention to those who push you to get ahead. Since it's a good thing, why don't you go? Why don't you go? Are you going to stand out? You still think of yourself as a standout, it’s really sold to others and paid for by others!”

(End of this chapter)