bayedsolid Chapter 340 Making Dumplings
Chapter 340 Making Dumplings
"This is not expensive anyway, only one penny a bunch! Mom, you go and knead the dough first, I'll go wash the chives." After saying that, Shen Wanning handed the meat in her hand to Lin Hu and asked him to take it to the kitchen.
After washing the leeks, Shen Wanning just took them to the kitchen. When she came out of the kitchen, Lin Jingce was just coming back from outside.
"Hey, Wan Ning is back? Mom and Xiao Hu are back too, right?" Lin Jingce greeted.
"Yes, we are all back. It is the busy farming season now. Thank you for your hard work, brother."
"They are the ones doing most of the work in the fields. I don't do much either, so it's not hard work. But everyone is picking spring tea recently, and the villagers have picked a lot of tea. Do we have to harvest the tea soon?" Lin Jingce asked.
"Of course I will. I promised them that I would take all the tea they have."
"How much money do you think is appropriate, Wan Ning?" Lin Jingce didn't dare to make the decision on his own, so it would be better to ask Shen Wan Ning.
"If we buy it outside, it's 20 wen per jin, so let's go with that price! If it's better tea, you can raise the price appropriately and buy it for your own consumption. Of course, if there are any inferior ones, don't indulge them, big brother, just refuse to buy them."
Lin Jingce nodded. "Okay, I know all this. Now that you are a county lord and my third brother is the county magistrate, they won't dare to pass off inferior goods as good ones to fool us."
"Okay, then I'll have to trouble you to take care of the tea leaves. By the way, big brother, a few days ago I asked my second brother to come back and ask you to help plant the rice seeds I harvested last year. Have you planted them yet?"
The seeds she was talking about were the seeds produced from last year's hybrid rice. The rice ears produced this year will be hybrid rice, which will be larger than previous ears and have more grains.
"Don't worry, Wan Ning. I've taken care of everything you mentioned. I just checked the fields when I came back, and the rice is sprouting well. Once it grows a little taller, we can transplant it."
What he meant by transplanting was pulling up all the rice and then planting seedlings, which would make it easier to harvest.
Shen Wanning thought about it. Last year's seeds weren't that many, so there was no need to plant rice. "Forget it, let's just let the rice grow! There's not much rice anyway, so harvesting it won't be difficult."
"Okay, I won't touch those rice grains. Just treat the rest like other rice grains." Lin Jingce said.
"Okay, there's nothing else that matters. Big brother, go back and rest for a while. I'll take the wild leeks to the kitchen."
When we arrived at the kitchen, Mrs. Xu was chopping the meat and Aunt Zhang was kneading the dough.
"We've never eaten dumplings made with wild leeks before, so we don't know if they taste good or not." Xu said as she cut wild leeks.
"Don't you like scrambled eggs with wild leeks? Then you should like wild leek dumplings." Aunt Zhang said casually.
After the dumpling wrappers were rolled out and the wild leek and meat filling was prepared, the three of them simply took everything to the yard and started making dumplings on the table in the yard.
Lin Hu also came to help make dumplings. As they were busy, they suddenly heard a cheerful voice coming from the gate of the yard, "Grandma Zhang, Aunt Xu, Auntie, Xiao Hu!"
They looked towards the door and saw Yue Mingzhu coming in, followed by Yue Songyu who was carrying a bunch of gifts.
"Hey, Mingzhu, why are you here at this time?" Aunt Zhang walked to the well and washed her hands.
Yue Songyu handed over the gift and called out, "Grandma Zhang." He then cupped his fists towards Shen Wanning and called out, "My Lady!"
Shen Wanning nodded at him, "General Yue."
Yue Mingzhu curled her lips and said, "My parents wrote to me saying that my mother is ill and wants me to go back to Beijing. I will be leaving for Beijing in a few days, so I came to see you before I leave."
"Come and sit down. We are making dumplings. You can eat dumplings before leaving today!" Aunt Zhang invited warmly.
"No, no!"
"Yeah!"
Yue Mingzhu and Yue Songyu said at the same time.
Finally, Yue Mingzhu turned to Yue Songyu, pulled his sleeve and said coquettishly, "Brother, I'm going back to Beijing soon, and I don't know when I will see them again. Let me stay here and have dinner before leaving!"
Yue Songyu couldn't stand her acting coquettishly, so he had no choice but to agree.
"Then you guys come sit down and take a break. The dumplings will be ready soon." Aunt Zhang said, pointing to a stool beside her.
"Sorry to bother you." Yue Songyu said, then sat in the yard and watched them make dumplings.
Perhaps because the atmosphere was a little awkward, Yue Mingzhu spoke first, "Grandma Zhang, have Brother Xiaojiang and the others gone to school? Why is it that only Xiaohu is home, and Brother Xiaojiang and the others are not?"
"Yes, Xiaojiang and Xiaohe went to school, and Xiaohu just came back from the provincial examination. We just came back from the county town today! If you had come a day earlier, you wouldn't have seen us." Aunt Zhang said while making dumplings.
They chatted for a while, and Yue Songyu felt a little bored. After talking to them, he went to the market and Daqing Town alone.
Finally, Lin Jiang and Lin He came back from school, and Lin Jingcheng also came back from the county town.
Xu cooked a big pot of dumplings. In addition to boiled dumplings, she also steamed some and fried some.
Shen Wanning took out a small bowl of vinegar and a bowl of chili oil made from last year's chili harvest.
Since the peppers were harvested last year, they have been adding some peppers to their daily cooking, so chili oil is very common.
However, Yue Songyu was seeing chili oil for the first time, and he was very surprised. Especially when everyone was eating dumplings with chili oil, their faces were red and they looked uncomfortable, but they kept dipping them in chili oil.
He was puzzled and pointed at the chili oil and asked, "What is this? Why do you seem to hate it, yet you love it so much?"
"Oh, brother, don't ask anymore, you will know after you eat it. This is chili, it's delicious, so spicy!" Yue Mingzhu dipped the dumplings in chili oil and put them in his mouth in one bite, praising the dumplings for being delicious while eating.
"I never thought that dumplings stuffed with wild leeks would be so delicious. Mom, why didn't we think of making dumplings with wild leeks before?" Xu said while eating.
"How could we have such conditions in the past? We could only eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. At that time, wild leeks were not very fat, so we usually ate dumplings with shepherd's purse filling." Aunt Zhang replied.
Seeing that they were enjoying eating dumplings with chili oil, Yue Songyu followed their example and dipped his dumplings in chili oil, but he didn't dare to dip too much, only a little.