About three or four quarters of an hour after noon, the donkey cart carrying bricks arrived. The uncle got off the donkey cart and glanced into the yard, "Is my little brother at home?"
Hearing the sound, Su Yan hurriedly came out of the main room, "Is this the one delivering the bricks? Just pile them up at the door."
A young and beautiful woman came out of the room. The uncle was stunned for a moment. After a while, he came back to his senses and said, "Yes, yes, are you his wife?"
"Well, he went hunting in the mountains and will be back later."
Su Yan pointed to the edge of the courtyard wall, "Uncle, just put it there."
Then she went to the kitchen, brought out a bowl of water and handed it to him, "Sorry for the trouble."
The uncle happily took it and said, "It's no trouble. It should be done. I might not be able to finish it today, and I will have to do it all morning tomorrow. The helper will come over in the afternoon to help."
After he drank a few sips, he started to carry the bricks. Su Yan helped move them together. The uncle waved his hand, "No, you woman is weak."
"I'll hold you less." Su Yan hugged two bricks at a time, four or five times. Suddenly, she remembered the man's deep voice above her head, "I'll do it."
Su Yan looked up and saw the handsome face of a rough man. Then the basket fell on his hand, filled with toons. She gasped slightly, "So many toons."
"Well, there are more in the mountains."
Qin An handed it to her and said: "Enter the main room." After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and hugged seven or eight green bricks at once. The green bricks here are very heavy and quite big.
The uncle felt a little tired after holding five yuan. Seeing him holding so many, he said, "My little brother is so strong. I was like this when I was young. Now that I am old, my waist is no longer strong."
Qin An pursed his lips when he heard that he was old, but he didn't say anything. He helped unload the green bricks one by one, and then counted how many green bricks there were.
After he knew what he was doing, he clapped his hands and entered the yard. Su Yan brought warm water to him, "Uncle said that we can't finish the move today and will finish it tomorrow morning."
"The things are almost packed away. All that's left in the main room are tables and stools."
Qin An took it and drank a few sips, "Okay, I'll go out and I'll be back later."
"Are you going to the mountains again?" Su Yan asked subconsciously.
Qin An shook his head, "I'll go to the next village to buy some duck eggs."
A few miles away, I bought duck eggs for her to fry the chun buds. Su Yan's eyebrows softened a bit, "I can fry them if I have eggs at home."
"I'll be back in a minute."
Qin An went back to the house and took two hundred coins and put them on his body. When he went out, he looked at Su Yan in the yard and said, "Don't clean it up. I will come back later and we will clean it up together. You can just prepare the food for the evening."
After he left, Su Yan turned around and went to the kitchen. She took the Chunya out to the yard and took care of it. She didn't want the old ones because she would cook them later and feed them to the chickens. She didn't know if the chickens would eat them.
She planned to use so many Chinese toon to make dumplings. Qin An really liked eating dumplings and could eat several big bowls every time.
After sorting it, she kept half of it, chopped the rest into fine pieces, and put it into a big bowl. Then she added eggs and green onions, and then put them in the pot and sauteed them until they were half cooked.
After putting it up, she went to roll out the dough. The light in the kitchen was not very good at the moment, so she took it to the main room to roll it out.
After rolling out more than a dozen sheets, Qin An came back with a basket of duck eggs and a bunch of candied haws in his hand. He must have met a salesman on the road.
He put the duck eggs on the ground and said in a low voice: "Go wash your hands and I'll roll them."
Su Yan didn't say anything and went to wash her hands. Qin An handed her the candied haws, then washed her hands and started rolling out the dough.
Su Yan sat on the stool and bit into a candied haws. It was slightly sour, but quite delicious.
Goudan seemed to be smelling it. He was watching eagerly at the door and swallowed. When Su Yan saw it, she waved him in and then gave him one, "Eat slowly, don't choke."
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"Thank you Aunt Qin, thank you Uncle Qin." He happily took the dog egg and ran out.
Su Yan smiled and said, "This kid has a sweet mouth."
After saying that, she saw Qin An looking at her. She was a little embarrassed and said again: "What's wrong?"
Qin An rolled out the dough and said in a low voice: "Our children will also have sweet mouths in the future."
Hearing this, Su Yan was stunned for a moment, then came to her senses, smiled and said "Yeah", "I'm here to make dumplings."
After eating the remaining two, Su Yan started to hold the dumplings, each with a lot of stuffing, "Brother Qin, have you eaten fried dumplings later? I will fry some later, and I can still make porridge tomorrow morning.
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"You can do whatever you want." Qin An's face was expressionless, but his tone was a bit indulgent.
In other homes, people would be reluctant to eat food that consumes so much fuel.
After a while, the brick deliveryman came again. Qin An got up and went out to help. Su Yan finished wrapping the last bit and entered the kitchen carrying a large basket of dumplings.
Fifty dumplings were left for boiling and the rest were fried in lard.
When Qin An came in, a pot of golden dumplings had already been fried in the iron pan. The woman was flipping the dumplings with her chopsticks skillfully.
Su Yan glanced at him, then gave him a fried crispy dumpling, "Brother Qin, try one. I ate it just now. It's very delicious."
Qin An bent over slightly, opened his mouth and bit it, chewed it a few times and swallowed it, "It's delicious."
Su Yan liked it when he praised it for being delicious. Just when she was about to say something, she saw the skin on the back of his hand was broken and she quickly asked: "Why is the skin broken?"
Qin An followed her gaze and glanced down at the back of his hand. Only then did he realize that the skin was broken. He probably hit the brick edge just now. He said indifferently: "It's okay."
If her skin was broken, he would have been worried. Su Yan sighed, gave him the chopsticks, and said, "Turn it over."
After that, she ran out and quickly ran in with the ointment. She opened the lid and applied some ointment on the back of his hand. "If you have medicine at home, just apply it. It's not without medicine."
"You have marks all over the back of your hands. Even though you are a man, you still have to pay attention."
She paused for a moment, then whispered: "I'm holding your hand."
If she didn't say that, Qin An, a rough guy, would definitely not take her seriously.
Hearing this, Qin An looked at her. The woman lowered her eyebrows. His heart softened a little. He said "hmm" in a low voice, and then his ears turned red.
After the fried dumplings were ready, Su Yan brought fifteen to Goudan's house while they were hot, and Goudan forced a basket of vegetables to her.
Su Yan and Qin An sat in the kitchen and ate a few fried dumplings but then stopped eating. After that, Su Yan boiled water and cooked soup dumplings, while Qin An sat at the door of the stove and lit a fire.
He looked down at the calluses on his hands, pursed his lips, and quickly stood up. After a while, he took a knife and sat at the stove door.
Then he peeled off the calluses on his hands.
It doesn't hurt at all, the callus is so thick.
I didn't take much care of it on weekdays. I just waited for it to fall off on its own.
Su Yan didn't see him at first, so she glanced at him unintentionally, was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Brother Qin, what are you doing?"
Qin An was a little naive, looked up at her, and said in a low voice: "Peel the cocoon, it's too thick."
