Xu Huan nodded, and seeing that Li Jing had no intention of asking her to come in, he said knowingly: "I understand, I'll go back first."
"Wait!" Li Jing went out and closed the door behind her, paid her ten yuan, and said a few words to her before letting her go.
Watching Xu Huan ride away, she turned around and entered the house. There was an elegant man sitting on the sofa in the living room, flipping through a newspaper.
Thinking of Xiang Yang's stubborn temper, Li Jing felt that Xu Huan had little hope of impressing him. However, thinking of him marrying a widow home and being known by the Lin family, and not knowing how to laugh at her, she felt depressed again.
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When Li Xiangyang was approaching the door of his house, he saw Lao Li standing at the door looking at the alleyway and said with a smile: "Old man, you are waiting for me!"
"What are you waiting for? You are not three years old!" Lao Li waited for him to arrive and sighed: "Your sister brought a girl to see me today. I think the girl is pretty good, better than the ones you saw before."
Li Xiangyang's face suddenly sank. He pushed his bicycle into the yard, put it away, turned to look at Lao Li and said, "Dad, I declare once again that I already have a girlfriend. Regardless of whether you agree or not, I just
I will ask Lin Lan to be my wife."
He felt that the women who got together with Li Jing were not economical. Even if Lin Lan rejected him in the future, he would not get married with the woman introduced by Li Jing.
Lao Li looked at his serious look and knew that it was useless to talk any more. He glared at him and said, "You can ask for whatever you want, it's none of my business!" After that, he went straight to the room, "Bang"
The door closed with a bang.
Li Xiangyang glanced at the closed door, shook his head, took the money bag into the room, put it away, and went out to the kitchen.
Lao Li sat in the room for a while, then came out to see him cooking in the kitchen. He walked to the door of the kitchen and looked at him and said, "You really don't regret it?"
Li Xiangyang stood up, walked to the door, looked at him, and said solemnly: "Dad, I am already in my twenties. I am not a young boy of seventeen or eighteen who acts impulsively when his head gets hot. I have been thinking about it for a long time."
, I know what I’m doing.”
Lao Li looked at him for a while, then walked to the stove and sat down, lowered his head and thought for a while: "Let me think about it for a few days."
He knew his son's temperament, but he was really unwilling to let him relent and agree to marry a widow with children. He would wait a few more days to see if the girl named Xu Huan could change his mind.
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Lin Lan sent Li Xiangyang away and went to the backyard. He saw Xiaodouzi squatting in front of a hen in a nest, staring at him with big eyes: "Son, what are you doing here?"
Xiaodouzi pointed to the chickens in the chicken coop: "The old lady said they are guarding the chicken coop because they want to hatch chicks."
Lin Lan saw the hen's nervous look: "Are there any eggs in the henhouse?"
Xiaodouzi looked up at her: "There are two."
Lin Lan was a little dumbfounded: "Did you release it for it?"
"Well! I just put two under its belly and wanted it to try." Xiaodouzi stood up and pulled Lin Lan, "Mom, will it hatch chicks?"
Lin Lan didn't know how to explain to him what a fertilized hatching egg was, so she thought for a moment and said, "Mom heard from grandma that the eggs for hatching chicks are different from ordinary ones, so you have to choose eggs with small black spots in the eggs to give to the mother-in-law."
Only by hatching can the chicks be hatched.”
Xiaodouzi's eyes widened: "That's right! Then I'll take them out and see if there are any little black spots?"
"Son, let's forget this year. The weather is getting colder, and it's not easy to feed the hatched chicks. I asked my aunt to stick a chicken feather in its nose, and it won't cling to the nest anymore."
Xiaodouzi looked at Lin Lan and thought for a moment, then nodded: "Okay! Let it hatch the chicks after it gets warm."
"So good!" Lin Lan rubbed his head, lifted the hen out of the henhouse, found a chicken feather, and lifted the hen to the back door.
She grabbed the chicken by the neck, and Lin Yuezhen inserted the chicken feathers horizontally into the chicken's nose. The mother and son put the hen back into the bamboo forest and watched it flutter away.
Before eating, Wang Zhixue came with a fish basket and said to Xiaodouzi with a smile: "Come and see, cousin has caught a lot of loaches!"
"Let's take a look!" Xiaodouzi looked into the fish basket and saw that it was half full of loaches. "There are so many! Cousin, where did you catch them?"
Wang Zhixue smiled and said: "Others caught it. I bought a basket for three yuan and poured half of it over for you to fry."
Lin Lan took a look and saw that they were all about the thickness of an adult's thumb: "You should pick out all the big ones and send them here! Otherwise, it would be difficult to find such a large and well-proportioned loach."
Wang Zhixue scratched his hair and said, "It's easy to find them. There are a lot of them in the winter paddy fields." He poured the loaches into the bucket and said, "Auntie, they have all been killed. You can just wash them and cook them."
"Okay, thank you, Zhixue." Lin Lan said, remembering Yang Lirong, "Your mother has given up the tofu stall to her aunt, right?"
Wang Zhixue nodded: "Yeah! We are building a stove to bake dried tofu at home, and we will start baking dried tofu tomorrow. In the afternoon, my aunt came to my house and asked where the beans at home came from. My mother didn't tell her the truth. She only said
I asked someone to collect it."
He remembered that his mother said that his aunt was too good at calculating. If she asked her in-laws and grandfather to help buy beans, over time, even the closest relatives would become enemies.
Lin Lan thought about it and understood Yang Liqun's concerns, and said: "I understand, you can talk to my aunt so that you don't spill the beans."
"Yeah!" Wang Zhixue agreed and left with the fish basket.
Xiaodouzi looked at the loach in the bucket: "Mom, do you want to fry it now?"
"Okay! Go to Grandma's house and call Dandan and Grandma over. We'll fry half of it and braise half of it."
"Yes! I'll go right away." Xiaodouzi ran out before he finished speaking, and Wangcai followed behind.
Lin Lan cleaned the loach, and together with Lin Yuezhen, cut off the head of the loach, washed it inside and out, and boiled hot water to scald the loach.
Divide the loach into two parts, add onion, ginger, pepper and salt to one part, mix well and marinate.
Lin Yuezhen took some pickled ginger, pickled peppers and carrots from the kimchi jar and chopped them into pieces.
Fry the loach and put it on a plate.
Leave the base oil in the pot, add pickled ginger, pickled radish, garlic cloves, pickled peppers over low heat. Stir-fry until fragrant, add bean paste, stir-fry out the red oil, add water and bring to a boil over high heat, pour in the loach and cook for a while, add sugar, a little
Simmer the white wine for a while.
After cooking, take the loach out and put it on a plate. Bring the soup to a boil over high heat, pour in sesame oil and peppercorn oil, add thin gravy and cook, add coriander and green onion leaves, stir-fry, scoop it up and pour it on the loach.
"It smells so good! I smell the watercress fish." Dandan and Douzi ran in.
Lin Lan turned around and looked at the two of them with a smile: "Auntie cooked the loach and made it smell like fish! Where is my grandmother?"