On March 1st, the 17th day of the first lunar month, school started.
Huang Shuqing, Huang Shuyun, Sun Yu, and Xu Haiyuan were all sent to school by their parents.
Huang Shuqing is the eldest. He has been in the Yuhong class for half a year and is in elementary school.
Sun Yu and Huang Shuyun will have to wait until next year. As for Xu Haiyuan, he will only be six years old after the Chinese New Year and will not be able to go to elementary school until the year after.
The elders have gone to the Yuhong class, and the house has become much quieter.
Xu Haiyuan is not at home, so there is no one to take Xu Jinping to work. The little girl can only go to Su Lijuan and others to play.
Girls are quieter and less likely to cause trouble by climbing into the house. Most of them just play house.
Get a doll, wrap it in a scarf or pillowcase, pretend to feed it, feed it water, and coax it to sleep.
Or, get some broken bowls, broken tiles, etc., and then get some dead branches and leaves, and in summer, some vegetable leaves and wild fruits.
Add some sand or something, stir it, and learn to cook like adults.
Otherwise, wrap the scarf or sheet at home around your body and use it as a big skirt or cloak.
Anyway, the boys dance with knives and guns, and the girls pretend to be mothers and play house.
"Daughter-in-law, who is crying in our bathroom? Why can I hear someone crying?"
On this day, Xu Shiyan had nothing to do and went home early. However, when he entered the yard, he heard someone crying in the toilet.
Xu Shiyan felt strange and asked Su Anying.
"It's Pingping's friend, Lijuan, the young girl from the Su family in the grain depot at the west end of the Martyrs' Tomb.
The child was constipated and dry, couldn't poop, and was crying in the toilet.
Oops, my persuasion just now is useless." Su Anying sighed after hearing this.
"It was the same thing last time. I sat in the toilet for a long time and couldn't pull it out. I just cried.
Later, the Su family's sister-in-law came and gave the child a good scolding before he was scolded and left."
The men of the Su family work in the grain depot, the daughter-in-law is unemployed, and there are four girls at home, and it seems that I still have to support them.
So the burden is quite heavy, and life at home is average. Although there is enough food, daily oil and water are not enough.
As for this person, if there is no oil and water in his stomach, he will be prone to constipation and dryness.
Su Lijuan may have been out of bed for several days. Today, while playing at Xu's house, she said she wanted to go to the toilet, but she couldn't pull it out after squatting there.
The child always loved to cry, but now he couldn't stop crying. He squatted in the toilet and cried.
After hearing this, Xu Shiyan smiled and shook his head, "Daughter-in-law, do we have honey and sesame oil at home?
You can find it and I'll boil some honey and sesame oil for the child to drink and he'll be fine."
Xu Shiyan had met the little girl Su Lijuan several times. She was quite delicate and polite, and she played well with Xu Jinping.
Adults can't bear it when children suffer. No matter what they do, they can't let their children cry in the toilet.
When Su Anying heard this, she quickly took out honey and sesame oil from the cabinet.
Xu Shiyan took it to the kitchen, put up bricks in front of the stove and started a fire, then found a ladle for serving rice and poured wild honey and a little water into it.
After boiling, pour in the sesame oil, stir well and let cool.
Over there, Su Anying coaxed Su Lijuan out of the toilet, led the little girl into the house, and gave the little girl honey sesame oil to drink.
"How is it? Does it taste good?" Xu Shiyan asked the little girl with a smile.
Honey is sweet, but if sesame oil is added to it, wouldn't it taste better? The little girl wanted to lick the spoon clean.
"It tastes good, thank you uncle."
The little girl didn't know what this was for, so she thought someone was giving her something delicious, so she quickly thanked her.
"You're welcome, I'll be able to do it when I get home soon.
If your stomach feels uncomfortable and you can't poop it out, and you can't cry, you have to find an adult to find a solution, do you understand me?"
It's hard for such a young child not to poop, so it's no wonder she cries.
"Yes, I understand. Uncle and aunt, I will go home first and come back to play with Pingping tomorrow."
The little girl was very polite. After saying goodbye to Xu Shiyan and Su Anying, she chatted with Xu Jinping for a few words before leaving and returning home.
Su Lijuan went home and had a successful bowel movement before nightfall.
Su Lijuan's mother found out and felt strange, so she asked her daughter why she didn't cry today.
Although Su Lijuan is young, she has a good memory. She said that today at Xu's house, her uncle and aunt gave her fragrant and sweet water, and it became easy for her to poop.
When Su Lijuan's mother heard this, she remembered it in her heart. A few days later, she met Su Anying by chance and had to ask Su Anying what she was drinking.
Su Anying told her the recipe, and later asked Xu Jinping to bring Su Lijuan a bottle of wild honey.
On the other side of the Su family, from time to time, the children would be asked to bring something to this side, and the adults of the two families also had contact with each other.
In the blink of an eye, the first month passed, and it was the day of February when the dragon raised its head.
On February 2nd, the local custom is to eat pork head meat and stir-fry jelly beans.
As for the Xu family, there is one more thing to do, which is to stir-fry the sauce starter.
Isn’t there a joke that Northeasterners can’t live without sauce? Give a Northeasterner a jar of sauce and the whole mountain will eat it up.
This is an exaggeration, but the lives of Northeastern people are indeed inseparable from soybean paste. Everything can be dipped in soybean paste, and you can't live without it.
There are many ways to make soybean paste. Some people make soybean paste cubes.
After natural fermentation, remove the outer mycelium, etc., cut it into pieces, boil water with peppercorns, aniseed, ginger, and salt, pour it on the cleaned crushed sauce cubes, and put it into a tank to continue fermentation.
When the weather is fine, you have to put the sauce vat outside to dry in the sun, and while drying, skim off the fermented white cattail on it. It will be delicious after fermentation is completed.
The Xu family does not use this method when making sauce. Instead, they first stir-fry the sauce starter.
Pour the cornstarch noodles into the pot and stir-fry over low heat until they turn brown and have a burnt aroma.
Then pour in an appropriate amount of water, stir evenly while it's hot, and form into balls as big as the mouth of a bowl.
Generally, a layer of white flour is rolled on the outside of the ball so that the ball will not dry out easily.
When the ball is cool and the skin is slightly dry, place it in a basket covered with bean straw and find a warm place to ferment.
Zhou Guilan prefers to put it on the door frame of the kitchen door.
Nail a shelf on the kitchen door frame and place the basket on the shelf. The kitchen is warm and hot, making it the best place to introduce fermented sauce.
After two months of fermentation, the outer surface of the soy sauce starter will grow a layer of green hair, and when broken open, there will be red mycelium inside, which means it is fermented well.
The two families eat soy sauce, and the soy sauce starter is not enough to stir-fry.
Fortunately, with the help of Su Anfang and Su Anhua, Zhou Guilan fried two pots of corn noodles, formed them into a dozen balls, and let them ferment.
"Yingzi, let's make dumplings to eat tonight.
There is still some sauerkraut in the tank. Take it out and throw it in a few times. There happens to be some meat left. Let's make some sauerkraut and pork dumplings.
Let’s eat here all night and celebrate the festival together.”
February 2nd is also a festival. Now that things are getting better, and Sister Su Anfang is here, we must prepare something delicious and arrange dumplings.
In the evening, when Xu Shiyan got off work, he saw that the door of his house was locked and he knew that everyone was with his parents.
As soon as I entered the door, I smelled the aroma of dumplings. When I entered the room, I saw six or seven plates of dumplings placed on the Kang table, with several plates of vegetables in the middle, one of which was pork head meat.
"Hey, what day is it today and there are so many delicious foods?"
"February 2, you in this class don't even know what day it is?
Don’t go get a haircut, look how long your hair is?”
When Zhou Guilan heard this, she glanced at her son. She who worked at home couldn't keep up with her at home. She couldn't even think about February 2?
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