After choosing the dishes, I hurried back to the house. I made rice first, added water to the pot, washed the rice, poured it into the pot, and then started to light a fire to cook. I used the branches I picked to make the fire. After harvesting the wheat, I started cooking.
There are wheat straws that are burning. The wheat straws are very hot and very easy to burn.
Cooking with a large stove is fast, and after a while it starts to steam and the pot makes a gurgling sound.
As long as the pot is steaming, you don't need to worry about it. The residual heat in the pot will steam the rice and form crispy rice. The crispy rice cooked in this big iron pot is particularly fragrant.
Let’s not talk about rice anymore, let’s start cooking!
Ling Xiaowei is now tall enough to hold the stove, clean the inner pot, put on firewood to heat the pot, then pour in oil, pour the blanched ribs into the pot, add ginger and green onions, start to stir-fry, and then add soy sauce
Add the sauce, add a little sugar, stir-fry again, stir-fry a few times, and then add water. Once the water has covered the meat, it's done.
Continue to light the fire. It is boring to light the fire. In the pot, the orange tongues of fire are rising and falling, licking the bottom of the pot. Ling Xiaowei is in a trance while making the fire. All she thinks about are hairpins and system matters.
There are a lot of things to buy! She also has to innovate some new valuable gadgets. The yarn she bought has no time to make gadgets yet!
Suddenly an idea flashed in her mind, why not try using wool to make hair ties! The hair ties now sold on the market are ordinary cowhide bands, or cowhide bands wrapped with a layer of thin thread, and there are more hair ties for adults.
It’s like this. Children’s ones are much prettier, and they are made of various silks and have big flowers, but how can an adult wear one like this?
She wants to make some beautiful hair ties to sell to adults. She can use rags and wool to make hair ties. If they are done well, there will be a market for them.
She was so lost in thought that she almost forgot about the meat in the pot. Ling Xiaowei suddenly came to her senses, stood up and walked to the stove, opened the lid of the pot, and poured the chopped garlic into the pot.
As soon as the roasted pork with garlic sprouts came out of the pot, Zhang Cuifen and her grandma came back dragging a tricycle. On the tricycle, there were vegetable poles as high as a mountain, and the vegetable poles were full of rapeseeds.
These rapeseed stalks still need to be exposed to the sun for a few days, and then beaten with a rapeseed beater to beat off all the rapeseeds. The harvested rapeseeds are all black and about the size of sesame seeds.
The rapeseed oil we eat at home is pressed from these rapeseeds.
Zhang Cuifen looked at the cart full of rapeseed and felt very satisfied. This year, her family will not be short of oil.
"Xiaowei has cooked?" Grandma walked into the hut slowly, hunched over, and said in surprise when she saw the two steaming stoves.
"Grandma, thank you for your hard work. Dinner will be ready in a moment." Ling Xiaowei smiled slightly and moved a stool for grandma to sit on.
Grandma looked at Ling Xiaowei with some distress. She had taken too little care of the child in the past. From the age of three, she could move stools around the stove to make meals. It was really heartbreaking for a child without a mother!
She regretted that she didn't take more care of Xiaowei in the past. None of her three children could cook, and Chunxia's child couldn't even make a fire.
Watching Ling Xiaowei busy, after a while, a large plate of braised pork ribs with garlic moss, four bowls of rice, and a large bowl of vegetable soup were placed on the small dining table.
"It's time to eat!" Ling Xiaowei shouted.
Mingming heard the sound and rushed to the dining table impatiently. When he saw the ribs, he jumped excitedly, "Meat, meat, want to eat meat!"
Zhang Cuifen entered the main room and carried Ling Guoqiang to the small room.
The whole family is here, let’s have dinner!
He was obviously the first to eat the ribs, but he was very tired today. He followed his mother in the field and watched her and grandma cut rapeseeds. He was so tired!
"Xiaowei knows how to cook? It tastes really good!" Zhang Cuifen couldn't help but praise.
As soon as she came back, there was ready-made food to eat, which was really beyond her expectation! She originally thought about coming back to cook, but she didn't expect that Xiaowei actually made the food and did it so well.
Looking at Ling Xiaowei's thin appearance, Zhang Cuifen suddenly felt a little sorry for this child. Being able to cook like this did not happen overnight. It seemed that he could cook at a very young age.
Only Ling Guoqiang is the most indifferent person at the dinner table. He eats and drinks soup indifferently. Xiaowei can prepare rice at the age of three. He used to be busy, but then he couldn't move. Over the years, he has gotten used to it!
"Well, I can cook simple meals. During the busy days of farming, I can cook at home." Ling Xiaowei said lightly.
Children of poor people have long been in charge of the family. Cooking is a necessary skill and there is nothing to show off.
Ling Xiaowei ate calmly. Well, the garlic stew had too little salt and was not flavorful enough.
"Xiaowei, there are still seventy hairpins to be finished. The rapeseed in the field cannot wait. I don't have time to do it these two days. How can you do it by yourself?" Zhang Cuifen was still thinking.
I'm thinking about the hairpin.
"It's okay. I've found a helper and should be able to finish it. Don't worry!" Ling Xiaowei finished speaking and continued to plan the rice.
Things are going well with Zhang Cuifen recently!
After dinner, the adults went into the house to catch up on their nap. Ling Xiaowei moved a small stool and stringed beads at the door of the hut.
Not long after, Qi Yue, who had been scheduled in the morning, arrived. His thin and small figure wandered on the roadside for a while, seeming a little embarrassed, and then quietly stretched his neck to see if there was anyone at the door.
When Ling Xiaowei raised her eyes to rest, she happened to see half of her body leaning against the wall, stretching her head and looking towards the door.
"Qi Yue, come here!" Ling Xiaowei waved to the little girl.
Seeing Ling Xiaowei calling her, Qi Yue mustered up her courage, ran to Ling Xiaowei's side, and timidly called out, "Hello, sister!"
"Come, sit here, you can see what I do first." Ling Xiaowei didn't say much and started to work directly.
Qi Yue nodded and sat quietly aside, staring at Ling Xiaowei's hands with bright eyes, watching how Ling Xiaowei strung the beads, twisted them into petals, and finally wrapped them around the hairpin.
It takes almost half an hour to finish a hairpin, because it takes a lot of time to make petals. There are two layers of petals, and the thread cannot be broken. It must be done in one go, and the thread should not be too loose or too tight.
It’s a very tactile job.
Qi Yue read it once and then began to try to make it himself.
Stringing beads and tying knots, she did it very seriously, and her slender fingers were very flexible. Ling Xiaowei stopped and looked at what she was doing. She gave some pointers where she made mistakes. After a while, she finished a few basic steps.
Once the petals are done, make the second layer of petals.
With experience, it became faster to make it. After ten minutes, she had made a beaded flower. She happily showed it to Ling Xiaowei, "Sister, let's see if this beaded flower works!"
Ling Xiaowei checked it over and found that the petals were uniform, strong, and the knots were strong. The small beaded flower was very well made, exceeding Ling Xiaowei's expectations.
"Not bad, not bad, very good! Just do it like this, put it in front of yourself when you're done, and remember how many you made." Ling Xiaowei encouraged.
Hearing the encouragement, a confident smile appeared on Qi Yue's face.