Chapter 63 63. Help the Zhou family cook

"Aunt Sun, it's still early now. You should take your things to your room first! It's not good to just pile them up in the main room like this. I understand, comrade. You can go to my place later to pick up some water. The hot water in the pot

Is it cooked? Ask Xiaolu to mix the bowls, chopsticks and basins with hot water. Is the noodles cooked?" Lin Qingxi stood in the yard and asked several questions.

"Not yet. We are sorting out these things. I will go and make the dough right away," Aunt Sun said with a stern look on her face, quite embarrassed. The house was too messy and she couldn't care about many things.

"Then you should tidy up first! Move your clothes and bedding into the house first. The work in the kitchen is a bit urgent. You have to make the steamed buns quickly, otherwise there will be no staple food for lunch," Lin Qingxi said funny.

"Okay, we'll be ready soon," Aunt Sun nodded, indicating that she understood. In fact, she listened to her husband most of the time and had no independent opinions. She was a typical rural woman.

"Then I'm going to make the noodles first. Should I make steamed buns with corn flour and black flour?" Lin Qingxi asked seriously. Such noodles are one of the staple foods for every household in the village.

"Just make two-joint noodles," Aunt Sun said with certainty. There was not much food at home. She had always eaten coarse grains before. It was during this period of time when she lived at Lin Qingxi's house that she ate fine grains.

"Okay, I understand," Lin Qingxi nodded clearly, turned around and went to work in the kitchen. Xie Lu followed her into the kitchen, while Aunt Sun and the others went to the main room to move things.

In the kitchen, Lin Qingxi took out a large wooden basin, poured some hot water into it, and added some cold water. Then she put the bowls, chopsticks, vegetable basins, large bowls, and soup bowls in the wooden basin for Xie Lu to drink.

Start washing the dishes and chopsticks with hot water.

Lin Qingxi saw that Xie Lu was cooking well, so she went about her work with confidence. She scooped up two kilograms of corn flour and ten kilograms of black flour, stirred them evenly, and started kneading the noodles.

Because of the cold weather, Lin Qingxi mixed the noodles and put them directly on the stove to wake up. She first added a few large pieces of thick firewood to the stove. Seeing that the fire was strong, she turned around and went to clean the steamed buns basket.

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After washing and wiping off the water, Lin Qingxi put a piece of white cloth inside the cage, placed the cage directly in the pot, then placed the dried vegetables and chopped pork that had been fried yesterday in a bowl, and then put the bowl in

In the bottom basket, the steaming of pickled vegetables and pork begins.

There are three layers in the basket. The bottom layer contains six steamed bowls of braised pork with pickled vegetables, all of which are in large bowls. The middle layer contains four bowls of braised pork with pickled vegetables. The top layer is temporarily empty for waiting.

I can steam steamed buns.

"Girl Xi, what do you want us to do?" About ten minutes later, Aunt Sun and Zhou Mingmin, mother and daughter, came over. Looking at Lin Qingxi who was so busy and dizzy, they both felt very moved and felt very sorry.

"Auntie, Sister Mingmin, please put the dishes and chopsticks that Xiaolu has washed in the cupboard. Drain the large soup bowls and basins. I will use them later. There are only two tasks to do now, wash and cut the cabbage.

Chili peppers and white chili peppers are used to stir-fry smoked rabbit. The vermicelli hasn't been soaked yet. I'll cut the pickled cabbage right away." Lin Qingxi didn't show any politeness and just said what she had not done yet.

"Okay, it's still early. I asked Uncle Lin and Xiaolu to wash the cabbage. Xiaoxu and I are setting the table. We'll do the rest of the work. You go and have a rest," Aunt Sun said while pushing her.

Lin Qingxi walked to the main room.

Lin Qingxi couldn't resist, so she went directly to the main room to rest. For a while, everyone was working, and Lin Qingxi was the only one sitting in the main room to rest.

After resting for about half an hour, Lin Qingxi went into the kitchen to work. Aunt Sun and Zhou Mingmin had just finished what she had told her to do, so she went in and could take the next step.

"Girl Xi, you're here, what do you want us to do?" Aunt Sun wiped the water drops on her hands, looked up at Lin Qingxi and asked.

"Auntie, please ask Uncle Lin and Comrade Mingming to build a temporary stove in the yard! Then go to my house and bring the big iron pot over and place it on the temporary stove outside. I want to use the stove outside to stew.

For pork vermicelli, the iron pot inside has to start cooking." Lin Qingxi was not polite and directly ordered Mother Sun and her daughter to start working.

Lin Qingxi's words were an imperial decree to Aunt Sun. After listening to her words, Aunt Sun immediately went to find Zhou Guilin's belly to do something. Zhou Mingmin was also assigned a task by Lin Qingxi.

Lin Qingxi moved the steamed pork belly with pickled vegetables in the front pot to the back pot to warm, then poured all the bone and radish soup that had been stewed last night into the pot to heat, then put the bamboo slices on the table and started steaming the steamed buns.

After steaming the buns, Lin Qingxi was temporarily free again. She leisurely went to the yard to watch Zhou Guilin and his son setting up the stove, which she found quite interesting.

The temporary stove is made of broken bricks or large and small stones and sticky red mud to form a stove shape. Since this stove is to enlarge the iron pot, the stove mouth needs to be larger, not only can the large iron pot be put down, but also

To make the large iron pot stable on the stove,

After the temporary stove was set up, Zhou Mingming went to Lin's house and brought the big iron pot over. Zhou Guilin lit the fire on the temporary stove and put some rough firewood on it, and Lin Qingxi started working.

Lin Qingxi washed her hands and started to make pork stewed vermicelli. After cleaning the pot and heating it up, she directly threw the cut pork into the pot and stir-fried until the moisture in the pork was cooked out.

The grease also came out.

"Sister Min, come over here with your clay pot. I'll put some oil in it." As soon as Lin Qingxi finished speaking, Zhou Mingmin brought the clay pot from the kitchen.

Lin Qingxi put the clay pot on the stool, waited for the pork to be pressed on the pork with a slotted spoon, and shoveled the excess oil into the clay pot with a shovel. Doing this job requires not only time but also patience. Fortunately, in the kitchen

Then steam the steamed buns, she has plenty of time to do this.

After most of the oil in the pork is fried, pour the hot oil into a clay pot. Lin Qingxi goes over and adds onions, ginger slices, star anise and soy sauce, stir-fries for a few times, then puts the vermicelli in and adds some salt.

, Lin Qingxi added most of the cold water and started to simmer.

"Uncle Lin, take a look at the fire in this pot. It doesn't need to be a high fire. Just simmer it slowly over a low fire. After the aroma comes out, you can just put the sauerkraut in this pot," Lin Qingxi finished.

These wiped hands on the smock.

"Okay, just leave these to me," Zhou Guilin nodded and directly took the job on himself. When Lin Qingxi saw that he agreed, she went directly to the kitchen to work.

She came to the stove, took a pair of chopsticks, opened the lid of the pot with one hand, and poked the steamed buns with the chopsticks in the other hand. When she saw that the steamed buns were cooked, she held the steamed buns with her chopsticks and placed the steamed buns on the top of the back pot.

In the basket on that floor, there was a whole basket of steamed buns piled inside.
Chapter completed!