Chapter 132 Glutinous Cooked Rice Balls

"Eldest brother, second brother also decided to go home and buy a boat to go fishing with A Le. When the time comes, we will make a lot of them and send them to you."

"It's better to work together. After making money, we can build a new house as soon as possible to avoid having the children crowded into one house when they grow up."

"Ale said that when the new house is built, he will pick you up to live in it."

"I have to keep a vegetable stall, and I can earn thirty or forty yuan in a month. It would be a pity to lose it." Zhou's mother looked at her lovingly, "Let's see if there is a suitable homestead. If the money is not enough, I will give it to you."

you."

"You keep your money, and we will slowly save the money to build a new house."

Seeing that she mentioned money again, Zhou Ruonan stood up and took out the oyster beads placed in the cupboard, "Mom, look, these beads were found from those oysters."

"It's so beautiful!" Mother Zhou picked up a round bead, "Oyster beads have been found before, but the quality is far inferior to this one. If you can find one, you are very lucky."

"Ale wants to give it to you to see how much it can cost for one piece?"

"I don't know. After lunch, I will take you to the old store on Jiefang Street in the city to ask."

"That gold shop has opened again?"

"It has been open for two years and the business is not bad." Mother Zhou said and stood up, "Ale likes to eat rice balls. I will weigh two kilograms of glutinous rice flour and steam the rice balls for him at noon."

Zhou Ruonan hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Mom, I brought a lot of fresh products when I came back this time. Let's eat the large yellow croaker and blue crabs at noon while watching the tide, and then we'll make rice balls for him to eat tomorrow."

It was like this every time. As soon as they came back, grandma would prepare delicious food. She wished she could cook all the delicious food for them in two days.

"It's rare for A Le to come here once. I'll make a few things that don't take much effort." Mother Zhou said and walked out.

"Auntie, wait a minute, there's some fabric here!" Zhou Ruonan quickly got up and took her to the room to look at the materials.

Thinking about it, they feel ashamed. Every time grandma comes to prepare big and small bags for them, they only have seafood given by their parents-in-law. This is the first time to buy something for grandma in several years.

Zhou's mother touched the material and patted her daughter happily, "I have something to wear, but Ah Le bought so much, and you didn't tell him anything."

"He didn't tell me at all when he bought the ingredients. I didn't know about it until after he bought it." Zhou Ruonan looked at her with a smile, "He bought it for me and the children, as well as you and your parents-in-law, but he didn't buy anything for himself.

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"Why don't you dress him up? As the old saying goes, people rely on clothes, and Buddha relies on gold. A Le is going to sell goods, and if he goes out poorly dressed, people will look down upon him."

"He said he was good-looking and looked as good in old clothes."

After hearing this, Zhou's mother smiled so hard that her teeth showed, "Ale's mouth is so good at coaxing people."

The mother and daughter were talking in the room, and Li Xiaozhou's voice sounded outside, "Grandma, my brother asked you to change."

"Come on! Come on!" Zhou's mother walked out briskly, her movements not at all like that of an old woman in her fifties.

When I went out, I saw Li Xiaohai acting like a little adult, helping the aunt who was buying vegetables to get the chives, "The small ones are one cent a handful, the big ones are two cents. Grandma has washed them all."

Axiangpo said with a smile: "Axia, your two little grandsons can do business now."

The aunt who bought vegetables took the change from Zhou's mother and said, "Your grandson is very clever. Not only can he help sell vegetables, but he can also settle accounts!"

The smile on Zhou's mother's face deepened, and she said proudly: "Yes! You will know how to sell it after seeing me selling it once, you are so smart!"

After sending away the customers, Mother Zhou asked the little one to look at the vegetable stall while she went to buy tofu and wrapped it in rice balls.

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In the house, Zhou Ruonan put the beads, got up and went to the vegetable garden. After seeing Li Changle fixing the melon stand, he was digging in the ground with a hoe. He smiled and stepped forward, "They are digging! Now you don't need to show off anymore.

It’s not too late to dig again when the sun goes down.”

Li Changle said with a playful smile: "I don't earn performance, what should I do if Teacher Zhou gets angry and doesn't want me anymore?"

"Fuck you!" Zhou Ruonan smiled and slapped him, "It's too hot. Go inside and rest for a while. I'll dig with you when the sun goes down."

"No, look, there is only a piece as big as the dining table left. It will be ready in a while." Li Changle picked up the hoe and started digging.

"I'm going to pick a few melons and put them in the water to keep them in the water until you finish hoeing them." Like a cheerful bird, Zhou Ruonan went back and picked up the melons with the vegetable basket under the melon stand.

After she picked the melons, Li Changle also dug up all the land. When he walked outside the kitchen, he heard the sound of "dong dong" chopping pork.

When I entered the house, I saw Zhou's mother chopping meat. On the table were glutinous rice noodles, a plate of shrimps, oil, a piece of tofu and a handful of green onions.

After reading this, Li Changle thought of how the Li family cooked rice dumplings during Chinese New Year and festivals. The family had a large population, and Li's mother always bought a big piece of fat meat and several pieces of tofu. The typical meat was not enough to make up the tofu.

"Auntie, we just had some snacks. Isn't it too early to start making rice balls now?"

"Yes, my stomach is still full." Li Changle also said.

"Xiaohai, Xiaozhou said I wanted to eat. Besides, it's already past ten o'clock, so it's getting late."

"They just had snacks."

"Children digest quickly and will be hungry soon."

Li Changle felt that children of this age did not have enough to eat. Xiaozhou was better, but Xiaohai was hungry quickly. He had just eaten, and he would not be full of food even if he ate another fire-roasted pancake. No wonder the old saying goes, half-grown children are poor.

Lao Tzu.

Mother Zhou looked at the two of them lovingly and said, "Nan, take a basin of hot water and wipe it with Ah Le."

"No, I'll just go to the well and rinse it." Li Changle said and walked towards the patio. Zhou Ruonan stopped him and asked him to put the melon into the well to calm it down for a while before eating.

When he returned to the kitchen, Zhou Ruonan was chopping meat and Zhou's mother was kneading dough. He didn't want to watch TV, so he sat at the back door with a plate and helped peel shrimps.

Zhou's mother turned around and asked him to watch TV. She also said that he was not responsible for this work and she must help him when she saw him. She was so happy that she couldn't even close her mouth.

Men these days rarely help with the cooking, and even more so for men at the seaside. When they return home from the sea, they spend their days with nothing but food and clothing.

After Zhou Mu chopped the meat, she added tofu, minced ginger, finely chopped shrimp, rice wine, oil, and salt and mix well.

The fillings of Zuiyuan can be varied, they can be sweet or salty, and they can be anything from dried fragrant bamboo shoots to dried mushrooms.

The flour used to make the dumplings is made from glutinous rice flour and early rice flour, usually mixed in a ratio of one to one. If there is too much glutinous rice flour, the dumplings will become limp on the steaming grate after they are steamed.

Zhou Ruonan rolled the dough into two long strips, cut them into individual pieces, rounded them like buns, put in the meat stuffing and used the tiger's mouth to shrink it, leaving a small mouth at the end, pinch some chopped green onion and put it on the mouth, and it was done.

The Cuiyuan is a bit like Shaomai.

Mother Zhou soaked the drawer cloth and spread it inside the steamer. She placed the fat white rice balls on top, and Li Changle helped to light the fire.

Cooking food in a clay oven is fast. After a few minutes, the steamer will start steaming, and the aroma of the meat will come out. After ten minutes, the rice dumplings will be steamed.

The moment Mother Zhou opened the lid of the steamer, the aroma of meat overflowed. Looking at the fat, white, and glutinous rice balls in the steamer, Li Changle couldn't help but swallow his saliva, feeling that the pork these days is so fragrant.

The two little guys ran in when they smelled the fragrance, "Grandma, the dumplings smell so good, my mouth is watering."

"Slow down, grandma will pinch it for you right now."

After hearing this, Zhou's mother felt extremely distressed and screamed heartily. She put a rice ball in a bowl for the two of them, then busily put it in a bowl for Li Changle, put it on the table, and poured a bowl of rice wine for him.

"Auntie, you eat too." Zhou Ruonan came over with a bowl and said.

"You guys eat, I want to save my stomach for watching the tide, big yellow croaker."

After saying that, Mother Zhou went back to busy making lunch. As she was doing it, she turned to look at a few people. Seeing that they were eating happily, their smiles were brighter than the sunflowers in the patio.

The family of four had eaten the soft and chewy dumplings, and Zhou Ruonan was busy cleaning them up. Zhou's mother also drove the three of them outside to watch TV. Mother and daughter were busy making lunch in the kitchen.

The two of them walked outside and saw that there were more and more people shopping for groceries. People who were returning home from get off work were all coming here to take some groceries home.

Seeing them coming out, Axiangpo waved to Li Changle, and after he passed by, she said: "Ale, come and see your mother-in-law more often when you have time. She is all alone. She caught a cold a few days ago and is lying at home.

It’s been several days!”

Li Changle felt uncomfortable thinking about her being sick alone, with no one to even take a sip of water, "I understand, grandma, thank you for helping to take care of my mother-in-law."

"We have been neighbors for decades, and we all take care of each other."

"Teacher Zhou has been gone for a few years. After a few more years, Axia will figure it out and forgive Abin and his parents-in-law."

"I know Axia's temper best. She looks easy to talk to, but in fact she is as stubborn as an ox. It's hard for her to forgive them!"

Axiangpo sighed and said to Li Changle, "If only your uncle, brother and in-laws hadn't done that kind of thing, how nice it would be for the whole family to be together!"

Li Changle didn't know what to say. There were a lot of things like this in those years, but there were really few like his uncle.

"Abba," Li Xiaohai pulled Li Changle, "Look at my aunt and uncle."

Uncle Zhou and his wife work in a school not far from the old street. One is a math teacher and the other is a Chinese teacher.

Li Changle felt that the saying "Every dog ​​is slaughtered for righteousness, and a scholar is responsible for unkindness." These two parents-in-law are typical examples.

He doubted that with the character of these two people, how could they teach good students?

Uncle Zhou and his wife also saw the three of them. Uncle Lin Xuefang looked at them with an expression of disgust on her face, "Hey, isn't this my country brother-in-law?"

"What's wrong? There's nothing to eat at home again? My sister-in-law came here with her whole family again and asked my mother-in-law to prepare delicious food for you to give you teeth!"

Li Xiaohai pulled Li Changle and said worriedly: "Abba, every time they come, they will quarrel with grandma. When they leave, grandma will hide at home and cry secretly."
Chapter completed!