Chapter 26: Afraid she'll get diarrhea

Then she lit a fire in the stove, added water to the pot, and after the water boiled, she first blanched the fat and pork fat, then fished them out, cleaned the pot, added water again, and poured the pork fat and fat meat in. This way, the lard refined was particularly white and bright.

Every step was done according to what was taught on the internet.

An hour and a half later, she fished out the golden oil dregs, poured them into a jar, put them into the space, and poured the refined oil into a large jar and set it aside to cool, only then did she start preparing the dishes she wanted to make!

She picked a small handful of water spinach, washed it, cut it into sections, and put it on a plate. She took two dried red peppers from the space, cut them into sections, and put them aside.

She cut the tofu into small square pieces, took a large spoonful of chili sauce from the space and put it in a small bowl, then picked a few green onions, washed them, cut them into green onion ends, and beat four eggs into a bowl, stirred them evenly, and put a little salt in it.

Seeing the salt, she couldn't help but complain a few times. The salt here is all large salt blocks.

After buying it back, she had to process it herself, turning large blocks into small fragments. She tasted a small piece, it was salty, bitter, and astringent, and it couldn't compare to the fine salt in the space at all.

So that jar of large coarse salt became a display. Every time she cooked, she used the fine iodized salt from the space.

After preparing all the ingredients, she calculated the time and it was about the same. Start stir-frying!

It was the first time in her life to stir-fry, and she was a little nervous, fearing that it would be difficult to eat and she would have to stir-fry a second time.

She had plenty of ingredients, just afraid of messing up. Fortunately, after stir-frying the first dish, her confidence gradually recovered.

Four dishes were placed on the kang table. She grinned, set the bowls and chopsticks, wiped her hands, and suddenly slapped her head. She hadn't bought white rice yet.

So she carried the basket, locked the door, and ran to the grain shop at the speed of a hundred-meter sprint. When she got there, she looked at the bags of rice and flour and asked.

"How much is your best white rice per catty?"

"Thirty wen."

"Yo, it's the same price as pork."

"Guaranteed to be delicious." The clerk stood beside her with a smile.

"Let me see?"

The clerk led her to a rice bag. "This is it. There is no new rice yet. This is last year's, which can also be considered new rice."

Qiao Mai grabbed a small handful, brought it to her eyes to look carefully, and smelled it, pretending to be very professional.

"Mm, it's okay. Give me ten catties of rice, and give me a jar of vegetable oil."

Time was tight. After weighing it, she put it in the basket, paid the money, and left.

After returning home, she scooped a bowl of rice, washed it, put it in a small porcelain basin, added some water, and steamed it in the pot. She could still do this.

She used to use an electric rice cooker to steam rice, pack a hot dish from a restaurant to take home, or heat up the finished products from the freezer, which was also very convenient to eat with rice.

Thinking of the ready-made food in the space, she swallowed her saliva. Next time Shopkeeper Lu comes, take out two things to eat.

It started to rain outside. Lu Sanniang held an umbrella, carried a jar, and arrived on time.

As soon as she entered the room, she smelled the fragrance. She closed her umbrella, poked it to one side of the door, entered the room, took off her shoes, and sat by the kang table.

Looking at the four dishes, she swallowed her saliva, and waited until Qiao Mai brought a basin of rice into the room and said.

"I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so good?"

"Taste it, I don't know if it's delicious or not. In the Tian family, they wouldn't let me go to the kitchen, fearing that I would steal their grain. This is the first time I've cooked."

"Sister, bring two more small bowls. Sister brought wine, let's drink some. If I drink too much, I'll sleep here for the afternoon."

"Whatever makes you happy."

Qiao Mai went to the kitchen to get two bowls. Lu Sanniang opened the wine jar and filled the wine.

"Come, you worked hard today, let's have a drink."

Both were straightforward people. They drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, wiped their mouths, and Lu Sanniang picked up her chopsticks and first picked up a piece of braised pork, put it in her mouth, and chewed.

"Mm, mm, this meat is really delicious. My God, I couldn't tell that you actually had such talent in cooking?"

"Call my two apprentices next time."

"That has to be at night."

"Fine, then wait until it rains next time."

"It's a deal!"

The two slapped their palms as a pledge, and the meal was eaten like sworn sisters.

Qiao Mai picked up her chopsticks and tasted each dish. It was barely edible. She had to improve next time. If she stir-fried a few more times, she should be better.

She summarized her stir-frying skills. The heat was still lacking, and the operation wasn't skilled. It tasted like it was made by a novice.

But Lu Sanniang ate it very fragrantly. She ate more than half of the four dishes and drank more than half a jar of wine. She didn't even eat the rice.

She slept directly on her kang. Qiao Mai shook her head, cleaned up the table, washed the bowls, and sat by Lu Sanniang's side doing work.

Women snoring is no worse than men. Lu Sanniang's snoring was like thunder. Qiao Mai was helpless and directly plugged her ears with cotton.

When it was dark, Ruxin and her sister found their way over with two servant girls.

"Master, we're here to pick up my mother. Is she here?"

"Still sleeping on the kang. She drank quite a bit of wine at noon."

The sisters woke Lu Sanniang up. She opened her eyes and sat on the kang to wake up.

"Sister, remember what you said. Next time, our family of five will all come, okay?"

"I won't forget. Hurry back, it's not easy to walk when it's too late."

People finally left. Qiao Mai had been thinking about the watermelons in the space for a long time. She locked the door and entered the space.

First, she went to see the child. Seeing Ling'er awake, she held her and came to the edge of the land.

She spread a small mat at the edge of the land, put Ling'er on it, and then brought a spoon over.

She picked a watermelon from the land she planted herself, smashed it open with a fist. The melon flesh inside was as good as the one she sold at the stall.

She tasted a large mouthful. It seemed to be sandier and sweeter than the one she sold, so sweet that it was a bit throat-choking.

Sure enough, what is produced by black soil is good. She ate slowly, her eyes sweeping over the empty land where the melon had just been picked from time to time.

Ling'er saw her mother eating, and her little mouth was also sucking, humming as if she wanted to eat.

Qiao Mai didn't dare to let her eat, she didn't even dare to let her have a mouthful of watermelon water, fearing she would get diarrhea.

A quarter of an hour later, a watermelon identical to the one just picked grew where the melon had been picked.

Qiao Mai was so excited. Then she picked one from another four-fen melon land to see if this extra melon could also be replicated.

After she finished eating that melon, she didn't see any more melons growing.

So she used her consciousness to pick all the melons from this extra melon land, piled them in a corner, and the melon seedlings without watermelons were quickly disposed of by the space as garbage.

Qiao Mai thought about it, this piece of melon land couldn't replicate watermelons, so it was fine to leave that piece of melon land that could replicate watermelons.

Then what should she plant on this piece of melon land? She returned to the refrigerator, looked for it among the fruits, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

Let's plant this. She took two boxes of strawberries and a pair of small tweezers and returned to the edge of the land. Ling'er was babbling and playing by herself.

She pinched her daughter's little face. "In a few days, mother will make you a few toys for you to play with, okay?"

Turning around, she squatted in the land, took the small tweezers to pick the seeds on the strawberries, planted one by one, and halfway through, Ling'er was sleepy, so she coaxed her to sleep, put her back on the bed, and came back to continue planting.

The seeds on the two boxes of strawberries were all planted, and the four fen of land was filled. Finally, she watered it.

Only then did she stand up and hammer her waist.

Farming is really hard work. She only planted these four fen of land and already felt very tired and exhausted.

Working and exercising are really two different things.

She washed the two boxes of strawberries and placed them on the bedside table. She wanted to lie down for a while and eat the two small boxes of strawberries.

She didn't expect to fall asleep shortly after lying down. She slept until the sky brightened outside.

The rooster crowed, and she opened her eyes. Thinking that she had slept so confusedly all night, she felt a bit annoyed.

The child didn't disturb her either. It had only been a few months since she came here, and her life habits were slowly changing.

Vigilance cannot be less. In the future, she must not sleep so deeply at night.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 27 =====