Eating melons and raising children in the period literature

Time successfully arrived at the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month

Early that day, Ma Liyue brought Yang Qingqing to the old Ma family.

They had already made an appointment to go to Lao Zhang's house in the village today to exchange tofu

They basically exchange soybeans for tofu here. A plate of tofu weighs about 25 kilograms, and 20 kilograms of soybeans are needed to exchange it.

But nowadays, most families come together, and in order to have a good New Year, everyone will exchange more. Even if there is no meat or eggs, there must be enough tofu.

So some people only need one board, and some people need three or four boards. Yang Qingqing and Ma Liyue had discussed it before, and they only need one board.

Zhao Xiaohua has only two people, so they only need two boards with the boss Changhui's family.

Zhao Xiaohua had agreed with Zhang's wife several days ago that they would go to pick up the

The villagers all told us in advance when to pick it up, and they made appointments in advance.

Yang Qingqing and Ma Liyue went over and saw the tofu that had been made.

She roughly counted and found that there were about ten boards, all placed on the ground, and the pot was still cooking.

But next to the tofu, there was some dried tofu.

Yang Qingqing looked at the basket of dried tofu and was so happy. She thought that stir-frying cabbage with dried tofu would also be delicious.

Her supermarket has dried tofu and tofu skin, but she has never seen them in the supply and marketing cooperative, so she thought they are not available now.

I didn't expect that she didn't observe carefully and took it for granted.

"Uncle Zhang, how do you exchange this dried tofu? I really like it."

"Huh? Why haven't I seen you before? Whose little girl are you? My dried tofu is all good quality. If you want it, you can exchange it for a pound of soybeans."

Before anyone else on the Internet could speak, Zhao Xiaohua took over the conversation.

"Old man Zhang, this is our Li Yue's sister-in-law, you can't cheat us, can you? Even if your dried tofu is delicious, you can't exchange it for a pound, can you? Tell us the real price, if possible, we can exchange all of it."

"Oh! Sister Ma, you are really wronging me. You know we are all honest people. How could I lie to you? Those are the best in quality and taste. I really didn't cheat you."

Although Yang Qingqing didn't know how much tofu and dried bean curd could be obtained from one pound of soybeans, in her opinion, it was as good as free to exchange soybeans.

She must have at least 500 kilograms of soybeans in her space, not to mention that she has to update it every day.

"Okay, Uncle Zhang, how much dried tofu do you have here? I want to exchange them all. How many soybeans do you want? You have to give me a lower price. I want them all."

Zhao Xiaohua was very happy to see Yang Qingqing so happy, but she still said in a low voice

"I say, kid, you really don't know how to live. If you say a few more words, maybe you can save a few more kilograms of soybeans."

"Good Auntie, just treat me as a fool, I just really want to eat it, and I finally saw it once. I was a little impulsive, wait a minute, you can take some back too, it's delicious whether fried or served cold"

"Oh, no. We don't need it, you can just eat it yourself. Brother Zhang, is the tofu I ordered ready? We're here to get it."

"Okay, you ordered three boards in total, and I've prepared them all. You can just take them from there. Are you ready with the stuff? Otherwise, just take them back and return the boxes to me later."

"We brought a backpack with us, just take it back. You are busy, we will take it ourselves."

Yang Qingqing, her second sister-in-law, and Auntie Ma each packed a plate of tofu. Then Auntie Ma and Ma Liyue helped Yang Qingqing carry the tofu on her back.

They first sent Yang Qingqing's things back home, and then sent Ma's tofu back. Yang Qingqing also gave half of the tofu to Ma's mother.

But she didn't tell Aunt Ma, she just put it in the backpack and waited for Aunt Ma to find it herself.

Yang Qingqing and Ma Liyue returned home and began to slice half of the tofu and put it in the yard. It would become frozen tofu overnight.

They only had a little tofu left, which they planned to save for the New Year.

There were also about ten kilograms of tofu. Yang Qingqing and Ma Liyue discussed making tofu balls out of it.

Half is made into vegetarian food and half is made into meat.

The two of them worked hard and finally finished making the tofu balls in the evening. They made three large pots.

One vegetarian dish, two meat dishes

Originally, there was not so much meat available, but Yang Qingqing liked to eat more meat, so she made it according to the ratio of five pounds of tofu and ten pounds of pork belly.

The result was that they made a lot of meatballs. They didn't cook at night, so they just heated up a few steamed buns.

I ate the meatballs together. I didn't eat much vegetarian meatballs, most of the consumption was meat.

In the end, Yang Qingqing was not stingy and brought back more than half of the meatballs for her second brother and his wife.

This is not for them to eat. I want my second brother to bring it to his comrades to try, and also send some to the Ma family.

In this way, Yang Qingqing had almost consumed all the pork belly she brought back. She planned to take it back tomorrow when she took Wen Jing and the others to the county town.

Meat is indispensable during the Chinese New Year, but this time is different from the future. A family of more than ten people may only buy two or three kilograms of meat.

Yang Qingqing has already bought a lot, but she still feels it is not enough. She has the confidence to buy more, but it is still a bit difficult to buy.

If you want to take something from space, you still have to think of a good reason.

She thought she would see what happened tomorrow, and if it didn't work out, forget it.

After dinner, she thought about how she should send some gifts to those people who were sent down to the countryside so that they could have a good New Year.

Thinking of this, I thought of the people who had fought side by side with my second brother.

I don’t know if they have meat to eat during the Chinese New Year, and whether they can eat better.

It's not that she is a saint, but as someone who has enjoyed a good life in the future, she thinks that no one will not thank their ancestors.

If she were to travel back to the Anti-Japanese War, she would definitely take out the things in the supermarket space without hesitation to support the war.

But now that peace has come, Yang Qingqing is living in this era, and she also knows the general direction of the future, so she really doesn't want to take risks.

But she still wanted to give back a little

But she couldn't figure out how to do it. After thinking for a long time, she couldn't think of a way to deliver supplies without exposing herself.

"Brother, what do you eat during the Chinese New Year in the army? Do you eat meat?"

Yang Qingqing thought that she should ask her second brother about it, just in case she was just being too sentimental.

"We are pretty much the same as other times, but we will organize the family members accompanying the troops to make dumplings together for the New Year's Eve dinner, and the kitchen staff will also try to make it better."

"How much meat do you each have? Is it enough?"

"Hahaha~ What are you thinking? How can that be possible? No matter how much meat there is, it won't be enough.

We usually go hunting during training, but we only eat meat, which is much better than ordinary people. Otherwise, there would be so many people who want to join the army."

"Yeah, I thought you guys could taste meat every day."

Yang Qingqing could only think of a random excuse and passed it off.