Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Pulling the bellows with a "clack, clack" sound, Han Zhaozhao fell into deep self-doubt.

When the pot was boiling and her grandmother came back from her bath, the old lady pulled out the key from her waistband, opened the cupboard door, scooped a bucket of cornmeal, thought for a while, and went to the backyard to get some old cabbage leaves.

Wash, chop and knead into a basin, smash a few large grains of salt with a garlic crusher and sprinkle in, then mold it into vegetable balls.

He lifted the lid of the pot, put the sieve on it, and steamed more than a dozen steamed buns without any pancakes. "This steamed bun with cabbage stalks is delicious, half of it is vegetables and half of it is grain, it is filling and saves food.

Zhaozhao, you have to learn how to cook. When grandma was your age, she was very good at sewing and cooking.

We are born women, no matter how good our family conditions are or how pampered we are, we have to be proficient in kitchen work and needlework.

Otherwise, once you get married, you will have to feed and clothe the whole family by yourself.

If you don't know how to do it, it will be difficult for you. Life is not a matter of one day or half a month. No one can replace anyone else. You can't escape any of the things you are supposed to do."

Han Zhao taught her granddaughter that life is different now than before and she can no longer spoil the child. She must learn everything she should learn.

Grandma's face appeared and disappeared in the steam, and her tone was low. Han Zhaozhao was not a child at heart, and she could understand Han Zhaoshi's mood at the moment.

Let her learn. This way she doesn’t have to make excuses. If she continues like this, after a while her grandmother will find that her granddaughter not only has a strong learning ability, but can also surpass her and give her innovations from time to time!

"Grandma, don't worry, I will definitely learn how to cook well. I also want to cook for you after I've mastered it!"

By the way, what are we going to do with lunch in the future? Do you need to bring your own lunch and eat it at work? Or should I prepare it at home and bring it to you? "

Speaking of cooking, Han Zhaozhao quickly asked her grandmother. She wanted to get the key to the cupboards in the house to ambush for smuggling food in the future. This was a good opportunity and she must not let it go.

The old lady was arranging the steamed bread, placing the kneaded steamed bread on the grate, covering the pot and starting to steam. She subconsciously glanced at the cupboard, then said hesitantly:

"It's not cold now, so the dry food won't get cold. I won't go home at noon, so I'll just take some dry food and pickles. There's a stove in Old Wang's room, so I'll lend him a bowl of hot water for lunch.

Zhaozhao, you are still young, so just stay at home by yourself. Grandma doesn’t need you to bring her meals. I’m worried about you walking through the alleys and lanes.

Starting tomorrow, I'll leave you the key. There's oil and salt in the cupboard. Make yourself some hot soup at home at noon. Don't eat cold food. A little girl catching a cold can easily hurt her body."

"Grandma, please leave me the key to the front door! If the supply and marketing cooperative has any good things on sale, I can go and buy them with the aunties and grandmothers in the front yard."

Han Zhao couldn't help laughing when she heard her words, "You? Aren't you afraid that you will be squeezed out?

Every time the supply and marketing cooperative has defective products for sale at a cheap price, there are so many people, like dumplings being stuffed into the wall, I can’t even squeeze in. How can you still expect to get a bargain?

Zhaozhao, let's just stay at home! I'd rather have nothing than have you get hurt."

It’s broken, this road is blocked!

Han Zhaozhao quickly tried to make amends, "Grandma, I won't go and rob people to buy things. But I want to go out with Xiaolian and the others to collect coal cores and firewood.

How else can we heat the kang in winter? The coal we have is not enough for the two of us."

“You don’t have to go collect firewood. The suburbs are too far from home, and you can’t bring back firewood even if you collect it.

Grandma asked, and she found out that the purchasing station can rest for two days a month. When it's your turn to rest, you can push the cart and collect two carts of firewood to last for a while. If it's really not enough, we can spend money to buy some firewood, which is not expensive anyway, and five yuan is enough for us to burn for a whole winter. "

Pull Han Zhaozhao away from the stove and ask her to collect the dried vegetables that were drying in the yard.

By the time Han Zhaozhao had collected the dried vegetables and rolled up the bamboo tent, her grandmother's meal was ready.

"Zhao Zhao, the meal is ready, let's eat! No more soup, just drink boiled water tonight!"

Failed to get the key! Han Zhaozhao was a little disappointed! Without the key, she couldn't lock the door, which restricted her freedom to go out and have fun.

She had a dull dinner, and the vegetable steamed buns that her grandmother praised as so delicious did not arouse her interest anymore.

But she ate a lot too. For dinner, she not only had a steamed bun as big as an adult's fist, but also a piece of sweet potato weighing three or two taels. Han Zhaozhao finally filled her stomach.

"Grandma, where did you buy the sweet potatoes? Why are they white in flesh? I remember the roasted sweet potatoes they sell have red flesh, which are sweeter than the white ones, right?"

"You don't understand. Red-fleshed sweet potatoes are sweet, but they have little starch and are high in water content. They don't fill you up, and they don't increase your yield, so they're only good when roasted.

If you really want to eat food, you have to choose white-fleshed sweet potatoes. They have a high yield, produce more dried sweet potatoes, and grind more sweet potato flour. They are now the most grown in the countryside.

This type of product is the most widely supplied by the supply and marketing cooperatives, and is also cheaper. When it first came down, it was only two cents per pound.

This sweet potato is a good thing. It has a high yield and can be grown in good or bad land. It can save lives in years of disaster. Would you like to have another piece? Look at how many sides this sweet potato has."

Han Zhaozhao: It is indeed quite chewy, but a bit choking. You have to take a sip of water after taking a bite of sweet potato. Otherwise, the sweet potato will not rotate in the mouth and you will choke and cannot swallow it.

Han Zhao has had more topics to talk about with her granddaughter recently. Ever since the incident at home, she no longer likes to go out and visit other people's houses, nor is she willing to go to the tree at the entrance of the alley to chat with the old men and women.

At home, she always couldn't help but chat with her granddaughter about everything. After a long time, she got used to chatting with her granddaughter as if she were an adult. Moreover, she also felt that her granddaughter was not only a good listener, but also became more and more sensible.

The child seemed to understand everything she said and would give her some suggestions from time to time. Although they were a little off-key at times, they could be treated as jokes to help relieve boredom.

This way of getting along is good, and she feels very comfortable. The two of them chat about family matters and interact with each other. This is the normal way of life.

Today, they had dinner early. It was still daylight when they finished washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen. Han Zhao put the dried radish into a basin, mixed it with fine salt, sprinkled a packet of five-spice flour on it, and scalded a handful of dried chilies in a large pot.

Use a rolling pin to crush the crispy and spicy chili peppers into small pieces, sprinkle them into the dried radish, mix evenly with your hands, put them into a big-bellied pickle jar and let them marinate. The dried radish pickles are ready.

Han Zhaozhao watched the whole process and thought that this pickling process of dried radish is really back to the basics. It does not require salt to kill the water in advance, nor does it require auxiliary ingredients such as cooked sesame seeds, peanut oil and sugar. It is simple and economical, but I don't know how the finished pickled vegetable tastes.

However, the taste in Han Zhaozhao's memory was still good, much more refined than other restaurants that simply added water and large salt to marinate.

But she knew that her past memories were not reliable! As a little girl in the 1950s, she had never eaten anything good, so her taste buds were probably very different from hers.

The radish leaves are not quite dry yet. "Let's dry them in the sun for another day tomorrow. Zhaozhao, don't forget to turn them over twice more.

The cabbage stalks also need to be dried in the sun. In the spring, the dried vegetables can be soaked in water and steamed into steamed buns. They are delicious and have a strong vegetable flavor. "

What? Dried cabbage without soybean meal, oil or salt tastes just like grass. Don't think she doesn't know, it's all for the purpose of saving food.