The poor little girl who traveled through the book, her father was lazy, her mother was stingy, and

"It's delicious." Xiao Guyu ate it in small bites.

She didn't dare eat it in big mouthfuls, for fear that she would finish the bun before she could remember its taste.

"Oh, Guyu, our family will get better and better in the future. Can I give you meat buns every day? And meat dumplings too." Lin Xiaoman said with a smile.

Under Lin Guyu's cute yet slightly distrustful gaze, he bit off the meat bun in just a few bites.

"Sister, what are dumplings?"

"It has a lot of meat and thin skin. It tastes fragrant and delicious. I'll make it for you next time."

Li Taohua pretended to be angry and patted her on the back, "You are a grown-up girl, but you have no manners when eating."

"Mother, I'm only twelve."

"You know you're twelve now? You've never learned needlework since you were little. Other girls are already good at sewing when they're your age. When I have some free time, I'll teach you how to sew."

"what!"

Lin Xiaoman felt like crying but had no tears.

She is still thinking about what business she can do to make a fortune!

You definitely won't make any money if you stay at home and do needlework.

Otherwise, with A Niang's skilled craftsmanship, she would have made a fortune long ago.

However, my mother was good at sewing and mending. In the past years at the Lin family, she was the one who worked most meticulously.

During the slack season, she could also take on some embroidery work in town to earn a few coins to supplement the family income.

"Ah for what!"

Li Taohua has made up her mind. Xiaoman has been stupid for more than ten years and she doesn't know whether it will be easy to find a husband in the future, so she decides to teach her all her skills.

Lin Xiaoman didn't know that his mother had thought so far ahead. He made a bitter face and felt that the bun he had just eaten no longer tasted delicious.

I felt even more suffocated when I saw Lin Jingzhe grinning with a gloating look on his face.

Seeing Xiaoman's smile, Lin Dajiang thought that she hadn't had much fun in the past ten years, and even if she had, she wouldn't have much memory. She didn't know what would happen after she got married, so if she wanted to play for a few more years, then let her play for a few more years.

"Taohua, don't push too hard. Xiaoman can play if she wants to. At most, she can get married when she's 18 or 19."

Lin Xiaoman hated the ancient times immensely.

A girl who gets married at the age of eighteen or nineteen is considered an old maid here.

In modern times, there are many people who are not married in their thirties.

At the beginning, Lin Xiaoman decided to live in a rural villa in his retirement.

She lacks love and doesn't want to fall in love at all, let alone get married and have children.

One person, one cat, one dog, growing flowers, and being self-sufficient.

That's pretty good.

"You're so surprised that you said that. Your cousin's daughter is still at home at the age of 20. The girls the matchmaker introduced to her are either missing limbs or sick, or old widower raising children."

"Mother, my sister can't get married, so I will support her for the rest of her life." Lin Jingzhe said.

Li Taohua rolled her eyes at her son in annoyance: "You agree, does your wife agree?"

Lin Jingzhe chuckled and said, "Then I won't marry a wife. If I have to marry someone, I'll marry someone who can help me raise my sister."

Lin Dajiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Xiao Man is a lucky star. The threshold of our house will be broken by people stepping on it in the future. Why are you so anxious?"

Lin Xiaoman didn't mind enjoying the fun.

She laughed as she peeled shrimp.

"Brother, remember what you just said. Don't blame me when you can't get married."

"Two fools." Li Taohua broke off half of a meat bun and put it into Lin Xiaoman's small bowl with a hole in it.

Almost all the meat filling in the bun was in her bowl.

Lin Xiaoman felt warm in her heart and took the bun back, "Mother, you still have to feed your brother, you need to eat more."

"It's time to wean her off." Li Taohua said, "Your father bought some rice today. Tonight, we'll go to the village head's house and borrow a mill. Grind the rice into powder, fry it, and then you can give it to Lidong as rice porridge."

After the meal, Li Taohua couldn't resist the child's nagging and ate the whole meat bun with a painful look on her face.

I also ate two large plates of long-bearded worms.

The long-bearded worms dipped in sauce were so delicious that the whole family ate until they were 80% full.

Decided to catch more at night.

"Master, do you want to tell my parents about catching the long-bearded insect?" Li Taohua ate meat herself, but she felt uncomfortable thinking that her parents in the old house had to eat coarse food.

Although the parents were partial and gave all the good things to the third wife, at least they provided the children with food to eat.

There was a famine a few years ago and several girls in the village starved to death.

"Let's do it later. Mom can't hide anything from anyone." Lin Dajiang made the decision.

When he has caught most of the long-bearded worms in the river, he will send them to his parents if they can't make ends meet.

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Night falls.

It was dark.

Lin Dajiang took Lin Jingzhe out and called Li Erli who lived next door.

Today, Lin Xiaoman used the excuse of watching the chicks at home and did not follow Lin Dajiang to catch insects.

She took Lin Guyu to feed the chickens, covered the basket with a rag, and put it in the kitchen to prevent it from being taken away by a weasel.

After settling the chicks, he took Xiao Guyu to take a bath.

Li Taohua was very busy that night.

If you want to eat the palm-sized pork belly sparingly, you have to marinate it.

It turns out that we can’t let the head of the family go to town.

Spend money lavishly.

The meat was marinated and the large bones were placed in the well of Li Erli's house next door, to be eaten tomorrow.

I ate steamed buns today. I can’t finish all the delicious food in one day, otherwise I won’t be able to survive.

Now that there are long-bearded insects in the house, she is living a life that she could never have imagined in the past.

After Li Taohua marinated the pork belly, she cleaned it in the kitchen and went to the backyard to chop firewood.

I had to prepare enough firewood and wait until midnight before I could secretly close the door and boil lard and cook long-bearded worms.

Even if someone smelled something, they wouldn't know which chimney was coming out of it.

The main feature is sneakiness.

Lin Xiaoman put Xiao Guyu, who had just finished taking a bath, in front of Li Taohua and quickly slipped into the room.

Close the door and rush into the space.

After eating a rice ball, I started to wash the shrimps.

Purely natural wild river shrimps are not as big as modern farmed shrimps, but they are more delicious.

She smashed a dozen cloves of garlic and cut the ginger into shreds.

I secretly picked a few wild onions from Li Taohua, washed them and cut them into sections.

Remove the whiskers from the drained shrimps and quickly cut a horizontal line in the middle to remove the shrimp thread.

Next, prepare a bowl of braised sauce for the braised prawns.

Add one spoonful of dark soy sauce, two spoonfuls of light soy sauce, one spoonful of vinegar, one spoonful of oyster sauce, half a spoonful of white sugar to a bowl, then add half a bowl of water and mix well.

Heat oil in a pan, pour in the prawns, stir-fry a few times until they change color, add appropriate amount of cooking wine, add shredded ginger and minced garlic and continue to stir-fry until fragrant.

The aroma of garlic was wrapped in oil and ginger, and Lin Xiaoman's stomach, which was only eight-tenths full, began to protest again.

She couldn't wait to pour in the sauce she had prepared in advance, stir-fry over medium heat a few times, and then turn to high heat to reduce the sauce.

A rich aroma filled the kitchen. Lin Xiaoman sprinkled some scallions, stir-fried it twice and served.

Lin Xiaoman didn't care about the heat, she peeled the shrimp and ate one up.

It’s just that!

It’s fresh and flavorful, so delicious that she wants to lick her fingers!

After taking one bite of this delicious food, it would be unthinkable to stop.

Lin Xiaoman ate them all with a crunching sound.

Soon the plate of shrimps was gone.

Lin Xiaoman felt bad eating alone.

We still have to make money quickly!

But how can I make money quickly?

How about we go to a stall and buy food twice a month?

But these days all raw materials are expensive, take meat and grain for example, they are extremely expensive.

Lin Xiaoman stared at her full warehouse in a daze.

It's really like having a large room full of supplies but not being able to give them away openly.

Those bags of flour shouldn't go bad if they're kept for a long time, right?

flour?

what!

Lin Xiaoman felt like a complete fool.

What’s the most refreshing thing to eat in summer?

Isn’t that the cold noodles that are suitable for all ages?

Lin Xiaoman was very excited because she had made cold noodles often before.

Shoot videos with different kinds of cold noodles.

Nowadays, every household in Shanglin Village has tender cucumbers at the entrance of their yard, served with refreshing and cool noodles.

If only there were some bean sprouts, it would be so delicious!