Eating melons

"Who!"

"I."

Hearing Wu Mei's voice, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi quickly put away the desk lamp, turned on the flashlight, and then opened the door.

"Wu Mei, come in! It's warm in the room. What can I do for you?"

As soon as Wu Mei entered the house, she was shocked by the heat inside. No wonder Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's firewood burned so quickly. It turned out that the house was so warm!

I was just about to remind them to pay attention to the use of firewood, otherwise there would be no firewood before the end of winter. Firewood would be difficult to buy at that time, and even if it was available, it would be very expensive. But then I thought of the pile of coal they had and shut up.

"I was bored at home this afternoon and made some buns. They're stuffed with pickled cabbage and vermicelli, and with mushrooms. Don't worry, there's no pork in them. I'll give you some to try."

Jiang Qi and Wei Wei were stunned when they heard Wu Mei say that she made the buns herself. They also wanted to make buns themselves, but they didn’t know how.

But when they thought of Wu Meihui, their eyes lit up. Jiang Qi opened the basket and took a look. It was not made of pure white flour, but it looked very fluffy.

Jiang Qi pinched one open and took a look. The skin was thin and the filling was thick.

Jiang Qi looked at Wu Mei in surprise, "Did you make these buns by kneading the dough yourself?"

Wu Mei nodded in the affirmative. Jiang Qi excitedly grabbed Wu Mei's hand and said, "Can you teach us how to make buns? And dumplings? Do you know how to make dumplings?"

Wu Mei nodded again: "Yes, I can knead the dough, roll out the dough, and wrap it."

Wei Wei immediately poured Wu Mei a cup of brown sugar ginger tea, "Come, come, you've been playing in the snow outside for too long today, drink some brown sugar ginger tea to get rid of the cold."

When she heard it was brown sugar, Wu Mei quickly refused, "No, no, I'm dressed quite warmly, I'm not cold."

Wei Wei pushed the cup into her hand and said, "We are so familiar with each other, why should we be polite? Drink up, there is plenty here."

Hearing this, Wu Mei did not refuse, "Thank you."

Wei Wei waved her hand. "You're welcome. By the way, can you teach us how to make buns? And dumplings, too. We all want to learn."

Hearing this, Wu Mei nodded immediately. She thought it was a big deal, but it was just a small matter.

"Sure, you can come anytime you want to learn."

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi immediately jumped on the bandwagon, "Okay, we'll go find you to learn tomorrow."

Wei Wei suddenly thought of noodles, "By the way, can you make noodles?"

Wu Mei nodded again, "Yes."

Upon hearing this, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's eyes lit up. It seemed that this hibernation life would not be boring after all.

Playing in the snow, learning to make buns and dumplings, kneading dough, rolling noodles and studying, don’t say it’s boring, I’m too busy to handle it.

As soon as Wu Mei left, Wei Wei bought a lot of flour, planning to work hard tomorrow.

Jiang Qi looked at the flour and then at the buns, and realized something was wrong. "Weiwei, this is not right. Is our flour too white?"

Wei Wei was stunned when she heard this. She took a closer look and found that, compared with the buns, their flour was indeed too white.

"Is it because Wu Mei didn't use pure white flour?"

Jiang Qi shook his head. "It's probably not just that. The processing at that time was probably not as good as in later generations, and the flour was not so white."

Wei Wei thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. "Then we can only learn how to make these and secretly use them to make buns and dumplings. I'll look for flour from the 1960s and 1970s."

Wei Wei bought it and opened it, and found that it was indeed much yellower than the ones she had bought before.

Wei Wei immediately put away the white flour and bought a lot of flour and corn flour from the 1960s and 1970s.

I used to see on the Internet that people in Northeast China would make a lot of dumplings, buns, steamed buns and freeze them during the winter.

They can also take this opportunity to make more and freeze it. Then they don’t have to prepare breakfast. They can take it out and thaw it the night before, and then steam it directly on the fire the next morning.

This way, breakfast and supper are all solved.

Now that we have Master Wu Mei, we should make good use of her free labor and do more.

With a plan in mind, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were very active the next day and got up early in the morning.

As soon as she opened the door, Wei Wei was shocked by the scene outside. Yesterday at noon, the snow was not even ankle-deep, and they had all shoveled it away.

It snowed all afternoon and night yesterday, and now the snow is almost up to my calves.

"Jiang Qi, Jiang Qi, it snowed heavily last night, and the snow was so deep!"

Jiang Qi, who was adding firewood to the stove in the back, heard the sound and came out to take a look, his eyes narrowed with smiles.

"We're going to make dumplings today. As for making a snowman, let's wait until tomorrow when the snow is thicker!"

Wei Wei nodded, and after breakfast, the two of them excitedly went to find Wu Mei.

When Wu Mei heard the two talking about making buns, she was stunned for a moment, but she still said, "Let's make them in the afternoon! Now that the snow has stopped, we have to sweep the snow off the roof, otherwise the roof will collapse when it snows again."

This really touched upon Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's blind spots in knowledge; they really didn't know about this.

But I seem to have seen it on the Internet before. Someone hit the eaves with a shovel, and the snow on the roof fell down with a loud noise.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were quite excited when they thought about this. They had never played like this before! As for making dumplings, they could do it anytime. There was no rush.

However, to Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's disappointment, the snow-sweeping was not what they had imagined, because Yu Xi brought a ladder.

Not only Yu Xi, but two old educated youths also came from the educated youth institute to help them clear the snow.

Yu Xi looked at Jiang Qi and Wei Wei who were eager to try and quickly stopped them, "Don't go up, it's too dangerous, we can help you clean it."

Seeing Yu Xi's serious look, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi withdrew their hands and feet awkwardly.

Seeing the two old educated youths nimbly climb up to the roof to sweep the snow, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi felt embarrassed to play below.

After all, it seems a bit unethical for you to just play around when they are working for you seriously for free, so the two of them went into the house to make brown sugar ginger tea.

Since they were helping them sweep the snow, they would make some tea for them to cool them down! Wei Wei had so much brown sugar that she couldn't finish it.

Yu Xi and his friends were pretty nice. Even the roofs of Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin were cleaned spotlessly.

Seeing that the snow had been swept, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi hurriedly brought out the brown sugar ginger tea. Seeing the snow that had been swept down, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi could not move their legs.

In the end, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi couldn't help themselves and reached out their hands to the snow on the ground wearing scarves and gloves.

After the snow was cleared, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi also built their snowman. Although it was a bit abstract, it was still a snowman.

Wu Mei, who came out of the house, couldn't help but twitch her lips when she saw the snowman made by Wei Wei and Jiang Qi. She really couldn't tell that it was a snowman.

These are two piles of snow piled together, and neither snowball is round or solid.

But seeing the two people so excited, Wu Mei did not discourage them. She was just worried that they would catch a cold after playing for so long. After all, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's shoes and trouser legs were wet.

Therefore, Wu Mei interrupted Wei Wei and Jiang Qi who were planning to continue their big fight.

"Didn't you say you wanted to make dumplings? Let's go! We can go now. Where should we make them? Your side or mine?"

When Wei Wei and Jiang Qi heard that they could make dumplings, they said, "Come on, come on, let's go to Jiang Qi's place! I left the things at Jiang Qi's house. Let's go change clothes. Please help us light the fire first! Don't let us catch a cold later."

If you want to make dumplings, you have to make them at home. You can’t do it without a fire in the house in the cold winter.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi are people who are willing to burn firewood, and the house must be warm to feel comfortable.

But Wu Mei couldn't be as unrestrained as Wei Wei and Jiang Qi. She had a limited amount of firewood, so Wei Wei and Jiang Qi couldn't let Wu Mei waste it.

In fact, let alone Wu Mei, even Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi didn’t burn firewood as fiercely as Wei Wei and Jiang Qihe.

You should know that Wei Wei's family only steams rice, and Yu Xi's family also only steams rice, but the firewood consumption rate in Wei Wei's family is much faster than that in Yu Xi's family.

Although it seemed that the consumption speed was the same for everyone from outside, in fact, Wei Wei took the firewood by looking at the speed at which Yu Xi consumed it. Wei Wei secretly burned a lot of firewood bought from the system mall.

If the firewood Wei Wei bought from the system mall was also counted, the firewood burned by Yu Xi and Liu Jiaojiao combined was not as much as Wei Wei.

The same goes for Jiang Qi. Jiang Qi only cooks and does not rest at night, so there is no need to heat the kang at night.

But Wu Mei had to cook and rest at night, but Jiang Qi burned much more firewood than Wu Mei.

Jiang Qi also took the firewood by looking at the speed at which Wu Mei took the firewood.

But in fact, Jiang Qi also secretly burned a lot of firewood bought from the system mall.