Eating melons

Jiang Qi: "Auntie, does anyone know of any store that sells decent dried vegetables? We should buy some more."

Liu Aiying: "Didn't you buy dried mushrooms from Carpenter Zhang? If you think they're good, you can go back to his place for dried vegetables."

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi also thought that the things at Carpenter Zhang's house were pretty good. They were clean, without any sand, and were not short of weight. So they nodded and planned to buy some more later.

Speaking of nuts, Wei Wei suddenly asked, "Aunt Liu, what do you think of Aunt Wu Cuihua's family? I heard they have a lot of walnuts and pine nuts. Is that true? We also need to buy some pine nuts and walnuts."

Liu Aiying nodded. "She does have quite a lot of stuff. Mine was all taken away by the kids at home. She has a large family, so she can pick up quite a lot every year. The stuff is pretty good, too. Many educated youth go to her house to exchange it, and the prices are decent."

The Wu family has a large population and often goes to the mountains to pick up mountain products, so the Wu family has a lot of mountain products.

In fact, the Zhang family had quite a few of these, but they were all sold by Zhang's son-in-law, Zhang Chaomei's husband. Only some dried mushrooms were left, and they were all bought by Wei Wei, so there were none left at home.

However, these things were done secretly, and no one knew about it except their own family. They told others that it was done by their own children.

After the sauerkraut was pickled, Liu Aiying took Wei Wei and Jiang Qi to the field to cut cabbage.

Liu Jiaojiao, Wu Mei and Yu Xi followed Zhao Xing back and also went to the fields to cut cabbage.

When they got to the field, Liu Aiying pointed to a patch of land and said, "Just cut two rows here. Twenty cabbages each will be enough. Cut them and leave them here to dry for two days. Wait until they are dry before you start working. It doesn't look like it will rain in the next few days."

Wei Wei: "Okay."

After saying that, they started chopping. It took three people no time to finish chopping more than forty cabbages. After chopping, they just put them on the ground to dry in the sun.

Jiang Qi was a little curious when she saw the large field of eggplants not far away. "Auntie, there are so many eggplants. What are you planning to do with them?"

So many eggplants are dried into dried eggplants. You’ll eat so much dried eggplants that you’ll vomit!

Liu Aiying: "How can I dry so many eggplants? I'll pickle them with garlic in two days."

Wei Wei: "Pickled eggplant with garlic?"

Jiang Qi: "Pickled eggplant with garlic?"

Seeing their expressions, Liu Aiying smiled and said, "You haven't eaten it before!"

Jiang Qi: “I haven’t even heard of it.”

Wei Wei: "I've only heard of garlic eggplant, but it's not pickled and doesn't require that much eggplant."

Liu Aiying: "This pickled garlic eggplant is delicious! It's available in every household here. I'll make it in a few days, so come and see me."

Jiang Qi: "Okay, Auntie, can these cabbages be dried for two days?"

Liu Aiying looked at the sky and said, "Looks like the sun will last about two days."

Jiang Qi: "Auntie, when you have time, can you help us pickle it? We watched it today and it seems that we have learned it in our heads, but not in our hands. But don't worry, we can pay you for it."

Liu Aiying: "It's not about wages, it's just a simple thing. When the cabbage is dried, I will send it over to you and pickle it for you. It's just a small amount, a piece of cake."

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Liu Aiying agreed. After all, they had never done this before. Although they seemed to understand it, they had never tried it.

If something goes wrong at that time, the whole jar of sauerkraut will go bad, which would be such a waste.

Wei Wei: "Thank you, Auntie."

Jiang Qi: "Thank you, Auntie."

When Wei Wei saw the radishes not far away, she remembered what Liu Aiying had just said: "In winter, people usually eat radishes, cabbages and potatoes."

Wei Wei: "Auntie, when did you stockpile those radishes?"

Liu Aiying: "It will take some time before we can stock up on fresh radishes. We can wait until frost is about to come. Now we are drying the radishes and pickling them."

The two of them listened and nodded. In that case, they decided not to buy radishes for now. They didn't plan to make pickled radishes, so they would just buy dried radishes.

So one person picked some vegetables with higher prices in the vegetable garden, including a lot of celery, which Wei Wei liked very much.

Liu Aiying just thought they were going to dry the vegetables, so she didn't doubt it when they picked a lot. She hoped they would pick more so she could earn more.

Otherwise, it will go bad if left in the field, and it will also go bad if left at home and not eaten. And there will be no chickens, ducks, geese or pigs to eat in winter.

There is a lot of land in the team, and every family has a lot of private plots. Her family grows a lot of different kinds of vegetables. In previous years, they dried them and sent some to the fifth child and some to the fourth child. The fourth child would also sell some, but there would always be some left every year.

It seems that this year, there will be no food left except for what we eat at home. They have all been sold. As for if the fourth child still wants to sell some, it will be easy to solve. He can just go to his relatives' homes to get the goods. There are plenty of goods at their homes.

Every year, every household stores vegetables by the ton, fearing they won't have enough to eat. The Red Star Brigade reclaimed more wasteland, so they had the most food. For things like dried vegetables, as long as the families were diligent, they would have leftovers. Many people in other brigades didn't even have enough to eat!

However, although every household in the Red Star Brigade had surplus dried vegetables, there were also many educated youth in the brigade, and they would buy a lot, so there would not be too much left over in each household.

We have to thank the team leader for this. There are not so many poor educated youth in the Red Star Team. Most of those who have no money will work hard and will not starve to death.

The educated youth who didn't work much all had money and could buy food. There were no those who had no money at home and were lazy and slacking off at work.

But even if you slack off, you won't get much benefit. The rules of the brigade are there. You will get work points based on how much you work.

Seeing Wei Wei and Jiang Qi busy at work, Liu Aiying also planned to pick some vegetables to take home and make some pickled vegetables. There were plenty of cabbage leaves at home today.

But seeing Liu Aiying constantly pulling out the green onion leaves, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were a little confused.

Wei Wei: "Could it be that Aunt Liu picked some to feed the chickens? That's too extravagant!"

It’s no wonder Wei Wei thought this way. It was because the last time they pickled sugar garlic, their extravagant behavior of throwing away most of the garlic leaves left a deep impression on her.

Jiang Qi also thought about their behavior of throwing garlic leaves last time. "I don't know, but it seems that we can't finish all the green onion leaves! Even if we dip them in soybean paste, we can't eat so much in a day!"

Liu Aiying saw the two of them looking over here, their backpacks full, thinking they were waiting for her. "Have you finished picking? I'll pick a few more carrots and then go back."

Wei Wei looked at Jiang Qi and said, "Red radishes are needed now? Do you have purple radishes? Let's buy some and make some pickles! They look beautiful when pickled."

Jiang Qi nodded, "Okay."

After saying that, the two of them walked towards Liu Aiying with baskets on their backs, but they fell silent when they saw what Liu Aiying had pulled out.

Well, they were overthinking it. A carrot is just a carrot.

Wei Wei didn’t like fresh carrots, but carrot pickles were edible, so the two of them picked some as well.

Wei Wei looked at the large handful of green onions in Liu Aiying's hand with great curiosity, "Auntie, what are you going to do with all these green onions? I can't eat all of them!"

Wei Wei's OS: It can't be used to fry scallions! It can't be that extravagant! She has been here for so long and has never seen anyone fry anything.

Liu Aiying looked at the green onion leaves in her hand and smiled. "This is for pickling pickles. These pickles are perfect with rice or porridge. Each of you can take a bowl back later."

He said that when he was playing and passing by a coriander field, he picked a handful of coriander.

The two of them saw green onions, carrots, and coriander, and were a little curious about the so-called chopped pickles. They thought they should be similar to cold dishes!

However, after seeing the finished product, both of them were a little disappointed.

It was almost noon, and Liu Aiying returned home and planned to prepare lunch.

I saw her find a lot of good cabbage leaves and wash them together with green onion leaves, carrots and coriander.

Then chop the cabbage leaves, cut the green onion leaves and coriander into sections, and cut the carrots into shreds. Then put them in a bowl, add salt and mix them together. Don't add anything else.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi felt something was wrong, but before they could figure it out, they heard Liu Aiying say it was okay.

The two of them were a little silent as they looked at the pure green, additive-free pickled vegetables in front of them. This was a little different from the cold dishes they knew.

Apart from other things, they just can't accept the lack of chili oil. How can you eat salad without chili oil? How can salad not be spicy?