Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 38 Laba Garlic

The Laba porridge was ready in the early morning of the next day. When Zhang Yu got up to wash up, he saw that Zhang Guifang was still cooking the porridge and said, "Sister-in-law, you got up so early."

"Ah, it's Xiaoyu, the porridge is ready, come and eat a bowl quickly." Zhang Guifang was a little slow to react because of sleepiness, and it took him a long time to react, but she didn't answer him directly.

Zhang Yu went back to the house to wash up. After washing, he looked at his sister-in-law again, and suddenly felt something was wrong, "Sister-in-law, did you stay up all night without sleeping?"

"Isn't this the best way to boil it!" Zhang Guifang looked at Zhang Yu's disapproving eyes, and her words were a little lacking.

"You can't stay up all night. You have dark circles under your eyes. After drinking Laba porridge, go to bed quickly." He washed the bowl, filled a bowl full of Laba porridge, and handed it to Zhang Guifang.

"Eat first, I still have something to do, so I'll eat when I'm done."

"What else can you do? If there is anything else, you have to eat and catch up on sleep before doing it."

"No, I..." Before Zhang Guifang could say anything, Zhang Yu pushed her down on the stool and put the bowl in her hand.

"Hurry up and eat, we'll talk about it after we have something to eat."

After Zhang Guifang finished eating, Zhang Yu pushed her into the room without listening to what she said, emphasizing again: "Go to sleep, you see how hard you are."

After seeing Zhang Guifang fell asleep, Zhang Yu took another bowl and filled it with a bowl of Laba porridge.

As soon as he sat on the table, the strong fragrance in the bowl came to his nostrils. He couldn't wait to pick up the spoon and take a mouthful of porridge before sending it to his mouth. It was sweet and glutinous, which was the taste in his memory.

With both excitement and happiness, he drank two large bowls in a row, patted his stomach in satisfaction, and was about to start the sign-in.

He also found that the things he signed in were sometimes related to his emotions. Every time he felt particularly happy, he would have a greater chance to open better items.

"The system opens today's sign-in."

"Ding, the sign-in is successful, congratulations to the host for getting a Chinese New Year package."

Seeing an extra gift package in the system space, Zhang Yu clicked it, and was instantly overwhelmed by things.

Before the door was closed, Zhang Yu looked outside. Fortunately, no one passed by the door for a while, so he quickly put the things into the secret space, in case someone saw something they shouldn't see.

After returning to his room, he breathed a sigh of relief. He was a little careless. He thought that there was not much in it, so he just opened it. Thinking about it now, he was a little scared. What if a person passed by the door at that time and suddenly saw Many items fell from mid-air, and the consequences...

After calming down for a while, I had time to carefully check what was included in the Chinese New Year gift package.

When he saw this, he let out a "huh" in surprise. There are so many things, whether it is food, use, clothing, wear, fresh, raw, or cooked, as long as they are needed during the Chinese New Year. It's all inside.

Meat and aquatic products, tea and drinks, snack boxes, preserved and dried fruits, and all kinds of fresh vegetables are available.

He opened a box of preserved fruits, which contained preserved apricots, preserved pears, preserved peaches, preserved sago, preserved fragrant fruits, and preserved crabapple.

Not to mention the others, this New Year's gift package, not to mention for him and his sister-in-law's family, even with the addition of two or three other families, even that kind of big family would not be able to use it all up.

This usage has to be done according to later generations. If it is so frugal according to this era, ordinary people can use it for several years.

With this New Year's gift package, many things have been solved for him, at least he doesn't have to worry about what to buy for the New Year.

You only need to find an excuse to selectively take out some things from it while purchasing, which is enough for the family to use for the New Year.

After sorting the things into different categories, I went out of the room, only to see some garlic that my sister-in-law had put at the door.

Presumably it was used to prepare Laba garlic. The garlic hadn't been peeled yet, so it happened that he had nothing to do at the moment, so he simply took a bench and sat at the door, peeled the garlic.

He only knows that the garlic cloves need to be peeled first to make Laba garlic, and the subsequent steps are not very clear.

So first wash the peeled garlic with clean water, then fish it out, put it in a dustpan, put it in the kitchen to drain, and prepare to soak it after my sister wakes up.

Zhang Guifang may also be really tired. She just wanted to sleep for a while and wake up, but she didn't expect that it was already night when she woke up from this sleep.

Seeing that it was getting dark outside, Zhang Guifang patted herself on the head, "Why did you sleep for so long, won't this delay things?"

Then he changed his clothes and went out, and said to Zhao Wenzhuo who was at the door, "Why don't you call me, I have something to do this afternoon, so I've been delayed all of a sudden."

Zhao Wenzhuo said nonchalantly: "I just want to see that you are tired, and I want you to sleep for a while."

"I slept for a really long time. I was thinking about soaking Laba garlic, but now I don't know if I can finish it." Zhang Guifang also knew that it was not her husband's fault, but she just thought that there was still something to do. After finishing, I went up after a moment of temper.

Zhang Guifang said in her mouth, then turned her head and didn't see the garlic placed at the door, "Did you put the garlic away?"

"Sister-in-law, I cleaned the garlic and put it in the kitchen." Zhang Yu walked past the door lightly, and pointed in the direction of the kitchen carefully. My sister-in-law was getting angry. He didn't want to bump into the muzzle of the gun, so he ignored it. I met the eyes of my little uncle and the others asking for help.

"You're done." Seeing the garlic in the kitchen, Zhang Guifang praised: "I'll say, it's still Xiaoyu of our family who has a wink and a job in his eyes. Let's look at each of you and wait to eat the ready-made ones." , and no help."

Listening to my sister-in-law's words, Zhang Yu turned around to his brother, sister and little uncle with apologetic expressions. He didn't mean to trick them by mistake.

The others were fine, but Zhao Xiaoping scratched her neck with her hand and said silently, "Just wait for me."

When it was over, Zhang Yu's face turned pale. If he had known earlier, he would not have invited this credit. It would be easy to say if he offended others. Maybe he would forget about it tomorrow, and he would be able to escape. If he offended that female devil, it would be miserable.

When I was young, the two adults in the family had to go to work, and my cousins ​​were boys, so he couldn't keep up with running.

So most of the time, Zhao Xiaoping was responsible for taking care of him. Over time, those who don't have sisters don't know the kind of suppression that sisters have on younger brothers.

Zhang Guifang pretended not to see the small private actions of the two siblings, and nothing major would happen anyway, Xiaoping and Xiaoyu both had their sense of proportion.

He took out a clean jar, put things in it, and said: "To soak Laba garlic, you need to soak it in old mature vinegar. After soaking for more than ten days, the garlic will turn green, and the vinegar will turn green. With some garlic spiciness, during Chinese New Year, eat dumplings and cold dishes with Laba garlic and vinegar, it tastes very good.”

(End of this chapter)