Starting from selling lunch boxes at the construction site

Chapter 3
After playing around with the two of them, Xu An once again told them to only play in the yard, even if they knew people, they had to tell him to open the door, and went out with a vegetable basket and a knife.

This time the destination is the vegetable garden at home.

The four members of Xu's family are all allocated eight parts of the field, adding up to a total of 3.2 mu of land.

However, the family is old and young, Xu An, the only one who can be a strong labor force, still has to go to school, so these lands are leased to private owners for planting, and the rent is [-] per mu per year.

The vegetable garden we are going to now was built by Grandma Xu by the river. Other families in the village also cultivated vegetable gardens by the river, one after another, and separated their vegetable gardens with bamboo fences.

According to the memory in his mind, Xu An found his own vegetable garden.

At a glance, Xu An suddenly became petrified, and finally understood why grandma didn't answer his words.

Grandma didn't grow green beans this year, but eggplants!

Memories that are too far away are indeed unreliable.

After a moment of emotion, Xu An quickly discarded all kinds of distracting thoughts and focused on what to eat for lunch.

"Anzi is picking vegetables."

Xu An, who was seriously thinking about what to make delicious, was interrupted by a greeting. Looking back, it was Aunt Hong, the neighbor.

Aunt Hong was the same as in her memory, she had neat short hair, her eyes were crooked as if she was smiling when she spoke, and a sense of intimacy rushed over her face.

Aunt Hong's original name was Han, and she was called Aunt Hong because she wears red tops all year round. The styles may vary, but the colors are all red.

"Aunt Hong."

"I just received a call from your sister-in-law, saying that she will come to visit your grandma the morning after tomorrow, and come to me if you need anything." Aunt Han urged with some worry, feeling sorry for Xu An's family in her heart.

The sister-in-law of Xu An's family was quite nice when she was a girl, but since she got married, her personality became more and more strange every year.

In the past, when Xu's father and Xu's mother were still around, she was quite honest. In the past two years, she has become more and more noisy.

"Okay, fortunately, Auntie Hong made a trip in person."

The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and Aunt Hong left.

Xu An inspected the vegetable garden, picked two eggplants that would be a little old tomorrow, put two green peppers on them, and went back with a vegetable basket.

When I got home, I saw the two puppies playing with the sand obediently, so I didn't bother them, and went straight to the kitchen to start cooking the lunch.

In his previous life, after graduating from university, he took Xiaokang Xiaole back to live with him. Practice makes perfect, and he has developed a good cooking skill.

Not to mention the expensive and complicated dishes of delicacies from mountains and seas, people who have eaten ordinary home-cooked dishes will basically give them a thumbs up.

The first thing to deal with is bone soup. After buying the bones, they were soaked in cold water in a basin. It has been soaked for just an hour now, and there is a layer of bloody water floating on the bottom of the basin.

Take out the bones and put them in a pressure cooker, pour out all the bloody water, pour clean well water from the well into the pot.

I found red dates and wolfberry in the seasoning area, cut three slices of ginger into it, added a little salt, covered it and put it aside.

There is no gas stove in Xu An's house, so the traditional firewood stove is still used, and the briquette stove is used for cooking soup.

Honeycomb briquettes cost [-] cents each, and each time you use it, you can burn it for three hours, which is just enough time to cook a pot of soup, which is much cheaper than using gas.

Take out the iron tongs, take out the two briquettes on the top and put them aside for later use, take out the burnt briquettes at the bottom and throw them away, and then put back the two briquettes you took out at the front.

Take out leaves and other combustibles from the sack on the side and put them into it to ignite, then add branches with small roots. After seeing the briquettes ignited, put new briquettes on the top, put the pressure cooker on it, and the soup is finished.

Cut the eggplant into small pieces, marinate with a little salt and squeeze out the water.

Take out a piece of meat with a bit of fat, cut it finely and chop it finely, put half into a plate, and keep the remaining half as minced eggplant.

Xu An yelled towards the yard, and Xu Kang and Xu Le came to the kitchen. One fetched firewood, and the other set firewood to light the fire. They cooperated in an orderly manner.

Heat the oil in an ancestral iron pan, pour in the eggplant when the oil is [-]% hot, fry the eggplant until soft, then pour in the minced meat and stir fry together.

When the minced meat changes color, bean paste is usually added, but there is no such seasoning at home, so we can only mix it with green pepper and fermented soybeans.

To be honest, Grandma Xu is good at gardening and housework, but not good at cooking.The level of cooking is probably the level of being able to eat without spoiling.

Therefore, there are usually only three kinds of seasoning at home: oil, salt and soy sauce.

After the shredded green peppers have softened, add soy sauce and salt, and after you have tasted the saltiness, you can take it out of the pot and put it in a pot.

Wash the iron pot once, measure twice the amount of rice, wash it, pour it into the pot, and add water up to the second joint of the fingers on the back of the hand.

Put the bamboo compartment on the shelf, put the seasoned meat pie dish, cover the pot, and then wait for the rice to be cooked.

After finishing the work, Xu An asked the two of them to go out to play again. The rice will take more than ten minutes to be cooked, and it will be more delicious after being cooked for a while.

But the two of them didn't want to go out, so they took a deep breath towards the minced eggplant on the stove.

"Brother, it smells like meat, a very fragrant meaty smell."

"Brother, this smells delicious. I want to eat two bowls of rice in a while!"

"Okay, eat more to grow taller."

"Can you grow up to my brother's height?"

Xu An glanced at Xu Le. As a girl, if she grows to 1.8 meters, she is too tall.Even though he thought so in his heart, he echoed in his mouth: "With two bowls of rice, I can grow taller than my brother."

"How tall is taller than my brother?"

"Just taller than my brother."

"Brother, I also want to eat two bowls of rice, and I am taller than my brother."

"Okay, you will all grow taller than your brother in the future."

In the previous life, the two of them had been tortured by their sister-in-law's house for four years, and even if Xu An intended to supplement nutrition for them, neither of them could surpass Xu An.

Xu Le is 1.6 meters two, Xu Kang is 1.7 meters three.

Xu Le's height is considered average among girls, not short.

But Xu Kang is a bit short compared to his peers who are generally more than 1.8 meters tall.

Xu's father and Xu's mother are one 1.7 and one 1.8. They were considered tall in their generation.With this gene, as long as the nutrition is sufficient, Xu Le should be able to grow to [-] meters, and Xu Kang can grow to [-] meters five.

Let's aim for this for now.

Cooking with a firewood stove is very fragrant, but it is also a test of skill.When you can hear a slight "squeak" sound from the pot, you should immediately remove the firewood and let the residual temperature in the stove continue to heat.

It takes about 10 minutes to boil the pot after removing the firewood. Generally, a perfect rice crust can be obtained at this time.

Sprinkle with sugar, fold the rice crust into several pieces, and it will be a tempting snack.

On weekdays, lunch is eaten on the square table in the living room, but now Grandma Xu has trouble walking, Xu An uses two wooden stools to prop up a board, and puts it in front of Grandma Xu's bed, and then moves a few stools, which is easy The dining table is complete.

Perhaps Xu An's dishes tasted good, not only Xu Kang and Xu Le ate two big bowls, but even Grandma Xu added half a bowl of rice which was rare.

After eating, Xu Kang and Xu Le sat slumped on the chairs, lifted up their clothes and told Xu An and Grandma Xu to look at their round bellies.

"Brother, the meat is delicious, and the belly is so big and full."

"Brother, I like to eat meat, pigs are so cute."

"Two little greedy cats, let's continue to eat meat at night."

Grandma Xu watched the interaction between the three of them, hesitated to speak several times, but in the end she still didn't say anything, but just looked at the meat on the table and felt a dull pain in her heart.

　Today’s post-00s and post-10s are really tall, they look like giants

　　
　
(End of this chapter)