usatvline Chapter 491 Frozen Pear
Chapter 491 Frozen Pear
"To be honest, there should be a door in the wall between the kitchen and the main room. Otherwise, you'll have to run around in the cold winter all the time. It's too tiring." Fu Biao took out the dried seafood that Xiong Lijin had brought in a bag. These things all needed to be soaked in water, so now he needed to run to the kitchen next door to get a basin.
There is a small stove in the main room, and hot water is always kept on it.
Yi Chi looked at Jiang Yu, but he himself didn't feel anything.
Jiang Yu thought about it and realized that this house was converted from the former brigade office. A new kang was built and a fire wall was built to connect it to the kitchen next door. When these things were installed, the weather was not cold yet, so no one considered opening a door in the room.
But now that Fu Biao had brought it up, Jiang Yu also thought it was possible, and then he sealed the kitchen door.
"Let's do it after it thaws. We can't rebuild it now." Jiang Yu made a note of this and watched them busy themselves.
Dried mushrooms, dried beans, and seafood all need to be soaked in water.
Chen Jinghan took two boxes of snacks and gave them to the girls. "I forgot to take them out before. My mother sent them to me. They smell pretty good. They're called Snowflake Crisp. We're not very interested. You can try them. They say there's a new counter in the supply and marketing cooperative that specializes in selling this snack. It's very popular in City B."
Xue Li raised his eyebrows high.
Snowflake Crisp? What a familiar name.
Jiang Yu opened the lid of the tin box and saw that inside were small square snacks covered with thick milk powder. He could smell the rich milk aroma as soon as he opened the box.
"The place where the snacks are made must be quite wealthy. These contain dried fruits, red dates, and milk powder. Not everything an average family can afford." Jiang Yu sniffed the aroma, it smelled quite good. The person who could make this kind of snack must not be a real local.
Yi Chi handed over a plate and two small forks.
The fork was made by Jiang Yu herself, using the leftover scraps from her playing with wood. However, it was polished to a smooth and fine texture, making it very convenient for daily use.
Sure enough, Xue Li picked up the fork and turned it twice. The round handle made it look cute. "Can this be used as a small animal's head?"
"Sure." Jiang Yu nodded.
"Then I want one with a puppy head!" Xue Li immediately looked at her good sister with starry eyes.
"Wait until I finish working on that pile of wire." Jiang Yu pointed to the wire circle in the corner of the room. Her wire town was not finished yet, and she usually used her free time to do this.
Xue Li nodded, said "no hurry, no hurry", then put a piece of snowflake crisp into his mouth.
To be honest, the taste is just so-so. For Xue Li, who has tasted countless delicious foods in later generations, this is a product that he will never repurchase after trying it once.
In her shopping mall, there are snowflake cakes that are countless times more delicious than this, displayed in a glass window for her to eat at will.
"It's too sweet." Jiang Yu frowned, and she turned to Yi Chi and said, "Make a pot of tea, this stuff is so sweet that it makes my throat sticky."
"Okay." Yi Chi stood up, opened the closet, took out a clay pot from the upper layer, and made two pots of tea.
The girls' pots are made of red pottery, and the small cups are also matching. They were made when the kiln was built in the brigade.
The men used fancy porcelain pots bought from the supply and marketing cooperative outside.
Xue Li poured a cup of tea, blew on it, then took a small sip, using the light and fragrant tea to dilute the sweetness in his mouth.
It seems that the suspected fellow villager who sells snowflake crisps is really not very good at making this thing.
However, considering that she has her own counter and sufficient resources, the income from simply selling raw materials should not be too bad.
Milk powder is a hot commodity these days.
"This thing is too high to pair with our tea." Xue Li frowned and closed the lid on the snowflake crisp. He couldn't eat any more, really couldn't eat any more. One piece would be enough.
Jiang Yu leaned back, holding up the small cup and smelling the tea.
The tea at home is the good stuff that Yi Chi took out from the secret library. However, even if Pu'er can be stored for a long time, it will go bad if left any longer.
It just so happened that Yi Chi had a bad stomach, and drinking cooked Pu'er tea was good for his stomach, so the two of them had been consuming tea like crazy recently.
"Would you like some frozen pears?" Yi Chi asked when he saw the two of them putting away the snack boxes.
Before the girl could say anything, Xiong Lijin shouted, "I want to eat!" The fire was warm, but it was too dry.
Seeing that everyone nodded, Yi Chi went out again to get the frozen pears.
After a while, the frozen pears were brought into the house soaked in a basin of water.
Xiong Lijin placed the frozen pear next to himself, saying that it would be convenient for him to observe the thawing of the frozen pear.
When others saw how greedy he was, they didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Fu Biao started talking about his weight again.
Xiong Lijin jumped up in anger and wanted to fight Fu Biao to the death. The two of them started making a lot of noise in the house like a drama.
Wu Aiqing quickly moved the basin of frozen pear water to the wall to prevent the two men from starting a fight and kicking the basin over without noticing.
Jiang Yu watched the excitement for a while, then told Xue Li about what happened with Tofu Lady.
Xue Li clicked his tongue twice, then said, "This is a smoky, foul place. Even if a bunch of inhuman things die, it won't cure their stubborn illness. But speaking of this, do you still remember Xiaolu?"
"I remember it, but I haven't seen him often. The other kids in the team were having fun outside. Winter is a good time for them to skate and play in the snow, but that kid never seemed to come out?" Although Jiang Yu didn't go out many times this winter, he had seen the other children except Xiaolu.
"Their house collapsed, and later on, some elders in the village felt sorry for the three of them, so they gathered some bricks and rebuilt the house. But the room is small, and the walls are not warm. Two days ago, I saw Xiaolu going up the mountain to collect firewood in thin clothes." It's snowing heavily, and they still want a child to go up the mountain to collect firewood...the parents have had enough.
Jiang Yu hummed, "Xiaolu is a grown-up boy if you really count him. He is just picking up firewood. Others in the team do the same."
"But why don't his parents go themselves?" Xue Li was a little unhappy, mainly because he couldn't stand seeing people bullying children.
"How do you know his parents didn't go? Or how do you know they didn't have to go by themselves and had to let their child go into the mountains?" Jiang Yu stretched out his finger and tapped Xue Li's forehead. "You really are very cunning, but not perfect. I'm picking up firewood on the small road, you're not meddling in other people's business, are you?"
"No, that child looks at people strangely now. It scares me." Xue Li pretended to fall down, then waved his hands to answer Jiang Yu.
"Let's just be marginalized people in the team. No matter whose business it is, don't bother with it." What if someone blames you?
Xue Li nodded, "Xiaolu's fate..." But when she thought of Yi Chi, she felt that she could not say that Xiaolu had an unfortunate fate, so she shut her mouth.