Chapter 284 Roasted Seeds
The three of them sat together, Chen Xuhui brought clean water, and Mushui and Mu Xiu began to clean the peanuts. The cleaning means washing the soil on the peanut shell first, draining the water, and then taking it into the kitchen.
The reason why Muxiu peanuts are delicious is that others use clear sand, while she uses salt. The salt in half of the basin is the special salt used for stir-frying peanuts, which is ordinary edible salt, but it has changed a little after repeated stir-frying.
Mu Xiu used to love making roasted goods at home, and the salt she used to put in the space.
Mu Xiu set up the largest pot in the house, poured the salt into the iron pot, started to stir-fry the salt, heated the salt in the iron pot, then poured the shelled peanuts into the pot, and stir-fry them with the salt. The whole process must be turned continuously, otherwise the taste will be bad.
Because there were too many peanuts in the iron pot, Mu Xiu stir-fry for a while, Chen Xuhui continued to stir-fry. The two of them took turns to rest and replace them. After about twenty minutes of stir-frying, they heard the peanuts making constant sounds. At this moment, extinguish the heat in the stove, turn it for another minute, and let the peanuts stay in the pot for five minutes.
Then use a colander to bring out the peanuts, shake the colander when serving, leave the edible salt in the pot, and put the peanuts in a dustpan to cool.
In this way, after nearly two hours, I finally fryed thirty kilograms of peanuts, and then made five-spice soybeans.
Mu Xiu soaked soybeans yesterday and prepared to make tofu, and it happened to be used today.
I was busy until Mu Xiaocao brought Li Pan back, and Mu Xiu put the fried soybeans and peanuts into the jar to prevent them from getting damp and not being crispy.
"Dad, get up early tomorrow to make popcorn, which tastes better." Mu Xiu's hands were folded and her wrists were moving, which really made her tired.
"Okay, you should take a break quickly, but you're tired." Mushui said embarrassedly. After all, it was his next job.
Zhou Shuilian prepared dinner. After everyone hurriedly finished eating, they all lay down to rest. Mu Xiu also boiled the kang and got into the warm bed. Now that he has returned to the countryside, there are no electronic entertainment facilities such as mobile phones, computers, and TVs. Mu Xiu has also developed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, and the night is sweet and dreamless.
In the early morning, Mu Xiuzhen struggled for a long time. After several separations with the warm bed, she got up with difficulty. There was no way, making money was important.
Mu Xiu thought he had gotten up early enough, but he didn't expect the oil lamp to light up in the kitchen. When he walked in, he saw Chen Xuhui burning hot water.
"Brother Chen, why did you get up so early?" Mu Xiu asked in surprise.
"You said you would get up early in the morning to make popcorn. I was afraid that you would be too busy, so I came over to help. The hot water was ready. You should soak your hands quickly." Chen Xuhui said with concern.
Mu Xiu felt warm in his heart. Unexpectedly, Chen Xuhui's thoughts became more and more delicate. Over the past year, he has become much more mature and steady. Although he is still a teenager, his mind is more mature. His calm aura makes people feel inexplicably safe, but his non-talking personality is particularly similar to Lu Yuan.
Mu Xiu shook his head and thought where he wanted to go. Lu Yuan is Lu Yuan, and Chen Xuhui is Chen Xuhui. What are the similarities between two different people?
"So?" Chen Xuhui saw the confused expression on Mu Xiu's face, and seemed to have some other thoughts, but he didn't seem to say anything he shouldn't say.
"It's okay, it's too cold, a little dazed, I'll wash my face first." Mu Xiu quickly changed the subject.
After Mu Xiu finished washing up, she started making popcorn. The two of them cooperated with each other. Soon, twenty kilograms of popcorn were prepared. At this time, Zhou Shuilian also got up and asked Mu Xiu and Chen Xuhui to rest first, and she made breakfast.
After breakfast, Chen Xuhui and Mushui drove the ox cart to the market. After Mu Xiu fed chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, he went back to his room.
Liu Xuenu asked for 100 kilograms of dry fungus. Mu Xiu had already packed a sack here. Now he had a pot of burning. It was enough for Mu Xiu to sleep halfway. The remaining half was spread in newspapers to dry mushrooms and fungus.
Zhou Shuilian and Mu Xiaocao sat on the kang and made shoes for the two children. Li Pandi brought Mu Xiaohua to play with building blocks at the innermost part of the kang. Mu Xiu took out the building blocks from the space. He said that they were brought back from the provincial capital, and said that the children there played with this, and the toys in the city were good, and the two children really liked to play.
"Xiu is too afraid of the cold. It's still burning in the daytime." Mu Xiaocao felt the temperature on the kang begin to warm up.
"When I was young, I was afraid of the cold. Do you still remember that Xiu was so cold that she was covered in purple and as big as a cat, almost thinking she couldn't keep it." Zhou Shuilian sighed and then asked, "Is our firewood enough to burn?"
"No, it's okay, mom, don't worry. Even if you burn like this every day, you can burn until next winter." Mu Xiaocao also remembered the pitiful look when Mu Xiu just picked it up, and there was a hint of heartache in her tone.
Then Mu Xiaocao thought of the three rooms upstairs and the rooms downstairs full of soybeans, sesame and corn stalks piled up, and said confidently.
"That's fine. When the spring comes next year, the crops will be harvested and there will be many straws. Keep them well and then warm the kang." Zhou Shuilian moved her body. It was comfortable to burn the kang. The temperature in the house was a little higher and her hands were much more flexible.
"I see that the carrots and cabbages are all ripe. Tomorrow, I will quickly store them in the cellar. The greenhouse now contains mushrooms and fungus, so vegetables cannot be grown." Mu Xiaocao held the needle and looked at the greenhouse outside the window.
"This glass is really good. Doing needlework in the house doesn't hurt your eyes at all. You can see clearly outside." Zhou Shuilian looked out along Mu Xiaocao's gaze and said with a smile.
"There is still no light on." Mu Xiu still felt that the light was a little dim.
"That's true. The electric lights in the room were really on when we were in the provincial capital. I don't know when we can use the electric lights here too." Zhou Shuilian said with anticipation.
"The county town is basically powered on, and we probably are getting faster here." Mu Xiu was staying in the room now, and the temperature in the room gradually warmed up, and she felt a little more comfortable. From yesterday to today, her arms were sore. She was half lying on the kang, listening to the conversation between Zhou Shuilian and Mu Xiaocao, and lazily responded.
"I think it's so bad, I have to wait at least two years." Mu Xiaocao said calmly from the side.
Chapter completed!