Volume 1: Reborn in the 80s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 70 Grandma Hu's Glutinous Rice
How could Grandpa Hu bear to punish his old daughter?
While hugging his wife, he said to Hu Qiongfang:
"I forgot to tell you just now. Go to your eldest brother's house and tell them to come here for breakfast tomorrow morning. Ask your second brother to borrow a tractor from the village. After breakfast, we will go to the provincial road to check on your land."
Hu Qiongfang was almost 30 years old and was almost punished by the angry Grandma Hu. Her face turned red with shame and she quickly stood up and ran to her eldest brother's house next door.
Jiang Tian is really an eye-opener.
Looking at it this way, it’s no wonder that her mother always felt that she needed someone to push her forward in everything, whether in her previous life or in this life.
With Grandma Hu, a mother who always considers everything for her daughter, to be honest, Hu Qiongfang was not like Guo Fu in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", who was spoiled and willful by her extremely smart mother. It was really the blessing of the Hu family's ancestors!
Grandma Hu was so angry at her own daughter that she felt suffocated in her chest, but when she turned around and saw her granddaughter, she felt very relieved.
Fortunately, Jiang Tian inherited her grandfather's personality. She is quick-witted, dares to think and work hard, and is born with a spirit of adventure.
It’s a pity that Jiang Tian is not a boy. If it were a boy, one could make money for the family, and the other could go to college to improve the social status of the whole family. Then her daughter could really lie down and enjoy the rest of her life.
It's not that Grandma Hu favors boys over girls, it's just that no matter how well a girl is raised, she will eventually get married. It's impossible for Grandma Hu to let her daughter keep her granddaughter at home, not let Jiang Tian get married, and make money for her parents' family all her life.
But if she gets married, Jiang Tian will inevitably have to use the connections and skills she has gained in business to take care of her own family first.
If a girl continues to support her parents after getting married, she will have a bad reputation.
Grandma Hu closed her eyes and thought for a moment, then quickly set the direction for her daughter's development in the next ten years -
Grandson Jiang Cheng still needs to be well educated. A college student in the countryside is not only respectable, but also a guarantee for the whole family to improve their social status.
Of course, Jiang Tian also needs to be trained well. This girl is born to be a business person. It's not that Grandma Hu is biased and doesn't allow her to go to college. Jiang Tian's brain is so bad that it would be a waste to go to college. She should use this energy to make money. If she is lucky, a hundred college students may not earn as much as this girl.
Ten years later, it was almost time for Jiang Cheng to find a partner. Grandma Hu felt that the ideal arrangement would be for Jiang Cheng's partner to also be someone who liked doing business.
At that time, Jiang Tian can take his sister-in-law with him and teach her how to do business.
In this way, the two of them are both sisters-in-law and master and apprentice. With these two levels of relationship, even if Jiang Tian gets married, her relationship with her natal family will not be severed.
The elder sister-in-law is also the master who brought her into the industry. With this master-disciple relationship, Jiang Tian will have at least half the say in her parents' home in the future, just like before marriage.
To put it bluntly, from now on, when Jiang Tian returns to her parents' home, if his sister-in-law dares to smash pots and pans at him, Jiang Tian can smash the pots at her brother's house, and no one will say anything to her.
After all, a younger sister-in-law can bully her married elder sister-in-law, but an apprentice must never betray his master.
The severity of this kind of thing is almost as bad as disobeying one's own father. Anyone with a normal mind would not dare to do this.
Although they were furious with their own daughter, at night, when the old couple lay in bed, they were so excited that they could hardly sleep when they thought of their daughter lying in the next room.
Grandma Hu poked her husband and said, "I think you don't have to go to the provincial capital to set up a stall next year. When your daughter's noodle shop opens, we can pick fruits from home and set up a stall in front of the noodle shop. By the way, we can also help our daughter."
It doesn’t matter whether the fruit can be sold or not, because I have my son to back me up.
The most important thing is that I can help my daughter.
Grandpa Hu nodded in the dark, then he remembered that his wife couldn't see him, so he quickly said, "I think it's okay! There are not only truck drivers but also many buses traveling north and south on this provincial road."
Many buses these days don’t have air conditioning, and especially in the summer, riding a long-distance bus is really a torture, so the fruit stalls near the bus station do a good business.
Especially those who sell oranges, apples and bananas. If people on the bus have no appetite, they can fill their stomachs by eating apples, bananas, etc.
People who suffer from motion sickness cannot live without oranges.
The couple chatted for most of the day, until Grandpa Hu couldn't hold back his sleepiness anymore and said:
"Anyway, my daughter is back. I can see her every day from now on. Stop nagging me."
I got kicked by my wife.
Feeling aggrieved, he curled up in bed and fell asleep.
Grandma Hu thought about it and felt that the old man was right, so she closed her eyes contentedly.
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The next morning, Jiang Tian woke up to the smell of sweet glutinous rice.
Hu Qiongfang jokingly turned out a new set of clothes for her and urged her, "Hurry up and get up. Grandma made glutinous rice for you today."
Jiang Tian immediately quickened the pace of getting dressed.
Rice is produced in abundance in the local area. In addition to the japonica rice that is usually used for cooking, every household also grows some glutinous rice.
It is usually saved for making rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, and for making glutinous rice cakes and rice cakes at the end of the year.
And the Yuanxiao (Chinese Yuanxiao) that every family eats on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
In addition to these, the locals have also developed many different ways to eat glutinous rice.
For example, the glutinous rice made by Grandma Hu.
In fact, glutinous rice is not rice. Instead, glutinous rice is steamed in a wooden barrel, and then some braised meat, braised tofu, fried soybeans, fried dough sticks, shredded carrots, shredded potatoes, etc. are prepared. You can add whatever you want to eat.
If you want glutinous rice to taste good, it is best to make it and eat it right after it is wrapped.
Take a clean wet towel to pad your hands, then spread a dry lotus leaf or rice leaf, take out the glutinous rice first, spread it flat, put your favorite dishes on it, and add some chili sauce if you like spicy food. Finally, roll the glutinous rice into a roll, and a portion of glutinous rice is ready.
These are all normal ways of eating.
It was the first time that the old daughter brought her grandson and granddaughter home. How could Grandma Hu not be happy in her heart even though she was criticizing her daughter?
She's going crazy with joy, okay?
Grandma Hu woke up before dawn.
Wash the rice and steam the glutinous rice.
I took a roll of dried lotus leaves from under the eaves and soaked them in water.
Then she busied herself with ordering Grandpa Hu to help her prepare the ingredients for making glutinous rice.
First, take out two plates of homemade pickled peppers, pickled beans, and pickled bamboo shoots from the kimchi jar, wash them, squeeze out the water, and cut them into shreds for later use.
Then heat the oil in a pan, put the soybeans that you had washed and drained the night before, and fry them until crispy. Sprinkle some salt when they are out of the pan and wrap them in glutinous rice. They are crispy and especially delicious.
Then I started frying dough sticks, stir-frying shredded potatoes, and making a spicy snail meat sauce.
It’s filled with homemade dried snail meat and small dried fish, paired with delicious broad bean sauce and dried chilies. The smell makes Jiang Tian’s mouth water.
