Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

Chapter 252 Being a Guest (4)

 In the afternoon, Zhou Xiaoyun took Liu Lu for a walk around the village.

The two of them walked and chatted and unknowingly reached the field. Zhou Xiaoyun pointed to his vegetable patch and showed it to Liu Lu. He nostalgically remembered the time when he used to dig wild vegetables.

Liu Lu’s mouth watered when Zhou Xiaoyun mentioned shepherd’s purse dumplings, and she asked Zhou Xiaoyun what kind of wild vegetables were shepherd’s purse.

Zhou Xiaoyun laughed: The eldest lady in this city still doesn’t know what shepherd’s purse is!

"No, this is it." Zhou Xiaoyun bent down and pulled up a fresh shepherd's purse and showed it to Liu Lu. Liu Lu looked at it for a long time and asked: "The shepherd's purse dumplings are delicious! I don't know how to make them." It’s not troublesome.”

Zhou Xiaoyun immediately understood that the eldest sister wanted to eat shepherd's purse dumplings! You said so much in a roundabout way, let’s just say it directly! However, it can also be seen from here that Liu Lu’s tutoring is really good!

Zhou Xiaoyun looked around and saw that there were quite a lot of shepherd's purses in this area, but what should he do if he didn't have a knife or a basket?

When he could get it at home, Zhou Xiaoyun made up his mind and pulled Liu Lu back. After taking only two steps, he saw brothers Dabao and Xiaobao coming over.

From far away, I heard Dabao shouting: "I've been looking for you for a long time, why are you here?"

Zhou Xiaoyun deliberately gave his brother Dabao a chance. He took Xiaobao home to get a basket and a sickle, and asked Dabao to accompany Liu Lu for a walk in the fields.

Dabao was overjoyed and felt that his sister was the only one in the world who was good!

 Liu Lu had a good impression of Dabao, and talked with Dabao about the recent sensational incident of beating someone up.

Dabao became more energetic when he mentioned this, and talked about how he found out about Gu Wanbao's school, how he took his classmates by car to the high school to find Gu Wanbao, and finally how He beat Gu Wanbao bravely and so on.

Liu Lu was fascinated when she heard this, and revealed that the girls Gu Wanbao harassed at that time were not only Zhou Xiaoyun but also herself.

Dabao said he regretted it when he found out. He should have beaten him harder if he had known about it.

Zhou Xiaoyun and Xiaobao walked home slowly, then slowly picked up the basket and sickle and walked to the fields.

Xiaobao suggested: "Sister, let's go quickly. To make dumplings, you have to mix the dough with the stuffing and roll out the dough to make the dumplings. It's very troublesome."

Zhou Xiaoyun smiled and said, "It's okay. I don't have anything else to do in the evening anyway. At worst, I'll have dinner later!"

Xiaobao always listened to Zhou Xiaoyun's words, so he stopped urging him and walked with Zhou Xiaoyun at a snail's speed. This short stretch of road usually takes a few minutes to reach, but today it took half an hour!

From a distance, I could see Dabao talking about something with foaming at the mouth. Liu Lu listened very attentively and added a sentence or two from time to time.

Xiaobao reached Zhou Xiaoyun and said, "Sister, look at how big brother looks like." He looked like he was in spring.

Zhou Xiaoyun covered his mouth and laughed: "Brother is already eighteen years old, forgive him! Which boy is not like this at this age? When he sees a girl, his eyes light up."

Xiaobao thought to himself that I will never be like this in the future. This is too ugly, and it is simply a loss of face for a boy.

Zhou Xiaoyun invited Liu Lu to dig shepherd's purse with him, and brought two sickles, just one for each person.

Dabao snatched the basket and held it in his hand. Xiaobao was so happy that he did nothing.

After a while, half a basket of shepherd's purses was dug out. Zhou Xiaoyun estimated that two meals would be enough, so he invited Dabao and Xiaobao to go home together.

The meat table at home was placed on a tricycle parked in the side room. Zhou Xiaoyun went to pick out a piece of rib meat that was three-quarters fat and seven-tenths lean. While washing it, he taught Liu Lu his experience: These dumplings cannot be made entirely of lean meat. They must be made of lean meat. It is delicious if it is a little fat. It does not need to be too fat. It is suitable if it is not more than half.

Liu Lu was dazzled watching Zhou Xiaoyun busy at the side. The shepherd's purse had to be blanched once in boiling water, washed twice to remove the astringency, and then chopped into fine pieces.

Liu Lu volunteered to help.

Zhou Xiaoyun saw that the job was not very technical, so he thought it would be okay to let Liu Lu do it, so he handed the knife to Liu Lu. Take the washed pork yourself and use your home meat grinder to grind the meat into a paste.

　Now the business is good. The small manual meat grinder has been replaced by a large electric meat grinder, which can also grind shredded meat and sliced ​​meat.

 After Zhou Xiaoyun kneaded the meat into shreds, he asked his brother Dabao to chop the meat filling. The meat paste ground out with a meat grinder is always not as delicious as the chopped meat. Anyway, Dabao is just sitting around, so he doesn't use it in vain.

Dabao was very obedient today and happily went to chop meat fillings - Liu Lu was chopping shepherd's purses, and the two happened to be chatting while they were busy, hahahaha!

Zhou Xiaoyun was busy kneading noodles, Xiaobao found the panels at home and cleaned them, and Erya found a rolling pin.

Making dumplings is the most fun, everyone can get started, and the dumplings come out in all kinds of weird shapes.

  Zhao Yuzhen and Zhou Guoqiang went out to collect pigs and have not returned yet. The four siblings plus Liu Lu have been busy for a long time before they are done.

Zhou Xiaoyun is responsible for rolling out the dough. The rolling pin is very flexible in Zhou Xiaoyun's hands. Zhou Xiaoyun picks up a small dough and presses it, then rolls it twice with the rolling pin, and a round and thin dumpling skin comes out.

Liu Lu finally made a comeback in making dumplings, and the dumplings she made looked decent. Liu Lu, who was battered by Zhou Xiaoyun, finally regained some confidence, thinking that I am not bad after all, these dumplings are beautifully made!

Erya is the youngest, but her skills are much better than those of her two brothers. She can make a bag at the fastest speed.

Zhou Xiaoyun warned Erya, who was greedy for speed: "Zhou Xiaoyue, pinch the edges of the dumplings tighter, as if the dumplings you made will fall apart when they are put into the pot." The skin belongs to the skin, and the stuffing belongs to the stuffing.

Erya chuckled, finally slowed down, and pinched the edges of the dumpling much tighter.

Xiaobao is careful and patient in his work. The dumplings he makes are not pretty in shape but are very firm on the edges.

The ugliest dumplings made by Dabao are none other than Dabao. He pinches the good dumpling wrappers into shape, and either the fillings are exposed or they are shriveled without much filling.

Erya laughed at Dabao for a few words, but Dabao smiled indifferently. As for boys, there are a few who know how to do this. If Liu Lu hadn't gone to watch TV earlier, he wouldn't have spent so long here.

 After Zhou Xiaoyun rolled out all the dumpling wrappers, he also made a few dumplings.

As soon as I put it in the dustpan, it was so small and beautiful that it immediately outshone everyone else’s works.

Liu Lu sighed: "I thought my cooking was good, but it seems I can't compare with you!" Liu Lu completely fell in love with Zhou Xiaoyun's cooking skills.

 After eating delicious shepherd’s purse dumplings in the evening, Zhou Xiaoyun and Liu Lu went out for a walk. Dabao shouted to follow, and together with Xiaobao and Erya, the five of them went out together.

　　A billiard table started to appear nearby, and Dabao's hands were itchy and he wanted to play two games.

I didn’t expect Liu Lu to agree with it. After asking, I found out that Liu Lu had played billiards with her cousin Li Tianyu and knew how to point it. Several people played billiards lively.

That breezy night, the girl holding the club and laughing heartily, have become beautiful memories that Dabao will never forget!

 (End of this chapter)