Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 39

In the future, if she threw a few salted fish in there, how could it still smell like medicine?

In that era, it was very good to have a freezer. The refrigeration equipment had not yet been popularized for civilian use, and there were no refrigerators. Most of the refrigeration was used in the medical department. After the economic liberalization, it would switch to civilian use and sell refrigerators.

The freezer couldn’t be used for a long time, as to be prepared for frequent power outages.

Qin Rou was very curious about how Lu Yan thought of getting a small freezer. 

She asked, “Do you have a freezer on board?”

“Yes.”

While being at sea for a month, one naturally needed a refrigerator to store some frozen sublimated vegetables.

Qin Rou also unexpectedly learned that some boats had ovens!

Ovens?

How strange!

After thinking about it later, it was also true that when eating and living on board, there was a kitchen on board. Many of them were imitations of Soviet style eating habits who used ovens.

One could eat baked bread with an oven, but steamed bun lovers like Lu Yan definitely didn’t like bread.

Seeing that Lu Yan brought back the bicycle and the small freezer, Qin Rou decided to obey him and eat dumplings at noon.

Just dumplings, let him roll the dough by himself, Qin Rou really didn’t know how to make dumplings.

While kneading the dough, Lu Yan told her that the base had a special unit responsible for going out to sea to catch fish. Every time it was in large quantities, each team would go to pull supplies, and a small part of them would be for colony members. The price was cheap.

“Pay attention to the time there’s a tide. Sooner or later, you can go to the beach with my sister-in-law to catch seafood…”

“By the way, be careful when passing the coconut trees with the children, so as not to be smashed by the fallen coconuts.”

There were really people in the world who had been crushed to death by coconuts. Coconut trees grew taller one by one. Coconuts grew on trees. If no one picked them, they would fall off on their own after a long time. If they fell on someone’s head, it could be life-threatening.

“Well, I see.”

Lu Yan kneaded the dough, while Qin Rou was preparing dumpling fillings. When he brought the freezer back, he brought some seafood on his way. In the place, people relied on the mountains to eat the mountain food and the sea to eat the seafood. People didn’t grow vegetables in their homes so they could only eat seafood.

Some time ago, the land was hit by a typhoon, and many vegetables suffered from setbacks and pests. During those days, everyone had nothing to eat.

Qin Rou found the mung beans and was about to grow them into bean sprouts, but found that Lu Yan had soaked soybeans a day before, and it seemed that he was also very experienced.

Just wait a few more days to eat the bean sprouts!

Lu Yan also shared his experience and taught her how to grow bean sprouts. Qin Rou hummed in her heart that when she taught children how to grow bean sprouts, she was monitoring and observing them in real time.

Qin Rou prepared two kinds of fillings, one was tilapia (fish) filling and the other was squid filling. She just added a little oil and pickled ginger and garlic, and finally knocked two eggs into it.

When Lu Yan woke up, he started rolling the dumpling dough. Qin Rou brought the two children over curiously, and the four of them made dumplings together.

Lu Yan gave her a jade rolling pin, but Qin Rou felt it was too heavy, so she replaced it with a wooden one.

Lu Yan: “…” In the end, he used it himself.

Qin Rou saw that he took a small piece of dough, sprinkled some flour, rolled the rolling pin on it, and a dumpling wrapper appeared.

It looked so simple too!

It was Qin Rou’s turn to do it herself. With flour on her hands, she picked up the rolling pin and kneaded it on the dough. The final product turned out to be…

It seemed that the rolling pin was not very obedient.

How did it turn into a polygon? It was like an excavator that left countless marks on the muddy road after the rain.

The dumpling dough was not round. She rolled a piece here and rolled a piece there. She was obviously using a rolling pin, why was she not flexible at all when kneading it?

Lu Yan looked up to see her finished product.

It turned out that there were really people in the world who couldn’t make dumplings.

Qin Rou: “…”

“Look at my movements.”

“Do you want to roll the dumplings wrappers?”

Rolling dough?

Qin Rou imagined herself as a chef who threw dumplings in a hot pot restaurant. She worked hard to rotate and knead it with the rolling pin. After much effort, she finally came out with an oval dough, although its edges and corners were still not perfect, but at least it worked.

It was a bit strange that the middle was thick, and the surrounding area was too thin.

Lu Yan: “…I’ll do it.”

Qin Rou: “????!!!”

He actually disliked her work!

Well, it was true that the rolling was not very good, but life couldn’t be just dumplings.

Qin Rou gave up, so Lu Yan rolled the dumpling wrappers, and she and the two children made dumplings. Of course, these two children could only be the viewers.

Chen Jingyi had improved a lot after getting along with the optimist Xiao Pang these days, and it was more fun to be with playmates of the same age.

Although Chen Jingyi was often in a daze and was reluctant to speak out.  Xia Mingxi was a good social person and couldn’t stand loneliness.