Chapter 98 Preparing for an Outing
Seeing how cautious these old men were, Li Shengli had no choice but to put the chess pieces away and take them out when the two of them were home.

Li Shengli found a rag, wet it with water, and began to wipe the chess pieces one by one, putting each one into the box after he finished wiping it.

Maybe the previous people didn't maintain it well, so there is some dirt on this set of chess pieces.

As he was wiping, Li Shengli felt something was wrong. There was a small pawn, and he didn't know if it had fallen into the mud or what, but the back of the chess piece was black.

Li Shengli wiped it hard with a wet rag but couldn't get it clean, which meant that soap couldn't be used. Li Shengli got more excited, kept changing the water on the wet rag, and started wiping it vigorously.

After finally wiping it all clean, Li Shengli discovered that there was still a faint black mark on the back of the chess piece that could not be wiped clean, right on the back of the chess piece near the edge.

Li Shengli touched his chin, looked at the mark, and remembered a TV series he had watched before.

Inside the chess set made of golden nanmu wood, there is a jade chess set.

Could it be that he had also found a bargain? Li Shengli raised his eyebrows in delight. However, this kind of chess is commonly known as gentleman chess, and no one knows what material is inside it. Li Shengli has no tools on hand.

After thinking about it, Li Shengli wiped all the chess pieces with a dry rag, placed them neatly in the box, covered it with a chessboard cloth, closed the lid, and put it at the bottom of the box. It seemed that he could not take it out to play chess in the future.

No one knew who had used this thing before, and it had no idea where it came from. I put it in the box and covered it with folded bedding and clothes.

As for rejecting Yan Bugui's approach, Li Shengli felt that there was nothing wrong with it. It was better to keep some distance from this person, especially Yan Bugui's family. What if they formed a habit and came to his house to get whatever they needed?

Li Shengli secretly curled his lips when he thought of this, and waited until the evening to heat up the pork elbow he brought back and eat it.

Two days later, after work, on his way home from get off work, Li Shengli noticed that the ground was already green.

Li Shengli returned home and prepared for the outing. The first thing he had to do was food. His family didn't have that much money, and it was a bit troublesome to ask his master for help to get glutinous rice flour. He could just make something simple for himself.

The first is the sweet mung bean cake, although now is not the best time to eat mung bean cake.

Li Shengli first soaked the mung beans. It would take at least one night to make mung bean filling. After soaking the mung beans in the basin, Li Shengli left them there and went to do other things.

Next came the salty rice crust. In the evening, Li Shengli specially made some extra rice and put the leftover rice in the cupboard after dinner.

The next day, when Li Shengli came home from work, he took out the basin of soaking mung beans, put his hand into the water and began to rub the mung beans. As soon as he put his hand in, he shivered from the cold.

After shivering for a while, he continued to rub the mung beans with his hands. The purpose of this step was to rub off the mung bean skins, otherwise the mung bean cakes would be full of mung bean skins and the taste would be bad.

After rubbing the skin, Li Shengli put the pot on the stove, added a small amount of water to the mung beans and steamed them for about half an hour, until the mung beans could be crushed into a paste.

When steaming mung beans, Li Shengli first made the oil pastry and dough, and put them on the panel to wait for fermentation. After the mung beans were steamed, he took them out and crushed them into paste with a spoon after they cooled down a bit. Then he poured oil into the cleaned pot, put the crushed mung bean paste in it over low heat. In fact, it is better to have butter, but Li Shengli did not have this condition at the moment. After putting in the mung bean paste, he stir-fried it over low heat.

After about five minutes, add fine sugar and continue to stir-fry. The sugar and bean paste should be completely blended together. After frying, serve and place in a small bowl for later use.

Divide the mung bean paste into even-sized balls, and divide the pastry and dough into the same number of portions.

Li Shengli rolled out the dough and wrapped the pastry inside like making dumplings. He then rolled out the dough on a panel, put in the kneaded mung bean paste, and used his hands to knead it into small, thick cakes. He then sprinkled some sesame seeds on the front.

After wrapping them one by one, Li Shengli set up a frying pan, smeared oil on the bottom of the pan, and began to fry them slowly over low heat, while preparing the rice crust for later.

Rice crust is relatively easy to make. Beat an egg in the leftover rice and add ground pepper powder, cinnamon, star anise and other ingredients. Stir well and roll it into a thin sheet with a rolling pin. Then use a kitchen knife to cut it into small pieces of even size.

After the mung bean pancakes were fried, Lee Seung-ri started to fry the rice crusts. In fact, mung bean pancakes are best baked in the oven, and the rice crusts are best fried in oil, but unfortunately Lee Seung-ri does not have the conditions for this now.

It was fine when he was frying the mung bean pancakes, but when he was frying the rice crusts, the fragrance came out all of a sudden. Li Shengli was frying the rice crusts when he suddenly turned around and saw a few short shadows at the door, which scared Li Shengli.

Fortunately, he closed the door and drew the curtains, so only a little aroma came out. Li Shengli looked at the extra bowl of rice crust he had fried and didn't think of giving it away.

When the rice crust was fried, Li Shengli took a piece of paper and wrapped it up in no time.

When the smell had almost dissipated, there was no movement at the door. There were children from the yard lying at the door, probably passing by and smelling the fragrance. Li Shengli thought that if he opened the door and saw the pitiful eyes of the children, they might give the rice crust away out of kindness.

With some snacks prepared, Li Shengli had an easy time eating. He just had to stir-fry some cabbage and heat up two steamed buns.

Time steadily entered April. At this time, spring was in full bloom. Green buds sprouted on the ground in the fields and suburbs, and the trees in the courtyard also sprouted.

At this time, the wild vegetables in the suburbs are at their tenderest. Some people are digging wild garlic, some are digging bitter greens, and some are digging shepherd's purse. Li Shengli has nothing to do on Sundays, so he takes advantage of the good weather to go out for an outing.

It was a Sunday in early April. The sun was shining brightly outside. It was a rare sunny day. When Li Shengli saw that the weather was so good, he decided to stop thinking about working and just enjoy it.

Li Shengli made a prompt decision to go out for an outing today. He took out the mung bean cakes and rice crusts he had made two days ago from the cupboard, took a kettle full of water and a book, and then rode his bike to go out.

"Shengli, let's go fishing together." Yan Bugui didn't feel the embarrassment of being rejected at all and greeted Li Shengli with a fishing rod in his hand.

"No, Uncle, I'm going to go out for a walk." Li Shengli raised the bag in his hand to gesture.

There is no need to go fishing all the time during this wonderful time. It would be much nicer to go see where the flowers are blooming or find a place with green grass to take a nap.

(End of this chapter)