Chapter 169 - Chapter 169: Chapter 169: Making Green Cake on the First Day of New Year 2 (First Update) (1/2)

Chapter 169: Chapter 169: Making Green Cake on the First Day of New Year 2 (First Update)

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The baba mixed in the pot is placed directly into a large basin, and the inside of  the basin is smeared with oil. Otherwise, it would stick and be difficult to clean.

Xiao Jinli and her two sisters-in-law washed their hands, applied oil, and then took out the baba molds, ready to start wrapping the dads.

Grandma Xiao first took out a small piece and placed it on a clean table, which had also been smeared with oil, then began to knead the dough into a round strip shape.

After shaping it into a round strip, she took a small piece, kneaded it into a round shape, placed the round-shaped baba onto the mold, and pressed it into a dumpling-skin shape, but larger and thicker than a dumpling.

This is the green skin.

Then, like wrapping dumplings, she placed the filling in the green skin, pinched the edges of the skin together, and made sure the filling did not leak. The green cake was now wrapped.

Making green cakes was an activity everyone had done many times, and they were very familiar with it. In just a little while, they had wrapped a whole steamer full and then rolled some small strips without filling, placing them in the steaming basket.

Many children liked to eat these long strips.

“Haha, it’s so fast when there are many people. One steamer is already wrapped, now let’s steam it.” Grandma Xiao immediately carried a steamer of green cakes and placed them in the large pot to steam.

Steaming over boiling water, the optimal time is fifteen minutes.

Little Aunt was still in charge of the fire.

Xiao Jinli looked at her two sisters-in-law who were wrapping the baba and asked, “Sister-in-law, when do you go back to work after the Chinese New

Year?”

Of Xiao Jinli’s three cousins, two had already graduated from university and started working, while the youngest was in senior high school, and the first half of this year was a sprint stage, with a very tight curriculum.

The cousins and their sisters-in-law were college students who worked as white-collar workers in foreign companies. They earned several thousand yuan per month.

Eldest Sister-in-law frowned slightly and shook her head, saying, “The company starts work on the eighth day of the first lunar month. However, your eldest cousin wants to stay at home.”

“Stay at home?” Xiao Jinli was surprised, “Why?”

Eldest Sister-in-law said, “Didn’t the village establish a company? Your dad said about hiring a professional manager to manage the company. And your eldest cousin wants to stay home. After all, this company affects the whole village’s livelihood, and it’s always a little uneasy to hire an outsider.”

“Ah, the eldest sister-in-law, what do you think?” Xiao Jinli asked.

Eldest Sister-in-law hesitated and said, “I’m a little conflicted and contradictory in my heart. We want to stay, but…” Staying in the hometown company, they didn’t know what their salary would be like, but working in an outside company, the two of them could at least guarantee an income of fifty to sixty thousand a month.

But if they didn’t stay in the hometown company, they didn’t know what others’ opinions would be, and whether others would think they were too arrogant and looked down on the small company.

Xiao Jinli immediately understood Eldest Sister-in-law’s thoughts.

The matter of establishing a company in the village was her proposal. The whole process of establishing the company was handled by her father and brother.

This was probably what made Eldest Sister-in-law most uncomfortable.