Chapter 527 Is it a boy or a girl
When Jiang Feng returned to the kitchen with the bowl in hand, he found that the old man was draining the glutinous rice in the basin. He soaked this pot of glutinous rice last night before going to bed, and planned to soak it all night to make glutinous rice and lotus root for Grandma Jiang this morning.
"Here you come? Take care of the goose." The old man pointed to the big white goose on the chopping board that had not even been plucked and died very peacefully.
"Grandpa, I'll help grandma make the glutinous rice and lotus root first, and then I'll handle the goose later," Jiang Feng said.
"I'll make glutinous rice lotus roots." The old man took out the washed lotus roots from the sink and began to peel them. "Since last night, your grandma has been talking about glutinous rice lotus roots all night. If what you cook is not to her liking, she will probably do it again today. I have to talk about it all night, I will cook this dish, and you can handle the goose.”
Jiang Feng could only boil hot water and prepare to pluck the goose feathers.
Jiang Feng had done plucking often, but he originally only plucking chickens and ducks, and rarely had the opportunity to plucking geese, but the principle was the same.
Pour hot water and pluck the hair manually.
If it was difficult to clean up when plucking in the kitchen, Jiang Feng grabbed the goose and carried hot water to the yard to plucking the feathers. While plucking, he happened to meet Jiang Ran, who had just gotten up and came to the kitchen to touch the food.
"Brother, do you have anything to eat in the morning?" Jiang Ran asked, holding a chicken coop on his head.
"There are noodles in the pot, and there is stewed water in the uncle's room." Jiang Feng said.
"Why is the brine in the uncle's room?" Jiang Ran expressed doubts.
"Auntie thought it was cold outside and went into the house." Jiang Feng decisively chose to let her take the blame. "When you eat noodles, remember to add some marinade and mix it with the noodles. They are especially delicious."
Jiang Ran nodded and took note, went into the kitchen, came out two minutes later with a large bowl of noodles, and rushed to Jiang Jianguo's room.
Cold is the best magic weapon to improve people's work efficiency. Jiang Feng quickly feathered the geese in the cold wind. Soon, two clean, bare and tender big white geese appeared in the basin. Jiang Feng carried the basin back to the kitchen. At that time, I saw the old man holding a sugar jar and sprinkling sugar into the soup pot.
Just by looking at the way the old man spread the sugar, Jiang Feng knew that the sweetness of the glutinous rice lotus root this time must be not only 4 pounds, but at least 10 pounds. I don’t know if Grandma Jiang’s teeth can bear the 10 pounds of sweet glutinous rice lotus root.
Moving closer, Jiang Feng found that there were more than two lotus root sections in the soup pot, filling more than half of the pot. This is the soup pot that the Jiang family usually uses to make soup. By visual inspection, there are about 10 lotus roots in it.
"Grandpa, why did you make so many glutinous rice lotus roots?" Jiang Feng was shocked. Most people can't handle the sweetness of the glutinous rice lotus roots.
Jiang Jiankang and Grandma Jiang are the only two people in the Jiang family who are good at sweets. This pot of glutinous rice and lotus root will last them until the Lantern Festival.
"Eat." The old man said concisely, then picked up another can of sugar and threw it into the pot.
Jiang Feng:...
"Grandpa, you can't finish eating so much." Jiang Feng wanted to persuade the old man to give up this terrible idea.
"It's not for you, it's for you, Sister Meimei." Grandma Jiang explained with a smile, and walked out from behind Jiang Feng. She didn't know when she came to the kitchen.
"Sister Meimei?" Jiang Feng looked confused, wondering where I got Sister Meimei.
"You kid, I haven't seen you for two years, and you have completely forgotten your sister Meimei. Fortunately, she stuffed you with so many snacks when you were a child. Zhao Mei, your cousin's daughter, you are here This cousin won't even forget his cousin, right?" Grandma Jiang was anxious.
"Oh, oh." Jiang Feng reacted immediately. Zhao Mei naturally remembered it.
The only daughter of his cousin Zhao Zhuangshi, his only cousin named Zhao, spent a lot of time playing together when they were young, but they had little contact with her when they entered high school. Zhao Mei is much older than Jiang Feng and two months older than Jiang Zaide. Because his hand speed is not good enough after working, he often cannot get a ticket to go home for the New Year, so Jiang Feng rarely sees Zhao Mei when he goes to his uncle's house to pay New Year greetings. As time passed, I forgot about this cousin.
"Sister Meimei, did you get a ticket for the Chinese New Year this year?" Jiang Feng asked.
"What are you talking about? Your sister Meimei is about to give birth and is raising her baby at home. She came back a long time ago." Grandma Jiang said with a smile, "Some time ago, your uncle and uncle called me and told me that your sister Meimei will taste better after she is pregnant. It's very weird and spicy. I don't like sour food or spicy food, but I just like sweet food. It just so happens that the glutinous rice lotus root is sweet, so I asked your grandpa to make more and bring it to you, Sister Mei Mei, tomorrow. .”
Jiang Feng was really shocked this time: "Sister Meimei is pregnant?! When did she get married?"
Grandma Jiang:...
Why didn't she see that this little grandson had the potential for Alzheimer's disease?
"Your sister Meimei got married just after graduating from college. You told me that you didn't know? How many years have you been married?" Grandma Jiang shook her head, feeling that her little grandson was probably hopeless and left.
Jiang Feng stood there and thought for a long time, and finally remembered that one time in high school, Comrade Jiang Jiankang told him that a cousin of his was getting married at the weekend and asked him if he wanted to attend the wedding. At that time, Jiang Feng and Chen Xiuxiu had agreed to go to a newly opened fried chicken restaurant to eat fried chicken, so they just found an excuse to avoid going.
Thinking about it now, it really shouldn't have happened. Zhao Mei was so kind to him back then. She was the only sister who would take the initiative to stuff him snacks when he was a child.
Completely different from the other three brothers who only know how to put the blame on him, and the other two sisters who are bent on defrauding him, she is an angel-like sister.
Jiang Feng felt deeply ashamed and took the initiative to find the bag of sugar in the cabinet. He walked up to the old man with a pile of sugar and said sincerely: "Grandpa, is it not enough to put so much sugar in so many lotus roots? Do you want to add more?"
Old man:?
"Go and chop the goose."
"Good grandpa! Do you really don't want to add more sugar?"
"Chop the goose."
The big white goose chopped by Jiang Feng eventually became the big goose stewed in an iron pot on the Jiang family's lunch table.
Jiang Feng had to praise here that the two sisters, Jiang Junqing and Jiang Junlian, were really top-notch in their ability to snatch things apart from other abilities. The two geese they got from their uncle were of really good quality. They were big, plump and tender. They were fat where they should be and strong where they should be. They were born to be stewed in an iron pot.
It's a pity that these two sisters were born in the wrong era. If they were born in troubled times, it would only be a matter of time before the two sisters could dominate a mountain and rob families and homes based on their size and skills. It's a pity that they were born in a peaceful society ruled by law, so they could only rob their cousins or rob their uncles, which was a waste of their talents.
There was only a small plate of glutinous rice and lotus root on the lunch table, and everyone just regarded it as an ordinary sweet and tasted it fresh, without paying much attention to it. There were geese, meat and fish on the table. Except for Jiang Jiankang, who had a sweet tooth, and extended his chopsticks to the glutinous rice and lotus root, everyone else was just tasting it. After all, the old man didn't cook this dish much in the past.
After finishing the meal, Jiang Feng put the bowl into the kitchen. When he entered the kitchen, he happened to see Grandma Jiang secretly drinking the sugar water from the pot with a spoon. She seemed not satisfied yet.
Grandma Jiang was a little surprised to see Jiang Feng come in. Maybe she didn't expect him to finish his meal so early. But as the pinnacle of the Jiang family's acting skills, Grandma Jiang was unhurried and unhurried, drinking sugar water slowly, as if she was not stealing food but tasting food.
"It's a bit sweet." Grandma Jiang not only tasted the dishes but also commented.
"Huh?"
Grandma Jiang put down the spoon: "It seems that your grandpa hasn't made glutinous rice and lotus root for a long time. If you add too much sugar, the sugar water will be a bit sweet."
Grandma Jiang was still a little disappointed.
Since Grandma Jiang said it was sweet, it means that the glutinous rice lotus root the old man made today is really sweet.
"By the way, Xiaofeng, don't make dumplings this afternoon. Help your sister Meimei make some sesame glutinous rice balls. Don't make too many. About 10 kilograms is almost enough." Grandma Jiang said.
"Okay grandma." Jiang Feng accepted the task.
"Go to bed early tonight and get up early tomorrow and go there early. Your sister Meimei is still waiting for glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice lotus root to appetize her appetite." Grandma Jiang said, "This woman is suffering from pregnancy, but your sister Meimei doesn't eat sour food. I like spicy food, but I like sweet food. Is she pregnant with a boy or a girl?”
"It should be a boy. When I was pregnant with your father and the others, they also loved sweets and drank brown sugar water every day." Grandma Jiang looked thoughtful.
"It must be a boy!" (End of Chapter)