Chapter 530 White Lie
After eating five buns, Zhao Mei felt like she was reborn. She cheered up and started introducing Jiang Feng and others to her husband. She also introduced her husband, a passerby, to Jiang Feng and others.
Zhao Mei's husband is from Jin Province. He is a standard northern man. He is tall and big. He is no less impressive when standing next to Jiang Zaide. He is a strong man who fits the aesthetics of his great-uncle.
Now the strong man is stuffing the plastic bag containing the buns into his pocket, helping his wife destroy the evidence of stealing.
Seeing several cousins looking at her with curious expressions, Zhao Mei sighed and recounted what she had experienced these days.
In fact, it's not a big deal, it's just that... the meat made by Tian Lin is too unpalatable.
The Zhao family has never been rich due to the long-term shortage of men and labor. Because they were not wealthy, they were short of oil and water. Until Zhao Mei was a child, meat and fish dishes were rarely seen on the dining table, and meat dishes were a rare delicacy on the Zhao family's dining table.
It is precisely because of this that stewed meat has become an indispensable heavyweight dish on the Zhao family's New Year dinner table. Not only is the stewed meat fatty, but even the braised pork belly is made from large chunks of fat. The fried pork belly with chili must be fried with fat pork belly, and even the boiled winter melon soup must be added with sliced pure fat.
In the Zhao family's recipes, fat is delicious, and cooking skills cannot be combined with fat. Rich dishes need fat to show status.
In days when food and clothing are scarce, what could make people feel happier and more satisfied than a piece of pure fat and full of fat?
When she was a child, Zhao Mei loved to eat fatty meat.
Mainly because she couldn't eat anything else, and because her family was not wealthy at that time, she could only eat meat during festivals. Tian Lin's stew was once Zhao Mei's favorite.
In the past, Zhao Mei could wolf down half a bowl of fat and thin meat in front of the three fat men of the Jiang family. The color of the sauce was very strong but the taste did not penetrate into the meat. When she took a bite, the fat and oil could explode in her mouth. It sticks to the tongue and teeth for a long time. After eating the first piece, you will never want to eat the second piece of braised pork. After finishing the braised pork, eat a full bowl of stewed meat. Sometimes the full bowl is not enough and you can eat half a bowl more.
Later, Zhao Mei went to high school in the county, and her family became a little richer, and she began to have spare money in her pocket. Not only can you eat in the school cafeteria, but you can also eat snacks at the stalls in front of the school.
From then on, Zhao Mei could no longer look directly at the Zhao family's famous product - white water stew.
So many years have passed. Zhao Mei, who was fascinated by the colorful world outside and choked by the ever-changing delicacies, has become less and less tolerant of her famous white water stew, and has become like the general public (everyone in the Jiang family). ) also smells like the color of the flesh changes.
The only good thing is that Zhao's famous white water stewed meat is limited to holidays, and its appearance is only available from around the Chinese New Year to the Lantern Festival.
Zhao Mei only needs to persist for 10 more days to successfully pass the customs.
Zhao Mei was vividly telling Jiang Feng and others how she had sent her husband to attack in the past few days, building plank roads openly, secretly smuggling food from outside and cooking noodles in the middle of the night, when the door suddenly opened.
Everyone was shocked.
"Meimei, if you can't eat the stew, you must drink this bowl of bird's nest. If you want something sweet recently, Mom will add two pieces of rock sugar for you. Drink it while it's hot." Tian Lin walked in with a bowl of rock sugar bird's nest. .
Zhao Mei cooperated and drank a whole bowl of bird's nest, and Tian Lin finally showed a smile on her face.
Picking up a piece of untouched stew, Tian Lin said to Jiang Zaide: "Dede, I just heard your grandma say that you came out early in the morning and didn't eat, so your aunt will serve you the stew."
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"Mom, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat meat so early in the morning. Didn't Xiaofeng bring glutinous rice balls? You can cook some glutinous rice balls. Do you want glutinous rice balls or stewed meat?" Zhao Mei asked.
"Tangyuan!" Everyone said in unison, with firm eyes.
"Okay, I'll cook glutinous rice balls for you. The glutinous rice balls are..."
"Here, they were just wrapped yesterday. Auntie, these fresh glutinous rice balls won't hold you back. Eat them as soon as possible. Eat less stewed meat and more glutinous rice balls these days." Jiang Feng quickly handed the glutinous rice balls to Tian Lin.
"Okay." Tian Lin took the dumplings and went to the kitchen to cook the dumplings excitedly.
Everyone who escaped could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Sister Meimei, just tell your aunt the truth." Jiang Shoucheng, who had been silent until now, suddenly said, "My aunt called my grandma two days ago and told me that you have lost a lot of weight recently and that you will give birth next month. Sudden weight loss during pregnancy is a taboo, and you can’t just avoid eating stew.”
When Jiang Shoucheng said this, everyone felt it was very reasonable and nodded.
Zhao Mei's husband, who was standing in the crowd like a background board, was shocked: "What?! Meimei, have you lost weight during this time? Why didn't you tell me!"
Zhao Mei glanced at her husband with a speechless expression: "Didn't you see that I weighed myself last night and gained three pounds?"
His words were full of anger, clearly angry about his increasing weight.
Jiang Shoucheng:? ? ?
Zhao Mei took a deep breath to calm down, showed a calm smile and said to Jiang Shoucheng: "Don't worry, Shoucheng, I haven't lost weight during this period. I just didn't eat at meal times, but that doesn't mean I didn't eat. My parents are like this I have been used to eating meat for many years. Even if I tell them, I can't stop cooking it. It's just like this for a few days. To be honest, my mother should be sad. It's not necessary and I won't starve myself. "< br>
Pregnant women's emotions are always unpredictable and moody. One second, Zhao Mei was calmly explaining to Jiang Shoucheng about her eating problems during this period, but the next second her face changed, and she said to her husband with an angry look:
"I told you last night that I would just boil a bowl of noodles and add two eggs, but you cooked me such a big bowl. Is that a bowl? That is a basin! During this period, I have been feeling sick because of my pregnancy. My stomach felt uncomfortable. I had such a big bowl of noodles last night that after I lay down, I felt like the noodles were stuck in my throat. I couldn’t sleep much at all.”
"Honey, I was wrong." Zhao Mei's husband knows very well that in this special period, no matter who is right or wrong, it is right to admit his mistake.
"Sister Meimei, do you want to keep up with the nutrition of eating noodles?" Jiang Feng asked.
"I can keep up, so I only eat noodles at night. Although I say I haven't eaten during the day, I actually eat all the time. Ever since I got pregnant, I can't stop eating. And my mother thinks I haven't eaten much recently. I'm afraid. I can't keep up with my nutrition, so I was asked to drink a bowl of bird's nest every morning like before, and I feel like the three pounds of meat came from drinking bird's nest." Zhao Mei's tone became very calm again.
"Xiao Feng, I heard that your family has opened a store in Peiping." Zhao Mei said with a smile.
Jiang Feng nodded: "Well, my grandparents also moved to Peking together, and Brother De also went to work in Peking."
"That's good. You brothers have liked to stick together since you were young. I'm pregnant with twins. I hope they can work in the same city when they grow up." Zhao Mei's face exuded a maternal look. Brilliance.
Jiang Feng was just about to strike while the iron was hot and talk more about home affairs, when the game prompt suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Ding, I found an optional side mission, please choose it yourself."
Jiang Feng's words suddenly changed to: "Sister Meimei, I'm going to use the toilet. Where is the toilet?"
Zhao Mei straightened up, moved with some difficulty, and pointed to the right: "Just take two steps to the right."
"Thank you, Sister Meimei." Jiang Feng stood up and walked quickly outside.
Jiang Shoucheng and Jiang Zaide exchanged a tacit look, which further strengthened their belief in taking Jiang Feng to the hospital for a full physical examination later in the year.
Jiang Feng, who didn't know what Jiang Shoucheng and Jiang Zaide were planning, successfully found the toilet, went in, closed the door, and clicked on the properties panel.
As Jiang Feng expected, this side mission was related to Zhao Mei.
Jiang Feng decisively clicked to accept the side mission.
[White Lie] Zhao Mei, who has been exposed to outside food for many years, has long been unable to accept the stew made by her mother at home. In order to live up to her mother's wishes, she has always maintained the white lie that she still loves to eat stew. Zhao Mei is now 36 weeks pregnant. For the health of Zhao Mei and the twins in her belly, players are requested to maintain Zhao Mei's white lie and ensure her daily diet to make her physically and mentally happy.
Task Tip: Teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish.
Mission reward: [A memory of Tian Lin] (End of this chapter)