Chapter 147 There is no need to suffer these things
"Thank you, Teacher Xia. Then we won't disturb Teacher Xia. Let's go back first," Liu Li said.
After Xia Chan waited for Liu Li and Gao Bowen to leave, she closed the courtyard door, returned home, and then prepared the hot pot for the evening. Xia Qi said thoughtfully, "This Liu Zhiqing is quite polite!"
"Liu Li is pretty good among these educated youths, but he has a not-so-good mother, and he hasn't been brought home after being here for so long. It can be seen that he is not very favored. , or the family is not very good and has a bad family tradition. Children who come here usually don't do well. Liu Li is probably in his rebellious stage now, so he is different from his parents and dislikes them. After he experiences the severe beatings from society, he will become more and more like his parents in the future. After all, he is not One family does not enter the same house.”
Thinking of Liu Li's mother using all kinds of dirty words to scold Xia Chan in the letter, Xia Chan didn't have any good impression of this woman, and she just scolded her without knowing the truth.
It is estimated that Liu Li's future partners will not have an easy life. After all, who can be a good person who can curse those words?
If you are dissatisfied with the partner your son is looking for, you can persuade him to break up, instead of scolding the girl indiscriminately. After all, dating is a matter of two people, and a girl cannot get along with her alone!
Of course, when Liu Li's mother scolded Xia Chan, she didn't necessarily like her son. It might be because this son didn't help the family. What she wanted was a daughter-in-law who could help the family.
Individuals have their own choices, and her decision is not wrong, but it is wrong to scold someone she has never met.
Liu Li is completely young now, with the innocence and aloofness of a child. When he reaches thirty or forty, he will be a replica of his parents.
Seeing that Xia Chan didn't think highly of Liu Li, Xia Qi was relieved. He didn't want Xia Chan to marry far away, and Liu Li looked like he couldn't bear any responsibilities. The family was still Parents are in charge. If Xia Chan comes in, she will have to listen to her parents-in-law for everything in the future. Why bother?
There is no need for his beloved sister to suffer like this.
Xia Chan went to the big kitchen and raised the fire. Then she poured rapeseed oil into the pot. After it was hot, she added onions, ginger and garlic and sauteed them until fragrant. Then she added the hot pot base ingredients. After they were fragrant, she poured in the bone soup. He went in, waited for the soup to boil, and then put the hot pot meatballs in.
Then cover the pot and cook slowly. The hot pot meatballs need to be cooked longer to become more flavorful.
Xia Qi had about ten kilograms of mutton slices, but they had a large family, so Xia Chan suspected that it might not be enough, but it was okay. If it was not enough, just eat less and eat more vegetables.
The brothers finished all the things at hand, so they went to the big kitchen to eat hot pot. They all held dipping bowls and stood by the stove to eat hot pot. Even the radish slices that they had long been tired of eating were very good when dipped in the sauce. eat.
The five brothers and sisters ate all the hot pot, even the garlic and onions used for seasoning.
"Why don't you keep this soup and continue cooking it tomorrow?" Xia Qi raised her eyebrows and said tentatively.
"You don't need to keep it. I'll make it next time if you want to eat it. And Liu Li and Gao Bowen will come over for dinner tomorrow. It won't be good for them to eat leftover soup." Xia Chan said that she could let them eat hot pot every day, and she could make it clean and delicious. Hygiene, and nutrition.
Eat and drink enough to digest, then go to class, wash up, soak your feet, and rest.
The next morning, Xia Chan marinated all the pig offal that had been processed the day before. One pot could not hold it, so she used two pots to marinate it. In addition, she cut the potato slices and radish slices and put them in the brine. After simmering it in a pot for a while, it will taste delicious. Xia Chan also soaked some dried wild vegetables, dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, dried eggplants, and dried winter melons. After all, she wanted to entertain outsiders for dinner, so those summer vegetables must not be taken out, so she could only take out some dried vegetables and soak them.
Of course, not everyone can afford such dried vegetables.
After the stew is cooked, Xia Chan puts the stew into a casserole or earthenware pot and puts it in the yard to freeze. There is only enough for today's lunch left in the pot, and then puts all the soaked dried vegetables in and stews them together. Boiling it allows the dried vegetables to absorb the soup, which will also make them taste better.
As for the staple food, it is coarse grain steamed buns and cornmeal pancakes. Everything is ready. Now we are waiting for Liu Li and Gao Bowen to come over. When they arrive, we can start eating directly.
Liu Li and Gao Bowen arrived at around eleven o'clock. They were still carrying baskets in their hands. Inside the baskets were prepared pheasants and hares. Liu Li said with some embarrassment, "Mr. Xia, I heard that they have been smoked." The meat can be preserved longer. When you smoke bacon, can you smoke these for us?”
"Okay, it just so happens that we also have some smokers." Xia Chan gave each of them a bowl of hot braised soup. "You guys drink some hot food first to warm your body, and we'll eat later."
Gao Bowen took a cautious sip. Although it was very hot, the taste was very good. His eyes lit up. "It tastes good. There is no strange smell at all. Teacher Xia, your craftsmanship is really good. If we make it ourselves, it will be really good." Wasted.”
"Since it tastes good, I'll eat more later and cook a pot. You're welcome." Xia Chan and her brothers brought the stewed stew, steamed buns, and pancakes to the table, and invited everyone to eat.
The potato slices and radish slices soaked up the stewed soup and were very watery. If you were not careful, the soup would flow down the corners of your mouth. Liu Li and Gao Bowen were busy cooking and had no time to talk.
In the cold weather, eating a bowl of hot braised pork is really the most beautiful thing in the world.
"Teacher Xia, thank you." After eating and drinking, Liu Li said a little embarrassedly.
Although this is not the first time to eat at Xia Chan's house, it is the first time that I am so rude. It is so delicious that I can't stop using my chopsticks.
Perhaps this experience in the countryside will be the most legendary experience in their lives!
Xia Chan smiled and said, "You're welcome. The fact that you can eat them all is a recognition of our cooking skills."
Liu Li and Gao Bowen were not such ignorant people. Seeing Xia Chan's brothers clearing the table, they quickly reached out to help. Xia Chan and the others did not stop them. They can't let people develop the bad habit of eating and drinking for free. ?
Is it okay to come to someone else’s house for a meal and not do some work?
After Liu Li and Gao Bowen left, Xia Chan packed some things and went down the mountain to find Yuan Bingbing at the grain drying field. The person who came to exchange things at this time should have already arrived at the grain drying field. She had refused to go to Yuan Bingbing's house to celebrate the New Year. invitation, but she had something to give to the Yuan family, so she had no choice but to let Yuan Bingbing take it back, otherwise people would definitely think that she was taking advantage of Yuan Bingbing.