Chapter 79 Hearty Rice
I had rice for lunch today and served with five or six dishes, and the lunch was so tough.
In Li Wen's memory, when he was hospitalized at home the next year, he only ate white flour steamed buns with porridge in the morning. At noon, he gave his relatives a meat sauce noodles, and there was no stir-fry.
This is the limit. After the guests were served, the family did not recover from the next two months, and the whole family was hungry all day long. When there were wild vegetables in the spring, they filled their stomachs a little.
The treatment was like that two years ago, and the entertainment of Li Wen's family was already at a very good level.
Many relatives were entertaining during the Chinese New Year, and they ate cornmeal, steamed buns and pickles in the morning and lunch.
This year, although Li Wen’s family and Sanxing Village are so arrogant, it is rare for many people to leave the village.
Yesterday, my father and elder brother went to visit relatives at my aunt's house on the second day of the day. After returning home, my elder brother Li Wu said that I ate corn flour and white flour in the morning. I put some noodles and sliced them at noon and ate them. I won't talk about the noodles for a while, but I drank the noodle soup and had enough.
Most of the relatives said that the food for this funeral is good. It can be seen that other villages are still in difficulty.
Today, Li Wen’s family was inviting guests to dinner. Because pig oil and sesame oil were added to the sour soup noodles, these adults and children drank all the sour soup noodles.
The child also ate two big white steamed buns, and the four plates of cold dishes were directly liquidated.
Everyone who had enough breakfast to eat and drink all praised the treatment today and was looking forward to the lunch at noon. Because according to the rules, the lunch for the New Year is more abundant than breakfast.
Because there are not many fish, there are no fish served today. The meat dishes at noon are all pork.
Today's staple food is Li Wen's ten kilograms of rice and white flour steamed buns.
The meat dishes are red oil buckles, cold braised pork, big meat stewed, and boiled meat slices made by Li Wen. The vegetarian dishes are fried shredded potatoes, cold fungus, and stir-fried cabbage. Plus an egg fermented glutinous rice soup, it can be said that it is extremely rich.
Although I was very full in the morning and had just finished my meal, as the taste of cooking in the kitchen spread, the children playing in the yard ran towards the kitchen one after another.
Li Wen and his family were busy in the kitchen. A group of five or six-year-old children were lying at the kitchen door, swallowing their saliva.
"Okay, go and have fun, you can have a meal in a while!"
The children were blocking the door, which affected everyone going to the cellar to get vegetables. The mother Wang Chunmei had to drive away these little guys.
Because it wasn't for their own little guys, they were embarrassed and ran out the door.
"Deyou, this meal should be very rich at noon today! Just smelling the oil smells so good." A group of relatives who were listening to the noodles at the door were chatting with their father Li Deyou.
"Everyone must have to entertain you today. I made some southern rice some time ago. I had rice and stir-fry for lunch today." Li Deyou said vigorously.
Northern families are entertaining guests during the Chinese New Year and bringing out good things from the house to entertain everyone. Isn’t it just a matter of dating?
"It seems that your village is really developed this year!"
"We just heard that several families were sour soup noodles when they were in the morning. From now on, your Li family in Sanxing Village can get married a lot of them." The relatives envied.
In those days, the village was united, the production team was capable, and the living conditions were good, which was of great help to the wedding in the village.
"Deyou, Xiaowu, your family, has reached the age of hiring. Why don't we tell Xiaowu about a marriage?"
"And A Quan and Awen, the children are not young anymore, so you can decide first." The aunts and aunts at the door all recommended themselves.
"Shan, what is the word "Lone Wolf"? If Li Wen were here, he would be shocked.
But in this era, we have indeed started getting engaged at the age of fourteen or five, and we have gone to the sea when we get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen. There is nothing to make a fuss.
"Haha, thank you all. But Xiaowu and Aquan just started working, and they are still temporary workers."
"I want to wait until the child has learned the technology well and is completely stable. I am looking for an opportunity to transfer and tell the child to kiss him. Now I can only distract the children from saying that he can kiss him." Li Deyou and Li Dezhong chatted with relatives.
In these days, children can’t live without the introduction of relatives and friends when getting married. If you refuse directly, it’s all over.
After the ingredients were processed, only a few children who were helping with Li Wen, his second sister and the fourth master Li Juncai were left in the kitchen. His mother and second aunt were all out to chat with relatives.
"Awen, your skills are really good. The braised meat is soft but has a little strength." Li Desheng's eldest daughter said with a smile.
"Sister Fang, don't joke with me. Braised pork and boiled pork are actually similar, they just have some seasonings. The most important thing is to grasp the time and heat." Li Wen said while sitting and cooking the pot.
"You are already very awesome, you can go to a restaurant to be a chef." The other people also said verbally.
"I'll go! Be a cook?"
Li Wen had never thought about it. He liked to cook because he liked food and ate it.
"I'm not interested in being a chef. I'm still young. It's not OK to let me circulate the pot all day long." Li Wen shook his head and said.
"It's great to be a chef who can eat and drink enough every day, and can also carry leftovers for the family. I will marry a chef in the future." Li Desheng's eldest daughter said longingly.
"You are poisonous, a fifteen-year-old girl wants to get married." Li Wen complained in her heart.
"Wow, Afang Sichun is in the middle of the year. I wanted to get married so early." The second sister Li Xia said gossip.
"So what's wrong? We girls will have to get married sooner or later. Chunye in our village is only sixteen years old and didn't she marry her before the New Year."
"Also, second sister, you are seventeen years old. When you celebrate your birthday in March, you will be eighteen. You have to find a family in the middle of your life." Li Fang said with a smile.
"You damn girl is just anxious to get married. I won't be waiting for two years." Li Xia blushed and quarreled with Li Fang.
Li Wen couldn't help but sigh that it was really early for people in this era to get married! Unlike later generations, there were still a lot of people who were not married in their thirties or forties.
"Okay, don't be smiling, it's almost an hour, hurry up and cook." The mother and the others who walked in from outside the door said with a smile.
Only then did the young people shut up and cooked vegetables one by one.
Now Li Wen’s family uses iron pots. In October, Li Wen bought some scrap iron from the scrap station and found a blacksmith shop in the town to make a few pots.
In the kitchen, mother Wang Chunmei and second aunt Cui Yanzi were looking at the dishes one by one, while several daughters-in-law of Li Juncai's family were all working on side dishes and cutting vegetables. Li Wen, several sisters, and father served dishes outside.
Li Wen took the cold dishes, cold bean sprouts, cold braised pork, and cold black fungus. Next were the big white steamed buns and rice.
As the plates of hot dishes were served on the table by Li Wen and others, the adults' seats were a little better, and they were eating dishes in big mouthfuls, but there was no trouble.
The child's face was just a snatch, but fortunately there were several older children watching and they didn't fight.
"This meal is so tough at noon! Sister-in-law, your family is really developed." At the old man, Li Wen's aunt talked to the old lady while eating the buttoned pork.
"Eat it all quickly. I haven't eaten this year for many years. The village has been better this year and the members have also received benefits."
"It has been several snowfalls by the beginning of the year, and this year will definitely be a bumper harvest year. I think the famine is over, and life will be as good as before in the future." The old lady smiled and picked up food for several old sisters.
The dishes were served and everyone had almost eaten. On the man's table, Li Wen's father took out the loose wine he bought, and everyone started drinking.
I rarely drink wine these days, and everyone rarely drinks it, but today I am so addicted.
"Sister, the table is so good today, the meat is so much, and the rice from the south is so delicious!" On the woman's table, Li Wen's aunt Wang Chunyan said with a smile on her hand.
"Eat less, this is the only meal today. You have eaten all the rice in my sister's house. Wang Chunmei teased.
"I'm so full of food!" Several grandchildren from Uncle Li Wen's family stretched out their waists and said. (My uncle is my father's uncle.)
On the children's table, the young men, who were five, six, seven or eight, had already finished their meal and ran away, leaving only a few larger young men on the table.
Most of the children are brought by relatives during the Chinese New Year. These little guys can’t eat, and they basically eat vegetables.
I ate late in the morning, and each of them was not very hungry. The steamed buns I brought out were basically not moving. It was rare to make rice, so each person ate a bowl of them.
Chapter completed!