As soon as she was in a good mood and got home, Zhao Qinglan wanted to make delicious food again.
"Is there anything you want to eat?" She asked the children for their opinions.
"Everything mom makes tastes delicious!" Erba GouLei cheered from the bottom of his heart.
"Mom, is there anything sweet and delicious?" Xiaoduo raised her head expectantly.
"Anything is fine." Dawa said coolly.
Since the front teeth were knocked out, the eldest child talks less and less.
It's so sweet and delicious. Sure enough, children still like to eat sweets.
It's a pity that there is no electric oven, otherwise she could make many desserts and delicacies for the children.
If you have the chance in the future, it would be a good idea to build an oven in your yard.
However, you can make many sweet and delicious dishes without using an electric oven.
After considering the available ingredients, Zhao Qinglan made a decision.
"Then let's make a shredded sweet potato."
Sweet potatoes are still very easy to obtain, and they are not a rare item.
Just making shredded sweet potatoes requires a lot of rock sugar, and rock sugar is quite precious nowadays.
Fortunately, there was still rock candy at home, so she didn't have to go out to buy it.
She acted as she said she would and immediately took out some sweet potatoes from her small cellar.
Wash all the sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces, and soak them in clean water for a while. This is to wash off the starch on the surface and prevent them from turning black when fried.
After washing, drain and take out.
Pour vegetable oil into the pot and heat it to 60 to 70% heat. Add the sweet potato cubes and fry slowly until the outside is slightly yellow. Remove when the whole thing is cooked.
Pour most of the oil in the pot into a bowl, leaving only part to add rock sugar and water and stir-fry.
When boiling rock sugar, the heat should not be too high. Fry the rock sugar over low heat until it slowly melts.
When the rock sugar becomes sticky and has no bubbles, quickly add the previously fried sweet potato cubes.
Stir fry for a while and then take it out of the pot.
Of course, you can’t just eat shredded sweet potatoes for lunch.
After asking the children to cook the noodles carefully and eat them while they are still hot, Zhao Qinglan went to cook the noodles again.
Shredded sweet potatoes naturally taste like shredded potatoes.
When Erwa picked up a piece of sweet potato and pulled out the long sugar strands, he felt very strange.
But when he put it in his mouth, he realized how delicious it was.
Not many children can resist the temptation of sweets.
Although it was very hot, Da Wa and Xiao Duo ate without any slowness at all.
While the hot water was filling the pot, Zhao Qinglan also came over and took a few bites.
"It's so delicious." She sighed as she tasted the delicious food in her mouth.
It was indeed delicious, and the three children ate it more happily than the other!
When Li Huai walked into his courtyard, he smelled a sweet smell and wondered what was going on at home.
When he entered the house, he saw three children sitting there waiting for him with satisfied faces.
"You're back, wash your hands and eat quickly."
She had just served the noodles.
Naturally, Zhao Qinglan had leftover shredded sweet potatoes for Li Huai, but now that they have cooled down, they are not as delicious as when they were freshly cooked.
Even so, after Li Huai tasted the shredded sweet potatoes, he praised them again and again.
In fact, let alone children, even adults cannot resist the charm of delicious desserts.
Zhao Qinglan makes saozi noodles, which smell very fragrant. If you add a few cloves of garlic to it, the taste will be amazing.
Although I ate shredded sweet potatoes, everyone could still eat the noodles.
Li Huai and Zhao Qinglan used large bowls, while Xiaoduo and the others used small bowls. For a while, there was only the sound of lowering their heads to slurp and eat noodles.
Because it took some time to make the shredded sweet potatoes, Zhao Qinglan did not stir-fry any more and only took out some pickles to accompany the noodles.
But with garlic and pickles, eating noodles is already complete.
After eating, Zhao Qinglan was thinking about something while cleaning up.
After the snack bar settles down, she will definitely go there less and less often, and after the Chinese New Year, the eldest child will be able to go to school.
Even if a radio was purchased at home, she would not listen to it from morning to night, she would still want to find something to do.
So what are you looking for?
Suddenly, Zhao Qinglan thought about the college entrance examination.
Regardless of whether she participates or not, learning more will not be wasted.
How about finding some textbooks and starting studying by yourself?
The more she thought about it, the better she thought it was.
She must have a solid grasp of elementary school knowledge, so let’s find a set of junior high school textbooks and start studying.
After all, she never went to junior high school, nor did she study systematically.
After cleaning up, washing up, and lying on the bed, she began to tell Li Huai about the increase in her family's income.
Li Huai went to help with the opening before, and he knew that the sales on the opening day were very good, but he didn't know much about the situation in the store these days.
If Zhao Qinglan didn't take the initiative to talk about things in the store, he wouldn't ask.
Even Li Huai was shocked when he heard that the snack bar should earn several hundred yuan a month, and she could split between two and three hundred yuan.
After being shocked for a moment, he hurriedly said: "Qinglan, it's fine that we both know about this, but we can't let other people in the army know about it."
Although this is a legitimate business and the money is hard-earned, it can't support the huge amount.
It’s not about scarcity but about inequality. When everyone earns about the same amount, the sudden rise of their family will always cause jealousy and trouble.
Zhao Qinglan is not stupid. She also decided to show off her cards because she could not hide it from Li Huai if her family conditions were to be greatly improved in the future.
"Don't worry, we only know this matter, and I won't tell the eldest son or the others."
"I didn't expect that, Qing Lan, you would become the backbone of our family." Li Huai teased.
He didn't have anything to save face and felt it hurt his self-esteem.
They are a couple and a family, they are all working hard to make their little family better, so why bother to distinguish so clearly who earns more and who earns less.
However, not all men are as broad-minded and think clearly as Li Huai.
Zhao Qinglan smiled happily, no matter which life he was in, Li Huai would still be the same Li Huai.
Even if my younger self met him when I was younger, I would still be attracted to him.
Maybe Zhao Qinglan stared at her husband with too intense eyes, and the next second, she was blocked by him.
When it is clear and concentrated, what should happen will happen naturally.
When the fireworks were exploding in his mind, Li Huai thought that it would be great if he could have another child belonging to him and Qing Lan.
Of course it's not that he doesn't like his two children and Xiaoduo.
He just felt that if there was a child that merged his and his wife's blood, it would seem that the bond between the two people would be deeper.
But he will never be like Camp Commander Qu. He is happy when the child comes, but if the child doesn't come, it doesn't matter to him.
The so-called idea is just a beautiful expectation.
As for whether he would be unable to raise another child, Li Huai never considered this issue at all.
These days, everyone is still proud of having many children. People are needed everywhere for national construction. Only with a large population can we have enough labor force.
In the past, women who had many children could be called heroic mothers.
In fact, they have never taken any defensive measures since they got together.
It's not that Zhao Qinglan doesn't want to use them. These days, family planning supplies can't be bought outside at will. They have to go to health centers, hospitals and other fixed places to apply for them. Zhao Qinglan is too embarrassed to go get them.
As for Li Huai, seeing that Zhao Qinglan didn't mention it, he also thought it would be better not to use that thing (secretly he wanted to raise a baby).
There is no saying that his expectations will be realized one day.