Chapter 115 Let’s Eat Hot Pot
Shuiqing went into the kitchen to cook dinner.
She started cooking first, and scooped half of the water into the innermost and middle large iron pots.
The inner large iron pot was filled with marinade, and Fan Jin would put the cleaned pig's trotters, pig's head, pig's large intestine, etc. in it later.
The middle one was filled with pig bones to make soup.
Bai Manshan and Li Huyu will be back tomorrow morning, so we will have a hot pot tonight.
Cold weather is the best match for hot pot.
Thinking that the two of them and the children can't eat spicy food, Shuiqing prepared a thick soup base of pig bones, and those who like spicy food can just add a spicy dipping sauce.
There are only a few simple meat dishes: fresh lamb slices, homemade handmade fish balls, fresh shrimps, thin slices of fresh fish, fried crispy meat, delicious egg dumplings, and crispy fried wild fish.
There are not many vegetarian dishes, just tofu fruit, fried gluten, cabbage heart, spinach, potato chips, bean sprouts, mushrooms, coriander and small green vegetables. The main reason is that it is winter now, and vegetables that are not in season cannot be taken out.
But each dish was quite generous.
The staple food was brown sugar rice cake, pumpkin cake, spring rolls - there was no time, so they were all ready-made products purchased from the mall, and they could be fried by themselves.
Simple and fast.
Then I fried a pot of egg fried rice.
When the soup base was ready, the stewed food was almost done.
Although stewed food needs to be soaked for a longer time to be more flavorful, at this moment Shuiqing just wanted to eat the stewed large intestine and stewed pig's trotters as soon as possible!
It didn't matter whether it was too flavorful or not.
She first picked out the dried tofu and put it on a large plate;
Then she took out the pig ears and cut them, cut the pig's large intestine, and finally chopped the pig's trotters.
The sauce-flavored pig's trotters were chopped into a small pot, and it was about to overflow.
Seeing Fan Jin coming in, Shuiqing smiled and said, "It's cold, let's have hot pot tonight."
"Hot pot?" Fan Jin looked at the various dishes placed on the chopping board on the stove, which were stacked layer by layer, neat and rich, and instinctively asked questions.
Shui Qing explained briefly, and Fan Jin understood. He smiled slightly and commented expectantly: "Very novel."
He took a few steps forward with his long legs and brought the dishes to the dining room next to the kitchen, and arranged them one by one.
Shui Qing's confidence increased and he was in a very good mood.
He then scooped the big bone soup into a small iron pot with two handles and brought it over. A small red clay stove had been placed in the middle of the round dining table.
The charcoal fire inside was bright red and hot.
When it was getting dark, Bai Manshan came back rubbing his hands.
Li Huyu also came back with two large buckets of fat fish.
Not to mention the children who went out to work.
At this moment, a group of people who washed their hands and ran to the dining room looked at the novel way of eating on the big round table and were all stunned.
Shui Qing had to explain it again.
When they heard that they were eating while boiling, except for the eldest Ling Ran, who could not see his expression, the other children were excited on their faces.
"This method is good. I have eaten it at home, but not as complete as yours!" Bai Manshan was also very excited, eager to try like a child.
In fact, he only had a few of them at home, and he didn't use the soup base made from big bones, but boiled thin fish slices in boiling water, focusing on eating a fresh and tender dish.
He was even more curious when he saw the dipping sauce. After tasting it, he wanted to dip all the dishes in the dipping sauce!
Li Huyu, who was beside him and couldn't help but catch fish in the past two days, was so busy eating that he didn't care to talk at all.
He just thought this was delicious and that was even more delicious!
When she was half full, she finally emptied her mouth, "Shuiqing, this dipping sauce is so delicious! I suddenly envy Qian'er so much, he can stay."
Shuiqing wanted to say that this dipping sauce was the best formula she summarized, and it was delicious even when dipped in shoe soles!
But she couldn't say that, she said modestly: "No, no, I just figured it out."
It feels best to be praised.
Especially the food made by people who love cooking is unanimously recognized by diners.
Li Huyu chewed the pig's trotter and looked at Bai Manshan hesitantly.
She suddenly didn't want to go back.
It's not that I don't want to go back, but I don't want to go back so soon and so early. I want to stay here for a while longer.
If I go back, I have to get up early every day and stand in the mother-in-law's yard to set rules. When the mother-in-law wakes up, I have to greet her and serve her breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Let alone going out to fish, even getting up late and chewing pig's trotters with my hands is as serious as breaking the law of heaven!
I originally thought that the yard of the Bai Mansion was very big, but now I think that the house is very small...
How could Bai Manshan not understand?
Let alone Hu Yu didn't want to leave, he didn't want to leave either.
But, "We can't do it. I can still say that the business is delayed. Think about what mother will think if you don't go back?"
Li Hu Yu bit her lip and blurted out without thinking: "Just tell mother that I'm dead?"
Bai Ziqian swallowed the pork bone soup in his mouth with a gulp.
Then he choked as expected.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem"
The children who were originally boiling vegetables, chewing pig's trotters, digging egg fried rice, and eating brown sugar rice cakes were all stunned.
The eldest brother's mother is a bit fierce.
Li Huyu slowly put down the pig's trotters under the gaze of many children, and had to explain: "I just said it casually"
If she could stay with Shuiqing forever, she would rather tell her mother-in-law that she was dead.
Anyway, Qian'er is here, and her husband comes from time to time under the guise of doing business. There is no difference in life, no, the difference is that it is better.
Alas, it's a pity that a daughter-in-law still has to go back to serve her mother-in-law, even if her mother-in-law doesn't need her to serve her at all, she can't be idle.
When Shuiqing learned that Li Huyu had to follow the rules for Old Lady Bai, she was only thankful that she didn't wear it to a wealthy family.
Otherwise, she would have to serve her mother-in-law in her room every morning and evening. She couldn't imagine the days.
She whispered to Li Huyu beside her: "I will be a mother-in-law in the future, so I don't want my daughter-in-law to follow the rules. It's not like she can't move. Besides, this is just a tormenting thing, how can it end well?"
Li Huyu nodded fiercely, deeply agreeing: "Don't talk about you, I will never let my daughter-in-law suffer this!
You said that there are a lot of maids and servants around my mother-in-law, and they want me to go there regardless of the weather. I don't do as well as the maids, so why bother?"
Shuiqing thought of Fan's mother who had no maids and maids to serve her, and she also wanted to use the original owner as a maid.
But there are also good ones, like Aunt Li who treats her daughter-in-law very well.
She doesn't pick on right and wrong. She mentions her son first when something happens. She doesn't say much when she has a son or a daughter. She takes care of her during the confinement period with all her heart... So when she has a headache or a fever, her daughter-in-law cares about her more than her husband.
She sighed, "Maybe people are different. Some people are born evil, and they can't stand others enjoying themselves at home, especially when this person is their son's daughter-in-law.
Let's just be ourselves."
Li Huyu nodded vigorously again.
She doesn't want to be an old woman that people hate!
Even if she is old, she wants to be an old lady loved by her descendants
The life in the village is too leisurely, so Bai Manshan and Li Huyu, who were originally going to leave early in the morning, kept delaying until lunch.
But unexpectedly, an uninvited guest came in the peaceful and harmonious days.