Chapter 115 115. Main dishes
The earthen stoves in rural areas have large fires and large pots, so cooking can be done very quickly.
One pot is used for cooking rice, a small pot in the middle is used to boil water, and the other is a large iron pot that must be twenty-five years old and was used when we got married.
After so many years, the lard has made it shiny and smooth. When stir-fried, the dish is silky smooth and delicious.
Today there are only 10 to 20 people, so Ulan adds more food but not more vegetables (mainly because there are not many vegetables during this lean season), and every dish is served in a pot.
The main dish is not mentioned, a large pot of milkvetch stir-fried bacon.
Logically speaking, the main dish should be stewed vegetables, but unfortunately, the lettuce pulled from grandma’s vegetable garden is not of this quality, so the stewed meat with lettuce can only be ranked second.
Followed by scrambled eggs with leeks.
Song Tan harvested all the leeks yesterday, and the family spent several hours just making various dumplings and leeks boxes.
No, there is also a large plate of leek boxes in the lunch dishes, which serves as another staple food.
As for those who really don’t have any, I’ll just make scrambled eggs today.
The reason why it didn’t become the main dish was purely because it didn’t contain meat and it didn’t look grand enough.
Then stir-fried twice-cooked pork with chili and stir-fried tofu with Chinese cabbage.
These are all vegetables that are available on the ground, and the rest are all purchased by driving to the town early in the morning, which is really not worth mentioning.
But despite this, the overbearing aroma of leeks, the unique crispy aroma of the leek box, and the various flavors stimulated by the fried meat with milkvetch... all present can't help but feel hungry.
If I didn’t have two points of self-control left, I would be snatched away by the chopsticks right now!
If nothing else, let me take a bite out of the leek box first! So hungry!
However, by the time all ten large basins were put on the table, the eldest aunt and Sun Yanyan had not returned yet.
Everyone sat around the table holding chopsticks, not to mention anxious.
Uncle’s face looked a little ugly:
“I’ll make a phone call, let’s eat first.”
But there is no reason to eat first?
When the corresponding phone rang in the yard, everyone realized that they went out to dig vegetables and didn't bring their mobile phones with them at all.
Wang Lifen was still puzzled: "The vegetable garden is only so big, and there aren't many lettuce leaves left. Is it because they haven't been pulled up yet or something?"
“Qiao Qiao.” Song Tan smiled and said, “Go to grandma’s house to see if auntie is there?”
When it comes to running errands, Qiaoqiao is still very active.
At this moment, he stood up without hesitation, while still acting like an adult: "Oh! You haven't come back after eating, how playful!"
The uncle's face was already very ugly. Song Tan patted him and said, "Go quickly."
Qiaoqiao is tall and has long legs. Now she was running all the way. After only five minutes, she ran back out of breath:
“No, there is no one at grandma’s house, not in the house, not in the vegetable field, not in the big white house.”
The focus of everyone present was where the person had gone. Only Song Tan glanced at Qiao Qiao and knew that he must have gone to Dabai's den again.
Since Dabai moved to the mountain, no one has taken care of his shabby basket nest. He has to be looked after by his good brother Qiaoqiao.
The phone couldn’t be reached, and I didn’t know where I was. Song Tan said: "Auntie said she was going to cut milkvetch this morning, but there is no more vetch in the field. Is she still looking for it in the field?"
So Qiaoqiao was sent to the door again to look into the fields.
Looking around, there is only a piece of brown soil left in the ground. Where are the people?
Someone's stomach rumbled. Uncle Song's face became even more embarrassed, so he picked up the chopsticks and said, "No, no, no, no, let's eat first! You're welcome, my family."
But as soon as the scent hit him at noon today, he immediately regretted it and just wanted to slap himself in the face!
—Telling you to be fussy and asking you to go out for a living!
This milkvetch smells different. How many good things have I missed?
When I think of yesterday when I drove the tiller to plow a plow, and cruelly buried them all under the soil, my hands and feet are shaking with anger——
What if you are willing to cut a basket?
At this moment!
Suddenly someone in the back mountain seemed to be shouting, shouting!
The voice was pitiful and full of fear. Everyone looked solemn, and Song Sancheng jumped up instantly: "My pig!"
The mountains behind are all his treasures. He fed them spoonfuls of pig food, and there is no room for any loss!
Although Qiaoqiao did not feed pigs, his chickens and ducks, his big white brothers, and the main compost he had just learned—pig manure!
They are all still on the mountain!
At this moment, he stood up instantly.
But his face was suppressed and turned red, and he couldn't think of what he should say about me first.
My great king? Or my Dabai? Or my pig manure, chickens and ducks?
After a moment of silence, the shouts from the back mountain became louder and louder. Now no one could sit still and hurriedly ran outside.
Just after turning around the back mountain, before everyone could express their surprise at the buzzing bee boxes on the side of the trail, they saw two grey-headed and extremely embarrassed women emerging from the forest.
At this moment, they were crying and shouting, and then stumbled down.
It wasn’t until he saw the person that he sat down on the ground.
“You...what are you doing?”
Uncle Song was suppressing his anger, and his voice was trembling when he spoke.
Mao Li said "ouch":
“Almost...almost died, dead!!”
Sun Yanyan also had a look of fear on her face, her eyes were blurred by crying: "It's just, dad, you don't know, there is a monster on the back mountain, don't mention how scary it is!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another rustling sound in the forest. Everyone held their breath and concentrated. Sun Yanyan and her eldest aunt huddled together, looking frightened.
Then, another loud "quacking" sound came, and its white head with a little yellow hat was revealed first.
When Dabai saw Qiaoqiao, he quickly spread his wings, held his head high, and rushed out.
Although it is just a goose, it has the momentum of thousands of troops.
Qiaoqiao cheered, squatted down and opened her arms, and the two brothers hugged each other in a familiar manner.
Dabai then calmed down.
Just...this?
This is just an ordinary big white goose, not a lion-headed goose. If you are afraid, you won’t scream like this, right?
Everyone looked at the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and they felt strange for a moment.
At this moment, there was a subtle sound in the bushes.
Song Tan raised his head and saw a huge dog's head sticking out, quietly looking at the group of people in front of him.
Hehe, Tantan never stays overnight for revenge.
(End of this chapter)