Jiang Xue ignored Ji Dong and continued washing the tripe by herself.
How can you eat hot pot without vegetables? Jiang Xue put the tripe in water to soak in salt, changed her shoes, and went to the vegetable garden behind the house to get some vegetables.
Jiang Xue looked at the sparse bean sprouts and the overgrown weeds, scratched her head sheepishly, as if she had never properly tended to the fields since coming here.
To be honest, I haven't had much time. I've been thinking about the wheat I planted before, and I still haven't been able to visit you.
She prepared some bok choy and spinach, and dug out some potatoes.
Jiang Xue didn't rest. By the time she finished washing the whole tripe, it was already dark.
She chopped all the vegetables and set them aside. Then she rendered beef fat to make beef tallow, removed the cracklings, and then put star anise, bay leaves, dried chili peppers, and other spices into the tallow and simmered it.
In an instant, the pungent, spicy aroma filled the entire courtyard.
Aunt Wang, who had already gone home, couldn't help but peek out from inside when she smelled the delicious aroma. "Jiang Xue, what are you cooking? It smells so good!"
"Beef hot pot".
Aunt Wang swallowed hard, looking at her own family's still-made potato rolls, and instantly lost her appetite.
Ji Dong had been pacing back and forth in the yard, impatient to get to the kitchen, but he was also afraid of Jiang Xue's fiery temper.
Jiang Xue pulled an earthenware pot out of the charcoal fire; inside was the beef bone soup she had been simmering since she got back.
Pour the beef bone broth into the oily hot pot base, and the aroma is enhanced once again.
Unable to resist any longer, Ji Dong rushed into the kitchen. "Sister-in-law, what delicious food are you cooking?"
"You good-for-nothing, come back for dinner! If you don't eat, I'll feed it to the pigs and save some food." Xie Xiaotian's shouting gave Ji Dong a headache.
"I won't eat it. Who would eat the pig slop you made?"
Jiang Xue busied herself cooking the beef, saying, "Your brother said we don't provide meals for you here."
Ji Dong said dismissively, "I just don't believe my brother would be so heartless to me."
Jiang Xue ignored him. She used the remaining beef bone broth to cook some vermicelli for the two children, a light and nutritious meal.
"Why would I feel sorry for you? Get as far away from me as you can." Ji Chen walked in and kicked Ji Dong in the butt.
Ji Dong, feeling wronged, covered his bottom and reluctantly went to the west room to eat.
"What are you burning? Why does it smell so good?" Ji Chen's expression had turned cold.
Jiang Xue was already used to it. "For the beef hot pot, help me light a fire on that stove, bring it to the table, and then I can call the brothers to start eating."
Gu Xiaohei smelled the aroma and didn't even have time to wash his hands before sitting properly at the table. "Sister-in-law, how come your cooking is so good? I could smell the aroma from across the table. I was so hungry I couldn't even lift a brick."
"What a promising future!" Ji Chen said irritably.
"Unlike you, I don't have a wife who can cook so well."
"If you're not going to eat, you can leave now. And you're not even going to wash your hands?"
Faced with the imposing presence of Ji Chen, Gu Xiaohei quickly got up and ran to wash his hands.
Gu Xiaohei was eating hot pot with gusto at the dinner table, while Ji Chen ate very slowly.
The workers were soon sweating profusely from eating. "Sister-in-law, your cooking skills are so good you could open a restaurant. I bet the lines would be incredibly long."
Jiang Xue fed her two children beef vermicelli, saying, "Running a restaurant is too tiring. I don't want to be that tired. I'll just cook something for myself occasionally."
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