It was only eleven o'clock when I came out of the gym.
People are hurrying on the road.
The sun was shining brightly, shining directly down from the treetops, casting dappled shadows on the ground.
Lushan City is an old city on a hillside. There are densely planted big trees on both sides of the road, and the road is also undulating.
The flattest road is Binjiang Road near the river.
When Xiaoqi came out, he felt empty all over and was so hungry that he felt like he could eat a pig's leg.
Originally, she wanted to go to the snack bar at the entrance of the gymnasium to have some fast food, but the lingering smell of oil smoke was so irritating that she couldn't go in.
If he were to eat stir-fried dishes like he did yesterday, Xiao Qi still felt it was not worth it. Spending nearly a hundred yuan on a meal for one person was too extravagant, and it wasn't particularly delicious.
Finally, I decided to go back to my aunt's dormitory.
She was too tired from her morning exercise and needed a nap.
On the way, I was thinking about what to eat when I got home. I was already very hungry and wanted to eat right away. I couldn’t make anything too complicated.
Passing by a delicatessen, Xiao Qi smelled the food there and thought it was quite delicious, without any smell of greasy food, so he went in and bought two pounds of braised pig's trotters. Then he picked a bunch of water spinach, some fresh mushrooms, and a piece of tofu from the cart pulled by the vegetable vendor in front of the hospital.
Xiaoqi paid with her mobile phone. A bunch of water spinach cost 6 yuan, mushrooms cost 1.8 yuan, and tofu cost 1.5 yuan, totaling only 9.30 yuan. Xiaoqi did not bargain, but the boss, seeing that she was a girl, actually waived 30 yuan, making a total of 9 yuan.
I bought braised pig's trotters for 47 yuan.
After returning to his aunt's dormitory, Xiaoqi first called his aunt and told her that he would come back to cook.
My aunt was busy, so she just answered and hung up.
Xiaoqi used learning cards to learn cooking skills, but maybe the chef was a foreign chef, and it seemed that he had a lot of impressions of baking bread in his mind, but nothing else. So she could only make what she had eaten or what she saw her mother make.
She felt that even if she learned the skill, she still needed to practice it, just like singing, which she had to learn from others rather than making something up out of nothing. The same went for cooking.
First, wash the rice and cook it.
The rice grown at home is still very fragrant, and the rice cooked with it is sticky. The autumn harvest is coming soon, and Xiaoqi feels even hungrier when he thinks about the new rice coming out this year.
After the rice is steamed, Xiaoqi goes to wash the vegetables. The water spinach needs to be folded, and the thick stalks need to be removed. Each section should have a leaf and a section of the stalk. This way, it will taste delicious when fried, with the silkiness of the leaves and the crispness and sweetness of the stalks. Garlic-stirred water spinach is enough, and no other ingredients are needed.
Xiaoqi was going to use the mushrooms and tofu to make soup, as these were dishes she had eaten before.
Wash and slice the mushrooms, then squeeze out the water. Soak the tofu in cold water and set aside.
Xiaoqi plans to make soup first because water spinach cooks faster.
Cooking has to be done in the yard because the tunnel is too narrow and the smell of oil smoke cannot escape.
Xiaoqi first dry-fried the mushrooms in a pan, and soon the aroma of the mushrooms came out, and then added two large bowls of water.
Wait for the water to boil, take the tofu out of the cold water, cut it into cubes directly on your hands, put it into the pot, and boil it until the water boils. Then add a little sweet potato starch to thicken it, and finally add salt, pepper, chicken essence, and serve.
A bowl of thick mushroom and tofu soup came out, and a little chopped green onion was sprinkled on it at the end.
Then wash the pot, heat the oil, throw in the smashed garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in the folded water spinach and stir-fry quickly. A large pot will be fried quickly until only a little is left at the bottom of the pot. Wait until everything turns dark green, add seasoning and remove from the pot.
Xiaoqi prepared the dishes and heated up the braised pig's trotters, then called his aunt to come and eat.
Two dishes and one soup, one meat and one vegetable, a big pot of pig's trotters, green water spinach, and thickened mushroom and tofu soup, all look good.
"Xiao Qi, you cook better than your aunt." Su Simei didn't expect that her niece's cooking skills were quite good.
Just the smell is good.
Xiaoqi just smiled and served the rice.
Then they ate. When the rice entered his mouth, Xiaoqi felt that he had put a little too much water. The rice at home was relatively broken, and it became a little mushy after putting too much water in. The rice pot did not gather fragrance, and the rice lost its aroma a little, but it was still very sticky.
I took another sip of the soup and felt that the starch I had thickened was a bit too thick, and there were some grains in it. The pepper was not added correctly, or perhaps the pepper had been left in for a bit too long.
The fire was not high enough to cook the water spinach, so it was a little overcooked.
The marinade tasted good, but the meat didn't have much flavor and was a bit fishy...
Xiao Qi thought she had done a good job, but she didn't expect there were so many problems. She watched her aunt eat a lot, and she almost wanted to eat the soup from the bowl, just like a pig eating... No, maybe she was wronging the pig, because a pig's sense of taste is much more sensitive and richer than that of humans.
She developed so many problems from this simple meal.
My aunt ate with big mouthfuls and praised the food.
"It's delicious. The mushroom soup you make is just like the one my mom makes. It has that flavor. I've tried so many times but I can't get that flavor."
Su Xiaoqi: ...
"Water spinach is also delicious, not tough at all, very tender."
My aunt almost poured the food from the basin into her mouth, leaving some of the food behind, and ate very roughly.
Xiaoqi was not slow either. He made a lot of rice for the whole pot. The aunt and nephew finished eating it, and only a few pig's trotters were left.
My aunt went to wash the dishes on her own initiative, and Xiaoqi cleaned up. I was very sleepy after the meal. I thought I couldn’t sleep directly after the meal, but I couldn’t bear the fatigue and fell asleep as soon as I lay on the bed.
Su Simei came in and found that her niece had kicked off the quilt she was sleeping on like a pig. She covered her with the quilt, then quietly closed the door and left.
At noon, when the nurses and doctors are resting, the ward becomes much more relaxed, and Su Simei likes to go up and chat with them.
When there were patients who asked her to take care of them temporarily, she would just find a bed upstairs in the ward and sleep there, which was more comfortable than the downstairs.
The patients also like to joke and chat with this chubby nurse. After all, it is not a good idea to stay in the hospital with a sad face every day.
Su Simei is a very cheerful person. She smiles brightly whenever she speaks and has a big round face that makes her very approachable. She's just a little too fat, otherwise there would probably be a lot of relatives of elderly patients who would want to introduce her to someone.
"Xiao Su, you finished eating so quickly. Did you buy fast food again today?" An old lady asked swayingly with one leg resting on the cloth tied on the bed.
"Fast food is not tasty and very greasy. My niece Xiaoqi cooks and calls me to eat when it's ready. Even though she is still a student, her cooking is very delicious and much better than mine." Su Simei said proudly.
When everyone heard her praising her niece, they were quite gossipy. After all, it was quite interesting that a caregiver had a niece who attended No. 1 Middle School.
Everyone started talking at once. Some said that their daughter was almost 30 years old and still couldn't cook rice. Of course, they looked proud, because they had spoiled their daughter themselves.
Some people also expressed doubts, wondering if young girls nowadays can cook.
A group of people were talking loudly and noisily. In the ward next to Liu Anquan's, a new patient had also arrived. His old mother had become familiar with the hospital and no longer kept wiping her tears. After dinner and washing the dishes, she would join in the conversation.
Everyone was talking loudly and there were bursts of laughter. Liu Anquan, who was lying in bed, couldn't get up. He could only move the bed higher so that he could lean out the window to look. The caregiver's niece could cook. He had seen her cook and she was really good at it. She could chop vegetables properly.
He fumbled with his phone and found the first donation in the Shitou Chiu account, which was 15,000 yuan. He looked at the WeChat name but didn't recognize it. It was only seven characters long.
He left a message of thanks, but the other party did not respond.
He tried to turn over and looked straight at the tree outside the window. There were unknown flowers blooming on the tree with a faint fragrance.
Su Xiaoqi felt hot under the quilt, so she kicked it off, turned over and continued to sleep.
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