Tian Tian nodded, "I'm a little hungry. What did you eat for lunch today?"
Tian Tian had been on the train for a whole day and had no appetite on the train. She also had to look after An An, so when it was time to eat, she just had a few bites of food.
Having not had a proper meal on the train all day and having to feed An An, Tian Tian was very nervous on the train. She didn't think anything of it, but now that she was in a safe place, she relaxed and felt extremely hungry.
"What can we eat at home? Just the home-cooked meals. We made you a stew of beans, eggplant, potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. We also made you a plate of fried leeks and eggs, and cornmeal buns. That's all we eat at home."
It was just a simple home-cooked meal, but Tian Tian's mouth was watering when she heard it. "No, I'm so hungry. I have to go eat quickly. I'll leave An An to you, mom."
After saying that, Tian Tian ran into the kitchen, opened the lid of the rice pot, and drooled at the sight of the food inside.
Lin Meiyu also mixed a little white flour into the cornmeal bun, so it tastes soft and has a cornmeal aroma.
As for the three fresh vegetables, it is not to mention the sourness of tomatoes, the spiciness of peppers, the soft and glutinous potatoes, the tender beans, and the stewed eggplant. Whether it is used to mix with rice or eaten with cornmeal buns, it is a very good combination.
The food we grow ourselves is just different. Although the vegetables sold in the vegetable market now are all natural, pollution-free, and never sprayed with pesticides, I don’t know why they lack a certain flavor compared to the food we grow at home.
Lin Meiyu stewed a pot of vegetables. Her family ate half of it and put the remaining half in the pot for Tian Tian.
As a result, Tian Tian ate all the vegetables with the pancakes, and in the end only some vegetable soup was left in the pot. If she really couldn't finish it, looking at Tian Tian's attitude, she could even eat it with cornmeal pancakes and smeared with the vegetable soup.
Tian Tian was very satisfied after finishing her meal. She went back to the room and looked at An An. She saw that she was sleeping soundly and showed no signs of waking up.
So Tian Tian went outside with peace of mind and accompanied Lin Meiyu to look after their own vegetable garden. Although Lin Meiyu had stayed in the provincial capital for half a year, the vegetables in the vegetable garden were still planted. These were all planted by Chen Guihua when she came to help them when she was free.
There are also chickens at home. Now they have many chickens at home, chirping in the yard. They are all free-range, and when they have nothing to do, they lower their heads to peck at the insects in the soil.
Because they were afraid that the chickens would peck at the vegetables, and chickens have poisonous beaks, the vegetable roots would easily stop growing if they were pecked by the chickens, so Lin Meiyu specially cut a few branches and fenced off their vegetable garden.
In addition to these chickens, Lin Meiyu also raised ducks and geese, but not many, only three each.
Lin Meiyu and her friends still need to save eggs to sell for money. Although they are not reluctant to eat a single egg like before, they are still very unhappy to lose this chicken butt bank.
Duck eggs and goose eggs are not always kept for our own consumption. Duck eggs can be saved and made into salted duck eggs.
In the past, they did not have salted duck eggs to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival. If they wanted to eat salted duck eggs, they had to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy them, and they needed a ticket. They had neither the ticket nor the money, so they simply did not eat salted duck eggs. Occasionally, when they were craving for them, they would pickle a few salted duck eggs to satisfy their craving, but this did not happen very often.
Now that I have my own duck eggs, I don’t have to worry so much. I can pickle a jar of them whenever I want to eat them and eat them anytime and anywhere.
As for goose eggs, they are also a good thing. Eating goose eggs during confinement and pregnancy is especially good for the body. It is said that it can eliminate toxins.
However, when Tian Tian was in confinement, the goslings were not yet in the family, so Tian Tian did not catch up, and she felt a little regretful about this.
She is a person who likes to eat goose eggs very much. Although the yolk of goose eggs is a bit fishy, she especially likes to eat the green part of goose eggs, which feels very chewy and tastes different from egg white.
But it doesn’t matter. Although she didn’t get to eat it during her confinement, Old Mrs. Tian had three goose eggs and would definitely give them to her in the future.
After hearing that Tian Tian wanted to eat goose eggs, Lin Meiyu smiled and said, "What's so difficult about that? When the geese lay eggs, I'll save them for you and send them to the provincial capital. You can eat as much as you want."
Tian Tian would be very happy, but she did not forget to say to Lin Meiyu: "You don't need to send me too much, just eat it once or twice, if you eat too much, you will get tired of it and will not like it anymore, and it will go bad easily if you keep it with us, so you can keep it for yourselves, and I will call you when you want to eat it, and then you can just send me ten or eight."
The main reason was that there were no goose eggs for sale in their provincial capital. Chicken eggs were very common, duck eggs were relatively rare, and goose eggs were really... I had never seen them before, not to mention in the provincial capital, even in their small county, Tian Tian had never seen goose eggs.
"That won't work. I'll send you eight or ten at a time. The money from these goose eggs is not even enough to cover the postage for sending you something." Lin Meiyu disagreed. She felt that this was too much of a loss. Instead of spending so much money just to send goose eggs, it would be better for Tian Tian to raise a goose there and eat the eggs it lays.
After hearing this, Tian Tian kept silent.
"How long do you plan to stay at home?"
"I'll stay here until a week before school starts. I don't have much to do at home anyway." Tian Tian thought for a while and said. Ge Huiyun was planning to hold a full-month banquet for her child, so if she went back a week in advance, it would be enough time for her to prepare.
"You'll be staying for quite a long time. It's a good opportunity to hold a banquet at home and invite your aunt and your elder aunt to come over for a meal, so they can get to know each other." Lin Meiyu said that she didn't plan to invite too many people this time. She only wanted to invite a few people who were close to their family to set up two tables at home for a meal.
"That's fine. You can take care of it when the time comes. I'll just help you. By the way, Mom, let's go to the county town tomorrow."
"Why are you going to the county town? Didn't you just come back from the county town today?" Lin Meiyu was a little confused. People like them would not go back to the county town unless it was necessary. First, the county town was far away from them. Second, what did they buy? They could just buy it at the supply and marketing cooperative in the commune. There was no need to go to the county town.
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