Su Qingluan waited until her brother brought a few bowls of rice. She did not distribute them immediately, but instead took a little rice porridge with a dipping saucer and tasted it.
The rice has become delicate and soft when you put it in your mouth, and the rice soup is very rich and delicious because it is blended with the sweetness of various meats and the taste of spices.
She nodded: "The rice porridge is ready. We can eat it with the vegetables and meat inside. It has a unique taste!"
After saying that, she first filled a bowl and handed it to A-niang, then filled another bowl and handed it to A-niang again - but this bowl was passed to A-dad.
It wasn't that Su Qingluan didn't want to serve Su Guangfu a bowl of porridge herself, but the two of them were not touching each other from either the left or right side, and they were also far apart. Su Qingluan didn't dare to pass food directly over the hot pot to others, otherwise if she accidentally got burned by the rising hot steam, it would be very unpleasant.
When Su Qingluan was about to serve porridge to the two children, Yang Shi hurriedly said, "Daya, don't just care about others, eat yourself too. How many mouthfuls can those two little ones eat? I'm still here!"
After hearing this, Su Guangfu raised his eyelids and said, "Give the second kid more food, and make him eat it all!" Although he said this to Yang, it was obvious that he was talking to Su Xuanhe, the only one in the family who was a serious eater.
When the kid heard that he was going to serve himself some vegetables, the boss was not happy at all, and his mouth was pouted so much that you could hang an oil bottle on it.
But what can he do? Su Xuanhe doesn’t want to eat meat, but he also doesn’t want to eat “stir-fried pork on bamboo board”!
At this time, Su Xueyan, who was standing by, patted her brother on the back in a smug manner and said, "Brother, being picky about food is not a good thing. Besides, weren't you squatting in the toilet a few days ago..."
"Alright, alright!" After all, she was seven or eight years old, and she had gone to school and learned about propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame. Su Xuanhe's slightly dark face turned purple eggplant color. "You little girl, you talk nonsense all day long, and we're still eating!"
More importantly, Su Xuanhe didn't want to recall even for a moment the embarrassing situation of not being able to defecate, which made him want to crawl into the ground just thinking about it. He wanted to completely forget it from his mind immediately!
As a result, not only did Su Xueyan bring it up, but she also did it in front of the whole family! She even had to do it at the dinner table, which was simply too much to cry about!
The others also knew how embarrassed Su Xuanhe was at the moment, so Yang quickly placed a large bowl of rice porridge that she had originally intended to serve to her second son in front of her youngest daughter.
Su Xueyan, however, was a little shrew. She stuck out her tongue and said, "I won't say anything." Then she pushed the bowl of rice porridge back in front of Su Xuanhe and turned to Yang, saying, "Mother, I want chicken and lamb chops, as well as bamboo shoots and phoenix tail vegetables!"
"Okay, okay, your little mouth is the only one that knows how to eat!" Yang smiled and picked out the four kinds of food into her little daughter's bowl as she requested.
Su Xueyan thanked Yang, took her own bowl, and deliberately ate the lamb chops very slowly. Then she waved the lamb chops in front of Su Xuanhe and ate them in one bite.
Although Su Xuanhe knew that his sister was doing something else on purpose, he did not dare to "steal the food from his sister" in front of his parents and elder sister, so he could only take a big bite of the spinach leaves.
"Wow, aren't vegetable leaves just grass? What's so delicious about them? I still prefer meat!" Su Xuanhe cried in his heart unwillingly.
However, if Su Qingluan knew what her brother was muttering in his heart, she would have to speak up for the vegetables in her rice soup hot pot: there are many thicker vegetables in this rice soup hot pot, such as bamboo shoots, radishes, yams, and fungus, which all need to be boiled for a long time, otherwise they will not be easy to taste.
In this way, these vegetables are not only imbued with the aroma of various animal fats in the rice soup pot, but are also coated with a layer of crystal rice milk.
Such vegetables taste rich and mellow, with a unique flavor. How can they be compared with the astringent and bitter wild vegetables and weeds on the roadside?
The distinct rice grains in the rice porridge make the originally sticky rice soup more palatable, while the sweetness of vegetables and the freshness of various meats whet everyone's appetite.
So even though there was a lot of rice soup base and hot pot ingredients left, the rice soup was really delicious. In addition, everyone in the Su family, young and old, had been very busy these days, and the weather had turned cooler. All these factors combined really whetted people's appetite.
Because of this, everyone in the Su family unknowingly ate a little more than usual.
Su Qingluan originally thought that at least half of the soup base would be left, which was a bit of a shame. However, she didn't expect that with everyone working together "out of their normal strength", the entire soup base and the ingredients in it were actually eaten up!
Of course, the consequence of eating too much was that that night, the Su family braved the howling cold wind, walking around in circles in the yard with their bellies bulging, trying to digest the food. This earned them a lot of teasing from Li Silang and his wife, who had just returned from a walk with Sun Guixiang in the next yard.
"Brother Su, you and my sister-in-law are not pregnant either. Why is it more difficult for you to move than my pregnant wife?" Li Si said with a smile.
Sun Guixiang, who was standing by, patted her husband's broad shoulders and said, "You're being so careless. We have a child!" Then she turned to Yang and said, "What are your family doing?"
Yang was too embarrassed to say that her whole family was overfed, so she just smiled and said, "Exercise after dinner in the evening. Firstly, it helps digestion, and secondly, it can warm the body as the weather turns cold."
Sun Guixiang was about to agree when she heard this, but suddenly her body shook slightly and she exclaimed softly, "Ouch!"
It was obvious that this wasn't the first time Li Silang had encountered this situation. He lowered his head and asked with great experience, "Is it bothering you in your stomach again?"
"It's just a kick, it's okay." Sun Guixiang said, touching her belly which was as big as a small watermelon.
Although it was dim at night and Su Qingluan could not see the expression on Sun Guixiang's face, she could tell from her gentle tone and the way she slowly stroked every inch of her belly that she loved her unborn child very much.
However, thinking of the probability of pregnant women dying during childbirth in this era, Su Qingluan still felt worried for Sun Guixiang, so she couldn't help but ask, "Aunt Guixiang, I think it's winter this time, right?"
Sun Guixiang nodded when she heard this: "Yes, it will break out in two months."
Upon hearing this, Yang couldn't help but sigh, "This is the time when my body feels heavy and uncomfortable all over," and then looked at Li Silang, "It's not easy for women at this time, so please bear with me."
Li Silang nodded cautiously, and Sun Guixiang also smiled sweetly: "My head of the family treats me very well." But she did not elaborate - there was no way, the way a couple gets along privately in this era can be regarded as "boudoir talk", which is a private topic and cannot be brought out for discussion as if it were a daily routine.
They chatted for a while, said a series of blessings to Sun Guixiang, and then watched the couple go home.
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