Chapter 10 Preserved Egg and Lean Meat Porridge
The porridge in the pot became more and more fragrant, the rice was blooming and the rice oil was cooking out. Xie Yanyan washed the shepherd's purse, cut it into shreds and sprinkled it into the porridge, cooked it for a while, and sprinkled some chopped green onions.
The fragrance wafted throughout the air.
It’s out of the pot!
She filled four large bowls with porridge and gave one bowl to Song Lingling: "Sister-in-law, you and Ah Sheng drink together."
He also served a large bowl to Xie Ning and Xie Anfeng, and a bowl to Xie Yong and Xie Lingyu.
Xie Yanyan held the pot and drank directly.
Li Rong came over after smelling the fragrance. She immediately scooped a spoonful of food and put it in her mouth.
But I can’t share it with Li Rong. The porridge looks all green and made of shepherd’s purse leaves, but you can taste the minced meat and preserved egg pieces in it when you eat it.
"What kind of porridge did you cook?" Li Rong sniffed, "It smells so good."
"Wild vegetable porridge, with some spices to match." Xie Yanyan said lightly, "It smells good, but tastes a bit astringent. If you want to eat it, prepare some ingredients later and I'll cook a pot for you?"
Seeing that they were already holding the cups in their hands and drinking, Li Rong was too embarrassed to ask her if she wanted to try some. He swallowed his saliva and said, "Then you can help us cook a pot later."
Song Lingling, Xie Ning and others could tell there was minced meat in the porridge, but they were smart enough to keep silent about it, as otherwise it would arouse jealousy and would be bad for their family.
The little bun's tongue hurt from the heat, but he still tried his best to eat it, mumbling: "Aunt, the wild vegetable porridge you cooked is really delicious."
Without even looking up, Xie Lingyu said, "Of course my sister's cooking is delicious."
Vegetable and meat porridge goes very well with roujiamo.
The old lady was almost dying of greed, and she acted like the mistress of the house, saying, "Your father and I haven't eaten yet, why are you eating?"
Xie Anfeng didn't even look at the old lady. He took his bowl and walked over to Xie Jinrong, scooping some food for him with a spoon.
"Eldest brother, third brother, destroy their jobs! You unfilial things." The old lady said angrily.
Xie Qingmu and Xie Yun both rushed to the second room. They were almost starving to death, but Xie Anfeng's family was actually eating such delicious porridge.
Xie Ning put down the bowl and said fiercely: "Let's see who dares?"
Xie Anfeng was a general and he was a Yulin Guard, both were military commanders, even if they were tied up they would not be enough for the two of them to defeat.
Xiao Shen and Fang did not dare to say much. The second house was in chaos! Jiang Shuang was the mistress of a family, and no one cared about her. The first and third houses were nothing.
Especially the conversation between Xie Anfeng and the old lady just now, which was basically what enemies say to each other.
Xie Tingting has been running a fever, and Fang couldn't help crying: "Xie Qingmu, the carriage my parents sent us didn't even last a quarter of an hour. Tingting is half dead now, and you don't care at all?"
Xie Qingmu held his head in his hands. What else could he do? His mother wouldn't let him take the car, and the cakes sent by Yue's family were all distributed by his mother to the first wife.
Fang hit her head and cried, "If I had known you were a bastard, I would never have married into the Xie family even if I died."
Xie Qingmu said angrily: "It's not too late for you to die now!"
No matter how Shen threatened to use family rules and sue Xie Anfeng for disobedience, Xie Yanyan and the others just ignored her.
Of all things in the world, only food should not be wasted!
The porridge was quickly eaten, Xie Ning washed the bowl and returned it to Zhu Ba.
The team hit the road again.
As Xie Yanyan walked, she kept picking purple jasmine flowers on the roadside. Xie Lingyu thought her sister liked flowers, so she picked a lot of forsythia flowers and gave them to her sister.
At 3 p.m., the exile team finally arrived at Caowa Town.
Stay at the inn tonight.
The escort opened guest rooms. Li Rong stayed in a single room, and the other escorts stayed in a triple room.
As for the fugitives, they lived in the inn's woodshed, thatched house, or stable.
Xie Yanyan had some money in his pocket and didn't want to put himself in a difficult position, so he asked Xie Anfeng to find Li Rong and get a few rooms through them.
It cost five times more, but the sleep was comfortable.
The waiter brought a foot-washing bucket and several buckets of hot water. She took a nice hot bath, and her muscles finally relaxed.
Song Lingling borrowed needle and thread from the store owner. During the day, a corner of Xie Yanyan's clothes was torn, so she came over to mend the hole.
Xie Yanyan was not polite.
Song Lingling was mending clothes. She sat on the edge of the bed and used a needle to pick the blisters on her feet.
Her feet were so delicate that even though she was wearing Hu boots, she still got blisters on them.
"Burn the needle over the fire, otherwise the wound will fester." Song Lingling felt that her aunt was young and might not know how to treat wounds.
"Okay." Xie Yanyan accepted the advice readily, heated the tip of a needle red on the lamp, let it cool down, and then poke the blisters one by one.
"It hurts a lot, right? Let's buy some cloth from Lord Li later and I'll make you two pairs of soft-soled shoes so you can suffer less." Song Lingling felt distressed as she watched her pick the blisters one by one and the yellowish liquid flow out.
"Thank you, sister-in-law."
Jiang Shuang watched her pick the blisters and said, "Your grandfather and his family live in the stable, and you live in a good room..."
Xie Yanyan gave her a disgusted look and said, "If you don't want to live here, you can sleep in the stable with Shen. I won't stop you."
While mending her clothes, Song Lingling gently persuaded Jiang Shuang: "Mom, the way grandpa and step-grandmother treated grandma and father-in-law is really unforgivable. They treated and exploited father-in-law harshly. You should always think more about him."
Xie Yanyan stared at Jiang Shuang coldly. If she dared to use her mother-in-law's authority to control her sister-in-law, she would drive Jiang Shuang out of the guest room.
Jiang Shuang was frightened by Xie Yanyan's fierce eyes.
Song Lingling mended the hole in Xie Yanyan's clothes. Xie Yanyan looked at the hole that had been repaired into a cluster of bamboo leaves and praised, "Sister-in-law, you have great craftsmanship."
After sending her sister-in-law back, she left the room and stuffed a cloth bag into Song Lingling's hand, whispering, "Take it back! Dad and second brother have them all."
But he said loudly: "Sister-in-law, I won't see you off. My feet hurt."
Song Lingling knew that she was subsidizing herself and didn't want Jiang Shuang and others to know.
"Sister, you should rest early too." Song Lingling's voice was a little choked. The whole family was united and they could move on no matter how difficult it was.
Song Lingling quickly returned to the room, opened the cloth bag, and her eyes immediately turned red.
There were several oil paper bags and a glass bottle inside.
Inside the oil paper package were a few roujiamo, a roast duck, and two bunches of purple grapes.
The food is hot, as if it has just come out of the pot.
Especially that glass bottle, which contains more than a pound of milk.
"Mom, is this meat?" Xie Yusheng's mouth was watering as he smelled the fragrance.
"This is given by my aunt. Eat it." Song Lingling poured out a cup of milk, stuffed it into Xie Yusheng's hand, and gave him a roujiamo.
The other few were given to Xie Ning. Xie Ning was a soldier and only ate one piece of hard bread a day, so he definitely wasn't full.
Xie Ning had been to the northwest, and he knew that this kind of food was called meat sandwiched with steamed bun, but there was not so much meat in it and it was not as delicious.
He pointed at the milk and said to Song Lingling, "Your younger sister wants to take care of you, don't let her down. I'll send some roujiamo to dad and brother, they're not full yet."
"My sister specifically told me that she had already given them to my father and my second brother. These are all for us."
It's not that Song Lingling was reluctant to give it to Xie Anfeng, but she felt that Xie Yanyan had made arrangements and they didn't need to act on their own, so as not to be discovered and implicate her aunt.
Xie Ning closed the door tightly and poured a cup of hot water. The three of us, the family, took turns eating the roujiamo, leaving half of the roast duck.
The grapes were left to Song Lingling and Xie Yusheng. Xie Ning felt uncomfortable because of his wife and children.
He never knew that his little sister had grown up to be so capable. She could cook such delicious vegetable and meat porridge, and secretly hide roujiamo and roast duck. She didn't eat the most precious grapes, but gave them all to her wife and children.
My sister must have suffered a lot!
“Crack~”
A slight sound came from the roof, breaking his sentimentality.
Xie Ning quickly extinguished the oil lamp and protected his wife and children behind him.
(End of this chapter)
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