Chapter 201 Sisters-in-law (180,000 recommended votes from Yunqi)
According to the rules, the new daughter-in-law is responsible for cooking the first day after she enters the house. One reason is to show her filial piety and establish her reputation, and the other is to let her husband's family see her cooking skills.
But the Zhou family was a strange family and a strange environment to Fang. Although she had come to the Zhou family several times with her mother or sister-in-law after the engagement, she was a guest at that time and basically only stood at the kitchen door except for the main hall.
Moreover, the two families' eating habits, food placement habits, etc. are definitely different.
So when Fang was pulled in, she felt a little restrained.
While I was lost in thought, Zhou Silang came into the kitchen from nowhere and called out, "Sister-in-law, what did you cook that smells so good?"
This kind of taste definitely could not be made by the second and third sister-in-law, so Zhou Silang’s goal was very clear.
Zhou Silang walked over to Fang, poked his head out to look around, and quickly fixed his gaze on the small cauldron. He asked, "What is this?"
Mrs. Qian slapped his hand away and said, "I made porridge for Manbao. What would you like for breakfast?"
Xiao Qian probably knew why he came here, so she asked directly without any hesitation.
Zhou Silang wanted to talk about pancakes as soon as he opened his mouth. His sister-in-law's pancakes were the best, and none of the ones sold in the county town were as delicious as hers.
However, when he saw his wife out of the corner of his eye, he swallowed his words back and decided to do it tomorrow. Today was the day his new wife would cook.
So after thinking about it, Zhou Silang chose the simplest option, "Just cook some porridge and heat up some leftover hot dishes at home."
Fang looked up at him gratefully.
Zhou Silang grinned at her, looked around, and asked, "Sister-in-law, do you have any leftovers from yesterday? If so, just cook them into porridge."
Feng couldn't help laughing out loud. Before she could say anything, Xiao Qian kicked Zhou Silang out.
All the bad ideas she came up with, even though most of the leftovers at home needed to be heated up, Fang was lazy and actually did what she was told. She didn't know what other people in the family thought, but she was sure to leave a bad impression on her parents-in-law.
Xiao Qian took Xiao Fang's hand and said with a smile, "Don't listen to her. This kid is asking for a beating. Who would give a new bride only leftovers on her first day? We have fresh vegetables at home, and there's even leftover raw tofu from yesterday, still soaking in water. What do you want to do?"
Fang, who was infatuated with "love", finally regained her senses. The reason why she was accepted by Qian was not only because she was generous, but also because she was capable.
As soon as her rationality returned, she realized how stupid she had been. Her face flushed slightly, and she quickly said, "Then I'll pick some good meat and vegetables to cook, stew some tofu, and then pick some leftovers to heat up..."
Fang looked around and asked, "Where is the rice? Let me steam it first."
That won’t do. The wedding banquet cost a lot of money. Given my father-in-law’s temper, he would be heartbroken if I really had white rice for breakfast today.
Seeing her extravagant spending, Xiao Qian knew that it was a habit of the girls in the family, so she hurriedly taught her in a soft voice.
There was leftover rice at home yesterday. As Zhou Silang said, the easiest way is to boil it and make porridge.
But being too simple is problematic in itself.
Xiao Qian taught her how to add a steamer on the pot, put the leftover rice into the steamer, cover it with a lid, and the rice will be heated up in a short while.
Although it had been overnight, as the steam rose, the rice clumps slowly softened and spread out. It looked good and of course tasted delicious too.
The remaining rice can be cooked into porridge. Now that the weather is hot, it is nice to drink a bowl of porridge after a meal.
Anyway, the leftovers won’t last long. If I don’t cook them, they’ll probably taste bad after noon.
In fact, there are many ways to cook porridge, such as beating two eggs to make egg drops... Children love to eat it.
But after taking a look at the new daughter-in-law, Xiao Qian thought it was better to forget it. As long as she behaved properly today and didn't make any mistakes, it would be fine.
Zhou Xi brought back vegetables from the vegetable garden. Fang smiled at her gratefully, and then her face turned even redder. She seemed to be the last one to get up in the family. She had just seen her sister-in-law in the yard.
With the help of her elder sister-in-law and three sisters-in-law, Fang prepared her first meal after coming to the Zhou family.
Of course, she was a little slow. While she was cooking, Xiao Qian served Manbao a large bowl of porridge and let her eat it.
Seeing this, Qian said, "Is it too much? Give some to the children."
Xiao Qianshi said, "It's not much. I thought I'd save the remaining bowl. Manbao has a small stomach and doesn't eat much for breakfast. I'm afraid he'll need some for lunch."
Qian thought about it and didn't dare to let Manbao eat too much mixed leftovers with them, so she nodded.
Manbao first ate a bowl of scallion porridge with fish and meat. However, the fish meat had been deboned, and after being stewed, it dispersed directly in the porridge.
The meat was also chopped into small pieces. Although Manbao could taste the meat and the porridge was delicious, he still felt that it was not satisfying enough.
So after the fourth sister-in-law prepared breakfast, Manbao also sat down with his own bowl.
Qian glanced at her, and after everyone arrived, she asked Zhou Silang to take Fang to recognize everyone one by one. Fang had been to the Zhou family several times, so she had met all the members of the Zhou family.
But the most familiar ones are Datou and Manbao.
The former was because he had been sending her small gifts on behalf of Zhou Silang for several months, and the latter was an excuse for her to be assigned to follow Zhou Silang every time she went on a date.
For example, "Manbao, take your sister Fang out for a walk."
For example, "Erniu, take Manbao out to play."
After Fang met everyone, Qian gestured for everyone to sit down and eat. There weren't so many rules in the countryside, and everyone would eat the prepared food together. Only because the Zhou family was large, they might be divided into two tables.
When Xiao Qian was serving rice, she glanced at Manbao's little belly and didn't serve her rice. Instead, she served her half a bowl of porridge.
Manbao drooled at the leftovers on the table and stretched out her chopsticks to eat. Not only did Qianshi, but even Little Qianshi slapped her hand, picked up a piece of fresh tofu for her, and said, "Eat fresh food."
Manbao pouted, but had to obey.
Fang looked at her curiously, and Zhou Silang explained when he saw her: "Manbao is in poor health and has a weak stomach. These overnight foods are not for her to eat."
In fact, Zhou Silang thought there was no problem. Manbao was now plump and white, and in much better health. She only coughed once or twice a year. If it weren't for the severe fever last year, he would have almost forgotten how troublesome she was as a child.
In short, he felt that Manbao should be well now. Even though these were leftovers, they were still meat and contained oil. Eating them would make one gain weight easily. How great!
Fang took these words to heart. No wonder her sister-in-law made a special bowl of porridge for her.
Because Zhou Silang was getting married, Manbao took two days off. After breakfast, she ran out. When she reached the intersection, she remembered that Bai Shanbao had gone to school today and might not have time to play with her.
(End of this chapter)
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