Rice soup! They had only seen Ding Gui and Ding Quan drink it, rice soup mixed with grains. The two brothers always looked intoxicated when they drank it. Today, they could finally taste the flavor of rice soup. When Jian Ning lifted the lid of the pot, the four little ones stood on tiptoe and sniffed hard. The fragrance of rice penetrated their noses and throats, soothing their taste buds.
"Wow, it's so white!" Erniu and Sanniu exclaimed as they looked at the rice soup in the bowl.
"One bowl per person, drink slowly, and be careful not to break the bowl." Jian Ning felt a little regretful. It seemed that he had to find a way to make money to buy some sugar. For now, he could only let them drink the original flavor.
Without adding sugar, the fragrance of rice is more intense. So this is what rice soup tastes like. Erniu was still smacking her lips after drinking it. The four little ones were all extremely satisfied after drinking it. Dabao and Sanniu were also obviously getting better and were much more energetic.
The rice was ready, and Jane Ning opened the lid of the pot again. The four little ones became even more excited when they saw it.
As for the white rice, grandparents had never seen it before. Erniu and Sanniu hugged each other and jumped up and down happily. Dabao was so happy that he circled around them, and the eldest daughter was giggling beside them.
Jian Ning noticed that Ding Youtian also had a smile on his face. At first, she thought that he would feel bad because she didn't mix in the coarse grains, and would think that she was making a fuss and didn't plan to live. But she just thought that the family deserved a good meal on the first day of moving.
"There is only so much food at home. What are your plans for the future?" Seeing that he seemed to have never worried about how to make a living, Jian Ning couldn't help but ask.
"Don't worry, my lady. I have my own plans and will never let you go hungry." He said it with confidence, not like he was talking nonsense, but Jane Ning couldn't think of any way he could make money.
Before Jian Ning could ask again, he took the initiative to speak, "Blind Liu is an expert at making wine, but collecting mountain dew is not enough and it's troublesome. The well water my wife drew up today is quite good. I tasted it and it has a bit of the flavor of sweet spring water. I'm afraid the wine I brew will taste better if I use it to replace the dew."
Nonsense! She secretly dripped spiritual spring water into the well water, which naturally had the taste of sweet spring water. It would be great to be able to use spiritual spring water to make wine, but the problem was that she didn't know how to make wine, and neither did Ding Youtian. Could it be that he wanted to form a partnership with Blind Liu?
Jian Ning thought to herself that if the sweet potatoes in Baicaojian didn't sprout, making wine and selling it would be a good way out. If business was good, she could even save enough to send Dabao to school. She didn't want to tell anyone about Dabao's treatment yet. She shoveled the rice into the wooden barrel, scooping up the remaining soft rice crust. She rolled a small ball of rice crust for each of the four little ones and also for Ding Youtian.
Ding Youtian asked her to eat, but she glanced at him sideways, and the meaning was very clear: Just eat it if it's given to you, stop talking nonsense.
His wife still felt sorry for him. Ding Youtian understood her look and felt warm in his heart. He chewed the rice crust and told Jian Ning about his plan. He didn't have to think about these things before the family was divided, but now that it was divided, he had to plan everything.
"After the house is tidied up in two days, I will invite Blind Liu to my house for a meal. I plan to form a partnership with him. He only needs to provide the yeast and take 4% of the profit. We will take 5% of the profit. The remaining 1% will be given to Lao Liu, and he will be responsible for selling the wine."
"What can Blind Liu do if he gets only four cents for producing the wine yeast?"
Ding Youtian looked at Jian Ning as if he were a fool. The idea was his, and selling the wine was handled by Lao Liu, a waiter at the town's restaurant. Blind Liu didn't need to hand over the wine yeast recipe, and he still thought four percent profit was too much.
Was she being despised by a useless piece of shit? Jane Ning almost couldn't help but want to hit him on the head with a spatula.
Dinner was served, with two dishes in total, a large bowl of green vegetables and a large pot of braised rabbit meat. In addition to salt and sauce for the coloring, Jane Ning also secretly grabbed some licorice and tangerine peel from the medicine warehouse and added them to the rabbit meat, making it look, smell and taste good.
Jane Ning's cooking skills are quite good. Grandma Wu doesn't like to cook and often goes out to restaurants or noodle shops to eat casually. Jane Ning is grateful to her for adopting him and teaching him medical skills and martial arts, so he collected a lot of recipes on the Internet, studied them diligently whenever he had free time, and slowly his cooking skills became perfect.
Jane Ning hesitated for a moment when serving the rice, and then gave the first bowl to Ding Youtian. Since she had decided to raise the four little ones for her original self, she had to create a home for them that at least appeared warm and loving on the surface.
After all, Ding Youtian is the nominal head of the family, and she lives in a society where men are superior to women. If she, as a mother, despises the head of the family, the children will feel that their parents are not in harmony, which will inevitably cause great damage to the children's hearts.
She had tasted the same thing as herself in her childhood and didn't want the four little ones to taste it again.
The four little ones sat upright, facing their overflowing bowls of white rice, none of them starting to eat. This was a habit formed there. Without the head of the family's chopsticks and permission, they wouldn't dare to touch anything, no matter how tempting the rabbit meat and rice were.
For the first time in his life, Ding Youtian felt the dignity of being the head of the family. He cleared his throat and said, "This is the first time our family is sitting down to eat together. Your mother has worked hard today. Daddy will serve her some food first."
He picked up a few pieces of rabbit meat for Jian Ning and a few more for the eldest girl. "Big sister, you've worked hard too. Dad and mom went up the mountain, and you've been helping your brothers and sisters clean up the rooms at home. You've done a great job. You all did a great job and should all be praised."
"Eat as much as you can. This meal will be enough for you." He said after serving food to the children one by one.
The four little ones and Ding Youtian had a meal so delicious that their mouths were drooling. The rabbit meat was fragrant, crispy and chewy. This was what it really felt like to live a good life. He felt that his previous life had been in vain. He had a strong desire in his heart at this moment. He wanted his family to live such a good life every day, or even a better life!
Many years later, the four little ones still remember the first full meal they had in their lives vividly, and the aroma of rabbit meat still seems to linger between their lips and teeth.
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