The pork trotters were tender and boneless in a rich broth, and the vegetables were fragrant and refreshing. When they were served on the table, Zhuangzhuang took a deep breath and said, "It smells so good."

Xiaoguo added a piece of pig's trotter to his bowl and said, "If it smells good, eat more."

Zhuangzhuang nodded, "I love the food my mother cooks the most, I will definitely eat more of it."

The mother and son were talking, the candlelight shone on their faces, the scene was warm and comfortable.

After finishing the meal, Zhuangzhuang got up to wash the dishes. Xiaoguo wiped the table clean and lit a candle and placed it on the table. The room became brighter. Xiaoguo took out the books he bought in the morning and prepared to start with Thousand Character Classic. He used scissors to cut out ten chapters of rice paper and placed them aside. He took out the ink stone and began to grind the ink. He opened the brush according to the clerk's instructions and placed it aside. After he was ready, he waited for Zhuangzhuang.

Zhuangzhuang knew he had to study tonight, so he washed the dishes quickly. When he came into the house, he saw his mother sitting at the table waiting for him.

Xiaoguo wrote Zhuangzhuang's name on the paper, "Come, mother will teach you how to write your name first."

"Jiang, Qingwen." Xiaoguo pointed out the words one by one and showed them to Zhuangzhuang.

Zhuangzhuang followed along, picking up the brush and writing stroke by stroke. Xiaoguo opened the Thousand Character Classic and patiently taught him from the first character. Xiaoguo understood the principle of "the more you chew, the less you will get tired of it", so he planned to learn five characters a day. Zhuangzhuang was also very smart. For every character Xiaoguo taught him, he could remember it. The characters he wrote were more standard than Xiaoguo's, very square and neat.

Zhuangzhuang was in high spirits in learning. He finished the lesson reluctantly only when Xiaoguo let him take a rest. He put away the books carefully, even carefully pressing the folds where the books were opened. Then he went to bed beside Xiaoguo. Xiaoguo tucked him in and continued to tell him a bedtime story. Zhuangzhuang fell asleep while listening, and Xiaoguo blew out the candles and went to bed too.

The next day, when the chickens crowed at home, Xiaoguo got up to prepare breakfast. After breakfast, she had to prepare the ingredients and soup base for potato flour. After all, tomorrow was the day to go to the market, and she had to sell potato flour.

I got up and went to the kitchen. I first took out a small piece of lean meat from the ring kitchen, cut it into strips, put it in the pot and stir-fry it with pork fat. Then I added boiling water and a bowl of rice, added salt and stirred it, covered the pot, and simmered it on low heat and set it aside.

Take out the rapeseed, cut it into small pieces, wash it clean, put it in a bowl, add white flour and appropriate amount of water to mix it into a moderate batter, heat a large pot, pour a circle of oil on it, pour the batter into it and spread it into pancakes. Make three pancakes in total, put them on a plate and bring them to the table.

The porridge is ready now. Add some chopped green onions into it before taking it out of the pot. Then you can serve it and eat it.

By this time, Zhuangzhuang had finished feeding the cows, donkeys, chickens and ducks. Remembering his mother's words, he went to wash his hands without being reminded. When he came back, Xiaoguo had already served the meal, so it was just the right time for him to sit down and eat.

After dinner, Xiaoguo took the opportunity to teach Zhuangzhuang how to recognize words. Before teaching new words, Xiaoguo first consolidated the words learned last night. Xiaoguo took the book and handed Zhuangzhuang a new piece of paper. He said a word and Zhuangzhuang wrote it down. After five words, Xiaoguo checked and found that none of them were wrong. He looked at Zhuangzhuang with eyes wide open, "Son, you can't be the legendary genius, right?"

Zhuangzhuang tilted his head and said in confusion, "Genius?" His eyes were full of confusion. What does genius mean?

Xiaoguo kissed Zhuangzhuang on one side of his face and said, "It's okay. Study hard. I will take care of you when you are old."

Zhuangzhuang understood what Yang Lao said and nodded solemnly, "Yeah." Then he was anxious to ask Xiaoguo to teach him new words. Xiaoguo thought so too, and thought that since he already knew them all, he could continue to learn new ones, so he continued to teach him five new words.

While Zhuangzhuang was practicing on his own, Xiaoguo went to the kitchen to prepare the soup base. Just like last time, he used pork bones and mushrooms to make two kinds of soup. He took out the pork bones he bought, and used the dried mushrooms that had been dried last time. After the ingredients were put into the pot, Xiaoguo covered the pot, lit the fire, and left it alone to simmer.

There was some leftover starch from the last time I made potato flour, so I'll use that this time. Xiaoguo kept some of the starch to make fish balls later and poured the rest into a bowl, thinking that she would have to get some potatoes later.

He continued to mix the potato flour and noodles and set them aside to relax, then carried the basket up the mountain.