Chapter 291 A Woman Even Super Pepper Can’t Cure
"Third Grandma, is this enough?" Su Yuchen poured half a cup of white wine into the small cup and asked Third Grandma who was standing beside him.
"Oh, it's not enough! Your third grandma can drink a lot, this is not enough!" Father Su waved his hand happily, signaling Su Yuchen to add some more.
"Okay, okay, don't pour it out." Third Grandma's face was already flushed before she drank the wine, and she happily stretched out her hand to block the cup.
"Pour a glass for your mother too! There are no outsiders here today, so let your mother drink something!" Father Su saw that Third Grandma didn't want to force it, but he didn't force it. After Su Yuchen filled the glass in front of him, he started to make fun of her again.
"Oh my, you really are! You can go crazy drinking with your family!" Mother Su rolled her eyes at him, disdainful in her mouth, but she didn't hesitate to hand him the cup. "Chenzi, pour me half a cup!"
Su Yuchen took it without any surprise, quickly poured half a cup, then took out a large dark-colored beverage bottle beside him and winked at Zhao Xiaojing, "Let's drink this!"
"You little girl only knows how to pick the best things to drink. I've finished all my fruit wine in just a few days since you came back!" Mother Su scolded with a loud laugh.
"Then why don't you leave it for me? I'm tactful. Otherwise, no one would appreciate your wine that has been stored for half a year!" Su Yuchen smiled and filled two glasses. His eager look made everyone in the room laugh.
"This is my eldest aunt's exclusive craftsmanship. She made it when she came back in the summer. My third grandmother has diabetes and can't drink it, so my mother was reluctant to drink it and left it for us. Today we can drink it to our heart's content!" Su Yuchen whispered in Zhao Xiaojing's ear.
"Come on, let's drink the first one! Third Aunt, would you like to say something?" Father Su raised his glass excitedly.
"I don't have much to say. My elder brother and his wife are so lucky. You guys are all filial, and I benefit from it. I eat here every year. Thank you. Come on." The third grandmother was old, and her hands holding the wine glass were shaking, but her mouth with few teeth was smiling very happily.
"That's not true, Third Aunt. If you hadn't come, how could we have any popularity here? It's the New Year, it's the New Year, and we're all reunited. We want to thank you for not looking down on us! Come!" Father Su shook his head and shouted, and several people clinked glasses happily.
Su Yuchen's grandfather was his third grandmother's eldest brother, and both he and his grandmother were over eighty. They were still in good spirits, though increasingly frail. For the past few years, they'd taken turns caring for Su Yuchen's eldest aunt, fourth father, and finally, Su Yuchen's family. Since Second Aunt was unable to care for her son, who had epilepsy, the other families had tacitly skipped her family, and nothing much mattered.
In the past few years, the two elders were in Yangcheng, and were taken care of by Su Yuchen's family. In recent years, they went to Decheng and lived with their eldest aunt and fourth father's family.
My eldest aunt had married and moved to Decheng, further south, years ago. She now lived in a spacious house and enjoyed a harmonious relationship with her husband, who had no problem supporting his parents-in-law in their old age. Fourth Dad had the best relationship with my eldest aunt. When my eldest aunt settled in Decheng, she saw that her youngest brother had nowhere to go, so she arranged a job there and asked him to move over. Later, Fourth Dad also settled down in Decheng, leaving only Su Yuchen's parents and my second aunt's family in Sujia Village, Yangcheng.
Su Yuchen's second aunt had not been in contact with these relatives for a long time. As a result, only Su Yuchen's family and the equally lonely third grandmother were left at the table on New Year's Day.
As for the second grandfather, he was summoned by the King of Hell early and passed away when Su Yuchen was a child.
"cheers!"
Zhao Xiaojing took a sip of the fruit wine poured by Su Yuchen in the glass, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.
The sweet and sour fruit flavor blends perfectly with the characteristic spiciness of the high-proof liquor, creating a numbing sensation on the tongue, but the sweet fruity aroma also mitigates the spicy flavor. Furthermore, the fruit wine, always icy cold in winter, has a very gentle initial taste. However, after one sip, heat begins to spread from the tip of the tongue to the stomach, warming the entire body. It seems sugar water and fruit wine are truly different.
After a sip of wine, everyone picked up their chopsticks at Su's mother's invitation. In addition to a plate of dumplings in front of each person, Su's mother also prepared braised fish, stewed chicken with potatoes, pork with preserved vegetables, stir-fried red cabbage, stir-fried sausage and bacon with garlic sprouts, and braised beef cut by Zhao Xiaojing. All of them were generous portions.
Cooking on a wood stove was so delicious that Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help but feel the aroma when she saw it. The firewood below was crackling, and Su's mother put a spoonful of lard squeezed from the pigs slaughtered in the village and a spoonful of rapeseed oil squeezed from her own rapeseed on top. She then put in freshly killed river fish, chickens raised by her own family, and Chinese cabbage picked from the field that morning...Except for the seasoning, almost all of it was homemade. When Su's mother was cooking and introducing the dishes, Zhao Xiaojing almost drooled. Isn't this the legendary pure natural organic vegetables? The most authentic farm dish is just like this.
Zhao Xiaojing tasted all the dishes in front of her with great interest and couldn't help but sigh with satisfaction.
As expected, these dishes were incredibly fragrant.
This aroma is different from the aroma of Zhao Xiaojing's usual cooking. When Zhao Xiaojing cooks, she matches the ingredients and seasonings as a whole, and maximizes the seasoning, heat, and cooking time to stimulate and blend them to the greatest extent, removing bad flavors and adding and retaining the best flavors to create a mixed aroma.
Su's mother's cooking skills are not very good, and the aroma of her cooking is more of a simple, primitive fragrance that comes from the ingredients themselves.
This fragrance, though simple, is incredibly valuable these days, with the incredibly efficient production of large-scale greenhouse crops. Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help but wonder what would happen if these naturally fragrant ingredients were cooked using the nearly 100% system recipes she'd cultivated within the system these days. What if, next time she cooked, she followed this farm-style approach, optimizing every ingredient to the highest possible quality, even using the quality control module to refine all the ingredients like onions, ginger, garlic, oil, and water to the highest possible quality?
"hiss!"
Just as she was thinking, she heard a gasp. Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and saw Su Yuchen staring at the bitten chicken nugget in his hand with his eyes wide open and teeth bared. The chicken nugget was covered in red chili oil. Perhaps he had dipped too much at once, and the oil was slowly dripping down.
Zhao Xiaojing smiled secretly and just moved the dumpling soup in front of her, ready to let Su Yuchen take a sip to relieve the spiciness. But before she could say anything, Su Yuchen frowned again and stuffed the remaining half of the chicken into his mouth, slurping the spicy soup. He then reached out to pick up the braised beef and dipped it in more red chili oil.
"Do you want to eat it?" Su Yuchen saw Zhao Xiaojing staring at him blankly, and he gasped and moved the spicy dish towards her.
Zhao Xiaojing shook her head hurriedly and moved the dumpling soup back.
It’s better to keep this dumpling soup for yourself. This is a woman who even the best pepper can’t cure. I’m afraid she can drink up the chili essence while gasping for breath.
Zhao Xiaojing resigned herself to her fate, picked up the dumpling soup that was at the perfect temperature, and took a sip.
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