Gao smiled and patted An Ning's head, saying, "I'll make you some steamed egg custard tonight, okay?"
After hearing what Gao said, An Ning also smiled and said, "Mom, I picked up three eggs today. I cooked them all today. Can we eat them together?"
Gao said with some confusion: "Those two old hens haven't laid eggs for several days. I was thinking of selling them when your father went to town to sell his game. How come they are laying eggs again?"
After hearing this, An Ning said with a guilty conscience: "Mom, don't worry about it. It's a good thing that the two chickens can lay eggs."
Gao also nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you. Let's cook all these eggs and bird eggs today and eat them together. Otherwise, I'm afraid your father's body won't be able to bear it."
An Ning happily hugged Gao's arm and shook it, saying, "Mom is the best!" Gao looked at her spoiled daughter, the love in her eyes almost overflowing, and said, "Okay, go and rest quickly, otherwise you will feel dizzy again later."
An Ning shook her head and said, "Mom, I'm much better now. I'm not tired at all. Can I help you make dinner later?"
Gao saw that An Ning was indeed in good spirits today, nodded, and said: "Okay, then you can help mother light the fire later."
An Ning nodded. She grew up in the countryside and was very familiar with fire. She still remembered that when she was young, her grandmother would always roast some corn for the children in the stove during the autumn harvest. The corn roasted in the stove was particularly sweet. An Ning had never eaten it since she went to school.
Speaking of which, An Ning hadn't seen her grandmother for a long time since she was busy researching hybrid wheat. Every time, they just talked a few words on the phone. Her grandmother always told An Ning to take good care of herself. She didn't know how sad her grandmother would be when she heard the news of her death. Thinking of this, An Ning's mood suddenly became depressed. Fortunately, Gao was doing something else and didn't see An Ning's expression, otherwise she would be worried again.
An Ning calmed down and walked into the kitchen. In the kitchen, Gao was washing rice. Looking at the few grains of rice, An Ning wanted to find a chance to take out the rice in the space more urgently.
Gao put the rice in the pot, then added a few scoops of water, and asked An Ning to light the fire while she washed the wild vegetables she had dug. When the porridge in the pot was almost done, Gao chopped up the wild vegetables she had just washed and put them in the pot, and told An Ning to finish the fire in the stove.
When the fire in the stove burned out, a pot of wild vegetable porridge was ready. When Gao saw that the wild vegetable porridge was ready, she put it in a clay pot to keep it warm, cleaned the pot, and waited for An Dashan to come back before cooking.
Gao originally planned to just steam an egg custard for An Ning, but since everyone in the family was eating it, she decided to stir-fry eggs and bird eggs with some wild vegetables to make it more oily.
When the sun was about to set, An Dashan came back with two hares and a pheasant on his back. Seeing this, Gao smiled and narrowed her eyes, saying, "Boss, how did you get so many prey today?"
An Dashan was also a little puzzled and said, "I don't know what's going on. We obviously went to places we often go to. I don't know why this rabbit ran to my side today." After saying that, he looked around to see if there was anyone passing by, and then he lowered his voice and said to Gao, "You said that last time the old Taoist priest said that our daughter is a lucky star. Is it because our daughter was injured that these animals came to our door to replenish her body?"
Gao nodded with an expression that said, "It should be like this. Look, our daughter survived such a serious injury, and today the two old hens that didn't lay eggs actually started laying eggs again. And, I picked up a nest of bird eggs today. It shows that what the old Taoist said is right. Our daughter is a lucky star." After thinking for a while, she asked, "Boss, since these prey are for our daughter's health, are you still selling them?"
An Dashan thought for a while and said, "Let's keep this pheasant to make soup for our daughter. We should sell these two rabbits and buy some food. I think we don't have much food left."
Gao thought this made sense, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you." Then she added, "Go wash up quickly, I'll go cook now, and we'll be ready to eat."
While Gao was out, An Ning took out two eggs from the space and cracked them into a bowl. Just as she put the egg shells into the space, Gao came in. An Ning quickly said, "Mom, I've got the eggs ready."
Gao looked at the eggs in the bowl and said puzzledly, "Why do I feel like there are too many eggs?"
An Ning was afraid that Gao would be suspicious, so she quickly said, "Mom, please cook quickly. I'm hungry." When Gao heard that her daughter was hungry, she stopped worrying and quickly lit a fire to cook.
After the pot was heated, Gao carefully scooped some lard from the lard jar with a spatula and put it into the pot. After the lard melted, she poured the egg liquid in the bowl into the pot. With a "sizzling" sound, the fragrant smell spread out all at once. When the eggs were completely fluffy, she put the chopped and blanched wild vegetables into the pot and stir-fried them for a few times. Finally, she added some salt and put it into a large bowl.
An Ning had already prepared the wild vegetable porridge while Gao was cooking. After Gao brought the wild vegetable scrambled eggs to the table, they began to eat. The golden eggs and the emerald green wild vegetables tasted quite special.
Gao kept picking up eggs for An Ning. Half of the large bowl of eggs was placed in An Ning's bowl. An Ning then picked up some eggs for An Dashan and some for Gao. Then she said, "Dad, Mom, you guys eat too. I didn't work today, so I'm not that hungry."
An Dashan and Gao were very pleased to see their daughter being so sensible. An Dashan was not good at speaking so he just nodded without saying anything, while Gao smiled and said, "Okay, let's all eat." They had a happy meal, and ate up a full pottery jar of wild vegetable porridge and a large bowl of scrambled eggs with wild vegetables.
After dinner, An Ning rushed to wash the dishes, but was rejected by Gao. Gao said, "Daya, go lie down for a while! Otherwise you will feel dizzy again. It's just a few dishes, I can finish washing them in a short time." An Ning couldn't persuade Gao, so she had to go back to the room obediently.
But she did not go back to her room, but sat in the main room with An Dashan waiting for Gao to come back. Because she heard An Dashan and Gao say that they were going to the town to sell the two rabbits tomorrow, and she wanted to go and see, after all, she would live in this place in the future, and she had to know what was here, so that it would be convenient to take things out of the space in the future.
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