Chapter 53 Eyebrows Fall
After Zhou Sinian left, Liu Dazhu was relieved. He took Mingdai's teacup and was about to scoop.
Ming Dai hurriedly stopped him: "Uncle Captain, please give me more soup! I love soup!"
Liu Dazhu looked at Mingdai with emotion. This girl is really honest. She saw that I gave Zhou Sinian extra dishes, so she is trying to make up for it!
The people queuing behind were dissatisfied with the full cup of mutton soup that Zhou Sinian had just given them, and now they felt embarrassed.
Ming Dai: God knows, I really like drinking soup.
Finally, Liu Dazhu served her half a cup of vegetables and half a cup of soup, and added two more meatballs.
Mingdai also ordered some mutton oil and chili peppers, and followed Zhou Sinian, who was already impatient.
After the two men left, the crowd erupted in a heated discussion, all wondering how many old ladies would die of the delicious mutton soup!
With everyone's eager anticipation, the mutton soup was distributed.
Some people couldn't resist and drank it right away, while others were more sensible and took it home and boiled it with a cabbage, and the whole family ate it to their heart's content.
Mr. Liu Sanye was the one who drank it on the spot.
He took a small ceramic jar and filled it to the bottom. There were vegetables at the bottom and soup on top. He put the red mutton oil and chili in and stirred it, and the milky white soup immediately turned red.
He took the rice spoon at home and scooped a spoonful and drank it.
Fresh, spicy and hot, with the punch of pepper and chili, but not pungent. Combined with the aroma of scallions and ginger, the hot smell opens the esophagus, rushes straight into the stomach, and then spreads to every part of the body, warming up the whole body!
He couldn't help but take sip after sip and drank most of the soup directly, revealing the fresh and tender cabbage and vermicelli underneath, with snow-white meat and pink meatballs reflected in it, dotted with a few peppers, which made people's appetite whetted at the first sight!
He scooped up a piece of mutton and put it into his mouth, taking a sip. The mutton was crispy and juicy, and the unique aroma exploded in his mouth, tempting him to eat one piece after another.
Unfortunately, each person was given a limited amount of meat, and after eating only three small pieces, there was nothing left.
He scooped up the only two meatballs left and took a gentle bite.
Unlike the expected crispy and soft texture, this meatball is very chewy. The collision between teeth and tongue brings a different taste, but it has the same spicy and fresh flavor!
Before he knew it, he had finished the two meatballs. Mr. Liu held the jar in his arms and felt very regretful. Why did he eat so quickly? !
Fortunately, there was still cabbage and vermicelli, which I scooped up along with the hot soup and put into my mouth.
Woo woo!
The cabbage leaves are crispy, the cabbage buds are sweet, the noodles are smooth, and they are served with lamb soup.
One word: Fresh!!
So delicious!
Master Liu couldn't help but burst into tears. Even at his old age, he could still drink a bowl of mutton soup like this. It was really a blessing!
After scraping away the last drop of soup, he licked his tongue and asked Mrs. Huang for some mixed radishes.
I wanted to comfort my unsatisfied stomach, but I didn't expect that the shredded radish was not bitter at all, but sour and spicy. After taking one bite, I wanted to take a second bite.
While others looked down on the radishes, he pestered Mrs. Huang for more and ran home with the jar in his hand.
With these radishes, he can eat two more bowls of dry rice!
After everyone left satisfied, Aunt Huang and Mrs. Huang looked at each other and smiled. It was really hilarious.
The mutton soup is so delicious that people are scrambling to get the water for washing the pot!
Even the radishes that Mingdai had mixed were snatched away, and the remaining soup was left by Huang Dasao after she scolded several young wives.
She carefully poured the soup into a bowl, planning to go home and cut some radishes and mix it again.
Aunt Huang brought their family's mutton soup and planned to go home and stew it with a cabbage.
When the family had dinner at home, they were almost dizzy with the aroma.
Auntie Huang slurped the re-stewed mutton soup. She couldn’t imagine how delicious the mutton soup would be without the extra cabbage and water!
At the educated youth point, everyone was holding their bowls and sip[ing] their food.
Although the meal they were given at the educated youth center consisted mostly of soup and little vegetables, it was the most delicious meal they had had since they went to the countryside.
Including Fang Mingyang, who has been in the countryside for 10 years.
He began to regret rejecting Mingdai's suggestion to team up with them. With such cooking skills, even stir-fried cabbage would be delicious. No wonder the backyard was so fragrant every day!
But then he thought of Zhou Sinian. That madman must have been attached to Mingdai because of her craftsmanship.
After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to give up on letting Mingdai join. After all, he is not good at taking a beating!
Food is important, but life is more important!
What a pity! What a pity!
Also, Mingdai is still young after all, and doesn't know how to respect him as the captain. I have to talk to her one day. In the future, I have to inform him of such things first, and let him make the decision in accordance with the regulations. It is a big deal for a young comrade to report across levels.
Forget it, just forgive her this time. After all, ignorance is not a crime, and I am not a petty person. I will just not do that next time.
Slurp! It smells so good!
Fang Rou was sitting in her room at this moment, drinking mutton soup sip by sip.
As an authentic Beijinger, she had drunk a lot of mutton soup since she was a child. She had even been to the private kitchen run by the descendants of the Yu chef family. However, compared with Mingdai's bowl of mutton soup stewed in a country stove, it was still a little bit inferior.
She was a little curious about Mingdai. Could it be that their ancestors also had some cooking tradition?
Qi Zhijun squatted outside with everyone else and drank soup. He ate in a hurry, but fortunately he still had his composure.
Liu Yan ate voraciously, forgetting her morning plan to share half of her mutton soup with Qi Zhijun.
Although her family lives in the east of the city, they are an ordinary family with barely enough to eat. She has had mutton soup before, but always in small restaurants. It has no flavor and can never compare to this bowl!
When she finished drinking, she looked at the empty bowl and licked her tongue. Reluctant to wash it, she poured a bowl of hot water to rinse it, then drank it slowly.
She was not the only one who did this. Except for Qi Zhijun and Fang Rou, everyone else drank the rinse water.
Since then, Mingdai became an instant hit in Liujiawan. Everyone's praise and recognition of her reached an amazing level, and people would greet her cheerfully wherever she went.
Many people also asked her for the recipe for mutton soup, and Mingdai told them one by one.
However, some of the seasonings and medicinal herbs were names they had never heard of, which made everyone feel regretful, but at the same time, they were more grateful for Mingdai's selfless contribution.
No wonder they felt warm all over after drinking the mutton soup, it turns out that the educated youth Xiao Ming put so many good things in it!
Xiao Ming, the educated youth, is such a good person!
As the next best thing, they also asked how to make radish mix, and Mingdai told them one by one. Except for sugar, which was a bit more expensive, everything else was cheap, so this winter, radish mix was very popular in every household.
There are also lamb spine meatballs. Ever since people knew that lamb spine could be used to make chewy meatballs, the lamb spine from the county town slaughterhouse has been bought up by Liujiawan. Everyone who goes to the county town will bring one or two packs. Not only are they cheap, they are also very delicious!
The leaders of the slaughterhouse started to worry that the people in Liujiawan had become so poor that they no longer ate meat but only bones!
As for Zhou Sinian, he also liked it very much, mainly because he took the initiative to take on the tasks of feeding and shoveling the sheep in the space.
Mingdai also collected all the sheep excrement and fermented it to use as fertilizer for planting crops.
When Zhou Sinian found out that the cucumbers and tomatoes he used to eat in the summer were grown by watering the fields with rice cakes, he was silent for several days. But that’s another story.