Chapter 13 Chapter 13
Stewed beans is a common dish in northern China.
Wherever beans can be grown, this dish is on the table of most families.
It’s just that due to different regions, the practices are slightly different.
He Tingting made a rice bowl, and naturally chose the method that was most suitable for covering rice.
Potatoes and beans stew.
In addition to this dish, He Tingting also plans to make a vegetarian dish for He Lili to try.
It is also the season for cabbage.
Fresh cabbage has a sweet taste and tastes delicious no matter how it is stir-fried.
She also grew a bunch of them at home. She chopped one off, cut it into shreds, and put it on a plate first.
Garlic is the most important ingredient today.
"Sister, is one enough?"
Her little hand grabbed a handful of peeled garlic and handed it over.
"That's enough, go play in your room."
He Tingting handed her the Rubik's Cube she had just bought and coaxed Lili into the house.
When she took out the meat and prepared to cut a piece, He Tingting discovered that there was an extra piece of fat pork shoulder in the middle of the tenderloin.
When stewing, using some pork fat will make the pork more fragrant.
Put the thinly sliced pork fat into the pot first, and use a small amount of oil to force out all the fat in the pork.
Then add the thinly sliced lean meat and stir-fry the onions and garlic until fragrant.
There is one thing to note when cooking green beans. Before stewing, it is best to stir-fry them in oil for a while so that the green beans can be stewed easily.
Unripe beans contain toxins and can cause vomiting and diarrhea after consumption.
So after stir-frying the meat, the green beans are usually added and stir-fried a few times.
When the color changes from light green to emerald green, add a spoonful of soy sauce and a spoonful of soybean paste, stir-fry until the sauce aroma comes out, then add a ladle of hot water.
Taking advantage of this time, He Tingting peeled two potatoes.
Li Hua, who had been alone in the west room for a long time, finally came out.
Seeing He Tingting cooking, she felt a little embarrassed.
"Tingting, let me help."
He Tingting gave her the task of peeling potatoes, and took out a handful of vermicelli and soaked it in water in advance.
Both of today’s dishes require vermicelli.
He Tingting started cooking using the smaller iron pan at home.
Beat two eggs, fry them until cooked and set aside. Add onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add kohlrabi and stir-fry.
Wait until the kohlrabi becomes slightly soft before adding the blanched vermicelli.
She uses fine vermicelli. After blanching it, she adds some dark soy sauce and oil to mix it so that the vermicelli will not clump together.
Finally, pour in the eggs, add salt and pepper powder and stir-fry.
A simple stir-fried cabbage dish is ready.
The beans next door have been stewed for a while. Cut the peeled potatoes into large pieces and add them in. Stew for another ten minutes and then add the fine powder.
The potato stew with beans was difficult to make and tasted bad.
There is a little trick when serving this dish. Just add a handful of garlic and the aroma will be multiplied.
"Come out for dinner!"
He Tingting shouted, and a little head popped out of the room impatiently.
Lili held up the Rubik's Cube in her hand to show her.
"Sister, I have put it all together."
He Tingting praised her and told her to quickly go to the table and eat.
Lili quickly put down her toys, washed her hands, and picked up her bowl at the low table.
Li Hua was the elder and started eating in advance.
The food at He Tingting's house these two days was really good. Li Hua gained some weight and his sunken face grew flesh again.
She picked up a piece of beans with her chopsticks.
After removing the thick strings on both sides of the beans, which have been stewed until soft, use chopsticks to pick them up and put them into a bowl. The ripe beans inside will fall out of the pods.
When you put it in your mouth, the first thing you taste is mashed potatoes.
The potatoes, cut into smaller pieces, have become sandy and are wrapped around the beans, also coating them with the thick soup.
Coupled with the special aroma of the garlic cloves, Li Hua smiled after taking a bite, and his bad mood in the afternoon was swept away.
"Tingting, how did you make these beans? They're so fragrant."
She was clearly watching when He Tingting was cooking, and the steps were not much different from her usual cooking, so how come the dish she made was so delicious!
Li Hua was half sighing and half envious.
If she also has this skill, she can also set up a stall and will definitely be able to support herself.
"I stir-fry it first to bring out the aroma of the sauce and then add water."
He Tingting did not hide anything. When Li Hua asked her, she answered truthfully.
But Li Hua looked absent-minded, and it was unclear whether he had heard what she said.
The next day, He Tingting was more prepared than the day before.
In order to prepare more lunch boxes, she bought two new pots before going home yesterday, specifically for serving dishes.
These things cannot be taken with us at once.
He Lili volunteered.
"Sister, let's take three pots at a time, and then I'll ride my bike back and bring you two more pots."
He Tingting had seen how good Lili was at riding a bicycle, and since no one else was using it at the moment, she had no choice but to do this for the time being.
After the two left, the door of the He family rang again.
Li Hua was cleaning the yard. When he opened the door, it was He Guan, the bastard, again.
"How are you doing with what I told you yesterday?"
Before anyone even entered the yard, He Guanxian started asking about the money.
"Don't think about it. Don't you know what's going on at Tingting's house? Where did she get the money to lend me?"
He Guan sighed, "I've heard that this girl is making a lot of money setting up a stall in front of the school. You still don't have the ability to ask others to lend you money."
Li Hua doesn't like to hear this.
In the past, she had been asked to borrow money from others many times, and she would always use this excuse when she couldn't borrow the money. He just wanted the money to pay off his gambling debts.
After thinking about it for an entire afternoon yesterday, Li Hua finally figured it out.
He Guan was probably trying to trick her in order to pay off his gambling debts.
"Go get a divorce from me first, and I'll give you the 200 yuan later."
Li Hua said this just to see He Guan's reaction.
As expected, he didn't agree.
"Waiting for your 200 yuan, the daylily has gone cold."
He waved his hand away, changing his previous friendly attitude and saying with a twisted face, "You useless thing, I have to find a way myself."
"Divorce, you have to go through the divorce procedures with me first!"
Li Hua held him back and wouldn't let him leave.
The two had been together for so many years, and He Guan knew that he could not beat her, so he simply stopped fighting with Li Hua.
He took off his coat very quickly, like a cicada escaping from its shell, leaving his clothes behind as he walked away.
Li Hua was left alone in the yard cursing.
After leaving He's house, He Guan squatted in the shade and thought for a long time. If he wanted to pay back the money to the casino on time, he had to start with Liu Jing.
In this situation, only Liu Jing is willing to pay.
"We have to find a way to resolve this Lili issue."
With He Tingting as an adult at home, it is not his business to interfere with Lili's whereabouts.
He Guan is aware of this and regards He Tingting as a thorn in his side.
"Now that He Tingting can make money, she will never give Lili away no matter what."
If you want this to succeed, you can't let He Tingting do business so smoothly.
He Guan had his eyes on doing business.
When he was talking to Li Hua just now, his eyes were not idle. He scanned the room several times and saw the food in the pot.
We eat beans at home every day, and we all know that they are poisonous if not cooked thoroughly.
His eyes rolled.
If he mixed some raw beans in and made the students who bought He Tingting's rice bowl vomit and have diarrhea, wouldn't it be difficult for her to continue her business in the future?
He gave a wicked smile and turned back to He Tingting's house.
"What are you doing here again!"
Li Hua hadn't stopped cursing yet, but when he saw him come back, he immediately had a place to vent.
"How dare you come back, you bastard!"
He Guan said stubbornly, "Why wouldn't I dare to come back? This is my niece's home."
As he said that, he walked straight into the kitchen.
"Hey! What are you doing!"
When Li Hua saw He Guan lifting the lid of the pot, he felt that something was wrong.
This old guy must have been holding his fart in well.
"I'm hungry, can't I just eat something?"
He Guan said it with confidence.
"This is what Tingting sold. What are you eating?"
After all, it was He Tingting who took her in when she was in the most difficult time. She couldn't let He Guan ruin Tingting's plans.
"I'm her uncle, what's wrong with me eating a little?"
He Guan was thinking about throwing raw beans into the pot, and Li Hua was really getting in the way.
"He Guan, don't mess around here. This isn't your home. If I shout 'stealing' at the door, the villagers will spit on you and drown you."
"If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. Why are you in such a hurry?"
He Guan started to argue with Li Hua, and while Li Hua was not paying attention, he threw two raw beans into the pot.
Unfortunately, Li Hua moved too fast.
In a few seconds, he was dragged out of the kitchen.
During the delay, He Lili also came back.
She rode her bike home alone, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw her second aunt and second uncle pulling each other in the yard, as if they were fighting.
"Uncle and aunt, stop fighting!"
When He Guan saw He Lili coming home, he was like a wolf seeing meat.
"Lili! I haven't seen you for a long time. You've grown taller."
He Guan came up and tried to get close to He Lili, holding her hand and not letting the child into the house.
He Lili was extremely embarrassed.
She actually didn't have much contact with her gambling-addicted uncle. They were relatives, but not close.
She was unexpectedly pulled aside by her second uncle to talk, and she stammered and couldn't respond.
In addition, because she had a bad impression of her second uncle, Lili struggled for a long time before she finally pulled her hand out of He Guan's hand.
He Guan is used to the social scene and is not embarrassed by being rejected.
He changed the subject as soon as he opened his mouth.
"You said your second aunt is the same. I said I was hungry and wanted to eat here, but she stopped me from entering the house. We are all family, and she won't let me eat here."
His original intention was to chat more and build a good relationship with the little girl Lili.
When she is sent to the Liu family in the future, she can get money from the Liu family and help her uncle.
Children don’t think so much.
He Guan said he wanted to eat.
My second uncle said he wanted to eat, so let him eat.
He Lili trotted into the house, scooped out a bowl of beans with a spoon, took a steamed bun from the pot and handed it to He Guan.
"Uncle, eat now, and stop fighting with Aunt."
He Guan looked at Li Hua with pride.
Then he squatted down on the spot, scooped a large spoonful with a spoon and put it into his mouth. He chewed it twice and swallowed it whole.
"If you ask me, Tingting's cooking skills are really good. Look at this stewed beans, it's more fragrant than others. Is there something special in it? It tastes a bit crunchy and sweet to me."
After he finished speaking, He Guan himself remembered it.
Crisp.
Aren’t those the two raw beans he just threw in!
At the same time, He Tingting, who was already busy, heard the system ring.
She took the time to steal a glance.
[Stop He Guan's new plan] Completed.
He Tingting:?
what happens?
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