Chapter 10: Want to eat meat? No way
Tunan and Dongzhe went to queue up to buy meat. Maybe the supply and marketing cooperative was badly criticized and was afraid of something happening, so there was actually meat available for purchase today.
Zhuang Chaoying and Lin Wufeng hurriedly took the tickets and went to buy meat.
When he came back, Zhuang Chaoying was very happy, holding the meat in one hand and the ribs in the other!
Huang Ling knew what would happen next and had a plan for everything.
Sure enough, she was discussing the method of stewing meat with Song Ying when Zhuang Chaoying came over and said hesitantly:
"Huang Ling, my parents said that they haven't seen Tunan and Xiaoting for a while and they miss them so much that they want to come over."
"Come on!" Huang Ling chopped the ribs in her hand fiercely.
After chopping the ribs, start cutting the meat.
While Zhuang Chaoying was home, she put the cut meat and ribs into the system space.
[Tongzi, it would be great if the space had modern appliances! I like cooking, but I don't want to do laundry in the middle of winter! And I want a water heater for showering!]
[There is no such task, but there are washing machine tickets and TV tickets. Host, please do your best!]
[Alright! Someone's coming to my house to get scolded today! I'm going to scold them until they make a TV!]
After putting the meat away, Huang Ling continued to prepare the dishes.
Song Ying came over and asked, "What are you doing now?"
Huang Ling smiled and said, "No more roasted spareribs."
"What's wrong? Didn't Tuanan say he had been thinking about it for two months?" Song Ying looked surprised.
Huang Ling winked at her and said, "I just bought some meat. My parents-in-law and my brother-in-law's family are coming over for dinner!"
Song Ying understood: "I'm old now, and it's hard to digest meat. I'd better eat vegetarian food!"
She took one look at the dishes Huang Ling was preparing and almost died of laughter.
The dried bitter melon produced in the summer is much more bitter than the fresh one. Now that it has swelled, you can boil it in water and add some salt before eating.
Lower the fire.
Pick up rotten cabbage stalks from the vegetable market, peel off the bad ones, cut into shreds, boil them in water, and you have another dish.
Increase dietary fiber.
"What is this, oh my god!"
Song Ying opened a jar, and just as she did so, she pinched her nose with one hand and covered the jar again with the other.
Half a jar of stinky amaranth stalks, you can just take them out and eat them.
Good with rice.
"Some people like it very much, but I'm always afraid of this thing!" Song Ying said with a smile.
"I didn't like it either, so I went to Sister Li and exchanged it for half a pound of corn." Huang Ling winked at Song Ying.
"Such a big deal," Song Ying said, covering her mouth.
"That's right, but since the old lady 'likes' it, I have to get it no matter how much it costs!"
Huang Ling emphasized the word "like", and Song Ying immediately understood. The two of them laughed and clapped their hands in the kitchen.
The Zhuang family came, empty-handed.
As soon as you come in, look at the house inside and out.
Zhuang's father also said: "This is very well cleaned up!"
"That's right. Since you couldn't help, I asked someone else to help. I even treated them to fried rice with lard! It was so delicious!" Huang Ling said deliberately.
Zhuang's father was stunned when he heard this: "What! You're treating them to meat?"
"Is it not possible? Why don't you come by yourselves? Then I can't move, I must invite people. If I invite people, they have to eat, and the prepared food will go bad if they don't eat it. I can only give the lard residue to others." Huang Ling said this with a helpless look on her face.
Mr. Zhuang swallowed his saliva. He hadn't eaten meat for two months.
I didn’t even get to eat any lard residue.
But fortunately, Zhuang Chaoying said that they had bought some meat at home, so they came to eat.
Zhuang Chaoying heard the conversation between the two and didn't mention it.
He wanted to talk about this, but when he saw his father's face, he didn't say it.
"Can't you do it yourself?"
"I can't do anything. Besides, this is our little family's business, it's none of your business! I can do it myself if I want to, or hire someone else if I want to."
Zhuang's father yelled at his son, "Look at you, you spendthrift woman!"
"Well, it's no one else's business if I ruin my own family! Haha! He's still short of twenty-five dollars a month, he's even worse off!"
Zhuang Chaoying stood up and said, "Stop talking. Is the meal ready? Let's eat!"
"Okay, I'll go serve the food."
While Huang Ling went to serve the dishes, Zhuang's father and mother gave him another lecture.
First, remember the good times and remember the bad times, then respect the order of seniority, and finally help and support each other.
Zhuang Chaoying said in embarrassment, "But since you didn't lend a hand, it's no wonder Huang Ling is angry! She's taking care of two children on her own, handling such a big thing!"
When Zhuang's father and mother heard their son say this, they didn't know how to defend themselves, so they changed the subject.
"The food is here! Let's eat."
Huang Ling shouted.
Everyone thought there was meat to eat and was looking forward to it. When they went over to take a look, Zhuang's mother immediately became angry.
One bowl of water boiled dried bitter melon, another bowl of water boiled cabbage stalks, the staple food is porridge and clear soup, the kind where you have to use a magnifying glass to find the rice grains.
This is worse than the food at home, why would you invite people to dinner?
"Meat, where's the meat?" asked Zhuang Chaoying.
"The meat was given to the director, and the spare ribs were given to Director Lin. Thank you for taking care of me in the housing allocation and work!" Huang Ling said generously.
"You! Me!" Zhuang Chaoying was speechless.
"What's wrong? This is all we have at home. We're all family, so why worry about it being ugly?"
"I specifically called them mom and dad..." Zhuang Chaoying stopped talking halfway.
"Didn't you say that your parents missed Tunan and Xiaoting? Or did they come here just to eat meat? You're such a fool! How could your parents be such people? You're thinking too much! Mom and Dad, right?"
Mr. and Mrs. Zhuang's faces were gloomy.
"Oh, there is no rice at home, Zhuang Chaoying. You should think of a solution tomorrow. If it doesn't work, you may have to borrow some." Huang Ling sat down and ate by herself.
"Eat, let's eat." Zhuang Chaoying looked at his parents timidly.
Based on the principle that since we are here, we must eat something, everyone started to eat.
After taking a few bites, Huang Ling suddenly stood up and said, "Oh, there's another dish. It goes best with porridge."
She returned to the kitchen and brought out the bowl of stinky amaranth stems.
The smell entered the house before anyone even entered.
"Huang Ling! What are you doing? Don't you know that mom hates this the most?"
"Oh, I don't know! I'm not familiar with you! Because you don't know that I don't eat coriander! I put it in every dish!" Huang Ling stared at her family with innocent big eyes.
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