032, Fragrance Spreads Ten Miles Away
032, Fragrance Spreads Ten Miles Away
Even though they had some money, they couldn't afford refined rice. Refined rice is rice, which is a very expensive grain here, usually only affordable for the wealthy. Ordinary people ate whole grains.
Moreover, it was considered good for ordinary people to have coarse grains to eat, because when they encountered a lean season, ordinary people could still rely on bran, wild vegetables, grass roots and tree bark to survive and get through the most difficult times. Therefore, compared to starving to death, having enough food to fill their stomachs was already considered good.
So when they buy food at home, they buy coarse grains and flour made from coarse grains.
On this day, they made whole grain steamed bread again, but this time they did not put wild vegetables in it. They just used whole grain flour. The steamed bread was still very fragrant. Although the taste was not very good and it was a bit sore to the throat, it tasted good.
After steaming the steamed buns, they started cooking.
Lu Mingfei insisted that his mother make braised pork according to his method, but his mother greatly doubted the method he said.
"Oh, why do you need to put so much sugar? This handful of sugar must weigh at least half a pound, right?" Liu Sanniang felt heartbroken as she watched her son pouring sugar into the pot. She had been cooking for more than ten or twenty years, and she had never put so much sugar in a meal.
"It's not half a pound, don't worry, Mom. I heard this method from someone. First, add the sugar and stir-fry. It's called making sugar color. Hurry up, Mom, or it'll get burnt!" Lu Mingfei had worked in a small restaurant in his previous life and had seen how the owner prepared braised pork, but back then he hadn't considered stealing the recipe to open his own place. He had studied journalism in college and became a reporter after graduation. Being a reporter had been his childhood dream.
However, in this world, there was no journalism major, so he couldn't become a reporter. Currently, he was forced by life to help his parents shoulder the responsibility of supporting the family, so making money was the most important thing.
Fortunately, he and his former boss were in two different time and space. He thought that if he borrowed his former boss's braised pork recipe, he wouldn't mind, right? ...Even if he minded, there was nothing he could do unless he could travel here to argue with him. Lu Mingfei smiled slightly in his heart and acted like a rogue.
Upon hearing this, Liu Sanniang quickly flipped the shovel in her hand.
The rest of the story was Lu Mingfei's dictation, and his mother took charge. He wanted to do it himself, but his mother didn't trust him and wouldn't let him pick up the shovel. During this process, his mother kept questioning him, but she couldn't persuade him and continued to do as he said.
He could see the helplessness on his mother's face, but this helplessness turned into surprise when she smelled the aroma of the marinade.
At this time, the mother and son were in their own yard, and they didn't know that the neighbors who had just finished dinner nearby smelled the fragrance coming from their yard, and everyone was discussing where the fragrance came from.
"Where does this delicious smell come from?"
"Yeah, this smells delicious!"
“…”
"Like...like it floated over from the house of the new people who moved in?"
"Is their life so good? They're still cooking meat so late at night! It smells so good, how can anyone sleep?"
If it wasn't already dark, they would have wanted to knock on the door of the new family's house to ask what they were cooking and why it smelled so good?!
What the neighbors didn’t know was that from that day on, they would smell this fragrance every night in their dreams, and they would do so for many years.
Because braised meat doesn't cook quickly, they didn't have dinner until after dark. Even Lu Youtian couldn't help but exclaim after eating the meal, "How come our meat is so delicious today?" In fact, he had already smelled the smell while lying in the house. At first, he thought it was coming from someone else's house, but he didn't expect it was his own family cooking meat.
After eating the meat, he found that it tasted even better! He had lived for over thirty years, but this was the first time he had eaten such delicious meat. It seemed as if the previous thirty years had been wasted!
Only Lu Mingfei looked proud and asked his father and mother: "Just tell me, if we cook a pot of meat like this and sell it, will anyone buy it from us?"
"Yes, there will definitely be!" Lu Youtian nodded affirmatively. If he had money in his pocket, he would definitely buy a bowl to try it.
From the time Liu Sanniang cooked the meat to the time she ate it, she couldn't believe that the meat was made by her hands. This, this is too delicious!
They were reluctant to finish the braised meat, so they left the rest in the pot to continue soaking.
After they finished dinner, it was already dark outside. Liu Sanniang boiled two pots of hot water. The three of them simply washed up and went back to the house to rest.
These were the most relaxing days she had ever felt in all the years since she married into the Lu family.
This relief wasn't just physical, it was also psychological. Without the pressure of a mother-in-law, the intrigues of sisters-in-law, or the heavy burden of housework, Liu Sanniang wouldn't return to the Lu family mansion to serve the entire family, endure the constant glares and scolding from her mother-in-law, or deal with the schemes of her sisters-in-law.
That night, Lu Mingfei slept alone in his own room. This was the first time he slept alone since he came into this world, but he didn't feel scared. Lying on his little bed, covered with the same old quilt from last year, he fell asleep contentedly.
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