068, pork jerky
068, pork jerky
"Have you seen my third uncle?"
"Oh, they just left."
"Gone?"
"Yes, your Third Uncle just took Qilang away. It shouldn't have been long since he left. What do you want to do with your Third Uncle? If you chase them now, you should still be able to catch up with them."
When Lu Liulang came back to find his uncle after toasting, he learned that his uncle had already left with his little cousin. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. But after thinking about it, he didn't go after his uncle and his little cousin.
At this time, Lu Mingfei and his father had already left Shihua Village on a donkey cart and were heading back towards Kyoto City.
When they returned to the city, their braised food stall had sold out and closed, and the pancake shop was also closed.
Lu Mingfei got off the donkey cart and said to his father, "Dad, go return the cart first. I'll come to my adoptive father's place to see if my brother is here."
"Okay, wait for me here, I'll come back to pick you up later." Lu Youtian said.
"Okay." Lu Mingfei nodded, watched his father drive away in the donkey cart, and then walked around to the side door and knocked.
"Mingfei, you're back?" It was Xu Yueniang who came to open the door. Seeing her adopted son standing alone outside, she leaned out to take a look. When she didn't see Lu Youtian behind him, she asked, "When did you come back? Where's your father?"
"We just returned to the city, and my father went to the cart dealership to return the donkey cart." Lu Mingfei said.
"Oh, come in quickly." Xu Yue Niang let her adopted son in. She closed the courtyard door and bolted it at the back. As she led her adopted son inside, she said, "Your mother went back a while ago. Mingrui is still here with me. He and Mingcong played until just now and then went to bed. They haven't even slept for half an hour."
"Your godfather is also sleeping in the room right now."
"Then let them sleep a little longer, no need to wake them up." Lu Mingfei knew that his adoptive father had to get up early in the morning to knead dough and make pancakes, and he must be sleepy at this time, so he didn't let his adoptive mother wake him up.
"You and your father went back there today. Did you encounter any problems?" Xu Yue Niang led her adopted son into the main room, closed the door, picked up the copper kettle on the fireplace, poured a cup of hot water for her adopted son, and brought it to him. "Have a cup of hot water."
"Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat?"
"I'm not very hungry. I ate half a pancake on the way back." Lu Mingfei said.
"How come you came back hungry after going to a wedding with your father?" Xu Yueniang took a bowl of braised pork and a stack of sesame cakes from the stove and put a plate of rice cakes on the table. "This is the braised food your mother brought me, and a few leftover sesame cakes."
"I just took Mingcong and Mingrui out to the street to buy this plate of rice cakes. These two brats always want to run outside no matter if it's windy or snowy."
"It's all hot, please eat." Xu Yue Niang brought a set of bowls and chopsticks to her adopted son and gave him something to eat to fill his stomach.
Their two families run the business of braised dishes and sesame cakes, so the things they have the most are braised dishes and sesame cakes. Basically, the two families will save the leftovers from the daily sales for dinner, which saves the trouble of cooking and the money of buying groceries.
"They are both at the age where they are curious about the outside world, so it's normal for them to want to go out and play." Seeing the food on the table, Lu Mingfei, who was a little hungry, picked up a piece of rice cake and took a bite.
"It's easy to imagine that when you two go back to the countryside to attend the wedding banquet, how can you possibly have enough to eat? You will definitely not be able to snatch the food from others." Xu Yue Niang also poured herself a glass of water, sat down, watched her adopted son eat, and talked to him.
Lu Mingfei talked with his stepmother here for a while, and then his father returned the donkey cart and came to pick up the two brothers.
After sitting at the Lu family's for a while, Lu Youtian saw that his youngest son was still asleep. He came over to take a look at his youngest son who was still sleeping in the bed, then borrowed a coat from the Lu family, wrapped the youngest son in his arms, carried him on his shoulders, and said goodbye to Xu Yueniang, "I'll take them back first and come back tomorrow morning."
"Okay, be careful on the road and don't let the wind blow the child." Xu Yue Niang reminded.
"Yes, yes." Lu Youtian nodded repeatedly, said goodbye to Xu Yueniang, and went home with his two sons.
Xu Yueniang, who was behind them, watched the father and his two sons leave before she closed the yard door, bolted it, and went back into the house.
When Liu Sanniang saw the father and his two sons coming back, she asked her husband to take her youngest son to their room to sleep.
However, just as his father put him on the crib, Lu Mingrui woke up suddenly. He opened his eyes and saw that he was in his familiar home, with his parents and brother in front of him. The child was stunned for a moment but did not cry. He just stretched out his hands to his mother for a hug.
"Erbao, are you awake? Let's go home, don't be afraid." Liu Sanniang sat on the crib, hugged her little son who had just woken up in her arms, and gently patted his back to coax him.
"Yeah." The child rubbed his little face in his mother's arms, yawned delicately, then looked up at his brother who had returned and gave him a sweet smile.
Lu Mingfei was so touched by his brother's soft and sweet smile that he couldn't help but reach out and rub his little head.
"Are you sleepy? Do you want to come up and lie down with your brother for a while?" Liu Sanniang asked her eldest son.
"No, I'm not sleepy." Lu Mingfei was not used to climbing into bed right after coming back from outside, not to mention that this was the room where his parents lived. He hadn't slept in his parents' room since he was five years old.
Afraid that her youngest son would catch a cold if he went outside in the cold wind after waking up, Liu Sanniang did not let the child get out of the quilt immediately. Holding her youngest son in one hand, she turned to look at the father and son who had returned and asked, "You didn't have any conflicts with them when you went back today, did you?" The "over there" here naturally refers to the people in the Lu family's old house.
"No, Mingfei and I went back and sat for a while before leaving without saying a word to them," said Lu Youtian.
However, judging by her husband's expression, Liu Sanniang clearly didn't believe what he said. Seeing her youngest son's big, sparkling eyes looking at them with curiosity, she didn't ask any more questions.
As for the things going on at the Lu family mansion, the couple never said a word to their youngest son. One reason was that they didn't want him to know about all the messy things going on, and the other was that they didn't want him to be filled with hostility at such a young age. As for their youngest son, they all did the same thing: they kept their love and happiness for him.
Lu Mingfei dotes on his younger brother, who was born ten years younger than him. Sometimes he even loves him more than his parents do, so the two brothers have a very good relationship. Of course, there is also Lu Mingcong, both of them are his younger brothers.
But what the two brothers didn't know at the moment was that when Lu Mingcong woke up at home and learned that his younger brother had gone home, he opened his mouth and burst into tears, which made his mother so angry that she wanted to beat him up.
Boss Lu loved his son dearly. Seeing his son crying, he said to his wife reluctantly, "How about I take him to Ming Fei's place to play for a while and then bring him back later?"
"It's because you spoil him all day long that he's become like this! He can't stay at home and has to go to other people's homes all day long. I think he might as well just become someone else's child!" Xu Yue Niang was so angry looking at her son who was crying loudly, but she couldn't bring herself to beat the boy up.
In the end, she was so frustrated by the brat's crying that she had no choice but to let the father and son leave quickly so that they wouldn't stay at home and bother her and upset her.
When sending the father and son out the door, Xu Yue Niang was so angry that she almost laughed.
One day, Boss Lu took his son out to play. When they came back, he was the only one who came home. His son had been left at someone else's house and could not be brought back. When Xu Yueniang saw the man coming back empty-handed, she smiled and asked him, "Where's the child?"
"Let's give that brat to Youtian's family to raise, and we can have another little one." Boss Lu put his arm around his wife's waist and said seriously.
Xu Yue Niang was so angry that she hit the old pervert with a cane.
***
The day after the holiday, Lu Mingfei went back to her husband's house to attend classes.
When his father and mother went out in the morning, they took their two younger brothers with them, so when he got up in the morning, there was no one else at home except him.
But he had already gotten used to it.
He would eat breakfast alone and then go to school. At noon, he would come back home to have lunch, take a nap, and then go back to his husband's house to go to school in the afternoon. He had been repeating this cycle for four or five years.
This is also the reason why he did not want to study too early when he came into this world. Because once he started studying, all his time would be tied to studying, and he would not have much free time to do other things.
He had agreed with his mother the day before to make pork jerky that day, so when he came home from school that day, he and his mother were busy making pork jerky, and his father chopped the pork for them.
The first time they tried it, they didn’t make a lot and only prepared three pounds of pork.
Season the minced pork filling with seasonings, stir well with chopsticks, then roll it into thin slices with a rolling pin and fry it in a pan. When it's almost done, sprinkle a handful of white sesame seeds on it and fry it for a while until both sides are golden brown and the sesame seeds are slightly burnt.
The person in charge of the fried pork shop is Liu Sanniang.
Lu Youtian and the two children stood aside and watched. He couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he smelled the fragrance, "This smells so good."
"Mother, it should be ready. Let's scoop it out first." Lu Mingfei stood aside and was responsible for sprinkling sesame seeds. When he saw that the color of the pork jerky and sesame seeds were slightly burnt, he said.
"Okay." Liu Sanniang shoveled the pork jerky out of the pot and looked at the finished product. She couldn't believe that she had made it. "I didn't expect pork to be made like this."
"I don't know if it tastes good, let's try some first." Lu Mingfei was also making this for the first time. He had only eaten ready-made pork dumplings sold in supermarkets before, and this was his first time making it himself. However, he had seen videos of pork dumplings online before, so he knew the process was not too complicated.
The pork was still very hot after it came out of the pot. He touched it with his hand and pulled it back. It was burned!
"Be careful!" Liu Sanniang hurriedly reminded.
Lu Youtian, who was standing nearby, swallowed his saliva and said, "It must be delicious. It smells like it, so it can't be bad."
"Brother, I want it!"
“Brother, brother!”
The two little guys couldn't wait any longer, and they were tugging at their brother's clothes to get food.
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