Chapter 10 Conquering the whole family's stomach

Cao Guohua's eyes were firm, he didn't look sideways, and he kept a distance of three meters between him and Su Taotao.

Su Taotao didn't know how her cheap father who was a worker could know such a friend.

The two walked to a deserted small valley, and Su Taotao didn't beat around the bush, and directly showed him the loan agreement and photos.

"Teacher Cao, do you still remember this? I am Su Taotao, the daughter of Su Donghan and the wife of Fu Zhengtu. I know that your current situation is not very good. If our family had not been unable to make ends meet, I would not have come to you at this time. I just want to ask if you can repay this money now, just return the principal without interest, or pay me back as much as you can to deal with the emergency."

Cao Guohua took the loan note and the photo, and looked at Su Taotao in surprise after reading it. He did not expect that the notorious educated youth wife of the Fu family was actually the daughter of Su Donghan.

Although she looks a little big-eyed, her words and deeds are not as unreliable as the rumors say. It seems that the rumors are still a bit exaggerated.

Yes, the daughter raised by someone like Su Donghan would not be too bad.

If Su Taotao knew what he was thinking, she would definitely complain about what happened to the original owner.

Cao Guohua felt relieved after thinking this. He nodded and shook his head: "I did borrow this money from your father. A real man's word is as good as gold. You must pay back as much as you promised."

Su Taotao was silent, thinking to herself, of course I have no objection. Even if you dare to pay me back 520, I dare to accept it. After all, I am poor.

"Then..."

Cao Guohua raised his hand to interrupt her: "I have prepared this money a long time ago. Did you bring paper and pen?"

Coincidentally, Su Taotao did bring it. She studied design in her previous life, and the habit of carrying paper and pen with her was simply engraved into dnA.

Cao Guohua wrote down an address, attached a letter and his own signature and handed it to Su Taotao: "Go to this address and find a man named Chen Sihai, he will give you the money."

Su Taotao took it and looked at the address. It was not far away, just in the county town.

"Is your father okay?" Cao Guohua asked again.

Su Taotao couldn't answer this question. In the original owner's memory, except for going back once in the first year of going to the countryside, they parted unhappily. Later, she insisted on getting married, and her family almost broke off relations with her. After marriage, she never went back. She only wrote a letter to her family to report safety when she got married and had children. The only thing that the original owner still had backbone was that she never asked her family for money or things.

"Benefit." What else could Su Taotao say?

Cao Guohua nodded. He was not a talkative person, but he finally said, "The Fu family is a good family. You..."

There were so many rumors about Su Taotao in the team that he had no way to find out which one was true or false. He did not say the rest. In fact, he did not have the position or qualifications to say anything.

But Su Taotao understood what he meant and said with a smile, "I know. I was not very sensible before, but I won't be like that in the future."

Cao Guohua did not say anything else. He nodded again, left a sentence "Zhengdu will return", and led the cows into the mountains.

"Teacher Cao, don't give up at any time. Persevere a little longer, and you will see the light soon. If you have any difficulties, you can tell us and I can help you."

At most three or four years, you will be able to return to the city. Su Taotao naturally could not say this, so she stopped there.

Cao Guohua's back was obviously straightened, but he didn't turn around, just said: "Go back, and pretend you don't know me when you see me in the future."

Su Taotao looked at his tall back and felt sad for a while. Such a person should not be treated like this, but she also believed that nothing could bend his back.

After returning from the back mountain, Su Taotao felt much more at ease.

Fu Zhengtu will be back in half a year. With this money, their family will have enough to live well for the next six months. It would be like living off the savings. She didn't have the habit of asking men for money. Even if Fu Zhengtu came back, she still had to find a way to find a stable source of income.

Take your time, the most urgent thing is to get the money back first.

After taking the reassurance pill, Su Taotao felt much more relaxed, and she even hummed a little tune while cooking lunch.

She lived in the countryside with her grandmother for a while when she was young, otherwise she would have been very annoyed by the big stoves in the countryside.

However, the Fu family was not large, so they used

small stoves, small charcoal stoves, and small iron pots more often. After eating sweet potato porridge in the morning, Su Taotao cooked taro rice in a small clay pot at noon, with rice and coarse grains in a ratio of about 1:1, unlike Zhou Linglan, where coarse grains accounted for the majority.

When the small clay pot started to bubble, Su Taotao opened the lid and poked a few holes in the rice with chopsticks. She then removed the firewood from the small stove, moved the charcoal fire to the small charcoal stove, put the small clay pot on top, and continued to simmer the rice with the residual heat of the charcoal fire.

She was unsure of Fu Yuanhang's rice intake, so she put a few sweet potatoes in the small charcoal stove to simmer.

While she was at it, she planned to go to the small vegetable garden to pick some tomatoes and make tomato scrambled eggs for lunch.

Zhou Linglan was really good at growing vegetables. The fruits and vegetables in the small vegetable garden were of many varieties and grew well.

Su Taotao was already craving for the round and red tomatoes, so she picked the biggest and reddest one, without washing it, and rubbed it on her clothes. It was

just as she imagined, sweet and sour, juicy, sandy and sticky. She had never eaten such delicious tomatoes when she lived in the countryside with her grandmother in her previous life. It was just what she wanted!

Su Taotao picked three tomatoes in one breath before stopping. She picked several more tomatoes to eat as fruits, and picked two more cucumbers, planning to have another cucumber at noon. She also picked a few peppers and eggplants to eat at night.

The most exciting thing about going back to the 1970s is that you can eat these pure natural and pollution-free good things every day.

Su Taotao thinks that if she eats like this every day, she may live a few more years.

Su Taotao came back with fruits and vegetables. The air above the yard was already filled with the aroma of taro rice. The rice cooked in a clay pot was so fragrant.

She first went to the small vegetable garden in the yard to pick up a few corianders and spring onions, washed them and set them aside. Then she went to Zhou Linglan's room to get two eggs and cooked the smacked cucumber first.

There is no technical content in making smacked cucumber, but it takes some time to make it taste good.

Add garlic, coriander and spring onions to the smacked cucumber. Because little Chenchen also wants to eat it, Su Taotao does not add chili peppers. Just add salt, sugar and aged vinegar and mix them. If conditions permit, otherwise adding some sesame oil and chicken essence will make it taste better.

Put the smacked cucumber aside and Su Taotao starts to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

There was not much oil at home, so Su Taotao only put a little in to fry the eggs and put them aside. She was reluctant to wash the pot, so she put the tomatoes directly into the pot, added a little sugar to enhance the flavor, and waited until the tomatoes were fried to release the moisture before pouring the eggs back in, because she planned to pour it on the taro rice, otherwise the taro would be too dry and easy to choke. Su Taotao added a little water to simmer it, and then added a little more salt and soy sauce than usual to season it. After the tomatoes and eggs were fully absorbed by the soup, she stir-fried them for a few more times and then turned off the fire, leaving no charcoal fire, and no need to serve them out.

Su Taotao found three rice bowls and Chen Chen's special small bowl, divided the taro rice in the small casserole into four bowls, and let the taro stay in the small casserole.

The rice had just been divided when Zhou Linglan came back from work, and Fu Yuanhang followed behind with a dust on his back.

Su Taotao, holding a rice spoon, poked her head out of the kitchen and gave them a big smile: "You're back just in time, it's time to eat, go wash your hands and get ready to eat." As

soon as they walked into the yard, they smelled the particularly strong aroma of food, especially Fu Yuanhang. As the saying goes, a young boy eats his father poorly, and he is still a young boy who is always hungry. At this moment, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He was very curious about what kind of dishes this sister-in-law made, and it smelled so good!

Even Zhou Linglan couldn't help asking, "I could smell the delicious food as soon as I got home. What did Taotao make?"

Su Taotao was putting a spoonful of fried tomato eggs with soup into each bowl. Without even turning her head, she said, "Taro rice, fried tomato eggs, and smashed cucumber."

Zhou Linglan often made these rural home-cooked dishes, but none of them smelled as good as this.

She was stunned when she saw the pot crust in the clay pot: "You cooked the rice in a clay pot? No wonder it smells so good," and then she frowned again, "There are not many small grains left, Xiaohang and I..."

"Mom!" Su Taotao interrupted her, "Have you forgotten what I said this morning? Don't worry, I have already found Teacher Cao this morning and I can get the money back. Anyway, everyone will eat whatever I do in the future. Don't worry, I know what I am doing."

The two children are growing up. Zhou Linglan does heavy work in the fields. If she doesn't eat better, her health will be affected. Su Taotao has never thought about saving money on food. She will find ways to make money in the future to make sure the whole family is well fed and clothed.

After washing their hands, the children came back and sat in a row. Chenchen blinked his big round eyes and looked at the food in front of him with curiosity. The red tomatoes and the golden eggs were poured on the white rice, and even the two pieces of gray taro were poured with tempting soup.

Coarse grains are not easy for children to digest, and Su Taotao was also worried that Chenchen would choke on the taro, so she only picked two pieces that were not so powdery for him to taste, and poured soup on them to ensure that he would not choke.

It was the first time for Chenchen to see such a beautiful combination of colors, and he stared at it for a long time and was reluctant to move away.

"Chenchen, do you eat by yourself or does mom feed you?"

"Yes..." Chenchen took his own small spoon and replied to Su Taotao subconsciously before he started to eat.

After putting a spoonful into his mouth, the little guy's big eyes immediately lit up, and he continued to scoop another spoonful, eating with relish, and even faster than usual.

Su Taotao picked up some smacked cucumber for him and said with a smile: "Chenchen, eat slowly and don't choke. No one will compete with you. If you like it, mom will make it for you tomorrow."

Chenchen nodded obediently and continued to eat.

Su Taotao touched the little guy's head with satisfaction. This kid is really so well-behaved and easy to raise.

Zhou Linglan and Fu Yuanhang still had that surprised and happy expression, but no one deliberately chased Chenchen to ask questions, because they were all worried that Chenchen would stop talking after asking too many questions like in the morning, so it was good to let it be natural.

Zhou Linglan came to her senses and found that her bowl was also filled with a large spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes. She wanted to say that she couldn't eat so much and asked them to eat more, but she swallowed the words back. Su Taotao was very opinionated, and she shouldn't be unhappy.

This was the most delicious bowl of rice she had eaten in the past few years. She didn't expect Su Taotao's cooking skills to be so good. It was obviously the same ingredients, but Su Taotao made it so delicious that even her tongue couldn't wait to swallow it. Even the taste of the scrambled cucumber was particularly good.

"Taotao, after eating the food you cook, I feel like I have wasted all the ingredients I have used for so many years. Your food is so delicious."

Fu Yuanhang, needless to say, has been nodding his head. He has finished the food in the bowl, but his eyes are still staring at the hotpot in the small casserole.

Su Taotao herself doesn't like hotpot, but the children like it. She gives Fu Yuanhang the most, but the stomach of a child of this age is a bottomless pit, especially in this year when there is not much oil and water, it is difficult to eat "full".

"Xiaohang, go eat the hotpot. There's still some soup left in the big pot. Eat it with the soup and don't choke."

Fu Yuanhang blushed and felt a little embarrassed, but still whispered "Thank you, sister-in-law", and directly took the small casserole to pour all the soup in the big iron pot into it. He brought it back with satisfaction and ate it with the casserole. She didn't forget to give him a piece of dustpan so that he could hold it and chew it slowly.

Su Taotao added, "There are some sweet potatoes stewed in the small charcoal stove. If you want to eat them, go get them, or take them with you to work or school in the afternoon, and eat them when you are hungry."

Fu Yuanhang continued to nod. He exercised a lot and got hungry quickly. He often started to feel hungry after the first class in the afternoon. Zhou Linglan would also prepare some coarse food for him to take with him.

This was also the most satisfying lunch that Fu Yuanhang had ever had in his life. Usually, they would just eat whatever they wanted at noon. If they were not full, they would just eat a few more sweet potatoes. So this is what it means to have lunch. This sister-in-law has become really nice!

After dinner, Fu Yuanhang washed the dishes, and Su Taotao took Chen Chen to rinse her mouth, wash her hands and face. She couldn't let such a pretty little kid be dirty, and she wanted to cultivate the little guy's hygiene awareness.

Chen Chen no longer resisted Su Taotao, and let her hold him obediently.

Su Taotao was so fond of him that she kissed him several times.

The little guy still looked confused and helpless, which made Su Taotao laugh.

Su Taotao didn't know that such a simple meal had already conquered the stomachs of the whole family. If she knew, she would definitely say, this is just the beginning, and I will let you see what delicious food is after I get the ingredients.