Chapter 96 The Deng Family's Daughter Grows Up

After entering November, the eldest son's wedding date was getting closer and closer. At this time, Deng Shirong had some free time because all the things that needed to be done had been done.

Now everything is ready, we are just waiting for the bride, Zhang Xiuping, to come in.

With nothing to do, Deng Shirong took his eldest daughter to make one of the most distinctive local pickles to go with porridge - sour carambola.

In a fruit-related ballad in Bobai County, there is a line that goes "Carambola is a good business all year round." From this line, we can understand that carambola is a fruit with a very long fruiting period and can basically be eaten all year round.

However, many people have indeed eaten carambola, but probably not many people know that there is not only the common sweet carambola, but also a less common sour carambola.

The sour carambola has large and sour fruits, commonly known as 'Sanren'. It is basically only produced in Tiandong, Baise, Luchuan, Yongning, Bobai and other places in Guangxi, and is very rare in other places.

This thing is really too sour. If you eat it raw, few people can stand the sour taste. Therefore, the local people in Bobai have developed a way to make pickles with sour star fruit. That is to slice the sour star fruit, squeeze out the sour water inside, wash and crush the local mountain ginger, and then mix it evenly with an appropriate amount of raw salt. It will be a very delicious pickle, which is perfect for eating with porridge.

In later generations, some people used this sour star fruit to make a drink called "star fruit water". This drink was basically not drinkable by anyone other than the locals. The taste was sour and salty, so salty that it made your scalp numb.

But this extremely unpalatable drink has brought the family that made it famous millions or even tens of millions of dollars in revenue, and their branches have been opened from Bobai County to YL City.

The reason for this is that the main function of this sour carambola water is to reduce internal heat! As mentioned before, southerners are troubled by internal heat all year round, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi. Therefore, there are countless millionaires and even tens of millions of yuan created in Guangdong and Guangxi just by selling herbal tea.

There are quite a few sour carambola trees in Naye Village, and they produce a lot of fruit. One tree can even produce hundreds of kilograms of fruit.

Therefore, people in the village have no shortage of sour star fruits for making pickles, but some families cannot eat sour food and do not like to eat this kind of pickles, so they do not pick them for making pickles.

There is no technical requirement to make sour star fruit, and it didn’t take the father and daughter much time to make it.

After sealing the jar, Deng Shirong smiled and said to his eldest daughter, "Ah Zhen, your birthday will be here soon. This is your 18th birthday, and you are truly an adult. It's worth celebrating. Tell me what gift you want, and I'll give it to you."

My eldest daughter’s birthday is the tenth day of the eleventh lunar month. In those days, rural people celebrated their birthdays according to the lunar calendar and basically did not use the Gregorian calendar.

Deng Yunzhen shook her head and smiled, "Dad, I don't want any gifts. Just prepare two good dishes and I'll drink with you."

Deng Shirong laughed when he heard this and said, "We have to prepare some delicious dishes to celebrate. If you can't think of any gift, then dad will give you a birthday red envelope. You can buy whatever you want yourself."

Deng Yunzhen smiled and said, "Thank you, Dad!"

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In a blink of an eye, Deng Yunzhen's birthday arrived.

Deng Shirong directly bought a sheep and slaughtered it. In those days, beef and mutton were cheaper than pork, and a sheep cost only a dozen yuan.

Because the day after tomorrow is the eldest son's wedding day, relatives and friends will arrive tomorrow afternoon, so on the eldest daughter's birthday today, Deng Shirong did not invite relatives and friends to dinner separately. The family just had a meal together behind closed doors, which was considered a celebration!

Deng Shirong prepared three ways to cook this sheep: roast the lamb chops, cook the lamb legs spicyly, and make soup with the rest.

Deng Shirong taught his eldest daughter how to cook every dish.

When teaching how to stew mutton soup, Deng Shirong said: "The mutton smell is quite strong, and most people can't get used to it. Of course, some people like it, but there are really few people in our village who can drink this kind of mutton soup. So if you want to stew a delicious mutton soup, you must find a way to get rid of the strong mutton smell in the soup."

Deng Yunzhen asked, "Dad, you taught me to use ginger and wine to remove the fishy smell. This should also be the way to remove the smell of mutton, right?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It's not enough to just use ginger and wine to remove the smell of mutton soup. The best way to remove the smell of mutton soup is to use sweet potatoes."

"Use sweet potatoes?" Deng Yunzhen's forehead was full of question marks when she heard this. She couldn't understand what the relationship was between removing the smell of mutton soup and sweet potatoes.

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Yes, use sweet potatoes. When stewing mutton soup, you only need to put two peeled sweet potatoes in the soup. The sweet potatoes will absorb all the mutton smell in the soup, so that the mutton soup will not taste any mutton smell at all."

Deng Yunzhen was surprised and asked, "So magical?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It's so magical. I'll make the mutton soup later, and you'll know once you taste it."

After saying that, Deng Shirong started to work. He first blanched the mutton, took it out and washed it, then added clean water again, and then put in appropriate amounts of astragalus, angelica, codonopsis, red dates and the like, and wolfberry would be added later.

When the fire was boiling and then turned to low heat to simmer, Deng Shirong said, "You don't have to put the sweet potatoes in at the beginning. It's not too late to put them in after the mutton soup has been stewed for half an hour."

Deng Yunzhen memorized these key steps one by one. Since she started learning cooking from her father, as her cooking skills continued to improve, she gradually began to like this feeling, especially when the dishes she made were recognized and praised by others, she felt even more fulfilled.

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6pm.

After Deng Yuntai came back from work at the tile factory, the family had dinner on time.

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Although the family had had good meals over the past few months, it was the first time they had eaten mutton. Therefore, when Deng Shirong's children saw the grilled lamb chops and spicy lamb legs on the table, their appetites were whetted.

Deng Shirong tore off a lamb chop for each of his children and said, "Okay, stop watching. We must eat this grilled lamb chop while it's hot."

Upon hearing this, the children no longer hesitated and started eating the lamb chops in their hands.

There was no surprise at all, as everyone was amazed by the taste of the grilled lamb chops, which were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and they all praised it highly.

Then the spicy lamb leg is also a must-try. The texture is not the kind that is hard to chew, nor is it the kind that is stewed. Instead, it is spicy and chewy. After taking one bite, you want to eat a second bite and you can't stop at all.

As for the mutton stew, it tastes equally delicious after being dipped in Deng Shirong’s secret all-purpose dipping sauce.

The most amazing thing is that mutton soup, which has no smell at all. After taking a sip, I feel that the world is so beautiful! "Azhen, happy birthday!" Deng Shirong said while holding up the wine bowl.

Deng Yunzhen picked up the wine bowl and clinked it with her father's, saying, "Thank you, Dad!"

"Happy birthday, Jane!"

"Happy birthday, sis!"

Deng Yuntai and his other brothers and sisters also sent birthday wishes to Deng Yunzhen.

After taking a sip of wine, Deng Shirong took out a red envelope that he had prepared long ago from his pocket, handed it to his eldest daughter with a smile and said, "Ah Zhen, from today on, you are an adult. This is the adult red envelope that Daddy gives you."

Deng Yunzhen took the red envelope with a smile on her face and thanked her father again.

Big brothers, you are really awesome. Now we have been promoted from 381st to 365th in the monthly ticket list. And comparing it with the monthly ticket list of new books, we are only one vote away from 11th place. Big brothers, monthly tickets are like women's cleavage. If you squeeze, you can still get some, right^_^? Can you give us a few more votes and push up a little? 　　 　 (End of this chapter)