Chapter 71: The First Birthday After Rebirth
At noon, the Zhang family prepared a sumptuous meal to entertain Deng Shirong.
In addition to the pork and braised pork with soy sauce brought by Deng Shirong as the main course, Zhang's mother also killed an old hen to make soup, and added fried peanuts, which are essential for drinking, and several bowls of home-grown vegetarian dishes. This full table of dishes is three times better than what they had during the Chinese New Year.
Unfortunately, Zhang's mother's cooking skills are mediocre. The food she cooks is not as good as Deng Shirong's. Even compared with Deng Yunzhen, the eldest daughter taught by Deng Shirong, the food is far inferior. Only the old hen soup is acceptable.
Therefore, Deng Shirong only tasted the pork and braised pork, but he drank two bowls of chicken soup.
However, the pork and braised pork that Deng Shirong looked down upon, the Zhang family ate with great delight, feeling that they were the most delicious food in the world.
After eating and drinking, Deng Shirong did not stay in Zhang's house for long. After smoking a few cigarettes, he said goodbye and left.
When I got home, it was already past two in the afternoon.
"Dad, you're back. What big meal did my future sister-in-law's family prepare to treat you?" Deng Yunzhen asked with a smile.
Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It is indeed a delicious meal, but the taste is a little lacking. My mother's cooking skills are not very good, and I guess my daughter's cooking skills are also limited. When your sister-in-law comes to our house, we have to teach her how to cook and improve her cooking skills."
Deng Yunzhen nodded and said, "This is easy. My cooking skills were average before, but after learning from dad for a while, I can cook pretty well now. My sister-in-law is obviously a smart person. As long as she is willing to learn, her cooking skills will improve quickly."
Deng Shirong hummed, and seeing a bowl of pig blood soup on the table, he couldn't help but ask, "Who killed a pig last night?"
Deng Yunzhen said, "It's Brother Yunquan's house. This is the pig blood soup sent by Sister Yunquan."
I have to say that rural people of this era are indeed humane.
Because life was hard for everyone in that era and it was rare to eat meat once a month, so no matter who slaughtered a pig, they would use a small amount of pork and a large basin of pig blood to cook a large pot of soup, and then serve a bowl of it to each of the neighbors living nearby.
In this bowl of pig blood soup, there are usually two pieces of pork and some pig blood. For people who only eat meat a few times a year, it is really a rare delicacy.
This custom continued until the end of the 1980s. As people's lives became better and better, fewer and fewer families slaughtered pigs and served pig blood soup. By the 1990s, it was basically no longer seen.
Deng Shirong nodded. He just needed to keep this kind of courtesy between neighbors in mind.
Now the family has hired several carpenters to make furniture, and they all have meals provided. As for the dozen people who are reclaiming the orchard, the seven people from the village do not need to be provided with meals, but their relatives must be provided with meals.
Including my family, there are about twenty people eating every day.
Therefore, even though it was only a little past two o'clock, Deng Shirong and his daughter had to start busying themselves with making dinner.
In the past few days, we have been spending money to buy meat, which is a considerable expense every day. Now with the thank-you gift from Deng Changwang's family, we have stored several hundred kilograms of meat in the system space, which can sustain us for a long time.
When Deng Shirong and his daughter started cooking, Deng Changmei also came over to help.
Today, Deng Changmei and Zhang Kangmei have obtained a marriage certificate and are legally married, but in rural areas nowadays marriages are based on a wedding banquet, so even though they are legally married, they still don't live together.
However, Deng Shirong invited three generations of the Zhang family to make furniture, so Deng Changmei, the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, naturally had to perform well. So after finishing her housework every day, she would come to help. Sometimes she would pass wood and tools to the Zhang family's grandparents, and sometimes she would come to the kitchen to help wash vegetables.
The main dishes for dinner are still the old three: stir-fried pork, braised carp, and dry-pot frogs. Because the portions are large, coupled with Deng Shirong's superb cooking skills, and paired with a few exquisite vegetarian dishes, it is another feast that will make you want to swallow your tongue.
Although after Deng Shirong's demonstration, almost everyone in Naye Village knows how to cook fish and frogs to make them delicious, there are still very few people who go to the river to fish and catch frogs. It's not that people don't like to eat them, but the main reason is that the preparation of these things requires too much oil and various seasonings.
Except for Deng Shirong's family, no other family in the village would afford to use so much oil.
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In a blink of an eye, another week has passed.
September 24th of the lunar calendar is Deng Shirong’s 44th birthday.
The day before, Deng Shirong had greeted Deng Changwu, the pork seller, and asked him to leave all the pig offal to him when he slaughtered the pig.
In addition, someone was asked to burn a few hornets' nests that had accumulated during this period of time.
Today, he wants to show off his skills and cook a delicious meal to celebrate his first birthday after his rebirth.
In later generations, many places advocate eating well in the morning, eating full at noon, and eating less at night.
But in Shuangwang Realm, no matter now or in the future, people pay more attention to the evening meal, so Deng Shirong’s birthday is naturally centered on dinner.
Around two o'clock in the afternoon, Guan Yongying, Deng Changmei, and Chen Xiaohua (Deng Changping's wife) came over to help. Together with Deng Yunzhen and her sister, the five of them divided the work and washed the pig offal, ginger, onion, garlic, and vegetables according to Deng Shirong's requirements.
Deng Shirong was responsible for cutting the vegetables.
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By the time everything was ready, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon.
"Ah Zhen, start the fire!"
“Here it comes!”
Deng Yunzhen responded, then excitedly went to the stove and started to make a fire.
When the fire started, Deng Yunzhen asked, "Dad, which dish should we cook first?"
Deng Shirong said: "Let's make pig lung soup first!"
Deng Yunzhen said "oh" and started watching her father's cooking. Although her cooking skills had improved a lot in the past period of time, that was only for some of the dishes she often cooked. For the dishes she had never cooked before, she didn't know how to make them delicious.
Today, her father was planning to show off his skills, so since this was a rare opportunity, she naturally had to learn from him.
Deng Shirong also intended to cultivate his eldest daughter's cooking skills, so he explained while cooking: "The key to whether pig lung soup is delicious is ginger and wine. First, use oil to sauté the blanched pig lung and enough ginger, pour half a cup of white wine along the edge of the pot, and then add hot water to boil. Boil for seven or eight minutes to bring out the flavor of the pig lung and ginger, then pour in a little soy sauce and add the right amount of salt, and a pot of delicious pig lung soup is ready."
"Wow, this smells so good, let me try it."
Deng Yunzhen scooped out a small spoonful of pig lung soup from a bowl, cooled it a little, and then couldn't wait to taste it. She was conquered by the taste and praised it highly: "I never thought that such a simple pig lung soup would taste so good."
Deng Shirong laughed and said as he washed the pot, "Home cooking is not complicated. Next, let's make stir-fried pork liver."
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