Dinner was prepared by Li Lanzhen, and the main dish was seafood.
Tonight's dinner consisted only of Han Mingjiang's family of five and Li Lanzhen.
Braised fish, steamed fish, sweet and sour fish, deep-fried salted fish chunks, and grilled fish...
Shrimp and crab can be prepared in many ways.
Tender and smooth steamed clams with egg, crispy on the outside and fresh on the inside oyster pancakes...
A pot of seafood fried rice, the rice grains are coated with the fresh aroma of seafood.
After the food was served, Han Mingjiang came in carrying two small black jars.
He placed the jar on the dining table and said to Li Lanzhen with a chuckle.
"Mother, have some rice wine."
Today's meal consisted almost entirely of seafood, with a little wine to enjoy. The rice wine here is mellow and not too sweet.
You'll definitely like it. When you leave, my son will buy a few more jars so you can take them home and enjoy them slowly.
Xue Nizi, wearing a headband and long pants and sleeves, glared at him.
"What are you saying? Mother has only been here for a few days, and you're already telling her to leave."
Li Lanzhen ignored the young couple's bickering and focused on peeling shrimp and removing fish bones for her two grandsons.
He kept reminding me, "Yibo, eat slowly, don't let the fish bone get stuck in your throat or eye."
Han Yibo nodded his little head, "Grandma, I know, I know, I will eat fish."
Grandma, do you remember? Once, Xiaohua was eating fish in a hurry and got a bone stuck in her throat. She cried loudly in pain, but in the end, Dr. Bai took the bone out for her.
There was blood in Xiaohua's saliva. That time, we were terrified.
We were all saying in school that we couldn't eat fish anymore, because a fish bone stuck in your throat could be fatal.
Later, Master Xu told us that everything has two sides, and we shouldn't stop eating fish just because we have a fishbone stuck in our throat.
This is called "not giving up eating because of a minor setback".
He also encouraged us to train slowly and see who could eat fish well without getting a sore throat.
So now I'm eating fish really well.
Grandma, you should eat too. These fish taste better than the fish in our Peach Blossom Spring River.
Han Yibo changed the subject, and Xue Nizi and Han Mingjiang also stopped bickering.
The two people sat at the table, heads down, eating.
After the two children finished eating, they went to play with their younger sister.
Li Lanzhen then asked Han Mingjiang, "Second brother, are you still going to fight at sea?"
Han Mingjiang took a sip of rice wine, squinting his eyes and smacking his lips, looking quite pleased with himself. When his mother asked him a question, he was momentarily stunned.
"No, Mother, we fought on land, not at sea."
Although we're not landlubbers, we're not sailors.
When Li Lanzhen returned from the market, she saw so many fresh seafood products, and Han Yisong told her that if she went south from the county town, there would be a sea.
She thought Han Mingjiang and his men would continue their operations at sea.
I was very worried and wanted to find out the truth. Now, Han Mingjiang said that they were only fighting the enemy on land and guarding the border.
Her heart felt at ease.
After drinking a bowl of rice wine and eating seafood that she hadn't had in a long time, Li Lanzhen was in a very good mood.
Although there are fish and shrimp in the river in Peach Blossom Spring, they don't taste as good as the seafood caught by the sea.
Xue Nizi held a bowl of chicken noodle soup, staring longingly at the dishes on the table, her mouth watering.
Li Lanzhen chuckled, "Nizi, you're in your postpartum period, so you absolutely cannot eat any of the foods you shouldn't. You can't ruin your health."
"Once you're out of confinement, Mom will cook you a proper meal."
Xue Nizi was happy again and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, Mom, after I finish my confinement, you must make a table full of seafood, just like today's meal. It makes my stomach churn."
After Xue Nizi and the others arrived, they focused all their energy on planting sweet potatoes and potatoes, and often just made do with whatever they could find for a meal.
Han Mingjiang felt sorry for her, so he bought a cook who could cook local dishes.
She usually eats a lot of seafood, but she felt that Li Lanzhen's cooking was better.
The next morning, after breakfast, Li Lanzhen said she was going out for a walk.
They coaxed Han Yibo to stay home with his mother and sister.
Li Lanzhen didn't drive the donkey cart; she led the donkey out instead.
After getting onto the official road, she put a small cotton cushion on the donkey and rode it directly to the fruit market she had visited the day before.
They found the shopkeeper who sold durians and went to his village in the mountains with the people he arranged.
Yesterday he said that it would be reached after crossing a small hill. Li Lanzhen rode her little donkey and followed the man leading the way. It took more than an hour to reach the top of the small hill, where she saw the village in the valley.
Just as he said, the mountains surrounding the village are all covered with fruit trees.
As she walked, she felt as if she were immersed in a sweet and fragrant aroma.
Without much talk, we went straight to the fruit orchard.
The biggest obstacle is that they can't understand her, and she can't understand the locals either.
They couldn't understand each other, and after a long time of gesturing and talking, Li Lanzhen finally pointed out the fruits she liked one by one.
He told him he wanted all kinds of fruit, weighing a total of two tons, and it only cost him one hundred taels of silver.
Tell the man who brought her here to transport them all to the top of that small hill.
Then she searched for fruit trees, and bought two of each kind that weren't available in the space.
Some are fruit tree seedlings, and some are mature fruit trees.
These cost another ten taels of silver.
After finishing all that, lunch was long over, and the sun was about to set.
The villagers were very hospitable and grateful to her, believing she was a goddess of wealth who had come to give them money.
You must invite her to try their fruit rice.
Li Lanzhen looked at the pineapple rice and fruit salad that resembled those she had eaten before.
The only difference is that the fruit salad contains a thicker, softer rice porridge.
Li Lanzhen thought it tasted delicious.
It must have been made with whole, unprocessed fruit and white rice; it tasted great. After the meal, Li Lanzhen hurriedly said goodbye to them.
It was that same man who led her all the way to the top of the hill.
The mountaintop was filled with baskets of fruit and fruit trees.
The man used a combination of gestures and words, which Li Lanzhen understood. He asked her how to take it back.
Li Lanzhen also gestured to him that someone would come and pull him away soon, urging him to hurry home.
The man descended the mountain, looking back every few steps, and headed towards his village.
Li Lanzhen waited another fifteen minutes, and seeing that there was no one around, she waved her hand, and all the fruits and fruit tree seedlings were stored in her space.
Leading the little donkey, she hurried down the mountain. Being unfamiliar with the area, she wanted to get home as quickly as possible before dark.
Once they were on the main road home, Li Lanzhen took out two baskets of various kinds of fruit, tied them with rope, and draped them over the back of the little donkey.
From afar, she could see Han Yisong riding a horse, with Han Yibo in front of him, galloping towards her.
"Grandma, Grandma, you're back! My brother and I have come to pick you up."
Without a doubt, tonight's dinner after-dinner fruit will be whatever I want to eat, achieving fruit freedom.
The military camp moved quickly; in less than ten days, the vermicelli processing plant was built according to the requirements in the plan that Li Lanzhen had given them.
Han Mingjiang told her that he would take her to the vermicelli processing plant tomorrow.
Although the factory belonged to the Southwest Border Defense Army, it was located on the riverbank near farmland and a large river.
Most of the machines in the vermicelli processing plant are made of wood, some are made of bamboo, and a small amount of iron.
Li Lanzhen noticed that these machines were more advanced than those in the vermicelli processing plant in Taohuayuan.
After all, it was produced in the military equipment factory.
They are already very familiar with the process of making vermicelli.
In practice, Li Lanzhen emphasized the precautions for each step of the process.
She focused on instructing them on how to process the settled sweet potato starch or potato starch into noodles.
After three days of getting acquainted, the vermicelli processing plant in the military camp on the southwestern border officially started operations.
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