After Lu Chen washed his hands, he looked up and saw Cheng Mingyue's sparkling eyes. He raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said softly, "I'm hungry."
Are you hungry?!
Didn’t you say you wanted to tell a secret?
Also, didn't he eat two big bowls of noodles at noon? Why is he hungry again?!
Cheng Mingyue secretly complained in her heart: She has found a good-for-nothing to take home!
Cheng Mingyue looked at Lu Chen again and saw that he still refused to speak until he was full. She sighed helplessly and walked into the kitchen obediently.
Cheng Mingyue started to worry as soon as she entered the kitchen.
It's really hard for a good cook to cook without rice! She really doesn't know what to cook now.
There are only potatoes, sweet potatoes and cabbage at home.
Cheng Mingyue thought about it for a while before deciding to make some potato pancakes for dinner.
When Lu Chen saw Cheng Mingyue washing potatoes, he sat down on a wooden block and started to make a fire.
Cheng Mingyue must give Lu Chen full marks for this.
Although gender equality is advocated in this era, most housework is still done by women.
Moreover, this place is located in the north, and the men here are generally a bit patriarchal. They all think that housework should be done by women, and they men are only responsible for going to work.
This is really weird.
When men are working, women are also working. When men are resting, women are busy cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry. Some families raise chickens, and they have to feed them and take care of the children, which is really busy.
But those men never offered to help. Instead, they acted like old men, waiting for the women to prepare the food and serve it on the table.
Even with this, he still complains about everything.
After dinner, these old men threw their bowls away and went to chat with others, without any sympathy for how hard the women in their families worked.
When Cheng Mingyue thought of the sweet potatoes that Lu Chen steamed in the morning, she liked Lu Chen more and more.
Cheng Mingyue first steamed the potatoes, peeled them and mashed them after they cooled, then added some flour and salt and kneaded them into small balls the size of a fist.
Then use a rolling pin to gently roll out the small ball, and the dough for a potato pancake is ready.
Then, following the same pattern, Cheng Mingyue quickly made a neatly arranged stack of potato pancakes on the chopping board.
She first lightly brushed a layer of oil in the pan, then said to Lu Chen who was lighting the fire: "Just a little fire will do, otherwise the potato pancakes will burn easily."
Seeing Lu Chen nod, Cheng Mingyue carefully placed the potato pancakes one by one in the pan. Soon, she flipped them all over. The flipped sides were golden brown and looked very appetizing.
After waiting for a while, Cheng Mingyue gently scooped up the potato pancakes with a spatula and placed them in a bowl.
After the pancakes cooled down a bit, Cheng Mingyue picked up a piece of potato pancake and handed it to Lu Chen. "Try it, how does it taste?"
Lu Chen looked at Chen Mingyue's expectant eyes, took a bite, and his eyes lit up, "Delicious!"
After receiving Lu Chen's praise, Cheng Mingyue was so proud that her tail almost rose to the sky. She raised her chin and said proudly: "Of course, I just didn't like cooking before. As long as I study hard, I will definitely become a top chef."
Looking at Chen Mingyue's cheerful expression, like a little mouse that had stolen oil, Lu Chen couldn't help but feel a strange joy in his heart, and whispered, "More."
Cheng Mingyue was stunned at first, not understanding what Lu Chen meant. But when she saw him staring at the potato pancake in her hand, she burst into laughter.
Lu Chen felt uncomfortable because of Cheng Mingyue's smile, but he still took Cheng Mingyue's hand and ate up the potato pancakes one bite after another.
After Cheng Mingyue baked all the potato pancakes, she fried some vinegar-stirred Chinese cabbage and spicy and sour potato shreds in a frying pan.
Then he washed the pot and added half a pot of water to it. Then he rinsed the rice and put it aside. He said to Lu Chen, "When the water boils, just pour the rice into the pot.
You help cook the porridge at home first, I'll take some potato pancakes to my parents to try."
After Cheng Mingyue finished speaking, she picked up half a bowl of potato pancakes and walked home.
When she got home, everyone was having dinner.
Baihe Brigade was very poor, and most families in the village sometimes only had two meals a day.
The village chief and his wife felt sorry for the original owner and his two little grandsons, so they developed the habit of eating dinner there.
Although it is called dinner, it is actually very simple, either wild vegetable dumplings or wild vegetable porridge.
Seeing these two things again, Cheng Mingyue frowned, put the potato pancakes in the bowl on the table, and said:
"Mom and Dad, Xiaolong and Xiaohu are in their growing years. When you cook for them in the future, don't always eat these two things. They have no nutrition. The children will not grow taller and will be more prone to illness."
Wang Guihua patted Cheng Mingyue lightly and scolded her, "Don't talk nonsense, you silly girl. We've been eating these since we were young. Look at your elder and second brothers, they're so tall and big, like cows.
Even you, among the girls in our village, are very tall. It's not like what you said about not being tall.
Besides, isn't it like this these days? We're one of the few families that eat dinner, while others only eat two meals a day. Why would we be so particular? "
Seeing that her mother still couldn't make her understand after talking to her for a long time, Cheng Mingyue simply stopped talking.
Then Wang Guihua exclaimed, "How did you make this pancake? It's so golden brown, it must have been made with a lot of oil. Did you spend all the flour and oil that your mother gave you?"
Cheng Mingyue shook her head. "No, mother. I just brushed a layer of oil on the bottom of the pan. This pancake is made of potatoes, with only a little flour added. Try it, it's delicious."
After saying that, he handed one piece to Wang Guihua and the village chief, and then gave one piece to each of his two little nephews.
Xiaolong and Xiaohu have been staring at Cheng Mingyue ever since she put the potato pancakes on the table.
If it weren't for the strict rules in their family, they would have rushed over to snatch it away long ago.
When he saw his aunt handing him the pancake, he started eating it without saying a word.
Cheng Xiangdong and Cheng Xiangnan also handed the first piece to their wives and took a piece to chew on.
Cheng Xiangnan took only one bite and narrowed his eyes: "Little sister, your cooking skills are quite good. I never thought that potatoes could be made into pancakes."
Wang Guihua couldn't help but sigh: "Who says it's not true? Before, the potatoes at home were just steamed or stir-fried, not cooked in so many fancy ways."
Zhang Hongying was a thoughtful person. Seeing her son enjoying the meal so much, she couldn't help but ask, "Little sister, how are these potato pancakes made? Let's make some for our family tomorrow to give them a different taste."
Cheng Mingyue briefly explained the production process.
Zhang Hongying was already a good hand in the kitchen, and she had an idea of what to do after hearing what Cheng Mingyue did.
At this time, the village chief, who had been silent all this time, said, "Yue'er, later on, ask your mother to go to your Aunt Wang's house and get some other vegetables so you can cook two more dishes tomorrow."
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