Chapter 320: Ba Wang Bids Farewell to Chicken
Wang Yuanchao walked slowly towards home under the light snow. When he arrived at the gate of his own courtyard,
he suddenly took out two bound turtles from the space, then opened the gate and walked towards home.
Widow Du saw Wang Yuanchao, who was covered in snow, carrying something home, and hurried forward to greet him. She kept brushing the snow off Wang Yuanchao's body and said, "Yuanchao, is this a turtle? Where did it come from?"
"Hey, someone gave it to me. It's hard to eat this kind of food in this weather.
So I didn’t refuse.
Come on, mom, let's add a dish tonight.
Go chop up two pheasants, and we'll have a Bawangbie chicken today."
Widow Du smiled and said:
"Okay, Yuan Chao, it looks like Yuan Yuan and I are in for a treat today."
"Hey, Mom, what you said is like I treated you and your mother unfairly."
Widow Du patted Wang Yuanchao gently and said, "Hey, mother is just teasing you.
By the way, Yuanyuan is about to give birth, what are your plans, are you planning to deliver the baby at home?"
Wang Yuanchao shook his head and said:
"Yuanyuan is delivering the baby in the county this time. I have already contacted the county people's hospital. Tomorrow, our red brick factory will be closed after paying salaries and New Year benefits. In the afternoon, I will ask Liu Wanyou to drive us to the county seat.
Let's send Zizi and Nuannuan to Aunt Xinghua's house these days and let Aunt Xinghua and the others take care of them for a few days. The two of us will stay in the hospital with Yuanyuan for a few days to wait for the birth. What do you think?"
Widow Du looked at Wang Yuanchao with tender eyes and said softly, "Well, you are the man of the family. We will listen to your arrangements. I have no objection to your arrangements."
Wang Yuanchao couldn't help but kiss his mother-in-law, then said with a smile: "Mom, come, I'll teach you how to make this dish, Ba Wang Bie Chicken."
"Okay, aid Korea."
After the two entered the kitchen, Wang Yuanchao first slaughtered the two turtles and drained their blood. Then he removed the turtles' internal organs and the black film inside their bodies and chopped the two turtles into pieces.
After Wang Yuanchao finished cleaning the turtle, he also took away the two pheasants from his mother-in-law's side. Then Wang Yuanchao prepared ginger slices, garlic seeds, chopped green onions, chili pepper peels, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, and three taels of pork belly.
Pour rapeseed oil in first, heat the oil in a pan, then fry the pork belly until fragrant. After the fat has released oil, scoop it out, add the fried soft-shelled turtle pieces with a combination of rapeseed oil and lard, and start frying. After the soft-shelled turtle pieces are fried until brown, pour in the pheasant, add salt and continue frying. After the soft-shelled turtle and pheasant are fried until brown,
Wang Yuanchao began to stir-fry ginger slices, garlic, star anise, cinnamon, and bay leaves, then poured in the previously fried pork belly, soy sauce, and white wine and continued to stir-fry for a while.
Wang Yuanchao poured well water into the pot, adjusted the seasoning, and started stewing.
After the high fire in the stove boils the water in the iron pot,
Wang Yuanchao began to reduce the firewood in the stove, turn down the fire, simmer slowly, and slowly reduce the juice.
When the sauce of the big pot of Ba Wang Bie Chicken is almost dried up, with a lot of soup left,
Wang Yuanchao took out a small iron pot, put all the dishes into it, brought it into the house, placed it on the clay stove that had been prepared long ago, and continued to stew it on the stove.
In Hunan Province, this way of eating is called dry pot.
After Wang Yuanchao put the Ba Wang Bie Chicken away, Widow Du also brought the food that had been prepared and heated on the stove to the coffee table, and the family began to prepare for dinner.
Wang Yuanchao took out five pounds of wine from the jar, poured a glass for himself and his mother-in-law, sat on the sofa, listened to the rustling sound of snow outside the window, and drank in small sips.
After taking a sip of wine, Wang Yuanchao scooped up a large piece of the turtle's skirt. It was soft, glutinous, and fragrant, and it was so delicious that it was unmatched.
For a moment, Wang Yuanchao looked at the snow scene outside the window, ate some meat and sipped some wine. He suddenly felt that this era without mobile phones seemed quite good. People lived a real life without any pressure, which made Wang Yuanchao feel relaxed and enjoyable.
"Green ants and new wine, red clay stove. It's going to snow in the evening, can you have a drink?
Come on, mom, let's clink glasses and toast to life."
Widow Du smiled charmingly at Wang Yuanchao and said:
"Come on, Yuan Chao, let's have a drink. Mother likes your scholarly and vigorous look. It's really rare."
"Haha, mom, you are so beautiful, so gentle, and so family-oriented. I love you too."
You have to know that in this era, women's thoughts tend to be faithful to one person.
When it comes to marriage, they have only one right to choose in their lifetime.
Even if you don't like it, you can't change it.
Unless one really cannot survive and wants to have a bite to eat, one would probably trade one's chastity for one's life.
In this era, there are very few people like Widow Du who are willing to sacrifice everything for their love and family, so Wang Yuanchao is really lucky to have met one.
"Yuan Chao, why do I feel that the wine brewed this year tastes better than in previous years?"
Wang Yuanchao smiled in his heart. That's right. In the past, in order not to waste grapes, Wang Yuanchao mixed grapes picked from the mountains with grapes in the space to make wine. This year, Wang Yuanchao really didn't have so much time to go to the mountains to pick up mountain products, so the mountain products and game at home were all taken out of the space.
Wouldn't it be better to make wine from grapes grown with spiritual spring water in the space than from mixed grapes in the past? But Wang Yuanchao certainly couldn't tell his mother-in-law about this, so he raised his wine bowl and clinked glasses with Widow Du again, then said with a smile:
"Really? I can't tell. If the wine brewed this year is better than before, then my winemaking skills must have improved."
Widow Du drank her wine happily and said cheerfully, "That should be the case. After all, practice makes perfect when it comes to making wine.
Well, the wine is so good this year, so delicious, I can drink it all the time. "
This made Zhang Yuanyuan, who was eating the food next to her, very greedy. She looked at Wang Yuanchao pitifully and said, "My dear, I want to drink too. I want to drink wine."
Seeing this, Wang Yuanchao put down his bowl and chopsticks helplessly, hugged Zhang Yuanyuan in his arms, and while stroking Zhang Yuanyuan's big belly, he coaxed her and said:
"My dear wife, we are about to give birth.
Just bear with it for a while. After the baby is born and the confinement period is over, you can drink as much as you want. The men will accompany you, okay?"
Zhang Yuanyuan listened to Wang Yuanchao's coaxing, but she still pouted and looked at Wang Yuanchao with longing, without blinking. Wang Yuanchao felt a headache when he saw this, so after thinking for a while, he said, "Wife, I definitely can't let you drink the wine. How about I squeeze you a glass of apple juice?"
Zhang Yuanyuan's eyes lit up and she said happily:
"Okay, thank you, sir."
(End of this chapter)
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