Chapter 74 Chapter 74 There are many similar things in the village...
There were many similar incidents in the village. Mrs. Liu was even more angry that the Su family did not invite her to build the house, so she threw things at home in anger. Li Chunhua shrank her neck and chopped pig grass under the corridor for fear that her mother would see her and take it out on her, but obviously, Mrs. Liu still discovered her.
"Aren't you good friends with those four girls and five girls? Why didn't they ask you to help cook?"
Li Chunhua stammered, not daring to respond, but Liu Shi still persisted.
"Ah? I'm asking you a question? Are you mute?" As he spoke, he walked closer and twisted Li Chunhua's arm hard. Only when he saw the pain on her face did Liu's mood calm down a little.
"A worthless thing."
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"We'll just have to make do with what we eat tonight." Chen brought out the last dish of wood ear vegetable fried egg soup. This was the last season for wood ear vegetable this year, and it had already started to produce dark red fruits. It was estimated that in a while, no more leaves would be produced.
As for wood ear vegetable, people who don't like it think it tastes like slug, while people who like it think it is tender, smooth and fragrant. But no matter what, it is always popular to use it to make egg soup. It is even a very easy vegetable to grow. Mrs. Wu planted it in the corner of the wall in the spring and didn't take much care of it. It climbed all over the fence by itself. Now the fence needs to be pushed down to renovate the house, so they can only throw it aside. Mrs. Wu felt it was a pity and picked out all the edible leaves.
"That's enough. Daya and Wuya haven't arrived yet. Just make something casual. We are not particular about those things in our family." Uncle Chen said to Chen.
Ma Lao Si also echoed, "Yeah, call them to come for dinner." After saying that, he patted his son next to him and said, "Why don't you call your cousins to come for dinner? What are you sitting here for?"
Ma Da and Ma Er said they felt wronged, as it was clearly their aunt who asked them to come and sit down. They stood up helplessly.
Just then Su Hong and the others came over, and everyone officially started eating.
There weren't too many people here tonight, just a few people from the Su family, Chen's brother and brother-in-law from her mother's side, and the Wang family next door who didn't cook much. One table was just enough for them to sit.
Unlike the Wang family father and son who often ate at the Su family's house, this was the first time for Ma Laosi and his two sons to eat dishes cooked by Su Li. When the three of them ate the twice-cooked pork, they were stunned.
The crispy and charred taste mixed with a little bit of oily fat, paired with the freshly roasted tender garlic sprouts with a strong garlic aroma, directly awakens the taste buds. Before the body can react, the mind starts clamoring for a bowl of rice.
How come it tastes so good? Isn’t it just ordinary twice-cooked pork?
The three of them never thought that twice-cooked pork could be so delicious.
And there are these boiled pork slices with so many peppercorns and chilies on them, it looks delicious.
Ma Laosi picked up a piece of boiled pork slices with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. The spicy taste instantly rushed into his nose, "Ahem..."
Ma Laosi couldn't control his coughing and sneezed three times. His two sons sitting on his left and right quickly covered their bowls, presenting a scene of loving father and filial sons.
However, after Ma Laosi recovered, he couldn't help but extend his chopsticks to the pot of boiled pork slices. There was no other way, it was just too delicious, spicy and numb, tender and tasty. It was a pity that there was no wine, otherwise it would be even more refreshing.
Ma Da and Ma Er ate bowl after bowl of rice, their mouths full of oil. They had worked all day and were already very hungry. In addition, the food was so appetizing that they couldn't stop eating.
"The twice-cooked pork my cousin made is so delicious."
“It’s delicious!”
Several people sighed.
The Su family members next to them, including Uncle Chen and the Wang family father and son except Su Li, were all in the same mood. Although they occasionally ate meals cooked by Su Li, they would sigh every time they ate a new dish how delicious it was and never get tired of it. Tonight's twice-cooked pork and boiled pork slices were especially delicious. Everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks only after eating until they were full. Fortunately, Chen specially cooked a few more bowls of rice and added a few more sweet potatoes tonight, otherwise it would not be enough to eat these artificial dishes.
After drinking the last bowl of wood ear leaf fried egg soup, Ma Lao Si put down the bowl in his hand, showing a comfortable expression, and said to Chen who was chatting with him about buying ceramic bowls today and spent a lot of money,
"You could actually replace that bowl with a wooden one. It would save you money and it's less likely to break."
Wood? Yes, you can use wood.
Before Chen could react, Su Li's eyes lit up.
How could she forget that bowls could be made of wood?
The more I think about Su Li, the better it seems. The wood is light and convenient, easy to carry, and most importantly, it is cheap and can be made right away.
Besides, weren't the uncle and two cousins in front of her carpenters?! Thinking of this, Su Li quickly asked if they could make a bowl in the shape of a dinner plate.
"What's so difficult about this?" Although it sounds a bit strange, he can make anything, no matter how strange it is, as long as it is made of wood.
Then Su Li quickly struck while the iron was hot and asked her uncle Ma Laosi how much silver it would cost and how long it would take to make a hundred sets.
"That's all for now."
Ma Laosi, who originally thought that it would be fine to do it for free if she didn't ask for too much, was so scared when he heard that she wanted about 100 sets that he no longer dared to ask for money.
"If it's ordinary wood, it's not expensive, 2 cents a set." The wooden bowls outside are about 5 cents each, not to mention that the kind of wood Su Li wants requires more bowls. This price is what Ma Laosi thought about for a long time and found to be the money that can break even. After all, he has to support so many apprentices. If he really doesn't accept them, it would be embarrassing to let them work for nothing.
2 cents is really not expensive. Su Li naturally knew that this was a special care from her uncle Ma Laosi, so she quickly smiled and thanked him, "Thank you, uncle."
Ma Laosi: "What's the big deal?"
"But if you really want to thank someone, then thank your two cousins."
After saying this, Ma Lao Si smiled and looked at his two sons beside him. After all, they were the ones who had to work hard. He was now the master. What did master mean? Didn't it mean that all the hard work was left to the apprentices?
Su Li smiled and said, "Thank you, eldest and second cousins!"
……old…
Be a strong old father.
Apart from his dissatisfaction with his father's shameless behavior, Ma Da had no objection to helping his cousin make wooden bowls. "It's what I should do, Cousin Ali."
Ma Er rolled his eyes and said, "Cousin, you're too insincere. Is it enough to just say thank you?"
Su Li was stunned. "So what does my second cousin mean..."
"At least you have to prepare another table full of delicious food for us..."
"Ah... Dad, why are you hitting me..." Before Ma Er could finish his words, he was hit hard on the back, and the pain made him jump up instantly.
Ma Laosi just gave him a look that clearly said:
Do I need a reason to beat you?
Then he said to Su Li: "Don't listen to your second cousin, he is never serious."
They had no idea what to say and what not to say, or what the appropriate occasions were. When he got home, he would tell his wife and ask her to deal with them.
"Erlang didn't say anything. It's just a meal. What's so difficult about it? I'll do it!" Chen came out to smooth things over when she heard that.
However, as she finished speaking, everyone looked embarrassed, and it even brought back some particularly unforgettable memories for Ma Laosi.
It was the third day after he and his wife were married. According to local custom, they had to go back to his wife's family home for lunch. Coincidentally, his mother-in-law had injured her hand and couldn't cook, so his sister-in-law, Chen, cooked instead. When he saw the dark dish of beans and bacon, Ma Laosi had only one thought: It's over...
As expected, after that meal, Ma Laosi vomited and had diarrhea for three days. From then on, he had a rough estimate of Chen's cooking skills. Although so many years have passed, the food should not be that bad, but Ma Laosi still did not want to go through that kind of pain again.
As for why Ma Da and Ma Er also showed this expression, it was naturally because of their father Ma Lao Si...
"You don't even know what your aunt cooks, I don't even want to tell you..."
Every time Ma Lao Si said he didn't want to say it, but he ended up saying it every time, so much so that Ma Da and Ma Er had a conditioned reflex after hearing it.
They don't want to be like their father and have diarrhea after eating...
Chen naturally didn't know that this was the impression her nephews had on her. She smiled and said, "When the time comes, just tell me what you want to eat and I'll make it for you.
Oh, right, why don’t you make braised chicken someday? It’s good for your health when you’re tired from work. Your cousins used to love the ones I made.”
After these words were spoken, Su Hong and Su Tao, who were sitting at the dinner table, fell silent. Su Li thought for a long time and finally remembered that there was such a thing in her memory. At that time, it seemed that little Su Li was only 4 or 5 years old. Chen did make braised chicken once, but perhaps because of the medicinal materials added to it, the taste was really weird. Not only weird, but also bitter. It was just that the Su family was poor at that time, and they could taste the meat while eating, so Su Hong, Su Qingshan and others all rushed to eat it. Later, when they wanted to eat chicken, they recalled that they had mentioned it to Chen many times. Maybe that was the case, so Chen misunderstood that they liked to eat it.
Mrs. Wu and Old Man Su naturally remembered it, but they were old and could accept many tastes. In their opinion, even Coptis chinensis could not be as bitter as this day.
So they were quite accepting of it, but now that they were used to eating food cooked by their granddaughter, they really couldn't eat food cooked by their daughter-in-law.
So Old Man Su coughed twice and signaled to Mrs. Wu next to him to speak.
Mrs. Wu glared at Old Man Su for a few times before she spoke, "Haha, Qingshan's mother, the tastes that children like to eat are different from those of us older people. Let Wu Ya cook it." Okay, she couldn't make it up anymore...
"Yes, yes!" Su Tao nodded quickly, fearing that her mother would ask her to eat it, and she didn't want to eat it.
Su Hong rarely showed any hesitation and said, "Mom, let Fifth Sister do it."
Just when everyone thought Chen would be unhappy, Chen suddenly smiled and said,
"You really believed it!"
It's not that she was born with a problem with her taste buds and couldn't taste anything. It's just that she was busy at home and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wu, was working outside, so she had to cook. If possible, she wouldn't want to eat the food she cooked, because it was really unpalatable.
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No one expected that Chen said this on purpose to deceive them, and they didn't know what to say.
Su Li never expected that her mother Chen had such a side to her. But for some reason, Su Li felt that this was also good. She was more like a real person, rather than the woman in her memory with dim eyes, a sad face, sighing from time to time, worried about what to eat next, and whether her husband and son would be hurt.
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