Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 73 How can mother be a burden?

After cutting the noodles, it’s time to make the soup.

Eggs, tofu, onions, garlic, shepherd's purse cut into small pieces, coriander, and diced pork are all ready.

"Zi La!~"

As the pork rotates slightly in the pot, a rich aroma is emitted, announcing that a pot of fragrant soup is about to begin.

The most essential part of this soup is the cooked spicy oil.

Originally, all the other dishes had been added, and enough water was added for the noodles. As the blazing flames heated up the stove, the soup in the pot continued to boil, and the tofu and diced meat also jumped up and down. It already smells great, but I feel like there's still something missing.

At this time, Li Muyang used a spoon to dig out a spoonful of dark red cooked oily spicy seeds and put it into the soup. As the spoon continued to stir, the cooked oily spicy seeds quickly dispersed.

Like red ripples, or like a fiery red flower blooming in the rolling hot soup, the red oil spread quickly and soon dyed the entire soup pot red.

After a few seconds, the pale soup turned into spicy red soup.

The unique aroma of chili oil began to spread in the kitchen, making Li Muyang's nose itchy and making him want to sneeze, but the taste was very good, instantly igniting and awakening people's sense of taste.

Li Muyang added some cold water to the pot and quickly swirled the beaten eggs evenly into the soup.

After the eggs fall into the water, they slowly turn into egg slices and float to the surface of the soup.

The golden soup slices made his mouth water. Li Muyang took a greedy sip and swallowed the saliva with satisfaction.

It's delicious.

Eggs in this era are really very yellow.

It is completely different from the so-called free-range eggs bought in supermarkets in later generations. They are bright yellow when opened, and the egg whites are several times more than the egg yolks. When they are beaten into the oil pan, they will splash water. Even three or four eggs cannot be fried to make a dish.

Finally, sprinkle some more MSG.

Add a little soy sauce and a splash of vinegar.

Live together.

Hold the ears of the pot and transfer the soup to the back pot, then cook the noodles.

"Qinqin~"

"Hey~"

"Clear the kang and get ready for dinner."

"Okay~"

When cooking long noodles, make sure the water is very boiling.

Long noodles are thin and thin. They will cook when they see a little water. If they are cooked for too long, they will break.

If the breakage is serious, it will not only waste the time of rolling the dough, but also be unlucky.

A handful of noodles was enough for three bowls. After Li Muyang put the noodles and soup for his mother, he added some boiled water.

Mother cannot eat too much salt.

But because she is a girl from Sichuan, she likes to eat chili peppers. If she doesn't eat some chili peppers, she always feels like there is no taste in her mouth.

Li Muyang had no choice but to follow her.

Due to the size limit of the pot, it can only be eaten in batches. The greedy sister and mother eat the first batch first, and he waits until he eats the second pot.

Five minutes later, Li Muyang sat on the threshold with his rice bowl and sucked the first mouthful of noodles into his mouth against the gentle mountain wind. He felt a sincere sense of happiness.

smell good!
Such a comfortable wind.

What a pleasant life.

How perfect it would be if every day of life could be like this...

Oh no.

It's not perfect yet. He doesn't have a wife or children yet. If Lin Xiuli is sitting next to him at this moment, that would be real comfort.

"woooooooo~"

"Woooo!"

"Woooo!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of barking from the side.

He turned around and saw "Little Happiness" in the basket, staring at the noodles in his bowl and whining non-stop.

Apparently, he was starving.

He originally wanted to get up immediately and mix the dog with some food, but then he thought about it.

Leave it alone.

Hungry first.

You can't starve to death even if you don't eat for a few minutes.

If his noodles were left out for a few minutes, they would become soaked and lose the chewy texture that long noodles should have.

"Wait."

He shouted to Coyotito.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Xiao Xingfu obviously did not accept his idea.

He didn't bother to pay attention to it.

You can't let a dog take advantage of you, right?

He waited until he finished three large bowls of spicy red noodles. He ate the last bite of garlic with satisfaction and let out a big burp. Then he stood up, stretched, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and helped Coyotito mix some dog food. .In rural areas, especially in rural areas in this era, it is absolutely impossible for dogs to eat meat. If they want to eat bones, they have to wait at least until the Chinese New Year.

On weekdays, they mainly eat human leftovers.

If you can use the bran to boil some food, it is already a good treatment.

But in fact, if a dog keeps eating hot food, he will have a bad temper and bite easily.

Therefore, dogs in rural areas are basically very ferocious and will bite people when they see them. This is the reason.

A cracked bowl was filled with dog food and placed in front of little Xingfu. He sniffed it, looked up at Li Muyang, and let out a "woo woo" sound.

It seems that he is not very satisfied with this dog food.

Just now, I clearly smelled the aroma of meat in Li Muyang's bowl, but when I came here, I couldn't see any meaty smell at all.

Being treated differently hurts the soul.

Li Muyang was too lazy to pay attention to it.

"You still dislike the taste. You have forgotten your origins. If I hadn't brought you back, you would still be a stray dog. You are ungrateful and just stare at the meat in my bowl..."

He turned around and entered the kitchen angrily, "You're still picky. I'm almost going to eat this. As a dog, you can't forget your roots."

He went in and put out the fire on the pot, went to his mother's room, and rushed Li Xiangqin to wash the dishes. He lay down on the kang, ready to take a short rest.

"You must be tired, Wu. Just let Qinqin do the cooking. You have been busy outside for so long and you don't know how to rest more."

Li Muyang turned around and smiled in the direction of his mother: "I'm not tired. I can wear myself down from work. My health is good. Look at where I look even slightly tired?"

Yuan Rufeng has been taking close care of her daughter for more than 20 days, constantly helping her loosen up and move her body. It seems that her arms are stronger than before.

She tremblingly stretched out her only movable right hand, placed it on Li Muyang's head, touched it, and gently helped him comb his messy hair.

"Son, how can you not be tired when you get up early and stay up late every day? Humans are either animals or animals. If it is too tired, you can't stop it. Look at you, you seem to have lost weight recently. ."

"Have you lost weight?"

Li Muyang didn't feel anything.

The conditions at home are limited, and there is no full-length mirror for him to look at, but looking at the mirror he bought for his sister, it seems that there is no change in his face.

It could be the mother's delusion.

Mothers in the world are the only ones who don’t worry about their children getting fat.

The most common thing they say is why they have lost weight again...

Even if you are too fat to be seen in public, and others will laugh at your fatness, your mother will still tell you that there is nothing wrong with being fatter, and if you are fatter, you will have more energy. If the "earth arrows" come, they still won't be able to blow you away.

Anyway, they always have various reasons.

The only criterion for finding a reason is whether the reason is beneficial to your child.

Li Muyang chatted casually with his mother for a while. Thinking of what happened the day after tomorrow, he said to his mother: "Mom, I made some money selling cordyceps during this period. I want to take you to a big hospital in the city to check your health..."

"I dont go."

Yuan Rufeng immediately interrupted her son's words and said categorically, "Why are you wasting that money? I'm going to die. Don't waste your hard-earned money. It's better to save your money to find a wife."

"I'm looking for a daughter-in-law, and I also want to see if your illness is correct. If I marry a daughter-in-law and have a child, and my daughter-in-law can't bring her here alone, can't you take care of me?"

Li Muyang did not follow his mother's words.

He doesn't follow the usual path.

He knew that if he continued to comfort his mother, her mother would only become more and more resistant, cementing her belief that she was wasting her money.

Instead, he struck her and caught her off guard based on her responsibilities.

It's the plank road built openly and the warehouse secretly built in Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Sure enough, when Li Muyang said this, Yuan Rufeng immediately became unsteady and hurriedly defended: "It's not that mother doesn't want to help you look after it. Although mother has more than a dozen grandchildren, they all feel distressed, but your children and I I didn’t see one, and I want to help you take care of it..."

"That's it. Mom, you can only help me if you get well. Don't you love your son or your grandson?"

"What are you talking about, kid?"

Yuan Rufeng said speechlessly, "What mother doesn't love her children?"

"That's it. Don't worry about the money. I will definitely find a way. Besides, money is meant to be spent, and it's not a waste to treat your mother!"

Li Muyang sat up and said with a smile: "Mom, I told a few of them that we will discuss your medical treatment together tomorrow night. You must express your position then and you can't tear me down!"

"What are you talking about? Mom doesn't understand."

"That is to say, during the discussion tomorrow night, no matter what your brothers' opinions are, just say that you still want to recover a little bit. At least you can sit up or control eating, drinking, and diarrhea."

Li Muyang paused slightly and said with a wry smile: "Mom, you know my temper. I told you that I would give you good medical treatment. Even those ten cows can't be evacuated.

You have to support me now and stand on the same front with me, so that I will suffer less. If you are like this when we are chatting, you will be roasted on the flames. "

Yuan Rufeng understood this time.

She looked at Li Muyang distressedly, her cloudy eyes filled with tears. She stretched out her hand again, put it on the back of her son's hand, and patted it gently.

"Son, you have worked so hard for me to be my mother's son in this life. My mother must have done good deeds and accumulated great merits for several lifetimes to have such a filial son like you. With your heart, even if my mother is gone today, her eyes will also be gone. It’s all closed with a smile.”

Li Muyang smiled gently and put his mother's hand back.

"Mom, I didn't suffer at all. Dad died early. You raised me and taught me so many principles of life. You have done enough.

Don't think that your poor health is a burden to me. Let me tell you, it is precisely because you are here that I feel like I am still a child every day, and my heart is at ease..."

When Li Muyang said this, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

Can't go on.

(End of this chapter)