I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 115 Rotten Peach Blossom

When cooking at home, cooking Laohuo soup takes the most effort. It can take anywhere from half an hour to several hours at most, which is extremely tiring.

Li Xiuju took advantage of the break of making soup to kill the fish to be steamed and pick the vegetables.As soon as the wild loquat lean meat soup comes out of the pot, immediately boil a pot of water, put a fish steaming plate on it, and simmer it with the steaming water for a while. The firm fish meat will burst open, and the tender white fish belly will open up. Put a few pieces on it. Add green onions and pour some hot oil on top, and the fresh flavor of the fish will be brought out immediately.

"Be careful when it's hot." Li Xiuju took out the fish, put it next to the chopping board, and stir-fried the remaining bitter vegetables while it was still hot.

"Okay." Zhou Chenyu held the handkerchief and pinched both sides of the plate. Despite this, the hot heat still seeped into the pulp of his fingers. Huang Dou was so frightened that he ran aside. She hurriedly brought the steamed fish into the house, "Ah, scald it." hot."

"Sister, be careful not to drop it." Baoyu quickly put down the unlit oil lamp as if facing a formidable enemy, pushed aside the bowl on the table, and came out with an empty spot.

Zhou Chenyu put the plate on the table with a bang, and quickly covered his earlobes with the fingers holding the plate, "It burned me to death."

Baoyu laughed for a while, smelling the smell of clay pot, and couldn't help waiting for everyone to gather, so he opened the lid and took a look.

A scent of light coconut fragrance hit my face. When I looked into the pot, I saw a few pieces of lean meat, brown rhizomes and red wolfberries floating at the bottom of the clear soup. There was no scent, and the taste was as bland as a clear soup with little water. .

"This wild loquat is so strange. I'm afraid the chicken won't eat it if it sees it. The cooked taste is so fragrant. I have never seen it before." Baoyu said that he would not eat the chicken. He smelled the fragrance and couldn't help but swallow it. saliva.

Zhou Chenyu thought about the five-finger peach soup he had drunk before, and kept lamenting who was the first to invent five-finger peach soup. He did not expect that someone would already use this good thing at this time.

Li Xiuju blew out the light wick in the kitchen and brought a plate of bitter vegetables to the table. She usually ate alone at home and just dealt with it casually. But now that her children are at home, her appetite and mood have improved.

"Come on, come on, the vegetables are cooked and it's time to eat."

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, the moon on the courtyard wall is like a silver disk hanging in the sky. The bright moonlight spreads to the ground, and the empty courtyard is like a layer of silver foil on the altar.

When all the food was put on the table, Baoyu couldn't wait to grab the spoon, ladle out three bowls of soup, and rubbed her hands excitedly: "It's great to be able to drink the soup cooked by my mother as soon as I come back."

Li Xiuju looked at the wild loquat lean meat soup she made for the first time and found it to be a success.

She smiled, "Mom drank it once at Hongmei's and really liked the taste. I just don't know if you guys like it or not."

"It smells delicious just from the smell. Needless to say, I definitely like it." Baoyu held the bowl in both hands and drank most of it.

Zhou Chenyu looked at the clear soup in the bowl. There was a layer of oil floating on it. The smell wafting out had a faint coconut aroma and a bit of Chinese herbal medicine. She lifted the bowl and put it to her mouth. The clear soup entered her mouth, just like in her memory. The Wuzhi Maotao Soup I drank was almost exactly the same.

She even wanted to suspect that she had never left the land where she grew up, but that she had just changed time and space and a group of people she got along with.

Zhou Chenyu drank the taste of his hometown and felt that he was both unlucky and lucky. He really didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"Mom thought you would be coming back a few days later. There is still some meat left at home. You and your brother share it. You don't have to keep it until tomorrow. By the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the chickens we raised can be slaughtered, and there are still some wild loquats left. Let's eat them. Let the chicken make soup again.”

Li Xiuju scooped out the meat from the soup and divided it into Zhou Chenyu's and Baoyu's bowls, not intending to keep any of it for herself.

Zhou Chenyu calmed down and remembered Hongmei's reminder. He quickly moved the bowl and asked the old lady, "What did you eat when Baoyu and I were not at home?" Baoyu grabbed the spoon and said, "Yes, mother. , what did you eat at home?"

Li Xiuju glanced at them and took a piece of fresh fish to eat, "You stay in the mountains and have nothing to eat, so why do you care what I eat?"

"Why don't you care? When we are not at home, you always make do with some vegetables. If this continues, how can your body and bones bear it?" Baoyu grasped the chopsticks tightly and could not eat the meat in the bowl.

"We grow a garden of vegetables in our backyard, and every now and then a pork guy comes to sell meat. It's both vegetables and meat. Isn't it better than you eating some dried fish and dried vegetables? Mom eats much better than you, so don't worry about me." Li Xiuju He has a clear explanation, but he still refuses to admit it.

Zhou Chenyu scooped the meat into her bowl. Li Xiuju wanted to move the bowl, but she threatened with a smile, "If there is meat and vegetables in every meal, we will find out when the pork guy comes."

Baoyu woke up with a start, "Sister is right, I have to go to the market tomorrow and ask my mother what you have bought in the past ten days."

Li Xiuju knew that she couldn't hide those things, so she put the meat into the bowl half-pushingly, and said helplessly: "You are old, and I, an old lady, can't hide from your eyes no matter what I do."

"It's good that you know." Zhou Chenyu said with a smile, "So from now on when Baoyu and I are not at home, you should eat and drink as you should, so don't save money for us."

After saying that, she picked out a good piece of fish maw and put it into Li Xiuju's bowl.

"Enough, enough, the bowl will be full if you put it in again." Li Xiuju hurriedly reached out to stop it, and Zhou Chenyu had no choice but to put it into his bowl.

Li Xiuju looked at the bowl full of meat and suddenly remembered, "By the way, you said when you came back that you also rescued someone. Who was it?"

Zhou Chenyu picked up the fish bones and had no time to talk. Baoyu explained everything about his encounter with Yang Xi.

After hearing this, Li Xiuju's happy face suddenly turned cold, and she looked at Zhou Chenyu nervously, "Are you injured?"

Zhou Chenyu didn't know why, "Baoyu said, it was Yang Xi who was injured, not me."

"That's not what Mom said." Li Xiuju frowned, "What Mom meant is that you two are alone, and he didn't do anything extraordinary, right?"

"He's injured like that, what he can do..." Only then did Zhou Chenyu understand what Li Xiuju meant, and the corners of his mouth raised and then dropped, "How dare he hurt me?"

Li Xiuju breathed a sigh of relief, "There is no best. You are taking too many risks. How dangerous is it for a woman to live alone with a man under the same roof? Don't do this again."

Baoyu turned around after listening to the back and forth, and said anxiously: "Mom, Team Leader Yang is not such a bad person!"

Seeing that Baoyu was angry, Li Xiuju explained tactfully: "You are still young, how can you understand the affairs between men and women? There are many people who know people and know faces but don't know what they know. It's always good to be cautious."

"Then you can't just accuse someone unjustly! Ban Yang has helped my sister and me several times before, how could he do such a dirty and shameless thing?" Baoyu replied dissatisfied.

"Yes, you are all right." Zhou Chenyu lowered his head and picked at the fishbone with a guilty conscience, not daring to admit that he was the dirty and shameless female hooligan.

(End of this chapter)