jdhmnovel Chapter 122 What's the shock? Just eat
Chapter 122 What's the shock? Just eat
Because the people in the fields were busy planting sweet potato seedlings and came back late, lunch was past lunchtime.
At this time, every family in Wangyou Valley was preparing lunch, and the fragrance was wafting through the valley.
When the villagers were fleeing famine, they discovered that Li Lanzhen's family only ate three meals a day, no matter how simple the food was.
People still don’t understand why we still have to eat three meals a day when food is so scarce.
But Li Lanzhen's words made them understand what it meant: man is iron and rice is steel, and if he doesn't eat for a meal he will be very hungry.
Li Lanzhen said, "You need to eat three meals a day, morning, noon and night. Especially breakfast should be eaten well and full, so that you have energy to run all day. A good meal at noon can refuel your tired body after the morning's work. At night, you can drink something liquid to relieve your stomach and intestines, so that you can sleep comfortably.
Over the years, your body will get better.
We live to grow crops and earn money, to make our lives better."
When we settled down in Wangyou Valley, we were surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there was even more food in the mountains, so every household had fixed three meals a day.
After Li Lanzhen and her family came back and washed up, the children couldn't wait. They ran into the kitchen to look for their own bowls, shaking their hands without even wiping the water off.
Because it smelled so good, they knew they would have meat to eat today.
The kitchen was built in the open space in front of Li Lanzhen's home and her parents' home.
A half-meter deep trench was dug underground, and wooden stakes were driven into it. It was also covered with a wooden shovel, and then a layer of straw mat and a layer of mud were polished until it was smooth, and then another layer of straw mat was laid on top.
There is a three-burner stone stove in the kitchen, with three large pots on it, which is enough for boiling water, cooking and rice.
There were many people, including many children. When the meal started, everyone squatted in front of the cave with their bowls in hand and ate quickly.
The dining scene was very spectacular and Li Lanzhen would laugh every time she saw it.
Later, Zhang Deshui proposed to build a thatched hut specifically for eating.
The men and children in the family began to chop wood and prepare stones.
Next to the kitchen, a dining room-like shed was built.
It is rectangular, with four walls built with wooden piles. The roof on top is the same as the one for the kitchen, and the four walls are also covered with thatch and mud.
Li Lanzhen suggested to her father Li Erhan that he should make a rectangular dining table and long strips of stools.
So, they all had a decent kitchen and a very stylish dining room.
Families with larger populations in the village also followed their example and built a kitchen and dining room outside their caves.
The men washed their hands and went into the dining room.
The children and the women went into the kitchen and brought out pots of steaming dishes with charming aromas and brought them into the dining room.
Li Lanzhen asked them to cook two bowls of rice.
Each person was served a large bowl of rice.
Then the dishes started to be served, and all the dishes were served in bowls.
The basins are about the size of a washbasin and are all made of wood.
The first things brought in were two pots of braised winter melon and jar meat. The winter melon was crystal clear after being braised, and the jar meat was soft and rotten.
The children's eyes seemed to be fixed on these two pots of meat.
Next came a pot of spicy and sour potato shreds, a pot of fried tomatoes with eggplant and chili, a pot of cold cucumber and chili, and the most luxurious of all, a pot of tomato cubes mixed with white sugar.
This dish was made by Li Lanzhen herself. She cut a basin of tomatoes and mixed them with handfuls of white sugar as if they were free.
Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Li were all dumbfounded. When Li Lanzhen looked over, they immediately turned their heads away, lowered their heads and did their own things, as if nothing had happened.
Li Lanzhen felt very amused. These two people must have thought she was crazy.
White sugar was sprinkled into the tomatoes as if it was free, but she just wanted to eat the tomatoes mixed with sugar!
There were five courses, and at the end was a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup.
When all the dishes were served, each person had a bowl of rice, and everyone was present and took their seats.
Xue Nizi looked at the children who were sitting together, put her hands on her hips, stared at them, pointed at them, and began the lecture she would give every time they ate something delicious.
"I'm telling you guys, just eat your own food, fill your stomach, lick your mouth, and don't say anything when you leave, or else you'll just have to watch others eat. Do you hear me?!"
The children all nodded, but their eyes were fixed on the bowl of sugar-coated tomatoes!
Li Lanzhen sighed inwardly and said to her,
"Well, you should sit down too. We are all smart kids. He keeps yelling, 'We'll have meat today and broth the next,' and he's trying to get others to come to his house and eat it."
Sanniu immediately stood up and said, "Grandma Lanzhen, we are all smart and we won't say anything.
That day, Grandpa Xue caught pheasants and wild rabbits. We ate them. When we went up the mountain in the afternoon, they all asked us what we had eaten. Our mouths were greasy.
I said, I won’t tell you, we eat chicken at home!”
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.
Xue Nizi was so angry that she glared and stomped her feet. Just when she was about to deal with him, she didn't expect that there was someone who was faster than her.
Li Sanya was so angry that she grabbed her little son's ear.
"Sanniu! You are so stupid. Just now Grandma Lanzhen said you were smart. Look at you. What are you smart about? You even told others that we ate chicken!"
Li Lanzhen waved her hands and said, "Alright, alright, just eat chicken. Who hasn't eaten chicken? Who hasn't eaten chicken? That only means he is incompetent. There are pheasants and rabbits all over the mountain. Didn't your Uncle Xue and Snow Leopard tell every family how to catch wild animals? They still can't catch pheasants and rabbits, so their women and children can't eat meat. That means they are incompetent!"
The children nodded in agreement!
They said in unison, "Yes, yes, yes, our uncles, dads, and brothers are all very capable. We eat meat every day, huh!"
Li Lanzhen said, "Okay, let's eat quickly!"
Li Lanzhen first used a spoon to scoop some braised winter melon meat into the bowls of Ye and Li Erhan respectively.
Seeing that the two elderly people had already started eating, everyone used the spoon in the vegetable bowl to scoop the food into their own bowls and started eating.
Li Lanzhen watched as the children's eyes were fixed on the sugar-coated tomatoes without moving their chopsticks.
Han Yinan asked first, "Grandma, what kind of dish is this?"
Only then did Li Lanzhen realize that in the dynasty they lived in, there were no tomatoes, no winter melons, and other vegetables.
I told them, "This is a kind of tomato that grows in the mountains. It can be eaten as a vegetable or as a fruit. Grandma mixed it with sugar. It tastes sweet and sour. It's hot in the summer, so you can eat more."
Li Lanzhen thought at this moment that it was thanks to her that she had told Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Zhang how to cook these dishes, otherwise they would have been wasted.
When the children heard that it was mixed with white sugar, they all wanted to have a bite first.
Xue Nizi first scooped half a spoonful of tomatoes mixed with sugar into each child’s bowl.
Then he scooped half a spoonful into each adult's bowl.
Seeing how inconvenient it was to pick up food in this way, Lan really regretted that he should have asked his father to make a big round table with a turntable in the middle.
I thought to myself, well, let's just leave it like this for now, it's good enough. I'll wait until next year when things are stable, the grain has been harvested, and I can have enough to eat.
This meal makes the adults satisfied and the children happy!