Chapter 3 My sister-in-law will come to visit the day after tomorrow

Author: Fried Chicken Family Bucket

Chapter 3 My sister-in-law will come to visit the day after tomorrow

After playing around with the two of them, Xu An once again told them that they could only play in the yard, and even if they knew people they had to talk to him before they could open the door, he went out with a vegetable basket and a knife.

This time the destination is the vegetable garden at home.

Each of the four members of the Xu family was allocated eight acres of land, adding up to a total of 3.2 acres of land.

However, there are many young and old in this family, and Xu An, the only one who can work as a strong laborer, still needs to go to school, so these lands are rented to private owners for planting, with a rent of 300 per acre per year.

The vegetable garden we are going to now was cultivated and built by Grandma Xu by the river. Other families in the village also cultivated vegetable gardens by the river. One after another, they used bamboo fences to separate their vegetable gardens.

According to the memory in his mind, Xu An found his vegetable garden.

At a glance, Xu An was petrified, and finally understood why grandma didn't answer his question.

Grandma did not plant green beans this year, but instead planted eggplants!

Memories that are too old are indeed unreliable.

After sighing with emotion, Xu An quickly gave up all kinds of distracting thoughts and focused on what to eat for lunch.

"Anzi is picking vegetables."

Xu An, who was seriously thinking about what to cook, was interrupted by a greeting. He looked back and saw that it was his neighbor Aunt Hong.

Aunt Hong is the same as in the memory, with neat short hair, her eyes are crooked as if she is smiling when she speaks, and a sense of intimacy washes over her face.

Aunt Hong’s original name is Han. She is called Aunt Hong because she wears red tops all year round. The styles may be different, but the color is always red.

"Aunt Hong."

"I just received a call from your sister-in-law, saying that she will come to visit your grandma the day after tomorrow. If you need anything then, come and see me." Aunt Han warned with some worry, feeling sorry for the Xu An family in her heart.

Xu An's sister-in-law was a good person when she was a girl, but since she got married, her personality has become weirder every year.

In the past, when Xu's father and Xu's mother were still here, she was quite honest. But in the past two years, she had become more and more noisy. Every time she came back, she would quarrel with Grandma Xu until she was red-faced and broke up unhappy.

"Okay, luckily Aunt Hong made the trip herself."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a few words, and then Aunt Hong left.

Xu An inspected the vegetable garden, picked two eggplants that would be a little old tomorrow, put them on two green peppers, and went back with the vegetable basket.

When I got home, I saw two little ones playing in the sand obediently, so I didn't bother them and went straight to the kitchen to start cooking the lunch meal.

In my previous life, after graduating from college and working, I took Xiaokang Xiaole back to live with him. Practice makes perfect, and he developed a good cooking skills.

Not to mention the expensive and complicated dishes with delicacies from mountains and seas, most people who have eaten ordinary home-cooked dishes will give it a thumbs up.

The first thing to deal with is bone soup. After buying the bones, I put them in a basin and soaked them in cold water. They have been soaking for exactly an hour now, and there is a layer of blood floating on the bottom of the basin.

Take out the bones and put them into the pressure cooker. Pour out all the blood and water. Add clean water from the well and pour it into the pot.

I found red dates and wolfberries in the seasoning section, cut three slices of ginger into it, added a little salt, covered it and set it aside.

Xu An does not have a gas stove at home, but still uses a traditional wood stove, and a briquette stove for making soup.

Honeycomb briquettes cost 40 cents each. Each time you use one, you can burn it for three hours, which is just enough time to cook a pot of soup. It is much cheaper than using gas.

Take out the iron pliers, pick out the two briquettes on the top and put them aside for later use. Take out the burnt briquettes at the bottom and throw them away, and then put back the two briquettes pinched out from the front.

Take leaves and other flammable materials from the sack on the side and put them on fire. Then add small branches on top. When the honeycomb briquettes are lit, take out new honeycomb briquettes and place them on top. Set up the pressure cooker and the soup is ready.

Cut the eggplant into small pieces, marinate with a little salt and squeeze out the water.

Take out a piece of meat with some fat, chop it finely, put half of it on a plate, and keep the remaining half to make minced meat and eggplant.

Xu An called out to the yard, and Xu Kang and Xu Le rushed to the kitchen. One person fetched firewood, and the other set up firewood for the fire. They cooperated in an orderly manner, and they looked like veterans at first glance.

Heat up the oil in an ancestral iron pot. When the oil is 80% hot, add the eggplant. Fry the eggplant until wilted and soft, then add the minced meat and stir-fry together.

When the minced meat changes color, you usually add bean paste, but if you don’t have this seasoning at home, you can only mix it with green pepper and black bean paste.

To be honest, Grandma Xu is good at growing vegetables and doing housework, but she is not good at cooking. Her cooking skills are probably enough to make her full but not bad.

Therefore, there are usually only three types of seasonings at home: oil, salt and soy sauce.

After the green pepper shreds have softened, add soy sauce and salt. Once the saltiness is right, take it out of the pot and finish it.

Clean the iron pot, measure twice the amount of rice, wash it, pour it into the pot, and add water to cover it up to the second joint of the fingers on the back of your hand.

Set up the bamboo partition, put in the seasoned meatloaf plate, cover the pot, and wait for the rice to be cooked.

After finishing their work, Xu An asked the two of them to go outside and play for a while. The rice would take more than ten minutes to be cooked, and it would need to be simmered for a while before it would taste better.

But the two of them didn't want to go out, so they took a deep breath in front of the minced meat and eggplant on the stove.

"Brother, it tastes like meat. It tastes so fragrant and fragrant."

"Brother, this smells so delicious. I will eat two bowls of rice in a while!"

"Okay, eat more so you can grow taller quickly."

"Can you grow as tall as my brother?"

Xu An glanced at Xu Le. As a girl, if she grows to 1.8 meters, she would be too tall. Although she thought so in her heart, she echoed: "You can grow taller than your brother if you eat two bowls of rice every day."

Hey."

"How tall is it if you are taller than your brother?"

"He's just taller than my brother."

"Brother, I also want to eat two bowls of rice. I am taller than my brother."

"Okay, you will all grow taller than your brother from now on."

In the last life, the two of them had been training each other for four years at the sister-in-law's house. Even if Xu An intended to supplement nutrition for the two of them, neither of them could be higher than Xu An.

Xu Le is 1.62 meters tall and Xu Kang is 1.73 meters tall.

Xu Le's height is considered average among girls, not short.

But compared to his peers who are generally over 1.8 meters tall, Xu Kang is actually a bit short.

Xu's father and Xu's mother are 178 and 168. They were considered tall in their generation. With this gene, as long as they have adequate nutrition, Xu Le should be able to grow to 1.7 meters and Xu Kang to 1.85 meters.

Let’s aim for this for now.

Cooking rice in a wood-fired stove is very fragrant, but it also requires skill. When you can hear a slight "squeaking" sound from the pot, you should immediately turn off the firewood and let the remaining heat in the stove continue to heat.

Take out the firewood and start the pot in about ten minutes. You can usually get a perfect rice dumpling at this time.

Sprinkle with sugar, fold the rice cake into several pieces, and serve. It is a tempting snack.

On weekdays, lunch is eaten on the square table in the living room, but now that Grandma Xu has difficulty walking, Xu An used two wooden stools to prop up a board and placed it in front of Grandma Xu's bed, and moved a few stools to make it simple.

The dining table is completed.

Perhaps the food cooked by Xu An was delicious. Not only did Xu Kang and Xu Le eat two large bowls, but even Grandma Xu rarely added half a bowl of rice.

After eating, Xu Kang and Xu Le slumped down on chairs, lifted up their clothes and asked Xu An and Grandma Xu to look at their bulging bellies.

"Brother, the meat is delicious. I feel so big and full."

"Brother, I like eating meat. Pigs are so cute."

"Two greedy cats, let's continue eating meat tonight."

Grandma Xu watched the interaction between the three people and hesitated several times. In the end, she didn't say anything. She just looked at the meat on the table and felt a dull pain in her heart.

Today’s post-00s and post-10s generation are really tall, like giants.
Chapter completed!