Otoharu

Chapter 398 Snake Soup
The whole family didn't eat well, so Mrs. Li told Chuan'er when she got home, "Go and tell Baozi, it doesn't matter what, just get it out quickly so that you can fill your stomach."

Jiang asked her husband, "Did you eat something at the banquet?"

Li Yan said, "It is said that the chef of Baiweilou is in charge, but the dishes are cold, so I drank a few glasses of wine."

Mrs. Li said, "It's better for our small family to set up two seats in the house and have a lively meal. Not to mention the benefits, it's also delicious. His family is an official family, and the pomp is big, that's it." The seats are not very solid. As far as I can see, I didn't eat well."

Chuan'er came back from the kitchen with a bowl of hangover soup, and said, "I haven't prepared the steamed stuffed bun yet, I'm in a hurry to steam the rice right now, so I'm afraid we'll have to wait."

Li Yan didn't drink much wine, but he was also hungry, so he drank half a cup of hangover soup, frowned sourly, and said, "Go outside and order a table of wine and food."

"That's different, you have to wait." Mrs. Li poured a glass of warm water, "I'm waiting for a good year, but I still have to go hungry."

Mrs. Jiang ordered Chuan'er, "Go outside and buy two biscuits and come back, at least I'll put a cushion first." The main reason is that I don't have the experience of going to this big family for a banquet, and now it's late, the old and the young haven't eaten well, You can't just wait like this.

Li Meier thought, the food that this family eats will be ordered by Baozi immediately, and she can't do it alone, so she said, "Bone soup is warmed on the small stove all the year round, I'll go and have a look, first order some noodle soup, everyone Warm up your body."

Mrs. Jiang nodded, "Let's go." No matter what, as long as there is something to eat, it's noon and everyone is hungry.Li Meier went to the kitchen. It was summer and there were still a lot of vegetables in the vegetable field. Li Meier went to pick some cucumbers and carrots, and cut some sauced meat and ham. Together with Madam Lin and Baozi, the three of them started. Sliced ​​cucumbers and shredded ham were cooked in bone broth.

After a short time, I fried four dishes, one vinegared cabbage, one vegetarian fried carrot, one egg yolk pumpkin, and then peeled a green onion, put six eggs on it and spread two egg pancakes. After the vegetables were fried, the soup was ready. Go in and serve it piping hot.

Mrs. Li said to Baozi, "If you rely on you alone, it will be difficult for the young and old in the family to eat."

Baozi smiled embarrassedly, "I didn't prepare it this time, so I cooked some hangover soup and prepared it. In the past, I have never missed a meal."

At other times, I eat very well when I go to banquets, and I drink some sober soup at most when I come back.It seems that this time the family, old and young, went to the banquet and came back hungry.

In fact, the Li family was frugal, and unless they had three meals a day, they seldom prepared cooked food on the stove.

Chuan'er also came back with hot biscuits, and everyone sat down and had a meal and finally filled their stomachs.

Only when the stomach is full will I have the strength to talk about the Lu family's birthday banquet. The adults are fine. At this age, no matter how far or close the relationship is, they will always take care of themselves.Brother Jiang Shanqing and Kang are also okay, Brother Kang said, "We met Brother Ajian at the banquet, and he took good care of us."

Li Meier encountered the most difficulties here. She told about Lin Lin, "I don't know what's wrong with this Lin Lin. She always troubles me. I gave her a few words, and I kindly said something to her later." I caught the snake for her, but she still slandered me for bringing the snake, it was really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, and I didn’t know good people, so I simply threw the snake back to her.”

"Is the Lin family the county magistrate's brother-in-law? I have met the county magistrate Lin a few times. He is very arrogant, and his reputation in the county government is not very good." Said a few words tactfully.

"No wonder you have such a tricky daughter. You don't have to be polite when you see her again in the future. Our family is not easy to provoke. Don't think that we are afraid of her because of the county lord. When your father wins the Jinshi exam, the official will definitely be better than her." The magistrate is even bigger." Mrs. Li is not that kind of bunny, she is also very unhappy when her granddaughter is being bullied.

"Grandmother, I know, I'm not such a soft persimmon waiting to be squeezed." Li Meier waved her small fist as she spoke, looking very sturdy.

Mrs. Li suddenly remembered the box that Mrs. Lu gave Li Meier, and urged her: "Didn't Mrs. Lu give you a box, so you can only open it when you get home, take it out and see what's inside." She The old man thought, if it was really something valuable, she would have to help the girl put it away properly.

Li Mei'er almost forgot about this, and as soon as Mrs. Li reminded her, she immediately asked Wanzi to fetch the box.

Under the extremely curious gazes of the whole family, Li Meier opened the box. As soon as the box was opened, Jiang almost jumped, grabbed Li Yan's arm and took a few steps back.

It was also Li Meier who had good concentration and courage. Looking at the cauliflower snake in the box, which was obviously out of breath, her expression suddenly became more constipated.

"What's the matter with Mrs. Lu? How can you give someone a dead snake? Isn't this trying to make someone feel bad!" Mrs. Li was so angry that she almost brought the snake to Lu's house to argue.

"It wasn't from Mrs. Lu." Jiang Shanqing had already reached out and took out a note from the box, and saw that it read: Give Miss Li a bowl of snake soup, and Sun Zhongyuan will give it to you.

Li Meier also saw the words on the note, and she figured it out after a little thought. I'm afraid he caught the snake by himself, and what he said to Wang Ru later was seen by Sun Zhongyuan, so he sent the snake over. .

"Sun Zhongyuan probably gave it to me in the name of Mrs. Lu because he was afraid that I would not accept his things." Li Meier was a little dumbfounded, holding the snake and really didn't know what to do.

"Since he has good intentions, let's not disappoint." Jiang Shanqing said with a playful tone, with a smile on his lips but no smile in his eyes.

Li Meier gave him a strange look, but didn't say anything, and asked Wanzi to take the snake to the kitchen, and cook it in the evening.

That night, the Li family had a meal of snake soup.Except for Mrs. Jiang who didn't eat it, everyone else, young and old, big and small, ate it with relish.

It doesn’t need to be too complicated, the snake can be called fat. After peeling and removing the internal organs, take a piece of ham and shred it, put it in the pot with the snake and stew it. There is no special seasoning in it, just tangerine peel, rice wine, and salt That's it, when it's cooked, it's really delicious and fragrant.

Don't listen to people saying that the ancients didn't eat this or that, and the supplies were limited, so the ancients ate everything.Anyway, a small family like the Li family can eat and drink without worrying about food and drink now, but they are also super frugal. Of course, the current family situation does not allow them to eat mice as Mrs. Li said when she was a child, but there are really not many things to avoid.

Like Jiang Shi, she has a natural temperament and was not born in a poor family.In most households, you can really eat anything you can eat.And, no half wasted.

(End of this chapter)