Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 147 There is no need to suffer
"Thank you, Teacher Xia. We won't disturb you anymore and we'll go back first." Liu Li said.

After Liu Li and Gao Bowen left, Xia Chan closed the gate and returned home to prepare hot pot for the evening. Xia Qi said thoughtfully, "This Liu Zhiqing is quite polite!"

"Among the educated youth, Liu Li is pretty good, but he has a not-so-good mother. Moreover, she has been here for such a long time, but she has never taken him home. It can be seen that he is either not favored or his family is not very good. Moreover, children from families with bad family traditions are generally not very good. Liu Li is probably in his rebellious period now, so he is different from his parents and cannot stand them. After he has experienced the beatings of society, he will become more and more like his parents. After all, birds of a feather flock together."

Thinking of how Liu Li's mother used all kinds of dirty words to curse Xia Chan in the letter, Xia Chan had no good feelings towards this woman and just cursed her without even finding out the truth.

I guess Liu Li’s partner won’t have an easy life in the future. After all, how can someone who can say those words be a good person?
If you are not satisfied with the person your son has found, you can advise them to break up instead of scolding the girl without any reason. After all, dating is a matter for two people, and a girl cannot get along with a couple on her own!

Of course, Liu Li’s mother scolded Xia Chan, not necessarily because she liked her son. It might be because her son did not bring any help to the family, and she wanted a daughter-in-law who could help the family.

Everyone has their own choices, and her decision is not wrong, but it is wrong to scold someone you have never met.

Liu Li is still very young now, with the innocence and arrogance of a child. When he is in his thirties or forties, he will be a replica of his parents.

Seeing that Xia Chan did not think highly of Liu Li, Xia Qi felt relieved. He did not want Xia Chan to marry far away, and Liu Li did not look like she could take on any responsibilities. His parents were still the head of the family. If Xia Chan married into the family, she would have to listen to her parents-in-law in everything. Why bother?
There was no need for his beloved sister to suffer all this.

Xia Chan went to the big kitchen, lit the fire, poured rapeseed oil into the pot, and after it was heated, added onions, ginger, and garlic and stir-fried them until fragrant. Then she added the hot pot base and, after it was fragrant, poured the bone soup in. When the soup base boiled, she put the hot pot meatballs in.

Then cover the pot and cook it slowly. The hot pot meatballs need to be cooked a little longer to be more flavorful.

Xia Qi sliced ​​about ten pounds of mutton, but there were so many people in their family that Xia Chan suspected it might not be enough. But it didn't matter. If it wasn't enough, they could just eat less and eat more vegetables.

After the brothers finished their work, they went to the big kitchen to eat hotpot. They all stood by the stove holding bowls of dipping sauce while eating hotpot. Even the radish slices that they had long been tired of tasted especially good when dipped in the sauce.

The five brothers and sisters ate up the entire hotpot, even eating the garlic and onions used for seasoning.

"How about keeping the soup and using it to make hot dishes tomorrow?" Xia Qi raised her eyebrows and asked tentatively.

"No need to save it. I'll make it next time if you want to eat it. Besides, Liu Li and Gao Bowen are coming over for dinner tomorrow. It wouldn't be good for them to eat the leftover soup." Xia Chan said. She could let them eat hot pot every day, and the hot pot she made herself was clean, hygienic, and nutritious.

Eat and drink enough to help digest the food, then go to class, wash up, soak your feet, and rest.

The next morning, Xia Chan stewed all the pig offal that he had prepared the day before. One pot was not enough, so he used two pots. He also cut potato slices and radish slices and put them into the stew pot to cook for a while. The taste was very good. Xia Chan also soaked some dried wild vegetables, dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, dried eggplants, and dried winter melons. After all, he had to entertain outsiders for dinner, so he couldn't take out those summer vegetables, so he could only soak some dried vegetables.

Of course, not everyone can afford to eat such dried vegetables.

After the stew is ready, Xia Chan puts it into a casserole or earthenware jar and puts it in the yard to freeze. There is still enough food for today's lunch left in the pot. Then he puts the soaked dried vegetables in and stews them together, allowing the dried vegetables to absorb the soup and make them taste better.

As for the staple food, there are coarse grain steamed buns and cornmeal pancakes. Everything is prepared. Now we just have to wait for Liu Li and Gao Bowen to come. Once they arrive, we can start eating right away.

Liu Li and Gao Bowen arrived at around eleven o'clock, carrying baskets with processed pheasants and rabbits in them. Liu Li said a little embarrassedly, "Teacher Xia, I heard that smoked meat can be preserved longer. When you smoke the bacon, can you help us smoke these as well?"

"Okay, we just happen to have some that need to be smoked." Xia Chan served each of them a bowl of hot stewed soup, "Drink something hot first to warm your body, and we'll eat later."

Gao Bowen took a sip carefully. Although it was very hot, it tasted very good. His eyes lit up. "It tastes good. There is no strange taste at all. Teacher Xia, you have great skills. If we make it ourselves, it would be a waste."

"Since it tastes good, you can eat more later. I've cooked a pot. You're welcome." Xia Chan and his brothers brought the stewed food, steamed buns and pancakes to the table and invited everyone to eat.

The potato slices and radish slices had absorbed enough of the stewed broth, making them very moist. If one was not careful, the broth would flow down the corners of their mouths. Liu Li and Gao Bowen were eating so seriously that they had no time to talk.

In this cold season, eating a bowl of hot stew is the best thing in the world.

"Teacher Xia, thank you." After eating and drinking, Liu Li said a little embarrassedly.

Although this was not the first time I had eaten at Xia Chan's house, it was the first time I lost control like this. The food was so delicious that I couldn't put my chopsticks down.

Perhaps this experience in the countryside will be the most legendary experience in their lives!

Xia Chan smiled and said, "You're welcome. The fact that you guys can finish it all is a recognition of our cooking skills."

Liu Li and Gao Bowen were not such ignorant people. Seeing Xia Chan's brothers cleaning the table, they quickly reached out to help. Xia Chan and the others did not stop them. They couldn't let them develop the bad habit of eating and drinking for free, right?
Is it justifiable to come to someone's house for dinner and not do any work?

After Liu Li and Gao Bowen left, Xia Chan packed up some things and went down the mountain to find Yuan Bingbing at the threshing ground. By this time, the people who came to exchange things should have arrived at the threshing ground a long time ago. She had previously refused Yuan Bingbing's invitation to celebrate the New Year at her home, but she had some things to give to the Yuan family, so she had to let Yuan Bingbing take them back, otherwise people would definitely think that she was taking advantage of Yuan Bingbing.