Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 83 Snake Soup
Father Qiao nodded perfunctorily, "Well, it's later."

Sun Ying didn't ask any further questions. Seeing Qiao's mother carry a basket and Qiao Miwei into the kitchen, he said with a smile, "Now there's no one to stay outside, so I'm looking forward to eating all day long."

"Today, I have good food and good things." Father Qiao said mysteriously.

Sun Ying asked, "What good stuff?"

Father Qiao shook his head and waved his hand to stop Sun Ying who wanted to enter the kitchen, "You will know when you are eating, so don't go in and see it now." Not good.

Sun Ying smiled and said, "Okay, if you don't look at it, don't look at it. By the way, uncle, I just shoveled the snow and went to the army to have a look. I met a soldier who told me that Qin Zhiyuan's elder brother in the army is here. His brother It seems to have ordered them not to let us fetch water for our house.”

Father Qiao frowned when he heard this, and felt a little puzzled. Qin Zhiyuan hadn't come to their house recently, and he thought Xiao Qin was busy. Now that he heard that they didn't even give water to their house, Father Qiao suddenly felt something was wrong. , Could it be that Xiao Qin doesn't want to take care of their family anymore?Or it could be that Xiao Qin doesn't mean that much to Wei Wei?

For a while, Father Qiao's feelings were quite complicated. On the one hand, he felt that his daughter was good at everything, and it was right that he should be admired by a guy like Qin Zhiyuan. Now the other party seemed to dislike his daughter again. He felt that the other party Some are blind.

On the other hand, he is not like Qiao's mother who took a fancy to Xiao Qin at the first sight and wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law. In his opinion, a son-in-law is robbing him of his daughter. After taking a sip, I felt extremely uncomfortable.

Sun Ying didn't know Father Qiao's complicated thoughts, he was still thinking about how to deal with the draft at home, "Uncle, why don't you let Wei Wei go over and have a look?"

Father Qiao was struggling there for a long time, when he suddenly heard that Wei Wei took the initiative to find Qin Zhiyuan, he waved his hands again and again, "No, no, he was willing to take care of our family at the beginning, but now he doesn't want to take care of us, so we can't join in like this , It seems too embarrassing, tomorrow we will go to the village to fetch water by ourselves, it is not that there is no well in our village, others fetch water by themselves, there is nothing we can’t fetch.”

Sun Ying nodded after hearing Father Qiao's words, "Then uncle, let me fetch water tomorrow."

Father Qiao looked up at Sun Ying. Although Sun Ying had lived in Wujia Village for less than two months, he was much stronger than before. It must be because he has been doing farm work recently. Now it is not as good as it was in peacetime. It’s better to be physically strong. Thinking of this, Qiao’s father nodded and said, “You go, anyway, the well is not too far away from our house. If you can’t carry it back, you can use your bicycle to carry it.”

"Okay." Sun Ying nodded, and helped Father Qiao light up the stove in their room before returning to his bedroom.

In the room, Yu Yawen was playing with Xiao Tianyou, when she saw Sun Ying came back, she asked, "Are Auntie and Wei Wei back?"

Sun Ying nodded, "I'm cooking in the kitchen."

"Oh, it's about this time." While talking, Yu Yawen slipped off to put on her shoes, opened the door and went out.

Sun Ying and Xiao Tianyou who stayed in the room stared wide-eyed. Xiao Tianyou thought that Sun Ying was playing with him, and after a few glances, he silently laughed. God bless that direction, in fact, the picture in front of him didn't catch his eyes at all, he was thinking in his mind, obviously there is no one in the backyard, where did the uncle's family come from, if they are really in the backyard, the whole place is so big, It doesn't make sense that he went to the backyard and didn't see anyone!
Xiao Tianyou smiled a few times and found that he was not taken seriously by his new father, so he cried with a grin, sobbing so much that he felt wronged.

Sun Ying finally came back to his senses. He saw the little guy was about to die from crying at the first sight. He was so frightened that he quickly got on the kang and hugged Xiao Tianyou, "Little Tianyou, darling, don't cry, don't cry, are you hungry?" gone?"

Xiao Tianyou only cried because his new father ignored him. Now that he was hugged, he stopped his tears, but because he was so absorbed in crying, even when he stopped crying, his small body was still slapped and slapped. Sun Ying was very distressed.

Yu Yawen walked into the kitchen quickly, and saw Qiao's mother and Qiao Mi talking excitedly around the cutting board. She didn't know what they were arguing about. She took a step forward and saw something on the cutting board through the gap between them. , oops.

Mother Qiao and Qiao Miwei turned their heads to look at her at the same time, and Mother Qiao quickly moved closer to the middle, "Aren't you scared?"

Yu Yawen shook her head with a smile, "It's okay, how did you get such a big snake?" As she said that, she wanted to go up to have a look.

Mother Qiao raised her hand to stop her from moving forward, "It's better not to look at it, don't be scared."

Yu Yawen smiled and said, "Auntie, I'm really fine. I can still make it. My dad loves this food the most. I was just too surprised just now."

"Sister-in-law can cook?" Qiao Miwei was concerned about Yu Yawen's ability to cook snake meat.

"Yes, I learned it from my mother. The first time I learned to make it for my father's birthday." Yu Yawen said as she stepped forward to grab the snake and squeeze it, "It's wild."

"How do you know?" Qiao Miwei asked curiously.

Yu Yawen said, "The more you know, the more you can tell the difference."

Mother Qiao moved away from the place in front of the cutting board, and said to Yawen, "If you know how to do it, you can do it. Wei Wei and I don't know how to do it, and we're thinking about it here."

Yu Yawen didn't refuse, nodded and said, "Okay." Then she picked up the kitchen knife at the side, Qiao Miwei and Qiao's mother moved aside to prepare to steal the teacher, Yu Yawen said while processing the snake meat, "Don't look at this It's scary, but it's very good for the human body. At first, my dad ate snake meat because he had severe rheumatism, and half of his body was always numb. Later, someone told our family that this folk remedy said that eating snake meat can relieve it. My mother bought snake meat for him to cook, and he became addicted to it, but the snake meat is really delicious when it is cooked, and it is very nourishing for blood."

"At that time, in order to treat my father's illness, I often searched the Internet for the efficacy of snake meat. I still remember it now. The book also said that snake meat can strengthen muscles and bones, and it also has the effect of dispelling wind, beautifying the skin, and nourishing the skin. It's also good for women to eat."

While talking, Yu Yawen has already cut the snake into pieces, "Snake meat is generally suitable for light and delicious cooking. Let's make snake soup today."

Mother Qiao and Qiao Miwei naturally had no objections. Qiao Miwei asked, "What ingredients do you need for snake soup?"

"Is there any at Chen Pi's house?" Yu Yawen asked.

Qiao Mi nodded slightly, "Yes, I'll look it up." Then he went out.

Yu Yawen continued to handle the snake meat in her hand, and said to Mother Qiao, "When making snake meat, you need to use hot pan and cold oil, otherwise the snake meat will be broken. By the way, my aunt also needs rice wine and ham."

Mother Qiao went to the cupboard and took out a bottle of rice wine, "I have the wine, but I don't have the ham."

Yu Yawen paused for a moment, and then said, "If you don't have it, then you don't have it."

At this time, Qiao Miwei came back with a plastic bag of tangerine peel, "Sister-in-law, do you think these are enough?"

Yu Yawen took the tangerine peel, nodded and said, "It's enough, but it's not much use." Then she said while moving, "First boil some tangerine peel water, then put the picked snake meat into a large bowl, and then put the tangerine peel Put water in it, add rice wine and salt and steam it, if only there is ham."

"Wait a minute, I remember that there seems to be ham at home, I bought it in spring." She opened the refrigerator and rummaged through the thermostat layer, and finally she found a small piece left She took out the ham and handed it to Yu Yawen, "Haha, I remember there was still a small piece left."

Yu Yawen smiled and said, "That's great, adding this will make it all work." She cut the ham into thin strips with a knife, put them in a large bowl, and then steamed them in a wok, "Steam until it turns into a soup. Enough."

Mother Qiao and Qiao Miwei nodded together. It turns out that the snake soup is not difficult to make. After finishing the snake soup, the only thing left is bamboo shoots. This Mother Qiao knows how to do it. She raised her hand to drive the two of them out, and began to prepare the next dish.

The winter bamboo shoots that Qiao Mi dug up are not so tender anymore, but for the Qiao family who haven’t eaten bamboo shoots for a long time, these are not a problem. Qiao’s mother pondered for a long time before deciding to make dry-stir-fried winter bamboo shoots. The whole family loves the dish. Mother Qiao first cut the bamboo shoots into thicker slices, and slapped them with the knife horizontally. After the bamboo shoots became loose, they cut them into long and thin slices, and took out another piece from the refrigerator. Pork belly, cut into diced meat, and after the ingredients are ready, turn on the induction cooker, add oil to the pan, and fry the bamboo shoots in the oil pan for a while. When the bamboo shoots turn yellow, Mother Qiao takes a colander to remove the bamboo shoots Take out the slices, and take a small bowl from the cupboard, pour out the excess oil, there is a little oil at the bottom of the pan, fry the diced meat in the pan, and fry the meat when it is slightly crispy Pour the bamboo shoots into the pot and continue to fry until the skin of the bamboo shoots starts to twitch, so I pour a little cooking wine into it, then add an appropriate amount of salt, two drops of soy sauce, a small spoonful of sugar, and then A little monosodium glutamate and sesame oil at the end, it's done. Mother Qiao turned off the fire, took out a plate and pulled the vegetables onto the plate, squeezed a piece into her mouth, and shouted, "Serve the dishes."

Qiao Miwei heard Qiao's mother's voice, agreed happily, and quickly got into the kitchen, "Wow, it smells so good." She rushed to the bamboo shoots first.

Mother Qiao smiled, seeing that the snake soup over there was also ready, she lifted the lid of the pot and sniffed, not to mention, it smelled fresh, and the two dishes were a bit small for a family of five and a half , Mother Qiao took out another handful of green vegetables and two green peppers and stir-fried them.

When eating, Sun Ying saw the mysterious food Qiao's father said at a glance, "Oh, it's snake soup. It's a good thing." No stranger.

Father Qiao picked up the chopsticks, picked up a sliced ​​bamboo shoot and ate it, "Eat it quickly, it will be gone in a while."

Xiao Tianyou didn't like bamboo shoots very much, but he seemed to have a special liking for snake soup. After eating a whole small bowl, he still didn't have enough, but his stomach capacity was so small that he couldn't eat it even if he wanted to.

(End of this chapter)