take a wife to support the family

Chapter 396 Sour Carrot and Duck Soup

Many people died in the epidemic, but fortunately Song Haonian and his wife were able to save most of their closest relatives, only Mrs. Wang was old and weak, and Liu Sanping's daughter-in-law, Tao Caixia, died twice.

In the past few days, everyone slowly moved around, went to Wang's house and the carpenter's house to say goodbye, brought some food and condolences to them, and advised them not to be too sad.

Although it is to persuade people not to be sad, when they are actually talking, the people who persuade others often cry. How can they persuade the victim?But let's hug each other to keep warm.

Song Haonian's condition has stabilized and he can only warm up slowly. The medical officer returns to Beijing to return to his life. Song Haonian trusts him to forward it to the king and emperor, so that the elders can rest assured.

Lily took care of Song Haonian at home with peace of mind. Mannv, Lanniu, Xiao'e and several servants also came back to work, and the family was not worse than before.

Song Haonian has always been in good health, but this time when he fell ill, Lily was scared to death, so he was given food supplements in different ways for three meals a day, and he was determined to make up for the shortfall of these days. Let her go: he also wants to live a long life, live to the old age with his wife, and watch the real grandson grow up together.

One day, Lily saw that the white radish that had been pickled a month ago in the jar had turned yellowish in color and exuded a sour aroma. Knowing that the pickled radish was ready, she thought about asking Li Chouwa to kill a duck, "Today, I will stew sour radish and old duck." Soup to eat."

Chickens must be eaten tender, while ducks must be eaten old.According to Li Chouwa's instructions, Li Chouwa caught an old duck with a shiny and dark coat, slaughtered it, drained the blood, cleaned the internal organs, removed the feathers and chopped the claws, and finally broke the duck into small pieces.

The duck meat has to be fried to make a thick white soup.First blanch the water, then stir-fry until the skin and flesh are golden, then add high broth and cook. Put golden shredded dates, dried bamboo shoots and wild mushrooms in the soup. After the soup is boiled, put it into a casserole and simmer for an hour on low heat.

Cut the sour radish into finger-sized strips, wash off the salty taste of the kimchi water with clean water, put it into the soup and cook until it tastes good, and the soup is ready.

Not only does the patient have thin breasts, but he also needs balanced nutrition. Lily cooks sweet potato cubes in the rice, which will melt when touched by chopsticks.

Song Haonian is a busy person on weekdays, if he doesn't work any day, he will feel exhausted. Now that he can't do work, he said to Lily: "I understand, I didn't let you do work before, why are you so anxious."

Lily smiled and said, "Yes! Tat for tat, I told you to force me then."

He said to serve him a bowl of soup, "Try this, maybe your appetite will improve."

The soup is clear and bright. There are a few pieces of golden duck meat, light yellow pickled radish, dried bamboo shoots, and brown mushrooms in the bowl. With a few red dates and wolfberries on the soup surface, the color is very beautiful.Taking a sip lightly, the slightly sour taste reveals the freshness and sweetness, which immediately draws out the saliva, Song Haonian said with a smile: "It's an appetizer."

The duck meat is firm and chewy, and it is rare that it is not fishy at all, thanks to the sour radish.Song Haonian picked up a sour radish, the sour aroma of kimchi was integrated with the aroma of meat, it was more delicious than meat.

Ruzhen was smelling the fragrance in front of him, and his saliva was already dripping. Seeing this, Song Haonian fed him a mouthful of soup, and asked, "Is the soup your mother cooked fragrant?"

"Fragrant!" Ruzhen said loudly.

There are two small bowls in front of him, one is filled with sweet potato and rice, the other is filled with a bowl of soup, he doesn't want another one when the table is full, one mouthful of rice and one mouthful of soup, it tastes delicious, Song Haonian sees that his son eats deliciously, he himself Can eat half a bowl of rice more.

Lily took a piece of cabbage with chopsticks and fed it to Ruzhen's mouth. Ruzhen didn't like vegetables very much, but his mother fed it to his mouth. He couldn't help but wrinkled his face and swallowed the cabbage. He quickly drank two mouthfuls of soup , just put a smile on his face again.

A large pot of soup was not finished by the whole family, and it was not easy to put it away. When Lily had just stewed the soup, two large bowls were filled out, one bowl was given to Song Xiuxiu by Lan Niu, and the other bowl was taken to Liu Sanping by herself. home.

If you really go out with Lily, rubbing back and forth, always think of yourself as strong and tall, insisting on helping Lily carry the basket.This bowl is full of hot soup, how dare Lily let him move?He coaxed his son in a good voice: "When you come back, help mother carry the basket."

Ruzhen nodded in agreement in a hurry, feeling that he was very powerful in his heart.

Liu Sanping is still in the filial piety for his wife, but there is no such thing as vegetarianism in the countryside. Because funerals consume energy and people are sad and don’t think about eating, others are trying to persuade the victim to eat more meat and vegetables to survive this difficult time .

When Lily brought Ruzhen into the door, Liu Sanping was coaxing his son to eat. The boy, who was only over one year old, suddenly lost his mother and was in great distress.Grandpa and grandma felt distressed, and the father wished he could hold him in the palm of his hand all day long, but it seemed that he was not as clean and meticulous as when Tao Caixia was around.

The child hadn't been named yet, so he just casually called him a big baby by his baby name. If his mother hadn't died, he would naturally have a bunch of younger siblings, called two babies and three babies, but now he's the only child, so it doesn't make people feel bad.

First, as soon as Tao Caixia was pregnant with her second child, the eldest child was weaned and started to eat. Now, Liu Sanping's mother cooked rice paste, and Liu Sanping coaxed her son to eat it. The eldest child kept shaking her head, but refused to eat.

Liu Sanping is about the same as Song Haonian, both of them are reputable men, these days they are unshaven, and they are not much more sloppy than before.

Ruzhen called out first: "Uncle Sanping, I'll bring food to the eldest son!"

Liu Sanping hurriedly picked up the eldest baby to welcome him out, forced a smile and said, "Sister-in-law, what else can you give us?"

Lily took out the soup and said, "Brother you don't want to eat for the past two days, it's because you don't have an appetite, it's okay to eat this bowl of soup, you can heat it up and eat some at home, that's our wish."

The eldest baby opened his arms to Lily to hug her, and called his mother, but Liu Sanping couldn't hold back his tears and fell down: "He saw a similar woman and wanted to call his mother, where can I find his mother?"

"His mother is gone, so you have to be a father and a mother at the same time," Baihe said, "Why don't you cheer up and let the child do?"

Liu Sanping's mother saw that the soup was really good, so she quickly thanked Baihe: "Sanping also refused to eat well for several days, I'll go and heat it up, and you and the eldest child can eat together."

Taking advantage of the hot meal, Ruzhen and Dawa played together, Ruzhen had the posture of being an older brother, he couldn't walk steadily by himself, and had to hold Dawa to prevent him from falling.

Liu Sanping said sadly: "I'm useless, I didn't protect his mother, and he won't even have a brother of his own in the future."

Lily said: "Your older brother is sick and can't go out. Let me tell you that you can go to him when you have time. Brothers, talk to each other and be more open-minded. Don't worry about all the troubles in your heart."

Here Liu Sanping had dinner, Lily took Ruzhen's house to go, Ruzhen reluctantly bid farewell to Dawa: "I'll come to see you tomorrow."

The eldest child half understood and half understood, just nodded, smelling the fragrance in his father's bowl, leaned over and opened his mouth to eat.

As soon as he went out, Ruzhen was about to run wildly ahead, Lily handed him the basket: "You just said you want to help mother carry it, here it is!"

Ruzhen was taken aback for a moment, frowned and thought for a while before realizing that this really happened.The basket was not heavy, but he was too small. The basket was half his height, and he couldn't carry it or carry it on his back.

Seeing him flopping about, Lily didn't say she wanted help, and if she really didn't want help, she dragged the basket home, put it in the kitchen, and ran to Song Haonian: "Father! I'm so tired today. broken!"

Song Haonian returned from illness, but still had strength, and stretched out his hand to lift his blushing son to bed: "What did Ruzhen do?"

Ruzhen told him with great interest that he delivered meals to Uncle Sanping and the eldest son, and that he helped his mother carry the basket, implying that he had worked so hard.

Song Haonian laughed: "My son has worked so hard, my son is really more and more capable."

Ruzhen was so complacent that he ran to see Ruchun again, and saw that he was still groaning and turning over, and he taught him with his waist: "Brother Chun is really useless, he doesn't help mother with things, wait until you grow up Bigger, watch me teach you a lesson!"

Song Haonian watched his son play with a smile, then asked Lily: "You are going today, how is Sanping?"

Lily sighed: "Caixia is gone, how can he be good? It looks so pitiful. I have told him to come and talk to you when he is free. If he comes later, you can persuade him."

The husband and wife chatted a few more gossips, and Song Xiuxiu came to return the bowl.Lily was still a little strange: "It's late now, it's the same when you come back tomorrow."

Speaking of Song Xiuxiu's fate, the epidemic was so severe that she didn't catch it, not only her, but also Niu Shi and Yuanyuan.Originally, Lily thought that Niu might not be able to survive the epidemic this time, but who knows that the disaster will last for thousands of years, Niu was paralyzed in the house and could not go out, but escaped the catastrophe.

Seeing Yuanyuan getting bigger and bigger, Song Xiuxiu was embarrassed to see Tian'er send her daughter to Baihe, but the two families kept in touch and their relationship was quite good.

Song Xiuxiu said: "Firstly, return the bowl, and secondly, I have something to do, so I ask my sister-in-law to give me some advice."

It turned out that after the epidemic, many men lost their wives, so they tried to marry another one so that they could take care of the housework and take care of their parents and children.It's not easy to marry a big girl with yellow flowers again. Divorced women like Song Xiuxiu are very popular, and many widows who have died of men also want to marry.

Now someone asked someone to say that the matchmaker came to Song Xiuxiu, willing to raise Yuanyuan as her own daughter, and asked Song Xiuxiu if she would marry.

Lily asked: "What's the situation in that family?"

Song Xiuxiu is not stupid, she inquired clearly with the matchmaker, it turned out that there was an old woman in the family, and after the mother left, she left behind a ten-year-old son and a seven or eight-year-old girl, men are neither capable nor lazy, if If you manage well, you can live your life.

"Then what do you think?" Song Xiuxiu is not a person who has no idea now, since she begged Lily, she still has no scruples.

Song Xiuxiu smiled wryly and said: "That family is willing to raise Yuanyuan, and they would like Yuanyuan to have his family name, but they don't mention my mother. I know my mother is not a good person. If you don't punish her for what she did to second brother It's just a face, but after all, it's my mother, and others can leave her behind, how can I do that?"

(End of this chapter)