take a wife to support the family

Chapter 8 Stewed Chicken Soup with Mountain Mushrooms 3
As soon as the words came out, both of them were stunned, and Song Haonian's black face hidden in the beard seemed to be a little red.

After a while, he said harshly: "If you want to relieve yourself, just call me, and don't run around."

Lily endured her embarrassment and whispered, "Then... please take me to the latrine..."

Two days ago, she fell asleep and didn't drink any water or rice, so there was no danger of going to the bathroom for the time being.Once the situation improves and the food is eaten again, this dilemma is imminent.

No matter Lily or the big girl, they have never experienced such a situation when they grow up so old. They were dragged to the simple hut in the corner of the yard by Song Haonian in shame and indignation.

The dry toilet surrounded by several broken wooden boards is ventilated on all sides, and because it is winter, the smell is bearable.

Lily went to the bathroom inside, and her heart trembled when she thought of a burly man outside.However, this man was still coughing dryly outside and asked, "Are you okay? Didn't you fall?"

It was not easy for Lily to prepare herself mentally, "...I'm fine..."

The little bit of heat on her body was quickly blown away by the wind, Lily's upper and lower teeth were fighting, she walked out tremblingly, and was carried back into the room by Song Haonian, shivering under the bearskin mattress.

Song Haonian silently served her a bowl of soup, full of meat piled up to the point. Seeing her staring at the bowl blankly, she thought she was afraid to eat it, so she had to explain: "It's just for you to make up your body. If you don’t eat it, it’s ruined.”

Lily sniffed the strong aroma of the chicken soup, and swallowed, "Can you...can you bring me a ladle of water?"

Song Haonian was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and went to the kitchen to scoop up a ladle of water.Lily took the water ladle, she was so weak that she felt that the water in the ladle seemed to be worth a thousand gold, so she washed her hands on the bedside.

The ground in the room was earthy, with a few stalks of half-dead grass growing in the corners of the walls, and the water soaked up after a while.Then Lily began to eat.

Song Haonian stared at her blankly, feeling a little strange - when did his wife become so particular?

But he only spent a few days with the big girl, and it's not necessarily true that she has this habit in her family. Liu Yi's sister-in-law praised her for being diligent and clean.

As soon as the chicken soup was in the mouth, Lily's stomach suddenly warmed up, and she almost burst into tears: How could it be so delicious!
There was a thin layer of oily flowers floating on the soup bowl. Except for a few grains of salt, there were no other seasonings, but the taste was so delicious that Lily almost swallowed her own tongue!
Like a starved ghost reincarnated, she ate the soup without lifting her head, making a gurgling sound.The hot soup scalded his tongue and mouth, and his chest and back were numb with warmth.

She drank half a bowl of soup in one go, thin beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, she slowed down her swallowing speed, and began to eat the meat piled high in the bowl.

The chickens are free-range chickens raised in an unpolluted environment. The native chickens are easy to burn, but the half-sized chickens are not as good as firewood. The meat is very tender and delicious.

Lily has been hungry for too long, and her survival instinct drives her to eat. Fortunately, her soul is a modern teacher. She knows that people who have been hungry for too long cannot eat too much meat at once, otherwise their stomachs will not be able to bear it.

"Goo." She swallowed, forced herself to stop eating, and moved away the fragrant chicken soup a little.

Seeing that she had only eaten half a bowl, Song Haonian suddenly stopped eating, a little strange: "Why didn't you eat? I'll scoop up some hot one for you again?"

Lily shook her head, hesitated, and said in a low voice, "I don't eat meat anymore, just give me another bowl of soup."

Chicken soup nourishes people, so it's fine for her to drink two more bowls.

Song Haonian took the bowl and picked the meat back into the pot.He observed that Lily liked to eat the part without the skin, so he left a few pieces of tender meat with the skin in the bowl, scooped up two more spoonfuls of hot soup, and handed the bowl back to her.

Lily drank the soup, Song Haonian put away the pot and ate the hot buns by himself.

Lily bit her lips, and asked hesitantly, "You...why don't you eat?"

Song Haonian said with a smile: "You didn't eat much in total. You can have another meal if you save this soup to warm up at night. I'm not sick, so I don't need to replenish my body."

His shaggy beard covered his facial features, and he looked fierce, but he showed two rows of white teeth heartily when he smiled.

Lily was stunned, unable to react for a long time.

Teacher Li Baihe's family was poor when she was a child, and eggs and meat were exclusive to her little brother, so it was considered good if she could get a bite or two of oil and water by herself.Li Daniu wants to save the meat to Erniu and Sanniu, and to younger brother Qingsong.

In the two lifetimes combined, no one has ever killed a chicken for her.This person was even reluctant to eat a piece of meat, so he ate the steamed stuffed bun with the aroma of the chicken soup.

Under his fierce appearance, maybe he is not as scary as the big girl thinks?

Lily murmured: "You can eat too..."

As soon as she said it, she regained some of her former cleverness, and she was no longer as dull as a big girl, "...you have worked hard, I eat alone, I am sorry."

Song Haonian was stunned for a while, and his smile became more and more joyful.He has traveled far and wide and seen a lot of things in the world. As his daughter-in-law, she has clearly begun to care about him.

"Okay, I'll eat!"

Song Haonian ate meat faster than Lily, but he also had more self-control, and stopped after eating only a few pieces, leaving about a small bowl.

This small bowl of meat and soup can be reheated in the evening.Song Haonian went to Liu Yi's house to see Xiu'er in the afternoon, picked out bright chicken feathers and tied a shuttlecock for her, and took the scraps left over from the slaughtered chicken to his dog Heizi to eat.

Mrs. Liu Yi packed half a basket of firewood and a bag of grain for him to take home.

After Song Haonian came home, he greeted Lily first.

A meal of chicken soup improved Lily's spirit a lot. Most of her physical weakness is due to hunger. As long as her nutrition keeps up, she will soon improve.

Lily watched Song Haonian continue to work in the kitchen, not knowing what he was doing, and soon the aroma of food came out.

In the hearth, the firewood buried under the ashes was still warm, pulled out from the ashes to form a hollow shape, held the fire stick and blew for a while, and the fire started again.

The fire stick is a bamboo pole as thick as a thumb, about three feet long, with a hole drilled in the middle, so that it can ventilate and poke the fire. It is cheap and easy to use.

When the only iron pot at home was heated up, Song Haonian scooped out a bowl of yellow rice from the bag, removed the chaff and pebbles, and poured it into the pot for frying.

Scholars call yellow rice "millet", and northerners call it "millet", but they are actually the same thing.

Before frying, yellow rice is small and small, and looks about the same size as millet, but the more it is fried, the more it expands, and finally it swells to the size of white rice grains. The surface is shiny and shiny, and it is fried.

Poor families don't have much food, and they have to fry the yellow rice before they can eat.Song Haonian moved out of the house for more than a year, and he was stumbling around, and Liu Yisao also taught him a lot of tricks. Although his cooking skills are not very good, it is no longer a problem to cook meals for one or two people.

Many people in the town think that men can't enter the kitchen, but Song Haonian doesn't care, he is a bachelor, he doesn't cook, so he can't go to Brother Liu's house for dinner every day, right?

Even if Mrs. Liu Yi didn't say anything, he would feel ashamed himself.

Although he has a daughter-in-law now, this daughter-in-law is dying of illness, he feels that he has to take care of her, otherwise, like some people, he only cares about himself and doesn't care about his daughter-in-law's body at all. Some act.

(End of this chapter)