Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Wu Lirong echoed, "Yes! Huairu, wait until you have the baby before finding a job."

"Ok!"

Qin Huairu's eyes sparkled as she imagined her future work life and laughed unconsciously: "Haha!"

The three of them chatted for a while, and when Wu Lirong was about to get up and go to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients, she was stopped by Li Qingfeng.

Li Qingfeng smiled and said, "Lirong, I'll go cook. You can chat with Huairu for a while!"

"All right!"

Wu Lirong nodded, smiled and talked in a low voice with Qin Huairu.

Li Qingfeng walked out of the room, stood in the yard and lit a cigarette. He looked at Weiguo and the others packing their food, walked up to them and asked with a smile, "What do you guys want to eat? Dad will cook for you in the evening."

After hearing this, Li Weiguo and his five siblings quickly threw away the paper bags in their hands, surrounded Li Qingfeng, and shouted, "Dad, I want to eat braised pork."

Li Weijun: "Dad, I want to eat fish."

Li Weidong: "Uncle, I want to eat fish too."

Li Weimin: "Eat meat, Dad, I want to eat meat."

Li Weihong: "Dad, I want to eat them all, what should I do?"

Li Qingfeng gently rubbed their heads and said with a smile: "Do it, Daddy (Uncle) will do it for you. You just behave yourself in the yard, Daddy (Uncle) will go into the kitchen to cook."

"We are very good."

The five Li Weiguo brothers and sisters nodded.

Li Qingfeng went into the kitchen to check the ingredients and found that there was no fish, so he left the kitchen and shouted to Wu Lirong in the room: "Lirong, I'm going to go out for a while and will be back soon."

After saying that, he walked out of the house.

Li Qingfeng walked around the street and then came to the old place, which was a dead end with no one around. He took out a big carp, ten pounds of lamb ribs, and a piece of pork belly from the space.

Putting it in the sack, Li Qingfeng lit a cigarette, held the sack in one hand, and walked towards home.

After returning home, Li Qingfeng put the sack next to the sink, went into the kitchen, got a knife and two basins, returned to the sink, and began to process the carp.

Li Qingfeng saw that Weiguo and his friends were not playing games, but gathered around the pool, curiously watching him handle the carp. Li Qingfeng said softly, "Stay away, or the dirt will splash on you, and it will smell terrible."

"Oh."

Weiguo and the others nodded and took a few steps back.

Wu Lirong and Qin Huairu walked out of the house and wanted to come over to take a look. Wu Lirong asked, "Brother Qingfeng, what did you buy?"

Li Qingfeng reached out to stop them and said, "I bought fish, lamb ribs, and pork belly. I smell fishy here, so don't come over. Just wait and eat."

"oh oh!"

After hearing this, Wu Lirong supported Qin Huairu and walked back and forth in the yard.

Li Qingfeng quickly washed the ingredients he had bought, put them in a basin and carried them into the kitchen.

The carp was cut into pieces on the chopping board, marinated with onion, ginger, garlic and various seasonings and set aside. Then the lamb ribs were chopped into small pieces and stewed. The pork belly was blanched and cut into small square pieces.

Li Qingfeng cut some more cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and other vegetables and put them directly into the pan for frying.

Li Qingfeng first found a casserole and stewed the lamb ribs. Soon the aroma filled the kitchen and gradually overflowed into the yard.

When Li Weiguo and his four siblings smelled the fragrance, they no longer cared about playing games. They quickly washed their hands, trotted into the kitchen, and gathered around the casserole, sniffing.

"Stay away from here, or you will get burned."

Li Qingfeng gave them some instructions and then started to fry the sugar color and stew the braised pork.

While the braised pork was stewing, Li Qingfeng put the marinated carp into the steamer, steaming the fish on top and the rice on the bottom.

"Brother, I heard from my sister-in-law that you graduated early?"

Li Qingshan and Qin Dajun, who came back from get off work, heard from their sisters-in-law Wu Lirong and Qin Huairu that their eldest brother had graduated from university early and was now cooking in the kitchen to celebrate in the evening.

Li Qingshan and Qin Dajun came to the kitchen.

Qin Dajun smiled and greeted: "Brother Qingfeng, congratulations!"

Li Qingfeng handed a cigarette to the two of them, lit one for himself, and said with a smile: "The police officers nowadays are all retired soldiers. They are good at arresting people, but they are not so good at handling cases. Therefore, the police station is in urgent need of police officers who can investigate cases. After the school discussed with the superiors, we graduated early."

Li Qingshan took a puff of his cigarette, nodded and said, "Very good."

"Ah."

Li Qingfeng nodded, turned to Qin Dajun and said, "Dajun, how is your work now? Have you learned the skills from the master?"

Hearing this, Qin Dajun scratched the back of his head and replied with a smile: "Brother Qingfeng, the work is okay. I have only learned some simple welding techniques now."

After hearing this, Li Qingfeng nodded and said, "You have met a good master who does not keep things to himself."

"Learn more from your master so that you can get a permanent job soon and transfer your household registration to the city."

"Then ask Qingshan and your sister to find you a wife, and you can settle down in the city."

After hearing this, Qin Dajun laughed foolishly and said embarrassedly, "Brother Qingfeng, I'm still young. I'll work in the steel mill for two more years before I say anything."

Seeing Qin Dajun's embarrassed look, brothers Li Qingfeng and Li Qingshan both laughed out loud.

"Qingshan, you and Dajun take the Weiguo brothers and sisters to play in the yard for a while. I will call you when it's time for dinner."

Li Qingfeng put the cooked braised pork into a large bowl, cleaned the pot in the yard sink, and said to Li Qingshan.

"I know, brother."

Li Qingshan then said to the children, "Children, your second uncle (father) and uncle will take you to the yard to play for a while."

After saying that, Li Qingshan and Qin Dajun led the five children out of the kitchen.

After his younger brother and Da Jun took the children away, Li Qingfeng began to concentrate on cooking.

In half an hour, Li Qingfeng prepared the fried hot and sour potato shreds, cabbage stewed with vermicelli, fish-flavored eggplant, scallion egg pancakes, tomato and egg soup, braised pork, clear-cooked lamb chops, and steamed carp.

There were a total of eight dishes, three meat dishes, four vegetable dishes and one soup, all served on the table.

Li Qingfeng stood at the kitchen door, took a puff of cigarette, and said to the adults and children playing in the yard: "Qingshan, wash the children's hands and eat."

"Dajun, call your sister and sister Lirong to come for dinner."

After hearing this, Weiguo and the others washed their hands and ran into the kitchen without Li Qingshan saying anything.

When everyone was there, Li Qingfeng asked his brother Li Qingshan to pour wine for the three grown men, and then said to Wu Lirong and Qin Huairu, "Lirong, Huairu, you guys drink first and the kids can eat, don't worry about us."

"Ah."

Wu Lirong simply replied, and then she and Qin Huairu ate their meal, occasionally picking up some food for the children.

The five Weiguo brothers and sisters started eating. They all wanted to bury their heads in the bowls, and while eating, they kept mumbling words like "delicious".

Li Qingfeng, Li Qingshan and Qin Dajun were eating the dishes. From time to time they raised their wine glasses to clink them together and took a sip of wine. They felt very uncomfortable for a while.