rebirth through food

Boiled Eggplant with Sliced ​​Meat

Not long after, Uncle Zhang came in after Lan'er, and Huzi rushed to meet him.

"Uncle Zhang is here." Ye Xiaofeng stood up straight and greeted him.

"Xiaofeng, I was originally embarrassed to disturb you, but Lan'er said, you cook on purpose, look at me as a glutton..." Uncle Zhang said with some embarrassment.

"Uncle Zhang, why are you being so polite? You have nothing to say about borrowing our table and chairs. Can't we treat you to a few meals?" Ye Xiaofeng said with a smile, and turned slightly to let Zhang Da pass by.

Zhang Da's eyes glanced unconsciously, seeing a few bowls of offal being marinated on the stove, he was a little puzzled, "What good is this?"

"It's really a good thing. Uncle Zhang just wait to eat it." Ye Xiaofeng smiled mysteriously. He intended to let Zhang Da see it, otherwise he would have no excuse to speak up.He just wants to open this way from the neighbors first.

When a dish of oily and fragrant boiled eggplant came out of the pot, even Father Ye and Zhang Da, who were drinking and chatting on the kang in the East Wing, couldn't help swallowing secretly.Soon a pot of boiled eggplant was placed on the kang table, because the meat and oil were spared, which made the dish look very good.

Huzi and Laner were busy arranging the dishes while the other was in charge of lighting the fire.Ye Xiaofeng focused on washing the pot and cooking.

Cut the soft and rotten pork belly into strips, stir-fry in hot oil until the surface is slightly charred, cut the fresh and tender green garlic obliquely into sections, stir-fry together on high heat, add fine salt, and take out of the pan.Pour the oil again, and stir-fry the pork liver and pork heart that have been marinated with salt, pepper, wine, etc.

The three dishes are all well-cooked dishes, and they are quickly stir-fried.Three different meat dishes, mixed with the aroma of freshly cooked rice, caused everyone's stomachs to growl when they were already hungry just after seeing the eggplant.

Meat and vegetables alone are not enough, Ye Xiaofeng thought for a while, and when he saw a straw paper bag on the stove, his brows were filled with joy.

I picked two big tomatoes from the garden, washed them and cut them into thin slices and put them on a plate. I scooped two spoonfuls of the white sugar I just bought and spread them on the tomato slices.

This was Ye Xiaofeng's favorite dish in the past, especially when the tomatoes were chilled, they were cold and sweet. When the tomato red juice was mixed with white sugar, the sweet and slightly sour soup made people love it even more.

When Ye Xiaofeng brought the last dish to the table, the other four people had already been waiting anxiously in front of the kang table, and they were all surprised when they saw the tomatoes mixed with sugar.

However, there are many more attractive dishes than this one, so everyone didn't pay much attention to it.

"Uncle Zhang, please don't be too polite. You and Huzi will try these dishes." Ye Xiaofeng helped Zhang Daye's father refill the wine and said.

"Okay, then I won't be polite, boy, can you have a drink together? Your father just told me that you drink!" Zhang asked with a big smile. Just now Father Ye told him a lot of interesting things about Ye Xiaofeng when he was a child. Of course, he didn't forget to mention the drinking two days ago, shaking off Ye Xiaofeng's old background.

A look of embarrassment flashed across Ye Xiaofeng's face. Last time, he was really unprepared to drink such a bad and choking wine, so he spit it out in one gulp. Unexpectedly, Father Ye would spread it out as an interesting story today.Thinking of this, Ye Xiaofeng glared at Father Ye resentfully, but unexpectedly, Father Ye was not only not annoyed, but was out of breath laughing with Zhang Da.

In the end, Ye Xiaofeng didn't drink, just like Huzi and Lan'er, he picked up the brown rice and ate the vegetables in big mouthfuls, but his desire to brew good wine became more determined.

Boiled eggplant oil is fragrant and soft, and several stir-fried dishes have their own flavors. Even the cold tomato dish has a unique flavor, and everyone eats it with great joy.

When the Ye family and the Zhang family were eating, the third child of the Ye family was returning home with a pack of snacks.

Today, I went to Wang Yuanwai's house to talk about the matter, and Wang Yuanwai also rewarded him with a pack of snacks. This is the leading family in the village. The snacks at home went straight to his nose through the white cloth bag. Drill in.It's just that when passing by the door of Ye Laoer's house, he was covered by another scent coming from the yard, and Ye Laosan, who was originally in high spirits, suddenly stopped his joy, but looked thoughtfully at the closed door. door.It seems that my second brother has indeed made a fuss!

With a gloomy face, Ye Laosan entered the house.

"Woman, is the meal ready?" Ye Laosan gave the snack in his hand to his youngest son, who rushed forward to greet him, and called out to his daughter-in-law.

"Okay, okay." The third daughter-in-law responded angrily, with a pot of white flour pancakes, served with fine rice porridge, pickled pickles diced, and a bowl of stewed vegetables, like Ye Xiaofeng's, boiled eggplant with sliced ​​meat.But Ye Laosan's face became even uglier after smelling it.

He also smelled the smell of boiled eggplant in front of Ye Lao Er's door just now, which made him feel very hungry. Who knew that seeing his wife boiled eggplant together at this time, the smell was far incomparable.

Ye Laosan picked up his chopsticks, took a bite into his mouth, and opened his mouth to curse, "You ruined all the good things. I work hard to make money outside, and I let you make good rice and noodles. You make this kind of stuff." Come!" Ye Laosan was really angry, the white flour cake baked with the best white flour was not as good as Ye Laoer's black-faced rotten sesame seed cakes, let alone boiled eggplant with sliced ​​meat.He bought the best meat, plus his own good eggplant, but it's not as good as Ye Laoer's?

Obviously the ingredients are better, but the boiled eggplant from Ye Laoer's family has a strong aroma, and the meaty eggplant aroma hits the face, making people's stomach growl.But the boiled eggplant made by my mother-in-law doesn't smell good, and it tastes salty and meaty, and there is no smell at all.

"Oh, you cost a thousand knives, you still dislike such a good stewed eggplant with fatty meat, did you eat dragon liver and phoenix marrow outside? My small temple can't serve you, uncle, this Fat meat with four fingers, you actually say it's not good, and the neighbors come to judge..."

The third daughter-in-law was not usually a good quarrel, and she was scolded for no reason at this time, so she sat on the ground and cried loudly.

Among the five mountain villages closest to Daqing Mountain, the Ye family is considered a small household.These five villages are Caochang Village, Chen Village, Liu Village, Dawang Village and Hujia Village where they are located.Of course, it is impossible for the people in these five villages to all have these surnames, but from the names of the villages, we can know that there are very few foreign surnames. The few families with foreign surnames are either immigrants who settled here, or extinct households with only daughters. The son-in-law was recruited to take the man's surname.

This is the case of the Ye family. At the beginning, their ancestors were also surnamed Hu. Later, they only had a daughter in this line, and they married the Ye family who came from outside. Since then, there have been more families with the surname Ye.However, the Ye family's connections were withered, and it was only one family when they developed to the brothers and fathers of the Ye family. When they became three brothers, there were only three families.

Therefore, although the Ye family's surname is Ye, they are still related to the Hu family. The third daughter-in-law made a scene, and the third daughter-in-law Ye suddenly felt embarrassing.Standing up abruptly, he was about to hit the third daughter-in-law in the face.

The third daughter-in-law was naturally not willing to suffer, so she stretched out her hand and grabbed Ye Laosan's face, "You have suffered a thousand dollars, I don't know where you got the slack, and you come back and spit on us mother and daughter, you can't live this day It's gone!"

The two children also put down the snacks in their hands, threw themselves into the arms of the third daughter-in-law, and burst into tears, hearing neighbors yelling outside the door, so Ye Laosan had to put down his hands and go out to explain. Persuade people away.

When he turned around, he saw the mother and son who had been crying bitterly sitting on the kang, each with a piece of white flour pancake, and the eggplant was delicious.

"You!" Ye Laosan almost fell backward in anger, seeing that the food had been ruined by the two children, he had no choice but to pick up the pancakes and eat silently.But eating is eating, but this mind remembered the old things. If he could find a woman like his second wife back then, how could such a thing happen?He blamed himself for being obsessed with ghosts, seeing that Chen Xiuhua was the granddaughter of Chen Cunlizheng, so he found a dominatrix for himself.

Holding back his anger and eating, Oldest Ye closed his eyes and leaned against the head of the kang, "What happened to what I asked you to inquire about?"

The third daughter-in-law originally planned to ignore Ye Laosan, but when she heard this, she suddenly looked at Ye Laosan with a very strange expression on her face, "Do you really want to know?" She said and sent the two children out to play .

"What do you mean?" The third child opened his eyes suspiciously, "What did you find?"

"What did you discover? Discovered the disgusting things that your unlucky brother's family did!" The third daughter-in-law curled her lips, "Just the rotten sesame seed cake you brought from their house in the morning, you still called it delicious, you know what it is of?"

"What did you do?"

"Oh, I feel dirty when I say it. I used pigs to drain the water. Those intestines and stomachs are so dirty!"

"No, how do you know?" Ye Laosan sat up straight.But even though he said he couldn't, he believed it in his heart.The sesame seed cakes eaten in the morning and minced meat with green peppers and coriander seemed to be something that Ye Laoer's family was deliberately hiding.

"How did you know? You don't know yet. Didn't the second Ye's family buy meat all the time these days? I thought they really sent it out and ate meat every day! It turns out, haha!" The third daughter-in-law mocked laughed.

"So what? Say it quickly!" Ye Laosan scowled.

The third daughter-in-law curled her lips, but she couldn't restrain the urge to spit it out, so she said, "The butcher who came to our village to sell meat today is also from our Chen village. Speaking of which, you have to call me aunt." When I passed by, he was coming out of the second child's house, so I stopped him quietly. Huh, I got the truth out of a few words. It turns out that the second child's family has not bought much meat these days Jin, but the pig’s offal and everything are covered by them! Think about where the meat you eat comes from?”

It has to be said that the third daughter-in-law still has a bit of a brain, but she guessed the matter pretty closely through a conversation with Chen Tu.

Ye Laosan didn't speak for a while, but his mind was spinning rapidly.

The third daughter-in-law saw that he hadn't spoken, so she said to herself, "Third son, you said that if the villagers find out about this matter, they won't be kicked out by the villagers?"