Chapter 36: Chestnut Chicken Soup (Part II)
Lin Huimin was stuck.
Tang Qian suddenly remembered something, and said sternly: "Mom, don't inform them yet." β.
Chicken soup that is simmered over a slow fire will boil like a volcanic eruption at a certain temperature.
The smell of chicken soup escaped, and there was a moment of silence in the courtyard.
Lin Huimin was just stuck by "I don't know how to say the beginning" just now, but this time she was frightened by the sudden cold look on her daughter's face.
The lid of the casserole was lifted by the air current, as if the soil was rotten in the kiln and was roasted by the heat, and it was a dull and painful whimper.
Lin Huimin looked at this daughter who was becoming more and more slim, she looked very much like her father, but her personality was different from her father's elegance, like a sword out of the sheath, glowing with cold light under the scorching sun.
Since the college entrance examination, she has noticed the changes in her daughter, she is calm and planned, she has big ideas but is not arrogant, and she slowly follows her daughter's footsteps unconsciously.
Just like the chicken soup in the casserole, at first the fresh chicken is tumbling in the clear water, and finally the water slowly enters the mouth and becomes a soup stewed chicken, and the two complement each other and nourish each other.
Lin Huimin stumbled when he opened his mouth: "No, no notice, why?"
The stupid madman was gobbling up a piece of chicken thigh, the thick sauce sticking to his lips and beard, the girl pointed to him, he smirked and stuck out his tongue to lick it clean, and continued to chew the tender chicken thigh with relish.
Tang Qian looked at him, trying to recall the details she had tried her best to ignore.
She asked, "Mom, why did you say Dad disappeared back then?"
People sometimes ignore a lot of crucial clues when they are in a hurry, and at this moment, when Tang Qian mentioned it, Lin Huimin's heart sank, and he thought for a while before he spoke-
"You weren't out of the moon at that time, your mother's milk was insufficient, and your father bought fish for your mother every day and came back to stew soup to drink. But we're far from the market, and when your dad arrived, all the fat fish was gone, and he had to pick up some medium ones. At that time, it was a fishing holiday, and your uncle didn't go out to sea, and he didn't have any fish for our family, so your father ......."
Speaking of this, Lin Huimin stood up suddenly, his eyes were densely shocked.
Like a clockwork puppet, she mechanically continued her movements according to the original setting, repeating what she had explained to her daughter a thousand timesβ
β...... Follow your uncle to the sea, your uncle's boat was found at the border with a gun, the boat capsized, your uncle was lucky to swim back, your father ...... Didn't get back to ......."
Lin Huimin said in the end, but he couldn't finish after pouring a few breaths.
Tang Qian's eyes narrowed: "Mom, why did grandma suddenly say that you killed your father?"
Lin Huimin felt that her brain was not enough, and her mouth opened and closed, but she couldn't say why-for her, she just felt that the old lady had always been very patriarchal. Although she is a woman herself, her thinking is outrageously backward.
The old lady lost her son in old age, and the white-haired person sent the black-haired person, and the grief she thought about had nowhere to vent, so it naturally vented to her daughter-in-law.
Tang Qian didn't think so.
She frowned: "Mom, anyway, don't inform them for the time being." If nothing else, they were already hostile to you, and now that Dad is like this, if they want to let them know, they will definitely have to rely on you. β
Lin Huimin pursed her lips: "Mom reasoned with them!"
Tang Qian waved her hand: "Look at the way the old lady asked me to take notes just now, does it seem that she will reason with you? When my grandfather left, my grandmother pointed to my uncle's family to support the elderly, and the uncle said no, she still dared to squeak? How much can she control my father? At that time, our family will definitely make trouble every day, and maybe even go to my grandmother's house!"
Lin Huimin was silent - her daughter was not wrong at all, and it was indeed possible for the family to do such a shameful thing.
There were four people in the courtyard, everyone was silent, and Yaya suddenly came over and pulled Lin Huimin's hand and said seriously, "Aunt Min......"
Lin Huimin smiled and touched her head: "Child, should you get used to calling your mother?
The girl was shy and excited, and shouted with a smile in her eyes: "Mom!" After shouting, she regained her serious expression, "Don't send Dad away, don't send him to that old grandmother, we will take care of him!"
She looked at the fearlessness and firmness in Yaya's eyes, then looked at her daughter, sighed, and nodded.
She said, "Pack up your dad first, and we'll discuss this matter tonight." β
Tang Qian breathed a sigh of relief and looked back at the casserole on the stove, which sprayed tiny droplets of water.
She smiled and said, "The soup is almost ready, let's all sit down and have a sip of soup." β
As soon as the lid is lifted, the aroma of chestnuts rushes out in the white smoke.
The white smoke cleared, and the milky white soup in the pot held up the golden chestnuts, a few bright red wolfberries and dark purple red dates, and the chicken nuggets nested in the pot like a mainstay, sucking up the fragrant soup.
As soon as the soup is served, each person is first served with a piece of chicken, a date, a few pieces of chestnuts, a few wolfberries, and then a spoonful of soup in a bowl.
Everyone took a breath into the bowl, and a little yellow and clear chicken fat was blown aside, and then took a sip of soup, sliding down the stomach and stomach from the throat, and the aroma also lingered in the mouth for a long time.
The chicken has been stewed until soft, and with a gentle pick of the chopsticks, the chicken is detached from the chicken bone, and the mouth is smooth, and when you bite into it, the chicken broth sucked into the meat is squeezed out by the tip of the tooth, so that the tongue can taste a bite with the tip of the tooth.
Tang Qian put a big chicken leg in Yaya's bowl and another one in the stupid maniac's bowl, and the stupid maniac only hesitated for a moment and then took a big bite.
A chicken has four legs, Lin Huimin put the other chicken leg into her daughter's bowl and sandwiched one herself.
Tang Qian pinched the chicken leg bone knuckle with the index finger and thumb of his left hand to stand it up, and the chopsticks in his right hand clamped it at the bone knuckle and slid it down, and the soft and smooth chicken spread out in the bowl like petals.
She put a piece in her mouth, and the chicken was easy to chew and had a fragrant aftertaste.
She smiled: "The chicken here is originally as woody as chicken breast, but after stewing, it still peels off, in fact, many things are like chicken, no matter how tight it is, no matter how solid it is, there is always a cooking method for it." β
Yaya didn't understand, but Lin Huimin knew the meaning of this, she smiled: "Our coriander has really grown up." β
The chestnuts are boiled until they are scattered into a few pieces, and the fragrance is naturally integrated into the soup, but when you put it in your mouth, the chestnut jujube fragrance and the meat aroma are all in it, the powder is slightly crispy, and the powder tastes a hint of sweetness.
Tang Qian looked at her father and said: "Chestnuts are also called chestnuts, the fruits are harvested when they are ripe in autumn, and they are one of the special fruits in our country, and they have the reputation of "the king of dried fruits". Chestnuts are extremely vigorous and easy to survive. β
She withdrew her gaze and looked at her mother, her eyes firm: "Mom, my dad will definitely recover." β
The optimistic attitude towards life was infected, and Tang Qian's words aroused Lin Huimin's confidence, and she dried up the soup in the bowl: "Okay! Mom believes in you! I also believe in your dad! We will get better and better!"
Yaya and Tang Qian glanced at each other, nodded heavily, and both raised their heads to dry the chicken soup.
Tang Weipeng also seemed to understand, smirked, followed everyone's example, and made chicken soup.
Tang Qian always believes that a person who loves to eat, likes to eat and is even willing to change the way to make various ways to eat with the same ingredients is definitely a person who loves life and can live strongly!
After eating, Yaya persuaded her father to go in and take a bath, Lin Huimin threw away all his tattered clothes, dragged out the big wooden box at the bottom of the closet, found out all his old clothes, and asked him to change them first.
Tang Weipeng came out of the shower, Lin Huimin boiled a large pot of hot water, poured a little into the basin, and then flushed some cold water, and said, "I'll wash your hair, right?"
Tang Weipeng didn't make as much trouble as he did at the beginning, but he just stood and refused to squat.
Tang Qian took out the folding recliner at home, opened it with Yaya and said to her father, "Dad, you lie here." He tilted his head back and told you to wash it so the wound wouldn't have to get wet. β
Lin Huimin replied: "It's still thoughtful." β
Tang Weipeng was actually a long time ago, he was chased and beaten by the bear child before, and he didn't sleep well for several days, he saw a reclining chair here, looked at Yaya, and saw Yaya nodding at him, so he lay down without hesitation.
In less than half a minute, he was purring.
Tang Qian pushed one of the folding chairs into it a little, not afraid of getting dirty, and her arms were strong, supporting her father's head hanging above the basin: "I hold his head, you wash." β
Lin Huimin saw that the hair was knotted, and said, "You go and take out the scissors, I'll cut it a little shorter and wash it, and the ends of the hair are clumped." Wash it first, take him to the barber shop when the time comes, shovel the hair, and let it grow again. β
Tang Qian took out the scissors, Lin Huimin compared, and cut her hair in a large section, revealing Tang Weipeng's dark neck, she was sad: "Your father used to be very white." β
Tang Qian saw that her mother was sad again, and hurriedly persuaded: "It's okay, I'll come back in vain." β
Yaya squatted next to her curiously to look at the shampoo and said, "Can I use this to wash my hair?"
Tang Qian smiled: "Let's use this to wash your hair in the future, okay?"
Lin Huimin also smiled: "Like my father, lie down and wash." β
Yaya smiled and narrowed her eyes into a slit: "Okay!"
For a week in a row, every day Tang Qian could receive the cooking task given to her by the "recipe".
She also has a lot of money in her piggy bank, and every day she takes the money to the ATM to save it.
She also took advantage of the time to buy the refrigerator at home, at this time the refrigerator is two-door, she and her mother picked up an afternoon in the electrical city, and finally liked the stainless steel plate.
Tang Qian also wanted to install an air conditioner, but her mother said that the house was cold and she didn't need air conditioning, so she didn't buy it.
Lin Huimin is afraid of waste, and Tang Qian has other plans - she thinks that sooner or later she will have to bring her mother, Yaya and father to Jiangcheng!
Tang Qian thought about it, she was admitted to the university in Jiangcheng, and she didn't worry about leaving her mother at home at that time, she now has more than 20,000 yuan in the card, so she can go to Jiangcheng to find a house to rent first.
After all, the rent in Jiangcheng at this time was not so expensive, and then I could let my mother do her old job - set up a stall first, and you could also go to other people's homes to cook.
There are many white-collar workers in Jiangcheng, there are many rich people, there are many people who have no time and are not in the mood to cook and want to eat well, this market is particularly large, and she has now spent a sum of money to install air conditioning at home, so it is better to use it for rent.
It's just that she only thinks about these thoughts in her heart, and plans to plan it when the time comes, and then tell her mother.
Tang Qian's uncle Lin built a boat that approached the shore to repaint, and on the day Tang Qian got the admission letter, her uncle's business license also came down.
The weather was good on this day, the wind was cool, and Lin Jiancheng's partner gave him a big white duck again, and he brought it to the door to see his niece coming.