Volume II: Chapter 40: Taste
The soup is lukewarm, sweet, but not greasy. Maybe it's because of the doping of lilies, but it still has some fragrant smell. Nan Nan left the soup in her mouth for a few seconds to allow its flavor to linger longer. After that, I swallow it little by little down my throat. The soup slid through the intestines and into the stomach, and soon warmed Nannan's entire stomach and intestines, and added a certain weight. But Nan Nan didn't feel the feeling of the soup surging upward, she was a little sick to her stomach, and she couldn't feel the feeling of a wicked person. It must have made Nan Nan feel very relieved and jubilant, and she gently bit down the few lilies in her mouth, which were bitter. But when Nan Nan chewed a few times, the bitterness gradually transformed into a sweet taste, the sweetness was not obvious, and the richer was the fresh aroma of the lily. Until Nan Nan swallowed all these lilies, the fragrance of the lilies still echoed between her lips and teeth, not dispersed for a long time, and even mixed with the sweetness of the soup, which is a unique taste, which can't help but make people's lips and teeth fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless.
"It's delicious." Nan Nan put the spoon back into the bowl, but she still held the top of the porcelain spoon, and her left hand was still holding the white porcelain bowl. Nan Nan looked at her mother and said. But her mother has been staring at Nan Nan from beginning to end, she carefully observed Nan Nan's every move, and never let go of some details. Nan Nan knew that her mother was afraid that she would deliberately cover up and bluff her in order to comfort her. That's why the mother's expression is so nervous and so serious. And her eyes were full of anticipation, very thick, as if this emotion would overflow from her eyes, and she couldn't stop, and she couldn't stop.
"Really? Nan, eat a red date, this date is very sweet. After listening to Nan Nan's praise, she understood that this was not Nan Nan's deliberate deception. The mother saw that Nan Nan had indeed swallowed the soup sincerely, and she also told Nan Nan that she didn't have the feeling that she was about to vomit. The mother was pleasantly surprised, and her expression of joy was beyond words. The mother's left and right arms were folded up and down on the dining table, and her body leaned forward slightly, getting closer to Nannan, and after that, she couldn't help urging Nannan to eat more.
Nan Nan saw her mother's happy appearance, and her heart was also jubilant. Nan Nan didn't answer her mother's words, just nodded at her, and then lowered her eyes and looked at the bowl of white fungus red date and lily soup in her hand. This time, Nan Nan deliberately scooped only one spoonful of red dates, and there was only such one, and it was boiled to a pulp. The bright red surface layer is a quarter of the distance between the jujubes, and the slightly red and tender flesh is exposed, but it is also a little tempting. Nan Nan sent this spoon to her mouth, and I don't know if it was because of the cracked red dates, the sweetness of the red dates seemed to be fused into this spoonful of soup, without the fragrance of lilies, but it added more sweetness. Nan Nan swallowed the soup, and the sweet taste wafted out from her mouth. And the boiled red date, even without the need to use the tooth effect of Nannan, gently sipped, it melts in the mouth, very soft. Including the outer skin, which is slightly harder than the flesh, just a little bite with that tooth, it will easily crumble, mixed with the soft and glutinous flesh, without a sense of disobedience. And the taste of this red date, as my mother said, is very sweet, but it is not as sweet as candied fruit, but full of a special mellow taste of dried fruits, this different smell is cleverly neutralized with the sweetness of the jujube itself, which is both sweet and does not lose its pure fragrance.
Nan Nan just bit the red date a few times, and the flesh and its outer skin, without realizing it, dissolved in her mouth and was swallowed into her throat. Only the small, sharp jujube kernel at both ends was left. Nan Nan put the porcelain spoon in the bowl and placed the white bowl on the table. Then, Nan Nan took out a paper towel from the inner paper box on the dining table, and then spit out the core of the jujube into the paper towel, kneaded the paper towel together, and put it next to the bowl, Nan Nan looked at her mother and said, "This date is really sweet."
"Ah, again, try this white fungus again." When my mother heard this, the joy in her eyes increased. She lifted her right hand pressed against her arm and stretched it out in the direction of Nannan, palm facing up, in mid-air. The mother was busy urging Nannan, and she also continuously raised her palm. It was a look of breath and panic, but it was not caused by a pessimistic mood within, but by excessive excitement.
Seeing her mother's flustered posture, Nan Nan couldn't help but smile faintly, and with her mother's undisguised excitement, she also jumped with joy. Nan Nan picked up the bowl of white fungus lily and red date soup again, and held the top of the porcelain spoon in her right hand, scooped two pieces of white fungus, plus a little soup. Although the soup is viscous, it is also transparent, and the white fungus is not inferior to it, it is much brighter than white, but if it is compared with transparent, it is a little whiter. Nan Nan submerged this spoonful of white fungus mixed soup into her mouth, and this soup did not have the fragrance of lilies, nor the sweetness of red dates. It is its original taste, which is fully mixed with the four tastes of soup, white fungus, red dates, and lilies, and none of them are too prominent. But it is also elegant, it is a simple original taste, which is very special. And the white fungus, it itself has no taste, and what it has is nothing more than the taste that is fully penetrated by this soup. Under the careful chewing, the surface layer of the white fungus is particularly soft and smooth, but it is only soft and glutinous of 100 contract red dates, and it is quite chewy. Nan Nan bit it many times, and the white fungus became sparse, like a chewed pearl, and Nan Nan had to swallow it all in one go.
"How? Is it delicious?" After seeing that Nan Nan had eaten everything, the mother asked cautiously, in fact, the mother had already clearly known the result from Nan Nan's expression. But she still couldn't completely put her mind at ease, and she still had to ask Nan Nan again.
"It's delicious." Nan Nan looked at her mother and answered, she knew that what her mother was asking was actually whether she felt repulsion, whether she felt nauseous, and whether she had the desire to vomit. No, nothing was born. Nan Nan only felt that she was very good, and her body was not rejected at all, and she didn't feel anything strange. It was just a little bit of the food she swallowed, and the feeling of the warmth in her stomach from the soup, and the rest, there was nothing.
"Then eat more, Nannan, you eat more." After listening to Nan Nan's answer, her mother carefully glanced at Nan Nan's expression, and she was just
It's willing to put your mind at ease completely. Mother had already withdrawn her right hand, which had just been stretched out in mid-air. Now, she stood on the table with her elbows on her elbows, her fingers intertwined with each other, and pressed them to her mouth. The mother was both pleasantly surprised, but also panicked, completely in a state of infallibility, and she didn't know what she should say, so she just let Nan Nan eat more.
Nan Nan saw her mother's panicked appearance, and looked at the half bowl of white fungus lily and red date soup left in front of her mother, and said, "Mom, you also drink soup, it's about to get cold."
When her mother heard Nan Nan's work, Fang Cai suddenly remembered, she lowered her head and looked at the bowl of soup in front of her. Then, he hurriedly picked it up, took a spoon in one hand, and swallowed it heavily.
When Nan Nan saw it, she couldn't help laughing. So, she also began to taste it, a mouthful of white fungus and lilies, and the lilies were fragrant. Another bite of lily mixed with red dates, the sweetness of the lily at the beginning is intertwined with the already added sweetness of the red dates, but it is not in conflict, but full of flavor. Another red jujube and white fungus, the silk sweet echo, filling the entire mouth, the soft glutinous jujube and the chewiness of the white fungus seem to be a wonderful match.
But just as Nan Nan ate a red bunch, put down the bowl and spoon, took the paper towel next to the bowl, and spit out the jujube core, her mother suddenly spoke: "Nannan, you, can you do my mother a favor?" ”
After hearing this, Nan Nan put the tissue next to the bowl again, and she raised her head and looked at her mother. I saw that my mother had already drunk the bowl of white fungus and red date Baihe soup, and now, she put the bowl on the table, and her hands were holding the wall of the bowl. The index finger of her mother's right hand rubbed slightly back and forth against the end of the bowl, and she lowered her head to look at the empty bowl, and from Nannan's point of view, she could not see any expression on her mother's face.
"What's the matter?" Nan Nan asked, she couldn't help but feel very confused, she had never seen her mother so hesitant and embarrassed. In Nan Nan's impression, her mother has never been able to ask her for anything.
Mother took a big breath and then spit it out, and the fingers that were hovering over the edge of the bowl stopped. Immediately after, her mother looked at Nannan, but her eyes were a little floating, and she dodged unconsciously. The mother opened her lips slightly, but closed them again, and opened them again, and so on, after repeating these movements of opening and closing her mouth, the mother finally made her voice: "Mom wants you to visit Aunt He Qin for me, there is still some white fungus lily and red date soup left, can you take it with you?" ”