Chapter 41 A Strange Family
Professor Li is first-class in his studies, but he is not in the stream of growing vegetables. Fruits, fruits, and vegetables, none of them can be done.
After planting for so many years, Huzi has eaten cabbage seedlings twice and radish seedlings twice.
Later, Professor Li simply left the vegetable garden barren.
There are people here, and it is naturally not possible to only eat meat.
can be cheeky to take other people's dishes, which is also a torment for the thin-skinned tiger.
When he was about to go out, Huzi put the money given by Professor Li in his hand on the table of the Zhen family and ran.
Yao Cuihua wants to return it, but how can she catch up.
Zhen Zhu pulled Yao Cuihua's clothes and shook her head, "Professor Li and Huzi are both literati, so they will not ask for this money." Besides, it is indispensable to ask for money to see a doctor after the New Year, and it is good to have an extra point. If you don't want to go, just let Xiaoshi send a few more dishes. ”
Zhen Zhu's words that were not light or heavy were transmitted lightly into Huzi's ears, and they were really heard.
Although there are some small calculations, it is not annoying.
This Zhen Zhu, that's it.
Huzi and Zhen Lei walked slowly towards Huzi's house, and from a distance, they heard the noise in the house.
Huzi's face sank suddenly.
Zhen Lei also sensed that something was wrong, rubbed his hands and said to Huzi, "Or, I'll come back another day?" ”
Huzi nodded, "I'll bring you the basket later." ”
Zhen Lei handed the basket in his hand to Huzi, turned around and walked home.
Huzi walked home with meat in one hand and basket in the other.
As soon as I entered the door, I met Li Nana, the sister of the uncle's family.
Li Nana pinched her nose and said in a strange voice, "What is that!" The smell is dead, do the countrymen take this kind of thing out of hospitality? ”
Huzi clasped his hands tightly and snorted coldly, "You still know that you are a guest!" I thought you were going to take over the magpie's nest! ”
Li Nana pointed to the tip of Huzi's nose and trembled with anger, "You...... You...... You ......"
Professor Li walked out of the room, took the vegetable basket and meat in Huzi's hand, and frowned, "I forgot, it's twenty-eight today, and the meat stalls outside are all closed!" This is the cured meat brought back from the Zhen family!"
Huzi nodded.
Professor Li carried the piece of meat, "This meat is almost three catties, even this basket of vegetables, I will give you another piece of two, you send it to Grandma Xiaoshi." ”
Huzi looked at the uncle's family with his neck stretched out, and frowned, "Grandma Xiaoshi, you also know, the money from selling meat is not willing to accept ......."
Professor Li retracted his steps to the study and nodded, "When Xiaoshi came over, if there was anything he didn't understand, you should tell him more!" ”
Huzi nodded, "I know." Zhen Zhu said, wash the marinated meat twice, and make it back to the pot or slippery meat. ”
Professor Li smiled, "That girl is back too!" It's been a long time since I've tasted that girl's craft. ”
Huzi nodded, "Hmm! It's still the back pot meat made by Zhen Zhu. ”
Huzi's eldest aunt, Yuli, interjected, "Ouch! Invite outsiders to eat back to the pot meat, it is better to leave it to our family Nana and Sasha. ”
Huzi just wanted to say something, but Professor Li pulled his sleeve.
Huzi silently closed his mouth, and Professor Li glanced at his eldest daughter-in-law, "The one who comes is a guest." Even if you cut off the relationship, you have long been strangers, don't I also treat you with wine and meat? ”
Yuri was so blocked by these words that he couldn't get up or down in one breath.
Huzi's uncle Li Heng came over with a smile to clear the siege, "Dad, isn't that a special thing, special treatment?" The second brother is gone, I have to leave a root with our old Li family! ”
Professor Li raised his eyelids and glanced at Li Heng, "The second brother has left a root, so you don't need to worry about it." ”
Li Heng looked at Huzi, and then at his two daughters, his smiling face couldn't hold back at all, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The times are different, men and women are the same." Dad is a literate person, and he won't make that kind of patriarchal mistake! ”
Professor Li nodded, "The Li family is such a lone seedling, what mistake can I make?" ”
After saying that, he walked to the kitchen with the meat.
Halfway through, Professor Li turned around sharply and shouted at Huzi, "Huzi, come over and help light the fire, and you have to entertain guests!" ”
Huzi looked at the deflated uncle's family, and ran towards the kitchen with a smile, "It's coming!"
The fire soon rose.
An iron pot burned red, Professor Li took the piece of cured meat, pressed the skin of the meat on the iron pot, the skin of the meat squeaked, and soon changed color, and a burnt smell came to his face.
Yuli, who originally wanted to help in the kitchen, pretended to be virtuous, pinched his nose and withdrew from the kitchen door.
Seeing Li Heng's hatred of iron not being made of steel, Yuli muttered, "We don't eat meat like this there......"
Li Heng remembered that when he went to the mountains and went to the countryside, that is, Yuli's hometown, not only did he not eat meat like this, but he did not eat meat at all.
In order not to be implicated by his father, he broke away from his old father. In order not to participate in too heavy manual labor, he married Yuli, who was a farmer......
But now, looking at Yuli like this, looking at the two daughters with the pestle, and then looking at Professor Li and Huzi, Li Heng doubted his choice.
Professor Li glanced at the family outside, and neatly mixed a scoop of water into the pot.
There was a sting, and a white mist floated on the pot, and Professor Li touched the water in the pot and frowned.
Huzi hurriedly increased the fire.
After a while, the water temperature was suitable, and Professor Li neatly cleaned the piece of meat in the pot.
According to what Zhen Zhu said, wash it a few more times, Professor Li cut off a piece of lean meat and prepared to make slippery meat, and cut the rest into a few large pieces with a knife and blanched it.
When the meat in the pot was medium-cooked, Professor Li's piece of lean meat also turned into a piece of meat and kneaded it with sweet potato flour.
Professor Li took the meat out of the pan, fried a handful of pickles, mixed it with two scoops of water, and prepared to make the smooth meat.
The faint aroma of pickles wafted out of the kitchen, making Li Heng's thoughts drift far, far away.
Far away from the catastrophe, far enough for his father to recognize him, far enough for their family to still be able to afford pickle gnocchi soup, and pickle slippery broth......
The taste of home is still there, not the way it is now.
Li Heng's thoughts spread, but Professor Li's face was in the fog formed by the water vapor, and he couldn't see clearly.
The pickle and slippery broth soon got off the pot, and the meat, garlic sprouts, fried carrots, sweet and sour lotus white were all served one after another, accompanied by a pot of white rice, and Huzi clearly heard the sound of the uncle's swallowing saliva.
The poor and pathetic family made Huzi not know what to say, so he could only sit next to Professor Li and eat silently.
Professor Li is not good at cooking, and the meat is far inferior to Zhen Zhu's craftsmanship, and it is salty, but it was also swept away by the uncle's family of four.
Huzi only ate three pieces of slippery meat, and the slippery broth also bottomed out.
Huzi had no choice but to reach for the carrot with his chopsticks.
But soon, the carrot and lotus white were gone.
Huzi wanted to smash the chopsticks, but finally took a deep breath and held back.
Li Heng put down his chopsticks and smiled embarrassedly at Professor Li.
Professor Li had nowhere to get out of his belly, so he asked Huzi to play with the Zhen family sisters and brothers, but he locked himself in the study.