Chapter 15: The chicken soup is mellow and bright
When the housekeeper brothers returned to the village after a day's odd jobs in the city, the first thing they smelled was the strong smell of chicken soup in the air.
When I walked to the door of the house, I saw a group of people gathered around.
Listening to the villagers talking about the chicken soup with envy and sourness, the eldest brother was stunned for a moment, ignored it, and entered the house beyond the crowd.
"Chicken soup?"
"It smells so good!"
The three men came in, Brother Guan looked at Daddy Guan unexpectedly, and Guan Chixi, the youngest of them, couldn't help it, and when he rushed in, he kept inhaling and shouted excitedly: "It's so fragrant!" It smells so good! ”
"Mother, our family stewed chicken soup?! How can there be chicken soup at home! ”
Daddy Guan held his hands and squatted on the courtyard wall outside the kitchen, inhaling the fragrance in the air while answering the doubts of several men:
"It's chicken soup that boiled, and Chibei hit the pheasant from the mountain! Your mother went to the village to change the domestic rooster, boiled chicken soup, and three rabbits, and kept them in the chicken pen in the backyard! ”
Guan Lao Dad said excitedly that Guan Chibei had learned to hunt.
A few housekeeper brothers were shocked, hunting is a kung fu, and you need skills to be able to beat the living creatures that can fly in the forest!
It's not something that farmers learn easily!
Chibei can actually hunt!
The housekeeper brothers were surprised and envious. But of course, the heaviest thing is to be happy, congratulations to Guan Chibei for having this ability.
"Dad, today we earned a total of thirty copper plates and bought three catties of white rice."
Brother Guan explained to Daddy Guan by the way, and then took out three copper plates, nine copper plates and a pound of rice, and after buying rice grain, there were only three copper plates left.
In fact, everyone in the village eats coarse grains, including sorghum, bran, and soybeans. Even if it's rare to eat rice, it's a whole grain, and add a lot of sweet potatoes and corn to it, where can you afford to eat pure rice?
But the housekeeper and the eldest brother thought that Guan Liu's daughter-in-law had just given birth to a child, and there were three babies who had only been born for a day, so they still needed to eat something good, the white rice was soft and nourishing, there was white rice, and some rice soup could be boiled for the baby.
So I counted the copper plates I had just earned, and I bought white rice that the housekeepers couldn't afford to eat.
Second Brother Guan put down the rice bag that he was carrying back on his shoulder, and Father Guan put away the three copper plates, nodded, and asked Aunt Rong to take the white rice to the kitchen.
Aunt Rong first scooped a bowl of white rice, thought for a while, gritted her teeth and divided the rice into two.
Put half a bowl of white rice into the pot and boil it into a rotten and glutinous white porridge.
The other half bowl of white rice is mixed with most of the coarse grains, and two sweet potatoes given by Aunt Huang when the chicken is changed during the day are mixed into a pot and cooked into multigrain rice.
The boiling chicken broth kept tumbling, bright yellow in color, and a layer of oil floating on it, which couldn't be more tempting.
It's already possible.
Aunt Rong finally put in a little salt, and then started the pot.
First, she scooped a large bowl, the most tender chicken was piled up, and there were mushrooms and red dates, and a large bowl was sent into the leafy house for her to drink.
Sister-in-law Guan brought it in, without any jealousy on her face, and after putting the chicken soup at the head of the bed, she picked up Ye Luo with her own hands and said, "Wet, drink chicken soup quickly." ”
"Do you have any drinks with your family?" Ye Luan saw a bowl full of chicken soup and meat, half leaned on Sister-in-law Guan, and asked in a weak voice.
"Yes," sister-in-law Guan said, "Drink it quickly, don't worry, the whole family has chicken soup to drink, if it weren't for Chibei going up the mountain to hunt today to replenish your body, our family won't be able to eat meat once a year, don't say it, drink it quickly." ”