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On the second day, the pork that Jian Lu brought back was put on the cutting board.

The fat and soft pork shook out of the arc with the action of falling off the cutting board, Mrs. Wang heated the iron pot, Jian Lu put the pork skin down into the pot, and the pork skin rubbed and rotated at the bottom of the hot pot to become golden brown.

The pork skin burned in this way has a bit of burnt flavor and is more glutinous.

Blanch the pork, add ginger slices to the water and boil, remove the pork and set aside.

The pork belly is fat and thin, fat but not greasy, all cut into small pieces half a finger long, a layer of pork skin and a layer of fat connected with a layer of lean meat.

Then pour oil into the pot and heat it, add bay leaves, peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon and stir-fry until fragrant, pour in the cut pork belly pieces, stir-fry the fat, and the corners of the meat pieces gradually turn yellowish.

The smell of meat gradually permeated the kitchen, both pulled at the door of the kitchen, a small one, only a small half of the door frame, today wearing a small floral dress specially prepared by her mother, she is not tall enough, she can not see the situation in the pot, but can see the smoke and fire coming out.

"Xiangxiang!"

Aunt Wang was preparing rock candy, and when she heard this, she looked back at her granddaughter and said, "Do you smell it?" ”

"Yes, fragrant." The five fingers of the little hand covered the small mouth, "It's so fragrant." ”

"I'll leave you a piece later." Jian Lu looked back at her daughter and asked her to go outside to play, "It's a lot of smoke here, both of them go to the yard to play." ”

"Come, I'll take you out." Aunt Wang took out the rock candy and put it next to her, and there was nothing she could do to help, so she took her granddaughter out.

Jian Lu continued to struggle in the kitchen, adding rock sugar and soy sauce to the pot, constantly stir-frying until it was evenly colored, seeing the pork belly pieces turn from white to light yellow and then dark brown, adding water to cover the pork belly pieces slightly, and finally adding two spoonfuls of rice wine, ready to burn for an hour.

After finishing the work, as soon as Jian Lu flushed the water and washed her hands, she heard the sound of clackling footsteps, and both of them trotted into the house, their facial features flying wildly, and their little hands were even more excited, "Mom, Xinxin." ”

"Letter? Have you heard from home? ”

"Hmmm! Yes! Both pointed out, "Grandma looks, Xinxin." ”

Jian Lu took her daughter out and happened to meet Aunt Wang holding a yellow envelope.

Seeing her daughter-in-law come out, Aunt Wang called Jian Lu to help take a look, "Lulu, you read me a letter, it was sent by the third child." ”

Aunt Wang can roughly recognize the names of herself and her three sons, but the others are not very understandable.

"The letter sent by Cheng Jun?" Jian Lu took the envelope and opened it to see that there was a page of stationery inside.

"Yes, I also sent a bag of beef jerky for us to eat." Lady Wang carried a bag in her left hand and walked home to open the bag.

"Cheng Jun said that he was on family leave at the end of this year and wanted to go back to his hometown, and asked if we would like to go back?" Jian Lu quickly swept the letter and raised her eyes to look at her mother-in-law.

"Okay!" Aunt Wang was excited, slapped her thigh, and startled the pair who was tiptoeing to read the letter next to her, and the little girl stepped back, staring at her grandmother, and found that her grandmother was smiling.

"I haven't been back for a long time, and I miss my family, and I haven't seen my second and third children for several years." Aunt Wang had a good life on the island, but she was always homesick, "When the boss comes back and asks him, they are both older this year, and it is no problem to take a train." ”

Train?

His black pearl-like eyes rolled, his hands on his mother's thighs, and he asked curiously, "Mom, what is the train for?" ”

"Trains." Jian Lu thought about how to explain to her daughter, this little girl has never been far away, and currently only relies on being held or walking on her own legs, "It's a car that can take you to a far place, and if you sit on it, you will go to a far place, and your feet won't hurt." ”

"Wow~" both small mouths opened wide, making a round and big wow, "Then I'm going to sit, train train~"

Jian Lu thought that it would be good if she went back, she and her three sisters hadn't seen each other for almost three years, and she still missed it, and the only bad thing was Jian Hualin.

If she went back this time, she didn't want to see this person, but fortunately she had a family and didn't have to have too much to do with this mother's family.

The braised pork was burned for forty minutes, and Jian Lu peeled and cut the potatoes into pieces with the complicated mood of returning to the north, added them to the braised meat broth, turned to high heat to collect the juice, and only then started the pot and put it in the pot after the braised pork broth was thick.

When Cheng Zheng arrived home, he smelled a rich fragrance, mixed with the meat aroma of the thick soup, and remembered that his daughter-in-law said last night that she was going to eat braised pork today, which was already ready.

"Shuangshuang!"

There was only this little girl jumping in the living room, and Cheng Zheng called out to the girl who was looking at what bag, "What are you looking at?" ”

"Daddy." Both of them ran to Dad with their little hands open, pulling their military pants with their right hands, "Dad, do it." ”

"What for?"

"Moo moo dry dry." Both of them tried their best to learn, and their mouths were open, making strange noises.

"Beef jerky?" Cheng Zheng immediately reacted, "Your third uncle sent something?" ”

A few months ago, Jian Lu was eating the beef jerky sent by the third child of the Cheng family, which was one after another and couldn't stop, both of them looked curious, she saw that her mother was eating deliciously, and she also wanted to taste it, but she was still too young, where could she bite the beef jerky.

Jian Lu didn't give it to her, and both of them were wronged, but it was her mother who took her to tell her what beef was and what cow was that diverted her attention.

But since then, she has been fond of imitating all kinds of animals.

It's not moo, it's cluck, or it's quack~

The only person who sent beef jerky to his family was his third brother, Cheng Jun, who was a soldier in the frontier, and heard that the beef and mutton there were very delicious.

"Boss, the third sent beef jerky and a letter today."

Aunt Wang took the dishes and chopsticks and set them on the table, and when she saw her son coming back, she hurriedly talked about the news in the letter, "The third child wants to go back to his hometown to visit relatives at the end of the year, let's go back too, you haven't been back for many years." ”

Cheng Zheng took his daughter to the table and sat down, and after a little pondering, he agreed, "Okay, just take a look at the second and third children, my family leave will be closed at the end of the year, and I will go back for the New Year at that time." ”

Jian Lu came out with a plate of cold wild vegetables and a plate of boiled shrimp, and Cheng Zheng remembered something when he saw his daughter-in-law coming.

"Lulu, do you want to go back to your hometown?"

Jian Lu immediately understood what he was worried about, "Go back, you haven't been back for many years, and I really miss the third sister." As for the rest, we don't care, we just stay in our own home. ”

"Okay." Cheng Zheng pondered that it was really not good, and after going back, he would find a time to give a gift to the Jian family, and he was really afraid of inviting people to gossip, in short, how simple and how to come. "Then I'll send a family leave report to the army when I arrive, and I'll go back for the New Year!"

"Good!" Aunt Wang smiled happily and beckoned her to eat with chopsticks.

When I think of being able to go back to my hometown for the New Year, I don't even care how happy I am, and I don't even care about the cold weather.

"Eat! Rice! Both stepped on the small stool and waited for their mother to feed them, "Mom, I want to eat meat." ”

His eyes looked at the pot of braised pork in the middle of the table.

The braised pork is bright in color, and the evenly fated pieces of meat are dyed with a layer of brown, glowing with an attractive light, and they both watched their father pick up a piece of meat, the top is the glutinous pork skin, and the bottom of the pork skin is the oily and watery fatty meat, and the lean meat under the fat is chewy when it looks like it.

A mouthful of braised pork bursts out between the lips and teeth for more than an hour to boil the rich aroma, the first taste is attracted by the soft glutinous elastic teeth of the pigskin, the slight burnt aroma at the bottom of the pot is even more beautiful, the fat meat is fat but not greasy, the soup that seeps into the flavor is fragrant and flavorful, and finally the chewy lean meat below, the three layers of meat and three layers of flavor overlap and undulate, like braised pork dancing in the mouth, leaving a burst of meat aroma.

Shuangshuang saw his small mouth move, and he couldn't wait to eat it.

"Meat!"

Jian Lu had just eaten a piece of braised pork, and it was so fragrant that she almost swallowed her tongue, and she understood when she looked at her daughter's anxious appearance.

Pick up a piece of braised pork, soak it in a small bowl that has been prepared long ago, remove the excess taste, poke off the lean meat for the child with chopsticks alone, and only pick up a small half of the fat and feed it to the girl's mouth.

"Come, eat meat."

"Ah~" both opened their mouths wide, and ate the braised pork in one bite, the fat meat was soft and smooth, and the chewing was particularly fragrant, both of them ate non-stop, with a look of intoxication, and they finished eating after a while, "Good times!" ”

After feeding her daughter another piece, Jian Lu stopped, "Okay, you can't eat too much when you're still young, otherwise you won't be able to digest it, and when you grow up, your mother will give you a lot of food." ”

You've listened to this reason many times, growing up on your own? When will I grow up?

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Thinking that she was going home for the Chinese New Year, Jian Lu took advantage of the hot weather in the south to hurry up and make some food, and then take it back directly.

Squid, abalone, scallops, sea cucumbers, sea bass, prawns... Caring and drying, both looked at the eggplant and loofah shelves in their yard, there were a lot of things, one by one, the color is particularly beautiful, there are yellow, gray, black, red.

Dad laughed at Mom, "You put seafood on the shelf, don't give the eggplant loofah the taste of smoke." ”

Jian Lu didn't reply, "You don't talk nonsense, can you still smell when you dry it?" But it's not right to skewer, vegetable and seafood soup, you can eat a bite of loofah and still eat the taste of abalone, didn't you earn it? ”

Cheng Zheng: "...? ”

It seems to make some sense.

Helping his daughter-in-law dry the seafood, Cheng Zheng also looked forward to returning to his hometown for the New Year, he didn't go back for so many years, and he was going to go back the year he got married, but his daughter-in-law was pregnant again, and they were both young last year, and their plans to return to their hometown were postponed again and again.

Now, it can finally be realized.

"Lao Cheng!"

The voice of Political Commissar Wei sounded outside the courtyard wall, the door was not closed, he pushed the door in, and was suddenly frightened by the seafood in the courtyard.

"Hey, what are you doing here? So many things in the sea hanging? ”

"Political Commissar Wei, let's dry seafood, and it's convenient to eat it in winter."

"Oh, that's good, too."

"Lao Wei, you can go back and dry some of it, this can still be sent, it can be stored for a long time, and it can be cooked when you want to eat it." Cheng Zheng enthusiastically introduced it to Political Commissar Wei.

Although he had just joked that his daughter-in-law had dried too much seafood, it was really not too much to bring it back to his brothers and sisters on both sides of the family.

"Cheng, let's try it later." Political Commissar Wei looked around and rubbed his hands together, "By the way, do you have noodles at home?" I'll borrow two taels and pay you back next month. ”

"Yes, Brother Cheng, you can go in and get it."

"Success."

Political Commissar Wei explained to Jian Lu, "My daughter-in-law wants to eat noodles today, but unfortunately there is no noodles or flour at home, so I can only borrow it. ”

"Sometimes it's like this, and I want to eat noodles."

Cheng Zheng came out with the noodles, packed more than two taels of noodles in the oiled paper bag that he bought the chicken cake in front of the family, and handed it to Political Commissar Wei, "Come." ”

"Thanks."

Everyone lacks something at home, often borrow from each other, anyway, remember to return it later, there is borrowing and repaying, and it is not difficult to borrow again.

After Jian Lu finished fiddling with the seafood, she looked back at Political Commissar Wei, and always felt that this person's face was full of exhaustion, as if he was several years old, and his eyes were blue.

"Political Commissar Wei, see if it's very hard for you to bring a baby, it's not easy to bring two at a time."

It's really exhausting to the naked eye.

"Not really." Political Commissar Wei has indeed been tortured recently, no, it should be said that it is half joy, half torture. "It's not easy to bring a baby, two babies drink milk in the middle of the night, who can stand it?"

With two babies, everything is double, eating, drinking, and sleeping, and the time and energy invested are really too much and too difficult.

Political Commissar Wei, his daughter-in-law, and his mother-in-law were all tired enough.

"That's it, we all work hard when we take care of both of us, and it's hard to take care of a baby, and you have two in one breath, so it must be even harder."

Shuangshuang stood in the middle of several adults, she understood what her mother said, and her white fingers pulled her mother's trouser legs, "Sangsang is very obedient, Sangsang never cries~"

She had seen Aunt Zhou's baby next door, and the two babies were lying on the bed, crying together, and she was scared to hear them.

These two little babies love to cry too much, unlike themselves, they never cry.