In a quiet courtyard in the South Third Ring Road.
A lush sycamore tree covers most of the yard, bringing a touch of refreshment to the hot summer.
Shen Jiayue was sitting on the stone bench under the tree, happily playing with her mobile phone.
In the kitchen not far away.
A silver-haired old lady is stewing rock sugar elbow in a casserole.
She is Shen Jiayue's grandmother, Mrs. Shen.
Mrs. Shen's husband passed away when she was thirty years old, leaving behind a nine-year-old daughter Shen Guofang and a five-year-old son Shen Guofu. The family was very poor at the time, but she gritted her teeth and raised the two children.
Today, his son Shen Guofu has become a billionaire.
Daughter Shen Guofang also married into the Chen family, which is engaged in department store business, and gave birth to Chen Yan.
Well, Shen Jiayue's grandma is Chen Yan's grandma, and they are cousins.
"Grandma, are the elbows stewed yet?"
After hanging up the phone from her father, Shen Jiayue stood up and came to the kitchen door.
Hee hee, you want to trick me into eating whole grains, but I’m smart enough not to be fooled!
Mrs. Shen smiled and said:
"My dear granddaughter is hungry? The elbow is not rotten yet, it needs to be stewed for a while."
After receiving a call from her granddaughter at noon, Mrs. Shen braved the scorching sun and went to the supermarket at the entrance of the alley to buy a pork elbow and a pack of rock sugar to make rock sugar elbow for her granddaughter.
This is a reserved dish of the Shen family.
After Shen's father passed away, it coincided with the Spring Festival. Five-year-old Shen Guofu saw other people's children wearing new clothes and having meat to eat, and he also clamored for meat.
In order not to disappoint her son, Shen's mother went around helping others, and finally exchanged a meat ticket on New Year's Eve.
But when I rushed to the state-owned store to buy it, there was only one elbow left.
In the past, people bought meat differently than they do now. At that time, no one wanted meat with bones in it, because there was only so much in it, and the more bones, the less meat.
Mrs. Shen bought the elbow.
After returning home, she stewed it in a casserole. She only had coarse salt at home. In order to make the taste better, she added a few hawthorns and a handful of rock sugar that she was going to eat during the Spring Festival. Unexpectedly, the stewed elbow turned out to be very delicious.
It's fragrant and mushy, with a little sweetness in your mouth. The two children's mouths were full of oil.
From then on, the Shen family formed a fate with this rock candy elbow.
When you earn money by setting up a stall, you stew an elbow; for your child's birthday, you stew an elbow; when you have relatives coming as guests, you stew an elbow; even at Shen Guofu's wedding banquet, the main course is still rock sugar elbow.
"Well... no wonder my dad is chubby. He must have eaten elbows when he was a child. He also asked me to eat whole grains to lose weight. I think he should eat more whole grains!"
The kitchen was hot, Shen Jiayue fanned Mrs. Shen with a cattail leaf fan, and then asked:
"Grandma, why don't you move to the villa? I dream about you all the time."
Mrs. Shen asked with a smile:
"Did you dream about the candy triangle I wrapped for you? Otherwise you wouldn't have come to give me this today..."
Lin Xu packed a lot of candy triangles in the morning. In addition to the ones for everyone to eat and those packed by Chen Yan, there were still more than ten left. Shen Jiayue took them away and sent them here.
When I was a kid, I ate the candy triangles made by my grandma. When I grew up, I also gave her grandma candy triangles to eat.
These sugar triangles were made by my boyfriend. If grandma eats them, it means she has recognized the fact that Xu Bao is my boyfriend. Is this reasonable?
"I have lived in this courtyard for half my life, and I have long been used to it... Your parents and your mother have also asked me to move there many times. I am not used to living in a villa, so it is better to live here. We are all old neighbors and we all know each other."
Not long after.
The elbow is stewed.
Old Mrs. Shen carefully put the crispy elbow stewed in the pot onto a plate lined with lettuce leaves, then poured two ladles of the original soup for cooking the elbow, boiled it on the gas stove, thickened some gravy, and waited for the soup to thicken.
When the time comes, pour some water on the elbow.
The rock sugar elbow is ready.
"You can eat my good granddaughter."
The old lady put her elbows on the stone table under the tree, and brought out a dish of freshly fried garlic water spinach and a plate of soybean curd. Shen Jiayue helped her grandma bring out a basket of freshly heated sugar triangles and two
Bowl of rice.
The elbow has been simmered over low heat for half an afternoon, and it has already become crispy and fall off the bone. As for the outer skin, it is as stewed as jelly. It can be opened with a light scratch with chopsticks.
After Shen Jiayue sat down, she picked up a piece of meat skin with chopsticks and brought it to her mouth.
There is no need to chew at all, just sip it gently with your tongue, and this fragrant, sweet and hawthorn-flavored piece of elbow skin will melt in your mouth, truly melting in your mouth.
For those who like sweet and sour food, the taste and texture are simply irresistible.
Seeing that her granddaughter liked to eat, Old Mrs. Shen smiled kindly, and then picked up the freshly heated sugar triangles in the basket.
After taking a bite, the old lady said with a smile:
"Well, this sugar triangle is well made. I actually know how to use cooked flour to mix brown sugar. It tastes sweet and fragrant, and the dough is well-raised. The craftsmanship is really good."
Happy to see the old lady.
Shen Jiayue took the opportunity and said:
"Grandma, I'm dating someone, but I'm afraid my parents won't agree..."
Mrs. Shen smiled:
"If they don't agree, just don't agree. Parents often don't agree with things like relationships, but so what if they don't agree? When your aunt fell in love with your uncle, I was firmly against it, but now you, Sister Yan, don't
Are you almost thirty?"
The old lady took a bite of the candy triangle and continued:
"And your dad, when he was having sex with your mom, your grandpa chased him for several streets with a shovel and threatened to break his legs if he came near your mom again... Aren't you that old now? Your grandpa always praises everyone he meets for finding a good son-in-law."
Huh?
My dad was actually chased and beaten by my grandpa?
It’s hard to imagine that my elegant and easy-going grandpa would do such a thing.
But think about it, at that time, my father was just a small vendor setting up stalls everywhere, while my grandfather’s family was a famous medical family in Beijing. They were not from the same class at all.
But dad still proved himself through hard work.
Even my grandpa is proud of him.
If dad can do it, then my Xubao can do it even more!
In the small restaurant on the second floor of the West Fourth Ring Villa.
Shen Guofu took a bite of the braised pork with pickled vegetables on the table, and his face was suddenly filled with surprise:
"Oh, this steamed meat is so delicious. I'll have to buy two portions for the old lady later. She likes to eat this kind of meat that's so mushy and doesn't cost much on her teeth."
Han Shuzhen tasted it, nodded and said:
"It's really good, but I still like to eat my mother's stewed rock sugar elbow... I remember when I first came home with you, my mother stewed one elbow. I still remember the taste."
Shen Guofu took two pieces of dried tofu from the lunch box of the big pot dish and handed them to his wife's bowl:
"I also remember that just after eating elbows that day, Yueyue's grandfather chased me for several streets with a shovel and threatened to break my legs... It really scared me at the time!"
"Also, when you were running away, you said that you would not marry me unless you were there. People in several streets knew about our affair, and the matchmaker stopped trying. My father could only grit his teeth and agree to let me marry him. You... when Yueyue talks about someone, will you chase her with a shovel like my dad did?"
Shen Guofu laughed:
"It depends on who it is. If it's Brother Lin like that... harm! How can I just think about good things? Let's not talk about this, let's eat and eat!"
At the same time.
Outside Lin Ji Food Shop on Yingchun Street.
The leopard-print aunt, who had been here once in the morning, came to the door of the store again...
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