Seeing her son's attentiveness to Lingbao, Huang Yuezhu felt sour in her heart, feeling that her son was treating Lingbao better than herself.
When the family cooked dog meat before, his father asked him to give him some meat to eat, but he refused and stuffed all the meat in the bowl into his mouth. But now? Fugui actually took the initiative to give the meat to him first.
Lingbao eats...
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but push her son's shoulder and said to him: "Fugui, give me a piece of meat."
Fugui turned his head in confusion, "Mom, don't you know how to slice meat yourself? Why do you want me to slice meat for you?"
"I just want you to pinch me!"
Fugui picked up the chopsticks and stretched them towards the plate, "My hands are too short and I can't hold them. Mom, you should hold them for me. Your hands are so long."
After saying that, he muttered: "Mom, that's really weird, why do you want me to hold the meat?"
"Second sister-in-law, Lingbao will give you some meat. Do you like fat meat?"
While talking, the little baby girl changed her position from sitting to kneeling, with her knees on the bench, one hand supporting the table, and the other hand holding chopsticks to pick up the meat.
Seeing that she really gave herself a piece of fattened pig cheek meat, Huang Yuezhu was stunned and said hurriedly: "Thank you Lingbao."
"You're welcome, second sister-in-law, please eat quickly." Lingbao said, and enthusiastically put a piece of meat into the bowls of her eldest sister-in-law, Tugen and Fugui.
Fang Xiuyun felt embarrassed, "Lingbao, we can do it ourselves. You can sit down and eat it. We should do it for you. It's uncomfortable for you to kneel like this..."
The little baby smiled and said: "No, it's not uncomfortable to kneel down. Eat more, and I'll give mom and dad a piece of meat."
"Lingbao, you sit down, I'll do it." Fang Xiuyun carried the root to the chair next to him, and put meat into other empty bowls on the same table.
After doing all this, she saw that the tree roots and soil roots had begun to eat meat, and then she sat back on the chair and tasted the pig cheeks.
The piece of meat Lingbao gave her was skin-on. It had more fat than lean meat, but it wasn't greasy at all when eaten in her mouth. The pig skin was very elastic when chewed, and the fat and lean meat blended together, giving it a glutinous texture.
It feels like it melts in your mouth.
"Mom, this meat is so delicious," Tugen said after finishing a piece of meat. "It has a sweet taste and is different from the meat I have eaten before!"
"Just now I heard Lingbao say that rock sugar is added to this meat..."
Fang Xiuyun's words were heard by the other tables around, and they said excitedly: "Wow! Let me just say, no wonder it's sweet. It turns out that rock sugar was added. Where did the Jiang family get the rock sugar?"
"That's right, doesn't Bingtang require Bingtang tickets? We haven't issued Bingtang tickets in how many years?"
When everyone was discussing, although Fang Xiuyun didn't understand where the rock sugar came from, she felt that she seemed to have said the wrong thing.
She said anxiously: "I just made a mistake. It's not rock sugar, I mean a sugar can. My mother put a sugar can in the meat to stew it with."
Sugarcane is a common wild fruit in the mountains. As the weather gets colder, the taste of this wild fruit will become sweeter and sweeter.
Because it is covered with sharp thorns, it cannot be eaten directly in the mouth. It must be peeled, and it is easy to hurt the hands when peeling. Therefore, except for greedy children who risk being pricked to eat it, most people use it.
It makes wine.
"Oh, your mother-in-law is so smart, she actually stewed meat in a sugar bowl!" After a woman said this, the others agreed.
At this time, Aunt Shen rubbed her eyes and asked her husband: "Is that Dadongzi's wife? Am I right? It seems to be her, right? I have seen her twice before, and she looks very similar."
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"Yes, she is Dadongzi's wife."
Aunt Shen wondered, "It's weird, didn't they say they were divorced? Why did she come back for the banquet?"
Not only the Shen family, but other people in the village also talked while eating meat, saying that Dadongzi's wife had returned from her parents' home.
"I saw that Dadongzi only brought his youngest son back before. It seemed that he had a falling out with his wife. Is this now a reconciliation?" Everyone was curious.
As the Jiang family served the second dish, the surrounding chatter disappeared.
"Oh, this radish is so sweet!" Everyone said while eating radish and pork belly in their bowls, "The radish is so delicious!"
Originally, most people were picking up pork belly. After hearing that radish was delicious, they all started to pick up shredded radish, exclaiming, "It's delicious, crispy and sweet... Why is it so delicious? Which village grows radish?"
"The radish looks fresh. I guessed it must taste good. I didn't expect it to be so delicious."
Before finishing a plate of shredded radish and stir-fried pork, the Jiang family brought out corn and peanut pork ribs soup, "Drink the soup while it's hot!"
"Oh, Dad Dongzi," Uncle Shen said to Jiang Qingshan, "Why don't you sit down and eat as well? The shredded radish just now was so delicious!"
"Yes, yes, please stop working first, otherwise the dishes will be cold."
Jiang Qingshan smiled and said: "Don't worry, the dishes will be served soon. There are only two dishes left, one is fried pork slices with celery and the other is roasted pork with white radish."
It was the first time for everyone to eat pork with open belly like this. Not to mention how happy they were, "Mom! This pork rib soup is really delicious."
People who were not invited to the banquet were gathered around to watch. Many people even deliberately came to the table and curiously asked: "Is it delicious? What does it taste like?"
"It's all made of pork. Isn't it delicious? Oh, don't stand around here. We all gave red envelopes to the Jiang family. We also gave corn and peanuts. You didn't give anything. But
You have no right to eat this meat."
"We didn't say we wanted to eat, let's take a look."
Liu Damei was also among the onlookers.
She hugged Da Ya and stared at the dishes on the table and kept swallowing her saliva. She felt that the sweet potatoes she had eaten before were all in vain, and it was as if they had not been eaten.
Everyone was afraid that they would steal food, so they blocked the food with their hands.
Being guarded like a thief, Lin Desheng felt embarrassed and said, "Don't look at it. The more you look at it, the more hungry you become. It's better to go home and sleep. You won't be hungry when you fall asleep."
"You don't have to eat it, but you can just take a look and smell it."
After Liu Damei finished speaking, her daughter cried: "Mom, I also want to eat meat."
Seeing the familiar Aunt Huang, Da Ya yelled: "Mom, ask Aunt Huang for meat. She is eating meat, and I want to eat too. Eat meat, meat..."
Liu Damei thought that she and Huang Yuezhu had been friends for so many years. Although they had quarreled before, they grew up in the same village and married into the same village. Maybe if she said something nice, she would be willing to share some meat with Daya.
Thinking of this, she walked to Huang Yuezhu with her daughter in her arms, watched her finish the pork rib soup in the bowl, swallowed her saliva, and asked, "Does it taste good?"
Startled by the sudden voice, Huang Yuezhu recalled the previous quarrel between the two and deliberately said sarcastically: "You won't know until you taste it yourself if it tastes good? But, Damei, why are you staring at us eating like beggars?"
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As soon as she said this, Liu Damei forgot all her flattering words.
Her face turned red and she said angrily: "Who are you calling a beggar? I'm just asking casually, what's the matter? What's the matter? You're just a bit better at giving birth. Apart from your belly, what else can you do?