Chapter 25 Shameless Li Changle
Chapter 25 Shameless Li Changle
Father Li stabbed Li Changle with a dagger-like look, pointed at the eggs, duck eggs, brown sugar, dried longan and lychee in the baskets on the table, and said to Mother Li, "Put those away and bring them back to him."
Li Changle hurriedly said: "Mother, you don't have to take it. You can cook it and eat it. It will nourish you well!"
"How can we eat so many? It's hot, and the chicken and duck eggs will go bad if we don't eat them. Take them back and share them with your sister-in-law." Mother Li said as she went to clean up.
"Don't take it. I borrowed Ah Qing's bicycle and it got damaged on the way." Li Changle said, holding his two sons and walking away. "It's getting dark, let's go back!"
"You really aren't going to take it?" Li's mother chased after him with the basket.
"I told you you can't take it with you!" Li Changle waved his hand, "Let's go!"
"Grandma, we are leaving! You and Grandpa should come back soon." The two children also waved goodbye to Li's mother.
"I know. You should listen to your mother at home and don't go to the Changtang to play in the water!" Li's mother warned in a hoarse voice.
The little guy nodded repeatedly. Li Xiaohai thought about it and asked, "Dad, is Grandpa really going to be home in two or three days?"
Li Changle thought about his father's complexion and found that he looked much better than this morning. "If he doesn't come back in two or three days, he should be able to come back in four or five days. See? Don't play in the bushes in the future. If there are poisonous insects hiding in there, it will be troublesome if you get bit by them."
"got it."
Li Changle took out the key and unlocked the bicycle, then carried his two sons to sit on the bicycle, and then he sat on the bicycle himself, "Hold on tight, Dad is leaving."
"Let's go!" Li Xiaozhou waved and shouted.
The three of them left the hospital and rushed back to Shatou Village when it was already dark. Mrs. Li and Zhou Ruonan had already prepared the meal.
Mrs. Li said with a smile, "It's time to eat. Tonight's pork stew with sha chu is so delicious that it will make your tongue drool. It's a pity that Ah Zhen and her son, Xiao Yang, Xiao Hui and the others haven't come back yet, so we won't be able to enjoy it!"
After hearing this, Li Xiaozhou quickly covered his mouth and said, "Then I don't want to eat. If my tongue is cut off, I won't be able to speak." When there was a big opera in the village, he saw that those whose tongues were cut off on the stage could not speak.
Mrs. Li laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her back. "Xiaozhou is afraid that his tongue will fall off. He won't be able to talk anymore. Let's eat more later!"
Li Xiaozhou was confused, "Brother, can your tongue really fall off?"
"Stupid!" Li Xiaohai patted him like a grown-up. "Auntie said this to describe the sha chuen as being particularly delicious and fresh, but not so fresh that it would make your tongue fall off."
Li Changle glanced at his eldest son and said to Zhou Ruonan, "Xiao Hai even knows this. Is he taking classes with you?"
Zhou Ruonan glanced at him and said, "When my mother was going to catch the high tide, I was worried that it would be dangerous for them to go to Changtang to play, so I asked them to sit in the back of the classroom and attend class with us. The children couldn't sit still, so they played with the toys that my uncle made for them when he visited them.
Xiaohai can now finish reading the first and second grade textbooks and can do some simple arithmetic. I was worried that it would be bad for him to learn too early, so I didn’t pay much attention to him. I don’t even know when he learned it. "
Li Changle touched his nose guiltily, "My son is like me, smart!"
"Scallion face!" Zhou Ruonan sneered and walked out of the kitchen with the sand noodle soup.
Li Changle touched his face and said, "How can it be that thick!" He picked up the bowl and saw that the clams were kept in the porcelain basin. The green clams that were not eaten in the morning had been washed out and soaked in light salt water.
Li Changle went out and said to Zhou Ruonan, "Anan, when you pickle the dried fish, add some liquor to it. This way, flies and bugs won't crawl on the fish, nor will they lay eggs on it. The fish will also taste better than if it were pickled with just salt water."
In summer, there are a lot of flies and mosquitoes on the beach. When drying fish, even if you cover it with a fishing net, flies will fly in and lay eggs if you are not careful. It's okay if it's sunny and the fish can be dried in one sun. But if it's cloudy, the dried fish may have insect eggs on it.
He remembered that in later generations there were still illegal vendors selling dried fish who used diluted DDT to spray and kill flies.
Mrs. Li looked at him strangely. "Ah Le, you've never helped to dry fish before, so how do you know that there won't be flies when drying fish marinated in liquor?"
Zhou Ruonan also looked up at him. Shaoxing liquor costs eighty or ninety cents a pound. When her father-in-law was tired, he could only afford to bring back two pounds of rice wine to drink. He couldn't even bear to drink the Shaoxing liquor, so how could he be willing to bring it back to pickle the shark head?
"Oh no, I almost got caught!" Li Changle thought to himself, and quickly found an excuse, "Hey, when I was wandering around town before, I heard the owner of a dried fish workshop telling his employees, and I remembered it."
Mrs. Li believed it after hearing it. "Qingzhan's dried fish only sells for 20 cents per pound in the market. Shaoxing wine is so expensive. Even if they use it, they must use it to pickle pomfret and yellow mullet, and then use the remaining brine to pickle it."
"I've pickled two pieces of green mullet this time. When I have more in the future, I'll bring some wine back to try. We have a net at home. When we dry the fish tomorrow morning, we'll put the net over the drying rack so flies can't get in." Zhou Ruonan said as she took out the stewed pork with sand jar from the sand pot.
When she stews it, she first puts the fat on the bottom of the sand pot, and then puts the satay and lean meat in, and sandwiches the satay between the fat and the lean meat and simmers it over low heat. In this way, the fat at the bottom can prevent the satay from sticking to the pot and burning, and the lean meat can also enhance the flavor. The satay cooked in this way tastes so delicious!
Li Xiaozhou sniffed, "What a nice smell!"
Mrs. Li placed the prepared rice in front of him, "It smells good, doesn't it? Ask your father to serve it to you!"
Li Changle picked up a piece for him and another for Li Xiaohai, "Eat breakfast, take a shower and go to bed. Dad and Uncle Wei are going to set up the trap."
"Got it!" the two children answered in unison.
Zhou Ruonan used a spoon to scoop some Shadan vermicelli soup for the two children, "Eat slowly, be careful of the heat."
"Oh!" Li Xiaozhou took a bite and smiled with satisfaction, "The pork is so delicious! So fragrant! Auntie, Xiaoyang and the others won't be able to eat pork when they come back tomorrow."
Li Changle looked at his sons eating meat with big mouthfuls and knew that they were not greedy for seafood. People who grew up by the sea had plenty of cheap seafood when they had nothing else.
Mrs. Li nodded. "Yes, we agreed to come back today. The kids are always like this. They don't want to come back after going to grandma's house."
It was a rare opportunity to have a good meal, and she wanted her three children to come back and eat with her, but she didn't see them until dark.
Li Changle smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, are you still worried that the children won't have good food to eat? Now that it's open, there will be more and more delicious food in the future. Maybe even meat won't taste good in the future!"
Mrs. Li rolled her eyes at him and said, "I don't believe there will ever be a day when you get tired of eating meat. You're just dreaming!"
Li Xiaozhou echoed, "Dad, you're dreaming. I love meat the most. I never get tired of eating it every day!"
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