Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 44

Qin Rou picked up a plate of sauce and poured a small half-turn on the two claypot rice, and asked Lu Yan to take out the claypot rice, and then went to call the two little childrens to eat.

Two pots of hot claypot rice, with a bowl of seaweed and shrimp soup on each side, and a plate of oysters were part of the meal.

A simple yet hearty dinner, at least two pots of claypot rice looked particularly attractive and beautifully presented. Lu Yan ate a large pot alone, and Qin Rou and the two children ate a pot.

Qin Rou smiled and said, “Try it. When I was buying the casserole, an old aunt taught me how to cook.”

She even took the man and the children to Xinhua Bookstore to buy two cookbooks in Guangcheng.

Facing the big pot of claypot rice, Lu Yan was at a loss as to what to do. His wife was really a beautiful girl. The dishes she made, not to mention the taste, were very beautiful just by their appearance.

He, a rough man, had never eaten such a beautiful meal. The bottom was snow-white rice, covered with shrimp slippery balls, chinese sausage, and scallop vermicelli. The colors were bright and beautiful, which made his index finger move.

Qin Rou went to divide meals between her and the children, each with a big ball. The aroma of the garlic vermicelli was so overbearing, a lot of soup seeped into the rice, and the two children had the small bowls filled. The final highlight was the rice under the pot.

Qin Rou liked rice very much, and also knew how to cook rice in a claypot.

A person couldn’t eat the food alone, and the good Guoba (crispy/sizzling rice) should be given to the children. Qin Rou reluctantly divided the Guoba into three and gave the two childrens. When Lu Yan saw the Guoba, he was very curious and wanted to share a piece of the pie, but Qin Rou knocked off his hand, “You have such a big pot yourself.”

“Delicious!!!” Xia Mingxi was very happy eating the shrimp slippery balls, and no kid could refuse the charm of the balls.

“Auntie, I want soup.” 

Chen Jingyi drank the soup in small sips, and he was very happy to eat. Chen Jingyi liked rice and the soft rice cooked by Qin Rou was especially in line with his taste. He had a big appetite that night.

Lu Yan was at ease eating oysters. His wife didn’t cook Mapo tofu and spicy shrimp for him…

He really found a treasure. His wife’s cooking was so delicious! The only regret was that it would be better if there were steamed buns.

Qin Rou was drinking seaweed soup. Although the food tasted good these two days, it was a pity that there were no green vegetable leaves, so she could only stir-fry bean sprouts for a few days.

The family ate dinner warmly. After dinner, they watched the stars on the terrace on the second floor. The sky in Qiongzhou Island was exceptionally clean and clear. Lu Yan pulled the wire over and hung a small light bulb to illuminate it.

Xia Mingxi’s little mouth was always babbling non-stop. With Chen Jingyi, a child of the same age beside him, he did not talk to adults, but asked Chen Jingyi to accompany him to talk.

“Jingyi, look at this painting!”

Chen Jingyi: “?”

…

Qin Rou and Lu Yan sat on the bench. She held a coconut in her arms and lowered her head to take two sips of coconut juice from time to time.

Qin Rou observed the coconut trees beside their house, then looked at the yard, and suggested that they should build a flower shed in the yard in the future, or make a small pavilion, and put a small swing.

Lu Yan looked at her with a smile, “Wait until my carpentry work gets better, okay?”

Qin Rou rested her chin on her hand, “I’ll wait then.”

*

Lu Yan’s family was happy, but the Zhang family next door was miserable.

The previous night, they ate a lot, but they couldn’t bear to eat like that every day. The landlord’s house had no surplus. They had a good meal the previous night. So that night, they added some pickled vegetables and seafood.

A strange smell wafted into their house.

Especially when the aroma of the firewood-smelling rice came, it was even more fried, and the sliced ​​roasted meat was steamed on the rice, and the smell wafted far away.

The Zhang family, who were sipping gruel, swallowed.

They went down for a walk, and they were sure that it was from the Lu family next door. They didn’t know what kind of rice the army official’s family was cooking. Why was it so fragrant?

“What is the house next door cooking?”

“They have been cooking for a long time.”

“It’s all spread to our house.”

…

Zhang Chengbei asked tentatively, “Should we knock on the door and ask the Lu family what they’re doing?”

Huang Xinying’s face was not very good, “If you want to go it’s up to you, I won’t go with you.”

Zhang Chengbei was just talking, he would not go even if he wanted to.

This kind of thing never happened to their house before, it was others knocking on their door, not them knocking on other people’s door.

It seemed that the Lu family couple was quite good at cooking. They didn’t show up the previous day, but the flavor of the food changed that day.

Zhang Chengbei swallowed, unable to sip the gruel in his mouth.

The burst of fragrance was really good. What dishes did they cook this evening?

The little wife of the Lu family was beautiful and seemed to be good at cooking?! This young couple was not like any young couple they had met before.

Huang Xinying felt a sense of crisis.

–Was there a better wife than her?