"Just pamper her!" That's what Chen Dajuan said, but there was a smile in Chen Dajuan's tone, and there was a smile on her face.
Li Ping'an smiled, stood up with Xiao Ruyi in his arms, "Mom, please take Xiao Ruyi out, I'll cook."
He didn't want his mother to cook. She was used to frugality and couldn't bear to add more oil and salt. Although his taste has always been bland, he cannot accept such blandness.
And he had to send his mother away, otherwise she would have to think about it again later when she saw him adding oil and salt.
Chen Dajuan rolled her eyes at Li Pingan. You can tell whether the food tastes good or not as soon as you eat it. How could she not know the reason why Li Pingan insisted on him cooking and sent her away? It's just that she never found out. It's better to walk away, lest you see it and feel bad for Youyan.
With this thought in mind, she went to scoop up water to rinse her hands, hugged Xiao Ruyi and walked out of the kitchen.
Li Ping'an walked to the kitchen door and called Fugui to the main room. Fugui immediately responded and sat down on the small wooden stool at the stove without Li Ping'an saying anything.
In the past few years, Li Ping'an has been cooking for Fugui, and the cooking at home only goes back and forth. Which dish needs high heat and which dish needs low heat? When it is high and when it is low, Li Ping'an knows even if he doesn't say Fugui.
The two brothers cooperated tacitly, and silently made two dishes: scrambled eggs with leeks and braised tofu with green onions. Fugui took out the rice and vegetables, and Li Pingan picked up the earthen pot that was simmering on the side of the stove with a wooden stick. Come out, find a rag, wet it and remove the lid and kraft paper. A strong fragrance accompanied by the hot steam hits your nostrils.
Li Ping'an took a deep breath and looked at the chicken soup with a layer of yellow chicken fat floating on the earthen pot with the corner of his mouth raised. The chicken soup simmered over firewood is so delicious.
He happily sprinkled salt on it and poured the chicken soup into a big basin. He carried the chicken soup back to the main room and shouted like a waiter in a restaurant, "Here comes the chicken soup!"
"Eating chicken legs!" Xiao Ruyi, who was squatting outside the fence watching the chickens, immediately stood up and ran to the dining table, "Daddy, hurry up and carry me up!"
Li Erlin smiled and carried Xiao Ruyi onto the stool. When he was about to pick up Xiao Xinglong, he saw Li Ping'an lifting Xinglong up with one hand, and Fugui and Jixiang had also sat on them.
Chen Dajuan came in with bowls and chopsticks, and Li Pingan sat down next to Xinglong, "Mom, I want a full bowl of rice!"
These days, the mother-in-law of the family divides the food between the family members. There is only so much food in the house. It is important to know who eats more and who eats less. The strong laborers in the family must eat more, while women and children eat less. Of course, if the food is divided, Whoever is partial to someone can eat more.
In short, it is impossible to say that you are going to buy food and eat as much as you want.
For example, before Li Ping'an and his three brothers separated, the old lady shared their meals. They were poor at that time and could not eat dry rice many times a year. They basically ate porridge or rice porridge. The three Li Erlin brothers were the labor force of the family. , the old lady gave them a thicker meal, followed by the three daughters-in-law. When the children arrived, it was basically porridge and water, with not many grains of rice.
In other words, the family was separated. In recent years, due to selling tofu and bean cakes, Li Ping'an's family conditions had improved. Chen Dajuan turned a blind eye to Li Ping'an's behavior of cooking a dry meal from time to time.
"Mom, I also want a full bowl of rice!" Fugui also shouted.
"Mom, I don't want that much, I want to eat chicken!" Ji Xiang stared at the steaming pot of chicken soup on the table with bright eyes, like a hungry wolf.
The two younger ones, Xinglong and Ruyi, remained silent. One was three years old and the other was two years old. It was not their turn to decide how much to eat. Mother could eat as much as she wanted. If they dared not finish the meal, she would treat them to meat - stir-fried bamboo shoots. Meat.
Chen Dajuan first filled Li Erlin with a full bowl of rice. There were not many rules in ordinary people's homes, but they were not completely unruly. Li Erlin was the head of the family, so of course he had to fill it for him first and let him eat his fill. Then came Li Ping'an, Li Fugui and their children, and finally Chen Dajuan, who shared the meal.
This is a test of the skill of the person sharing the food. If the food is not divided well and there is too little or nothing left in the end, then you can only eat as much as you can, or ask the person who cooked that day to pull some out of her bowl. No matter whether she cooked less food or not, as long as it was not enough, it was definitely too little.
Li Ping'an was not worried that his mother would not have enough to eat. He always had enough when cooking, and there would usually be a little left after dividing the food. Sometimes it belonged to his father, and sometimes it belonged to him. There is no need to waste it anyway.
Looking at this bowl full of fragrant white rice, Li Ping'an couldn't help sighing. How many people in Xiaochen Village didn't see a bowl of dry rice on their dining tables all year round, let alone chicken and eggs.
Seeing his father moving his chopsticks, Li Ping'an also picked up a chicken drumstick and put it into Xiao Ruyi's bowl, "Here, this is for you!"
"Thank you, Big Pot!" Xiao Ruyi showed her millet teeth.
"It's still hot. Let it cool down before you eat it. Eat it hard and take revenge!" Li Ping'an said, picking up another chicken drumstick and putting it into Xinglong's bowl. "This drumstick belongs to Xiao Xinglong. Just now, the eldest sister was helping to boil the water. I gave this chicken drumstick to the eldest sister, and the eldest sister told me to give it to you!"
Xiao Xinglong grinned and thanked his elder brother and sister. He reached out anxiously to grab the chicken legs, but as soon as he touched his little hand, it was burned and he immediately took it back to touch his ears. Chen Dajuan laughed and cursed, which made Jixiang Ruyi and the others laugh happily.
Xiao Ruyi only had a small belly and a small appetite, so she was used to eating what she liked first. However, after she puffed up her cheeks and worked hard to cool down the chicken legs, she was not in a hurry to take a bite, but handed it to Li Ping'an and let him Brother, take a bite.
Li Ping'an felt warm in his heart and said with a fond smile: "Chicken legs are for children. When the elder brother grows up, the elder brother won't eat them. Little Ruyi eats them by herself."
Little Ruyi opened her eyes in horror, "Can't I eat chicken legs when I grow up?"
"You have always been a child in the eyes of the eldest brother. Even if you grow up, I will still give you chicken legs to eat!" Li Ping'an said.
Xiao Ruyi only understood that the chicken drumstick was given to her, and she breathed a sigh of relief, but she did not take back her hand, insisting that Li Ping'an take a bite of the drumstick.
Li Ping'an was too lazy to continue arguing with Xiao Ruyi about this bite, so he followed her instructions and gently bit into it and pulled off a piece of chicken skin. "Okay, big brother has eaten it."
Only then did Xiao Ruyi retract her hand with satisfaction, and handed the chicken leg to her mother next to her. Chen Dajuan also bit off a piece of chicken skin like Li Ping'an did, and then said: "Okay, if you want to eat it, eat it quickly. If you keep handing it over like this Pass it over, if it falls on the floor you won’t be able to eat it.”
Xiao Ruyi then stopped her sharing behavior and took a few bites of the chicken drumsticks. Suddenly she looked up at the chickens in the corner and had an idea. She shouted to eat the drumsticks and show them to the chickens. Chen Dajuan thought she was annoying, so she took her to the ground without saying a word and let her do whatever she wanted. She would then feed her when she was full.
Seeing little Ruyi shaking her head and walking to the fence and squatting down, Li Ping'an was happy. Then his eyes passed over the faces of several younger brothers and sisters, and finally turned away from his father who was silently working on his meal.
Thinking of the worst-case scenario his mother had just said, he secretly vowed to himself that if everything really happened, he would do his best to protect his family. It's like his family did everything they could to protect him in his previous life.
