Chapter 319 Sheng Xinhua

The baby was washed, put on the quilt again, wrapped in a big quilt and quilt, and handed over to Zhou Qinglan.

Strange to say, the little baby was still crying in frustration, but as soon as he returned to his mother's arms, he immediately stopped crying and only turned his head and opened his little mouth, looking for milk.

After the washing ceremony was over, everyone came out of the west room and allowed Zhou Qinglan to feed the baby in peace.

"Brothers and sisters, you guys sit down while I go to the kitchen to pack some things. Let's have noodles for lunch today."

On this day, there is no big banquet, but noodles.

Zhang Shuzhen has prepared noodles at home, which are simpler and easier to make than hand-rolled noodles.

Nowadays, dried noodles are a rare thing, and they are not willing to eat them on ordinary days. Zhang Shuzhen spent a lot of effort to get them back, just to keep her daughter-in-law to eat during the confinement period.

Cooking noodles is easy, but the toppings require some effort.

It happened that there was meat at home that Sheng Xiping had just picked up. Zhang Shuzhen had just instructed Sheng Yunfang and her sisters to cut the pork belly into pieces. She planned to stew braised pork and eat it with noodles.

"Mom, if you want to do anything, just say something and I'll do it. Just sit in the room."

On the other end, Zhao Juan stood up quickly and followed Zhang Shuzhen out.

This girl is very capable at home, and it's the same when she comes to the Chen family. She doesn't miss anything at home or outside the house.

"Yes, Auntie, tell us what you want to do and we will do it." Li Xue and Tang Fengying stood up and said.

"Oh, no, no, no, you all just sit and chat. It'll be fine in a while."

Where can Zhang Shuzhen let her guests cook? He quickly waved his hand and signaled Zhao Juan and the others to just stay in the room.

In the kitchen, Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei had already cut a pot of meat and boiled eggs according to their mother's request.

"You two, take out the eggs and use them later."

Zhang Shuzhen ordered her daughter to work, while she added some firewood to the bottom of the east pot, then cleaned the pot and scooped out the water.

Zhang Shuzhen dug out a small piece of lard from the large oil jar, put it into the pot, and used a shovel to push the white lard around the bottom of the pot. After a while, the lard melted.

When there is a sizzling sound in the pot, scoop out two spoons of sugar and pour it into the pot.

Logically speaking, it would be better to use rock sugar, but rock sugar is not easy to buy. Forest farm stores only occasionally have it. This little white sugar was bought after saving sugar coupons for a long time.

The fire under the stove had just started and was not very strong. Zhang Shuzhen used this small fire to slowly stir-fry the sugar color.

When the sugar in the pot melted, small bubbles began to form at the bottom of the pot, and the color of the syrup began to turn red, Zhang Shuzhen poured the chopped pork pieces into the pot and stir-fried them quickly.

At this time, the fire at the bottom of the pot was getting hotter, and the meat was heard sizzling in the pot, and the top of the meat began to change color.

After frying until each piece of meat was covered with sugar color, Zhang Shuzhen poured some soy sauce, white wine, and vinegar into the pot.

This wild boar meat is not domestic pig at all. It has a strong fishy smell and requires more seasoning to make it taste better.

After adding the seasoning and stir-frying for a few times, pour two ladles of water into the pot so that the water covers the meat.

Put some dry firewood at the bottom of the pot, bring the soup in the pot to a boil over high heat, and then add onion slices, garlic slices, and ginger slices. ,

Everyone's way of cooking this braised pork is different. Most Northeasterners are heavy-mouthed and seasoned very harshly.

When southerners stew braised pork, they generally don’t add so many messy seasonings.

"You two look at the pot. When you try to break the meat with a light poke with a spatula later, pour these eggs in."

Zhang Shuzhen scored the skin of the peeled eggs twice, and then told the two girls.

"I have to go into the house to talk to the guests. You two should be smart and watch the pot so as not to dry up the soup in the pot."

"Hey, I got it, Mom." The two girls responded.

Zhang Shuzhen left her two daughters in the kitchen to watch the pots. She went into the house to talk to Qin Qiuyan and others, and after a while, she came out to take a look.

What is stewed in the pot is the meat of Xiao Huangmaozi, which is relatively tender. In about an hour, the meat will be stewed until it is soft and delicious.

The two girls tried it and found it ok, so they poured the eggs in the basin into the pot.

Zhang Shuzhen felt that it was almost time, so she came out to take a look, scooped some soup with a shovel and tasted it. She felt that the taste was a little bland, so she added some salt to it.

When frying the sugar, the caramelized sugar will taste a little bitter, so you need to use a little sugar to adjust the taste so that it tastes delicious.

The meat in the pot was stewed and turned reddish brown, shivering and shiny. The eggs were simmered in the soup for a while and were coated with a reddish brown skin.

Just like this, the fire slowly simmered, the thick soup kept bubbling, and the aroma of braised pork filled the room.

When the eggs are cooked and the soup is cooked to a certain extent, it is ready to be served.

An enamel basin was placed on the pot stand. Zhang Shuzhen held a rice spoon in her hand and poured meat and eggs out of the pot one ladle at a time.

The meat is stewed at just the right temperature, and when it falls into the basin, it bounces twice and trembles. It's particularly tempting to look at it here.

The two girls, Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei, looked at the meat in the basin and couldn't help but swallowed. This was really too greedy.

Fortunately, Sheng Xitai took Chen Feng out to play after breakfast and was not at home. If he were at home, the custodian would be shouting for food.

The meat, eggs, and soup were all put into a small basin, two ladles of water were poured into the pot, and the pot was cleaned.

Then add water, add dry firewood to the bottom of the pot, wait for the water to boil and add noodles.

If there were no outsiders, Zhang Shuzhen would definitely not even wash the pot, but just add water to cook the noodles. There was still a lot of stew soup on the pot, so it would be a pity to wash it off and throw it away.

But today is the third day of the child’s bath. With so many guests, how can we cook noodles without washing the pot? That would be too rude.

Cooking noodles is much simpler. Boil the water in the pot, put the noodles in, use chopsticks to stir them up so they don't stick together, and just boil the water until soft.

When cooking noodles, we generally pay attention to using a wider soup and adding more water in the pot to prevent the noodles from becoming sticky and unpalatable.

After the noodles are cooked, put them into two enamel basins. After washing the three noodles, they are ready.

Just in time, the two brothers Sheng Xiping finally finished taking care of the two pigs and the roe deer. Sheng Xitai estimated that it was almost time and led Chen Feng back.

So we set up tables on the north and south Kangs in the east room, put on the bowls and chopsticks, brought the noodles and toppings into the room, and invited everyone to eat.

"Well, we have lunch today. According to the old rules, let's eat noodles. It's a little simpler, so you guys can make do with it.

When the baby is one month old, we will definitely set up a few big banquet tables so that we can have a good time. "

Zhang Shuzhen said with a smile when she came into the room with the toppings of braised pork and braised eggs.

"Oh my God, this is a bit simple, isn't it? Who can eat as well as yours?

There are eggs in the braised pork. How delicious is this bowl of noodles? "

Xu Xiuxiang, Chen Xiuzhi and others couldn't help but shake their heads when they saw it.

"It would be pretty good if you make some meat sauce, egg sauce or something like that, why bother with it?

How about saving the meat for your daughter-in-law to make some dumplings and the eggs for her to eat? "

They were just talking politely, so Zhang Shuzhen naturally didn't take it seriously, so she smiled and greeted everyone to come to the kang for dinner.

The older ones ate on the south kang, while Tang Fengying's young wives and the children of the Sheng family all ate on the north kang.

Anyway, the noodles and toppings are the same and the portion is sufficient.

Sheng Xiping filled two bowls of noodles, then scooped a spoonful of braised pork and an egg into each bowl, and poured broth over them.

"Master's wife, Aunt Wang, and Aunt Chen, please eat slowly. I will bring Qinglan food, so I can eat with her."

With such delicious noodles, there is no need to do anything for Zhou Qinglan alone, just bring him a bowl.

You also need to eat a little salt during confinement, otherwise you won’t have enough energy, but you can’t chew too hard, otherwise the baby will get angry after feeding.

"Oh, that's okay. Then you can stay with your wife. We don't need you to take care of her. We're not outsiders."

Qin Qiuyan waved her hand, indicating to Sheng Xiping that he didn't need to worry about it.

"It has to be me, Xiping. I know how to love my wife. If I'm looking for a man, I have to find someone who knows both cold and hot.

If a woman risked her life to give birth to a child, and if she can't get a man's sincere treatment, what's the point of living like this?

Brothers and sisters, are you right? "Qin Qiuyan looked at Zhang Shuzhen and asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes, what my sister-in-law said is true. Our Xiping knows how to love others.

Not only does he feel sorry for his wife, but he also feels sorry for me. Otherwise, I was of no use last night. He stayed in the west room to stay with his wife and children. "

Zhang Shuzhen smiled, followed Qin Qiuyan's words, and praised her son.

"Well, the noodles have been served. Let's eat quickly. The noodles will become lumpy and won't taste good later." Zhang Shuzhen smiled and greeted everyone to eat.

Everyone's bowl was filled with thin white noodles, with a spoonful of oily, red, fragrant braised pork on top of the noodles, and an egg.

When eating noodles, pick up the egg and take a bite.

After the egg whites have been soaked and stewed in broth, they have a thorough flavor and are elastic. The egg yolks are crunchy and floury, and the aroma of eggs is mixed with the aroma of meat. It is so satisfying to eat it in your mouth.

Swallow the eggs, then eat the meat.

After being simmered for a long time, the fatty part is so soft and smooth that it almost melts with the tongue.

The lean meat is also soft and delicious, and you don't even need to chew it. Your mouth is full of sweet and fresh meat flavor.

The noodles were cooked at just the right temperature. They were neither hard nor sticky inside. They were mixed with broth and were slippery and full of flavor.

Accidentally, I took a big sip. This meal is comfortable to eat.

"Oh, my brother and sister, I asked you to make this noodles. It's amazing. It's so delicious." After swallowing the mouthful of noodles in their mouths, everyone couldn't help but praise it.

"If it tastes good, eat more. I cooked a lot of noodles today, so I can eat them very hard."

Zhang Shuzhen smiled happily and kept urging everyone to eat more.

Over here in the west room, the baby is sleeping soundly.

Zhou Qinglan was sitting with a pillow behind her and leaning against the wall of the room. The noodle bowl was placed on her knees. She held the bowl with one hand and picked up the noodles with chopsticks with the other hand and sucked them into her mouth.

"Well, the food you eat tastes good. I've been eating millet porridge, eggs, and pig's trotter soup for the past two days, but there's no taste in my mouth."

Sheng Xiping didn't get on the Kang. He took a stool and put it in front of the Kang. He put his bowl on the edge of the Kang and ate noodles with his head down.

After hearing Zhou Qinglan's words, Sheng Xiping looked up at his wife and smiled.

"It's okay. After today, it will be a little salty. You just gave birth to a baby two days ago, so you are really not suitable for eating salt."

Three days after giving birth, it’s okay to eat some salt.

Those whose family conditions are not good will have to eat with their families after three days. It is impossible for the whole family to avoid eating salt for the sake of the mother.

Of course, given the conditions of the Sheng family, Zhou Qinglan doesn't need to start early, she can definitely stay for the whole month.

The couple finished the noodles while chatting.

Zhou Qinglan was a small eater, and she should have small meals more frequently during confinement. Zhang Shuzhen also heated up a bowl of soup at noon, so Zhou Qinglan was full with this bowl of noodles.

Sheng Xiping is a grown man and works hard. How can a bowl of noodles be enough? So I went to the east room to get another bowl.

At this time, everyone in the east room had almost eaten.

In these days, the bowls used for eating are all the two-bowl bowls with a white background and blue rims. Women's appetites are not big, so a bowl of noodles is enough.

Zhang Shuzhen enthusiastically served noodles to everyone again, forcing everyone to eat more.

Everyone was talking and talking, and after picking and pulling, they filled half the bowl, and finally they ate it.

After lunch, everyone chatted at Sheng's house for a while before saying goodbye and going home.

Zhang Shuzhen asked Sheng Xiping to bring a piece of meat to each family. There are two pigs, so everyone can share them.

After seeing off the guests, Sheng Xiping cut up the remaining meat and took it outside to freeze.

The weather was cold at this time, with temperatures reaching minus 20 degrees Celsius during the day. The meat froze hard within a short time of being left outside.

They are similar to frozen dumplings, with a layer of ice hanging on the outside, and then the meat is put into a large wooden barrel in the warehouse, layered with meat and snow, so that it can be stored for a long time.

"Mom, there is so much meat in our warehouse. You can eat whatever you want at home. If you don't need anything, keep it for the three of us when we come back.

It would be a pity not to eat the older meat and keep it until it spoils after the New Year. "

There are several large wooden barrels in the Sheng family warehouse, almost all of which are full, containing various meats, fire spoons, dumplings and other things.

Sheng Xiping looked at everyone one by one and gave Zhang Shuzhen instructions after returning to the house.

After being so busy with work, the third day after the birth of the baby just passed. Under the careful care of her mother-in-law, Zhou Qinglan already had enough milk to feed her son.

Babies who are fed breast milk don't want to see formula milk at all.

In order to amuse his son, Sheng Xiping made some milk powder to try, but the little guy didn't even open his mouth this time and refused to eat at all.

"He knows how good this gadget is. Come on, I bought the milk powder for nothing. Let's keep it for Lao Liu and the others to drink."

Sheng Xiping teased the child for a long time, but his big boy refused to open his mouth. Finally, the bowl of milk powder entered the stomachs of Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng.

Most of the babies in confinement eat and sleep, and of course there are some who can cry and be tormenting.

Fortunately, the baby of the Sheng family is very well-behaved. He only cries twice when he is hungry and when he urinates, and does not make any movement at other times.

The child is easy to coax, and the people who take care of the confinement can also relax. Sheng Xiping is mainly responsible for washing the diapers, and Zhang Shuzhen can cook for Zhou Qinglan.

Sheng Xiping only had five days of vacation, so on the afternoon of the 6th, he went back to the mountain carrying large and small packages.

When Sheng Liancheng met his son, he kept asking how his grandson was doing, whether he was fat or not, and whether he could be coaxed.

Sheng Xiping took out the piece of paper on which the couple named their child and asked Sheng Liancheng what it meant.

The next generation of the Sheng family should be the new generation. Zhou Qinglan gave them the names Sheng Xinmin, Sheng Xinhua, Sheng Xinguo, Sheng Xinbo, Sheng Xinyao, Sheng Xinyu, etc.

Sheng Liancheng is of the old school and doesn't understand names that are too trendy. He thinks Xinmin and Xinhua sound good.

The two men discussed for a long time and decided to use the name Sheng Xinhua. If Zhou Qinglan had another child in the future, he would choose from the remaining ones.

Thus, the first boy of the third generation of the Sheng family got a name, and he was called Sheng Xinhua.