Life is a Game

Zhao Mei was overwhelmed.

It's not surprising that she eats too much, since she was pregnant, she eats and wears a lot more times than before. For example, last night she ate the chicken noodle soup that her husband cooked for him.

But this time eating is different.

This time it was a happy meal, a satisfying meal, a meal until I couldn’t bear it anymore, I only hated myself for not having an extra stomach.

Zhao Mei’s taste has changed a lot since she was pregnant. She didn’t like to eat the snacks she used to like after pregnancy. Sometimes she craves sour ones, and plums soaked in vinegar are not sour enough, and sometimes she craves sweet ones. , White sugar bibimbap and honey are not sweet enough.

Even the stewed chicken made by Tian Lin, which she used to love most, no longer likes it because she has to eat one every week for the past few months.

It had been a long time since she had eaten meat so happily.

Ordinary people are prone to sleepiness after eating, let alone pregnant women. Zhao Mei fell asleep within two minutes after eating. This time, she was really sleepy, not pretending to be sleepy. Haqie sat there all day long and her eyelids were fighting.

So Zhao Mei was helped into the house by her husband and went to sleep.

Zhao Mei ate so happily, the happiest thing was that Tian Lin always looked happy when she was cleaning up the dishes. While cleaning up, she looked at Jiang Feng from time to time, as if she had something to say to him.

Jiang Feng just picked up a plate and went into the kitchen with Tian Lin.

"Xiaofeng, did you hear that no one said anything to me during the meal?" Tian Lin asked impatiently as soon as she entered the kitchen.

Jiang Feng didn't dare to talk, Zhao Mei said too much, such as "Mom, I want to eat ribs", "Mom, give me two more pieces of meat", "Mom, I want to eat eggs" and so on. There are just too many to count. He was a little confused, which sentence touched Tian Lin's heart, whether it was pork ribs, meat or eggs.

"Meimei told me that fat meat is delicious when eating lion's head. She hasn't said this to me for many years!"

"I said why this year she doesn't eat much stewed meat, and she doesn't eat much braised pork. It turns out that the taste has changed and she must eat stewed lion's head!" Tian Lin finally found the dish her daughter wanted to eat, and she was very excited.

Jiang Feng: ...

Aunt's stewed meat and braised pork are really not a matter of taste.

is your problem.

"Yeah, I didn't expect Sister Meimei to like eating lion heads now." Jiang Feng nodded in agreement with a sincere face.

"Xiaofeng, you don't need to teach braised pork and bamboo shoot stew, just teach me the lion's head. Meimei likes to eat lion's head." Tian Lin felt that she had found the standard answer.

"OK!"

Jiang Feng nodded in response. It's actually quite good to teach only the lion's head. As long as Tian Lin is willing to follow the method he taught and honestly season without adding salt and soy sauce, even if the technique of chopping and whipping the meat is not up to standard and the expected effect is not achieved, at most it will affect the taste. The resulting lion head If it is looser, it will not lock the gravy, and it is absolutely impossible to be unpalatable.

Teaching Tian Lin to cook can't set too high requirements, as long as she can eat.

Seeing that Jiang Feng agreed, Tian Lin asked tentatively: "Xiao Feng, your grandma and the others will probably go back in a while, and they have finished eating the lion's head at noon today. Can you stay and teach me in the afternoon?" Do it, so that Meimei can have something to eat at night."

Jiang Feng smiled and said: "Auntie, see what you said, can you do anything, didn't you agree to teach you how to do it in the afternoon? As long as you go back before the meal time and don't delay the meal."

The task is precious, and the price of food is higher.

Tian Lin laughed so hard that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. After washing the dishes, she always thought about stuffing Jiang Feng with something to express her gratitude. After thinking about it, she realized that only by stuffing Jiang Feng with a bowl of stewed meat could she express her gratitude.

"Xiao Feng still has stewed meat in that pot. Auntie will serve you a bowl of stewed meat!" Tian Lin is a man of action, and she filled the stewed meat when Jiang Feng was distracted.

Because Jiang Feng was focused on the task, he was thinking about how to teach Tian Lin in the afternoon so that she could learn the lion's head better and faster. He forgot that he was actually in the most dangerous battlefield. He didn't realize the seriousness of the situation until the stew was served in front of him. .

"Auntie, I ate too much for lunch, I really can't eat any more." Jiang Feng covered his stomach, pretending that he really ate a lot.

Tian Lin could only take the stew back with regret, and ate it by herself.

When she was eating at noon, she was so focused on picking up vegetables for Zhao Mei that she didn't even take a bite.

Tian Lin ate two bowls of stewed meat in a row before putting down her chopsticks, and began to learn how to make lion heads with Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng started teaching how to choose pork belly.

For Tian Lin, a fat meat lover who only loves fat meat and has been infatuated for many years and firmly believes that oil and water are justice, Jiang Feng has reason to believe that when she chooses pork belly for lion's head, she will definitely choose what he sees with his naked eyes The fattest part.

In order to ensure Zhao Mei's diet for the next few days, Jiang Feng repeatedly emphasized that if he was not sure when picking pork belly, he would rather pick the thin ones than the fat ones. If the meat is thinner, at most the stewed lion's head will be a little bit less refreshing, and if the meat is fatter, it may become the previous stew, but one is cut into cubes and kneaded into balls, and the other is stewed as a whole.

After teaching, picking meat is chopping meat. When chopping the meat, Jiang Feng didn't do it himself, but let Tian Lin chop it himself, and he watched from the side.

Tian Lin is strong and careful, and she is very patient about her daughter's diet. The meat is cut meticulously, and the meat is cut with great strength. The finely chopped and roughly chopped meat is very sticky, which is definitely a qualified product.

Jiang Feng didn't do the seasoning step himself, he said that Tian Lin did it, and everything went very smoothly.

Jiang Feng didn't start until it was time to beat the meat, and he didn't expect Tian Lin to learn this step, which is a step that most people can't do well. Seemingly easy is nothing more than beating and stirring, but the strength, rhythm and stirring skills required in it all require years of chef experience, and it cannot be learned by seeing or listening to others.

Great strength can only make the flesh crunchy, but how, where, and what kind of shape it falls cannot be solved by mere strength. Long-time whipping will break the meat, not only will the hands be covered with diced meat, but also there will be many snowflake-like floating objects on the surface of the lion head when stewing.

So Jiang Feng could only tell Tian Lin to beat and stir casually, not for too long, just meaning.

It doesn't matter if the stewed lion's head is scattered, anyway, it will be scattered in your mouth when you eat it. It doesn't matter if you can't lock the gravy, it's as juicy as chicken soup.

Jiang Feng believed that Zhao Mei would never mind this little problem when he ate it.

After the meat is whipped, it is time to rub the meatballs. After the meatballs are rubbed, they can be stewed in a pot. This time, I could cook it slowly this time if I had time. In order to prevent Tian Lin from being unable to master the heat of the gas stove that Jiang Feng specially used this time, I told her to cook it for three hours.

Remember to add some salt to the soup before stewing. The salt in the lion head will seep out after such a long stew.

After giving all these instructions, Jiang Feng found that he seemed to be fine.

There was leftover chicken soup from noon and waited until the lion's head was almost ready to be stewed. Tian Lin heated up the chicken soup and then poured it directly on top of the lion's head after it came out of the pot.

Jiang Feng looked at the lion's head that was already on the saucepan and covered it, and felt that he had finished teaching today.

The teaching work ended a bit early, Grandma Jiang and the others had just left for less than half an hour.

Jiang Feng tried hard to think about whether he had anything else to tell Tian Lin. After thinking for a while, his eyes lit up: "One more thing, auntie, remember to pour the chicken soup after it's out of the pot..."

"Pull off the oil!" Tian Lin learned to answer quickly.

Jiang Feng nodded in satisfaction, feeling that he really had nothing to tell Tian Lin this time.

"Auntie, the lion's head is almost like this. You just need to wait three hours for it to cook by itself and then it will be out of the pot. There is nothing wrong with me..." Jiang Feng was about to run away.

He always felt uncomfortable staying at Zhao's house, afraid that at some point a bowl of stew would pop up out of nowhere and invite him to eat.

"Xiaofeng worked hard for you today, go back and rest, auntie has learned a lot here, and tomorrow auntie will make a lion's head for your sister Meimei to eat." Tian Lin said with a smile.

Hearing what Tian Lin said, Jiang Feng felt a little worried: "Auntie, why don't I come back tomorrow morning. You will make the lion's head tomorrow, and I will watch from the side to see how you are doing. "

"That's great, please make another trip." Tian Lin smiled brightly.

"It's not troublesome, it's not troublesome, and it's not far away. It's just a few steps away." Jiang Feng said with a smile, well versed in the hypocrisy of the adult world.

So the matter was decided so happily, Jiang Feng went back to Happy Fat House first, and came back tomorrow morning to check on the teaching work to see how the lion head made by Tian Lin was.

Then Jiang Feng got up late the next day.

In fact, he can't be blamed for this, Jiang Feng really got up too early. He has been waking up early since New Year's Eve, and he has been up early for 4 consecutive days. He has not slept in for a day in the whole New Year, and he has not seen the most basic respect for the holidays from him.

So on the morning of the fourth day of the new year, when there was no alarm clock set, Grandma Jiang didn't have pancakes and the old man didn't have fried spring rolls, Jiang Feng got up late without accident.

When he woke up, the time on his phone was 10:43 a.m.

If he wakes up half an hour later, the Zhao family probably already has dinner.

Realizing that he got up late, Jiang Feng hurriedly dressed. He only brushed his teeth and face before he had time to wash, so he put on a down jacket and rushed to Zhao's house.

When he arrived, Tian Lin's dishes were almost ready to cook, and the kitchen was filled with the smell of rice and the rich smell of chicken soup—it was rare for Tian Lin to not have stewed meat.

Everything smelled normal.

Then Jiang Feng saw a scene that he will never forget.

"Auntie! Tomato scrambled eggs don't need chicken soup!! Really don't need it!!!" (Note ①)

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Note ① Excerpted from this chapter published by Yueye Bingyan in Chapter 529 on December 8.