Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 7: Cooking for my wife and children for the first time

"Yeah." Liu Xueting was very surprised. Usually, Chen Weidong treated her well, but he was even more filial to his mother. How could he be like today? He dared to confront his mother for her, but she felt warm in her heart.

"Weidong, where did you go with the gun today?!" Liu Xueting remembered that Chen Weidong went out with a gun after dinner, so she asked with concern.

"I went hunting in the mountains. I killed two pheasants and a badger. We will have meat to eat today."

"You went into the mountains to hunt?"

Hearing this, Liu Xueting was not happy. Instead, she looked at Chen Weidong with a worried look on her face: "Why did you suddenly go hunting in the mountains? Look, Uncle San was bitten by a wild boar. If something happens to you, what should I do? What about the children?"

"Wife, don't worry, I have a plan in mind. I won't go far."

Chen Weidong could only comfort her, but when he saw Liu Xueting's beautiful face with tears in her eyes, Chen Weidong was stunned.

Speaking of which, Liu Xueting really doesn't look like a mother of six children. She is so beautiful, especially after giving birth to six children, her breasts are particularly plump.
There is just not much fat in the stomach, which leads to malnutrition and makes the body a little thin. Of course, if it were thirty or forty years later, it would definitely be a perfect figure.

The ancients said: When one is well fed and warmed, one thinks of lust; the city does not deceive me.

In his previous life, Chen Weidong didn’t have so many feelings in order to support his family! !

And now, even though he was already over sixty years old in his heart, he couldn't help but hold Liu Xueting in his arms.

Liu Xueting's whole body stiffened.

This was a very conservative era. People would blush if they just looked at each other or said a word, let alone hug each other. Holding hands was considered hooliganism.

Although they have been married for seven or eight years, they only cuddle with each other in the dark at night.
Like now, hugging each other in broad daylight, if someone saw it, it would spread throughout the village by tomorrow.

She really wanted to push Chen Weidong away, but deep down she was fascinated by Chen Weidong's embrace at that moment.

She was really exhausted from taking care of so many children, and she urgently needed a broad chest to lean on.
"It was my fault before. I shouldn't have disliked my daughter, and I shouldn't have asked you to give the child away. From now on, I will work hard to make sure you live a good life!"

Chen Weidong said with a firm look on his face.

"Ah."

Although she didn't quite believe it, Liu Xueting nodded for some reason.

Back home,
Six little guys, all in the yard, gathered together to pluck the feathers of two pheasants!!
Liuni is the youngest and sees her mother come back.

She secretly glanced at Chen Weidong beside her, and finally mustered up the courage to take a step with her short legs, then stretched out her little hand and said to Liu Xueting in a baby voice: "Mom~"

Liuni is only one year old and has just learned to walk. Now she can only call mom and sister, and can’t even call dad.

"Liuni, be good. Mommy still needs to cook."

Liu Xueting said.

"Liuni, come here quickly, mommy still needs to cook."

At this time, Dani shouted, and Liuni ran back happily.

"Xue Ting, I'll cook today! You take care of the kids!"

It was a rare opportunity to show off in front of his daughter, so Chen Weidong naturally refused to give up.

"You can cook? Let me do it!"

Liu Xueting said in surprise,

"Of course." Chen Weidong smiled awkwardly. The work in the kitchen is basically done by women.

At this moment, the little guys have already plucked all the pheasant feathers!
Chen Weidong took out a worn-out wooden basin from the kitchen, took the two pheasants from Dani, scooped a bucket of water, washed the pheasants, and cut them into pieces.

Chen Weidong planned to cook the rice first, so he went to his own rice jar and found that there was not much food left at home.
He did not hesitate and cooked all the remaining food so that his wife and children could have a full meal.

Chen Weidong was not worried about not having the next meal after this one. Even if there was no badger in the badger hole he found today, he had a wild hog badger in his hand.
This thing could be worth some money. He had heard that someone in the village was buying this thing.
You have to know that there was a shortage of meat in those days. Badger meat was fishy, ​​but it was not processed well.

In addition, there were fewer seasonings in that era, so not many people in the village ate it. But if it is prepared well, it is also a delicacy.

And the most valuable thing on the badger is badger oil. You know, badger oil is a good thing.

Not only can it treat burns, but badger oil can also treat insufficient qi, uterine prolapse, coughing up blood, hemorrhoids, white baldness, burns, frostbite,

Of course, when cooking, adding some will also make it fragrant.
Generally, state-owned Chinese medicine stores in the county will buy badger oil, and even in this era, a pound of oil can be sold for at least two or three yuan.

You have to know that in that era, grain cost only a little over ten cents per pound, and two or three dollars was enough to buy dozens of pounds of grain.

However, after all the rice was cooked, the rice jar at home was empty, there was not much oil left, and the only seasoning was salt, nothing else.

There is not a single leaf of vegetable. However, in Northeast China, most families have vegetable cellars. This is because the winters in Northeast China are long and extremely cold, and vegetables are prone to rot, dehydration, and sprouting if not stored properly.

Coming to the vegetable cellar at home,
After searching for a while, I finally found a cabbage, half a winter melon, and some potatoes.

As for the rest, there is nothing.

Chen Weidong sighed, and began to wash the potatoes, peel them, cut them into pieces, and soak them in water for later use. Then he washed the winter melon, peeled it, removed the pods, and cut it into pieces for later use. He also washed the cabbage...

The five daughters kept staring at Chen Weidong, with a hint of curiosity and surprise in their eyes.

Curious, Dad can cook? Surprised, Dad can actually cook?
But seeing that Chen Weidong had washed all the vegetables that grandma had sent him, leaving none behind,

Six-year-old Erni couldn't help but say, "Dad, you've finished cooking, what are we going to eat tomorrow?"

Chen Weidong paused while washing the cabbages, turned around and asked, "Are there no more vegetables in the field?"

"They are gone a long time ago. Grandma brought these dishes here." Sanni said, "Grandma told us to eat sparingly."

"Hey!"

Chen Weidong sighed, his mother was just such a person! In fact, his parents helped his family a lot.

"It's okay. Dad will cook the dishes tomorrow."

After Chen Weidong finished speaking, he started cooking.

Put the remaining oil in the pan.
Heat the oil.

Chen Weidong then put the pheasant meat in and fry it. With a sizzling sound, the aroma of the oil instantly filled the entire courtyard!

Not only were the five daughters drooling at the aroma of the food in the yard, but even Liu Xueting was lured over with Liu Ni in her arms, attracted by the fragrance.

"It smells so good!" Liu Xueting took a deep breath.

"Of course not! It will taste even better when you eat it later." Chen Weidong smiled.

(End of this chapter)