Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 334 Go ask Mr. if he is willing to order food at the restaurant

"No wonder these days, after school, I rush to the kitchen to look for food. How can I study when I'm hungry?"

When Jiang thought about her two children having to go hungry in the cold weather until school was over, and then carrying their school boxes across half the county to come back, she felt so distressed that she didn't know what to say for a moment.

Shen Yu asked, "Didn't you say a few days ago that the college was going to move? Why hasn't it moved yet? If it moves to the county town, it will be much more convenient to buy food."

Yu Cheng shook his head in bewilderment: "Mr. Yang hasn't mentioned it in the past few days. I don't know if it's because they haven't agreed on the rent, or if Uncle Qiu was injured and can't take care of him. He just said he would wait a little longer."

Dun Dun added, "It was because the road in front of the college was too difficult to walk on when it rained that Qiu Bo accidentally slipped and fell and injured himself. It was also because of this that Mr. Yang had to move."

Shen Yu thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you ask Mr. Yang when you go to school tomorrow if he is willing to temporarily order food from our restaurant and we will deliver it to you every day at noon."

"Wait until Qiu Bo's legs and feet are healed, or when your college moves and it's more convenient to buy groceries, then you can make your own meals?"

Li said, "Yes, the dishes in our restaurant are rich in fat and taste good, and the prices are cheap. They won't be much more expensive than if you buy the ingredients and cook them yourself."

"Look, the shopkeepers and clerks at the nearby market all eat lunch at our restaurant, and none of them complain that it's expensive."

Li was angry and distressed: "How can we not have enough food every day? Go and tell Mr. Yang that if you order food from a restaurant, you don't have to worry about the price."

"Our restaurant doesn't make money from your college. We just want you to have enough food so that you can have enough energy to study."

Yucheng and Dundun's eyes lit up when they heard this.

Yu Cheng stood up happily: "Is it really possible? It would be great to be able to eat home-cooked meals every day."

"I'll talk to Mr. Yang as soon as I get to the college tomorrow and ask him if he's willing."

After the discussion, everyone continued to eat.

Although she knew that the two of them did not have enough oil for lunch and wanted to eat more at night, Li still did not let them serve more stewed pig's trotters.

The last time I had a stomachache, I was still scared.

The whole family agrees with controlling the amount of dinner. After all, it's okay to eat less and go to bed hungry, but if you eat too much and get sick, it will be difficult to find a doctor late at night and you will be late for school the next day.

Seeing that Yucheng and Dundun liked it, everyone stopped trying to get more, even though they thought the stewed pig's trotters were delicious.

Li smiled and said, "Look, I'll keep it all for you two. I'll cook noodles for you tomorrow morning. That should be fine, right? Stop staring at it and eat something else."

Yucheng giggled, nodded obediently, and went to pick up some cabbage to eat.

Shen Yu smiled and said, "You two think this dish is so delicious, do you know what it is made of?"

Yu Cheng looked at it carefully and said, "It's probably pork skin. It looks a bit like braised pork, but it has tendons and bones, so it must be pork."

Dun Dun said, "This tendon looks like tendon, and tastes like pork. Is this a pig's foot?"

Shen Yu was surprised and asked: "Hey, how did you know?"

Dun Dun smiled sheepishly: "I've eaten a whole roasted rabbit before, and the rabbit legs tasted a bit like this."

Yu Cheng was interested when he heard about the food he had never tasted before: "Brother Dun Dun, is roasted rabbit delicious? Roasting a whole rabbit requires a very large oven, right?"

Dun Dun smiled and shook his head: "Where is the oven? We just shot the rabbit and made a fire with some grass and roasted it with branches."

"Bake until it sizzles with oil, cut it with a knife and dip it in salt to eat. It's tender and fragrant."

Yu Cheng was eating the last piece of stewed pig's trotter in the bowl, but his mind was drifting to the sizzling and greasy roasted rabbit meat.

The boys probably had no resistance to this primitive and rough way of eating, so they turned to look at Shen Yu with pitiful eyes.

Shen Yu couldn't help but laugh: "This isn't difficult. There are often hunters on the street carrying their hunted prey on forks and selling them along the street."

"If you come across someone selling rabbits, I'll buy one and roast it for you to eat."

Yu Cheng nodded "hmm, hmm" repeatedly, his eyes almost narrowed into slits due to his smile.

Li smiled helplessly and said, "Just spoil them."

"Yucheng, don't think about the rabbit meat. Let me ask you two, don't you mind that this dish is stewed with pig's feet?"

Yu Cheng looked confused, and didn't seem to understand why Li asked such a strange question: "Why do you dislike it? It's so delicious. I can finish it even if you give me two more pieces."

Yu Tao couldn't help but say, "But the guy who delivered the meat said that these pig feet are used to make dog food."

Yu Cheng was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Did you wash it clean before you did it? It shouldn't be dirty, right?"

This time it was Yutao's turn to be slow to react. She paused before saying, "Of course I washed it. My elder sister even burned the skin and pig hair with fire, scraped and washed it, and blanched it in water before stewing it."

Yu Cheng said as a matter of course: "What's there to be disgusted with?"

"In the past, when we raised chickens and ducks in the countryside, they would walk around everywhere, leaving their paws dirty."

"But when eating meat, no one says that chicken feet and duck feet cannot be eaten. Aren't they the same thing?"

Sometimes, adults think more complicatedly, but children think much simpler.

As soon as Yu Cheng finished speaking, the faces of the people present suddenly brightened and they seemed to be thinking about something.

Yu Tao kept nodding: "Yu Cheng, you are really different after studying."

"You're right. Why would I dislike such delicious stewed pig's feet? I'm so stupid."

As he said that, he picked up the stewed pig's feet in the bowl and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

Li and his friends felt the same way. Once they let go of their worries, they were no longer cautious about eating. Instead, they ate with relish and praised the food endlessly.

The stewed pork trotter in Yucheng's bowl had already been eaten.

He pouted and looked enviously at Yutao who was eating happily. Reluctantly, he began to eat the rice covered with sauce in his bowl, savoring the delicious taste of the stewed pig's trotter he had just tasted.

After finishing the meal, there was still a small half of the stewed pig's trotter left in the casserole.

Shen Yu closed the lid on the casserole and put it aside, planning to get up early tomorrow. Since he had promised to make pig's trotter noodles for the two of them, he couldn't go back on his word.

The next morning, Shen Yu heard Li getting up, so he got up too.

Ever since Jiang and Zheng Sanniang took charge of the daily cooking at home, Shen Yu seldom cooked for his family.

The silver noodles, which were as thin as silver threads, had not been made since the restaurant opened.

This morning, a handful of silver thread noodles was made, which shocked several people who had never seen it before.

Especially Zhou Dalang, he always dealt with dough when making cakes, and he had also made wide noodles, but such thin noodles, not to mention he had never made them, he had never even eaten them.

He carefully picked up a strand of noodles and praised: "Girl, your noodles are so thin, really as thin as silver threads, no wonder they are called silver thread noodles."