Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 333 This dish smells so good, everyone, come and eat quickly!

Shen Yu looked at everyone, smiled, and poured a spoonful of stewed pig's feet into his own bowl.

I picked up a piece with chopsticks and took a bite without hesitation to taste whether it was delicious.

After stewing on low heat for more than half an hour, the pig's feet have been stewed to the boneless state. The bones come out with a slight pull. The stewed meat is soft and chewy.

The skin on the outside is chewy, the fat on the inside is fatty but not greasy, and the lean meat is fragrant, juicy and delicious.

Shen Yu squinted his eyes in enjoyment. He hadn't eaten this dish for a long time. It was really delicious.

The rich soup gleams with an oily light under the candlelight, soaking the snow-white rice and emitting bursts of tempting aroma.

Shen Yu couldn't help but eat a piece of stewed pig's trotter in just a few bites, and then scooped up the rice covered with soup and a few grains of fragrant glutinous soybeans with a spoon and put it into his mouth.

After swallowing the food in her mouth, she sighed with contentment and looked at everyone expectantly.

Li and the others all looked at Shen Yu eagerly as she tasted the stewed pig's trotter. They saw that she was eating it with relish and finished the whole piece of pig's trotter with a look of enjoyment on her face.

The last bit of resistance that everyone had towards stewed pig's feet disappeared.

Just when he was thinking of serving a little bit to taste first, Yu Cheng couldn't hold back any longer.

He took the soup spoon, scooped a full spoonful of stewed pig's feet and put it in the bowl in front of Li, and asked in confusion: "Mom, what's wrong with you today?"

"Why aren't you eating? You just watch me eat alone!"

"This dish smells so good, everyone come and eat it quickly."

Having said that, he and Dun Dun filled everyone's bowl with a large spoonful of braised pork trotters with soybeans, and finally the two of them filled their own bowls with a spoonful each.

Yucheng and Dundun had been hungry for a long time. Now that the dishes were divided, they didn't care whether others ate or not. They quickly picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of soft and chewy stewed pig's trotter, and took a big bite.

The Li family and their friends originally wanted to take a small piece of pig's trotter to taste it first, for fear that they might not be able to finish it and it would be wasted if they took too much.

Unexpectedly, Yucheng and Dundun directly served a large spoonful of soup to everyone.

Several people looked at the three or four pieces of pig's feet in their bowls and smelled the fragrant soup. Then they looked at Yu Cheng and the others who were eating happily. They simply stopped thinking about what the dish was made of and each picked up a piece and started eating.

After a few bites, everyone's expressions at the table changed.

The disdain and hesitation that Li and the others had concealed at first turned into surprise and delight.

The first ones to express their love for the food were the two boys who ate without asking about the ingredients.

"Sister, this stew is so delicious, much better than stewed pork ribs."

"Sister Yuzhi, this meat is chewy and tender. It's really delicious to chew."

The two of them were chewing stewed pig's feet, their mouths were greasy and they looked intoxicated.

"Although it looks quite fatty, it is not greasy to eat. It melts in your mouth. The lean meat is particularly fragrant. It is really delicious. I haven't eaten such delicious meat dishes in a long time."

Yucheng finished one piece and quickly picked up another one.

He looked at the stewed pig's trotter with only one piece left in his bowl, then looked at the large casserole on the table. He wanted to eat a few more pieces, but was afraid that his mother would not allow him to eat more in the evening.

After holding it in for a while, Yu Cheng couldn't hold it in any longer, so he asked tentatively, "Mom, can I have another spoonful after I finish the bowl?"

At this time, Li had also eaten a piece of stewed pig's trotter.

She was thinking about how to recommend such a delicious dish to diners and how to make them accept it instead of rejecting it as soon as they heard that it was made from pig's trotters.

She was eating and thinking, and when she heard Yu Cheng asking her a question, she didn't pay much attention and just answered casually: "Okay, just serve yourself whatever you want to eat."

The people around were all surprised when they heard it.

Ever since that time when Li couldn't hold back and Yu Cheng started to act like a spoiled brat and said he wasn't full, she let the two of them eat more in the evening.

At night, Yucheng and Dundun ate too much and drank some cold tea, so they had stomachaches in the middle of the night. The whole family was worried and couldn't sleep all night.

I watched over the two of them while I made hawthorn malt drink and rubbed their stomachs. If it wasn't too late, the doctor would probably have been called back.

Fortunately, Yucheng and Dundun walked to school every day, and their bodies were much stronger than before. They gradually felt better in the second half of the night, and everyone managed to take a nap with their clothes on.

From then on, Li hardened her heart and watched the two of them eat dinner, not allowing them to eat more. If there was a dish they really wanted to eat, she would leave a portion for them and heat it up for them at breakfast, but she would never allow them to eat too much at night.

Over time, Yucheng got used to being rejected. Today, Li agreed for the first time, and Yucheng was a little stunned.

Shen Yu smiled and said, "Give me one more piece. The pig's feet are delicious, but you can't eat too much at night."

"There's still a lot in this casserole. I'll leave a portion for you and Dun Dun. I'll make you some pork trotter noodles tomorrow morning, okay?"

As she spoke, Shen Yu picked up a large piece of meat for Yucheng and Dundun and put it in their bowls: "You can't just eat meat without vegetables. The vinegar-fried cabbage made by Sister Zheng today tastes especially good. You should eat more too."

Yu Cheng's eyes rolled around and he leaned over to whisper something in Dun Dun's ear.

Dun Dun looked at Jiang and Li, then shook his head slightly at Yu Cheng, who then looked eagerly at Shen Yu.

Shen Yu found it funny and asked, "What are you two up to? Tell me about it."

Yu Cheng chuckled and said, "Big sister, I see there are quite a lot of dishes in this casserole. Can you leave some for us and take it to school for lunch tomorrow?"

"It's been too cold recently. After lunch, I'm hungry before school is over. My brother Dun Dun and I feel like we can't carry our school boxes when we walk back home."

As soon as Shen Yu said this, before she could say anything else, the two mothers, Li and Jiang, took it to heart.

Li asked anxiously, "Isn't the lunch provided by your college enough? Why didn't you mention getting hungry before?"

Dun Dun answered honestly, "My uncle Qiu from the academy accidentally slipped and fell while shopping a few days ago and injured his leg."

"These days, Aunt Qiu and Yang Songtao buy some ingredients for the academy's cooking nearby."

"Our college is outside the city gate. The market for buying vegetables is far away, and we don't buy much vegetables. Merchants are unwilling to deliver food just for our college."

"Recently, I often eat Chinese cabbage and tofu. Eggs, chickens and ducks can only be bought in nearby villages. Otherwise, I have nothing to eat."

"The food is not oily, so I feel full when I eat it, but I get hungry much faster than before."

Yu Cheng pouted and said, "Not only me and Dun Dun are feeling hungry quickly, several of my classmates have secretly brought snacks to eat these past two days."

"But the gentleman once said that a man should not always focus on eating and drinking. Otherwise, we would have wanted to bring some candied date cakes or something."

Li suddenly became anxious: "You two silly boys, why didn't you say it earlier?"