Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 793 Grandpa's Braised Pig's Trotter

She washed her hands and face, sat down and said, "Of course I came back according to the time. I whipped the horse so hard that it almost produced sparks. The horse was panting with exhaustion. I must feed it something good tonight."

After saying that, he looked at the braised pig's trotters on the table and asked happily, "Who made this?"

The old man coughed.

Zhou Su smiled and said, "My husband made this. He said you like it the most and he wants to eat it too. There are so many of us, so we can each have one."

The whole family laughed. In fact, they all knew that the old man wanted an apprentice. If he wanted to cook, it was up to him. Anyway, they had all the seasonings needed at home. Zhou Guo liked these braised foods the most. There were a lot of these eight-cornered fragrant tree leaves in the house.

Zhou Guo smacked his lips twice, looked at the old man and said, "Master, this looks delicious."

The old man reached out and picked one up, "Then I have to eat mine first, lest you eat mine in the end."

Everyone laughed and said, "Then I have to take it first, because each person only has one."

There really is one for each person, even the smallest flower has one.

Zhou Guo was speechless. "I'm not that hungry today, and I'm not that greedy."

Sometimes she gets so carried away while eating that she wants to eat up other people’s portions, but doesn’t that mean she is enjoying her meal to the fullest?

Unconvinced, he said, "Besides, I only did it twice, why haven't you forgotten it?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, he looked at Xiaohua's portion and said with a smile, "Xiaohua, your teeth haven't even grown in yet, can you chew this pig's trotter? You definitely can't finish it, right?"

Li put her pig's trotter into Zhou Guo's plate and said, "Alright, Xiaohua, you're still thinking about her. You're so grown up, but you're still fighting with your niece for food. Isn't that embarrassing?"

Wu Ya smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, mother. Xiaohua can't eat it anyway, so give this pig's trotter to Guoguo."

He stood up and put the pig's trotter into Zhou Guo's plate.

Zhou Guo felt really embarrassed now, so he took it back and said, "Sister-in-law, I was just kidding, teasing her, just give it to her."

Wu Ya said: "She can't finish it, I can just tear off some skin from mine and give it to her, you eat it, I can't finish two, you eat more."

Xiaohua smiled at her.

Zhou Guo was very embarrassed, "Then I'll eat it?"

Zhou Gu said, "Eat it. How old is she? How much can she eat? Besides, there are so many delicious foods on the table. She doesn't like pig's trotters that much."

Zhou Guo took Li's cup and gave it back to her. "Mom, you can have one too. I already have two."

Li smiled and said, "You can eat it. Mom eats it every now and then at home. She doesn't need this pig's trotter. Don't you like it the most?"

Zhou Guo happily took it back and looked down. There was a large piece of soft and bright red stewed pig's trotter tendon in the bowl. She was stunned and looked over. She saw Zhou Su beside her still tearing the tendon vigorously.

After much difficulty, he tore it off and put it into her bowl, smiling and saying, "Sister, this tendon is your favorite, you eat it."

Zhou Mai also cut out his own tendon and gave it to her.

The old man said, "Next time, just braise the pig's tendon. You really know how to eat it. You are not very picky."

As he spoke, he pulled out his own pig's tendons and put them into her bowl. There wasn't much tendon in a pig's trotter to begin with.

Zhou Guo looked at Li Lai beside Zhou Su, who was also picking tendons, and said hurriedly, "Alright, alright, alright, that's enough, you guys can eat it by yourselves, this little bit of tendons is not enough to fill my teeth, let's go get some ox trotters tomorrow, there are more tendons in them."

After hearing what she said, everyone at the table gave up. It was really not enough to fill her stomach, and it was the same as not eating anything.

Zhou Mi shook his head and said, "It's not easy to buy beef hooves. There isn't much beef to begin with. It's luck to meet a butcher."

Zhou Gu said, "I'll go to a few nearby counties tomorrow to have a look. They have beef but no ox trotters. But that stuff is really delicious."

They had eaten it a few times a few years ago, but they never saw it sold again.

The tendons were cooked until they were soft, absorbed the soup, melted in the mouth, and were extremely delicious.

Zhou Guo still eats it. According to what they did in previous years, it would be good enough to have some meat to eat. Who would have thought that there would be such a good thing in the cow's hooves!

Zhou Guo said: "No need, I'll bring some back this time."

Li was surprised and asked, "Where are you from?"

Zhou Guo said, "I bought it. I happened to come across a big market in another village when I came back. I saw someone selling cow hide and beef tendon at a meat stall, which means the cow leg bones have been removed. I bought all the tendons on the stall, and also a few beef tripes, which I can eat in hot pot tomorrow."

She likes going to the market the most.

I strolled around the market and saw wild fruits such as wild grapes and weights. I bought some to try, but I didn't see any new seeds. So I bought some beef tendons to bring back. These things are hard to come by in normal times.

The old man said, "You still have time to go to the market. It seems that you don't miss home at all. If you don't come back soon, the rice in your field will fall off."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "How could that be? I just wanted to go to the market to see if there was anything you guys liked to eat. I wanted to buy something new. But in the end, there wasn't much. Just some wild fruits and this beef tendon. We already have everything else at home, so why would I buy anything else?"

Everyone tried to hold back their laughter. The old man had grown older in the past two years and his temperament had become more like a child.

Zhou Guo didn't dare to say anything. He ate several pig's trotters in one breath, then he picked up the rice bowl with satisfaction and said to the old man: "Master, your braised pig's trotters are really the best in the world. If you run a stall in Yunzhou, you will definitely squeeze out all the other stalls."

This is true, everyone nodded, it is delicious.

Wu Ya smiled and said, "Xiaohua didn't like eating pig's trotters originally, but she ate a few pieces of this braised pig's trotter."

Zhou Guo took the opportunity to say, "Master, can you do it again tomorrow?"

The old man glared, "I became a cook? Haven't you heard that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen~~"

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "You remember this sentence clearly, but it doesn't apply to you. You have cooked so many meals, grilled fish, grilled meat, and pig's trotters. Don't you think it's too late to say this now? Besides, a gentleman stays away from the kitchen. If a gentleman is the only one left in his family and has no money to eat out, he will definitely starve to death! This sentence didn't originally mean this. You are quite good at making excuses for yourselves."

No one at the table interrupted.

The old man listened to the first few words and stopped listening to the rest. He sighed and said, "You talk too much. You have ten more words for every one you say."

Zhou Guo paused, then listened to him: "But home is really lively, it's better to have more liveliness."

The whole family laughed.

Li and Wu Ya felt the same way.

Zhou Guo is not at home, but Zhou Su and a few others are still there.

But now they have a lot of schoolwork to do, so every day after school they come home and eat, then go back to their room to do their homework, and then after eating they go back to read again.

In the huge yard, the only sound was Xiaohua's babbling laughter. He wanted to find someone to talk to but couldn't find anyone.