Chapter 12 Drinking Soup

The braised pig's feet were soft and chewy after being cooked, and they were also salty, fragrant, spicy, and fresh, which are unique to Hunan cuisine. Wang Yuanchao took a bite and slurped the fatty part of the chopped pig's feet into his mouth like jelly, chewing it up and swallowing it slowly.

This feeling made Wang Yuanchao feel elevated. It was true that only delicious food should not be missed.

The best black pig's feet, carefully cooked and braised, will give you a feeling of satisfaction and happiness when you put them in your mouth.

After eating a piece of soft and sticky pig's trotter, Wang Yuanchao picked up a piece of rice crust soaked in pig's trotter juice.

The crispy and fragrant rice crust mixed with the rich soup made from the essence of pig's trotters is such a refreshing feeling.

It feels so good to eat meat with big mouthfuls of food.

Wang Yuanchao, who had lived a lifetime in his previous life, was very clear in his mind.

This person, love yourself before loving others. In this world, nothing is more important than yourself. Although selfishness is not a good virtue, it can make you live comfortably.

However, the spirit of this era emphasizes dedication, doing good deeds, and glorifying labor, requiring everyone to be selfless.

This kind of social atmosphere is completely different from the previous life's atmosphere of pursuing development and money.

This is also the most troublesome thing for Wang Yuanchao after he traveled through time.

After Wang Yuanchao was born in his previous life, reform and opening up had just begun. At that time, the living environment of everyone was freer than it is now, and there was democracy and the rule of law.

As long as everyone does not break the law, they can behave however they want and no one can stop them.

But this era is about the common progress of society, the unity of the people of the whole country, and the common development of all people in the country.

Although the country is poor in this era, there are not too many temptations, the gap between the rich and the poor is not large, the country uniformly controls materials, people have little pressure in life, prices are very stable, and the mentality of the people is also very peaceful.

Selfishness is not welcome in this era, so Wang Yuanchao knows in his heart that he needs to find a balance point that fits this era in the character and words that have been shaped in his previous life, so that he can integrate into this era together with the light and the dust.

Otherwise, given the way he dealt with people and his words and deeds in his previous life, even if he went to the countryside, his life would be very dangerous.

In any era, people are always very repulsive to those who are different.

But these are not the most important things at the moment, so it’s enough to just keep them in mind.

After quickly finishing a bowl of rice, Wang Yuanchao touched his stomach which was a little full, stood up, walked to the faucet and washed the bowl.

Then he ordered the braised pork trotters to be served in a large bowl in front of the stove.

Wang Yuanchao put the remaining braised pork trotters in a large bowl, put it in the still space, and saved it for dinner.

Then he opened the lid of the pot for stewing pork ribs. The soup inside had already boiled. Wang Yuanchao put in the chopped radish, salt, MSG, and chili pepper. After adjusting the taste, he covered the pot and continued to cook.

Add some firewood to the stove where the pig's feet were stewed. After the stove is turned up, wash the pot, put in rapeseed oil, and when it turns red, add garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add green pepper, salt, MSG, and moldy beans, and start stir-frying.

A classic dish of stir-fried peppers. After frying them, Wang Yuanchao packed up the vegetables, turned off the fire in the stove, poured cold water into the iron pot, and used the residual heat to heat the cold water to wash the dishes later.

The remaining dish is stewed radish with rattan bones. It is not ready yet, so put it in the pot and cook it first.

Wang Yuanchao used a large bowl to fill a bowl with rice, and took some pig's feet from the small bowl and put them into the large bowl. Then he opened the kitchen door, took the pig's feet, peppers and rice out, and placed them on the table in the living room. My uncle's family then took the initiative to sit at the table and prepare to eat.

When my aunt saw Wang Yuanchao bring out the food, she stood up and took a look at the kitchen door. When she saw the food Wang Yuanchao had left for her on the table, she snorted and walked to the dining table with a bad look on her face without saying a word.

Wang Yuanchao ignored his aunt's strange look and said calmly,

"There is another dish, stewed radish with rattan bones. It needs to be stewed for a while longer to soften the bones. I'm afraid you are hungry, so I'll bring out the side dishes and let you eat first."

After Uncle Wang came to the table, he served himself some rice and started eating. He ate mouthfuls of pork trotter with relish and didn't want to talk at all.

The second elder brother Wang Mingyi and the third elder brother Wang Mingren from my uncle's family also showed no interest in Wang Yuanchao.

After taking a bite of the pig's trotter, the eldest brother Wang Mingli's eyes lit up. He was very satisfied with the taste of today's braised pig's trotter. He said, "Got it, Yuan Chao. Today's dish is delicious.

Your cooking skills are getting better and better. You go down first. When the rattan bones are stewed, you can bring them over."

Wang Yuanchao was not angry when he saw Wang Mingli ordering him around like a servant. After all, this was the living environment of the original owner, and he would be running away in a few days. There was no need to fight to the death with the people of the Wang family over such a small matter.

Wang Yuanchao’s idea was very simple. Either don’t take action, or if you do, you must kill these people in one go so that they cannot stand up. This is Wang Yuanchao’s character.

This kind of petty quarrel not only arouses conflicts, makes your living environment worse in the past few days, and brings you unexpected troubles.

It will not bring any benefit at all. With the life wisdom that Wang Yuanchao has gained throughout his life, he would never do it.

So when Wang Yuanchao heard Wang Mingli's words, he nodded expressionlessly and walked back into the kitchen.

After closing the kitchen door, Wang Yuanchao put the food on the table into a quiet space, and went to the stove to wait for the rattan bones to boil into a thick juice.

In his previous life, Wang Yuanchao liked to drink bone soup, especially bones stewed with radish, because radish is nutritious and is known as small ginseng.

Drinking the soup made from bones and radishes warms the stomach, replenishes Qi, increases nutrition for bones, and promotes bone growth throughout the body. It also tastes good and was Wang Yuanchao's favorite for health preservation in his previous life.

After the soup in the big iron pot turned milky white, Wang Yuanchao adjusted the seasoning, put two pieces of rattan bones and a bowl of bone soup in a large bowl, and then sprinkled some chopped green onions in the bowl.

After stirring it with a rice spoon, Wang Yuanchao started to drink the bone soup little by little with the spoon.

Wang Yuanchao was about to go to the countryside, but he would not save food and oil for the Wang family. Today's meal consumed half of the rapeseed oil of the Wang family.

These days, all the people are short of oil. To what extent? The monthly quota for each person with urban household registration is only two taels of oil, so in order to have some oil in their stomachs and a little meat ticket, everyone would save some to grab fat meat and suet for oil pressing.

If anyone knew that Wang Yuanchao added oil like this when cooking, his grandmother would be so angry that she would jump up and down, and his mother would want to cry and would beat Wang Yuanchao with a broom until he flew away.

But the current Wang Yuanchao is a time traveler from the future. Who wouldn’t be willing to use oil when cooking in those days?

It's not like now, when we boil cabbage in water every day and put two drops of oil in the soup, it can make people feel distressed for a long time?

But would Wang Yuanchao, who has ecological space, care about this little bit of oil? Would he? Of course not.

(End of this chapter)

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