MTL - Go Back To 1980 and Enjoy It

Chapter 4 What are the conditions at home? Do you dare to eat oil like this?

 The sun sets in the west.

Every household in Naye Village is lighting a fire to cook.

In the Deng Shirong family, except for the second son Deng Yunheng, who had already gone to school, the other six children gathered in the kitchen and craned their necks to watch him cooking.

At this time, Deng Shirong was beating eggs, one after another into the big bowl, and soon he had beaten all the more than ten eggs in the basket.

This scene made the six children think in the same way.

Deng Yunzhen, who has been cooking for the past few years, is naturally very distressed. If she were to cook so many eggs, she would be able to eat at least several meals!

Deng Yunhua and Deng Yunheng, who are still young, their eyes lit up when they saw more than ten eggs. On average, they could eat at least two, which was really great!

 Deng Shirong used chopsticks to break up the eggs in the bowl, shred the washed green peppers, and smash the garlic used for seasoning. After doing this, he started to prepare the market paste water.

Shijiao is a Hakka dialect, and its title is soy sauce paste. It is a brown-black oil paste-like condiment specially made from black beans. It is rich in southern flavor. Its color is brown and yellow, and its aroma is tangy. It is deeply loved by the people. People love it, and the Yulin area where Deng Shirong is located is exactly where it comes from.

Deng Shirong took out a bowl, dug out a small ball of market paste about the size of his thumb from the market paste cup, put it in the bowl, added a little water, and dissolved it until ready.

At this time, the eldest daughter Deng Yunzhen had already washed the pot, and Deng Shirong said: "Azhen, you can light the fire!"

 “Okay.” Deng Yunzhen responded, then sat in front of the stove and started to light the fire.

Soon, the pot was hot. Deng Shirong picked up the spatula and shoveled it into the oil can. He shoveled a spatula full of lard into the iron pot. The solidified lard melted quickly in the high temperature iron pot.

This scene shocked his six children!

 What are the conditions at home, do you dare to eat oil like this?

Deng Yunzhen jumped up from the stove as if her **** was on fire. While reaching out to grab the spatula in her father's hand, she said distressedly: "Dad, you'd better let me cook!"

Deng Shirong pushed her hand away and said, "I'll do it. I can cook it better than you."

If she were not facing her beloved father, Deng Yunzhen would definitely have to say something foul: If I was willing to put in so much oil, let alone scrambled eggs, even if I cut them with a belt and fry them, they would definitely be delicious, right?

Seeing that her father insisted on frying, Deng Yunzhen couldn't help but remind him: "Dad, you put too much oil in it!"

Deng Shirong naturally understood the meaning of his eldest daughter's words. The can of lard in their family was used for a whole year. They didn't usually eat stir-fried vegetables at home. Occasionally, they would only save on stir-fried vegetables if they could. Just moisten the pot a little bit.

 Only for stir-frying during Chinese New Year and festivals, a little more oil will be added than usual.

But now, for the sake of the New Year and the holidays, Deng Shirong even put a big spatula of lard in a dish when cooking. This kind of behavior is not allowed to happen in poor rural areas. Even in those big cities, I am afraid not many people are willing to eat lard like this. of.

 The key is that you feel good eating now. After the lard in the oil tank is gone, how will you live the next life without any oil at all?

"It's okay. The remaining oil can last for a while. I'll think of a solution then." As he spoke, Deng Shirong saw that the oil was almost hot, so he poured beaten eggs into the pot.

 The eggs are put into the pan and expand rapidly due to the heat of the oil. Deng Shirong uses a spatula to turn the eggs over so that both sides of the eggs are evenly heated. When both sides of the eggs become slightly brown, he puts the eggs on a plate next to him.

 Leave oil in the pan, add green pepper and stir-fry.

After the green peppers are fried until they are raw, put the eggs on the plate into the pot and stir-fry together. At the same time, use a spatula to break up the eggs, add an appropriate amount of salt, stir-fry a few times, add the crushed garlic, and then pour it along the edge of the pot. Add the market paste prepared previously.

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As soon as the market paste water met the hot oil, a strong fragrance rose from the pot. Deng Shirong quickly stir-fried it a few times. After the eggs and green peppers were evenly colored, he took it out of the pot and put it on the plate. The whole cooking process was very smooth. It was busy but not chaotic. It felt like everything was under control, which surprised the six brothers and sisters Deng Yunzhen.

Although they haven't eaten these two large plates of green pepper scrambled eggs and don't know how they taste, they look very appetizing from the appearance. They really didn't know that their father's cooking skills were so good.

Next, Deng Shirong washed the pot and fried two plates of beans and two plates of water spinach. Although they were both vegetarian dishes, he seemed very appetizing because he was willing to add oil.

After frying the vegetables, Deng Shirong put down the spatula in his hand, looked at his children who were already hungry and said, "Okay, let's start dinner!"

As soon as the words fell, the children started to move quickly. In less than a minute, they all filled up the rice and sat there waiting for Deng Shirong. Even the wine was poured for him. They were so fast that those in later generations didn't even bother to shout for a long time. There is a very sharp contrast in the children eating.

Deng Shirong washed his hands and came back to sit down. He picked up his chopsticks and said, "Eat them all!"

As he spoke, he took the lead and moved his chopsticks. When the children saw their father moving his chopsticks, they impatiently followed suit and started grabbing the two plates of scrambled eggs with green peppers.

 “Wow, it smells so good!”

 “It’s delicious, it’s really delicious!”

“It turns out that dad’s cooking skills are so good. This green pepper scrambled egg is much more delicious than what my eldest sister makes!”

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 Hearing the praises of his children, Deng Shirong felt quite proud.

 At this time in his previous life, he actually had no cooking skills to speak of. After all, before he got married, his mother cooked. After he got married, it was his wife who cooked. After his wife died of illness, it was his eldest daughter who cooked. After the eldest daughter got married, it was the younger daughter's turn to cook.

 After his youngest daughter got married, he lived with his sons for several more years.

It wasn’t until Deng Shirong lived alone in his hometown in the countryside that he began to learn to cook.

As it turned out, he didn't know anything if he didn't learn it. He was shocked when he learned it. He actually had a very good talent for cooking. He could learn all kinds of dishes and became good at it in a while.

In just a few months, his cooking skills were already as good as those of professional chefs!

It can be said that with Deng Shirong's cooking talent, if he had the conditions to learn from a powerful chef when he was young, I am afraid that he would have a place in the chef world in our country.

The six children were quite satisfied with this meal. The older ones, Deng Yuntai, Deng Yunzhen, Deng Yunzhu, and Deng Yunsong, each had three bowls of rice as a base.

 The two younger ones, Deng Yunhua and Deng Yunheng, also ate two large bowls of rice.

After eating to full, Deng Yunsong couldn’t help stroking his belly and sighed: “If I can eat like this every day from now on, it will really be like a fairy life!”

Deng Shirong couldn't help but sigh after hearing this. No one living in this era could have imagined that China would embark on a path of rapid development in the more than 40 years after reform and opening up, and the entire country would undergo earth-shaking changes.

From now on, let alone eating scrambled eggs with green peppers every day, you can even eat pork every day, and not just a few families with good conditions, but most families across the country have the conditions to eat this way.

In such a prosperous age, even the great man who single-handedly created this miracle may not be able to think of it at this moment, right?

ps: Dear friends, if possible, try to read the book on the Qidian Chinese website. There are pictures by the author here. If you eat them together with the text, the effect will be better^_^

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