The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chen Cui picked a few cucumbers and tomatoes, pinched a handful of beans, smuggled a few peppers out of the space, then went to the front yard and started cooking dinner.

Cold cucumber salad, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and stir-fried pork with peppers and beans are the three dishes for dinner. They are very homely, but the portions are large and they are all served in small bowls.

Cucumber and tomato are fine, as children have been eating them since they were young, so there is nothing strange about them. But when it comes to stir-fried beans with peppers, they both love and fear them.

The seeds of this pepper were bought by my mother last year, and she planted them in the backyard in the early spring of this year.

Originally, I thought this thing looked ordinary, but after my mother picked a few peppers and fried them a few days ago, the three brothers became fascinated with it.

After the meal was ready, Chen Cui called the children over to eat.

When the three children saw the dishes on the table, their eyes lit up.

The third brother, Changfu, especially, stared at the plate of fried pork with peppers and beans, picked up a steamed bun and started showing off.

"Ah! So spicy!"

Changfu yelled, opened his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and panted like a puppy.

Chen Cui looked at his fearful yet fond expression and laughed, "Eat slowly, don't choke."

She handed him the cooled rice soup. Changfu held the bowl and gulped down a few sips. Only then did he feel much better.

Although it was very spicy, the third brother couldn't help but pick up another bean.

While chewing, he mumbled, "Delicious, really delicious!"

Changping and Changan also like this stir-fried pork with peppers and beans. Although it is summer, their mouths feel spicy after eating it, and their noses and foreheads sweat involuntarily, but the refreshing feeling after eating it is very comfortable.

"Mom, this dish is worthy of being called chili. It is much spicier than dogwood, but it tastes better than dogwood." Changping exclaimed.

Although dogwood is the main source of spicy flavor nowadays, the spicy taste is not so strong, and it also has a bitter taste, which will ruin the overall taste of the dish.

That is why dogwood is not so popular.

Poor people have limited seasonings for cooking, and they rely entirely on the flavor of the ingredients themselves. Since dogwood can't add flavor to the dishes, it is rarely used, unless you really like spicy food.

Another important reason is that spicy food can easily stimulate appetite. If you add dogwood to the dishes, whether it is steamed buns or rice, the consumption rate will be faster.

Nowadays, housewives live frugally. They calculate in advance how much rice and grain will be consumed in the whole month and how much rice and flour will be used for daily meals.

What if the limit is exceeded when eating that day, and it is my own children and grandchildren who eat extra? I cannot beat or scold them, and I feel very upset.

A good mother-in-law might keep her anger to herself, but if she encounters a bad one, she will take it out on her daughter-in-law, causing unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, ordinary farmers do not like to add dogwood to their dishes.

The spiciness of chili peppers is relatively pure, and when paired with suitable dishes, they can complement each other and enhance the flavors of each other.

Several children ate while inhaling air with a hissing sound, but they couldn't help but put more food into their mouths.

Chen Cui would not restrict the children from eating a few steamed buns or bowls of noodles in one meal, unless they ate too much and she was afraid that their stomachs would be upset, then she would stop them.

In fact, she only put three or four chili peppers in this dish because she was afraid that eating too much spicy food would cause a sore throat.

But she didn't expect the taste to be so spicy that even Chen Cui herself couldn't stand it.

She had damaged her stomach when she was young in her previous life, and as she got older, she could only eat light food to stay healthy. She hadn't touched such heavy-tasting food for many years.

But now, seeing the children eating so happily, she couldn't help but stretch out her chopsticks. After just two bites, she couldn't stand it anymore.

Suisui saw that her brothers and mother were so fond of this dish. She looked at the meat porridge in her bowl and suddenly felt that it was not so delicious.

She reached out and tugged at her brother's sleeve, pointed at the dish of stir-fried pork with chili and beans, and called softly, "Brother."

Changping was just about to persuade his sister to give up the idea patiently, when he heard his mother say, "Give her a chopstick to try."

Changping looked up in astonishment: "Mother?"

Chen Cui: "No matter how spicy you say it is, and tell her she can't eat it, she won't understand. It's better to let her experience it for herself, so she won't ask for it next time."

It is normal for such a young child to want to eat something when seeing adults eating it. After letting her taste it, she will understand that it is not something she can eat, and she will not do it again next time.

At most, the baby will cry a few times due to the spiciness, and then you can comfort him/her. This can save you a lot of trouble.

Changping picked up a piece of chili with chopsticks and put it in the small bowl in front of Suisui. He watched her happily use the small wooden spoon to put it into her mouth and chew it hard a few times.

Then, Sui Sui suddenly opened his eyes wide in disbelief, his eye circles suddenly turned red, and then he started crying with his mouth wide open, spitting out the chili in his mouth while crying.

Changping had already prepared rice soup and quickly brought it to her mouth for her to drink to reduce the spiciness.

But Suisui refused to drink the rice soup brought by his elder brother because the chili peppers were brought by him.

Chen Cui hurried over and coaxed her softly, telling her that the peppers were very spicy and she couldn't eat them, and then offered her some warm goat milk.

Sui Sui drank the bowl of goat's milk with red eyes. The strange feeling in his mouth seemed to disappear a lot. He hugged Chen Cui's neck and sobbed softly.

Changping approached her to talk to her, but she ignored him and turned her head to the other side. It was obvious that she was resentful of her elder brother for making her suffer with the mouth.

Chen Cui shook her head gently towards Changping, indicating that he should not come over now and wait until tomorrow.

After waking up from a good sleep, the child might forget what happened today.

Sure enough, the next morning, when Changping came to hug Suisui, she refused slightly but then accepted it.

After all, the eldest brother is the tallest and strongest, so he can lift her the highest. She really can't resist that feeling of being high above!

However, from then on, whenever the family cooked dishes with chili peppers, including beans, she would stay away from them and never touch them. She even secretly covered her mouth, looking as if she was still frightened.

Within three or four days after the rain, the corn in the field sprouted. Basically, there were enough seedlings in every hole, and there was very little need to replenish them.

Chen Cui also went to Liu Youcai's corn field to take a look. Seeing the same situation everywhere, she thought that the situation in her mother's field in Chenjiagou should be similar. She was finally relieved.

At this time, the busy farming season is coming to an end and the children are about to go back to school.

In fact, no matter how busy they were in the fields, the children never forgot to study every day. When they had free time in the fields, they also discussed the contents of the books.

However, there were some questions that they just couldn’t figure out no matter what, so they kept them up and planned to ask the teacher after school started, so they were looking forward to going to school.