Rebirth: A Super Foodie and Her Cat Demon Husband

We came early today, so we have more time to cook.

Liu Yuanyuan then made two main dishes: a vegetarian braised pork, a sweet and sour vegetarian pork ribs, and a vegetarian Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. Only one of the dishes, the salted egg yolk chicken wings, used real meat.

When Liu Yuanyuan brought out the food, the two old men drooled at the sight.

Mr. Lu sighed with shining eyes, "Yuanyuan is so thoughtful! I haven't had braised pork and sweet and sour spareribs in such a long time. I miss them so much! Come on, change a big bowl for rice for me."

Aunt Wang, who was standing by, couldn't help but laugh secretly after hearing what Mr. Lu said. She was afraid that when she picked up her chopsticks, she would find that it was not real braised pork.

But she didn't say anything and still changed a big bowl for Mr. Lu and filled it with a big bowl of rice.

After all, Mr. Tang ate two more meals than Mr. Lu, so he felt Liu Yuanyuan wouldn't easily let them eat something high in cholesterol and purine. So, he reserved his opinion and didn't request a larger bowl of rice. However, the color and aroma of the dishes prepared today still made him salivate.

As soon as Mr. Lu got the rice, he picked up the chopsticks and reached for the braised pork without hesitation.

Liu Yuanyuan didn't pick up her chopsticks, but pursed her lips and looked at her grandfather with a smile.

In her previous life, her grandfather loved this dish very much, but he rarely made it because it was too time-consuming. She believed that in this life, her grandfather would still fall in love with this dish at first sight.

Mr. Lu picked up a piece of braised pork that Liu Yuanyuan had cut into just the right size, blew on it, and couldn't wait to put it in his mouth.

After taking this bite, Mr. Lu couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly and looked like he was enjoying it.

Mr. Lu quickly swallowed the braised pork that almost melted in his mouth. He then scooped the braised pork sauce with a spoon and poured it over the rice. He smiled and said to Liu Yuanyuan, "This braised pork is well made and delicious, but the texture is a little loose. Is it because the meat was not purchased in the right place?"

After hearing what Mr. Lu said, Liu Yuanyuan and Aunt Wang couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Liu Yuanyuan smiled and said, "Grandpa Lu, take another piece and try it carefully. Grandpa Tang, try it too. See how it differs from ordinary braised pork."

Mr. Tang raised his eyebrows and curiously picked up a piece of braised pork and savored it carefully.

As he ate, Mr. Tang's brows furrowed slightly. After taking a sip of the vegetarian Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, he looked at Liu Yuanyuan and said, "Girl, this isn't meat, is it?"

Liu Yuanyuan chuckled and added a piece of vegetarian braised pork. After taking a bite and tasting it, she nodded and said with a smile, "This isn't made with real meat. The texture and flavor should be very similar to real braised pork for you old people. Grandpa Tang, the fact that you can taste it shows that you have a very keen sense of taste. So can you taste what this is made of?"

Liu Yuanyuan deliberately acted pretentiously, looking at Mr. Tang expectantly. Mr. Tang took another big bite of the braised pork, turning the remaining piece of braised pork with his chopsticks as he ate.

Meanwhile, Mr. Lu was surprised. “What? This isn’t made of real meat, but the texture and taste are just like real braised pork.”

"Grandpa Lu, trust me. Aside from the salted egg yolk chicken wings, which are made with real meat, the rest are all vegetarian."

"What?" Mr. Lu stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the vegetarian spareribs with an incredulous look on his face.

After taking a bite, I found that this was indeed not real ribs, because the bones in the middle could actually be bitten and eaten. It was just that the appearance and taste were very similar to ribs.

Because the bones in the middle are edible, Mr. Lu guessed that the crispy part in the middle should be lotus root, and he really couldn't tell what the meat-like thing on the outside was.

The two old men ate a piece of spare ribs and a piece of braised pork, then finally put down their chopsticks, shook their heads, and said helplessly to Liu Yuanyuan, "Okay, little girl, stop keeping us in suspense and tell us what this is made of."

Liu Yuanyuan grinned, pointing to the braised pork and saying, "It's very simple. It's actually winter melon, tofu and mushrooms, and the spare ribs are tofu and lotus root. It just looks and tastes more like the real thing. I can make it for you today because I came early and had time. How is it? Do you find that vegetarian dishes can be delicious?"

The two old men couldn't help but nod in admiration. Old Man Lu smiled and said, "Girl, your cooking skills are quite good. I like this braised pork. If all the vegetarian dishes were made like this, I could eat two big bowls of rice every meal. Amin, you have to learn from this."

Aunt Wang said with a smile: "Young lady has taught me, and I have memorized it, but it is a laborious task. If I have time, I will cook it for you."

Liu Yuanyuan was still a little uncomfortable with Aunt Wang calling her "Miss" recently, so she quickly waved her hand and said, "Aunt Wang, just call me Yuanyuan. I'm not a Miss."

Aunt Wang said to Liu Yuanyuan with a kind look, "Miss, in my eyes, you are the real lady. Compared with the old man's children and grandchildren, you care about him the most.

Although Aunt Wang understood that Xuewen, his wife, and their children all had their own jobs and careers to attend to, the old man was old after all, and she should make more time to spend with him on weekends.

Aunt Wang thinks this is her duty. But you've seen that no one comes to see the old man every week, except you, young lady.

After hearing what Aunt Wang said, Mr. Lu looked at Aunt Wang with approval.

Others might think that Aunt Wang was a caregiver at the nursing home, but she was actually Mr. Lu's own daughter. She was even considered a goddaughter. It was just that Aunt Wang didn't acknowledge her, feeling that being the Lu family's goddaughter was too high a step.

So after Mr. Lu found out about Liu Yuanyuan, he told Aunt Wang the first thing he did when he came back.

This shows that Mr. Lu has absolute trust in Aunt Wang.

However, Liu Yuanyuan had never known about this relationship from her previous life until now.

Liu Yuanyuan also always thought that Aunt Wang was just a kind and friendly live-in aunt.

The aunt Wang who was trusted by the old man was named Wang Min, and she was a child from a poor mountainous area.

At that time, girls were not only worthless, but also considered as money-losing goods.

When Wang Min was 14 years old, his father planned to sell him to earn some money for his younger brother's education.

But at that time, the government had launched literacy classes, which also reached the mountainous areas like hers. So by then, Wang Min had learned some words, read some books, and understood some principles.

She knew that studying was the only way out for people like her. But even if she knew these principles, it was useless. After all, in a place like this, she had no say.

After her resistance failed, she was beaten and even locked up. After that, Wang Min chose to remain silent, making her father and mother think that she had accepted and compromised. Then they released her and let her continue to do farm work and miscellaneous chores at home.

Finally one day, Wang Min felt that he had saved enough dry food to carry with him, so he secretly ran away from that house.

But she was only 14 years old after all, and in these 14 years, apart from the literacy team that came to teach them, she had never seen any outsiders, and had never even left the mountain, so she got lost in the deep mountains and forests.

Just when he thought he was going to starve to death or freeze to death in the deep mountains, he happened to run into Mr. Lu, who was a member of the scientific expedition team when he was young.