Chapter 20 - Laba Porridge
It took more than half a month to grow crops, and when everyone was free, they realized that it was time for the Chinese New Year.
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, both Zhou and Yu prepared Laba porridge.
It’s just that Su Qiao was instructing how to make Laba porridge this time, and the resulting Laba porridge tasted very good.
Laba porridge is made from red beans, red beans, coix seed, black beans, red peanuts, mung beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, brown sugar and other materials.
Because some materials are not available in the current Chen family and Su family, so their family does not have such things as wheat kernels, fragrant rice, red rice and black rice.
Soak coix seed, red beans, black beans, mung beans, and red peanuts for three hours, and soak rice and glutinous rice for two hours.
After the beans are boiled over high heat, add the soaked rice and continue to boil. When the Laba porridge is boiled until soft and glutinous, put the processed longan and red dates in and continue to cook for a while.
When all the ingredients of Laba Congee are soft and glutinous, pour in the brown sugar and stir. When the sugar is melted, it can be served.
Of course, Su Qiao’s command was just to control the heat. Zhou and Yu knew better about the various steps and materials, so he didn’t intervene.
A bowl of sweet and glutinous Laba porridge was cooked, and both Zhou and Su Qiao were very happy to eat.
Su Qiao still didn’t forget his wife, and ran from home to Chen’s house with his own porridge bowl, intending to feed his wife the soft boiled Laba porridge.
“Yo, Su Qiao still remember to feed Nuan Nuan? Are you so concerned about Nuan Nuan?” Chen Xunyang couldn’t help laughing when he saw that Su Qiao came to his sister with a bowl of Laba porridge, and when he saw that he was going to feed his sister Laba porridge.
“But Su Qiao, no matter how much you hurt Nuan Nuan, Nuan Nuan still can’t eat it now.” Yu looked at Su Qiao coming over with a bowl to feed Nuan Nuan to eat Laba porridge, and couldn’t help laughing.
“Auntie, Nuan Nuan wants to eat. I won’t give her these porridge, she can drink some soup.” Su Qiao said to Shi seriously.
“Oh?” Mrs. Yu looked at Su Qiao, and then looked at the chubby little girl over there who was only less than two months old. She was looking at Su Qiao…the porridge bowl in her hand.
Seeing her daughter’s greedy appearance, Yu couldn’t help laughing even more, “Nuan Nuan, you girl, you are really a greedy cat.”
“Okay, you can just give Nuan Nuan some porridge soup.” Yu didn’t stop Su Qiao anymore, and she felt ashamed when she saw her daughter’s greedy expression.
After Su Qiao got Yu’s answer, he took a spoon and scooped up a little bit of porridge and handed it to Nuan Nuan’s mouth. Nuan Nuan’s eyes lit up, and he bent his eyes and stretched out his tongue to lick the porridge on the spoon.
The Laba porridge made by the Zhou family has been boiled for a long time, and the rice and so on have become soft and rotten. Su Qiao let Nuan Nuan eat a little porridge while the Yu family and the others were not paying attention.
Nuan Nuan smiled even more happily, this is the real husband. Knowing that she was a little baby after her rebirth, she was already craving for other delicacies except for milk every day, so she gave her Laba porridge at this time.
Su Qiao hurts his wife very much. Of course, he also knows how much his wife likes to eat. This is a foodie who is more greedy than his sister, so Su Qiao will give such a child less than two months old. The girl eats Laba porridge.
Yu looked at Su Qiao with his tender and beautiful little face, eating (licking) Laba porridge for Nuan Nuan with a straight face, and couldn’t help but smile and said, “Su Qiao, you are so kind to us Nuan Nuan, can it be? Are you really planning to be our son-in-law in the future?”
“Yeah.” Su Qiao nodded without thinking, and acknowledged Yu’s words.
“Auntie, I like Nuan Nuan very much. I will work very hard in the future, and then let Nuan Nuan live a good life.” Su Qiao said to Shi seriously.
The owner of the Chen family: “…”
Even Yu, who was the first to tease, couldn’t help feeling depressed. She was just joking with a child. How could this child be so serious?
But Yu didn’t take it to heart. The adults only talked about things between children, but they didn’t say that it was just a joke and they would order baby kisses for the children.
However, the Yu family did not take it to heart, but the Chen family and his son did take it to heart, and all of them waited for Su Qiao with ugly expressions.
After all, Su Qiao is an ability warrior who has experienced apocalyptic slaughter, and turns a blind eye to the fierce eyes of his future father-in-law and eldest brother-in-law.
In the previous life, he and his wife came together naturally. The wife’s maiden family and his family were gone when the end of the world began, so there was no obstacle when they got married.
But in the first life, the wife’s not only has parents, but also five brothers. Of course, he will have to go through the hardships of fighting wits and courage with his future father-in-law and brother-in-law before he can hold his wife back.
Su Qiao is not dissatisfied with this, he will definitely bring his wife home, and will also satisfy his future father-in-law and uncles.
If his wife can have relatives who love her, of course he will be happy for her. Nuan Nuan is his wife, not his ban.
After the Laba Festival, everyone is busy again. Either they are busy buying New Year’s goods, or they want to see if there is grass growing in their fields, and they are busy weeding the crops and so on.
And the days of the Chen family are the same as everyone else, except that most of the time, Nuan Nuan, who can already be taken out, is carried out by the brothers to play, and occasionally goes to the beach to watch the brothers fishing and picking up the sea.
Su Qiao is very aware of Nuan Nuan’s ability, so he knows that every time Nuan Nuan goes out with his uncle and buddies, he will definitely come back with a reward, so he often follows him.
Although it is said that people do not eat seafood very much in this era, but everyone grew up in seaside fishing villages, and they still eat more or less. Besides, there is also a chef Su Qiao next to Nuan Nuan, who can cook any kind of seafood feast.
Because Nuan Nuan wanted to eat seafood, she could come up with all kinds of seasonings herself, so Su Qiao urged Dad Chen and Chen Lieyang to go out to fish, and come back from fishing to cook all kinds of delicious food for Nuan Nuan.
Of course, when Nuan Nuan didn’t have teeth, she used to make up for Chen’s mother Yu’s body, so Nuan Nuan could eat more. Of course, Su Qiao also made various complementary foods for Nuan Nuan to eat.
Four-year-old Su Qiao can’t go to the stove yet, so he guides his elder brother to cook next to him.
Originally, the two brothers Chen Lieyang and Chen Chaoyang were pure ancients, and they still adhered to the idea of a gentleman staying away from the kitchen, but Chen Chaoyang understood more that the gentleman was not a gentleman, but that he couldn’t bear to kill and needed to be benevolent.
Therefore, when Su Qiao couldn’t turn the spoon, and he couldn’t go to the stove, he directed his uncle to cook.
The Chen family loves Nuan Nuan very much. Nuan Nuan is very favored so she eats very well, so she looks very cute and fat.
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