Chapter 223 - 0223 Lu Family History 3_1
The history of the Lu Family represents the glory of the family from one or two hundred years ago. It’s a past glory which doesn’t bring any tangible benefits to their current life. If its revealed, it could, in fact, lead to endless danger.
Therefore, Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue buried this history deep inside their hearts.
They needed to live calmly and peacefully, they didn’t need to label themselves royal descendants of a bureaucratic family with past glory.
At eleven o’clock, Feng Qingxue walked into their private plot with a bamboo basket, stepping on soil that covered silver coins, small yellow fish, flower vases, and copper incense burners. She picked deep purple eggplants one by one, red and green peppers, and also picked some chickenfeather vegetables. In a moment, the basket was full. On her way home, as she passed the cowshed, she casually picked a few tender loofahs from the vine on the wall.
She brought them home, washed them clean, cut each one, and sliced several potatoes into thin shreds. Then she kneaded a pot of dough, black flour mixed with corn and sweet potato, the dough it formed wasn’t pleasing to the eye.
Lu Jiang pushed his wheelchair over to light the fire, "What are we having for lunch?"
"Smoked Meat Braised Eggplant, hot and sour shredded potatoes, sauteed small bok choy, a stir-fried loofah, and a pot of cornmeal porridge", they had eight people in the family, old and young, they couldn’t just make one dish. "I’ve kneaded the dough, I’ll make Pancakes while the eggplants are braising."
Just listening to the dishes made Lu Jiang’s mouth water.
The small pot cooked rice, after the water boiled, directly add the cornmeal water mixture. As soon as it boils, stop.
In the big pot, she first fried smoked meat, adding a bit more than a pound of sliced smoked meat into the pot, stirring it to release the oil. The fatty parts of meat were nearly transparent. She poured in strips of ginger, garlic cloves, and coarsely chopped eggplant pieces, continued to stir fry, added Sichuan pepper, star anise, five spice powder, poured in soy sauce for color, added water, and simmered. Before she put on the lid, Feng Qingxue washed her hands, tore off a piece of dough, and flattened it and put it against the inside of the pot.