Chapter 964 - 962: A Married Woman is Like Water Spilled Out
"Him again? That beast! It was him who caused the death of—" Lady Huang hadn’t finished speaking when several children’s voices echoed from the courtyard: "Mom—Is the food ready? We’re starving!"
A few children, about the same age, ran in noisily.
Two boys and one girl, their small faces under the straw hats were sun-darkened, and their clothes were soaked with sweat.
Once inside the courtyard, the two boys were not particular and grabbed a dipper to gulp down water until their bellies were round.
The only girl, more refined, went to the kitchen, poured some boiled cooled water from the teapot, drank it, and came out looking puzzled: "Mom isn’t in the kitchen, and she hasn’t cooked; has she not returned yet?"
Lady Huang walked out from the house, looking dislikingly at her own brood: "Alright, I’ll cook. April, come give me a hand."
The girl called April answered crisply, and began assisting Lady Huang.
Families like theirs usually ate simple meals, porridge made from sorghum and broken rice cooked earlier in the morning, which was stored in a clay pot and could be scooped out to eat directly.
Moreover, yesterday, Xiao Wu got rewarded with quite some money and brought back a finger-width of fatty pork.
Yesterday, they cut and rendered the pork fat into oil, leaving half of the pork residue, and Lady Huang had April go to the backyard vegetable garden to pick half a basket of peppers, wash them, slice them, and fry them with the pork oil and residue, creating an enticing aroma that drew even the two boys from playing in the courtyard to guard the kitchen door.
Even as the peppery scent made them sneeze, they couldn’t bear to leave.
After frying that dish, they fetched a pickle from the jar, washed it, chopped it, and stir-fried it briefly with the remaining oil from frying the green peppers and pork residue, and then served it.