Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 8 A Pot of Instant Noodle Soup

It is common sense nowadays to close the door when eating and to eat in the house.

The instant noodles themselves are just average. If you don’t add the seasoning packet, they won’t have any smell when cooked. But it’s completely different if you put the seasoning packets. Let’s put it this way, on a train, if a person makes instant noodles alone, basically the entire carriage will smell.

And instant noodles are just soaked. If you boil a pot of water and then put the instant noodles seasoning packet in and cook it, the ability to spread the flavor will be even stronger.

The three small packets come with seasonings, but they don’t weigh much together. Qin Lan finally borrowed some stick noodles from her cousin in the city, and her family felt a little more relaxed. I thought that with just these few packets of food, I would cook it and everyone would have a taste of it.

For a big family, only half a piece of noodles is needed, but it is fine grain at least, so you just have to taste it. The main thing is to drink more water. If your stomach is full, although it will be gone after just one or two peeing, it can help you to be hungry for a while.

But even if you boil a large pot of water and put down a few packets of seasonings, the kitchen will still be filled with fragrance. Several nearby neighbors have smelled it. They were all working hard to survive with hungry stomachs. If you cook it, you won’t kill them.

The adults were okay and could bear it, but some neighbors with children were really made to cry by the smell.

But these days, everyone can’t even eat whole grains. What the Qin Lan family is cooking has aroused the curiosity of many people. Some people with children at home couldn’t bear it anymore, so they came to ask. We are all neighbors, and these days the neighbors’ care is generally very affectionate. Unlike later generations, some neighbors did not even know each other after living together for several years.

A large pot of water, instant noodles boiled in such a large pot of water, turned into a few scattered pieces. Regardless of the small packet of seasoning, anyone who knows the main ingredients in it will understand that salt is the main ingredient. In this era, salt is an indispensable thing in life, but when people cook, they only put a little bit of coarse salt.

The salt used in cooking in this era will feel the same as if it was not used in future generations. But for people who often don’t eat salt, they can feel the salty taste by adding a little bit.

So even if it is a large pot of water, this small packet of seasonings is packed in and Luo Cheng drinks it, it will definitely feel like it has no taste, but others will find it very tasteful.

In addition, this seasoning contains MSG. People in this era do not use MSG in cooking. Some people have never heard of it. And pepper, especially the essence. When pepper and essence are cooked together, this is the real source of the aroma.

The other bag is the vegetable bag, which is mainly for “flavor”. In later generations, there are pickled cabbage, chicken, mushroom, beef and so on.

What Luo Cheng got was spicy beef noodles, so the vegetable bun contained a little bit of dehydrated vegetables and a few pieces of beef. After boiling it in water, the tiny beef grains will become a little bigger, maybe a little smaller than the size of peanuts, and there won’t be a few grains.

But no matter how small it is, it is still meat. Many people have not eaten meat for a long time, even if it is such a small piece.

The last thing is the oil buns, which are also called sauce buns in some places. They also contain many things, such as oil, sesame juice, chili, essence and other ingredients.

It was so luxurious. Qin Lan’s parents never thought that a few small seasoning packets could cook such a delicious pot of soup. Especially the layer of oil on the surface, this is really careless.

In the past, when there was no famine, cooking would always be done with a little bit of oil dripping on it. In rural areas, most people cook because there is little oil. Even in cities, most people just cook. If you’re cooking, it won’t be easy if you don’t add oil.

For people in Qinlingkou Village, most of their relatives live in the same village. This pot of ‘soup’ contains so much salt and oil, so the Qin Lan family naturally has to take care of their relatives. When the neighbors come, they also give them a bowl of soup. At most, add some water.

Not to mention that this soup has such a taste, just a bowl of water with a drop or two of oil on it, everyone will drink it carefully. Therefore, using this kind of soup to call some close people over will not lose face, and it is also a rare thing.

And because of such an incident, Qin Lan’s parents were a little suspicious that the soldier who sent their daughter back had a crush on their daughter Qin Lan. Otherwise, why would they give such a valuable thing to their daughter?

Although Qin Lan is only fifteen years old, in rural areas, many people get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. But this idea was just a thought. When Luo Cheng sent their daughter here, their parents also saw Luo Cheng.

There is a feeling that his daughter is definitely not worthy of Luo Cheng. Not only was the person fair, but his face also had an unusual complexion. At first glance, he doesn’t look like a rural person, and his temperament seems to be unmatched even by the village chief. And he is a retired soldier. Even if the Qin family’s ancestral graves are smoking, it is impossible for others to fall in love with their daughter.

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Afterwards, Luo Cheng really had a good sleep at home. It wasn’t until it got dark and it was almost evening that I was woken up by my sister.

It’s time to have dinner, but I haven’t made it yet. There’s not even corn noodles or anything like that at home. There’s just a little sweet potato left. That’s it. In the past, one sweet potato was cut into many small pieces, and then mixed with some wild vegetables or tree roots and cooked together.

But today Luo Cheng came back from the army. Shishi, who had always been quite sensible in the past, suddenly said she wanted to eat steamed buns. Her father, Rowan, was almost so angry that he wanted to hit her, but his mother dissuaded him. Today is a happy day for his son to come back, so don’t do it.

Steamed buns are fine grains, so they can be eaten as meals. A half-grown boy will eat me to death, and the same goes for this half-grown girl. If you really want to eat with open stomach, even if the steamed buns brought by Luo Cheng are big, one person can eat them all.

I don’t dare to think about eating when I’m full. Even the multi-grain rice, which is usually very thin, can’t be full.

After Luo Cheng woke up, he was also hungry. He ate a can of eight-treasure porridge in the morning and half a piece of instant noodles at noon. I also expected to go home and eat something good, but I didn’t expect that I couldn’t even drink water at home. The unpalatable food at school in the past made Luo Cheng a little nostalgic.

After taking out the steamed buns, Luo Cheng asked his mother to cook some sweet potato porridge, and then each of them could have a simple dinner with just one steamed bun. I’ll go buy food tomorrow and we’ll see what happens then.

Each person has a big white-flour steamed bun. This is really something he is willing to make. If the family knew what Luo Cheng was thinking, they would definitely be even more shocked. It turned out to be a simple matter of eating fine grain steamed buns. If it is not simple, how should we eat it? Is it possible to eat meat as a meal?

The two sisters did not dare to hide the peanuts that Luo Cheng took out from their parents. They ate them all and handed them over. As for this peanut, Luo Wen is considered the eldest son in the family, and he plans to use it to entertain Luo Cheng’s two uncles and two aunts tomorrow. This is something you can’t even eat during the New Year these days. Even if it is served as a treat, it is impossible for them to just come and eat it.

When entertaining people with peanuts, you have to count them according to the number of peanuts. Half a pound of peanuts is not much, and they are in shells. The package Luo Cheng took out contained only a few dozen. If one’s own family eats, one person cannot share twenty pieces. How many times can you eat twenty peanuts?

And if we call people tomorrow, those aunts, uncles, and cousins ​​may also come together. When the time comes to buy food, I plan to simply serve it with thicker porridge. It’s impossible to cook something to eat, otherwise we won’t be able to survive the rest of the day.

When the time comes, each family will have to give out some food relief, which is more or less the same thing. Whether they can survive this year or not, as the eldest brother, Rowan can only help with this. This is still the glory of his son Luo Cheng, and he also wants them to be grateful to this nephew. Don’t let us become strangers after not seeing each other for a few years.

When everyone eats instant noodles, they put in seasonings. I only put a little bit of seasoning packets and oil packets. The new book asks for votes. The early data is important, but the number of votes later does not matter. There is a monthly pass, but I haven’t seen a monthly pass for the new book.