Chapter 62.3

Translated by Aviana

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He-shi and Wang-shi had seen the third branch’s husband and wife go in and out of the house all day long. But these two didn’t think much about it and merely thought they were going to Yang-shi’s place to curry favor with her.

Lin Qingwan returned to the house and began stewing spare ribs Yang Tiegen had bought the previous day, intending to make a nice appetizing dish today for everyone for their hard work.

She also had Yang Tiegen call Yang-shi for lunch. With such cold weather outside, Yang-shi would have to cook all by herself in the home.

Yao-shi lifted open the curtain and walked in. This door curtain was made by Lin Qingwan swiftly. She had wadded this curtain with a thick layer of cotton to guard against the cold breeze outside. Seeing its effectiveness, making the room warm and cozy, Yao-shi planned to make one for herself as well.

Fortunately for them, now their third branch was doing business with the second branch with Laweixian. Although the money they earned was not as much as Lin Qingwan, nevertheless, it was plenty. They could afford this cloth and cotton with ease.

While Lin Qingwan and Yao shi were occupied in the kitchen, Yang Erniu and Yang Sanniu came in, peeked a glance, and ran out again to play.

The snow out seemed to have given birth to burning enthusiasm within the kids. The two girls ran outside the yard and joined a group of kids to play in the snow. Seeing two kids’ enthusiasm and glee, Yao-shi could only dress the two warmly before sending them out.

Truthfully, Lin Qingwan was also itching to join them, but——

Glancing at her stomach, she could only helplessly suppress her urge to play a snowball fight. Besides, even if she went out to play, those little kids would be disinclined to play with her.

She transformed the little indignance she was feeling for being unable to have a snowball fight into appetite. Thus, Lin Qingwan decided that she would not only make a spare ribs stew but also fry them.

Sweet and sour spare ribs—one of her favorite dishes in her past life…cough cough…

Once she was done cooking rice, Lin Qingwan began making sweet and sour spare ribs.

The recipe was quite simple. Just chop the ribs into small pieces, and add vinegar, soy sauce, and wine into them. Since cooking wine wasn’t available here, Lin Qingwan added a little homemade wine. Finally, she added an adequate amount of salt and marinated them for about fifteen minutes. Afterward, she heated oil in a pan and stir-fried the ribs till they turned golden brown before scooping them out. In the same pan and oil, she added a bit of water and vinegar. When this mixture came to boil, she added a bit of sugar and allowed them to simmer until they turned viscous. While cooking, she made sure to constantly stir the mixture, lest they stick to the bottom of the pan.

Once the syrup was boiled to an optimal degree, she added the fried ribs into the pan and stirred them, allowing the sweet and sour sauce to evenly coat around the ribs. While continuously stirring the pan, she also added some soy sauce and salt simultaneously. She once again gave everything a good mix and let it cook for a few minutes. The dish was then ready to serve.

She served it in a dish and placed it on the table. Its bright red color, appetizing appearance, sweet and sour flavor not only won Lin Qingwan’s palate but also the two little girls’ as they cheerfully sang praises for it as children would naturally prefer sweet things. The rest of the people also tasted it but found it too sweet for their palate. Thus, this dish became the two little girls’ and Lin Qingwan’s ‘exclusive’ during lunch.

During the meal, with a smile, Yang-shi announced that her son, Daicheng, would be coming back for the new year along with his wife and children.

Lin Qingwan had never met Yang-shi’s son. Yang-shi, too, has not mentioned him much. When she and Yang Tiezhu married, Yang-shi said that her son, Dacheng, won’t be able to return for the marriage due to the store being quite busy.

At that time, Yang-shi had stuffed a silver hairpin into her trunk, saying that it was a congratulatory present from her son. She wanted to decline it, but Yang-shi adamantly insisted and gave it to her.

This time, upon hearing that Yang-shi’s son was returning, Lin Qingwan and Yag Tiezhu both were quite elated.

As a kid, Yang Tiezhu would often visit Yang-shi’s place and was naturally quite familiar with Yang-shi’s son, Xia Dacheng. However, as Xia Dacheng was ten years older than Yang Tiezhu, he left for work when Yang Tiezhu was only seven years old. Thus, the times the two had met weren’t many. Nonetheless, Xia Dacheng was truly quite good to Yang Tiezhu and always regarded him as his biological younger brother.

After lunch, Yang-shi left, saying that she still had to clean the house. Lin Qingwan and Yao-shi offered her their help, but Yang-shi refused with a smile, brushing it off as a trivial chore, “What’s there to help, just a small matter, I will clean it in the afternoon itself. “The two thus dropped the subject.

A few of them gathered in the second branch in the afternoon and put on a fire pan to warm themselves while chit-chatting. Lin Qingwan also grabbed a few handfuls and roasted a few peanuts for the two girls to eat. Seeing them happy, she also brought over a few sweet potatoes and roasted them as well.

In the Daxi dynasty, both sweet potatoes and potatoes were found. Lin Qingwan remembered reading a few time-travel novels in a previous life, in which the female leads introduced sweet potatoes and potatoes in that era and became rich. However, Luoxia village already has them, and almost every household grew them in their families. Once Lin Qingwan saw these two familiar things here, she could only give out a hollow laugh, inwardly thinking that another gold finger was destroyed.

Since they ate peanuts and baked sweet potatoes in the afternoon, their dinner at night was light. Yao-shi simply heated the rest over spare ribs from noon and stir-fried a few vegetables. After a simple meal, everyone retired to their rooms.

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