Chapter 4: Cleaning!!!!
While the mother and children were taking a nap, there was intense conversation happening on the remote frontlines. Old Han was injured and being treated at the district hospital while several of his colleagues nervously awaited news of his fate. The district's major upper rank deeply frowned when he learned that Han Qihai was seriously injured and sent to the hospital for treatment. Although he had been very optimistic about Han Qihai's future, it seemed that it might not be easy to save his life this time.
"So they decided to offer a clerical job to little Han!" "But with Little Han's temperament, I'm afraid he won't stay on for long." One of the upper ranks also felt deep pity, shaking his head, and expressed similar concerns.
"If this had not happened, little Han would be... then he would have received credit for his work and could have applied for a living allowance to take care of his family. I heard that he still has three sons at home." Finally, the upper rank stated. Although nobody said anything, they all felt sorry for little Han.
At home, the mother and children slept soundly. Ning Jiao woke up at three o'clock, washed herself and the kids with water and towels, and sent them to play by themselves. Zisheng, excitedly, asked, "Mother, are you cooking something delicious?" Ning jiao replied, "Yes, I will cook something delicious. Go and take care of your siblings."
One of the best things about the house was that the original owner was a clean person; her house and even the kids were tidy. So, Ning Jiao was proud of that. She looked at the house and was satisfied with it - it had three rooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a yard. However, if they wanted to go to the toilet, they had to go outside. The house didn't have a lot of things, just one table and three kangs, some utensils, and other household items. However, it wasn't very dirty to begin with, so in no time, Ning Jiao finished cleaning it and went to the kitchen to refill the food containers.
Ning Jiao soon began filling all the storage jars, storage pots, and containers in the kitchen with food. First, she filled the empty rice jar, then topped up the containers that contained cornmeal, millet, brown rice, soybeans, flour, and sorghum. Next, she took the small containers from the cupboard, cleaned them, and filled them with brown sugar, white sugar, sea salt, milk powder, star anise, chili powder, red dates, and other spices. She then filled the oil bottles, soy sauce bottles, vinegar bottles, the egg jar, and a jar of her favorite tea. Ning jiao also took out some sweet potatoes, a couple of winter melons, some radishes, some yams, ginger, ginseng, sesame seeds, and other things and stored them in the plus cabinets. After careful consideration, in addition to producing some pork and two uncooked pre-packaged organic free-range whole chickens, Ning jiao decided not to take out anything else because the boss Zisheng might become suspicious and ask unnecessary questions. Ning jiao was very careful not to take too much meat. She had decided to take meat slowly, a little at a time, because she needed it. For dinner, Ning jiao wanted to make meatballs.
She cut out one jin of the five jins lean meat. Then she divided the two jins of pork belly in half. The remaining four jins of lean meat and one jin of pork belly were all minced. Just lean meat wasn't adequate to make meatballs, so adding some pork belly's white meat in will make it taste better and more fragrant. Using salt, chopped scallion, minced ginger, eggs, flour, and starch, Ning jiao made meatballs that came out very fragrant and delicious. One jin of 16g meatball nearly made thirty meatballs. The mixture of lean pork and pork belly added up to a total of five jins, which turned into a large pot of pork meatballs. Ning jiao found the taste very satisfying, while the children were amazed. They felt the meatballs made by their mother were the most delicious thing in the world.
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