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”Half a pork leaf? ”Oh my god! With so much meat, wouldn't we have meat to eat everyday? Wouldn't we become the landlords' outsider?”

Everyone laughed loudly. Xu Hui, who was preparing the seasoning, smiled and said to Gou Sheng's mother, ”Aunt, we can eat meat every day. It's even more comfortable than the landowner's house!”

”Yes, yes, we've had a good day!” Gou Sheng was grinning from ear to ear, and everyone was extremely happy. They had been busy for a year, and would only be filled with hope for the future if they ate well during the New Year.

While Xiao Xiuer was slicing the meat, Xu Hui started to prepare the ingredients needed to cook the Sweet Corner. She first needed to fry the meat in the crock pot of Red Braised Meat, and then she would fry the Sugar Corner before she fried the meat. Xu Hui finished her calculations and could not help but laugh. She thought about things differently now. It seemed that the environment had really changed!

After the meat was sliced and the sugar was wrapped, Xu Hui started to pour oil into the wok and cook it. Normally, they ate mostly lard, but this fried food could not be eaten with lard anymore. The stuff that had been fried by lard was cooled down by a layer of white ointment, making it impossible to eat.

She had prepared vegetable oil this time. For some unknown reason, there was no peanut oil now. Xu Hui felt that she could think of a way in the future to see if she could produce peanut oil. It was more fragrant than vegetable oil.

In this era where clothes were lacking and food was scarce, people had an unimaginable love for fried food. When Xu Hui started cooking, the fragrance attracted Niu Niu and Er Wa's attention.

Xu Hui thought it was funny, but she was afraid that the oil would be splattered on them. She quickly got Plum Blossom to lead the group and stand back. She saw Plum Blossom craning her neck to stare at the pot and could not help but laugh.

One by one, sweet and shiny sugar cubes came out of the pot, the adults and children all ate with hands full of oil, squinting their eyes in satisfaction.

Niuniu even yelled at Xu Hui while eating, ”Sister-in-law, I still want to eat fried pancakes, fried pork ribs, fried fish, fried meatballs. My brother is home, we all fried them!”

Hearing this, Er Wa was extremely envious, ”Sister Niu Niu, have you eaten so much delicious food before?”

”No, I heard it from sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, I want to eat it too!” Niuniu's mouth was stuffed with sugar as she stared at Xu Hui in anticipation. Xu Hui felt a little sour in her heart even though she wanted to laugh.

When they were at the Xiao family, they could stealthily cook meat and other stuff, but it was too eye-catching. When Xu Hui saw Niuniu coveting Aunt Wei's house for fried goods, she told her that when her brother came back, there would be a frying pan at his house to fry all kinds of delicious foods.

After he had fried the sugar horn, Xu Hui started to fry the sliced pork chunks. Because he had accidentally been scalded by the sprays of oil, Xiao Dayong felt very pained and refused to let Xu Hui stand in front of the frying pan again, so he took over the job.

Fried the pork chunks until golden yellow and put them aside to filter the oil. Xu Hui picked up another pot and put a little oil in it to heat. Then she added ginger and fried pork chunks until they came out. Then add water, put in the sauce and gauze wrapped spice bag, use a big fire for 15 minutes, turn into a small fire to simmer. Xu Hui peeled the eggs that were cooked and put them into the pot. She then put the stewed pork into the pot along with the soup. Together, they were placed on the charcoal stove and stewed slowly.

The pot was placed on top of the charcoal stove and stewed. Xu Hui looked at the kelp that was bubbling and started to make the kelp soup. Wash the ribs, cut them into halves with a knife, chop them horizontally, cook them in a pot of boiling water, scoop them out and rinse them with a warm bubble; rinse and control the water from the foamed kelp and cut them into cubes; add water into the cleaned pot, put in the ribs, onions and ginger slices, boil them over a large fire and remove the floating foam; reduce the heat, pour it into a piece of kelp, then cook it in a small fire and add salt to seasoning.