newbobooks Chapter 508 Sweet Potato Meatballs
Chapter 508 Sweet Potato Meatballs
"Okay, just follow the arrangements. Let's get ready and start eating!"
"Hey, I'll arrange it right away."
After seeing this, Xu Han went to the backyard. The two children had finished their lessons and were playing chess with Grandpa Zhao in the house.
When Xu Han arrived, Ze'er was sitting opposite Grandpa Zhao, playing chess with him.
Mu'er, who was standing by, was watching beside Ze'er, sighing from time to time and shaking her head silently, with a hopeless expression on her face.
Xu Han was confused for a moment, thinking to herself, "Is the sun rising from the west today? Why is it that Ze'er is sitting opposite Grandpa Zhao?"
Mu'er was the first to see Xu Han and shouted, "Mom, you're here."
Xu Han nodded, and looked at him to ask what was going on.
Mu'er explained with a look of disgust, "My younger brother saw me playing chess with Grandpa Zhao and insisted on trying it himself. I don't know who gave him the confidence. He couldn't even beat me, but he still wanted to play chess with Great Grandpa."
When Xu Han saw the expression on her eldest son's face, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh secretly.
I want to laugh but I don't dare to laugh too loudly. I can't look down on the child, so I might as well hit him back!
It was really hard for Grandpa Zhao. Even though his opponent was so bad, he couldn't bear to kill him instantly. Instead, he played chess with Ze'er bit by bit with great patience.
Finally, Grandpa Zhao saw that the time was almost up, and finally started to kill Ze'er. Amid Ze'er's repeated regrets and screams, the game finally ended.
Xu Han couldn't bear it any longer and said, "Alright, alright, Ze'er, you have to accept the loss."
Ze'er looked shocked and said, "Okay then."
Mu'er looked at her brother's frustrated look and said, "I will play chess with you after class. You should practice hard and try to improve your chess skills as soon as possible. Then you can play chess with your great grandfather."
Ze'er's fighting spirit was rekindled, and he said excitedly, "Well! I must practice hard and try to defeat my great grandfather as soon as possible."
Xu Han looked at her younger son whose fighting spirit was aroused and couldn't bear to pour cold water on him. Forget it, with his temper, he wouldn't be able to hold on for long, so it's better for her not to interfere.
"Let's go, dinner is ready, let's go have dinner."
After Xu Han finished speaking, she took her two sons' hands and walked forward, one on the left and one on the right. Seeing this, Grandpa Zhao went to the side and called the Taoist priest, and the two of them followed her to the front hall to eat.
During the meal, Lu Chuan arranged, "Tomorrow we will start digging sweet potatoes. In the morning, I will ask Zhu Qiang to bring people to flatten the yard over there with a stone roller, and the rest of the people will dig sweet potatoes in the field.
In the afternoon, Han Qi and I went for a walk in the mountains to see if we could hunt some game.
Xiaohan said that they will cook a meal in the valley in two days, and they will definitely need a lot of meat. We should go hunt and raise some so that we can eat it anytime."
Grandpa Zhao didn't have any objections. Under normal circumstances, he was no longer needed to do the work in the fields, so he didn't care about so many things.
Apart from teaching his two children every day, Grandpa Zhao spends the rest of his time either writing medical books, fishing, playing chess, or taking care of the flowers and plants in the yard. He lives a very happy life.
The Taoist priest had no objection to this arrangement, but he said, "I'm going hunting too. I haven't been in the mountains for a long time. I'll go for a walk in the mountains tomorrow morning. I won't go back for lunch and will come back in the evening."
Lu Chuan asked, "Master, do you want me to go with you?"
"No, you guys fight your own battles, I'll go by myself."
Xu Han said, "Okay, I'll tell Dan Niang later and ask her to prepare some biscuits and water for you to eat at noon."
The Taoist priest slumped down on the chair after eating his fill and said, "Well, I don't eat whole grains. Tell her to get me some white flour buns."
"Okay, I see."
The next day, Xu Han got up early. After breakfast, everyone started to act according to yesterday's arrangements. For a while, the fields and the house were busy.
The sweet potatoes planted this year were not as many as last year, so they were dug up quickly. In the morning, they had already cut all the sweet potato vines and were now transporting them outside.
Xu Han had nothing to do at home, so since the weather was not too hot, she followed them to the fields.
As she picked the sweet potatoes, she directed, "First put the sweet potato vines on the firewood pile over there to dry them. After they are dry, you can collect them and save them as fodder for the winter."
"Okay, ma'am, let's do it."...
She worked in the fields for a while, and as the sun grew brighter, she prepared to go back.
On the way back, she took a few sweet potatoes and said, "You guys go ahead and do your work. I'll take some sweet potatoes back first and fry some sweet potato balls for the kids. Mu'er has been clamoring for some sweet potato balls for the past two days, but I haven't made any for him yet."
Dan Niang heard Xu Han's voice and asked, "Madam, let me go back and help you!"
Xu Han waved her hand and said, "No, it's not much. Just make a little for the children as a snack. I can do it myself. You just go ahead and do your thing!"
After she finished speaking, she left without looking back. Dan Niang knew her wife's character, so she didn't bother to be polite and just lowered her head to continue picking sweet potatoes.
When Xu Han returned home, she first steamed the sweet potatoes. After they were cooked, she took them out and mashed them with a tool. She added some sugar to season them while they were still hot, and then added some glutinous rice flour and flour that she had ground herself.
After pinching the dough into small pieces of even size and rolling them into round shapes with hands, Xu Han began to fry the sweet potato balls.
The sweet potatoes that were just dug out were not very sweet, and they didn’t taste as good as those that were stored for a few days, so Xu Han didn’t make much today, just enough for one meal, mainly to satisfy the cravings of the little ones.
Xu Han just started frying when Ze'er smelled the smell and ran out from the backyard.
"Mom, mom, what delicious food did you make today? I can smell the fragrance from behind."
Xu Han kept turning the sweet potato balls in the pot with a colander, fearing that they would get burnt if she wasn't careful. "Today, mom made fried sweet potato balls for you. They were ready after a while. You go back first. I'll bring them to you when they're done."
"Okay, mother, I'm going to go now. Don't forget me later."
Xu Han laughed, "I can't forget it. Go now."
Freshly fried sweet potato balls are the most delicious. As soon as the first pot came out, Xu Han took it to the backyard and said, "Take a break first. Come and try today's sweet potato balls."
When Mu'er saw her mother brought the sweet potato balls she had been craving for, she took one and started eating it without caring about the heat.
While eating, he said, "It's so hot, so hot, so delicious!"
Xu Han handed over the fork beside her and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? No one is going to snatch it from you, and there are still plenty! Eat with this, you won't be afraid of getting burned."