Chapter 19 Bacon Stewed Rice

The weather was gloomy early in the morning. Maybe it was because of his deep sleep last night, but Ye Anyian got up early.

　　Jiang Zhu was busy eating in the main room, Ding Qiu was helping out at the side, and Fu Zai in the west room was still asleep.

　　After he washed up, he also went to the main room to help.

　　The breakfast was simple. Jiang Zhu cooked mixed noodles with a few fresh green vegetables and four eggs.

　　After setting the table and grabbing the dishes, Ye Anyian went to wake Fu Zai up.

　　Fu Zai actually doesn't have the habit of staying in bed. Children go to bed early and wake up early naturally. They are very energetic all day long.

　　Jiang Zhu said it was probably because the foot compress contained some sleeping and analgesic medicinal materials.

　　Ye Annian woke up Fu Zai, helped him put on his clothes, and brought some face wash to the bedside. Xiao Tuanzi washed up on his own obediently, without feeling any energy from getting up.

　　After washing up, Jiang Zhulai changed the medicine on Fu Zai's foot and bandaged it again. Ye Anian carried him to the small wooden pier in the main room and sat down.

　　The family of four finished their meal around the table, and Jiang Zhu carried his medicine box on his back.

　　"Carpenter Ge said that he has been suffering from headaches for the past two days. I checked his pulse yesterday. Since I didn't carry a medicine box, I prepared some medicine for him today and took him there. I also went to Uncle Wu's house to check his waist. "

　　"I might not come back for lunch at noon. I've put rice and bacon in the pot. Then you can go to the vegetable patch behind the house and pluck a few green vegetables, simmer them over a fire, pour the sauce over them and make bacon stewed rice."

　　Ye Annian looked in the direction of his finger. Sure enough, there was a bowl of prepared sauce on the stove. It was dark and smelled fragrant. It must have been filled with sesame oil.

　　"The fire is very smokey. If you feel choked, let Ding Qiu come." Jiang Zhu said.

　　"It's okay. I've almost stopped coughing after drinking medicine these days." Ye Anyian felt that he was not so squeamish.

　　He glanced outside and saw that the sky seemed to be getting darker, so he turned around and found an oil-paper umbrella and handed it to Jiang Zhu: "Be prepared. I'll take care of things at home. The weather is bad today, so you should come back early."

　　"Okay." Jiang Zhu took the umbrella and went out with a smile.

　　Ding Qiu, who was sitting at the table in the main room, heard the conversation between the two and sighed.

　　"Brother Qiu, what's wrong with you?" Fu Zai held his chin and asked him with a puzzled look on his face.

　　Ding Qiu: "Sir, he always said hello to me when he went out, but now he can't remember it at all."

　　"Pfft," Fu Zai chuckled, "That's because I have a brother now."

"They are husband and wife, and we are just children. We have a brother to take care of us at home, and Doctor Jiang will definitely tell him a lot of things."

　　He could feel that Dr. Jiang seemed to like his brother very much!

　　"Well," Ding Qiu nodded, "I know all this, but I don't have to worry about things at home all of a sudden. It's a bit unaccustomed to me."

　　"I'm not used to it either." Fuzai lowered his head and stared at his tightly wrapped feet.

　　"Your foot will be fine. Sir, your medical skills are very good." Ding Qiu noticed that his tone was a little low, thinking that he was unhappy because of the inconvenience of walking due to his foot injury.

　　"I'm not worried about a foot injury." Fu Zai raised his head and looked at Ding Qiu next to him, "When I was at Lao Ye's house, I had to get up to work before dawn every day, and I had three meals a day. If it's gruel, just steamed buns."

　　"But here, I don't have to work even if I get up early. I can just sit in the yard and daze, and I can go out with you and my brother to play."

　　Before that, he had never thought that one day he would go to Wangyue Mountain not to dig wild vegetables and mushrooms, but to have fun.

　　"Then get used to it slowly," Ding Qiu couldn't see and groped for hold of Fu Zai's little hand, "Let's get used to it together."

　　"Okay~" Fuzai held Ding Qiu's hand, smiling so hard that two cute dimples appeared on his round face.

　　"You two should get used to it in the house first." Ye Anian interrupted the two of them, bent down and picked up Fu Zai, then gave Ding Qiu a hand, and sent the two children to the bed in the west room.

　　"I'm going to pick vegetables from the vegetable patch behind the house later and prepare lunch. It's best for you two to play on the bed in the west room today. If you need anything, call me."

　　"Okay!" Fu Zai agreed readily.

　　Ding Qiu also said politely: "Then I'll trouble Brother Ye."

　　The drizzle outside has already begun, but fortunately it's not heavy.

　　Ye Annian did not go out rashly, but took out a worn-out oil-paper umbrella and went to the vegetable patch behind the house with a basket in hand.

　　This was his first time to see Jiang Zhu's vegetable patch, and it turned out to be much larger than he had imagined.

　　The vegetable field is divided into four rows. One row is planted with onions, ginger and garlic seedlings, one row is planted with winter amaranth and artemisia, one row is planted with green and red peppers, and one row is planted with climbing vegetables such as cucumbers and beans.

Around the four ridges, more common medicinal materials were planted, such as perilla, panax notoginseng, mint, mugwort, a wolfberry tree, a fig tree, and a dozen corn seedlings.

　　Whether it's herbs or vegetables, the variety is quite complete.

　　Ye Annian held an umbrella and walked around the vegetable field, and finally picked a handful of winter amaranth and a handful of mung beans with raindrops hanging on them.

　　The rain didn't stop at noon, but got heavier and heavier.

　　Big raindrops plopped down, as dense as if someone was pouring glass beads from the sky.

　　The sun-dried herbs in the courtyard had been put away long ago, leaving only the round terrazzo table and the tank with small fish and clams, which were soaked by the rain.

　　Raindrops pounded into the tank, splashing water in circles. Ye Anyian closed his umbrella and entered the main room. The laughter of two children could be heard in the west room.

　　He took a look and saw that the two little guys were playing with the rope.

　　Ding Qiu couldn't see it, but he could easily untie the net woven by Fuzai just by touching it with his fingers. The two of them had a great time knitting and untying what I had knitted.

　　Ye Annian watched for a while and felt deeply that the two children needed some gadgets to play with. When his woodcarving tools arrived, he started making them.

　　In the big pot in the main room, Jiang Zhu had already put soaked rice and sliced ​​bacon. He washed the newly picked winter amaranth and beans, cut them into neat little pieces, and spread them neatly in the pot.

　　There were still a few corns that had been broken off yesterday. He picked the tender ones and kneaded them into grains, then threw them into the pot, then lit the fire and started to cook the rice.

　　The flames in the stove danced happily. Ye Anian sat in front of the stove with his knees in his arms and looked at the fire. Listening to the patter of rain outside, he felt very comfortable.

　　When the aroma of rice mixed with meat wafted out of the pot, he waited patiently for a while before opening the lid, and the aroma suddenly filled his nostrils.

　　Pour on the sauce that Jiang Zhu had prepared in advance, and Ye Anyian used a wooden spoon to stir up the neatly spread rice, bacon, and side dishes in the pot.

　　Immediately, the unique fruity wood smoky aroma of bacon wafted out, mixed with the fragrance of rice and the saltiness of the sauce.

　　"Brother! Is it time to eat?"

　　Fu Zai, who had a sensitive nose, poked his little head out of the west room and shouted to Ye Annian.

　　"Go back and sit down." Ye Anian was afraid that he would fall, so he raised his hand to hit him, "Wait for my brother to hug you later."

　　"Okay!"

Fu Zai shouted and shrank his little body back.

　　Three full bowls of bacon stewed rice were placed on the table. Ye Anian took Fu Zai out and sat down. Ding Qiu also left the room with his blind stick, and the three of them sat down around the table.

　　The bright red diced bacon, tender green side dishes, and golden corn kernels were all bright and attractive in color. The three of them ate to their heart's content.

　　Jiang Zhu put a lot of rice and bacon, but there was still some left in the pot.

　　Ye Annian thought for a while and closed the lid of the pot, leaving a trace of fire to warm the pot, thinking that if Jiang Zhu came back later, he could have a hot meal.

　　But after he waited like this, it was already dark at night, and Jiang Zhu was nowhere to be seen.

　　It had been raining outside all day, and in the evening the rain became more intense, as if it were pouring down.

　　Ye Annian moved a small wooden pillar in the main room and sat there, staring at the heavy rain that seemed to be pouring from the sky and the closed fence door.

　　Worrying and worrying that I hadn't felt in a long time, I took the opportunity to run out.