Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

The next day, after the children went to school, Zhang Xiuhua started making vermicelli.

She couldn't do it alone, so she went to Zhou Pandi and Li Xiaoying for help.

The villagers are drying sweet potatoes. They wash the sweet potatoes, cut them into slices and put them on the ground to dry. After drying, they can be taken home.

The educated youth were also busy with this.

When they heard Zhang Xiuhua asking them for help, the two of them followed without saying a word.

Zhang Xiuhua has a ready-made colander. She adds water to sweet potatoes to make a paste, and then puts it in the colander. Lines will flow out from the holes. These lines need to be put into a pot of boiling water. After they all float up, they are scooped into a bucket of cold water to cool down. After being rinsed with cold water three times, they are placed on a rack to dry.

If it is winter in the south, it is very suitable to make jelly. Dry it during the day, freeze the jelly at night, and then dry the ice off during the next day. This process is called freezing jelly.

However, the temperature difference in the north is not so great, so the jelly powder effect cannot be achieved, and the powder produced will be easily broken. Therefore, when stewing, add it when it is almost cooked, and then take it out quickly.

Zhang Xiuhua only dried more than 20 kilograms of sweet potato flour, and the two of them finished it in a whole morning.

Zhang Xiuhua invited them to have lunch.

After thinking about it, the two agreed.

During the meal, Zhang Xiuhua asked them if they wanted to learn how to make vermicelli so that they could learn how to make it when they go back home.

Zhou Pandi and Li Xiaoying actually wanted to ask just now, but they were embarrassed because they were worried that this was her exclusive secret recipe. Now that she took the initiative to ask, the two of them did not hesitate.

Zhang Xiuhua explained the process again. When they learned that the sweet potatoes had to be pounded into crumbs, the two were dumbfounded. "It's so troublesome? We don't have a machine?"

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "It is indeed troublesome."

In the end, the two decided to give up.

In the evening, the children came back. Zhang Xiuhua made the freshly made vermicelli for them as agreed.

In order to make the taste better, she also cut a pound of pork and added cabbage to make pork, cabbage and vermicelli soup. Add two peppers, the aroma is so fresh that the children are almost drooling.

"smell good."

The children spontaneously formed a circle, holding steamed buns in one hand and chopsticks to pick up food in the other.

Zhang Xiuhua was afraid that they would fight to the death for the food, so she took out small bowls and served one bowl to each of them.

The meat, which is fat and lean, melts in your mouth because it has been stewed for a long enough time. The cabbage is bright green in color, and its skin is covered with boiling soup and has a faint oily sheen. The vermicelli is smooth and chewy, and you can suck it into your mouth with a slurp. The broth is fresh but not greasy, and the soup is glossy, spicy and refreshing, and the taste is simply amazing.

The children ate with their mouths full of oil and kept saying "delicious".

After the meal, Yaoyao and Jilin were responsible for washing the dishes. Youcai chased after Zhang Xiuhua and asked how vermicelli was made.

While washing the sweet potatoes, Zhang Xiuhua explained the operation process to him. In fact, the process of turning sweet potato powder into sweet potato vermicelli is very simple. The difficult part is turning the sweet potatoes into sweet potato powder. At that time, there was no machine, and it was all done by hand, which was too slow.

Youcai took a notebook and wrote down the process.

Zhou Pandi and Li Xiaoying came to give the children extra lessons, and Yaoyao also went to learn from them.

Zhang Xiuhua saw Youcai holding a small notebook and mumbling to himself, "You don't have any homework today?"

Youcai said "hmm" without even raising his head.

Zhang Xiuhua felt that the teachers in this school were too irresponsible. Youcai was in the third grade, and even if the future generations would talk about double reduction, homework should be assigned at this age. Not assigning homework for two consecutive days, what else could this be considered irresponsible?

She wondered whether she should change Youcai's class. Primary school students have poor self-control. If he doesn't do his homework, he will definitely not be able to go to junior high school. In the future, Youcai will be like her, and can only do hard labor when looking for a job.

In the 1990s, Zhou Pandi earned as much in a month as she did in a year. Later, Zhou Pandi started her own business, which was even more amazing. She achieved financial freedom in two years.

Making money with a high level of education is like picking up gold from the ground.

She washed the sweet potatoes and beat them into pulp at night. The next day after the children finished school, she packed up and went to the school to find the principal, hoping to transfer Youcai to another class.

She didn't want to complain that the teacher was not doing his job properly, so she just said that Youcai was too naughty and it would be better to find a stricter teacher to discipline him.

The principal didn't know much about the student's situation, so he called Youcai's class teacher and asked about Youcai's academic progress.

Unexpectedly, after Teacher Li came, his first words almost broke Zhang Xiuhua's defense.

"Hasn't Youcai already dropped out of school?"

Zhang Xiuhua stood up from her chair and asked, "When?"

"We were asked to refund the tuition fee to him on the first day of school. Don't you know that?" Teacher Li was an educated youth from Zhoujiatun. He was a gentle and responsible teacher. In fact, he was right. At that time, the job of a school teacher was very popular. If you didn't do a good job, you would have been replaced long ago.

"Excuse me, who are you to Li Youcai?"

Zhang Xiuhua suppressed her anger and said, "I am his stepmother. I just remarried and I don't know much about Youcai's situation. I found it strange that he never did his homework when he got home. I didn't expect..."

Fortunately, she came to school, otherwise Li Youcai would have missed a lot of classes.

When Mr. Li heard her words, he immediately said that he would assign homework every day.

Zhang Xiuhua thanked Teacher Li and the principal, then hurriedly left on her bicycle.

This kid must be taken care of! He can't study hard, but he actually skips school. What does he want to do?

At this moment, she thought of Baolin in her previous life. He dropped out of school for early love and ruined his whole life. Although he found a job later, it was only hard labor, and his body would be damaged sooner or later.

If it was Baolin, Jilin or Jidong, she would definitely beat the child and then starve him for a day and a night.

But when it comes to Youcai, she is a little unsure.

She is a stepmother. If the news of her beating the child gets out, people will only call her a cruel stepmother.

But if she didn't discipline the children, she would feel guilty about the living expenses Li Jianguo paid every month. She promised to discipline the children, but she only took care of their food and drink. She was an incompetent stepmother.

She thought about it and decided that she couldn't take it too seriously or too lightly. She could only take advantage of Youcai's weakness.

What does Youcai like most? He likes eating the most!

Zhang Xiuhua had an idea in mind. When she got home, she took out the fruit she had bought from the cupboard.

She strung hawthorns into skewers and made them into candied haws, put pomegranates and gala fruits on a plate, and waited for the children to come back and eat them directly. She also took out the pork from the space and stewed it into braised pork. This time she didn't add any side dishes. The meat was fat and lean, sweet and loose, the sauce was red like agate, and the skin was like jelly. Just one look at it made her drool uncontrollably.

In order to increase the effect, she specially took nuts from the space and made a simple version of the cake.

She ground the nuts into crumbs to prevent them from recognizing the ingredients, but the taste was enough to make the children remember it.

In addition, she also fried a plate of vegetables.

After serving the dishes, she sat in the main room waiting for the children to return.

When Yaoyao and Jilin saw so many delicious foods, they could no longer sit still while playing outside and ran over to circle around the table.

Zhang Xiuhua insisted on her principle and said, "Wait for my brothers and sisters to come back."

The two children could only wait and wait.

Finally, the sound of children cheering could be heard outside. Yaoyao and Jilin ran to the door on their short legs and immediately called out to them to come over quickly.

"Aunt Zhang cooked meat again."

"Mom made something delicious. It's fragrant and sweet."

When they heard there was meat, the three children took off their school bags and ran over. When they saw it was meat, they hurried to wash their hands, and then sat at the table to line up to share the food.