Chapter 146: Hui Is Hungry, Noodles Quick Quick Quick Done Woo
The oyster sauce that Su Ran was using right now was what had remained stuck to the inner walls of the wooden basin when she had just packed it into the jar, without scraping it off.
Now she used a spoon to scrape down these remaining bits of oyster sauce little by little, not wanting to waste any of it.
Finally, whatever really couldn’t be scraped off, she rinsed down with water, then poured it into the pot.
Because the wooden basin was very large, the remaining oyster sauce stuck on the basin was still quite a lot, enough for this stewed bone.
After adding the oyster sauce, Su Ran sprinkled a bit of Sweet Leaf Vein Tree Leaf Powder into the pot, then covered it with the pot lid, first stewing it over high heat.
She directly stuffed several thicker pieces of firewood into the stove hole, which wouldn’t burn out for a while.
Taking advantage of this moment, Su Ran fetched two large radishes, then used the wooden basin to hold several bowls of noodles.
After peeling the radishes, she cut them into chunks and directly poured them into the pot to stew together with the large bones.
Then she kneaded the noodles, preparing to make some noodles later when the bones were almost done stewing, directly pouring the stewed bone broth over them to make bone broth noodles.
On such a cold day, slurping a bowl of steaming hot bone broth noodles, then gnawing on a few chunks of stewed soft, tender, and fragrant large bones—just thinking about it felt comforting!
After the soup in the pot came to a boil, Su Ran first added an appropriate amount of salt powder to the stewed ox bone.
Then she pulled out two pieces of firewood from under the stove hole, reducing the fire under the pot, letting it continue to simmer slowly.
Then she turned back and stuffed the two still-burning pieces of firewood in her hand directly into the east room’s stove hole.
She wanted to fry some chili oil, to eat with the noodles later, and also to mix with those boiled oysters.
The chili powder used to fry the chili oil was ground from the chili fruits that had been dried earlier.
Su Ran had already used that chili powder to fry a batch of chili oil a while ago, but it had long since been eaten up.
She cut several finger onions in half, then took out one star anise.
She added mutton fat to the pot, heated it to melt, then added the star anise and onion to the pot, stir-frying to bring out the fragrance.
She waited until the onion started turning golden brown from being fried in the oil, its skin losing moisture and becoming wrinkled and shriveled, then quickly used a strainer to scoop out the onion and star anise inside.
Then, she ladled several spoonfuls of chili powder into a large bowl with no water stains, added a bit of Sweet Leaf Vein Tree Leaf Powder and salt powder, stirred evenly, then used a spoon to ladle the hot oil from the pot into the bowl one spoonful at a time.
The hot oil meeting the dry chili powder made a “sizzle” sound!
Su Ran stirred slowly in circles in the chili oil bowl with chopsticks, while continuing to ladle the hot oil from the pot into the bowl with a spoon, until no more oil could be ladled from the remaining oil in the pot.
After another half hour or so, Su Ran picked up the wooden pot lid on the pot stewing the bones and poked at the meat inside with a chopstick.
Before she could even use much force, a small piece fell off from the poked spot on the meat!
At this moment, Su Ran hurriedly threw a few more of the previously boiled oysters into it.
These oysters, meant for making oyster sauce, weren’t really that good to eat anymore.
If there were only a few, Su Ran might have just fed them all to the chickens.
But in fact, there were too many.
Su Ran felt that she, who had just achieved food freedom in this world and didn’t even know if she could keep it up through the winter, didn’t have the right to waste so much food so casually.
After throwing the oysters into the stewed bone pot, Su Ran didn’t add any more fire to the stove.
Just at this time, the fire in the stove hole had also burned down almost completely.
After waiting a few more minutes, Su Ran lifted the pot lid and first ladled out a large basin of stewed ox bone from the pot.
The stewed ox bone she ladled into the basin was about one-third of this pot.
After ladling it out, Su Ran covered the pot lid again, letting the remaining stewed ox bone keep warm in the pot.
Then, she carried this large basin of stewed ox bone directly into the room.
At this time, a large animal hide had already been laid in the center of the heated brick bed inside the room.
On top of the animal hide, a kang table 1.2 meters long and one meter wide had already been placed.
This kang table was something Su Ran had made after the weather turned cold.
Because now in the mornings and evenings, the weather outside was no longer suitable for eating outdoors, so Su Ran had moved the dining place back inside the room.
Originally she had wanted to make a large table to put directly on the ground inside the room.
But later she thought that by deep winter, she probably wouldn’t want to eat sitting on the ground because of the cold either.
So in the end, she simply made a super large kang table, and when eating, she would sit directly on the heated brick bed with Gray to eat.
The animal hide under the kang table was to prevent oil stains or bones accidentally dropped while eating from dirtying the animal hide blanket or cotton felt laid underneath.
Su Ran placed the basin of stewed ox bone in her hand on the padded animal hide, then returned to the kitchen, quickly sliced several oysters, mixed them evenly with oyster sauce, Sweet Leaf Vein Tree Leaf Powder, and chili oil.
At this moment, Gray came in from outside, shirtless.
Its hair was wet, and its body carried moisture, clearly having just bathed.
Su Ran turned her head to glance at it, hurriedly instructing: “Gray, change into clean trousers before sitting on the heated brick bed.”
“Woo~ Okay!”
Gray agreed, walked into the room, took off its shoes, went to the heated brick bed, and rummaged out a pair of capri pants.
After changing, it directly threw the dirty trousers out the room through the half-open window.
Then it twitched its nose tip, its eyes brightening as it turned toward the basin of steaming hot, fragrant stewed ox bone nearby!
But it only eyed it greedily for a glance before lightly jumping down to the ground, turning to leave the bedroom and enter the kitchen.
“Ran Ran, anything else?”
Gray sniffed with its nose, its gaze following the rich meat aroma to the pot covered with the pot lid.
Su Ran was at this time gently shaking open the cut noodles while putting them into the pot in the east room.
Hearing Gray’s voice, she casually replied: “Cooking some meat soup noodles, very tasty oh.”
“Tasty?!”
Hearing this word, Gray’s eyes lit up!
The two large triangular ears on its head instantly stood straight up, and a happy smile involuntarily appeared on its face.
It happily swished its large tail behind it twice, standing behind Su Ran watching her actions, its body almost pressing against Su Ran.
Its usually clear voice lowered, carrying a sticky, coquettish tone: “Gray’s hungry~ Noodles quick quick quick quick done woo…”
Su Ran: …
She turned her head to look at the werewolf behind her with a greedy expression, couldn’t help laughing and giving it a slanting glance.
Turning back, she picked up the pot lid and covered the pot.
At the same time, she said to Gray: “If you’re hungry, go eat first, the basin of meat in the room is ready to eat.”
But hearing her say this, Gray shook its head, its clear fluorescent green eyes looking at Su Ran, full of tenderness:
“No! Gray with Ran Ran together ao~”
