The news about wild vegetable dumplings for lunch today has spread. When the whistle sounded for the end of work at noon, everyone ran to the canteen with a lot of calmer steps.
There was nothing special about wild vegetable dumplings. Everyone had them anyway, so there was no need to rush. Working was tiring, and running took energy.
Only Sun Laidi’s family ran the fastest. They heard that Yi Qingqing picked up five pheasant eggs yesterday and there would be egg soup for lunch. If they ran faster and stood in front of their family members, they would easily get the egg soup. Those who ran behind could only drink clear soup.
When they ran to the cafeteria, they stood in front of Sun Laidi, panting.
Sun Laidi was indeed assigned to serve soup today.
Aunt Guihua and the others knew that Sun Laidi liked to go to her family to pick up good things the most, and she always favored her family members when serving food, although it was human nature to be partial to one’s own family, sometimes it was too ugly and easily causes dissatisfaction among others, so generally the allocation would be done in a place where she was not likely to make small moves.
In the past, if they made egg soup, she could always put all the eggs into her family’s bowls.
If it weren’t for the fact that she picked wild vegetables better than others, the wild vegetable dumplings she made were two points more tender, and the opportunity to make egg soup was very rare, who would choose her?
This time, she was arranged to make soup because no matter how she scooped the flocculent egg drop soup, she could not only scoop out egg drops without soup.
In comparison, wild vegetable dumplings were easier to serve.
They had each taken an extra vegetable dumpling and a large bowl of soup in advance.
If Sun Laidi came to distribute wild vegetable dumplings, maybe she would secretly stuff two into her pocket.
At this moment, Sun Laidi’s family became the first wave of customers in the canteen today. They looked into the pot and were dumbfounded.
“Didn’t you say there were only five eggs? There must be more, right?”
“…” Sun Laidi’s heart was choked. She was hit in the sore spot by her family.
She said unhappily: “Just five eggs. Bring the bowl closer!”
The other villagers who arrived late were also surprised when they saw the pot of soup.
“Where do all these eggs come from?”
“If I had known there was egg drop soup I would have come earlier!”
“What? Only five eggs? You must be kidding, right?”
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The question of how many eggs were used in the two pots of soup became a hot topic of discussion at noon today.
“There are only five eggs. When we went to pick wild vegetables yesterday, Comrade Xiao Yi picked them up. There are only five. Look, the eggshells are all there. Not one more, not one less! We watched her make this egg soup. It’s authentic!”
In this case, Aunt Guihua and Aunt Dongmei would repeat it every once in a while.
The same goes for Yi Qingqing. If someone asks, she will tell them the trick to making the egg drop so finely. This requires much less technical skills than yesterday’s wrapped noodles, so they can get the general idea just by describing it orally.
Although many people still don’t believe that it is so easy to make such a soup, those who are thoughtful have remembered Yi Qingqing’s words and plan to go back and give it a try.
Although each family can raise fewer chickens now and eggs are very precious, many families can still afford this egg.
Moreover, they have been busy with the autumn harvest recently and are very tired. Every family is trying to improve their meals so as to avoid exhausting themselves and having to spend more money on medical treatment.
Those who were complaining that the wild vegetable dumplings were too ordinary and wanted Yi Qingqing to show off her skills shut up when they saw this pot of soup.
Even though there were only five eggs, the soup in everyone’s bowl tasted like eggs in every sip.
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