80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy - Chapter 229

80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy
Chapter 229 – Sleepless night (2)

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There were many housewives cooking in the corridor, and nine out of ten people in Lucheng ate paofan for their breakfast, which were made using the leftover food, adding fermented red bean curd, and bought a few fried dough sticks. 

To reduce preparation time, they soaked it in boiling water, added dried turnips. Thus, their breakfast would be ready.

-Paofan, a porridge of leftover rice simmered in water

-Fermented red bean curd

-Fried dough sticks / You Tiao

The housewives in Lucheng rarely made noodles. At most, they would cook guamian, or small wontons. 

-Guamian (Chinese) / Somen (Japanese) / Somyeon (Korean), is a very thin noodle made of wheat flour, less than 1.3 mm in diameter.

-Small wontons 

This northern style of wrapped food, people in Lucheng rarely made it, and also couldn’t make it. There were even some people who just saw it for the first time. 

-Chinese wrap, a culinary dish made with a soft flatbread rolled around a filling

After Chu Qiao made the dough, she put it aside to let it rise. Then she went to cut shredded potatoes and carrots. 

Carrots were nutritious, could help to improve eyesight, and had a lot of vitamins, which were good for children’s bodies. 

But many children didn’t like to eat carrots, as well as Dabao and Xiaobao. 

She could see it from last night, she made stir-fried shredded pork with some carrots, but these two children didn’t eat any of them. 

-Stir-fried shredded pork with green pepper and carrot  

“Stir-frying vegetables in the morning? How troublesome ah!” 

Xuan Hongxia came over with a bowl of paofan. 

There was a quarter of fried dough stick inside the paofan, and some stir-fried pickled mustard with tofu, which were already counted as a good breakfast. 

-Stir-fried pickled mustard with tofu 

When she saw Chu Qiao cooking breakfast arduously, she felt that this girl was really clueless about life. 

Why would a breakfast be this sumptuous ah? Why not make a simple meal? 

Chu Qiao poured the oil and cut some shredded green peppers. 

She wanted to cook stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar, with some shredded carrots and shredded green peppers. 

With three kinds of colors, red, green, and yellow, a perfect combination of color, flavor and taste, which was perfect for the wrap. 

-Stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar 

“The most important of the three meals is breakfast. There is a saying that goes, ‘you should eat breakfast like an emperor, lunch like a farmer, and at night, you should eat less than a beggar, so that your body will be healthy’. Hongxia jie*, in the morning, you should eat less paofan, and less pickled vegetables, it’s not good for the stomach.” 

*Jie (姐): older sister. 

Chu Qiao skillfully stir-fried the vegetables, and also advised Xuan Hongxia to eat less paofan. Eating it everyday was definitely not good for the stomach, and it wasn’t nutritious either. 

“My body is very healthy, I can easily lift 50 or 60 catties with no problem. I have been eating paofan for so many years since childhood, and I have never had any health problems.” 

Xuan Hongxia took a big bite of paofan, she disagreed with Chu Qiao’s words.

They had been eating like this for generations, so how could this be bad? 

Her grandmother was currently 95 years old and had been eating paofan and pickled vegetables for all her life. She was very healthy, not blind or deaf, and she could still even gnaw on pork ribs. 

Chu Qiao smiled and didn’t say anything anymore. 

Nowadays, people don’t have the concept of a healthy lifestyle, and even if she advises it to them, they wouldn’t listen to it. 

She couldn’t manage other people, and could only manage herself and the people around her. 

After frying the shredded potatoes with vinegar sauce and stir frying an egg with scallions, the fragrant aromas attracted a lot of people. 

Almost every household had paofan in the morning, but suddenly there was a different smell of food. 

Everyone was curious and wanted to see who cooked this delicious smell in the morning.

“Xiao Chu, you even make dumplings in the morning?” 

Someone came over, and saw the risen dough. 

They thought that she wanted to make dumplings, and they couldn’t help but secretly shake their heads. 

It was still in the morning and she was already cooking with such great effort. It was considerably good to make a simple breakfast, no need for such trouble.  

How inconvenient it was to make dumplings, and it was also a waste of time. 

This beautiful wife of Chief Gu was really clueless ah. 

Well, no wonder. With such a beautiful appearance, she must be bad at housework. How impractical ah. 

The eyes of several housewives became contemptuous, they were originally jealous of Chu Qiao’s beauty, but now seeing she was living in a mess made their heart feel much happier. 

Chief Gu just got married, and the sense of novelty was still strong. So he would definitely treat his beautiful wife as a treasure.

Hmph, living a good life was not only about being beautiful. Firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and all those daily life necessities, were the basis for living a good life. 

Let’s see, when the novelty passed, Chief Gu and his beautiful wife would definitely be in chaos. 

Their life would be a mess, and these people were just waiting to see the good show. 

Chu Qiao sensed the disdain from these women and rolled out the dough nimbly, “No, I’m making flatbread.” 

“Making flatbread so early in the morning? You truly idle ah.” 

A few women who wanted to see her shortcomings, had somewhat unpleasant expressions. 

Looking at Chu Qiao’s nimble posture, she didn’t seem like someone who couldn’t do housework, could it be that they were mistaken? 

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