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Xia Zheng took the empty pocket pancake, a look of disappointment on his face. So, this mediocre thing was the especially delicious pocket pancake she spoke of? It was nothing but a hollow steamed bun in his eyes.

It seemed Lin Yuan could read Xia Zheng’s thoughts, she wrapped the pocket pancake back up in the clean cloth, smiling as she said, "We have only just started, there’s another step to go."

After finishing the rest of the pocket pancakes, Lin Yuan began to prepare the filling.

When she had been selecting ribs earlier, she purposely set aside a piece of tenderloin. Xia Zheng liked sweet flavors, so she decided to make a sweet bean sauce pork tenderloin filling for the pocket pancakes.

She sliced the tenderloin into thin strips, marinated them with salt, sugar, and a bit of wine, and then added some flour to coat the strips well.

Now she was ready to stir-fry the pork strips.

While stir-frying, it was essential to quickly separate the strips with chopsticks to prevent them from clumping together, or else some might end up undercooked while others got burnt.

As soon as the pork changed color, Lin Yuan promptly removed it from the wok. Then, in a small bowl, she mixed half a bowl of water with sugar, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar to create a sauce.

Because there was no sweet bean sauce, Lin Yuan had no choice but to use a regular sauce instead. However, since Xia Zheng had a sweet tooth, she added some extra sugar. Although the taste wasn’t as exquisite as that of sweet bean sauce, it was still delicious enough to be called a treat.

In the wok, she left some oil to sauté chopped garlic until fragrant, then added her homemade sweet sauce and stirred for a while.

Pouring in the prepared sauce, she kept stirring until the sauce thickened.

Lastly, she added the pork strips and tossed them until evenly coated.

And there it was, a delicious sweet bean sauce pork tenderloin dish was ready!

This was the first time Lin Yuan had made sweet bean sauce pork tenderloin for Xia Zheng. The aroma of the sauce alone was enough to tantalize his taste buds, and now that the dish was done, he was drooling with anticipation, eagerly reaching out to sneak a taste.

"Careful, it’s hot!" Lin Yuan gently swatted away his sneaking hand, then handed him a pair of chopsticks, laughing as she said, "Are you really from the Capital? You behave as if you come from a small village."

Xia Zheng knew she was teasing him about his gluttony again. He chuckled and couldn’t wait to grab a strip of pork with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. He hummed and hawed, fanning his mouth with his hand because it was hot, but he was reluctant to spit out the pork.

Lin Yuan laughed at his amusing act, putting a plate aside: "Alright, you can only have one bite, it’s not time for dinner yet."

Saying this, she ignored Xia Zheng’s plaintive look, covering the plate of sweet bean sauce pork tenderloin with a large bowl.

The steamed pork ribs were ready, so Lin Yuan started cooking porridge in a big pot.

Considering tonight’s menu was all meat and seemed monotonous, Lin Yuan fried ten sunny-side-up eggs.

Now that they had Silver, eating eggs wasn’t like before when they had to count each one; they could have as many as they wanted.

Moreover, it was a good time for Lady Liu to get extra nutrition, so it was beneficial for Lin Yuan to find different ways to get her to eat more eggs.

After frying the eggs, Lin Yuan asked Xia Zheng to help her cut slits into all the pocket pancakes, while she used chopsticks to stuff the fillings inside.

She prepared some cilantro and bok choy hearts, which, along with the pork, made the pocket pancakes both delicious and fresh tasting. She also took out the jar of pickles Aunt Wang had given her, choosing a few sweet and sour pickled cabbages to stuff inside.

Lin Yuan made several pocket pancakes filled with pork tenderloin and a few with egg, and finally, at the request of a certain person, she filled some with both pork and eggs.

This delighted Xia Zheng, who immediately devoured one in just a few bites, making sure to lick his fingers, which had gotten smeared with sauce, at the end.