Not long after Xiang Nan and the others came back, Xiang Yao's mother came. Xiang Jin was cooking in the kitchen, and she came in to say hello to Xiang Jin.
"Xiang Jin?"
"Auntie, are you here? Come and sit in the house!" Xiang Jin called as he put a piece of washed pork belly and pork belly, as well as a basin of washed ribs and bones into the pot to cook.
"You can't handle it alone, can I help you?" Xiang Yao's mother said and started looking for work in the kitchen.
Xiang Jin said, "Thank you, Auntie, but no, I can be busy. Auntie, please go sit outside and chat with everyone for a while."
Xiang Yao's mother probably felt a little sorry that she came here to do nothing, so she insisted on helping. She told Xiang Nan to get up and she would cook the pot, and asked Xiang Nan to tear the rice balls outside. This would also save labor.
It can also be torn faster.
Xiang Jin said no and told her to have a good rest today!
But Xiang Yao's mother also has a stubborn temper, and she will do anything to help her no matter what, "My left hand is injured, but my right hand is fine. You guys are all good firewood. I just add a handful of firewood to the stove occasionally.
It’s okay, don’t worry.”
Xiang Jin had no choice but to comply, repeatedly telling her that she couldn't use her left hand, and then asked Xiang Nan to get some firewood from under the eaves on the side of the house.
Although the firewood they have in the kitchen is good firewood at the moment, it is the mulberry branches cut last year and needs to be chopped. It will not be very convenient for Xiang Yao and her mother to burn it later, so she will inevitably use her firewood.
My hand is injured, so be careful.
If she was burning large firewood, she wouldn't have to worry about that. She would only need to add firewood to the stove from time to time.
Xiang Nan went as soon as he got the order.
Xiang Nan's mother suddenly became very worried. She felt that this girl Xiang Jin was thoughtful and careful, so she sat down directly in front of the stove.
After Xiang Jin put the ginger slices and handfuls of spring onions into the pot, he poured some cooking wine into the pot, covered the pot, and then said, "Auntie, we need to cook two pots. This one is for cooking."
Stew the meat into soup, stir-fry vegetables later, and use the other mouthful to steam rice.”
Xiang Yao's mother said, "It's okay, don't worry, I can see through it."
Xiang Jin washed the other pot, added water, then added rice, and then chopped a piece of pork belly.
When Xiang Yao's mother saw it, she said, "Girl Jin, you've already cooked such a big pot of meat and bones, why are you still chopping the meat? Don't make too much, or you won't be able to finish it all!"
Xiang Jin said, "Don't worry, I didn't do much."
After Xiang Nan's mother lit the fire for more than ten minutes, the two pots began to boil one after the other.
She didn't need to worry about the pot with the meat and ribs cooked in it. It was still early anyway, but she had to keep an eye on the pot with the rice in it. The rice would boil accidentally, so she had to keep an eye on its maturity.
Condition.
Xiang Jin has been busy with side dishes, so Xiang Yao's mother took over this matter directly.
After a while, she asked Xiang Jin where the rice was, and Xiang Jin told her to come.
Xiang Yao's mother said that she could do it. It was just a piece of rice and she could do it with one hand. Xiang Jin saw that she didn't seem to be lying, so she followed her.
Then he set up the racks, stainless steel basins, and whisks that they usually use for pounding rice, and then went to cut the pumpkins, because they would use this as the bottom for steaming rice later.
After working for more than an hour, Xiang Jin finally prepared lunch. She took two thermos buckets, filled out the food for her grandfather and Hu Cai, and asked Xiang Nan to deliver it. Then when she came back, she walked there to pick up Yan Chen.
Called over for dinner.
Hu Cai now eats from the same pot with their family every time, but every time they eat more of their master's food and eat more of their bones, there is basically no difference in other aspects.
.
When the master eats dry rice, it will also eat dry rice. When the master eats noodles, it will also eat noodles. When the master eats porridge, it will also eat rice.
Since coming to their place, Hu Cai has grown taller and stronger, and his fur is getting smoother and smoother day by day.
Its majestic and majestic figure can act as a deterrent and shock as long as it stays there. Now basically no outsiders dare to approach there, and it has now become the patron saint of their family.
After a while, Xiang Nan came back and went to the kitchen to look for Xiang Jin. Xiang Jin looked at her with a dark face and asked her, "What's going on? Who bullied you or offended you?"
Xiang Nan looked around in the kitchen and saw that Xiang Yao's mother was not there. She just said angrily, "Just now I went to ask Brother Yan to come over for dinner, and then I saw that Xiang Zhen was looking for Brother Yan Chen to give her a lecture.
, the people in Lao Xiang’s family are so annoying, doesn’t she have her sister-in-law, and she comes to Brother Yan Chen to talk to her about topics, it seems that her sister-in-law’s studies are really not that good!”
Xiang Jin was startled, then understood, and smiled for a while. No matter how poor Xiang Yan was in her studies, she still couldn't solve the questions asked by elementary school students. So how could Xiang Zhen really come to Yan Chen?
The person who gave her the lecture was probably just like Zhang Xiaoxia, who was attracted to Yan Chenchun and wanted to find an opportunity to get close to him.
Alas, today's children are all precocious. They want to have a relationship at the age of eleven or twelve, and the same goes for Yan Chen. He really has a good skin that can easily attract bees and butterflies. It's perfect.
It's just a blue misfortune.
After Xiang Jin shook his head helplessly and sighed in his heart, he educated Xiang Nan, "Although brother Yan Chen is usually familiar with us, Xiang Nan, you have to remember that brother Yan Chen has his own right to make friends.
We can't interfere, do you understand?
With your dark face like this, it's easy for Brother Yan Chen to feel embarrassed and embarrassed, so we can't do this."
Xiang Nan muttered, "But I just don't like people from the old Xiang family. Then Xiang Zhen also said that she hates you and me."
"Did you have a quarrel?" Xiang Jin asked.
Xiang Nan nodded, "Well, I asked brother Yan Chen to come over for dinner. Brother Yan Chen agreed, then picked up the key and closed the door. Moreover, brother Yan Chen clearly rejected her and said he didn't want to discuss the topic with her.
He didn't know how to ask that question, so he asked her to find someone else, but Xiang Zhen didn't know how to look at it, and insisted on stopping Brother Yan Chen from telling her.
I couldn't see it, so I walked over and bumped her with my shoulder, knocking her staggering. Then she said, "Xiang Nan, you are just as annoying as your sister Xiang Jin." I also said to her, "You guys
People from the Lao Xiang family are also very annoying, and they are disgusting!'"
A slight smile appeared on Xiang Jin's lips, and then he reached out and pinched her cheek lightly, "You're the only one with a bad mouth?"
Xiang Nan looked proud and arrogant and said, "Of course, the people of the old Xiang family just can't take advantage of them."
Then Xiang Jin pushed her gently and said, "Okay, let's go out and see if mom and the others are back. Once they are back, we can start dinner."
"Oh!" Xiang Nan nodded, and then went back. Xiang Jin packed up the pair of pig ears in the house, planning to make cold ear silk for everyone in the evening.
As soon as Xiang Jin took out the ears, Xiang Nan came to tell her that her mother was back, but she planned to rest for a while.
Xiang Jin nodded, then picked up the cowpeas in the basket and started to put them away. She planned to steam some steamed buns for everyone to eat in the evening.
There were a lot of people eating at home today, so Xiang Jin prepared two tables of meals. After everyone sat down, Grandpa Zeng jokingly said, "Girl Jin, did you make Li Zhuang White Pork and Sixi Meatballs today?"
Xiang Jin said, "Well, I tried to make it, but I just don't know how it tastes. If it doesn't taste good, don't you mind?"
Everyone said no, it looked delicious. Then Xiang Jin said to Xiang Yao's mother who was sitting at the same table with them, "Auntie, the red pepper oil on top is not spicy, you can try to eat some."
, it’s out of the way.”
"Oh, good, good!"
Yan Chen sat next to Xiang Jin, then he put his head next to her ear and whispered, "Can you cook Hunan cuisine?"
Xiang Jin looked at the stir-fried pork with chili and dried tofu and eggplant, and then smiled, "I tried to make it too, have you tried it?"
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, I have eaten there. There is a Hunan cuisine restaurant not far from my home in the provincial capital."
Xiang Jin nodded, "If the taste isn't authentic enough, please bear with me."
Yan Chen laughed, "No!"
Xiang Jin made a total of six dishes, one soup, the dishes were Lizhuang white meat, Sixi meatballs, sweet and sour pork ribs, stir-fried pork with chili, dried tofu and eggplant, and a dish of twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts, and the soup was kelp and winter melon bone soup.
Xiang Jin raised his chopsticks and stretched out his hand to put a chopstick of stir-fried pork with chili pepper into his bowl. "Then you try it and see how it tastes?"
Yan Chen smiled again, then nodded. Xiang Jin put another Sixi meatballs and sweet and sour pork ribs in the bowls of Xiang Yao, her mother and Xiang Yao respectively. He said, "Auntie, Xiang Yao, you guys too
Try it?"
"Oh, okay," mother and daughter both had smiles on their faces, and then they both lowered their heads and started eating.
"Auntie, try this new dish of mine," Xiang Jin then put a piece of Lizhuang white meat into the bowl of Aunt Liao who was sitting at the table.
Aunt Liao said, "You eat what you have and leave me alone. I'm not polite."
Xiang Jin smiled, and then Yan Chen's voice rang in her ears, "It's delicious, very authentic."
Xiang Jin turned his head and looked at him with a smile, "But the meat in this is not pork belly."
Yan Chen said, "I know, you are using it to remove bones and meat."
Xiang Jin gave him a thumbs up and nodded, "Expert," he is indeed the grandson of Grandpa Zeng, a foodie.
Yan Chen smiled slightly and said to Jin, "How about you try the other dishes and give your opinion?"
“No objection, they are all delicious!”
Xiang Jin rolled his eyes at him angrily, "You didn't even eat, so you just said you have no objection. Your answer is too careless?"
Yan Chen said, "Even if I haven't eaten, I know that the food you cooked is delicious."
"You have so much confidence in me?" Xiang Jin looked at him with doubt.
"nature!"
Xiang Jin laughed at himself and said, "Young man, don't worship blindly. Maybe one day I will capsize?"
Yan Chen raised his eyebrows, "Can you do it?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "I can't say for sure, but strictly speaking, I generally won't capsize easily. Even if I do, it should be someone else's boat."
Seeing the confidence on her face, the smile in Yan Chen's eyes became even stronger, and there was a hint of doting in his lowered eyes, "That's all right."
Then following Xiang Jin and the others, they heard Grandpa Zeng at the next table saying, "Let me tell you, this girl Jin is good at cooking, okay?"
Everyone smiled and nodded in agreement, and then Xiang Yao's mother teased and suggested, "Sister-in-law Juyun, you can open a restaurant on the street when the time comes. With Jin Yatou's skills, you won't be afraid of business.
Not hot."
Then Xiang Yao and her grandmother looked at her angrily and corrected her, "My child still has to study. How can I have time to open a restaurant?"
Then Aunt Mingfen from the mountain said, "Girl Jin is studying, but Sister-in-law Juyun can cook it. Sister-in-law Juyun must have taught Jinya how to make these dishes. Girl Jin can make them so delicious. Then Sister-in-law Juyun
Not to mention his craftsmanship."
Yang Juyun wanted to say that she really wasn't as good as her daughter's craftsmanship, but when she saw Xiang Jin's restraining look towards her, although she didn't know what her daughter meant, she still said, "Let's talk about this later.
Everyone has eaten well. We have all worked hard today and our family doesn’t have anything to entertain us, just some homely meals.”
Everyone said politely, "Hey, where, where, this is already very good."
Then everyone started talking about something else, changing the topic.
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There will be another chapter at five or six o'clock in the afternoon