"Yu!?" Hinoki was shocked, but he couldn't move his arms away from the dough. He could only twist his upper body stiffly as if fixed by 'quick-drying cement', and stretched his head as hard as he could to see. The situation on Yu's side.
"What's wrong?" Yu grabbed the leaves of the half-cut carrot and raised his head with an innocent look.
This handful of leaves is quite tenacious, and it looks like it can be pinched even when broken and is very stable.
"You'd better come over to my place and let's divide this big dough into smaller doughs, okay?"
Hui stretched out his hand to pull down the noodles in his other hand, patted the surface of the basin twice, then placed one hand on the surface and the other outside, carrying the large basin and noodles so that they would not add too much weight. Push it to the ground, walk to Yu and squat down.
"Although this sharpener is not big, it is still a bit dangerous for you. What if your hand slips? What, ninjas seem to need to use their hands to form seals, right? They also have to do other things when they go to school. Quiz in class... Can you help me peel it when you are older?"
Hinoki smiled as if coaxing a child.
Yuya is indeed a child now.
"It's okay. In fact, I can chop vegetables. I've done this many times. It's okay."
As if he wanted to prove himself, Yu used a small sharpener to cut the tip of the carrot into an irregular flower shape.
Although it is ugly, it is enough to tell Hinoki that he will not be hurt so easily.
"But..." The expression on Hinoki's face looked a little tangled.
To be honest, he didn't know what such a young child could and couldn't do.
And his memories of his childhood were so vague that he could not remember clearly, and could not provide any sample for the current reality.
"Even the students in our school who are one, two, three or four years old can skillfully attack targets with shurikens, but I just use a sword..."
Yu lowered his head and cut the whole piece of carrot tip that had not been washed, cut into flowers and still had a lot of mud into the trash can with the curling edge of the sharpener, and then continued to move the sharpener horizontally. Come over and continue peeling the rest of the skin with the straight edge.
"...I also need to grow up as soon as possible, because there are only a few classmates in the school who are older than me, and now I can't do anything well."
As Yu spoke, she peeled off the skin of the carrot and cut off the part connected to the leaves without mercy.
Hinoki, who was squatting aside and watching, took two small steps back.
"Let's make these into shredded potatoes and stir-fried shredded carrots, right? If you're not worried, you can just watch me from the side. It doesn't matter if the dough is left to wake up a little. It's even better that way... isn't it?"
As long as Hui is not so strong, he will still have a lot of say in this new home.
Yu put the muddy potatoes and the carrots that were also covered in mud because he peeled the potatoes first, and put them on the table by the pool with great effort and tiptoe.
Then she ran to the bathroom on the first floor, washed her hands with what looked like a newly purchased apple-flavored hand sanitizer, and searched around the living room to find a low stool that could be used to rest her feet. , picked her up and ran towards the kitchen.
Hinoki looked at Yu who was lying on the sink and laboriously washing potatoes with mixed emotions.
Potatoes are irregular in shape and have pits, which are quite small. Yu's hand slips easily when holding them and they fall, so it takes a long time to peel them... But carrots don't have the same problem. You just need to peel them straight up and down. Very convenient.
Hinoki poured some oil on the dough, rinsed the hand that was holding the basin with the faucet that Yu turned on when washing the potatoes, then stood next to Yu, put the basin on the table, and continued kneading the dough.
After kneading for a few more minutes, when the overall color of the dough turned into a uniform light yellow, I took my hands out of the basin.
——Because of the oil, most of the dough sticks to the hands have returned to the basin. Now there is only the layer of oil on the hands that exudes a full luster under the lamp and looks particularly greasy.
"Please—" Yu put the potatoes aside first and returned to the floor to make room for Hinoki.
"Hmm..." Hinoki squeezed some lemon-ginger dish soap, smeared it all over his two fingers, lathered it up, then rinsed it down with hot water and oil.
After washing his hands, Hinoki used plastic wrap to seal the basin, then rinsed the chopping board, placed it flat on the counter next to the sink, and then stood back to the stool.
Yu stepped on the stool and continued to wash the potatoes with bumps on the surface attentively. After confirming that they were clean, he placed the potatoes on the chopping board, picked up the second potato and started washing.
Soon, the potatoes, carrots and the extra green onion were all washed by Yu. She found two basins and rinsed them, then placed them near the chopping board. She placed one of the potatoes and the carrot in a basin. Inside, he held the potatoes left on the chopping board with his left hand, took out the long flat kitchen knife that had been rinsed just now and started slicing.
A large kitchen knife is very handy, but she likes the slightly thinner one...at least she won't feel too much psychological pressure when picking it up and cutting it.
The thickness of the potato slices is not all the same, but it is very good for ordinary families who are not professional chefs.
After Yu cuts the slices, stack two or three potato slices on top of each other, place the slices horizontally on the chopping board and start shredding them vertically.
The technique is not very good, but Hinoki can tell that Yu really knows how to chop vegetables... It's just because of his age - or rather because he is too small that he can't complete the process in one go.
Because the potatoes were so big, Yu gathered the shredded potatoes after cutting them into shreds and cut them in half.
Yu smiled at Hina with a little pride, then put the silk into another empty basin and took out the other potato.
Large potatoes would take a long time to steam, so she planned to cut them into small pieces before steaming them.
Yu held the edge of the potato and placed it diagonally on the cutting board. He also held the kitchen knife diagonally, which was still stained with some starch in the potato. He cut along the edge, but did not cut it all the way to the bottom. Half of the potato was submerged on the blade. When she was doing this, she used all the muscles in her shoulders and forearms together, held the knife and turned it in the direction of cutting (four sounds), and a piece of potato fell out.
She turned the potato in a small half circle, cut it diagonally again, and then pinned the potato off. Repeatedly, a pile of potato pieces that were indistinguishable from a distance was born.
But up close it looks very irregular.
"I didn't expect...you are very powerful, Yu."
Hinoki was really surprised.
Yu's technique is not random, and the sum of these actions does not look like he can make dark dishes...
Not counting some people who are serious about making dark dishes and making kappa sushi with any fish, shrimp, crab or rice.
...That is talent, although it is not a serious talent...
"So don't worry about me." Yu turned and cut the potato pieces and put them in the basin with carrots, and then took out the carrots.
Slice and shred.
In some aspects, carrots are harder to cut than potatoes and are easier to slip on your hands. However, if the shreds are not cut very finely, they will have a strong presence in a plate of shredded potatoes, and relatively speaking, they will be better than shredded potatoes. Eat hard.
So Yu carefully cut less than half, but Hinoki took away the job of shredding.
——Her hands often slip, but fortunately she has a premonition the moment she cuts downwards, and she quickly raises her left hand as she cuts...
Well, the cut place is exactly where the carrot is pressed.
Seeing this made Hui very frightened.
But Yu was very serious when cutting carrots, so even if his hand slipped several times, he didn't cut himself.
Different ingredients are treated in different ways.
"Can these lumpy potatoes be made into potato salad? I want some salad after dinner..."
Yu was lying on the table aside and looking at the potato pieces in the basin.
"Well, okay, let's make the cake less cooked. The extra dough can be rolled out and spread out in the refrigerator..."
Hinoki cut carrots into shreds while talking to Yu.
Cut very finely and press very firmly.
Mr. Yu felt like he could see the muscles and blood vessels on Hinoki's little arm.
[Can’t you really see...the invisible muscular man?]
Yu cupped his chin and looked at the shredded carrots under Hinoki's hand.
"Actually, you can use this dough to make vegetable buns tomorrow morning, right? You don't have to make it into cakes..."
She thought this would save a lot of trouble.
"Some oil has been added to the dough. It is not the kind of dough that needs to rise. It will be greasy when made into vegetable buns...and it is not cooked oil. I will use ordinary dough to make it tomorrow." He started to smile at her while cutting the carrots into shreds without stopping.
It's also very fast and the knife is very heavy.
Haven't cut it yet.
"Oh, oh..."
Yu looked at Hinoki and was speechless.
[It seems...a bit untouchable? This person.]
She suddenly felt that it would be better for her to be more honest and settled.
-
While Yu was standing on a stool on the ground by the pool, watching the cypress fried potatoes, radish and green onions opposite, a dull thud suddenly came from what seemed to be the floor outside the living room.
"..."
Yu suddenly got goosebumps again.
But Hinoki, who was cooking over there, didn't hear it at all.
Because the sound of flames, pots, and spatulas was particularly loud on his side.
[Is it...that psychic beast? Yes?]
Yu tried to lie to himself first to stay calm.
——It would be fine if it was that one, but if it was the one who picked me up from school before...
[Speaking of which, who is that guy??]
That 'person' walked as stiffly as a zombie... and what he said was a bit thoughtful...
……what to do?
Go and have a look?
Anyway, she first went through the bag and found a head of garlic, and moved out of the kitchen step by step.
Although garlic is completely useless, if you want to be annoying, you might as well use ginger.
But if you take ginger, cypress can discover its own behavior.
"I, I'm going back to the living room to stay!"
Yu hid the garlic in his sleeve and said to Hinoki.
Hinoki lifted the pot a little higher from the fire, smiled and nodded to show that he understood.
"Wait a moment. After frying this, I will steam the potatoes and make pancakes for you -"
Yuya nodded in response, then took a deep breath and rushed into the living room.
A dark creature was looking at her with wide eyes.
The lights in the living room were not bright enough to dazzle the eyes, so the creature's pupils did not become round like those of an ordinary house cat at night.
Yu saw the whole creature clearly.
He is as black as the photo, his hair is as long as the photo, and his eyes are as bright as the photo.
but……
The body shape is completely different.
In the photo, it stood as tall as a person's little arm, but now it was standing on all fours, but it was as tall as a ten-year-old child.
-
It leaned down a little and growled at Yu.
"..."
[Is it a leopard!?]
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
19.12.31.-8-
Speaking of which, every year on December 30th, some people think that "tomorrow is New Year's Day", and some people often think that after October 30th, it will be November 1st. Why do I say this? Because these days in previous years
There are always people saying, 'What, tomorrow isn't the 1st?' - It's not a joke or a joke, I really think so, because my parents and people I knew online were so surprised. 'October and December'
After the 30th, it turns out to be the 31st instead of the 1st. But there are also many people who have a good sense of time and realize that the 31st is the 31st after the 30th in October and December...
When we were in the first or second grade of elementary school, the school taught us the jingle of months and days, 135780 (December: December), thirty-one days is always the same, 469 winter (winter: November) 30
Days, only February changes—
Although fifteen or sixteen years have passed, I still remember it very clearly, so I don’t know exactly which year February had 29 days.
But when I don’t remember, I always start counting from the year 2000. Once every four years, there are twenty-nine days in February in 2004, 08, 12, 16, 20, etc. - and so on, except for AD 0
Except years and years ago, as long as the number of years can be divided evenly by 4, then February of that year will have 29 days, so February of next year will have 29 days, and Yakushi Kabuto’s birthday is February 29th (suddenly
).
Once every four years is not easy.
By the way, yys is actually linked to Kumamon, xx, xx (two common phrases for bad things (buni)