While Chen Jiao was cutting leaves, Lu Zhengxu silently left the old lady's thatched hut.
After a while, Lu Zhengxu brought back a two-finger-wide piece of bacon, a handful of garlic sprouts and leeks, three eggs, and about a pound of cornmeal.
In addition to the food in his hands, Lu Zhengxu also carried a large bundle of hay on his back.
He put down the food in his hand, carried the hay on his back and climbed onto the roof of the old lady's thatched hut. He took down the rotten thatch on the roof and replaced it with new hay.
Chen Jiao was concentrating on cutting leaves and practicing her knife skills, and didn't notice what the man was doing.
The old lady sitting in the house saw what the man did and muttered, "The little girl is useless, but she found a useful man."
Having said that, she stood up and walked out of the house.
I just used the ingredients that Lu Zhengxu brought back and started cooking.
Chen Jiao was cutting leaves when suddenly a strong fragrance entered her nose. In an instant, she felt that the gluttony in her stomach had been aroused. Her saliva kept flowing out and her stomach was singing the empty city plan.
She just lazily shook her sore wrist when the old lady's ghostly voice floated from behind her, "How's the cutting going?"
Chen Jiao: ...
She looked at the results of her labor. Although she had tried very hard, she had only cut the noodles to the thickness of dragon beard noodles.
She was a little embarrassed, "Master, this knife is not easy to use..."
The old lady rolled her eyes at her and said, "Is that big thing on your neck a decoration?
If the knife is not working properly, don’t you know to sharpen it?
If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. Don’t you understand such a simple truth? madness! ”
Chen Jiao: ...
She was even more embarrassed, as if she was stupid.
The old lady said, "Cut it once and show me."
Chen Jiao didn't hesitate. She took the knife and sharpened it twice on the grindstone next to her. After feeling the sharpness of the blade, she quickly put five leaves together and then cut them quickly.
Under her knife, the leaves were instantly turned into thin strands as big as dragon beard noodles.
And to the naked eye, each strand appears to be the same thickness.
A rare glimmer of satisfaction flashed across the old lady's eyes. "Okay, let's eat."
Chen Jiao followed the old lady into the house, and Lu Zhengxu just finished laying the roof and came down.
The old lady used the ingredients that Lu Zhengxu brought back to make only fried bacon with garlic sprouts and fried eggs with leeks.
She made the cornmeal into pancakes.
Before they started eating, the old lady took a large rough bowl with a hole in it, put some of the fried bacon with garlic sprouts and leeks and eggs in it, and then put five or six sticky corn cakes in it.
He handed it to Lu Zhengxu and said, "Boy, put this in the house at the other end of the woods and save it for the old dog to eat."
"Okay." Lu Zhengxu took the big bowl and went out with it.
Of course, Chen Jiao knew that the old dog the old lady was talking about was actually Mr. Xu.
It was only when she arrived here today that she believed what the old lady said yesterday, that she was not Mr. Xu’s wife.
However, the relationship between the old lady and Mr. Xu is really intriguing!
Chen Jiao's inquiring eyes fell on the old lady's face, and the old lady rolled her eyes at her again, "Is there a flower on my face?"
The gossipy nature prompted Shen Jiao to approach the old lady with a smile and asked, "Master, Mr. Xu is pursuing you, right?"
The old lady rolled her eyes at Chen Jiao again and spat, “Bah, do you think everyone is like you, with love in their mind all day long?”
"I tell you, a woman needs to be capable and think about her own career. If you think about love all day long, you will only be able to eat wild vegetables for the rest of your life."
Chen Jiao: ...
The old lady has quite advanced ideas. She knows that one should focus on career rather than love.
The old lady started eating only after Lu Zhengxu came back.
Whether it was yesterday at their home or today in this shabby thatched hut, the old lady always sat elegantly while eating, chewing slowly with her mouth closed.
Chen Jiao felt that watching the old lady eat so elegantly was a pleasure.
What's more, the dishes and corn tortillas made by the old lady quickly stimulated all the taste buds once they entered the mouth, and the soul seemed to be indulged in the deliciousness.
Chen Jiao couldn't understand why the two home-cooked dishes, stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts and leek and eggs, with nothing special in the ingredients, were so much better than hers?
The taste of the dishes cooked by the old lady seems to have some kind of magic that can stir people's emotions and make them unable to extricate themselves.
Chen Jiao wanted to ask the old lady something, but just as she was about to open her mouth, the old lady directly said to her, "Don't talk while eating and don't talk while sleeping."
After they finished eating, Lu Zhengxu cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them, and she wanted to ask again.
The old lady glared at her and said, "You ask me, what's the point of me telling you? If you can't understand it yourself, you are still bullshit!"
Chen Jiao: ...
The old lady waved her hands impatiently, "Alright, I've given you your meal, now hurry up and get out of here, don't get in my way.
Remember to bring what you need tomorrow. I am an old woman with nothing, so I can't give you anything for free. ”
Chen Jiao: ...
After Lu Zhengxu washed the dishes and cleaned up, he left with Chen Jiao.
On the way back, Lu Zhengxu said, "Wife, when I was exchanging things in the village today, I asked about Master.
My master used to be an imperial chef in the palace and also a female official of high rank. After the feudal dynasty was over, she fled here. ”
"The villagers didn't think much of her. They said she was sarcastic and mean, and that she was at the opposite end of the spectrum from Mr. Xu. But she didn't suffer during the most chaotic years."
Before Lu Zhengxu could explain the reason, Chen Jiao had already guessed it, "Master is very tough. She is not afraid of those who wear shoes when she is barefoot. No matter how powerful those people are, they are afraid that if they really push her to the limit, she will take them away with her.
Besides, Mr. Xu must have protected her secretly all those years. ”
Lu Zhengxu nodded, "Well, when someone with a red armband wanted to go to the master to cause trouble, she would throw shit and manure at them, and even take a knife to fight them, threatening to kill one to get back her investment, and kill two to make a profit. Those people are indeed afraid of her.
In addition, Old Xu also warned the villagers privately that if anyone dared to touch his master, then no matter if the people in his family got sores on their heads or pus on their feet, as long as there was any disaster or illness in their family, they should not blame him, as he would not care. ”
After hearing what Lu Zhengxu had found out, Chen Jiao suddenly became even more curious about the past of Mr. Xu and his master.
After talking about the two old people, Chen Jiao remembered that the man was going back to the army. She couldn't help but tighten her arms around the man's thin waist and asked, "When are you planning to go back?"
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