Chapter 15 He seems to be growing a brain
The gate of the Gu family's courtyard was open, so Qian Lan walked straight into the courtyard and came to the kitchen door.
"Xiao Yu."
Yu Hui was draining rice when she heard someone calling her.
When I turned around, I saw Qian Lan standing at the kitchen door.
"Sister-in-law, why are you here?" she asked with a smile, but did not stop what she was doing.
"Look, my two little boys smelled the delicious meat you cooked, so they asked me to come over and learn from you." As he said that, his eyes fell on the casserole that was making a gurgling sound and had an enticing aroma.
Yu Hui smiled, drained the rice, and then walked to the stove to tell Qian Lan how to make braised pork.
Qian Lan also moved closer.
"I'm making braised pork." Yu Hui said as she opened the lid. The bright red meat chunks in the pot were rolling in the boiling red soup.
Qian Lan looked at the tempting meat and swallowed her saliva. "The color is so beautiful. How did you make it?"
Yu Hui closed the lid and explained the cooking method in detail. She then said, "The meat isn't done yet, otherwise I'd let you taste it right now, and then I'll have Dongdong bring over a few pieces."
"No," Qian Lan said hurriedly, extending her hand. "I already had your scallion pancakes this morning, so how can I eat your meat? Just keep it for yourselves. I have meat at home, too. You told me how to make it, so I can just cook it myself."
"We've got enough food for you to eat. Besides, you've been watching over Beibei for so long today..."
"It wasn't half a day, it was clearly less than two hours. It's normal for neighbors to help each other. If you do me a favor and then give me something to eat, that would be awkward."
"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go back to cook." After saying that, Qian Lan turned and left.
Yu Hui looked at her back, shook her head and smiled.
Okay, I won’t send meat at noon, but I will send buns at night.
She only cooked one and a half pounds of meat, which was the amount in the pot. The remaining one pound of pork belly and two pounds of lean meat were used to make dumplings. These dumplings cannot be made with pure lean meat, they must have some fat to be fragrant.
I made a lot of buns, so I sent a few to Sister Yu and her family to try. They couldn't refuse.
It was time for dinner at the Gu family. The three brothers, Dongnan and Xi, looked at the braised pork in the middle of the table, pursed their lips and swallowed their saliva.
Yu Hui scooped eggs and tomatoes from the tomato and egg soup for Beibei, and mixed a few slices of carrots with the rice.
"You guys eat first." She fed Beibei and then ate.
Only then did Gu Dong stretch out his chopsticks, and the target of his chopsticks was naturally the tempting braised pork.
Take a bite, it is fragrant, sweet and soft, and melts in your mouth as soon as you put it on your tongue.
It was the first time for the three brothers to eat such delicious braised pork. They couldn’t stop eating piece after piece.
"Mmm, the meat tastes so good." Gu Xixi happily swung her little feet under the table, her head shaking from side to side.
Gu Dong and Gu Nan laughed at him when they saw it, but the braised pork was indeed so delicious that it made people want to dance with joy, but they just held back.
Beibei also wanted to eat braised pork, so Yu Hui pretended to use her small spoon to scoop up some air from the dish, mixed it in a bowl and fed it to her.
The little guy ate even more happily, as if he was really eating meat.
Xia Yao is also professional at fooling youngsters.
Yu Hui started eating only after feeding Beibei. She had already eaten two pieces of the braised pork before it came out of the pot.
Maybe it’s because the pigs these days are well fed and of better breed, so the food tastes better than what she made before.
There was almost a pound and a half of pork belly, and so many mushrooms, one large and three small. I ate it all, leaving only half a bowl of tomato and egg soup.
None of the three children liked to drink it, saying it had a strange taste.
Yu Hui kept the soup and heated it up to drink herself in the evening.
After washing the dishes, Yu Hui did not rest. She skillfully kneaded the dough for making dumplings in the afternoon, put it in a pot, covered it with a lid and let it rise.
He took out the wooden basin and washed the dirty clothes that the children had taken off last night.
There is running water and a washing table in the yard, which makes washing clothes very convenient.
These children were sitting on the ground, and their clothes were so dirty that she spent more than half an hour washing them before hanging them up. Her waist was almost broken from exhaustion.
It was only 2:30 when she finished washing. Yu Hui planned to take a nap for half an hour before getting up to mix the stuffing.
Gu Nan and Gu Xi were taking a nap on the long chair, while Gu Dong was catching up on his homework in the living room. Tomorrow was Monday and he had to go to school, so after dinner he took out his schoolbag and started catching up on his homework.
The main room is brighter, so Gu Dong does his homework there.
Although the study is quite bright, Lin Siyu never allowed them to enter the study before. Whenever the children went to the study, she would scold them.
So now even if she is not at home, Gu Dong and the others will not go to the study.
If I go to the study, my mother will be unhappy.
Yu Hui gave a piece of clothing to Gu Nan and Gu Xi, who were sleeping on the long chair, to cover them up to prevent them from catching a cold.
He walked over to the cradle and took a look. Beibei was sleeping soundly inside with her little fists clenched. Thinking that Gu Dong was outside, he decided not to carry her in to sleep.
Gu Dong was stumped by a math problem. He couldn't count his knuckles and was so anxious that he scratched his head.
"Which question do you not understand?" Yu Hui stood up and walked behind him and asked.
Gu Dong turned around to look at her, frowning with a look of disgust, "Can you read? Can you still talk to me after I tell you?"
I can really speak, Yu Hui added in her mind, "Who said I can't read?"
"Can you read?" Gu Dong's voice became a little louder. Gu Nan, who was teasing Beibei with marbles, turned to look at his stepmother in surprise.
"Yeah." Yu Hui nodded.
Gu Nan: "But grandma clearly said you can't read!"
When my grandmother persuaded my father to marry a stepmother, she said: "Even though she is illiterate, blah blah..."
"That's because your grandma doesn't understand me. In fact, when I was cutting grass for the commune's pigs, I secretly listened to classes outside the window of the village primary school." She said this purely to deceive the children. The original owner was so honest. If she was asked to cut grass for pigs, she would cut it honestly from morning to night and would never do anything else secretly.
Gu Dong glanced at his stepmother with some disdain. "Just because you eavesdropped on some of my classes, you can understand my math problems?"
Yu Hui: "Of course. After all, I've been eavesdropping for five years. This calculation is only for elementary school students. Looking at your first-grade math, it's still a piece of cake."
Gu Dong was unconvinced. "You only eavesdropped on the class and didn't do any exercises. How could it be so easy?"
This Yu Hui is really good at bragging.
"Okay, then do the math. Twenty-nine minus twelve equals..."
"It's equal to seventeen." Before Gu Dong finished speaking, Yu Hui gave the answer.
Is it still necessary to do addition and subtraction in the first grade of primary school?
You can't tell the answer just by looking at it.
"..." Gu Dong opened his mouth and looked at Yu Hui, "You are wrong, definitely wrong, you must be talking nonsense."
Yu Hui rolled her eyes. "What's two minus one?"
"one."
"What about nine minus two?"
Gu Dong counted his knuckles, "Seven..."
"Isn't that seventeen?"
“…” Gu Dong felt a little itchy on his head, as if he was about to grow a brain.
His face flushed with embarrassment and surprise as he looked at his stepmother. She actually understood arithmetic problems and could tell the answers directly without having to calculate.
He silently filled in the answer and continued to solve the next problem. He wanted to use the algorithm his stepmother told him, but found that it didn't work.
So, "You definitely can't calculate thirty-two minus twenty-six."
Yu Hui smiled, took the pencil from him, and used the vertical formula on the back of the homework paper that Gu Dong had already written.
"Thirty-two minus twenty-six, two minus six is not enough, so borrow one digit from the front. Ten minus six equals four, and four plus two equals six. Three is borrowed, so there is two left. Two minus two equals zero, so the answer is..." Yu Hui turned her head to look at Gu Dong.
"six."
"That's right." Yu Hui circled the number six.
"Do you understand?"
Gu Dong nodded, and suddenly he understood. After his stepmother explained this, he understood everything.
"Pay attention in class." Yu Hui patted his head gently.
If he had listened to the class carefully, he would not be unable to solve the problem by writing the vertical form.
Gu Dong angrily opened her hand and replied, "What do you care?"
He listened carefully in class, but he just couldn't understand what the teacher said.
But he understood what his stepmother said, which shows that it was not his problem, but the teacher's problem.
Yu Hui shook her head and walked towards the bedroom on the right, yawning.
Gu Dong looked up and saw his stepmother pounding her waist as she walked into the house. He felt as if he had forgotten something.
Hmm, what did I forget? Gu Dong tilted his head and thought.
"Ah!" A terrified scream came from the bedroom and pierced the sky.
The three children who were taking a nap were frightened and woke up.
Beibei was frightened awake and burst into tears.
Gu Dong's face changed, he remembered!
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