Chapter 13 Extra Spiritual Spring Water

Shen Zheng glanced in the direction of the girl, who smiled and smoothed her hair with her hand.

Fang Jie threw a piece of firewood and weighed the axe in his hand.

Shen Zheng ignored the girl and just carried the bucket back to the house and said to Fang Xiaoluo, "What do you like to eat? I'll bring it over tomorrow. I'll give you whatever you want to eat."

Fang Xiaoluo put the freshly blanched ribs aside and started to wash the pot. "If you eat like this, aren't you afraid that I won't know how to live and will ruin your family?"

Shen Zheng shook his head. "No, it's a blessing to be able to eat. It's my blessing that you like to eat."

Fang Xiaoluo smiled. This tough guy with iron-blooded tenderness can be quite pleasant to hear.

The girl outside was named Wang Hongfang. She grew up with Xu Yaqiu. They were close friends and had a very good relationship.

After listening to the conversation between Shen Zheng and Fang Xiaoluo, she stamped her feet in hatred and ran away amid the laughter of others.

Shen Zheng squatted down to add firewood. Fang Xiaoluo burned off the steam in the pot and poured oil. "Can you cook?"

Shen Zheng shook his head honestly, "No."

He was actually not picky about food, as long as it was cooked.

When he was a child, he didn't know that food could taste different. It wasn't until he entered the army at the age of sixteen that he realized that food could be cooked deliciously.

It's not that his mother didn't let him cook. His mother tried her best to cook for him. It was only later that he was surprised that cooking might also require talent.

The dishes his mother cooked... well... I can only say that they were cooked.

Even though he has been cooking for nearly thirty years, the taste of that dish is still the same as before, which is rare.

"But I can learn." Shen Zheng added.

In fact, he originally came out for a blind date because he wanted to find a stepmother for his three children, who could help him take care of the family together with his mother.

After he brought his three children back last month, everyone around him advised him so.

He heard it so many times and felt that there was no problem.

So when the matchmaker mentioned Fang Yaqiu, he felt that if the woman was a person who could make a living, there would be no problem with marriage. He would be responsible for all the expenses of the family and would not let the woman suffer any grievances.

But after meeting Fang Xiaoluo, especially after what happened between the two of them, he felt that this idea was wrong. Their marriage also required his efforts to manage, and could not rely solely on the woman.

Fang Xiaoluo put the blanched ribs into the pot, and with a "sizzle" sound, the oil splashed everywhere. After stir-frying evenly, each piece of ribs was golden and fragrant.

Add soup, add seasonings, and throw all the shredded green onions and ginger into the pot. Looking at the bubbling in the pot, Shen Zheng was a little surprised. It turns out that ribs can also taste like this?

Fang Xiaoluo pointed at the potatoes in the pot, "Then the first step in learning to cook is to cut these potatoes into pieces."

She first demonstrated how big they should be, and Shen Zheng cut them quickly. It's true that the head of the group, Shen, is good at cutting.

Fang Xiaoluo praised, "It's so even, do you have a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder?"

Shen Zheng didn't know what obsessive-compulsive disorder was, but he inexplicably felt that Fang Xiaoluo was praising him, and something crossed his mind.

Fang Xiaoluo washed the rice and steamed mixed grain rice on the stove at the back. It contained millet and corn sorghum. Zhang Xinyan originally wanted to cook sorghum rice porridge, so she soaked the sorghum rice in advance, the previously cooked beans, and a small amount of rice.

After finishing this, Fang Xiaoluo went to cut cabbage, cut some large pieces of meat, and soaked vermicelli.

Shen Zheng helped on the side, adding firewood, peeling garlic, and pouring water. The two of them were very harmonious. When

the ribs were almost stewed, half a basin of potato cubes was directly put in.

Soon, the braised pork ribs and potatoes came out of the pot.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Xiaoluo made cabbage stewed with vermicelli and put a large piece of meat in it.

The food was placed on the table and everyone sat around it.

Zhang Xinyan picked up some food for Shen Zheng first, "Don't be polite, Captain Shen, you brought these things here too. Eat more."

"Thank you, Auntie."

Fang Xiaoluo smiled at everyone, "Don't just stand there, it won't taste so good if it gets cold."

Fang Yamei and Fang Yating couldn't wait any longer, and seeing that everyone had picked up their chopsticks, they also hurried to pick up some food.

Shen Zheng looked at the dish in front of him. The braised pork ribs and potatoes had a thick and sticky broth that wrapped around the ribs, making people's mouths water.

He picked up a piece of potato and put it in his mouth. It was soft

, glutinous, salty and fragrant, and the fragrance lingered in his mouth. He picked up another piece of spareribs. The spareribs were stewed just right. They fell off the bones when he pulled them. They were soft and tasty, without any fishy smell of pork.

The softness of the potato and the fragrance of the spareribs mixed together, accompanied by the thick soup. It felt like his tongue was not enough.

Fang Xiaoluo looked at Shen Zheng eating the dishes and felt that he was tasting an elixir. After eating, he still showed a suspicious expression.

"Not to your taste?" Fang Xiaoluo asked.

Shen Zheng quickly said, "No, it's really delicious. Come to think of it, I've never eaten such delicious food."

"I'll just take it as you complimenting me." Fang Xiaoluo has always liked cooking. Although she also likes the taste of her own cooking, she doesn't think that Shen Zheng, such a big leader, has never eaten good food.

A small bowl of cabbage stewed with vermicelli and white meat was placed in front of him, with white soup, crystal clear vermicelli, and large pieces of meat that were trembling and clear in color.

The vermicelli was wrapped in the sweetness of the cabbage and the aroma of the white meat. The stewing time was just right, not too soft and rotten, and elastic.

The white meat and cabbage were put into the mouth together, fat but not greasy, smooth and refreshing, with a unique taste.

"This is delicious too." Shen Zheng commented.

Seeing that Shen Zheng was very supportive, Fang Xiaoluo smiled and said, "Then you should eat more."

No one said much during the meal. The dishes were really delicious. Even the mixed grain rice that they were used to eating was sweet today.

Shen Zheng ate three bowls of rice.

Others in the family also ate a lot.

In the past few days, all the dishes made by Fang Xiaoluo were swept away. After

the meal, Shen Zheng took the initiative to help wash the dishes and clean up. Even though Zhang Xinyan kept telling him not to help and let him rest, he still did it neatly.

After washing his hands, Shen Zheng said, "Uncle, auntie, I'm going back first. I'll find someone to propose marriage tomorrow, and I'm sure everything will be done."

After seeing Shen Zheng off, the Fang family was silent for a while.

After dinner, Fang Jie was washing the dishes, staring at Fang Xiaoluo who was washing clothes at the door, "Big sister..."

Fang Xiaoluo turned her head. This was the first time this kid called her sister in these days. Usually they didn't talk much.

"Xiao Jie, what's wrong?"

"Have you really thought it through to marry Captain Shen?"

Fang Xiaoluo nodded, "Yeah, don't you think he's good-looking and manly?"

Fang Jie scoffed at this reason, "If he doesn't treat you well, don't rely on him. There are plenty of men in the world, don't hang yourself on a tree." Fang Xiaoluo smiled

widely, "Okay, if I run back from the Shen family one day, remember to take me in."

Fang Jie snorted, and when he turned his head to put down his chopsticks, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

At night, Fang Xiaoluo slept on the same kang with Fang Yating and Fang Yamei.

In the east room, Zhang Xinyan and Fang Shijun chatted until very late. Although they lowered their voices and couldn't hear what they were saying, they all knew that they were talking.

Zhang Xinyan told Fang Shijun about the matter in general, and she could only tell Fang Shijun. It was impossible to tell Fang Qiang and the others about this kind of thing.

Fang Shijun also understood why Zhang Xinyan suddenly changed her mind and agreed to this marriage.

Early the next morning, Fang Xiaoluo found that Fang Shijun and Zhang Xinyan had serious dark circles under their eyes, as if they had not slept all night and looked very haggard.

When Zhang Xinyan was cooking porridge, Fang Xiaoluo took the opportunity to drop two drops of spiritual spring water into the pot.

When she went to check, she was shocked to find that her spiritual spring water had increased again.

There was not much the day before yesterday? How come there was more water yesterday?

Fang Xiaoluo fell into deep thought. What is the common point between the two times when the spiritual spring water suddenly increased?

Both times she was related to Xu Yaqiu and Shen Zheng.

Is the reason for the abundance of spiritual spring water because of Xu Yaqiu or because of Shen Zheng?