"Sister Xia said you can knead dough, so she asked you to scoop six spoonfuls of white flour, mix it and stay awake while she gets up to do it." Xiao Jie lowered his voice and said to Lin Yi.
Li Gang and Lao Liao were already snoring deafeningly on the sofa in the living room, but Lin Yi had no idea they would be woken up.
"Yes, I will."
After receiving the order, Lin Yi did not rush to move. After all, no one knew how long these people had slept.
"Brother Jie, what are you doing?" Lin Yi watched Xiao Jie take out a set of knives from their bags.
"I cut up the meat."
Lin Yi's eyes widened. "You can do this?"
These days, Xiaojie has been training him and Sangsang to use a crossbow. Although they are only four years apart in age, Xiaojie is so much better than him.
Lin Yi was already full of admiration and even called him Brother Jie affectionately.
It's rare to see an older brother character, and Lin Yi's mature disguise seems to be broken, and he acts much more childishly in front of Xiaojie.
Xiao Jie smiled and said, "I have been following the squad leader and the others for two years. Besides..."
Xiao Jie paused, a hint of bitterness flashing in his eyes, but his smile remained unchanged. "We used to live on the grassland... My father slaughtered all the cattle and sheep in our family..."
Lin Yi nodded in understanding. He looked at the tall figure beside the chopping board. Brother Jie was not even seventeen years old yet, but he was already so tall. He wondered when he could catch up with him.
He looked at himself and saw that he was only as tall as the other person's chest, feeling a little frustrated.
Xiao Jie didn't have time to care about his little thoughts.
I saw him raise his hand and cut with the knife swiftly, and in an hour he had cut several pieces of mutton into neat pieces.
There is a pile of mutton fat, a pile of mutton ribs, a pile of mutton spine, a pile of mutton belly, tendon meat, butt meat, etc., all carefully divided and stacked in a pile. They are bright red in color and look very pleasing to the eye.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Lin Yi went to the stairwell to scoop flour and prepare to knead the dough.
"Sister Xia, are you awake?"
Ningxia stretched and slept for almost three hours before finally catching her breath.
I was still tired, but hungry, so no one in Ningxia woke me up.
"Where's Sangsang? Has she been obedient these days?"
Xiao Jie smiled and nodded, "She's been playing with the lamb you brought back. She's been very obedient and can recite the vowels these days."
Ningxia put down the water cup and said, "You can do it! How did you teach her? Her brother has such a good temper, but she almost drove him crazy and he still couldn't memorize it."
The smile in Xiaojie's eyes became more obvious, and he lowered his head without answering.
Looking at the tall and gentle boy in front of her, Ningxia felt that she seemed to have found the reason.
"Your uncle Liao and the others haven't woken up yet?"
"It's still early. If they weren't called, they would have slept until tomorrow afternoon."
Ningxia touched her stomach and wondered why she was the only one who woke up from hunger?
Looking at the piles of neatly cut mutton, Ningxia exclaimed in admiration as he walked forward and looked through each piece.
Xiao Jie smiled generously, "Sister Xia, whatever you plan to do, I'll help you."
Ningxia turned out the internal organs in the basin, but found that they were no longer in the state of having been casually washed by water at the riverside. Instead, they were completely washed clean inside and out. It was a huge basin!
"Did you wash it?"
"I had nothing to do while Lin Yi was kneading the dough, so I just washed it."
Ningxia said she is fully capable of adopting another child.
Xiaojie had already cleaned the internal organs, which saved Ningxia a lot of trouble.
Lin Yi watched the fire in the stove and didn't let it go out. He threw the cleaned internal organs into the pot. Ningxia also found a lot of spices and ginger and garlic and put them in.
"Let it blanch, Lin Yi. It doesn't matter if the fire is a little high. Xiao Jie, help me watch it."
The pot was handed over to the two brothers, and Ningxia started to pull the noodles.
Lin Yi carefully brushed a layer of oil on the dough before setting it to rise, ensuring it was just right. Lin Yi might not be good at seasoning, but Ningxia had already trained him well enough to be a handyman.
Thinking of the hot and spicy mutton offal noodles, Ningxia's hunger became more severe.
By the time Ningxia had finished pulling the noodles, the mutton offal in the pot had already started to bubble up.
She scooped it into a large basin, which was full and had the distinctive smell of mutton offal, which was not very pleasant.
Lin Yi went into the kitchen and took out two more kitchen knives. The three of them each held a chopping board. In a short while, the mutton offal of various shapes in the basin turned into thin slices and mixed together.
"Come on! Heat some oil in a pan. I'll stir-fry it first."
Star anise, cinnamon, a handful of peppercorns, and a whole plate of dried chilies were thrown into the pot.
The spices fried in mutton fat at the bottom of the pot were crackling. Before it could react, Ningxia poured a bowl of mutton offal slices back into the pot, and gradually added seasonings such as soy sauce and MSG.
The fire burned fiercely. After a while, the strange smell of the mutton offal in the pot was replaced by fragrance. The moisture in the mutton offal was also fried dry and soaked in oil. The shiny color looked very beautiful.
There were too many slices of meat in the pot, so Ningxia scooped out half of it, but even so, there was still a lot left in the pot.
As the hot water was poured into the pot, the mutton offal slices splashed into the boiling water with a sizzling sound.
Ningxia added a lot of seasonings before covering the pot and patiently waiting for it to simmer for a while.
"Auntie Qing!"
Lin Yi welcomed the newcomer into the yard.
Seeing that there were only three of them, Mu Yuanqing lowered his voice and asked, "Are they still sleeping?"
Ningxia waved her hand and said, "It's okay. I'm cooking outside and the noise won't wake them up."
Liu Ximu sat down with the child in his arms and took a nap. He looked much better.
"Has Brother Mu eaten yet?"
Liu Ximu shook his head and said jokingly in a calm tone, "No, I'm waiting to come to your place to eat rich food."
"Wait, it's a big pot."
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