Chapter 246
"Mianmian, how about the fried chicken here?" Li Zhaozhao sat next to his sister and tilted his head to watch her happily eating a fried chicken leg.
After Yunmian finished eating all the fried chicken thighs in her hand, she wiped off the oil stains on her fingers with a wet tissue, and then slowly commented: "It's delicious, but it's a little overcooked. The crispy skin is not crispy but a little hard, and the cumin powder flavor is scattered and not fragrant enough."
Li Zhaozhao carefully wrote down her comments, then smiled and rubbed his sister's head: "Thank you Mianmian for helping me. When I get the money for this guide, I will definitely treat you to the most delicious fried chicken!"
Yunmian rubbed her sister's palm and shook her head, "No need. Mom said I can't eat too much fried food. If I eat too much, I will really become a fat boy and won't be able to lose weight."
"And the fried chicken my mom makes is the best fried chicken in the world!" the child said with his hands on his hips proudly.
Seeing her cocky look, Li Zhaozhao couldn't help laughing. He took his sister out, and as soon as he went out, the biting cold wind made his cheeks hurt.
"Come on, I'll take you back to the store first."
Yunmian is a child who does not favor one over another, so after asking He Fang and Sister Ayin about their dreams for the future, she asked Sister Zhaozhao while giving them snacks.
What surprised Yunmian was that although Sister Zhaozhao was outstanding in piano, dancing, calligraphy, etc., the answer she gave her in the end was as unexpected as Sister Ayin's.
"I want to be an absolutely free person and do whatever my heart wants."
It was a dream with a very broad scope. Yun Mian didn’t quite understand what it meant, but she saw the yearning in her sister’s eyes, like a small flame that was about to go out but was always burning stubbornly, making her want to protect it with her hands to prevent any passing wind from extinguishing it.
Later, Yunmian understood what Sister Zhaozhao meant.
Sister Zhaozhao had a fight with her family, and it was probably very fierce. She moved out of that house with deep slap marks on her face.
Sister Zhaozhao started researching multimedia channels and writing food recommendations, but it’s unclear whether she made any money.
Sister Zhaozhao beat up several kids of her grade. It was heard that those kids bullied other kids, so Sister Zhaozhao brought sisters Ayin and Hefang to beat them up together. Yunmian stood outside the door to keep watch on them.
Later, the school called the parents, and only two parents of the four culprit children came. These two parents were particularly protective of their children, guarding the four little girls behind them like chicks, and pushed all the mistakes onto the victims. In the end, the children who were beaten were transferred to other schools by their parents, and the four children who beat the children, one by one, made a deep self-examination under the national flag.
Sister Zhaozhao seemed to have gradually become a not-so-outstanding child, but Yunmian felt that she was becoming more and more like the little sister who would drag her to the store to buy princess stickers and spend every last dollar. She liked and was familiar with this kind of Sister Zhaozhao.
The only thing that bothered Yunmian was that after Sister Zhaozhao changed, she seemed to always quarrel with Sister Ayin...
"Is this the path you want to take?" Wu Yin looked at Li Zhaozhao's embarrassed appearance with sarcasm, her eyes full of complexity.
Li Zhaozhao shook his head at her and replied with a chuckle, "No, this is just the real me, the one who is completely free to cry, laugh, speak and act."
Just a few hours after they finished beating the girl, Li Zhaozhao's mother Chen Xinya rushed to the school and yelled at her to kneel down in front of all the classmates and teachers, saying that she was not the daughter of the Li family. She slapped her a few times and declared that she would never care about her again, saying that she had been corrupted by Wu Wan and was bad to the core. Then she left angrily in her high heels, and even the teacher didn't call her back.
Li Zhaozhao did not kneel, but she was young and it was difficult for her to fight back if a woman hit her. Amid all the condescending curses from the other party, she remained calm and composed even though she was covered in dirt.
After all, Chen Xinya had heard those curses countless times in her previous life when she was being disciplined and suppressed by that family.
It is nothing more than attacking her background, despising her words and deeds, emphasizing her own nobility and elegance, using all "non-rude" means to discipline her to be inferior and obedient, and then forcibly covering her with layer after layer of perfect disguise of a superior person.
Even though they themselves had never achieved it, they were extremely demanding and demanded that she do everything perfectly.
Ubiquitous surveillance, day-to-day suppression, the contrast between what people do in front of and behind their backs...
They disciplined her like a dog. If she did well, they would give her a sweet reward. If she did not, they would punish her severely. They would crush her bones, which had grown freely, inch by inch, and then use the broken bones to glue them into the shape they wanted.
So the thirty years of suffering were all for her own good. All her struggles and resistance were ruthlessly suppressed by them. Only when her bones were broken could she hear them say in a high and cold voice: "Be obedient. How could your parents hurt you? This is all for your own good."
Li Zhaozhao was also young and could not hide her emotions. After the two saw her resentment and hatred, they did not react much. Instead, they continued to communicate with each other like training a dog, saying, "This child has really been taught badly by that woman. He is rebellious. It will probably take a lot of effort to correct him."
Every time at that time, they would sigh: "If only we hadn't picked up the wrong child."
Or: "If we could have another child and raise him ourselves, he would definitely be more obedient than this one who came back halfway."
In their previous life, the couple went bankrupt due to Wu Yin's revenge, and regarded her as their only lifeline.
They want to climb up by climbing her ladder, so someone in the research circle who stays up all night and has strong capital and loves fresh girls is ready to send her fairly satisfactory "work" to the other party for evaluation.
Wu Wan was driven crazy by Wu Yin's death. So were Li Gaoyang and Chen Xinya also driven crazy by her death?
They were like two evil ghosts crawling out of hell, stepping on the eerie white bones that once belonged to them, and then quietly pushing their struggling enemies into the abyss of hopelessness.
Both of them tacitly chose to end their lives because they knew that death is often a relief, an end, and the end of all grudges. Only by living will the pain and hatred continue endlessly.
But none of them was happier than the other, and no one could tell who had won or lost.
After all, even if their fate had never been exchanged, or their lives continued to go wrong, their future could be seen clearly at a glance.
Wu Zhaozhao will have a single mother whose psychology is becoming increasingly distorted, and she will have to struggle to survive step by step while carrying her father's life on her shoulders.
Li Yin would be framed by her parents in the most perfect rules and regulations since she was a child, and she could not take a single wrong step. Death would become the only way of relief she could seek.
And both children have already gone through the life represented by these two names.
So Li Yin is Li Yin, and Li Yin is also Wu Zhaozhao.
So Wu Zhaozhao is Wu Zhaozhao, and Wu Zhaozhao is also Li Yin.
Before they completely broke free from fate, they were each other, themselves, the same victims in two different families, and the most innocent and helpless children.
It was never their fault, but Wu Wan, Li Gaoyang, Chen Xinya, and those selfish, despicable, hypocritical and disgusting parents.
And they themselves, in this hopeless and barren predicament, are like two of the most pathetic thieves, constantly peeping into Mianmian's childhood and the rest of her life, and then fantasizing that they have also grasped or obtained her love and past.
“Do you know the difference between being loved and not being loved?”
Wu Yin was confused: "What?"
Li Zhaozhao quietly looked at Wu Yin, who looked a little confused, and smiled with his eyes downcast. He did not explain or confide his terrible past to her, but just said to her: "The difference is that the misfortune of the loved one comes from losing their mother, while our misfortune is precisely because we have a mother."
Those who are loved are like Mianmian, and those who are not loved are just like them two.
Wu Yin stared at Li Zhaozhao leaving in a daze. When she turned around, she saw He Fang holding Mianmian's hand, standing not far away and listening for an unknown amount of time.
Among the students playing and playing with each other, the four of them seemed like three intersections of fate, linked together one by one, but no one knew what the line connecting these three points formed.
Li Zhaozhao used the money she earned to rent a house not far from the school. She rejected Wu Wan's late-stage Ai Ai's invitation to go home, hired a nanny for Wu Wan who was alone at home, but she never took the initiative to go back to visit her.
In her previous life, when Wu Yin was suffering, she missed the Li family's affluent life. When Li Zhaozhao was suffering, didn't he also think about being taken home by Wu Wan?
But when they grow up, or when they start over again, they will find that those expectations are nothing more than beautiful fantasies born out of pain.
Just like the most fragile bubbles, they don't even need to do anything themselves, they will break by themselves with a slight blow from the wind.
Next, the two children who also left their parents and lived outside, each lived their own life. Only they knew whether it was bitter or sweet.
It was not until the third year after Li Zhaozhao was exchanged back to the Li family that the fire at the Yun Duo Hotel was about to happen.
Even though she and Wu Yin had reminded Aunt Yun countless times, both explicitly and implicitly, to strengthen the store's fire prevention measures, and that fire hydrants and fire extinguishers could be found everywhere in the store, when that day was really about to come, Li Zhaozhao and Wu Yin were still worried.
Therefore, even though there was not much communication between the two at school, when this day came, they both came to the Yun Duo Hotel without any prior arrangement.
When I arrived, I found that He Fang was also there, and she was teaching Mianmian to do her homework.
Seeing her two sisters appear, Yun Mianmian, a little girl who was tortured by homework, suddenly lit up her eyes. She couldn't wait to slide down from the stool and enthusiastically invited her two sisters to come to the restaurant for dinner.
It is still morning, but the sunlight outside has already poured in through the transparent glass. The chefs in the kitchen are busy preparing food, and there are employees in the front who are cleaning the tables, chairs and benches.
"Mianmian, where is your mother?" Wu Yin walked back holding her sister's hand, not noticing Mianmian's increasingly resistant expression as she got closer to the dining table.
Until the child stopped and answered: "My mother said she would teach me how to make pepper chicken today, so she went out to buy fresh ingredients."
Wu Yin and Li Zhaozhao's expressions froze at the same time, and they had a bad feeling in their hearts.
“Where did she buy it?”
"Did she drive there?"
The two asked anxiously at the same time.
After all, they only knew that Aunt Yun died in a fire in her previous life, but fate was unpredictable. What if it was not a fire in this life but a car accident? Who could tell?
Yun Mian tilted her head to look at the nervous expressions of her two sisters, then pointed outside and said crisply, "My mother is back."
The two of them turned their heads in tacit understanding and saw Yun Jinyan pushing the door open carrying a chicken and other ingredients.
Perhaps the two children's gazes were a little too direct, Yun Jinyan noticed it, looked over in confusion, and asked, "What's wrong? When did you come? Have you eaten?"
Wu Yin nodded hurriedly, not knowing which question she was answering.
Li Zhaozhao breathed a sigh of relief, and he and Wu Yin walked forward to take the things from Aunt Yun, then whispered, "Nothing, I just didn't see you when I first came, so I asked Mianmian where you went."
He Fang rested the pen cap against her chin, quietly observed Wu Yin and Li Zhaozhao's reactions, and shook her head silently.
What a poor performance. They felt a hundred times more guilty than when Mianmian stole food to feed Aunt Yun in her previous life. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that something was definitely wrong.
I can see it myself, let alone Aunt Yun.
Hearing what Li Zhaozhao said, Yun Jinyan smiled and said softly, "I just bought a chicken. Didn't Ayin say she wanted to eat pepper chicken a few days ago? I'll teach Mianmian how to make it later. If she does it well, you'll have a treat. If she doesn't, you'll have to eat the finished product with her, otherwise I won't let you leave."
Wu Yin didn't expect that a casual remark of hers would be remembered by Mianmian and Aunt Yun. Although the four of them hung out in the store every day and always refused to go home, the feeling of being cared for was really comfortable and nice.
"I will definitely finish it!" She promised seriously, as if not even a chicken bone would be left.
Yun Jinyan smiled and rubbed the two children's heads, then looked at her daughter who had been quiet the whole time.
Little Yun Mianmian is not jealous at all that her mother's attention is distracted by her older sisters. She even wishes it could be distracted more.
after all……
"Mianmian, have you finished your homework?"
Yunmian: “…”
Humph! I declare that the most annoying thing in the world is homework!!
The child ran back to the dining table with a puffed face and sat down angrily. She continued to bite the tip of the pen and ponder over the math problems in the exercise book under the guidance of her sister. She counted her ten fingers over and over again countless times, but she was still struggling with the math problems.
After finally finishing the math problems, Yun Mian felt that she would probably never fall in love with math again in her life.
Just when she had this thought, her sister Ayin, who had come to sit next to her at some point, took out an English exercise book that she had not done yet from her schoolbag.
Yunmian: “…”
I will never fall in love with English again in this life!
Hateful homework, I will let Guanyin Bodhisattva destroy you all!
"Mianmian, stop daydreaming. You wrote this word wrong. You need to erase it and rewrite it." Li Zhaozhao tapped the child's forehead to wake up his angry and absent-minded sister from her fantasy.
Yunmian: “…”
Now, I don’t like Chinese anymore.
After finishing all the homework with the help of her three sisters, Yun Mian fell into her sister He Fang's arms, feeling that her whole body was drained by the homework.
The soul floats above the body, dangling with its last breath of life...
So how did the three sisters manage to get close to full marks in exams every time even though they did not do any serious work?
The most painful thing is that other people's mothers only have one excellent comparison object, "Look at that little so-and-so," but she has three, and they are together every day...
The poor student Mianmian feels that it is really difficult for her to survive under the pressure of three top-student sisters.
"Wash your hands first, then pick the peppercorns and wash them."
In a corner of the kitchen, Yun Jinyan was teaching her daughter how to make pepper chicken.
The other three little girls stood by and watched. They were called watching, but in fact they were doing their own things. Yun Jinyan had known for a long time that they were a little special, but seeing how kind they were to her daughter with all their hearts, she had never delved into it from beginning to end, and always maintained the gentle and amiable Aunt Yun in their eyes.
Yun Mian quickly plucked the green peppercorns from the twigs, then washed them in clean water. After removing the twigs and some drug residues, she scooped the round green peppercorns that exuded a spicy and peppery flavor into a small colander for filtering water.
The chicken wings were cut and marinated during the break from homework, so now Yunmian only needed to prepare some side dishes.
Ginger, garlic, dried red pepper, green pepper, millet pepper, scallion...
Yun Jinyan never teaches her daughter to cook by following the most rigid tutorial. Instead, she lets the child try to do it again based on the original recipe after doing it once.
Therefore, she would not interfere with the related side dishes and seasonings, and let the children play on their own.
A small stove was specially installed here, which is Yunmian's exclusive small stove. The food she prepares will not be sold. Instead, she will make it for herself or share it with her sisters.
Sometimes Yunmian would cook something with a strange taste, but more often than not, the dishes she cooked were ones that even the diners in the restaurant wanted to order.
But Yun Jinyan had no intention of using her daughter as a child laborer, so Yun Mian could use the small stove freely. Even if the food she made made the diners drool, Yun Jinyan would at most just copy one dish and sell it.
Despite this, the business of the store seems to have become better. There are always some gourmets with unique tastes coming to the store every day to try the hidden dishes of the Mianmian brand. Day after day, the business of the store is getting better and better.
Pour enough oil into the pot, and when the oil temperature rises slightly to the appropriate temperature, Yunmian pours the marinated chicken wings into it for frying.
After the clear and clean oil was put under the chicken wings wrapped in marinade, it began to churn and produce bubbles of various sizes. Yun Mian stepped back a long way, and waited until the crackling sounds of the boiling hot oil and splashing oil became a little smaller before she moved closer and used chopsticks to turn the chicken wings in the pot so that the boiling oil could completely soak each chicken wing.
The marinade of the chicken wings gradually gives off an attractive aroma during the frying process, and the marinade on the surface of the chicken wings slowly turns into a crispy golden shell during frying.
Yun Mian used a colander that was bigger than her face to scoop out the fried chicken wings from the pan, then scooped out the excess oil, leaving only a thin layer of oil in the pan.
The moment the onion, ginger, garlic and chili segments were poured into the pot at the same time, oil splashed and the crackling sound brought the aroma of the seasonings to the extreme. Yun Mian pursed her lips and carefully turned them over before pouring in a large amount of freshly washed and drained green peppercorns.
As the food is being turned over, the fresh aroma of pepper and sesame hits you in the face, and the steam from the pot also rises with the aroma, and then is completely sucked into the range hood.
The system hid far away and watched the process of its host making food countless times. It found that when Mianmian was doing something seriously, especially something she liked, she was particularly serious.
Humans always say that serious people are the best looking, and the system now particularly agrees with this statement.
Mianmian, who was not very serious in class, felt like there was a nail stuck under her butt and she could not sit still. Even though she seemed to be studying seriously on the surface, in fact, her head was already full of countless strange thoughts.
Therefore, the host's eyes were a little dull and lifeless during class, like a little idiot who was numbed by studying.
But once she picked up the spatula and spoon and started making food, Mianmian suddenly became serious.
She was even completely immersed in the matter, not distracted at all. She knew how to pour the oil and how much seasoning to put in, and she was all organized. There was hardly any confusion, and she would not be distracted by chatting with the people next to her or daydreaming.
Amid the fire and smoke, she turned simple food into delicious delicacies bit by bit, and her fair and clean little face was stained by the smoke and flames, with an expression completely different from usual.
She is extremely serious about food. She eats and cooks seriously. Even when she was washing the green peppercorns just now, she washed them patiently over and over again.
But she never checks her math problems a second time.
system:"……"
No wonder the host's mother started to train her to cook when she was so young. She must have seen that Mianmian did not have the academic skills to be a top student in this life, so she started to train her the only survival skill that she would use to make a living in the future.
While the system was sighing and complaining, the kid with pigtails had already poured the fried chicken wings into the pot, added the right amount of seasoning, stir-fried it over high heat, and then sprinkled white sesame seeds on it. A delicious and spicy Sichuan pepper chicken was successfully created by the kid.
The golden and crispy chicken wings, the emerald green peppercorns, the blinking red chili segments, and the green and white chopped green onions are embellished together and served on a white porcelain plate. Just looking at it will make you hungry.
I don’t know when, but the three children who were originally watching stopped what they were doing and stared at the Sichuan pepper chicken that was being served from the pot without blinking.
They waited and waited until Yunmianmian finally washed her hands and face, ran over with her own bowl of rice and happily announced: "Today's lunch is finally ready, let's eat!!"
Everyone's chopsticks were immediately used to grab the spicy and fragrant Sichuan pepper chicken.
The chicken nuggets are fried crispy, and the outer shell makes a small crackling sound when you bite it gently. Then the freshness and numbing taste of the green peppercorns explodes in your mouth. No other seasoning can steal the limelight at this time.
Before I swallowed the chicken, my saliva already welled up at the impact of the fresh, numb, spicy and fragrant taste. The green peppercorns were not as mixed as peppercorns and numbing peppercorns, nor as steady as peppercorns or ripe peppercorns. Instead, they had a refreshing peppery aroma mixed with crispy white sesame seeds. When I took a bite, it felt like there were little green peppercorns jumping in my mouth, celebrating the peak of my taste buds at this moment.
As for their original purpose of coming here today? The fire in the hotel?
At this moment, all of them were enthusiastically forgotten by the little pepper people.
Ahhhh I want to eat!!!
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