Chapter 6: Fried Pork Knuckle with Salt and Ginger Sauce
The train soon arrived in Wencheng County.
It is called a county, but in fact it is a prefecture-level city under Yanjing.
Wencheng County is famous for its education. Although it is not large in area, it has three key high schools. Among them, Blue Mountain International Middle School is a private school with an annual admission rate of 98%.
With Qin Tiantian's grades, she actually couldn't get in.
This year, Blue Mountain International School expanded its enrollment to students with sports expertise, and Qin Tiantian had won the national skiing championship on behalf of her original middle school, so she was admitted as an exception.
Of course, in order to allow Qin Tiantian to successfully enter Blue Mountain International, Xue Qi also specially allocated 150,000 yuan for campus construction fees.
In the next few years, in addition to tuition fees, you will have to pay an additional 80,000 yuan in construction fees to the school every year.
For Xue Qi, 150,000 yuan was already a lot, and this amount of money made her heart ache.
But Qin Tiantian wants to go to school and have a good educational environment, so this money must be paid.
Besides, she received 300,000 yuan for Mr. Qin's funeral, and there is nothing wrong with giving half of it to Qin Tiantian.
After all, spending some money on the 30 million little princess is worth it in the long run!
You can’t catch a wolf without risking your child!
In the previous life, Xue Qi was a
PC, all actions are not controlled by one's own consciousness, but are manipulated by the player.
In order to save money, the player was reluctant to hire security guards or employees.
This resulted in her having to juggle several jobs at once, and she was simply unable to handle the workload, leading to the restaurant eventually going bankrupt.
Now Xue Qi has self-awareness and knows that money should never be saved when it shouldn't be saved, otherwise the loss will only be greater!
Xue Qi felt tired when he thought about how he worked like a slave in his previous life and eventually died of poverty.
At the same time, I feel that although my identity in this life is embarrassing, I can do things according to my own behavioral consciousness and taste my own food. I am so happy!
Thinking about inheriting 30 million in the future, Xue Qi's heart suddenly stopped hurting!
Even happy.
Blue Mountains International Middle School is very big. When they arrived at the school gate, the class teacher arranged a sightseeing bus to pick them up.
Teacher Liu said with a smile, "Please wait a moment. There's another parent and student who will be here soon. They also transferred here today and will be joining our class."
Xue Qi and Qin Tiantian sat in the sightseeing bus and waited for a while.
Qin Tiantian played with her phone for a while and felt bored. Thinking of the breakfast she had this morning, she felt hungry again!
Her stomach growled, she licked her lips and turned to look at Xue Qi.
This young stepmother has a beautiful profile, a full forehead and a straight nose.
Is this the first time Qin Tiantian feels that this little stepmother doesn’t seem bad?
Especially the way Xue Qi got up in the morning to make breakfast for her reminded her of her grandmother.
However, when she thought about the inheritance left by her father and that her stepmother was going to take half of it, she felt a little uncomfortable.
Xue Qi was chatting with Cheng Kai, who helped him find a small shop with an annual rent of 100,000 yuan, which could be paid quarterly.
The newly rented house is right next to the school, so Qin Tiantian doesn’t have to live on campus, and it’s very convenient for her to go home every day.
While waiting for a break, Teacher Liu asked her, "By the way, Ms. Xue, you mentioned the boarding school issue to me on WeChat this morning. All day students in our school must register on a form. I've already prepared the form. When the time comes, you can complete the cancellation procedures and go to the Political and Educational Affairs Office to sign it."
Xue Qi nodded: "Okay."
Teacher Liu answered the phone and said, "Please wait here for a moment. I'll go to the intersection to pick up that student and his parents."
After Teacher Liu left, Qin Tiantian looked at Xue Qi in shock: "Aren't you going to arrange for me to live on campus?"
Xue Qi: "The school accommodation fee is too expensive. Since I'm going to rent a house here, why should I live on campus? It's more cost-effective for the two of us to live here."
Qin Tiantian curled her lips and said, "There's no need to be so frugal, right? My dad gives you 100,000 yuan a month for living expenses."
Xue Qi: "You've already taken a large portion of it! You have to save money. What if your academic performance doesn't improve and you can't inherit your father's estate? If you don't succeed in your studies, the money will be donated in your father's name, and none of us will get a share."
Qin Tiantian sneered: "I thought you were really doing this for my own good, and your relationship is just for money."
Xue Qi: "Don't think too much. Even your parents wouldn't treat you well for no reason. If you want me, a little fairy, to be your stepmother, there must be some profit, right? Otherwise, it's too unprofitable. Whose youth is not valuable?"
Qin Tiantian snorted, looking down on her: "You are obsessed with money."
Xue Qi laughed and said, "My little princess worth thirty million, who wouldn't love money? Aren't you living with me just for money?"
Qin Tiantian was choked, then snorted and asked her unhappily, "Where are we staying tonight? A hotel or a rental house?"
Xue Qi: "I'll go shopping during the day, and we'll be able to move in tonight. Thirty million little princess, what do you want to eat tonight? We've got to make a grand dinner."
Qin Tiantian looked at her with disdain: "Who is the 30 million little princess? I want to eat Sichuan cuisine, can you make it?"
Xue Qi: "Of course."
While the two were talking, Teacher Liu took Cao Yue and Cao Feng into the car.
Cao Feng is tall and has long legs. He dresses neatly and comfortably. You can't tell that he is already thirty years old.
Cao Yue is about 1.8 meters tall and thin. His facial features are three-dimensional and deep, just like his uncle Cao Feng.
The boy wore a pair of black-framed glasses like his uncle.
He already has the rudiments of an adult, exuding the scent of youthful hormones.
The two got on the campus sightseeing bus and sat in the row behind Xue Qi and Qin Tiantian.
Cao Yue took the initiative to greet them: "Hello, what a coincidence."
Qin Tiantian also sighed: "What a coincidence! I didn't expect that we would be classmates in the future! My name is Qin Tiantian, what's yours?"
Cao Yue's eyebrows curved: "My name is Cao Yue, and this is my uncle."
Qin Tiantian didn't plan to introduce Xue Qi, after all, she didn't know how to introduce him.
The campus tour bus took fifteen minutes to reach the political and educational building.
The two children were called to her teacher's office to take an entrance test, and their scores directly determined their seating order in the class.
Xue Qi and Cao Feng went to help the two children with the formalities. They ran up and down together, going back and forth several times, and finally completed the formalities.
They went to wait outside the teacher's office together. After sharing the joys and sorrows just now, the two were able to talk to each other.
Cao Feng went to buy Xue Qi a bottle of hot drink, and gentlemanly unscrewed the cap and handed it to her.
Xue Qi was not polite and said, "Thank you."
She paused and asked, "By the way, Uncle Cao Yue, how much did your Cao Yue pay for school selection?"
"School selection fee?" Cao Feng shook his head: "I didn't pay it."
Xue Qi exclaimed, "What about tuition? Including tuition, how much did it cost in total?"
Cao Feng replied in a low voice: "Free tuition, and an annual subsidy of 30,000 yuan."
Xue Qi: “…”
Cao Feng had no experience chatting with parents, so he followed the topic and said, "As long as you win a few national championships, the tuition will be waived."
His tone made it seem as if winning the national championship was easy!
Xue Qi asked again, "Tiantian won the national championship in the junior high school skiing competition, but I didn't hear Teacher Liu say tuition was waived. Is there another way?"
Cao Feng said he didn't know, shaking his head and saying, "I don't know."
Xue Qi: "Uncle Cao Yue, could you please tell me what award Cao Yue won?"
Cao Feng: "Last year, I won first place in the National Mathematical Olympiad and also won first place in the International Youth Robotics Competition."
Xue Qi: “…”
goodbye!
It felt like a knife was stabbed in the chest.
It turns out that saving money also depends on your ability!
Inside the office.
Qin Tiantian and Cao Yue have already handed in their papers.
After doing these test papers, Qin Tiantian was about to lose her mind.
Seeing Cao Yue sighing repeatedly after handing in his paper, she thought he was a poor student like her and comforted him: "It's okay, Lanshan's papers are always difficult!"
Cao Yue looked at her and shrugged. "I just thought the test was too easy. I thought the Blue Mountain test would be a bit difficult, but that's all."
Qin Tiantian: “…”
What the hell is Versailles!
The two came out of the office and Zhu Youwei, the study committee member sent by Teacher Liu, came to pick them up.
Zhu Youwei is about 1.7 meters tall and very fat, weighing about 180 kilograms.
He took the initiative to greet them: "Qin Tiantian, Cao Yue? Hello, my name is Zhu Youwei. Teacher Liu has gone to class, so I came to pick you up and take you to class. Come with me, it's time for self-study class now, and it's a good opportunity for you to get to know your classmates."
Zhu Youwei?
The male protagonist of the novel!
Zhu Youwei is the male protagonist in the novel, but in the original novel, Zhu Youwei was already in college when he appeared and met Liu Ruyu.
Zhu Youwei in the original novel is handsome, 1.85 meters tall, and is the most popular freshman in the class!
Not only that, Zhu Youwei was also a good student and was admitted to Qingdao University with the first place in the province.
Xue Qi never expected that the male protagonist in high school would be so fat? And there were acne spots on his face!
The three teenagers greeted each other. Zhu Youwei fixed his gaze on Cao Yue and asked, "Cao Yue, this isn't the first time we've met. Don't you remember me? The year before last and last year, at the International Robot Competition, Yanjing Division."
Cao Yue shook his head: "Oh? Really? Then what place did you get?"
Zhu Youwei's sensitive heart was pricked by him: "I...didn't make the ranking."
Cao Yue is a typical straight man from an engineering background, with little emotional intelligence and no art of speaking: "Oh, then I really don't remember. After all, my brain can only remember my opponents."
A hint of jealousy flashed across Zhu Youwei's eyes, and then he smiled innocently and said, "So that's how it is. Then I'll work hard to be your rival!"
Cao Yue patted his shoulder: "Then do your best!"
The two young men were talking when Xue Qi suddenly saw a golden subtitle appear above Zhu Youwei's head:
[Should Cao Yue be marked? ]
[If you successfully tag Cao Yue, his subsequent behavior must be consistent with his character setting, otherwise you will be punished.]
【Are you sure?】
Zhu Youwei suddenly realized for a moment, and silently confirmed in his heart:
[You have marked Cao Yue as Villain No. 3.]
Then, Xue Qi saw a line of golden subtitles appear above Cao Yue's head:
【Deduct 10 points from your Wisdom Points.】
[Increases arrogance by 10 points.]
Xue Qi: “…”
Good job.
What kind of luck is this to her?
In just a few days, we actually witnessed the male and female protagonists using their golden fingers to "mark" the personalities of passersby.
Xue Qi, who witnessed this scene, combined the information he had just learned and recalled the description of Cao Yue in the original book.
In the original novel, Cao Yue is a social scoundrel, poor and dull, weighing nearly 200 pounds.
Also because his family was poor when he was young and he did not have proper guidance from his parents, he went astray when he grew up.
He was jealous of the male protagonist Zhu Youwei, kidnapped Liu Ruyu, and was shot dead by the police.
Zhu Youwei saved the heroine at the critical moment, and their relationship quickly heated up because of this crisis.
The reason why Xue Qi didn't remember Cao Yue's ending in the original novel was, firstly, because there was not much description of this villain in the original novel, and he only appeared in a few chapters.
The second reason, of course, is that she just couldn't connect a talented young man who won all kinds of awards with the fat gangster in the original novel!
Xue Qi subconsciously glanced at Cao Feng beside him and thought what a pity.
After the conversation just now, she roughly knew that Cao Yue had no parents.
Cao Feng did not work for the sake of his nephew, but did some freelance work to earn some money. He is still unmarried.
He sacrificed his own happiness for his nephew, hoping that his nephew would become a successful person in the future, but he never imagined that his nephew would become a social cancer and go astray.
And the ending of everything was given to him by Zhu Youwei.
It's so miserable.
Although Qin Tiantian is also miserable, she at least has 30 million!
But this ordinary man in front of me probably doesn't even have a million in savings.
Xue Qi suddenly felt a little sympathy for Cao Feng!
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In the evening, Xue Qi moved into their new home with Qin Tiantian. To celebrate the move, Xue Qi cooked three dishes and a soup.
The first dish is stir-fried meat with salt.
Xue Qi sliced the pork leg, which was 70% fat and 30% lean, cut the garlic sprouts into horse ear shapes, and chopped the bean paste finely.
When the oil pan is heated, add the pork slices and ginger slices and stir-fry. When the oil is hot, the oil from the pork slices will spit out. Then add the bean paste, sugar and other seasonings to color it, and finally add the garlic sprouts and stir-fry until they are cooked.
The lard spitted out by the meat slices is mixed with the garlic sprouts, and the flavors of the two ingredients are stimulated.
When the dish was served, she methodically sliced the cooked pig heart, mixed it with shredded mountain celery, and added a special cold dressing sauce including chili pepper to lock in the rich aroma of the pig heart.
Xue Qi moved very skillfully. After preparing the cold-mixed pig heart, he took out the steamed pork elbow from the pot. As soon as he lifted the lid, steam rose up and the aroma of meat wafted out.
The pork elbow was deboned, the lean side scored crosswise, the skin facing the bottom of the bowl, sprinkled with chopped ginger and seasonings, and steamed for a full two hours.
She took out the glutinous pork elbow, turned it upside down on the plate, and finally poured ginger sauce on it. A dish of hot ginger pork elbow was ready.
The dishes were rather oily, so to alleviate the greasiness, she made a much simpler soup - pea tip fried egg soup.
After turning off the heat, the crisp and tender pea tips are stuffed into the egg soup, which not only keeps the vegetables fresh and crisp, but also retains a lot of nutrients.
When Qin Tiantian was doing homework in the study, she was already intoxicated by the fragrance.
At this moment, when he put the dish into his mouth, he couldn't help but exclaim:
"It's so delicious! Hey, how come your cooking is so delicious? Is this what you used to tie up my dad? Have you ever considered doing a live stream? It smells so good!"
"I'm your stepmother. If you can't call me that, you can call me Sister Qi."
Xue Qi was a little unhappy to be called "that guy".
Is it difficult to respect people?
For the sake of 30 million, she tried hard to remain pleasant!
At the same time, I felt that Qin Tiantian’s suggestion was a good one.
The ginger pork elbow was soft and melted in the mouth. Qin Tiantian ate several pieces and didn’t feel sick at all.
The moderately strong ginger juice gently dispelled the coldness in her body.
The salt-fried dried meat is fragrant and crispy, and it goes really well with soft and fluffy rice.
The cold-mixed pig heart with mountain celery is even more amazing. It is sour, spicy and delicious, without any fishy smell of offal. The pig heart is soft and the mountain celery is crisp. The combination of the two tastes quite good.
Being able to eat such delicious home-cooked meals at home made Qin Tiantian feel a long-lost sense of happiness in her heart.
She suddenly felt... having a little stepmother wasn't so bad?
In order to prevent Xue Qi from being proud, she deliberately withheld her satisfaction.
Just then, WeChat on my phone rang.
Opening WeChat, she saw a message from her aunt Qin Mei:
[Tiantian, Auntie knows everything about you. Your brother Cheng is a bastard! He actually did that to you! Auntie is sorry. Where are you? Auntie wants to apologize to you in person.]
Qin Tiantian subconsciously glanced at Xue Qi and did not tell her about this.
She thought that she and Xue Qi were not familiar enough with each other to tell her every detail.
As for her aunt Qin Mei, she felt she could handle it.
-
A week later.
Xue Qi’s “Happy Food Store” opened in the food alley behind Blue Mountain International Middle School.
On the opening day of the gourmet restaurant, Qin Mei brought people with several buckets of dog blood and poured them directly on the door of her store.
Qin Mei sat down at the back door and started to throw a tantrum, crying and shouting:
"Everyone, come and see! This vixen killed my brother, not only took away his inheritance, but also abused my niece every day! She's so heartless and has no conscience! She slandered my son, sent him to prison, and separated me from my family. Everyone, come and see!"
The Happy Food Store is not big and does not have any waiters. Cheng Kai was worried that Xue Qi would be too busy, so he came over to help.
At this moment, Xue Qi was cooking in the kitchen, while he was collecting money at the front desk when he was splashed with dog blood. It was so unlucky.
Xue Qi walked out from the kitchen and frowned at Qin Mei who was making a scene at the door.
All the merchants nearby came to watch the fun. It happened to be the time when students were getting out of school, so many students also gathered at the store entrance to see the novelty.
Cheng Kai stopped her: "Don't go over there, if you go over there, she will definitely try to scam you!"
Xue Qi asked him, "Do you have any leftover firecrackers from the grand opening?"
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