Chapter 056: There is a bit of charm
"Hey, what did I say? I was just speaking the truth. You should be nicer to your own sister. Look at Gu Yue. She has become successful and has not even remembered you, her adoptive parents and brothers who raised her. You still have to rely on your own sister to help you make money." Although the aunt's words were unpleasant, Su Wan liked her just because she was on his side.
She knew that the Su family was unwilling to accept Gu Yue's charity. Seeing that the faces of several brothers were not good, she quickly stood up and said:
"Hey, aunties, it's already this late and you're still chatting instead of going home to make dinner?"
"It's still early, why rush?" an old lady replied excitedly.
"Then you guys chat first, we'll go back first!"
Su Wan waved his hand, took the lead and quickened his pace, and the brothers and sisters quickly left the Bagua Center.
After returning home, the yard door was closed and locked from the inside, and I had to ask Jiang Yu to come out and open the door.
His hair, washed with Su Wan's shampoo soap, looked smoother and more lustrous.
He tied half of his hair with a hairband. When he came out, the wind blew his hair up and made it messy, making him look like a down-and-out nobleman.
Opening the yard door, Su Wan handed him a bag of buns, presumably he hadn't had lunch yet.
"Why did you take so long? Didn't we agree to spend half a day?" Jiang Yu asked naturally while chewing a bun.
"Isn't this a lot of work? I was delayed for a while at my elder brother's place."
"Brother Su, how are you these days?"
Speaking of his confidant, Jiang Yu asked casually.
"He's a good person and studies very hard." Su Wan didn't mention anything about Zhao Xiyun.
Now it seems that if they tell others about it, they will be considered as trying to marry someone above their station. If they rashly say that the other person is not a good person, it will not be convincing enough.
She would think of ways, but she would never let Zhao Xiyun succeed.
"That's good. Brother Su has excellent writing skills and broad vision. I'm sure passing the palace examination next year won't be a problem!"
As long as you pass the palace examination, you will have some future.
"Then I'll borrow your good words!"
Su Wan said this, but in his heart he was thinking proudly, my eldest brother is the third place in the imperial examination.
Oh, I forgot to remind him today to read more books about how to deal with floods and natural disasters.
In the original novel, the questions for the palace examination were set by the emperor every year. However, in the past two years, natural disasters have occurred frequently in many parts of our dynasty, and floods and droughts are common. The emperor is extremely worried. Because there is no good way to govern, the people in the disaster-stricken areas are complaining bitterly.
So, on a whim, they set the topic for the palace examination as a policy essay on flood and drought control. Candidates could speak freely and write down everything they wanted to say in the essay.
The students all guessed the topic wrong. They didn't expect that the emperor, who always loved romance, would play by his own rules, which stumped many people.
Su Jing also suffered this loss. The top two candidates in the imperial examination all came from the place of natural disasters, so they naturally knew more than them. So he wrote it on the spur of the moment without any extra time to think about it. He tried his best but only got the third place. Otherwise, with his strength, it would be no problem for him to become the top candidate.
It seems that I have to find another opportunity to look for him someday and draw his attention to things on this side so that I won't be caught off guard again.
Su Yun quickly forgot about the matter in the village and pestered Su Wan to make shaqima for him. He was completely focused on opening a restaurant.
Su Wan couldn't stand his annoyance, so she prepared to cook for him first.
There are still more than two months to go before the Chinese New Year, so it’s too early. Let’s open up the market slowly first.
"If you want to make money to open a restaurant, then you have to work hard. I will teach you how to make money. After I teach you, you have to take the lion's share, okay?"
Su Wan believes in teaching people how to fish. She can help and intervene, but if he wants to do this business, he will have to suffer more himself.
"I know. I'll learn from you. Once I've mastered it, you can just supervise me from the side!"
Su Yun patted his chest, looking like he was not afraid of hardship.
"OK!"
Su Wan began to knead the dough. If shaqima is to be soft, delicious and not fragile, there are many things to pay attention to.
The proportions must be correct. The flour, eggs, and baking powder, as well as the amount of water to add, all have a certain ratio.
In order to achieve accuracy, Su Wan also used a scale to weigh the flour.
Su Yun listened attentively and took note of what she said with a pen and paper. His look made Su Wan laugh.
"Fourth brother, these are all about practice, not rote memorization, why are you memorizing them?"
"This is my first time, so I must remember it well!"
Su Chen and the others were curious and came in to learn together. Even Jiang Yu came in and sat at the stove door to help watch the fire.
When he saw Su Wan kneading the dough, he chattered a lot and made jokes with Su Yun from time to time. The flour on his hands accidentally rubbed against his nose, which looked very playful.
In a blink of an eye, Su Wan saw Jiang Yu sitting opposite her, staring at her motionlessly with a smile on his face.
My heart skipped a beat and I quickly avoided his gaze.
"Why are you looking at me like that? There's something dirty on my face."
Jiang Yu nodded, pointed to the tip of his nose to signal her, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became even more intense.
Su Wan subconsciously wiped her nose, but it backfired and she got even more flour on her nose, and the area around her nose and mouth turned white.
Su Yun looked at her and laughed:
"Wanwan, you look like an opera singer!"
Third brother Su Chen and fifth brother Su Yi were also smiling silently. Su Wan pursed her lips and thought, forget it, let it be!
After kneading the first dough, she taught Su Yun how to roll it out thinly, gave him the rolling pin, and let him do it himself.
The smooth dough was dyed light yellow by the egg yolk. She watched from the side and stopped when she felt it was almost done, and then taught him how to cut it into thin strips.
Then it’s time to boil the sugar. The fire cannot be too high, otherwise the sugar will become mushy and bitter.
Jiang Yu kept throwing firewood into the kitchen, making the fire burn very brightly, but this was not good.
"Jiang Yu, lower the fire!"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yu obediently moved out a few pieces of firewood.
"No, smaller!"
He pulled out two more sticks, but it was still bigger, a whole stove fire.
Su Wan simply patted the flour on his hands, walked over, bent down and started doing it himself.
As she bent down, a faint fragrance came from her body, the scent of hibiscus.
When Su Wan bought spices, she bought two hibiscus sachets and threw them into the closet to fumigate her clothes. Within a few days, her clothes were filled with the scent of hibiscus flowers, which was elegant and pleasant.
Jiang Yu also loved hibiscus the most, so when he smelled the fragrance, his heart couldn't help but beat violently.
From his perspective, the firelight cast a warm yellow hue on the girl's face, her earlobes were small and red, and there was a small red mole behind her ear. For some reason, this made her look somewhat charming.
Jiang Yu quickly shook her head, scolding herself for having such thoughts. She was still young and had nothing to do with romance.
Su Wan stood up and saw him shaking his head, so he asked him what was wrong.
"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell again?"
"No... maybe the fire was too strong and my face was a little hot!" Jiang Yu explained with his head down, his long eyelashes drooping.
"How can it not be hot? It's such a small hole, but you stuffed it all with firewood. I tell you, my third brother is very tired from chopping wood, so you have to use it sparingly!" Su Wan joked.
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