Without Liu Qingchun, the stumbling block, Chi Yin devoted herself to learning technology. In addition to taking general technical practice courses in the training class, she also wanted to go to Zhao Jianguo's house to ask him for private lessons.
It has been more than ten days since I became Zhao Jianguo's disciple. This is Chi Yin's first visit, so she cannot come empty-handed.
Chi Yin returned home, hung the canvas bag on a nail on the wall, then lay under the bed and groped out the crumpled eighteen yuan and eighty cents that was pressed under the brick.
This was all the money she had, and she was in a dilemma holding this little money.
If you buy cheap gifts, you won’t be able to present them to the public. If you buy expensive ones, even malted milk and brown sugar will cost you at least four or five dollars.
After thinking about it, I realized that I was still useful in terms of feeding and drinking the children, so I changed the gift to some snacks.
Older people have poor stomachs, as well as high blood pressure, cholesterol, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. What kind of snacks are both healthy and tasty?
How about egg cake? It is nutritious and has a delicate taste, and is loved by both the elderly and children.
In the past, she always loved to steam a basket of hot egg cakes in the winter, and the two little ones would eat three at a meal.
Chi Yin did what she said and locked herself in the kitchen to work hard.
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Having been making egg cakes for more than four years, she is already familiar with the production process, which only requires flour, eggs and sugar.
In this day and age, let alone ovens, families didn’t even have electric rice cookers, but Chi Yin had her own unique way of cooking, which was to steam it with water.
Bring the water to a boil, pour the egg liquid into the container and steam it on high heat for more than 15 minutes, then turn off the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
Xixi and Wanwan had already been attracted by the aroma, and were now leaning on the kitchen windowsill to peek in.
The two of them stared at Chi Yin taking out the fluffy steamed egg cake from the pot, drooling with greed.
Chi Yin took the last one out of the iron pot. When she turned around, she was amused by the two greedy little cats lying on the windowsill and looking inside.
The two children were drooling with greed and couldn't wait for the egg cake to cool down. Chi Yin took two chopsticks and inserted the pointed ends into the egg cake. The two children opened their mouths like little birds, waiting for their mother to feed them.
By the time the children had finished eating, the egg cake was ready to dry.
Chi Yin packed the egg cakes one by one in a handbasket. The three of them, mother and daughter, locked the door and went straight to Zhao Jianguo's home, hand in hand.
Today is the market day in Yanhe County, which takes place every seven days. The main roads in the county are already packed with people. Chi Yin doesn't want to run into the villagers from Xiangshui Village who are coming to Yanhe County for the market, so she takes a detour with her children.
There are five districts in Yanhe County. The Chi family lives in District 5 and Master Zhao's family lives in District 3. Although Chi Yin was born and raised in Yanhe County, he has never been to this place.
District Three is more remote than the other districts. It has red brick exterior walls, two-meter-wide alleys, and every house is a narrow courtyard house, giving it a sense of an ancient city.
She came to Alley 2 and looked for household number 5 according to the house number.
When I arrived at the second resident's house, I heard the crisp sounds of plates and bowls breaking in the distance.
The two children were frightened. Wanwan grabbed Chi Yin's clothes, and Xixi hid directly behind Chi Yin's butt.
Then two women came angrily from the other side of the alley, and the young girl in front of them was spitting all over her mouth, "I told you a long time ago that they don't recognize this relationship at all, but you just didn't listen! Now you've made a wasted trip and even got looked down upon by others!"
The middle-aged woman behind was obese, and the flesh on her face trembled with her hurried steps. "I didn't do this for our family. Who would have thought that this old woman would change her attitude faster than turning the pages of a book!"
"Are you sure you really gave my brother to her?"
"Of course she did! She was just an old hen that couldn't lay eggs. She was eager to adopt a child to continue the family line. Your grandparents decided to adopt your brother. Everyone in the village knew about it!"
The mother and daughter became more and more excited as they talked, completely ignoring the gazes of others and rushing over, bumping into Chi Yin and causing her body to stagger.
Chi Yin didn't say anything, but the mother and daughter glared at her, "Are you blind?"
He bumped into someone first, but instead of apologizing, he acted so arrogantly. What kind of logic is this!
Chi Yin was so angry that if the child hadn't been around, she would have dragged the mother and daughter to argue with them.
The mother and daughter left cursing, and Chi Yin's emotions gradually calmed down. She checked the egg cake in the basket and then pulled the child to continue walking forward.
When I found Gate No. 5, I saw that the gate was open. Things were scattered all over the ground in the yard. A woman in her early fifties was bending over and cleaning up the things one by one.
Chi Yin understood at a glance that the smashing and smashing sounds he had just heard came from his master's house.
"Master's wife." Chi Yin let go of the two children, quickly put down the basket and walked over to support the woman. Because of the woman's age, he guessed that she was the master's wife.
Wang Shuzhen didn't notice until someone came into the house and her broom was taken away. She then realized that the person was a young and beautiful woman. When she thought about the name Chi Yin said, she guessed that it was the apprentice her husband Zhao Jianguo had mentioned when he came home yesterday.
"Your name is Chi Yin, right? Come in quickly."
Chi Yin didn't rush into the living room. She picked up the broom and dustpan, quickly piled the debris, shoveled it up, and dumped it into the trash can.
When Wang Shufen moved a chair from the living room, she saw that the yard was cleaned up.
Chi Yin brushed the dust off her hands, walked to the eaves to scoop some water to wash her hands, then returned to Wang Shufen and took out the egg cake for her.
"Master's wife, those white porcelain bowls are all in good condition, why don't you want them?"
"Relatives came to our house just now, and they smashed all these."
The mother and daughter? Thinking carefully, the mother and daughter left through the gate of the master's house.
Chi Yin's judgment was correct. The two people were none other than Zhao Jianguo's siblings, his wife and daughter from the village. They came to ask Wang Shufen to pay for her son's marriage. Wang Shufen was unwilling to do so, so the mother and daughter scolded her for being ungrateful for having money. The more they scolded, the more excited they became. They rushed to the kitchen and threw all the white porcelain bowls in the cupboard into the yard.
Chi Yin frowned when he heard this, "Why don't you call the police?"
Wang Shufen sighed, "Your master and I only had one child in our lifetime, and he died at a young age. Now we are getting older and older. If we get sick or die in the future, we will have to rely on these relatives to help carry us up the mountain."
"Master's Wife, if you don't call the police this time, they will think you are easy to bully, and they may even become more aggressive and cause trouble every other day."
Wang Shufen shook her head helplessly. Relatives see each other every day, and if the matter is brought to the police station, the hatred will be completely formed.
When Chi Yin heard that his master's house was deliberately smashed by relatives, he was very angry, just like when Zhang Xiufen came to Chi's house and smashed all his parents' furniture.
Seeing Wang Shufen's face full of fatigue when she talked about these bad things, she felt very distressed.
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