Lin Yuxi naturally didn't forget Gu Chen either. She took a bottle of soda, walked up to him, and smiled at him, "Gu Chen, you can have some too."
Gu Chen helped her all the way, and seeing his parched throat, how could she forget him?
"You've worked hard today, thank you, you're such a kind person." She smiled, sweat trickling down her face, which was flushed from the heat.
Gu Chen remained silent for a moment, looking at her fair and rosy hands, his gaze unconsciously shifting to her face. "You've worked hard today too, drink up."
"There's more inside. This bottle is especially for you." Lin Yuxi raised her eyebrows and smiled, waving the soda in her hand.
specially.
Looking at the girl's radiant smile, Gu Chen's lips curled up, and a ripple of emotion stirred within him. He felt even more parched.
Lin Yuxi had already turned and entered the kitchen, where there was a water vat. While she was out shopping, the vat had been cleaned, and her father had even gone outside to fetch a few buckets of water to put in it.
At that time, there were no water pipes, and Qinghe Village had several natural wells, so people had to fetch water from there.
The stove in the kitchen is ready to use, and the wood that is planed off in the morning can be used as firewood.
Although Lin Yuxi can't cook, she has enough theoretical knowledge to do other things.
"Grandma, help me start the fire, I'll make something to eat." Lin Yuxi rolled up her sleeves, revealing her fair and delicate skin.
The well water was very cold, and she was worried that the pork would spoil, so she took a plastic bag, cut the pork into pieces, and soaked it in the water to preserve it at a low temperature.
At that moment, Gu Chen was pulling an electrical cord. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw the girl's arm reaching into the ceramic basin, where she was kneading the mung beans inside.
She rubbed the mung beans with water several times, took out rock sugar from the cupboard for later use, and put the mung beans directly into the pot of cold water.
"Grandma, can you teach me how to make wheat flour?"
Lin Yuxi took out another ceramic basin, poured in the flour, added yeast and warm water, along with a little sugar and lard. After kneading the dough, she covered the ceramic basin with a lid and took it outside to sunbathe.
It takes time for dough to rise; higher temperatures will speed up the fermentation process.
In a short while, the water boiled. Lin Yuxi scooped out the boiled mung beans, poured out the boiling water, and then added cold water back into the pot to boil again.
"Why are you throwing this water away?" Grandma Lin looked up, her face full of confusion.
Lin Yuxi put the lid back on, "This way the sand will come out quickly."
After about ten minutes, the water boiled, and she picked up the pot and poured out the boiling water again.
This was the third time she had prepared to cook it. This time, she put the soup in cold water, added rock sugar, and after about ten minutes, a pot of mung bean soup that had turned into a mushy consistency was ready.
"It's done so quickly?" Grandma Lin's eyes widened. Usually, when she made mung bean soup, she would soak the beans for a long time. This one only took about half an hour. Not only were the mung beans cooked, but they were also mushy.
Lin Yuxi went into the yard, touched the scalding hot exterior of the ceramic basin, lifted the lid, and found a layer of steam inside. She poked the dough with chopsticks and found it had become honeycomb-like, proving that her theoretical knowledge was in place.
She carried the ceramic basin inside.
"Grandma, why don't you make the steamed buns?"
Gu Chen was connecting the electrical wires in the kitchen when he saw Lin Yuxi rolling up her sleeves and learning to knead dough, and he couldn't help but be distracted.
At this moment, it seemed that even this dilapidated mud-brick house had the feel of home.
The outer earthen wall was also built, and seeing that it was almost time, Lin's mother washed her hands and came to help with the cooking.
The house only had three rooms, plus the toilet outside, making a total of four. After finishing his work there, Lin's father came to help Gu Chen set up the electrical wires. The two of them worked much faster, finishing in less than an hour.
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