Gu Nian fried eggplant fritters, stir-fried cabbage and shredded pork, stewed radish in bone broth, made cucumber salad with sugar, and also made scrambled eggs with cucumber. Then came the fragrant rice.
Having been here for several days, the three strange souls of the Gu family hadn't touched rice, so naturally it smelled delicious.
As for Gu Xin, who has eaten rice less than twice a year in all her life, she finds rice even more delicious.
"Dad, Mom, we don't have enough seasonings at home, so please make do with these eggplant fritters. I'll cook you a proper meal when I've gathered all the seasonings." Gu Nian was quite disgusted with the meal she had made today.
"It's delicious." Gu Shouxin picked up an eggplant fritter, ate it, and then commented.
His eating manners were quite refined. Apart from Gu Xin noticing that her father's eating habits had changed, the other two didn't notice anything amiss.
Gu Xin didn't think too much about it. Why should she think about anything else when the food smelled so good?
The family of four ate every last bite of the meal.
After finishing her meal, Gu Xin was about to wash the dishes when Gu Shouxin stopped her, saying, "Dad will wash the dishes today, Xin Xin, go and rest."
Cai Xiaolian and Gu Nian looked at Gu Shouxin in great surprise.
The old man is so kind!
They were happy to pull Gu Xin away from the kitchen.
The mother and her two daughters went to the chicken coop again and found that the hens were all squatting in their nests. It was already dark, so it seemed that they were asleep.
After washing the dishes, Gu Shouxin started boiling water and then tidied up the kitchen.
By the time the water was boiled, it was completely dark outside.
The family of four washed up in the kitchen. Gu Xin was the youngest, so they let her wash her face and feet first.
After washing her feet, Gu Xin took the foot basin to empty it. When she got to the vegetable garden, she remembered what her father had said earlier about not touching the vegetable garden. She figured that watering the garden with the foot-washing water was enough to move the vegetable garden.
Did you disturb the vegetable garden?
Something flashed through Gu Xin's mind.
Yesterday her jade beads slipped into the foot bath water, and today they slipped into the chicken feed. Could it be related to the jade beads?
Gu Xin was startled by her idea.
No, she has to try.
She put down the foot basin, turned and glanced at the kitchen; no one came out.
She silently prayed in her heart, "Little fish, please give me a jade bead!"
As a result, the jade fish appeared in my hand and then spat out a jade bead.
Gu Xin glanced at the kitchen again like a thief, then put the jade beads into the foot bath water, picked them up and walked a few steps toward the front door.
The small patch near the gate used to be planted with chili peppers, but now it's all dried up and only the seedlings remain.
She poured water onto the chili pepper patch, then ran back to the kitchen as if she had done something wrong.
"Xinxin, do you need to go to the toilet after you've washed up? Mom will go with you. You can get up after you fall asleep, or you'll get cold," Cai Xiaolian asked.
“Yes, Mother.” Gu Xin nodded.
The Gu family slept well that night. Everyone had been busy all day, and although they were thinking about the strange vegetable garden and the hens in the coop, they were too tired and fell asleep soon after.
Gu Xin got up on time. As soon as she got up, she thought of the chili peppers in the vegetable garden. She put on her clothes and shoes and went to the yard without even combing her hair.
At this moment, Gu Shouxin was already squatting in the chili field in the yard.
Gu Xin saw the green, red, and mixed red and green peppers at the entrance of the main room.
They are jade beads!
It was a jade bead that the little carp gave to her, spat out by the little fish.
As expected of a carp that can leap over the Dragon Gate, the gifts it gives are all amazing!
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