"You two stop chatting. Let your sister sit over there and rest for a while. You come in quickly, I'll give you a scrub!"
Lin Xue waited inside for a while, but the brat didn't go in. Instead, he came out of the house, grabbed the pillar by the back of his collar, and went inside.
"Smack!"
The door was slammed shut, cutting off Xiaohua's view into the room.
"Hehe, now your brother's gotten himself into trouble for not listening to Mom, huh?"
Although she was all alone in the yard, Xiaohua felt relaxed after taking a hot bath, and with the bowl of thick rice porridge she had eaten earlier, she felt energetic.
Instead of obediently sitting in the shade as Lin Xue had instructed, she went to a corner of the yard, picked up the dirty clothes Lin Xue had thrown into the basin, and went to the well to wash them!
Inside the room, Lin Xue and Zhu Zi were not so harmonious. When the brat saw Lin Xue trying to take off his clothes, he shyly clung tightly to his waistband.
"Hey, you brat, you're still being shy in front of me? You're my son, what part of you haven't I seen?"
Lin Xue was incredibly strong. Even though the boy struggled, she eventually stripped him naked and threw him into the bathtub.
He took out the half bar of soap left over from bathing Xiaohua and used it to scrub the pillar's head, face, and entire body.
After a flurry of frantic scrubbing, we finally got this mischievous monkey clean.
Here, this is a towel. Dry yourself off!
"I've already put your clothes on the bed. Remember to change later, and then take your dirty clothes to wash yourself!"
The boy is already over ten years old, and Lin Xue is not going to sit around doing his laundry.
After giving him a bath, Lin Xue brought in a bucket of water and placed it beside him, telling him to rinse himself off. She also told him where his new clothes were before leaving.
"Xiaohua, who told you to do the laundry?"
As soon as he came out, he saw his daughter huddled by the well, struggling to wash her dirty clothes.
"Mom, your clothes are dirty, I need to wash them for you!"
Xiao Hua looked up at Lin Xue and gave her a big smile, then lowered her head again to continue washing clothes.
"You've only just recovered from your illness, so you can't do heavy work. Go sit under the eaves right now!"
Lin Xue picked up the little girl, washed her hands, and then let her sit under the eaves.
It's just two dirty clothes.
How could someone her age not know how to wash?
Lin Xue scrubbed for a while and found that the stains on the clothes couldn't be washed off at all, so she went back to the room and looked around and took out a bar of soap.
Of course, the soap was smuggled out of the space by Lin Xue.
Their family is so poor, where would they get such a thing?
With soap, the clothes were much easier to wash. Lin Xue quickly washed her own clothes and then washed the clothes that Xiao Hua had changed out of as well.
"Zhu Zi, you're all grown up now, you should wash your own clothes!"
"There's soap by the well. Use some soap before you wash, otherwise your clothes won't get clean!"
Seeing that Zhu Zi had already emptied the dirty water from the bath tub, he took the dirty clothes and walked towards the well.
"Okay, I understand!"
Lin Xue clearly saw the corner of the brat's mouth twitch violently when he saw the bar of soap.
Is she feeling sorry for him?
Forget it, Lin Xue doesn't care what this kid is thinking anymore.
She planned to process the fish first, otherwise they would rot if left in the water.
While the two children were in the yard, Lin Xue took a lot of coarse salt from her spatial storage and put it into a salt jar next to her.
Then he took out some fine salt, put it in a separate small jar, and placed it next to the stove.
I marinated the five fish thoroughly with salt. I only plan to cook two tonight; we won't be able to finish any more.
Cover the marinated fish and place it in a cool, shady place.
Lin Xue started cleaning the kitchen again, as this would be where they would cook and eat from now on. She felt uneasy if it wasn't cleaned properly.
It took more than an hour to finally clean the entire kitchen and throw away all the things that were too dirty to wash.
After this decluttering process, the kitchen became much tidier.
A double-door cabinet, a shorter cupboard, a table, and four chairs.
These are all the items in the kitchen.
There were hardly any seasonings at home, except for the salt that Lin Xue had just taken out, and a few pieces of ginger.
After cleaning the kitchen, Lin Xue began cooking.
It was already evening, and the sky was gradually darkening.
For dinner, we had millet porridge with four boiled eggs in it.
After the millet porridge was cooked, Lin Xue scooped out four eggs, peeled them, and put one in each bowl.
The last one was reserved for the male head of the household, since the family's expenses still depended on Liu Hai's salary. Since she had accepted this body, she should fulfill the original owner's obligations.
I served three bowls of millet porridge, and then cut the fish into a larger one.
Lin Xue then called the two children over to eat!
"You eat it yourself, Zhuzi. I'll help your sister pick out the fish bones!"
The boy is all grown up now; he shouldn't get fish bones stuck in his throat anymore. But the little girl next to him looks a bit listless because she's just recovered from a serious illness.
She looks delicate and frail, which really makes people feel sorry for her.
"I'll pick out some fish for my little sister too. You can have this piece, little sister. There are fewer bones on the belly of this fish, and the meat is tender!"
Zhu Zi quickly picked out a piece of fish, taking out the tenderest part of the meat and placing it in the empty bowl in front of Xiao Hua'er.
Because Lin Xue didn't like eating vegetables soaked in rice porridge, she put an empty bowl in front of Xiao Hua'er specifically for her to pick out fish to eat.
"Mom, brother!"
"Xiaohua can pick out the fish bones herself, so don't worry, I won't get a fish bone stuck in my throat!"
"And fish meat with bones tastes even better, especially when dipped in the broth!"
As Xiaohua spoke, she picked up a piece of fish from her bowl, dipped it in the fish soup for a moment, and then put it in her mouth, gently spitting out the fish bones.
Lin Xue noticed that although the little girl looked small, she was quite experienced in eating fish, so she left her alone.
Besides, he was hungry, so he started eating heartily.
"Mom, where did you catch this fish? I don't think we sell fish this big around here!"
During the meal, Zhu Zi looked at the large fish on the plate, his eyes darted around, and he asked Lin Xue a question.
"It was caught in the river in the grove to the south. It's a bit far from our house, and probably no one goes there for most of the year, so the fish is quite big!"
Lin Xue picked up another fish tail and began to suck on it with great relish.
"Mom, can you take me there tomorrow? This fish is so big, if we catch it and sell it, it'll definitely sell better than the fish on the street!"
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