Qiao Xiaoni curled her lips slightly. It had been a long time since she had eaten meat. Even though the original owner of this body was the most pampered in the Qiao family, she only ate meat a limited number of times.
"I'll cook the chicken tonight. I happen to have a recipe for cooking chicken, but I don't know how it will taste."
Qiao Haisheng was still a little worried about his daughter's cooking skills: "This way, your mother can watch you cook the chicken, so if something goes wrong, she can fix it."
Feng Yuchun: "Dad, I believe in Xiaoni's skills. The fact that the vegetable pancakes sell so well is the best proof of that."
Li Meihua laughed and said, "Old man, you underestimate our girl. She has grown up now and is different from before."
When Qiao Haisheng heard his wife and daughter-in-law praising her so highly, he wondered if his daughter had changed a lot.
"Since you all say so, then I won't worry about it anymore. It's getting late, let's hurry up and kill the chicken. I'm waiting to deliver a portion to the village chief!"
Qiao Xiaoni wanted to cook but hadn't thought about killing a chicken: "Mom, you can kill the chicken and leave it to me. You don't need to worry about the rest."
"Mm," Li Meihua responded, turned around and led her daughter-in-law out the door, caught the little rooster, boiled water and quickly killed it.
Qiao Xiaoshan watched from the side, worried that something might happen to the chicken. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and just seeing a raw chicken was almost unbearable.
Seeing her brother drooling, Qiao Xiaoni said, "Go outside and wait! I'll give you the first piece of chicken when it's cooked, as long as you don't mind if it tastes bad."
"Yes, you must let me eat it. I can eat it as long as it's not burned to ashes," Qiao Xiaoshan replied earnestly.
Qiao Xiaoni watched him dash off to the yard to chop firewood, then turned around, rolled up her sleeves, and began to prepare, starting by finding a few potatoes.
The chicken had already been chopped into pieces. A pot of water was boiled, and the chicken pieces were briefly blanched in it before being stir-fried in oil in a wok. The large earthen wok in the countryside has a very strong fire, and the aroma came out after just a few minutes of stir-frying.
Li Meihua watched her daughter cook methodically, and if she didn't know that her daughter had never cooked before, she would have thought she had met a master chef.
"Mom, you can rest assured now, my little sister has really grown up," Tao Chunfang said ingratiatingly from the side.
The kind words touched her heart, and Li Meihua's face lit up with a proud smile. "All the girls in the village can't compare to my daughter. Look at her skills, she could earn a good salary even if she went to work as a chef in a restaurant."
Tao Chunfang was taken aback for a moment, then reacted and said, "Mom, you know what, this reminds me. When we have money in the future, we can open a snack shop, and then we can earn more and more money, right?"
Li Meihua nodded excitedly: "You're right, when we have money in the future, we'll open a small restaurant."
"Sigh, I was really overthinking things. With Xiao Ni's skills, our business is sure to succeed."
Qiao Xiaoni overheard their conversation, which meant she had taken the right first step; her family didn't have much doubt about her skills. Considering the original owner had lived at school for many years, some changes in her appearance were understandable.
She had considered revealing her identity to them. She worried that if she did, everyone would think she was crazy, or even mentally ill—what would she do then? It was better to stay as she was, living well as the original owner of this body, leading them to wealth and prosperity, and once things were settled here, she could search the whole country for her grandmother to repay the kindness of her past life…
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