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Seeing that Zhou Zhengye had been staying in the kitchen, Han Yi sent Liu Gang to bring hot water to Du Yuhan, as he needed to minimize the time Zhou Zhengye and Du Yuhan spent alone together.
Liu Gang brought hot water into the kitchen and said, "Yuhan, Brother Xian said you shouldn't touch cold water. Use hot water for cooking too."
Zhou Zhengye asked, "What's wrong with Yuhan?"
Liu Gang replied, "Du Yuhan had a stomachache; she was in pain and lay in bed all day yesterday."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Zhengye asked worriedly, "Why does your stomach hurt? Should we go to the hospital for a checkup?"
Du Yuhan blushed and waved her hand, saying, "No need, I'm much better today. I just caught a slight cold, it's nothing serious."
Zhou Zhengye said, "Then hurry back inside and warm yourself by the stove. Try not to touch cold water."
Du Yuhan was feeling unwell and couldn't touch cold water, so Han Yi first made her a pot of hot water to use while cooking.
Around noon, Du Yuhan chopped up the soaked wild vegetables, fried a few eggs, and mixed them with various seasonings to make a filling.
Liu Gang lit the fire, and Du Yuhan started making cabbage dumplings one by one, arranging them neatly on the steamer rack of the large pot as the water in the pot was about to boil.
Du Yuhan's vegetable dumplings are made with plenty of oil in the filling, unlike the vegetable dumplings made by ordinary families nowadays which are low in oil and seasoning.
One pot was steaming vegetable dumplings, and the other pot was sorghum porridge.
When the pot was removed from the heat, the golden vegetable dumplings had risen a bit and looked especially cute.
Du Yuhan used a two-part dough, cornmeal with some wheat flour added. She also added baking powder and let it rise, so the dough was very soft.
None of the family members could tell how much wheat flour was added to the cornmeal. In fact, Du Yuhan had mixed in some wheat flour that she had taken out of her spatial dimension.
The vegetable dumplings and porridge were served together. Du Yuhan didn't cook any other dishes.
The vegetable dumpling dough is soft and fluffy with the aroma of cornmeal. Combined with Du Yuhan's carefully prepared filling, even the vegetarian vegetable dumpling is very popular.
Du Yuhan could only eat two, and the rest were eaten by the three big men.
After finishing his meal, Zhou Zhengye stayed for a while longer before driving back.
Du Yuhan, under Han Yixian's orders, went back to her room to rest.
After Zhou Zhengye sent Han Yiping away, she never came to the courtyard again. It was only when Yuan Qiwen came to the courtyard that everyone learned that Han Yiping had returned to Kyoto.
It is said that she cried when she left, seemingly reluctant to go. However, Han Xiuqin forced Han Yiping to board the train back to Kyoto.
Han Xiuqin was thoroughly fed up with this willful, selfish, and snobbish niece. The sooner she got rid of her, the better, so she wouldn't have to serve her every day.
Before the weather froze, Du Yuhan and Liu Gang cut down all the cabbages planted in the yard and neatly placed them in the side room.
If no fire is lit in the side room, the cabbage won't rot from the heat or freeze.
Du Yuhan planted several rows of Chinese cabbages, each one large and with a firm core. One cabbage was more than enough for the three of them for one meal.
Besides cabbage, Du Yuhan also grew radishes, including both green and white radishes.
These vegetables were harvested late, so they were planted after the earlier-planted vegetables had finished growing. With Du Yuhan's careful care, they are all growing very well.
Du Yuhan's plan this year is to grow more cabbage and radishes so she won't have to buy any. She also won't have to buy potatoes.
Du Yuhan also harvested a lot of pumpkins from the plants she planted outside the courtyard wall, and she often made pumpkin pancakes and pumpkin soup to eat.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and the northwest wind is often howling. Although there is a stove in the house, it is only in the living room. The east room has a heated kang bed, which is much better, but the west room, although it has a long chimney, is still very cold.
Anyway, Du Yuhan was wearing a cotton-padded coat inside the house.
Han Yixian didn't want Du Yuhan to suffer from the cold weather. Liu Gang took over the chores of feeding the chickens and rabbits in the morning and evening.
The rabbits have plenty of dried leaves stored up in advance, so they don't have to worry about food. Some cabbage leaves that have been peeled off also serve as food for them.
To get hens to lay eggs, they need to be fed well. Liu Gang bought some bran and chaff from the grain processing plant to feed the chickens.
Food is scarce right now; bran and chaff are hard to buy, and I only managed to get some by using connections.
Each time, I would peel some cabbage leaves, chop them up, mix them with bran and wheat bran, add water, stir it up, and then feed it to the chickens.
However, the hens are not laying eggs because of the cold weather.
Hunting in the mountains is difficult in winter, and meat is already scarce; if eggs are also scarce, it won't do.
Seeing that this wouldn't work, Du Yuhan took over the task of feeding the chickens again and handed over the task of feeding the rabbits to Liu Gang.
Every time Du Yuhan chopped vegetables for the chicken in the side room, she would secretly smuggle some cabbage, bran, and wheat bran out of her spatial storage.
Du Yuhan always stirs the chicken feed with hot water and secretly adds some well water from her spatial dimension. As a result, the chicken feed is always fiercely fought over by a flock of chickens.
Within two days, the hens resumed laying one egg per day.
Liu Gang clicked his tongue in amazement, "That's really strange. Does a hen's egg-laying depend on who feeds it? Why doesn't it lay eggs when I feed it, but Yuhan, it lays eggs every day when you feed it?"
Du Yuhan laughed and said, "That's because I'm particular about the chicken feed I make for them. I chop the vegetables finely and mix them with hot water, and the chickens love to eat it. Just like people, you love to eat cold rice in the dead of winter."
Liu Gang laughed and said, "Is that so? Does the chicken need to eat hot food? That's why it likes to lay eggs? Interesting."
Du Yuhan said, "So that we can have more eggs to eat, I'll feed the chickens from now on."
In the cold winter, with nothing much to do, they all stayed indoors studying.
Although Du Yuhan was still learning medicine on her own, her learning progress was faster than Liu Gang's, which made Liu Gang very anxious. He was truly making the most of every second to learn. He couldn't afford to fall too far behind Du Yuhan.
Liu Gang quickly realized that Du Yuhan was no ordinary person. Not only was she learning medicine, but she could also grasp the knowledge points that Brother Xian taught her after just one listen, and even apply what she learned to other situations.
I don't know how Du Yuhan's brain works.
Han Yixian was also amazed by Du Yuhan's learning ability. You have to understand that they were teaching junior high school material now, not the simple elementary school knowledge.
Du Yuhan could quickly grasp and thoroughly understand the knowledge points he had only explained once. She never made a mistake when doing practice problems. She applied the knowledge points very flexibly.
At Du Yuhan's current learning pace, she'll finish junior high school material this winter. And that's while she's also learning medicine.
I estimate that Du Yuhan will have no problem getting into high school next year.
In Han Yixian's eyes, Du Yuhan had become a genius girl.
Moreover, Du Yuhan is very diligent and seizes almost every opportunity to study.
Han Yixian also discovered that Du Yuhan's knowledge was not limited to what was taught in junior high school textbooks. She also enjoyed reading all sorts of miscellaneous books.
Han Yi brought some books with him when he came to Luancheng. Du Yuhan read all of them. She even read the books on erotic topics.
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