"Really, Grandma Qi? Does the soup smell better if you don't lift the lid?" Yun Duo replied, and Chen Fenghua also spoke up.
“Yes.” Madam Yun Qi nodded and said, “When stewing chicken, you should lift the lid less often and add the salt last. This way, the soup will be extra fragrant.”
“I’ve learned something from that.” Chen Fenghua nodded, then said, “No, I have to go back now. My sister-in-law is stewing chicken, and I need to tell her what you just said.” With that, she said goodbye to Lu Zhimin and Lu Haijun, and then hurried away.
Yun Duo couldn't help but chuckle.
Seeing her granddaughter giggling, Yun Qi felt a warmth in her heart. She pulled the stool closer to Yun Duo and lovingly touched Yun Duo's little face with her rough hands, asking with a smile, "What is my Duo'er laughing at? She's so happy, like a little squirrel that just stole a pine cone."
"No." Yun Duo shook her head and said, "I just think Sister Fenghua is really nice." Then, she put on an innocent look and asked, "Grandma, how come you know that stewed chicken smells better if you don't lift the lid too much, but Sister Fenghua doesn't know that? She's an adult too."
Yun Duo already felt that her "cheap" grandmother didn't seem like a native rural old woman, and after hearing her words, this thought became even clearer. Therefore, she couldn't help but want to test her.
Yun Qi was slightly taken aback, then smiled somewhat awkwardly before saying, "When I was your age, my family taught me this. I'll teach you from now on, okay?"
Yun Duo suddenly realized that the cheap "grandma" had a story to tell!
However, remembering the unnatural look on her grandmother's face just now, Yun Duo gave up on pressing the matter and simply nodded obediently, saying, "Okay, Duo'er will study hard."
"Good child, so well-behaved." Madam Yun Qi smiled and ruffled Yun Duo's hair, her face showing no trace of anything amiss.
Yunduo glanced at the house still billowing smoke and deliberately changed the subject: "Grandma, why is there so much smoke in the house?"
Fearing that Yun Duo might be frightened, Yun Qi said casually, "Oh, the old house hasn't been lived in for too long, and there are some bugs and ants in the cracks in the walls. Let's use some cypress leaves to fumigate it, okay, that will drive the bugs away."
"Oh..." Yun Duo deliberately dragged out her reply, then asked, "Grandma, is it enough to just use Bai Ya Xun?"
Yun Qi shook her head and looked at Yun Duo, saying, "It's not just cypress branches, but also dried mugwort, dried calamus, and sulfur. Cypress branches are mainly for producing a lot of smoke, but the effective ingredients are the mugwort, calamus, and sulfur."
She paused for a moment, then added, "When your brother Fusheng went to fetch water, he also picked a lot of fresh mugwort and calamus. Grandma will hang some in the house for you later, so that mosquitoes won't bite our Duo'er at night."
Yun Duo panicked as soon as she heard this, worried that the smell of mugwort and calamus would make Xiao Jiu uncomfortable. She quickly shook her head and said, "Ah? Grandma, I don't want it! I don't want mugwort and calamus."
"Why don't you want it?" Yun Qi asked, puzzled. Then she smiled and looked at Yun Duo, asking, "What? Can't you stand the smell? Then Grandma will ask your grandpa to get you a mosquito net."
It has to be said that Yun Youtian and his wife were really too much. They didn't even give the old man a mosquito net when they divided the family property. Yun Qishi hadn't originally planned to ask for it, but now that she saw Yun Duo didn't want the mugwort and calamus, she remembered it and hurriedly called out to Yun Dazheng, "Old man, old man..."
Afraid that the old man and his grandmother would be upset, Yun Duo quickly called out before Yun Qishi could finish speaking, "Grandma, it's alright!"
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