After busy preparing the filling and rolling out the wrappers, Su Xueli picked up a wonton wrapper and said to Xiao Jiu, "Look, this is how you wrap wontons. I'll only teach you this once, okay? If you can't learn it, I won't care."
Xiao Jiu watched intently and said, "Learn, learn, learn."
But it sounds nice, but it's too hard to do. She made a bunch of things, but none of them were decent. Su Xueli refused to let her ruin them, saying, "It's okay, you can eat as many as you make. I'll separate them when it's time to cook."
Xiao Jiu was unwilling. "Sister Xue Li, then Brother Wei will know that I made the package, and I won't be exposed."
Su Xueli asked, "What, you want me to pay for your lousy wontons?"
"No, no, just let me unpack these rotten wontons and repackage them. I'll wrap them properly," Xiao Jiu said, nudging Su Xueli and pleading.
Su Xueli was unyielding. "If you're worried about him seeing it, you can cook it first and then finish it for yourself."
What else can Xiao Jiu do but study hard?
Oh dear, it's so hard to learn! I just can't wrap the wontons that Su Xueli wraps so beautifully.
Su Xueli was busy with her hands and her mouth, telling her what to do first and what to do next, and that's how the beautiful wontons were made.
"Slap! Slap!" Two tears fell onto the cutting board.
Su Xueli looked up and saw Xiao Jiu's clear tears sliding down her face.
"Oh my darling, it's not worth it, it's not worth it." Su Xueli hurriedly wiped away her tears.
"Sister Shirley, I'm studying so hard, why can't I learn it? Waaaaah..." she cried.
Su Xueli laughed in exasperation: "If you can't learn it, then don't learn it. You roll out the dough, I'll wrap them myself. They'll all be yours, okay?"
Xiao Jiu wiped away her tears and said, "Okay."
Su Xueli: "..."
Fortunately, the dough Xiao Jiu rolled out was barely usable, because Su Xueli could wrap any shape of dough into beautiful wontons.
Xiao Jiu relaxed and started talking.
She asked, "Sister Shirley, what about Brother Wei, the one you divorced? I didn't go to your wedding, but my mother and brother did, so I don't know your husband."
"I'm so confused. Why did you divorce him? Such a good man, and I married him like a dog I'd keep by my side, even sleeping with him on my back."
Su Xueli reached out to stop her: "If you say that again, I'm going to throw up."
"Then tell me why you divorced him. He said he was dumped by someone else, and that was you."
"You know he has feelings for that Miss Lin. Why should I be a sacrifice? I'll just let him be with his lover."
"Um... well, I don't know how. I'd rather have the person than the heart. I don't care about spending every day and night with him, I'd even be happy to have him for just one day..."
Su Xueli snatched the rolling pin and hit her on the head, "Have some shame."
Xiao Jiu shrank his neck and rubbed the back of his head, muttering, "But I was speaking from the heart."
Su Xueli: "..."
Xiao Jiu asked seriously, "Sister Xue Li, tell me the truth, do you still want this man?"
Su Xueli said, "Of course not."
Then he explained why he stayed here to work with her.
"I'll have earned enough money by the end of this month, and then he'll leave. From now on, we'll be like birds and fish, our paths will diverge, and we'll never meet again." She used a line from Lin Meizhi's heartfelt letter to Wei Ming.
"Ah... he's leaving next month!" Xiao Jiu's heart sank.
Seeing her pitiful state, Su Xueli comforted her, "If you make him fall in love with you, you can continue to date him even if he leaves here."
Xiao Jiu made two "ah ah" sounds and then stopped talking, continuing to roll out the dough.
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