"Girl, you can't leave. Qiuya is very happy to hear that the dumpling maker has been invited. You are a good-looking girl, and you don't want to disappoint an old lady who has been hungry for two meals and wants to eat a bite of your dumplings. Let her continue to starve, right?"
Gu's mother held Li Shuping's hand tightly, fearing that if she let go, the person would leave.
She even deliberately mentioned that Li Yunshu used to pick up things from the ground to eat when she was a child, and slapped her in the face.
Li Yunshu's behavior clearly showed that she looked down on others. After being the third daughter of the Li family for decades, she had forgotten where she came from.
Who hasn’t suffered after experiencing war and turmoil? She also installed it.
It was her Zhenyuan who invited the person back, and he came only for her Zhenyuan's sake, so shouldn't she vent his anger for him?
Li Shuping hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Old lady, you are very pleasing to the ear. I stayed here for your sake."
"Okay..." Mother Gu said okay with a smile.
Li Shuping glanced at Li Yunshu out of the corner of her eye, walked to the table and started cooking.
Gu's mother didn't go out either. She stayed in the kitchen and kept praising Li Shuping for her quick movements.
Li Yunshu didn't go out either. She felt very uncomfortable because she couldn't breathe out.
Sister Wang also started to prepare lunch. Li Boyan rarely came back, so she had to stew chicken, cook fish and shrimp for lunch.
The dough was left to rise in the pot with the lid on, and Li Shuping began to chop the stuffing.
Li Boyan and Master Li both came down from upstairs and sat in the living room chatting with Gu Zhenyuan.
Hearing the sound of chopping stuffing coming from the kitchen, everyone looked towards the kitchen.
Gu Zhenyuan was a little worried at first. Li Shuyun was too overbearing and picky, and would make Comrade Li Shuping feel wronged. But after his mother entered the kitchen, he was no longer worried.
According to her mother's temper, she couldn't stand seeing anyone being wronged in front of her, and her mother was Li Shuyun's nemesis.
"Isn't Uncle Gu going home today?" Li Boyan asked.
Gu Zhenyuan came back to his senses, "My dad made an appointment with Uncle Qi to go fishing early in the morning, and he probably won't be back until the afternoon."
When my father goes fishing, he usually fishes all day.
"Uncle Gu still loves fishing. When we were young, we relied on the fish Uncle Gu caught in the river to supplement our nutrition."
Although life was a bit tough back then, the warmth in it makes people miss it.
Gu Zhenyuan: "In addition to playing chess, my dad also has a hobby of fishing..."
After the stuffing is chopped, put it all into the ceramic soup bowl, and then it's time to season it.
Li Shuping had just picked up the salt shaker when she heard Li Yunshu say, "Put less salt in it. Eating too much salt is bad for the elderly's cerebral blood vessels."
Li Shuping glanced at her and added two spoonfuls of salt. Li Yunshu started yelling again, "I told you to put less salt, you couldn't hear me, right?"
Li Shuping put down the salt shaker, stepped back, and gestured, "You come."
Li Yunshu: “…”
Mother Gu said, "Xiaoyan, there is such a big bowl of stuffing. Is two spoonfuls of salt enough? If there is not enough salt, it will taste bland. Who can eat it?"
"You are someone who can't even cook, so don't give orders here."
"..." Li Yunshu choked.
She really doesn't know how to cook and can only make simple porridge or noodles, but that doesn't stop her from giving instructions when others are cooking.
Sister Wang nodded secretly. She was just giving blind orders. Every time Li Yunshu came back, she would be ordered around in circles.
When the food cooked under her direction didn't taste right, she said it was her fault as a cook.
"Aunt Mu, this is also..."
Mother Gu interrupted Li Yunshu and said, "I know you are thinking about your mother's health, but the most urgent thing is to let your mother have a delicious meal, something she wants to eat and can eat."
"Besides, their dumplings are not salty at all, the taste is just right."
After eating the dumplings made by Li Shuping several times, Gu's mother felt that if the dumplings were made with one more or one less, they would not taste the same.
"Can I continue?" Li Shuping asked, "No, you can season it."
Li Yunshu didn't say anything. If she could make the dumpling filling flavor that her mother liked, would it be her turn to come to the Li family as a dumpling?
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Li Shuping continued to season the food. She never used too much salt whether she was cooking or preparing stuffing.
When she was young, she often heard an old Chinese doctor say that people should not eat too salty food because it is bad for the body.
After the filling was prepared, Li Shuping took the dough out of the bowl and kneaded it on a floured board to get rid of the bubbles inside.
Then she rolled the dough into long strips and pinched them into small pieces. Using her unique technique, she quickly stacked the flattened pieces together and made them into dumpling skins, which amazed Mother Gu again and again.
"Oh Shuping, you have such a clever hand. You don't need to roll the dumpling skin with your hands anymore."
During the chat, Gu's mother already knew Li Shuping's name.
Li Shuping smiled and said, "I also helped out at a dumpling restaurant when I was a kid and learned this from the chef there."
Mother Gu: "You are really sensible. When you were a child, you went to the dumpling restaurant to help and reduce the burden on the family."
"I have no home. I am an orphan. I lived on the streets and was a beggar. Later, I met some good neighbors and grew up eating at other people's homes."
orphan?
Mother Gu was stunned for a moment and then asked, "How old were you when you started living on the streets?"
Li Yunshu glanced at Gu's mother and rolled her eyes secretly. When she heard that the girl was an orphan, she asked around. Could it be that she thought that this little girl might be her parents' lost biological daughter?
This Baobao doesn't look like his parents or his older brothers.
Li Shuping frowned and thought for a while, "I'm not sure myself, but as far as I can remember, I've been wandering the streets, so I should be about sixteen years old."
"Do you still have any memories of the time before you wandered around?" Mother Gu asked again.
Li Shuping shook her head, "I don't remember anything."
Mother Gu: "Do you have a birthmark on your back, such as a red birthmark that looks like a butterfly?"
“…No.”
Anyway, she had never seen any birthmark on her back, nor had she heard anyone say that she had a birthmark.
Mother Gu: “No.”
There was disappointment in his tone.
Li Yunshu curled her lips and sneered. She said it was impossible.
The dumpling skins were ready. Gu's mother, who hadn't made dumplings for a long time, washed her hands and started making dumplings with Li Shuping.
"Shuping, you wrapped it so beautifully, like a baby."
“Madam, you wrap it very well.” Li Shuping liked Madam Mu very much. She thought she was kind and easy-going, like a very amiable elder.
Li Yunshu rolled her eyes when she heard them praising each other and turned to leave the kitchen.
"Yunshu, how are the dumplings going?" Master Li asked when he saw her come out.
"It's already wrapped. I'll go up to see mom."
Mr. Li nodded, and Li Yunshu walked up the stairs.
In the bedroom, Old Lady Yu was lying on the bed with her eyes closed. When she heard footsteps, she opened her eyes.
“Are the dumplings ready?”
Li Yunshu's face froze, "...almost."
She didn't understand. It was just a broken dumpling. What was so delicious about it? It's worth her thinking about it so much.
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