Chapter 5
"I used to cook for the family when the adults were at work, and I never saw my sister cook. Logically, she shouldn't have had the chance to learn how to cook."
Old Mrs. Huo frowned, and the wrinkles on her face deepened.
She keenly grasped the meaning of Mu Qianqian's words: "You cook at home, what does Mu Qingxuan do?"
"My sister..." Mu Qianqian blinked her watery eyes and hesitated for a long time before speaking hesitantly, "My sister is reading in her room. She is a good student, so of course she has to seize every opportunity to study."
Everything Mu Qianqian said was true, except that she deliberately concealed the fact that Mu Qingxuan was reading a medical book.
However, in the eyes of Old Mrs. Huo, it seemed that she was deliberately saying nice things to protect the reputation of her elder sister Mu Qingxuan.
She frowned and snorted in dissatisfaction: "Qianqian, you are a good child, there is no need to say these words to deceive me. I can still tell whether a person's nature is good or bad."
Seeing that her goal had been achieved, Mu Qianqian continued, "The only thing I can recall is three years ago, when my sister volunteered to cook. As a result, the whole family foamed at the mouth after eating and were sent to the hospital."
"The doctor in town said it was food poisoning. If we had gone a little later, our whole family would have died!"
Old Mrs. Huo was so frightened that she gasped, covered her chest with her hands, and almost choked on her breath.
She widened her cloudy eyes and asked in astonishment, "Is there such a thing?"
Mu Qianqian looked embarrassed: "This is a family scandal, and we shouldn't tell anyone about it. But I'm really worried that my sister will show off again tonight, and what will you do if she hurts grandma..."
"It's really outrageous."
Old Mrs. Huo slapped her thigh.
In order to satisfy her momentary desire, she even disregarded the lives of her entire family. This girl Mu Qingxuan has a really bad nature.
She had long guessed that this country boy might have bad intentions, but she never expected him to be so bad.
If she had known this, Mrs. Huo would never have given in on Huo Changfeng's marriage.
When Mrs. Huo thought that her most proud grandson had married such a sinister woman, she was so angry that she had a heart attack.
As evening approached, Mu Qingxuan had already entered the kitchen and was preparing the ingredients.
Old Mrs. Huo stood in the living room, and her eagle-like sharp eyes captured the back of Mu Qingxuan wearing an apron.
The slender and graceful figure that was originally hidden under the loose clothes was now tightly wrapped in the apron, fully exposed.
She has round shoulders, a slender waist, and thin and straight legs. Just looking at her from behind, she looks very seductive.
Mrs. Huo immediately walked to the kitchen on crutches and saw Mu Qingxuan putting a lethal amount of chili peppers into the basin.
The shocking red peppers were chopped into small pieces and spread all over the red and oily soup.
When Mrs. Huo, who was used to eating light food, saw this color, her eyes went dark, as if she had eaten ten kilograms of chili peppers and her whole body was burning.
At this time, there were still a few chicken feet on another plate on the table that had not been processed yet.
Mu Qingxuan couldn't find a suitable small knife, so she had to pick up the big kitchen knife with some unfamiliarity and carefully cut the skin of the chicken feet, trying to pick out the bones inside.
Old Mrs. Huo watched this scene.
She looked at Mu Qingxuan's stiff knife-holding posture and immediately concluded that Mu Qingxuan had no experience in holding a knife at all!
How could such a person cook? !
She couldn't help but say, "Stop!"
The sudden loud shout from behind startled Mu Qingxuan.
Her hand shook and the sharp blade almost cut her slender fingers.
Mu Qingxuan's eyelids twitched and her heart was in her throat.
If this knife were to cut, bleeding and scarring would be the least of the problems. Half a finger might even be cut off.
She put down the kitchen knife, turned around and looked at Mrs. Huo, who had a bad look on her face, and said impatiently, "Grandma, what's wrong?"
No one would feel very happy if they were almost cut off their hand out of fear while holding a knife.
However, Mu Qingxuan's attitude aroused a surge of anger in Mrs. Huo's eyes.
"You can't even hold a knife, and you dare to lie that you can cook?" Mrs. Huo's forehead was throbbing with anger. "You even put so much chili in it. Are you trying to kill us?"
"I just heard from Qianqian that you accidentally sent your whole family to the hospital. I didn't believe it at first, but now it seems that Qianqian was being conservative. You are such a liar and dishonest girl. How could our family marry a troublemaker like you? We are so unlucky."
Hearing this, Mu Qingxuan looked at Mu Qianqian, who was standing next to Old Madam Huo and holding her arm, and lowered her eyes and sneered.
It turned out that Mu Qianqian was the one doing things behind the scenes.
She explained in a gentle voice: "Grandma, there was a misunderstanding about what happened at home before. I can explain it to you later."
"As for the peppers in front of you, they are not spicy. I specifically asked Wang Ma for these non-spicy peppers."
The weather is hot now. Mu Qingxuan thought that Mr. and Mrs. Huo had been working outside all day and came home sweating all over. They must have no appetite to eat.
So, she wanted to make some cool and delicious cold dishes that could go well with rice.
Mu Qingxuan had already prepared a plate of cold cucumber and cold lotus root slices, and was preparing to finish the boneless chicken feet she had on hand and stir-fry two side dishes, and the table of dishes would be ready.
But she didn't expect that as soon as she picked up the knife, Mrs. Huo rushed over.
Aunt Wang also echoed: "Don't worry, old lady, these peppers only look red, but they are actually just like onions and garlic. They only serve as a little seasoning and are not spicy at all."
When the cold cucumber salad was just ready, Aunt Wang tasted a slice and found it tasted really good.
Not to mention, when the two of them were in the kitchen just now, Mu Qingxuan had always been very polite to her and didn't look down on her at all just because she was just a nanny.
Therefore, at this time, Mother Wang was also willing to say more good things about Mu Qingxuan.
"Old lady, you know me well. I cannot eat spicy food. If I eat anything spicy, my mouth will be swollen for several days."
"But you see, I'm fine now."
As she spoke, Aunt Wang used clean chopsticks to touch the soup in the plate and took a sip.
Old Mrs. Huo looked at Wang Ma's expression, and seeing that she was fine, the wrinkles between her brows faded a little.
But he still asked doubtfully, "Really?"
Wang Ma immediately nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "It's more real than real gold."
Mu Qingxuan said frankly: "Grandma, didn't you say that tonight you were here to test whether I can cook? Since it's a test, there's no reason to stop halfway."
"Please let me cook it first. If it doesn't taste good, you can criticize me however you want."
Mu Qingxuan looked at Old Madam Huo with grace and dignity, neither humble nor arrogant, without any sense of grievance or embarrassment from being misunderstood.
Not only that, she spoke Mandarin quite fluently and kept her back straight.
At first glance, she doesn't look like a country girl who just came from the countryside, but a lady from a wealthy family who was raised in the city since childhood!
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