"His figure, clothes, and the way he drives all indicate that this car is his own. He must be from a wealthy family to be able to afford it."
Zhou Xiang hadn't expected his father to have such a sharp eye. He secretly criticized him in his heart, "They are still powerful! It's that family you always talk about who was from the same family five hundred years ago, but unfortunately you didn't recognize it when you saw it in front of you."
When it got dark, Master Ma Gua finished work and took his people back home. Zhou Xiang started to light a fire in the new stove in the kitchen and slowly roasted the food.
Zhou Yu was still slacking off when his father grabbed the spatula and said, "Stay away. If you don't change after three days, you'll have to cook for yourself. There are plenty of stoves at home anyway, so just live alone!"
Zhou Yu's spatula was snatched away, and she stepped back in fear. Zhou wanted to pull her into the house, "What's wrong with you? Why don't you cook breakfast?"
"I don't know what time it is."
"Won't you go to the main room and look? There's a clock on the wall."
"I have no idea."
"You can also read the weather! You really pissed off Dad, he can really make you live alone."
Zhou Yu lowered his head, tears dripping onto the ground.
"Okay, stop crying. The more you cry, the angrier Dad gets. He wants us to eat on time. If we don't prepare it well, we'll be scolded. Next time we go to the county, I'll buy you a watch! If you cook in advance every day, he won't scold you anymore."
Zhou Yu raised his head, tears still dripping from his eyes. "Really?"
Zhou Xiang nodded.
"I want something like Mom."
Zhou Xiang rolled his eyes at her, "Do you know how expensive that one is, Mom? Dad was jealous when I bought it for you. If I buy you another one, Dad will be even angrier."
I am really speechless about this second sister. She shines brightly with a little sunshine, but she still has to choose a watch when I give it to her.
"Okay! Buy whatever you want! I just need a watch to tell the time."
I wiped away my tears and calmed down. At worst, I could cook half an hour earlier next time. My cooking time couldn't be the same as my sister's because she was too fast.
During dinner, Zhou's mother said, "Starting tomorrow, we will have to work half a day, and the house will be left to you two sisters."
Zhou Xiang nodded, "Don't worry, I will make arrangements. My sister may not be used to it here yet, so I will take care of her."
Father Zhou hummed, "Take good care of her. If she cooks for us, we'll starve to death."
Seeing his second sister flinch, Zhou Xiang quickly assured her, "Don't worry, I will definitely teach her a lesson."
Zhou Yizhou, after taking the blueprints home, found his father, showed him the blueprints, and explained them to him.
Father Zhou took the blueprint and said, "Leave it to me. Just focus on one thing."
"Dad, what do you mean?"
"I mean, let's put this matter aside for now. Once your greenhouse has achieved results, we will have a say."
Zhou Yizhou's enthusiasm was dashed. "Alright! It'll just stink for another six months anyway. Keep the blueprints safe. If you lose them, you can always ask Zhou for another copy. But if someone else finds them and passes them off as his own design, that would be disgusting."
"I know. I locked it in the desk drawer."
Zhou Xiang made nests for the cat and dog at night and placed them on the bed because the floor was too cold.
The cats and dogs were very well-behaved because Zhou Xiang fed each of them eggs from the space. They just did whatever Zhou Xiang told them to do, without any fuss.
Zhou Yu wanted to take the cat to sleep on the kang.
"Then go to bed and sleep with it. You're not afraid of flea bites, but I am."
At night, because the kang in the main room had been heated all day, the room was not so cold anymore, so Zhou's mother went back to sleep. She snored in her sleep, and her little girl probably didn't sleep well.
On the seventh day of the New Year, Zhou's father and mother went to work, and Zhou wanted to heat the two new kangs.
Master Ma Gua came with his men to work, Ling Ran followed and watched, Zhou Xiang was busy cooking, there were more than a dozen people's meals for lunch today!
"Second sister, come and see how I do things. If you don't learn, be careful or Dad will really make you live alone!"
Zhou Yu put down the cat in his hand and watched Zhou Xiang's cooking skills and speed.
"Do you understand?"
Zhou Yu shook his head.
"You need to know which one will take the longest time, so do that first. For example, stewing meat takes a long time, so do it earlier. Once the meat is stir-fried and simmered in water, do the other things.
This time is used reasonably. Now there are two stoves to use, so stewing rice does not have to be left to the last. Meat can be stewed on the old stove and rice can be stewed on the new stove. Then you can wash, cut vegetables and watch the pot.
Once the meat is cooked, take it out and start cooking. It only takes a few minutes. Cooking the meat takes about an hour, and cutting and washing the meat takes about ten minutes. Dinner is at twelve o'clock, so we can move it forward based on the cooking time. For today, we can cook around ten-thirty."
"Yeah! Why didn't I think of working backwards? Next time I cook, I'll think about what I'm going to make first, and then calculate the time."
"Yes, that's right. You can't stew meat when it's almost time for dinner. How can Dad not be angry? If it's really late, just stir-fry the vegetables instead of stewing them."
"I understand. Thank you, sister."
Zhou Xiang sighed. His grandmother only knew how to beat and scold him, and she didn't know how to teach him at all. She just cooked whenever she remembered to.
I stewed a big pot of pork and potatoes, and also stewed cabbage with vermicelli.
After the rice is steamed in a pot, it is served in a porcelain bowl, covered with a curtain, and placed on the kang to keep warm, and then the rice can be continued to be steamed.
When Zhou's father came back, Zhou Xiang's second pot of rice was already cooked, and two large pots of dishes were also out.
Father Zhou saw the big pot of food and praised it, "I didn't think of stewing such a big pot yesterday. It made me exhausted."
"Dad, workers like this only care about having enough meat to eat, they don't care about anything else."
"Well, I cooked it as I usually do when entertaining guests, and the food was cold."
Zhou's mother also came back from get off work, and Zhou wanted to go out and ask Ling Ran to bring the masters back for dinner.
The chefs washed their hands, went into the house, each took a bowl, and served themselves rice and dishes. Zhou Xiang put a spoon in the dish bowl.
"Uncle Zhou, this is the right way for today. Use a big pot of meat stew and let them cook it as they like."
Master Ma Gua said to Zhou's father.
"My little girl cooked today. I didn't realize it yesterday."
"Well, your little girl is very smart! You are in luck!"
Father Zhou laughed so hard!
In the afternoon, Zhou Xiang went to see the finishing touches, including putting the septic tank lid on and covering it with soil.
The cement for the toilet pit has not dried yet, but the sink in the washroom has been built, and the roof and floor have been paved.
Zhou Xiang saw that there were still a lot of bricks left, so he asked someone to build a coal room next to the east wall of the main house.
The east wall of my yard is a shared wall between the supply and marketing cooperative and the food station, and is about sixty to seventy centimeters wide from the east wall of the main house.
There was still one 80-centimeter-wide prefabricated board, so a single brick wall of the same height as the courtyard wall was built along the east wall of the main house, and the prefabricated board was laid on it. Two layers of brick platforms were built on the ground, and a simple coal room was completed.
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