"I don't know when that will happen! The food at home tastes different from that at grandma's."
"It has to be completely opposite. The more your cooking tastes like grandma's, the angrier Dad will be. Do you understand?"
"Dad hates grandma?"
"Maybe! We don't understand what's going on here, and it's not our place to comment on the affairs of our elders. Go wash up quickly, you stink."
Zhou Yu, feeling exhausted, was pushed off the kang by his sister again. Life is so hard!
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, it was Zhou Xiang's turn to cook. Zhou Xiang felt that his second sister was really tired, so he went to the old stove to light a fire and cook.
It was seven o'clock when they had dinner. Zhou Yu got up to wash up. Zhou's father said to Zhou Xiang, "Don't worry about her. Just use the new stove to cook. You'll burn her to death. You're so lazy."
"Wait, Dad. It's hard to change a person's habits. Give it some time. If you're still like this after a while, I'll start the fire at five o'clock."
The anger that Zhou's father had raged was calmed down by his daughter. After dinner, he went to work.
Zhou Yu washed up and had his meal, not realizing he had avoided a scolding.
Zhou Xiang still built a fire to heat the cement pool. Not long after, Zhou's father came back with someone.
"Think about it, Dad will find the carpenter you are looking for."
Zhou Xiang took the carpenter to check the reserved space.
The carpenter felt that the reserved size was too large and he did not make such a large door.
"Then, based on the size you can make, you can use the remaining space to make a glass frame on the top and a small side door on the side so as not to affect the appearance."
Zhou Xiang took his pen and drew the shape of the door he had just expressed with a few strokes.
The carpenter looked at the blueprint and asked, "Where is the lock?"
"The lock is installed at the joint between the wooden door and the side door, and the hinges are installed on the door frame."
The carpenter measured the dimensions of the doors and windows and said he would come to install them in ten days.
Zhou Xiang paid a deposit of five dollars and asked him to write a receipt.
After Zhou's father and the others left, he came over and said, "His asking price seems a bit high!"
"I know, but he's the one who's at a disadvantage. Look how flexible Master Ma Gua is. How much profit has he made from me?"
"Is there a secret behind this door of yours?"
Zhou wanted to pull his father back to the kitchen, took out his own paper and pen, and re-drew the door he had just drawn for his father to see. Then he pointed at the position of the small side door with a pen and explained the method and advantages of making a movable small side door.
Father Zhou understood and laughed, "He's unlucky not to get any advice from my little girl. Well, Dad feels relieved. It's just a few people around here who actually raised the price."
Zhou Xiang was relieved to see that his father no longer cared about the one or two dollars, so he went to light the fire.
One day, Zhou's father did not get angry. While Zhou Yu was eating, she paid attention to the difference in the taste of her sister's food so that her father would not get angry with her.
When Zhou Xiang was washing the dishes, Zhou Yu, who was sitting next to him, asked, "I never realized your cooking was so special!"
Zhou Xiang rolled his eyes at her, "Can't you see that the rice I cook is harder and the dishes I stir-fry are saltier and crispier?"
Zhou Yu shook his head.
Zhou Xiang just felt powerless. After his sister from his previous life came back, she was also scolded by his father for a while. Gradually, she started cooking and frying dishes that suited his father's taste.
At that time, I was busy going to school every day and was ordered around after school. I really didn't notice how my sister felt my father's pulse.
"Okay, just remember to use half a bowl less water for rice, and don't add water when cooking. Don't worry about whether it's salty or not. What if you add too much like I did with the alkaline noodles the other day and it makes you choke and ruins Dad's dish? He'll really beat you up."
Zhou Yu repeated, "Don't add half a bowl of water to rice, and don't add water when cooking. That's wrong! How can the food be cooked without water?"
"Weren't you watching me while I was cooking?"
"See, you added water." Zhou Yu wanted to say that his sister was deliberately fooling him.
But Zhou Xiang rolled her eyes at him, so he held back and waited for her to speak.
"You add water when you're cooking, but I just add water by swishing it along the side of the pot, okay? Swishing a little bit of water along the side of the pot will prevent the food from sticking and allow you to swirl it a little longer. When you serve the food, there's still a lot of soup. Dad doesn't like soupy dishes, just like rice can't be watery or porridge can't be dry. It's the same thing. He wants his stir-fries to be dry and his stews to be soupy."
"Dad is so busy!"
"Who says he's the head of the family? The whole family has to obey his will."
On the tenth day, it was Zhou Yu's turn to cook. At five o'clock, Zhou wanted to get up and pick up the coals.
A new day began with Zhou Yu's shouting. Although the smell of cooking had not changed, at least he could eat on time.
After two days of heating with firewood, the cement in the bathroom and washroom became dry. Zhou wanted to continue to build a fire and heat the walls at the same time.
Ling Ran came back on the eleventh day of the first lunar month and started to look for Zhou Xiang to play again. He also played shuttlecock with Zhou Xiang. When Zhou Yu saw that there was shuttlecock playing, he also asked to join in.
Seeing that her second sister no longer looked for her cat every day, she told Ling Ran that the cat had run away. Ling Ran wanted to say that if she found the cat next time, she would bring it back, but Zhou Xiang shook her head secretly, and Ling Ran swallowed the words back.
Secretly asking what happened, Zhou wanted to tell him that his second sister had been petting the cat all day and had forgotten to do anything else, so it was a good thing that the cat was lost.
Little Bai, lying under the tree and not daring to climb up to steal food:? ?
At night, in the space, Zhou Xiang tapped the little white cat's head and said, "Stay in there. Outside, you're already a missing person. If you don't obey, you'll be thrown away."
Xiaobai meowed in grievance.
Zhou Xiang took two apples and two peaches and said, "Here! This is your meal for the day. Although it takes a long time in here, you won't get hungry that quickly. These four are enough for you to eat for the whole day."
Ignoring the little white cat, I went to the fenced yard and looked at the large watermelons hanging on the vines all over the yard. What should I do? I don't know how to tell whether a watermelon is ripe or not.
Pick the big ones and pile them up with the other fruits. Is there no place to buy baskets in the first month of the year? It’s too tiring to send them to the basement. It would be better if they could go to the basement warehouse by themselves.
The watermelon in front of him disappeared. Zhou Xiang blinked his eyes, picked another watermelon, and told the watermelon to go to the warehouse by itself. The watermelon disappeared.
Zhou Xiang shouted towards the sky, "You can't play like this! Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had this function? Every time I pick fruit, it ends up piling up under the tree."
space:???
"Forget it, since you can't speak, I won't bully you anymore."
I happily picked dozens of big watermelons, muttering to myself: Go all to the warehouse.
Then Watermelon and herself disappeared from the spot.
Zhou Xiang, who almost tripped over the watermelon, said, "Can I curse? You idiot."
Broken Space:???
Zhou Xiang looked at the watermelons rolling everywhere, so he had no choice but to leave the space and quietly go outside to steal firewood from his own home.
Shivering, he returned to the kang and his quilt, and a thought came back to the thatched hut.
"You broken space, I left the warehouse, how come I'm back in the thatched hut?"
Broken Space:???
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