Chapter 11 Chapter 11
It takes three quarters of an hour for the dough to ferment.
After Jia Guoye washed up, he started to make a fire to cook breakfast.
He took out the soaked mung beans and rice and prepared to cook porridge.
The mung bean porridge would take two quarters of an hour to cook. After he closed the lid of the pot, he began to chop the fillings. There were two kinds of fillings, meat and vegetables.
After chopping the fillings, he sat aside and began to weave bamboo baskets so that he could sell them for some money when the market was full.
His hands moved quickly and non-stop, and he was a skilled veteran.
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When the porridge was boiling, he scooped out half of the pot and put it into a large bowl, put the bowl on the mouth of the hot water pot to warm it, and put the remaining half of the pot into another large bowl, and heated it up to drink at noon.
Afterwards, he scrubbed the pot clean, applied a thin layer of oil on it, and began to bake pancakes.
He was very skillful. He first baked a pot of plain bread.
Then he put the bread on the side of the pot while wrapping the filling. He baked a pot of vegetarian bread, and finally a pot of meat-filled bread.
The bread was baked and stacked in a backpack.
Jia Guoye tied the backpack tightly and tied the kettle to it.
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It was almost time.
Jia Guoye waited for a while and knocked on Jia Yourui's door slowly.
After knocking twice, a soft voice came from the door: "Wake up."
Jia Yourui put on her clothes with a half-dazed mind, opened the door and walked out of the room.
She walked to the kitchen with her hair down. Jia Guoye was adding sugar to the porridge.
"Good morning."
She said dully, rubbing her eyes with her hands, like a sleepy little cat.
"Good morning."
Jia Guoye was a little dazed in front of her, and said, "Wash up, I'll bring the porridge to the table."
"Okay." She nodded.
It was still dawn, Jia Yourui finished washing up and walked into the hall. Jia Guoye had already drunk half a bowl of porridge.
She saw a golden pancake covering her porridge bowl.
Jia Yourui sat down, broke the pancake, and the juicy meat filling was exposed, exuding an alluring fragrance with the rising heat.
She gave half to Jia Guoye: "Here."
Jia Guoye said: "No, I'm full of porridge."
Jia Yourui shook her hand: "Take it, I can't finish it either."
He said: "Wait until you're hungry in the morning and eat it."
Jia Yourui pretended to be angry: "We agreed to have breakfast together. It's bad enough that you eat so fast, but you don't even want to eat cakes with me."
Her soft face didn't look angry at all, it was just acting coquettishly.
Jia Guoye hesitated and took half of the cake from her hand.
She withdrew her hand with satisfaction, pinched the cake with both hands, lowered her head and nibbled it in small bites.
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"I have to hurry." Jia Guoye looked at her.
He explained earnestly: "We have to get to the county earlier so that we can sell more cakes."
He was afraid that she would really be unhappy.
Jia Yourui then realized that he had to sell cakes in the morning. She was not angry at first, but now she felt guilty.
She said embarrassedly, "I'm not angry."
She looked at her and asked, "Can you call me earlier tomorrow? I want to have breakfast with you."
Jia Guoye said, "Okay."
"Okay." She smiled and said, "If you are in a hurry, go first. Don't delay me. I will go to sleep after I finish eating."
He took half a cake, a sickle, and a backpack and walked out of the courtyard.
He went out, and Jia Yourui followed behind and closed the door.
She smiled and said, "Goodbye, come back early."
He smiled, waved, turned around and walked away.
Jia Yourui watched him walk away and locked the courtyard door.
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Jia Yourui got up too early. She had a small appetite to begin with, so she couldn’t eat anything. After she finished her porridge, she ate half a cake without touching it.
She washed the porridge bowl with clean water, put the remaining cake in the bowl, put it on the table, covered it with a lid, and went back to sleep.
Maybe she didn’t sleep well last night, and she fell asleep not long after lying on the bed.
This time, she slept very soundly, without even a dream.
When she woke up, she saw through the window that the sunlight outside was already very dazzling.
Jia Yourui sat on the bed, feeling lazy and not wanting to move.
Until there was an urgent knock on the door in the yard.
She walked into the yard with her slippers dangling.
"Who is it?"
"Jia Yourui, open the door quickly."
It was a female voice, and it was very impatient.
Jia Yourui thought for a moment and opened the door.
Before she could say anything, she was scolded.
"Where have you been? I've been here twice this morning!"
The girl who spoke was glaring and looked very fierce.
Jia Yourui didn't remember who she was.
"Excuse me." She asked, "What's the matter?"
Jia Yumin was stunned for a moment. Why was Jia Yourui so easy to talk to today? Usually she would have a cold face and ignored people.
"My mother asked me to send some fried fish to Jia Guoyuan." She said unhappily, "Please bring a bowl to pour it."
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Jia Yumin followed Jia Yourui into the yard.
Jia Yourui went to the kitchen to get a bowl, and she waited in the living room.
Jia Yumin turned her head and looked around. Looking at the meat pie on the table, she felt uncomfortable.
How can Jia Yourui eat well and sleep well even though she does nothing? Nowadays, all the children take leave from school to come back and help with housework. Who is like her and sleeps until this time before waking up?
She couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If only...
Jia Yourui came in with a bowl. Jia Yumin blinked twice and came out of her reverie.
She poured the fried fish to her and looked at Jia Yourui's lazy look with her hair still draped. She felt that it was really inappropriate.
"Did you just wake up?" Jia Yumin asked.
Her tone was not good, so Jia Yourui didn't have a good attitude either, and just nodded.
"Aren't you going to work?"
Jia Yumin said aggressively: "Do you know how busy the work in the fields is now? Children aged seven or eight in the village are helping to harvest rice, and you have been sleeping until now. How can you be so selfish?"
Jia Yourui was confused by the scolding. Although she did not work, Jia Guoye did not say anything to her. Is it the turn of someone whose name she didn't even remember to teach her a lesson?
"I'm sorry."
Jia Yourui smiled, her pretty face was extremely arrogant, "I have never worked at home since I was a child. My mother said that I was born not to work."
She said fearlessly: "Brother Guoye doesn't let me work either. He even cooks for my family."
Jia Yumin was so angry that her face turned red: "You are simply shameless! What else can you do besides seducing men?"