Chapter 560 Extra: The Quintuplets Cooking Again Stimulates Lin Wenqian
"Don't be shy!" Everyone laughed and shook their heads, reaching out to hold down the 300-pound pig.
"You're all right now!" Ignoring the pig's screams, Xie Leyao took the sharp knife used for slaughtering pigs and deftly stabbed it into the pig's throat.
"Ah!" Lin Wenqian, who was standing closest to Xie Leyao, was startled by Xie Leyao's action.
The big pig felt that its front legs were not being held down, so it kicked and bounced twice, almost breaking free.
"I'll do it!" Xie Leyao gave Lin Wenqian a helpless look, reached out, and pinned down the troublesome pig.
"Hehehe, sorry, I was just startled." Looking at Lin Wenqian who had been pushed out, he could only laugh awkwardly.
"Uncle, go fetch some hot water so we can scrape the pig hair." Seeing that Lin Wenqian couldn't be of much help, Xie Yao thanked her and then took the liberty of ordering Lin Wenqian around.
Lin Wenqian always felt that he was being disliked, but he had to do the things his little niece had arranged.
"Okay!" Turning around and entering the kitchen, I was shocked by the scene inside.
"This, this, you guys are amazing."
Seeing Xie Zhili, Xie Zhiyan, Xie Zhiheng, and Xie Zhichu in the kitchen, skillfully kneading dough, cleaning crabs and lobsters, chopping chicken, and washing vegetables, proceeding in an orderly manner.
Lin Wenqian really wanted to find something to record this scene and show it to his two good-for-nothing sons.
"Uncle, what do you want?" Xie Zhichu, who was closest to the kitchen door in line, finally saw Lin Wenqian standing in a daze at the kitchen door and asked.
"Oh, Yao Yao asked me to come and get some hot water!" Good heavens! These kids are so amazing, so diligent, and so efficient.
"Oh, the hot water is in the big pot on the first stove." Xie Zhichu pointed to the first stove burner, which was still burning.
"Oh, okay!" Lin Wenqian picked up the bucket and walked over.
He had already planned that when he returned to Beijing, he would leave his two good-for-nothing sons with Lin Luoxi to take care of, and let his five nephews help reform them.
So that his wife wouldn't have to tutor the children and cause him trouble.
After fetching hot water, Xie Leyao first added a spoonful of cold water before pouring it over the pig.
Seeing that the water had been applied enough, he took a pig bristle scraper and deftly scraped off the pig bristles.
"Yaoyao, do you often slaughter pigs?" Lin Wenqian was very curious as he watched Xie Leyao skillfully scrape pig hair. Such skillful movements could probably not be achieved in less than a few years.
"No, I've only slaughtered pigs twice! This is the second time." I used to watch Xie Hanchuan slaughter pigs often, so I learned how.
Lin Wenqian had no idea what Xie Leyao was thinking. If he did, he would have loved to kill himself.
How come all of his sister's children are so talented, while his own children... well, let's not even talk about them, it's giving me a headache.
Xie Leyao shaved off the pig's hair. Seeing so many people watching, she let them butcher the pig and went into the kitchen to prepare the braising sauce.
One hour later
The aroma of food wafting from the kitchen tempted the people chatting in the courtyard.
"It smells so good! After eating dry rations for so long, the aroma of this delicious food makes me feel like I could eat ten bowls of rice."
Lin Wenjin wiped away non-existent drool from the corner of her mouth and said exaggeratedly.
"Stop talking, the more you talk, the hungrier I get!" Lin Wenqian swallowed hard, swallowing the saliva that had already welled up in his mouth.
Unable to resist, we went into the kitchen, took the steamed buns Xie Zhili had prepared, and each of us took one. We ate the buns, enjoying their aroma.
After waiting for another half hour, everyone finally saw a glimmer of hope.
"Dinner's ready!"
The heavenly sound that everyone had been waiting for finally rang out in the kitchen.
A dozen or so burly men, regardless of rank, all rushed into the kitchen to help serve the dishes.
"Wow!" Everyone exclaimed in amazement when they saw the tall pile of food in the kitchen.
"Looking at the tempting food, it's worth the wait."
Lin Wenqian looked at the braised pork, braised pig's trotters, braised pig's ears, chicken soup, chicken, poached chicken, various ways of cooking chicken, as well as lobster, crab, and stir-fried vegetables in the basin, and his mouth watered uncontrollably.
"Yes, sir! Your nephews are such excellent cooks. Why don't we stay a few more days?"
Ever since they came to Quanzhou with Linlin and Wenqing for disaster relief and ate the meal the princess brought them, they have never forgotten it.
Now that they finally have a legitimate opportunity to freeload a meal, the officials are reluctant to leave immediately.
"You wish! You think you can work my little nephew to death?"
Although the food was tempting, Lin Wenqian still felt sorry for the five children who were constantly busy in the kitchen during the hours he waited today.
"Sir, we can help out, even if it's just assisting, or you can have your nephew directing from the side while we operate..." These people, eager to freeload, had no sense of shame whatsoever.
"Why don't you ask Princess Changping? If she agrees, I have no objection!" The cook is his sister's child; he doesn't have the nerve to use a child's labor to do favors.
"Alright!" Considering that Princess Changping was so easy to talk to, perhaps they could give it a try.
"You can eat now, aren't you hungry?" Xie Zhili, who had just finished serving the food, saw his uncle discussing something with those people and immediately called out to them.
"It's here, it's here..." After waiting anxiously for hours, how could I possibly not eat when the food is finally here?
Their stomachs were growling with hunger; if they could, they probably could have eaten a whole cow.
Fearing they would miss out on food if they were too slow, everyone was running.
"Big brother, I heard from Zhili and the others that you haven't rested?" Lin Luoxi, who had just woken up from a nap, asked, looking at the energetic Lin Wenqian.
"Oh, I was so engrossed in watching the kids cook that I forgot." Lin Wenqian knew it was a bit embarrassing to wait for food, so he made up a slightly more plausible excuse.
"Oh!" Knowing what these people were thinking, Lin Luoxi didn't expose them. She picked up her chopsticks and started picking up food.
"Princess, look, the disaster situation in Quanzhou has stabilized. Let's stay a few more days before leaving!"
"Of course, we'll repay all our expenses here with our labor," said Doctor Wang, a food-loving official, seeing that Lin Luoxi was in a good mood.
Although he was a glutton, he didn't have much money. He had heard that when the emperor was still a prince, he stayed at Princess Changping's house and had to pay 100,000 taels of silver every month.
Such a large sum of money wouldn't even be worth that much if he sold his kidneys.
"Sure!" They had been working so hard for so long, and Lin Luoxi didn't plan to rush the journey. She wanted to recover her energy before returning to Qingshui City.
"Yay!" Wang Dafu saw that Princess Changping had agreed, so he opened his mouth, took a bite out of half a pork knuckle, and chewed it with his mouth full of oil.
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