Chapter 41 Such a wife makes him want to monopolize
Shi Xiaoai slept soundly. She didn't even notice Cheng Yang and the children coming into the room several times. It was already past four in the afternoon when she woke up.
She slowly got up from the bed. She had slept for too long and for a moment she felt like she had no idea what year it was.
As Xiao Ai rubbed her eyes and walked out of the door, she immediately smelled the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes, and her stomach suddenly started growling with hunger.
She touched her stomach and followed the smell to the newly tidied little room.
As soon as I entered, I saw the three of them sitting on a small bench, sitting around a brazier, roasting fire and eating sweet potatoes.
Well, or rather, the two kids were roasting by the fire and eating the sweet potatoes roasted by their father.
When he saw Xiao Ai come in, Cheng Yang moved the stool to the side.
Mingrui tactfully ran to the side, moved a small stool and placed it in the empty space, saying, "Mom, have some of these sweet potatoes that grandma sent you. They're so sweet!"
Shi Xiaoai knew that the grandma the child was referring to was Aunt Liu. It seemed that Aunt Liu had come when she was sleeping.
She murmured softly, "I've owed Aunt Liu so many favors, and I don't know how to repay them."
After saying that, she remembered that Cheng Yang said that he asked Aunt Liu to make the two quilts.
She sat down on the bench and looked at Cheng Yang: "You and Aunt Liu are also familiar with each other?"
Cheng Yang nodded: "She took the initiative to talk to me on the first day I returned home."
At this point, he looked up at Shi Xiaoai and said, "Aunt Liu's efforts were not in vain. I gave her all the remaining cotton coupons."
Only then did Shi Xiaoai realize that she had been talking to herself a little loudly and this person had heard it.
She hummed and said nothing.
Maybe Cheng Yang was a little scared by Xiao Ai's serious attitude when she talked to him before. When he saw her, Cheng Yang subconsciously wanted to avoid her, as if he was afraid that if he said something wrong, she would start to chase him away the next minute.
As soon as she sat down, Cheng Yang picked up a sweet potato from the brazier and handed it to her, saying, "You can eat it first. I'll go heat up the food."
After saying that, he left.
Seeing him trying to avoid her, Xiao Ai found it a little funny and thought to herself, I'm not a tiger, why are you running?
Besides, we agreed before that you can stay at home to recuperate, and I am not the kind of person who goes back on my word. Do you have to hide from me like this?
But she didn't expose him. Instead, she yawned and when Cheng Yang was about to reach the door, she suddenly asked, "Where did this brazier come from?"
Sure enough, Cheng Yang stopped immediately.
"A local product store. I saw it when I went to buy a stove and bought it."
At this point, Cheng Yang thought for a moment, then tentatively took a few steps back and extended his hand toward Shi Xiaoai: "I also bought a new stove, a cast iron one. Do you want to come and take a look?"
Bought a new stove?
Shi Xiaoai stared at the hand that was stretched out towards her, but ignored it. She stood up and followed him to the kitchen.
"The honeycomb coal stove at home is too small to support such a long chimney. Besides, it is also needed for the tea stall, and it is inconvenient to move it around. So I bought a cast iron stove and put it in the kitchen and never move it again."
When Xiao Ai entered the kitchen, she discovered that it had undergone a major transformation. Besides adding a stove, the entire kitchen had been thoroughly cleaned, inside and out.
Especially the roof and the oil smoke on the highest window glass were all wiped clean, making it bright and spotless, completely different from before.
Shi Xiaoai actually did some cleaning after she came back, but it was still the first month of the lunar year and it was so cold that the tap water was icy cold.
The house was quite large, and because it was old, it had many nooks and crannies. Plus, some of the high places were out of her reach, so she was lazy and didn't touch them, thinking she'd wait until the weather warmed up.
After living here for a long time, she had actually gotten used to it and even deliberately ignored the old and dilapidated parts of the house. But now that it had been cleaned up, she realized that she could actually live very comfortably here.
But when Shi Xiaoai thought about the fact that Cheng Yang had to complete all these tasks within a week, and that he was injured, she felt indescribable.
She glanced at the cracks in the stove that had been wiped clean of dust, and looked at Cheng Yang with a stern face: "How can you lose a piece of meat if you don't do these chores? Are you worried that your body is getting better too quickly and you want to have a fever again?"
After that, she pushed him aside in an unpleasant tone, saying, "Come on, go and watch those two. Don't miss them and burn your fingers."
As he spoke, he began to roll up his sleeves and light a fire.
Although he was disliked by his wife, Cheng Yang felt the concern hidden behind the hypocrisy.
This made him feel like he was instantly filled with electricity, and the little trauma in his heart was instantly healed. He couldn't help but laugh.
While laughing, Xiao Ai couldn't help but roll her eyes at him again, thinking that this man was a little silly.
Although Cheng Yang repeatedly claimed that he could help, he was still ruthlessly driven out by Shi Xiaoai.
When Xiao Ai lifted the lid of the pot and looked at the rice that Cheng Yang had specially left for her, she discovered that there was a bowl of rice, a boiled egg, and a plate of scrambled eggs with green onions.
Is this an egg meeting? She couldn't help but twitch her lips.
She opened the cupboard again and found that the rice, flour and dry goods were all there, but the most conspicuous thing was the basket of eggs that Minister Shen had sent before.
As for vegetables, there were only two large cabbages, a few small white radishes, a few green onions, and three or four potatoes that were already a little wilted.
At first glance, it was clear that they were what was left at home before he was hospitalized.
Looking at these things and thinking about the meals that Cheng Yangwang had sent to the hospital before, Shi Xiaoai suddenly realized that those were all bought in restaurants. This person probably doesn’t know how to cook!
No one is perfect, and it's okay if you can't cook. But when she saw the green onion slices in the scrambled eggs that were cut into pieces thicker than the tip of a finger, she suddenly lost her appetite.
Xiao Ai picked out kelp and black fungus from the dried goods, then took out a small bag of incredibly precious dried shrimp. She had snatched these from the grocery store earlier. She'd been scrambling to get this small bag that day, and she'd been so busy that her braids had fallen apart, that she treasured it dearly.
Xiao Ai picked up the thermos beside her and found that there was still hot water in it. She used some warm water to stir the dry goods first, and then began to process the vegetables.
Break the cabbage into large pieces and wash them, cut the radish into pieces, peel the potatoes and cut them into large slices, then soak them in salt water to prevent discoloration.
Wash the soaked dried vegetables and set them aside to drain. At this time, Xiao Ai puts a wok of oil on the fire. After the oil is hot, put the soaked dried shrimps in and fry them slowly.
The dried shrimps quickly turned red and brought out the unique seafood flavor. Shi Xiaoai pushed the fried dried shrimps aside, took the eggs she had taken out earlier, cracked them open, and fried two beautiful poached eggs in the base oil.
The rich aroma of fried eggs drifted out through the window, and I didn't know when three heads appeared at the kitchen door.
Cheng Yang managed to hold back, just standing there watching without saying a word. The two little ones, however, couldn't care less and started yelling, "Mom, what delicious food did you make? It smells so good!"
"Shrimp! Mom, I saw a red shrimp. I want to eat that!"
"Wait, let's eat together later." Shi Xiaoai said while busying herself.
Seeing that Cheng Yang could still control the two kids from pushing into the house, Shi Xiaoai ignored them and continued to work on the task at hand.
After the fried eggs were fried to golden brown edges, she did not serve them out. Instead, she picked up the thermos and poured half a pot of hot water into the pot.
With a hiss, the hot water turned milky white, and it also stirred up a strong aroma of oil, and the whole kitchen was filled with a mouth-watering smell.
People at that time were already short of oil and water, so if a little more oil was added to the dishes, everyone would think they tasted better, not to mention the delicious flavor of the fried eggs and fried shrimps.
The noise of the two little ones could no longer be heard. One of them was held by Cheng Yang, while the other was being led by hand. They stared at Shi Xiaoai and her hands with their mouths half open, wanting to see what delicious food their mother could make for them.
Cheng Yang also stared at his wife closely, but his eyes were fixed on her profile and he couldn't move them away.
The more he got to know her, the more he felt that his wife was a treasure, a treasure that he wanted to possess all of her and that he didn't even want anyone else to even look at.
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