Chapter 117 Teaching Yunniang to Make Sauce
Within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn after entering the room, Yunniang had already apologized twice.
Wan Qiqi stared at her, feeling that her personality was too gentle and that she looked like the kind of person who was easy to bully.
She didn't even need to think to know how Yunniang was treated in the Chen family.
Chen Ergou can also be described with one word—a mama's boy!
Wan Qiqi looked at Chen Ergou and said calmly, "This bowl is enough for the two of you. Go to the kitchen and get two more bowls!"
"You..." Chen Ergou was extremely dissatisfied with her attitude. What kind of woman bosses a man around like that?
"What? You don't want to eat?" Wan Qiqi lowered her eyes and looked at Li Chongniang's empty bowl. She said, "That's perfect. There are two of us eating now, so it's okay for Chongniang to eat more." As she spoke, she added another bowl for Li Chongniang.
Seeing that the rice porridge in the large bowl was almost gone, Chen Ergou hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll go get it!" He pushed Yunniang aside and walked out.
Yunniang watched Chen Ergou's departing figure, a hint of worry in her expression.
"Sister-in-law, please sit down." Wan Qiqi said, then glanced at An'an's face, which was covered in egg yolk, and frowned slightly. "An'an?"
Pingping found a piece of cloth from somewhere and immediately wiped An'an's mouth clean. She smiled and said to Wan Qiqi, "Mother, it's clean now. Don't worry, I'll take good care of my little sister!"
Wan Qiqi suddenly smiled, feeling that this little devil was becoming more and more adept at reading people's expressions! With just a frown, she understood what the girl was thinking and what she wanted to do.
At this moment, Chen Ergou came in from outside carrying two bowls, cursing under his breath.
But as soon as he came in, he immediately put on a smile and placed the bowl on the table.
After breakfast, Wan Qiqi washed the dishes and cleaned the stove, but showed no intention of teaching them how to make sauce.
Chen Ergou got anxious and wanted to rush up to confront Wan Qiqi.
Yunniang pulled him aside after a long while, and whispered, "Husband, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing? Can't you see that this woman is deliberately ignoring us?" Chen Ergou said indignantly. "She just doesn't want to teach us and is stalling for time!"
Yunniang gestured for him to speak softly, "Husband, don't rush things. Since she promised to help us, she certainly won't leave us hanging here."
It's normal if she doesn't want to teach us, after all, it's her exclusive skill and she makes money from it.
Yunniang didn't dare say these words out loud, afraid that Chen Ergou would get angry if he heard them.
Just then, the sound of voices could be heard coming from outside the courtyard.
"Is Yongnian's wife home?"
The two looked over and saw Chen Sanyuan, the son of Chen Lizheng, carrying a basket on his back, the contents of which were unknown.
"Here!" Wan Qiqi turned around, saw Chen Sanyuan, smiled and walked over, asking, "It's Sanyuan, what's up?"
She remembered that she wasn't familiar with Chen Sanyuan!
"I heard from my dad that you collect pomelos?" Chen Sanyuan said, taking off his basket, which contained several pomelos.
Wan Qiqi then remembered what she had said and nodded, "I'll take them, three coins each, but I'll be selective. I won't take the ones that don't meet the standards."
"It's okay, you can choose one!"
As they spoke, the two walked into the courtyard.
Find a bamboo basket, pour the pomelos into it, pick out two that don't meet the requirements, and keep the four that are big, heavy, and good-looking.
Wan Qiqi went inside, took out twelve copper coins, handed them over, and said, "Three coins each, twelve coins in total. Count them."
Chen Sanyuan counted them one by one to make sure they were correct before asking, "Won't you lose money buying pomelos like this?"
Wan Qiqi smiled and said, "That's my business!"
Chen Sanyuan realized he had been too talkative, so he didn't ask any further questions.
He picked up the basket, took a few steps outside, then turned back and asked, "Yongnian's wife, how much do you harvest in a day? I'll have someone pick according to this standard, can you handle it?"
"Okay." Wan Qiqi thought for a while, "About thirty a day for now!" She was afraid that if she made more, she wouldn't be able to sell them all as sauce.
Hearing their conversation and seeing Chen Sanyuan leave with the money, Chen Ergou immediately ran to Wan Qiqi's side and asked, "Sister-in-law, you spent 3 coins to buy pomelos? Why don't you pick them yourself?"
Wan Qiqi saw what he was planning to do, and shrugged helplessly, "All the men in the family are away, it's just the elderly, women and children, so I can't go up the mountain. I can only collect pomelos!"
"Sister-in-law, I'll go pick some pomelos, and you can give me the money for them, okay?" Chen Ergou thought that each pomelo was three coins, and ten would be thirty coins, which was much easier than working outside!
“Anything is fine, but you have to follow these standards.” Wan Qiqi pointed to the pomelos in the bamboo basket. “If they don’t meet the standards, don’t say I’m not keeping my word. I’m collecting them to eat, not to play with.”
"Okay, okay, okay!" After finding out the details, Chen Ergou completely forgot about learning how to make the sauce and only thought about how he could get money directly from picking pomelos.
Yunniang tried to pull him for a long time but couldn't, and could only watch him leave with his basket on his back.
"Stop looking, didn't you want to learn how to make sauce?" Wan Qiqi picked up two pomelos, tossed them to Yunniang, took two more for herself, and headed towards the kitchen.
"The pomelos picked from the mountain are dirty, and we need to use the peel to make the sauce, so we need to wash the peel clean first." As she spoke, she poured water into a large basin and led Yunniang to wash the dirt off the surface of the pomelos.
Then, she dried the water, poured out the salt, and rubbed it onto the surface of the grapefruit.
Yunniang was startled by her action, "You...you...this is salt!"
They usually wouldn't put much of something in their house, but Wan Qiqi was rubbing a pomelo like that!
"Yes, you need to scrub the peel with salt to remove some of the bitterness," Wan Qiqi said calmly.
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