Rebirth and daily cultivation

After Xue Yuantong plucked the duck, the duck's beautiful body was revealed. The duck was very small, not even as big as a chicken, and only weighed a little over two pounds.

Xue Yuantong picked up the knife again and cruelly chopped it into pieces.

When the city girl Yao Yiyao saw this scene, her eyelids twitched. It was too cruel!

Her cat was trembling with fear and wanted to escape!

Xue Chuchu was surprised at the side: "The meat is so good."

It looked very fresh. Unlike the lazy duck raised at home, this wild duck is lean meat, thin skin, and almost no fat.

Although Yao Yiyao didn't understand much, she could see that the duck meat was very beautiful.

She saw Xue Yuantong repeatedly washing the duck meat. She used her only common sense and asked: "Don't you need to blanch it?"

She vaguely remembered that meat needs to be blanched to remove blood foam.

Xue Yuantong: "No, this duck has good meat quality, and it tastes better if it is fried without blanching."

While she was busy, Xue Chuchu was not idle. She was responsible for preparing some condiments, such as chili peppers, ginger slices, etc.

When there were important ingredients, the humble Chuchu often helped out and took the opportunity to learn Tongtong's cooking skills.

Xue Yuantong shouted outside the kitchen: "Jiang Ning Jiang Ning!"

She asked Jiang Ning to light the fire. Only the farmer's earthen pot could match the identity of the wild duck.

Jiang Ning entered the house carrying a plastic bag.

Xue Yuantong first noticed the rice in the bag. Her eyebrows and eyes curved immediately. It must be the new rice brought by Jiang Ning, super fragrant rice!

Immediately, she saw the lotus root in Jiang Ning's right hand and asked again: "What is it?"

Jiang Ning placed the lotus root on the chopping board at an angle and said: "Lotus root, you can deal with it at noon."

Xue Yuantong immediately picked up the lotus root and tore off the plastic wrap on the outside. She cut off a small piece, revealing the snow-white color like solidified fat. She put it in front of her small nose and smelled it. The fragrance spread, and her eyes brightened.

It is definitely a new product brought by Jiang Ning! Just like tomatoes and watermelons before!

She cut off a section of lotus root with a knife, peeled it, and cut it into small pieces.

The appearance of this lotus root is as white and tender as jade, and it makes people feel comfortable just by looking at it.

It is not like those fat lotus roots with bleaching agents on the market, nor like those yellow-brown lotus roots.

Xue Yuantong picked up the lotus root and took a bite. The taste was extremely crisp, just like eating fruit, and her teeth were addicted.

After a few bites, the sweetness melted in her mouth, and Xue Yuantong's eyes glowed more vigorously.

Xue Chuchu saw Tong eating lotus root, she picked up a piece, and after tasting it, the coldness on her face was diluted by the sweetness.

"Jiang Ning, you eat it!" Xue Yuantong fed him a piece.

She saw Yao Yiyao sitting on a small stool again. She was definitely a distinguished guest for the Xue family because she had given so many gifts.

Xue Yuantong gave her a piece: "Yaoyao, you eat it too."

The Maine Coon cat in Yao Yiyao's arms stretched out its claws to grab food, but was frightened by Xue Yuantong's eyes and buried its head in Yao Yiyao's arms.

Yao Yiyao didn't care at first, 'What's so delicious about lotus root? If the cat likes it, just give it to it? '

But after she took a bite, her expression suddenly changed, and she swallowed it whole.

Xue Yuantong was proud and showed off: "Is it delicious?"

Yao Yiyao: "I can't taste it."

Xue Yuantong gave her another piece.

This time, while Xue Yuantong turned around, the Maine Coon stretched out its claws to grab the lotus root slices, but was slapped back into Yao Yiyao's arms.

The Maine Coon was stunned, and a humanized grief appeared on its face.

It hurt too much.

In the end, Xue Yuantong felt sorry for it and gave it a slice. He stretched out his hand halfway, and then thought that he couldn't be too nice to the pet, so he broke off another half and gave the remaining third of the slice to the Maine Coon.

…

Light a fire to cook, and Jiang Ning was responsible for lighting the fire.

Yao Yiyao was embarrassed, because she was the most idle in the whole kitchen.

However, Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu knew that she was a distinguished guest, so they didn't ignore her and didn't forget to chat with her while cooking.

Xue Yuantong asked her if she went to the concert.

Because during the summer vacation this year, Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning went to the supermarket to buy things and saw Yao Yiyao, who had run away from home, wearing a doll leather suit and handing out flyers under the scorching sun, just to buy concert tickets.

Yao Yiyao smiled as she talked about this: "I went there once more in October and bought tickets for the inner field."

Since her father took over the Changqing Liquid Project, the originally wealthy family has seen a substantial increase. I heard from her parents that it would be no problem to make two or three million this year.

Xue Yuantong had never been to a concert before, so she asked curiously: "How much is the ticket? Is it worth it?"

Speaking of this, Yao Yiyao's rich upbringing returned: "The ticket cost more than 2,000 yuan, plus the round-trip fare and accommodation, it's about 4,000 yuan."

Xue Yuantong was shocked and took a bite of lotus root slices to calm down.

"As for whether it's worth it? I think it's worth it. The whole process is very, very happy! I suggest that you must watch a concert in the future." Yao Yiyao was still delighted when she thought of such an exciting scene.

Unfortunately, Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu could hardly understand it, because 4,000 yuan was enough for them to eat for half a year.

Xue Chuchu and Yao Yiyao are students in the second middle school, and the two chatted about school affairs for a while.

As a student in the ordinary class of No. 2 Middle School, Yao Yiyao looked up to Xue Chuchu from the Tsinghua and Peking University class.

She told Xue Chuchu: "Sometimes the boys in our class chat and talk about you."

At this point, she saw Xue Chuchu's profile in the smoke. The smoke not only failed to make her mediocre, but made her even more ethereal.

Yao Yiyao couldn't help but feel a little envious.

She thought she was already very beautiful, but in front of Xue Chuchu, hey!

Xue Chuchu smiled lightly, "Oh, is that true?"

Her only task at school was to study, and she didn't care about anything else.

"Yes, someone has found out your QQ and wants to decipher your friends' answers." Yao Yiyao, "Unfortunately, no one can guess it."

Girls with looks like Xue Chuchu, no matter how low-key they are, will still attract some attention and discussion.

Then Yao Yiyao changed the topic and led the topic to Jiang Ning.

She never forgot that it was because of Jiang Ning's rescue that she and her father were able to escape danger last time.

So much so that her eyes were full of gratitude when she looked at Jiang Ning, and there was an inexplicable meaning.

This scene happened to be captured by the sharp Chuchu.

When talking about Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong immediately began to show off his Jiang Ning, and played Jiang Ning's performance program recorded at the New Year's Eve party for her.

Yao Yiyao was surprised to see the brilliant sparks on the screen and the uproar of the audience.

She had never expected that Jiang Ning was such a person in school.

He was countless times better than she imagined.

Xue Chuchu stood in front of the earthen stove, repeatedly stirring the duck meat in the pot with a shovel. The house was filled with fragrance, but it was not choking.

Because Jiang Ning cast a spell in secret to gather all the smoke into the chimney, otherwise when cooking hard dishes, the old-style kitchen would definitely be filled with smoke, making it impossible to stay there, and choking the nose and eyes.

The pungent smoke was eliminated, leaving only the tempting fragrance in the house. The spices did not cover up the taste of the wild duck itself, but made it more delicious. The Maine Coon licked his tongue restlessly.

Yao Yiyao blocked the cat in front of her neck and secretly swallowed her saliva. Oh my god, how could it be so fragrant!

In fact, she didn't need to hide it at all, because Xue Yuantong swallowed more saliva.

Just as she was craving for it, Xue Chuchu suddenly picked up a piece of attractive duck meat from the earthen pot. She moved slightly and put the spatula in front of Jiang Ning who was burning the fire, and said virtuously: "Try it and see if it is cooked through?"

Jiang Ning was stunned. He looked at the tenderness on Xue Chuchu's face. At this moment, he suddenly recalled that when he was a child, he stared at his busy mother in front of the stove, and then he was suddenly rewarded with a piece of fragrant meat.

After a brief confusion, Jiang Ning stuffed the spicy duck into his mouth. At the same time, the three girls in the kitchen all focused their eyes on him.

Jiang Ning took a bite, and his mouth was full of freshness and fragrance. The meat was chewy, followed by the rich and spicy soup.

He commented: "Not bad, delicious."

Xue Chuchu said lightly: "That's good."

She continued to cook, as usual.

Xue Yuantong was suspicious for a second, and then she suspected that Chuchu had changed!

She did change. He was so close to her, shouldn't this piece of meat be given to me, Tongtong, to eat?

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At noon, the warm winter sun warmed the door of the bungalow.

Zhang the butcher next door came back from closing his stall and was eating at the door of his house. He held the bowl of porridge in one hand and grabbed the sheep bones in the other hand, gnawing on them until they were greasy.

At the same time, he smelled the fragrance coming from the Xue family and wondered: "What delicious food did Jiang Ning and his family make?"

Teacher Qian had a sharp nose and asserted: "Meat."

Butcher Zhang: "Nonsense, I know it's meat!"

Teacher Qian usually lives a simple life. He pinched a piece of chicken fork bone and said beautifully: "Let's eat meat today!"

He gnawed it clean and threw it out, and it fell to the ground in an arc.

The big wolf dog of Butcher Zhang's family bit it to pieces.

Butcher Zhang said disdainfully: "You should eat something good too. Why are you gnawing chicken bones every day? I usually feed it ribs!"

Teacher Qian glanced at him: "What's the use of feeding it so well? This dog is still not tamed?"

Butcher Zhang wanted to smash Teacher Qian's reading glasses!

Teacher Qian was intoxicated: "Oh, this fried chicken fork bone with soybean sprouts, I can't eat enough, I can't eat enough!"

Butcher Zhang was too lazy to argue with this poor guy, he couldn't eat four dishes in his life!

Today, Xue Yuantong made four dishes, fried wild duck, fried shrimp, cold lotus root slices, sweet osmanthus lotus root, and a soup, pork ribs, lotus root, corn and peanut soup, which was full of lotus root fragrance and very sweet.

Jiang Ning moved the heavy solid wood square table to the door, half of which fell in the sun.

Soon, several dishes were arranged, and the staple food was the pancakes that were pasted on the edge of the pot when the duck was fried. The bottom of each pancake was also dipped in soup, which looked particularly tempting.

Xue Yuantong said: "If you don't want to drink soup, you can drink grape juice."

Unfortunately, Jiang Ning was the only one who drank grape juice in the audience. The three girls were all attracted by the lotus root and pork ribs soup. They each filled a bowl and almost overflowed.

Before dinner, Zhang the butcher next door glanced at them: "You guys really took a lot of trouble to make lunch!"

Teacher Qian gnawed on the chicken fork bone: "Young people are so young, and they indulge in food all day long. It's not good for young people! It's easy to wear down their fighting spirit!"

Yao Yiyao felt very strange. They were obviously neighbors, why did she hear a strange smell?

Jiang Ning smiled, and he got up and put a few slices of cold lotus root in a small bowl. After blanching the lotus roots, he added a proper amount of soy sauce and balsamic vinegar, and then mixed them with raw garlic, coriander and sesame. The color was bright and the appearance was excellent.

Jiang Ning gave two slices to Zhang the butcher and two slices to Teacher Qian: "Try our signature dish today."

After seeing this, Yao Yiyao thought to herself: 'Jiang Ning is not only skilled, but also brave and careful, and his moral character is outstanding. He is simply repaying evil with virtue. '

Her liking for Jiang Ning has improved a lot.

Since the dangerous experience, she was extremely frightened every time she thought of it when she returned home, and even had nightmares for several days in a row.

At the dinner table, my father praised Jiang Ning and said that he had a promising future!

Teacher Qian got the cold lotus root slices and said in a critical tone: "What's so good about it? It doesn't taste like meat. It's not as good as my fried bean sprouts with chicken fork bones."

After that, he ate it with a snap. He couldn't stop eating at all. He ate all the two lotus roots without stopping.

Teacher Qian was very poor and had not eaten many good things, let alone the spiritual creatures nourished by the spiritual land.

After eating, he felt a huge sense of loss and discomfort, and his heart was endlessly empty.

He looked at the chicken fork bones in his hand again and felt that they tasted like chewing wax.

The world is meaningless.

The same is true for Butcher Zhang. As a meat eater, he kept looking at Jiang Ning's table after eating two pieces of lotus roots.

Teacher Qian couldn't help it, so he asked: "Xiao Jiang, why did you only give it to your uncle Zhang and not give it to me, Old Qian?"

Jiang Ning told the truth: "You've finished it all."

Xue Yuantong pointed at him and laughed: "Teacher Qian is really a master at pretending to be confused!"

Teacher Qian's face darkened and he regretted asking.

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"It smells so good, the duck smells so good! Xiu!" Yao Yiyao praised while eating, and she couldn't stop, and her chopsticks were flying.

Because the cat in her arms was too much of a nuisance, she simply threw the cat to the door to bask in the sun.

Xue Chuchu said: "The duck meat is very good, especially fragrant, and has no smell of mutton."

Xue Yuantong stuck to Jiang Ning, his eyes full of intimacy: "Jiang Ning, you are so nice!"

Xue Chuchu, who was watching, was speechless. It was obvious that in the morning, Tongtong was still resentful and grudged Jiang Ning for not having breakfast, but when there was delicious food, he quickly forgave the other party and even got closer.

I guess even Jiang Ning himself didn't know the mood reversal of Tongtong in the middle.

Xue Chuchu took another piece of sweet-scented osmanthus lotus root. This was a dessert snack made by stuffing the lotus root with the fragrant rice brought by Jiang Ning, and then adding rock sugar, red dates, and honey, first boiling and then steaming.

Sweet and soft, with an excellent taste, Xue Chuchu ate three pieces in a row, and her mouth was full of a faint fragrance.

Inadvertently, she glanced to the east and saw two people and a dog, staring straight at her. They were Zhang the Butcher, Teacher Qian, and the big wolf dog.

Xue Chuchu took another piece of cold and crispy lotus root. She usually ate in a gentle manner, but at this time she deliberately chewed some noises.

The eyes of the two people and the dog became more intense, almost emitting sunlight, and Xue Chuchu couldn't help laughing in her heart.

The biggest joke in the world is to give first and then deprive.

Only then did she realize how bad Jiang Ning was.

Immediately, she thought of Jiang Ning's coercion of her, and the funny feeling was immediately suppressed.

Because she found out that she was also a poor person being played around by Jiang Ning.