"Big Sister Shuiche, then I'll go home first."
Xi Cui glanced at Lin Siyao's figure that flashed by the kitchen door. She knew that they must be about to start eating.
Then, he stood up and dusted off the dried leaves on his clothes.
Then, she bid farewell to Su Shuiche.
"Don't you want to stay for a meal?" Su Shuiche asked her to stay with a smile. "Ah Yao made braised pig's feet for lunch today." Thinking of the pig's feet that were stewed in the pot, Su Shuiche couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth into a smile.
This was something that Aunt Tian had specially sent over this morning.
Her maternal family had slaughtered a sow a while ago and gave her a hind leg.
Lin Siyao was Dabao's master. Tian Dafu and his wife had long been thinking about giving a generous reward to Lin Siyao.
Therefore, early in the morning, Aunt Tian carried the whole pig's hind leg to Su Shuiche's house to give the New Year's gift.
When Su Shuiche and Tian Dafu saw this, they insisted on not accepting it.
Su Shuiche felt that this hind leg, which was worth a lot of money, could be placed in the Tian Family's house and save them a month's worth of food expenses.
However, Lin Siyao didn't think so much. It was purely because Su Shuiche didn't want to accept it, so he wouldn't accept it.
As for the ways of the world, sorry, his previous profession didn't give him the opportunity to get used to it.
In the end, Auntie Tian did not decline politely. She took the initiative to carry the pig's hind leg to the kitchen and took the kitchen knife. With a few cracking sounds, she cut the entire pig's hind leg into two.
"Daughter, I won't be polite with you.
How about this, you can pick a piece for yourselves.
No matter what, you have to accept this piece.
Otherwise, even if I carry it back in its original state, your Uncle Tian will destroy me. "Aunt Tian held the kitchen knife and waved her hand, hinting Su Shuiche and Lin Siyao to quickly pick a piece.
In order to prevent them from being polite and deliberately choosing a small piece, Aunt Tian specially divided the hind leg into two halves. The part with the hooves was slender and strong.
The part with the meat and bones on the upper part was thick and short.
In terms of weight, Aunt Tian's eyesight was very accurate.
Unable to resist Aunt Tian's insistence, Su Shuiche made the decision and chose the hind leg meat with the hooves.
She hadn't eaten braised pig trotters for a long time and was indeed a little hungry.
Lin Siyao found it funny when he saw her salivating. He asked Aunt Tian for the recipe for braised pig trotters. After washing the pig trotters, cutting them into pieces and blanching them, he flattened the peeled garlic in a hot pot with lard. Then, he added ginger, fennel, bainai, cinnamon, tangerine peel, pepper, a little dried red pepper, bay leaves, cloves, sugar, soy sauce, salt, cooking wine, and more than ten other spices and seasonings. He added an appropriate amount of water and blanched pig trotters. First, he boiled them over high heat and then braised them over low heat.
For the entire morning, after Lin Siyao finished washing the vegetables, he stayed in the kitchen and watched the fire.
"No, I feel that eating with Ah Yao -ge is too stressful.
Hahaha … "Xi Cui made a face mischievously.
She walked towards the main house with Su Shuiche.
When Su Shuiche heard this, she only found it funny.
She didn't force her to stay.
After passing through the main house, she put down the black bear skin cushion in her hands and sent Xi Cui out of the courtyard.
"Sister Shuiche, you really don't want to reconsider?" The moment Xi Cui stepped out of the courtyard, she didn't give up and turned back to confirm with Su Shuiche.
She really didn't want the eight taels of silver to be erased without any consideration.
Su Shuiche shook her head, "No, it's too rushed.
As for embroidery, I want to wait until after the New Year. "There were still a lot of things to prepare before the New Year.
Not only were there clothes, shoes, and socks, but there were also miscellaneous items for the sacrificial ceremony before the end of the year.
Xi Cui nodded reluctantly, "Okay, then I'll go to the city tomorrow and reject it for you."
"Okay." Su Shuiche nodded with a smile and waved her hand to send Xi Cui off.
… …
"Ah Yao, come, try it on and see if it fits."
Su Shuiche shook the thick inner garment that she had just sewn and walked out of the main house's south door. She called out to Lin Siyao, who had already put away the dried fish and prawns that had been left out in the sun for the whole day and was walking towards the main house.
Lin Siyao smiled and nodded.
He quickened his steps.
He put away the two rattan baskets filled with dried game in the kitchen on the top shelf to prevent the wolf pups from stealing food.
Then, he washed his hands and went to the main house.
"So fast?" Lin Siyao asked with a smile.
It seemed like she had just started yesterday, and she was already done today?
"It's cold, and you don't want to wear a cotton coat."
Su Shuiche complained, but her hands took the initiative to help Lin Siyao take off the single layer of outer garment, put on the newly made inner garment, and tied the belt.
"It fits very well." Lin Siyao lowered his head and stole a kiss on the corner of her lips. "Thank you!" He whispered with a smile.
"Who said that there's no need to thank each other between husband and wife?" Su Shuiche's eyes turned slightly, as if she was angry with him.
However, the blush on her face betrayed her shyness.
"I'm just thanking you for marrying me." Lin Siyao's deep voice softly passed into her ears, and she couldn't help but blush.
"Okay, put on the outer garment." Su Shuiche helped him put on the outer garment.
Her heart was bubbling with sweetness.
When did he learn how to sweet-talk?
"What do you want to eat tonight?
How about scallion bream? "Lin Siyao rolled up his sleeves and prepared to go to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
During this period of time, his cooking skills had improved a lot.
From the original barbecue and stir-fry dishes that he learned without a teacher, he increased it to more than ten different cooking methods and different tastes, such as stewing, steaming, pan-frying, stir-frying, and other multi-colored dishes.
It had to be said that being a chef was also a profession that required a lot of energy and physical strength to be successful.
However, if it was for his beloved woman to eat, he would gladly endure the hardship.
"Okay." Su Shuiche didn't have any objections.
She had always liked to eat fish.
But because it was difficult to pick the fish bones, she didn't like to eat it.
Now, Lin Siyao always had a way to clean the fish bones, as if the fish he made didn't have any bones.
Moreover, the fish in the big water tank were about to overflow.
A few days ago, Tian Dabao carried a fishing net and ran over to fish on a whim, saying that he wanted to learn from his master and marinate the fish, so that he could taste the fish in the cold winter.
So, Lin Siyao took him to the upper reaches of the west end of the river. After three days of fishing, he caught more than ten big wooden barrels of fish.
Of course, in addition to various species and sizes of fish, he also caught several catties of river shrimp, more than twenty fat river crabs, and even an old turtle that weighed more than three catties, and five to six catties of large eels … In short, the harvest could be said to be bountiful.
In the end, Tian Dabao only took three big barrels of miscellaneous fish, intending to take them home and let his parents dry them.
The rest were all left for Lin Siyao.
He even said that it was filial piety to his master and master's wife.
Su Shuiche found it funny.
Although there was a big water tank for fish at home, it couldn't withstand so many fish being raised at the same time.
Therefore, Lin Siyao picked out another half of the relatively small and thin miscellaneous fish, washed them, and dried them under the sun to dry them.
Because a lot of salted fish had been dried before.
It should be said that the previous two big barrels of miscellaneous fish that were caught were basically dried into salted fish.
As for the river shrimp, in addition to a few big plates of stir-fried with green onions and distributed to the Lao family and Tian family, he also tasted two delicious shrimp meals.
There were still two to three catties of shrimps that were boiled in salt water and soaked in flavor, and dried to ripen them.
In the future, when stewing soup, he could throw a few of them to adjust the flavor.
Of the twenty fat river crabs, he kept eight of them in the wooden barrel, and prepared to taste two every few days.
The rest were brought home by Dabao. Their family had a total of six people, including the old and the young, so each person could also taste two crabs.
As for the few large eels and the only old turtle, Lin Siyao raised them alone in a wooden basin, intending to keep them for the sacrificial ceremony on New Year's Eve.
In any case, it was the first New Year after moving to Flower Town, so he had to prepare some good food to worship the ancestors.
Although, Lin Siyao didn't know which ancestors he had.
He only understood the so-called sacrificial ceremony after listening to Aunt Lao's nagging.
The reason why Aunt Lao talked to him about the sacrificial ceremony was that Lin Siyao was in charge of the kitchen, so it was better to talk to Lin Siyao about it than to talk to Su Shuiche.
Secondly, it was nothing more than to remind him to prepare early.
Because, the closer it was to the end of the year, the more expensive the items needed for the sacrificial ceremony.
Lin Siyao thought that Su Shuiche should be the daughter of a big family from a big family, so she should pay more attention to the sacrificial ceremony.
Therefore, he paid attention to this matter.
Everything needed for the sacrificial ceremony, including food and decorations, were all prepared in advance.
And Su Shuiche saw that Lin Siyao was taking the initiative to prepare these things, so she thought that he understood and needed the sacrificial ceremony.
She also let him arrange it.
Moreover, she also took the initiative to pay attention to useful information in this regard.
Therefore, both of them were unusually attentive and active in preparing all kinds of items needed for the sacrificial ceremony, nothing more than wanting to do something for each other.
As for the reason, it was completely thrown to the back of their minds. They didn't think of communicating with each other at all, and they didn't expect to misunderstand each other on this matter.
Although, this should be attributed to a kind misunderstanding.
In short, a series of sacrificial activities followed: Laba, Kitchen Delivery, Offering the New Year, Welcoming the Kitchen … All of them were orderly unfolded and perfectly ended.
To be honest, Su Shuiche was a little confused. Since so many delicious freshwater fish could be caught upstream, why didn't the other villagers of Flower Town come upstream to catch them?
Not only could they add more food to the family, but they could also ship them to the city and sell them to the restaurants and fish shops to earn money.
Wouldn't that be great?
"Eh?
Master's wife, don't you know?
Our village has an unwritten rule that each family can only catch fish around their own homestead. "
When Tian Dabao heard Su Shuiche finally couldn't help but ask this question one day, he laughed and shouted, "Otherwise, why would I drag Master to go fishing with me?
Haha … Master's wife also has such a stupid time … "
So that's how it is!
Su Shuiche suddenly understood and decided to directly ignore the disdainful words blurted out by the mentally damaged person.
Looking back at Lin Siyao, who had a calm face, she couldn't help but ask, "Ah Yao, you already knew about it, didn't you?"
"Yes, I heard about it when the house was being renovated." Lin Siyao touched his nose in amusement.
He naturally heard the smell of gunpowder in Su Shuiche's words.
He also heard that she spontaneously attributed the reason for losing face in front of her disciple to him not telling her about this matter in advance.
Lin Siyao indeed knew about this rule when Feng Laoliu and the other carpenters were making furniture for the two of them and chatting about the pros and cons of living in the western part of the village.
However, because he didn't know beforehand that this matter would trigger her rare anger, he didn't even think about using this matter as a topic of conversation between the two of them.
"But this time, didn't you run to the foot of Xiufeng Peak to catch fish?
That's a public area, right? "Su Shuiche still couldn't understand.
"That's because …" Tian Dabao dragged his voice and deliberately paused for a while under Su Shuiche's expectant eyes before continuing to explain, "Other people don't have such powerful qinggong like me and Master!
Hahahaha … "
Eh?
Su Shuiche confusedly turned to Lin Siyao who was looking at her with a smile. Could it be …
"To reach the upper reaches of the foot of Xiufeng Peak, we need to cross a seven to eight meter wide ditch."
Lin Siyao put his arm around her shoulder and gently explained, "Dabao's qinggong is no longer a problem, so I brought him there."
"Oh —" Su Shuiche glared at him and moved closer to his ear. She was almost gnashing her teeth, "Are you happy to see me make a fool of myself like this?" Don't think that she didn't see his smiling face from the beginning to the end.
He was even more hateful than when he usually had a cold face!
"Hehe …" Lin Siyao couldn't help but chuckle. He couldn't help but pinch the tip of her nose and take the opportunity to plant a kiss on her forehead.
This kind of playful appearance of hers actually caused him to be immediately aroused. He completely ignored the fact that his disciple was still present and making a face at him.
"Don't be angry, Dabao always doesn't know the severity of his words.
As for me, I never wanted to see you make a fool of yourself. "Lin Siyao saw that she was embarrassed and turned her back to him, as if she didn't want to talk to him anymore, so he also panicked.
While fiercely glaring at Tian Dabao, he also spoke to appease her.
"In short, tonight's sweet osmanthus rice wine won't be served to you!"
After leaving these harsh words, Su Shuiche pretended to be angry as she turned around and walked into the kitchen. She even closed the door with a "peng" sound.
Separated by the kitchen door, she couldn't help but let out a "pfft" sound.
This man, he actually couldn't tell if she was really angry or just pretending.
He actually kissed her in front of Dabao.
Oh, heavens!
The master and disciple who were left in the courtyard to enjoy the scenery looked at each other in dismay. One of them quickly ran to the kitchen door, knocked on the door, and humbly fought for the benefits that were already agreed upon for tonight, "Master's wife, I was wrong.
Please don't haggle over every little thing with me.
My mother said that my head was damaged and sometimes I don't even know what I said … Aiyo … Master's wife … Don't be angry, Master's wife … Big Sister Fairy … "Tian Dabao struggled to squat outside the kitchen door, his saliva splattering everywhere as he spoke, trying to redeem the disrespectful words that had slipped out without thinking.
On the other hand, Lin Siyao had already heard Su Shuiche's "pfft" sound when she entered the kitchen, so he could tell that she wasn't actually angry.
At least, she wasn't as angry as she appeared to be.
So she wasn't in a hurry to do something as embarrassing as his disciple.
Even if he couldn't drink the sweet rice ball soup made from the osmanthus flowers and red granulated sugar when she learned how to make osmanthus rice wine, he had plenty of ways to make her stop being angry at him.
Of course, that would be at night when his disciple wasn't around.
(To be continued.
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