"Cooking?" Uncle Hua rubbed his eyebrows, "Uncle Li is the only one in the village who cooks, and he is in charge of all the banquets and funerals in the village, and he can have dozens of dollars at a time, I heard that he has been in poor health recently and is looking for an apprentice." ”

"Then I'll go to Uncle Li tomorrow!" Hua Manxi seems to see hope, with her craftsmanship, if she finds a way, five taels of silver is not a big amount!

"But you're a girl! How can any girl be in charge, your mother is just a cook. Uncle said worriedly.

"Boss, you let Manxi try it, today she made a snail, but it was delicious, we all ate it, I didn't expect you to come back." The eldest aunt suddenly spoke up and persuaded, "If I knew that her skills were so good, I wouldn't have stopped her from cooking before." ”

"This—I'll invite Uncle Li to my house tomorrow." Uncle Hua nodded, he had some friendship with Uncle Li in the past, even if he couldn't accept Manxi as an apprentice, he planned to borrow some silver from Uncle Li.

After he finished speaking, he threw a bag on the ground from behind him, and said to his aunt: "Mother-in-law, this is sent by the owner, saying that it is not easy to sell, you can pick up and eat it, so that the child can satisfy his hunger." ”

The eldest aunt stepped forward and opened the bag, and felt a fishy smell coming to her face.

"It's this thing again, it's bitter and fishy, and children don't like to eat it." The eldest aunt said in disgust.

Hua Manxi stepped forward to take a closer look, ho, isn't this a squid? That's a good thing! Why is it fishy and bitter?

"Uncle and aunt have been on the field for a day, and she is very tired, let me get it, uncle, have you eaten?" The soul of the foodie in Huamanxi is burning again.

Squid squid, sizzling squid! Her favourite street food!

"I just got off the boat and got paid, and I went back, and I haven't eaten yet!" Uncle Hua scratched his head and said.

"Then you wait, I'll make you this to eat! You take a shower first!" Hua Manxi walked away happily with the bag.

"Manxi is big, sensible, and diligent." Uncle Hua watched Hua Manxi walk out of the door, very satisfied, his eyes were full of the meaning that my family has a female primary, and sighed, "It's a pity, I could have married Master Xiucai." ”

"Don't mention it, the child is sad." The eldest aunt glared at Uncle Hua unhappily and muttered.

Here, Hua Manxi washed rice in the stove first, burned firewood, stuffed a small pot of rice, and then carried a large bag of squid to the well, picked up water to clean the squid, and tore off the black part of the squid.

After washing the squid and entering the stove room, Hua Manxi took a few squid, scratched a flower knife, and asked Hua Xiaosong to pick some peppers and a few green vegetables in the vegetable garden.

Remove from the pot, heat the oil, add the garlic cloves, ginger and chili peppers and stir-fry to bring out the flavor, pour the squid into it, stir-fry a few times, then add cooking wine and salt, and after a while, a choking and strong aroma spreads in the stove.

After frying the squid, Hua Manxi chopped the greens and boiled an egg and greens soup.

After the vegetables were fried, the rice stuffed in the pot was just cooked, and when the lid was lifted, a burst of fresh rice fragrance with white mist hit the face.

Hua Manxi brought the food to the hall, Uncle Hua just took a bath, and the hungry Uncle Hua saw a dish of squid in front of him, and his eyes lit up.

Uncle Hua sandwiched a piece of squid and put it in his mouth, spicy and delicious, crispy and fresh, although he had not tasted this spicy taste, at first he felt choked, but after a few bites of rice, he felt that his mouth was full of fragrance, and he wanted to eat it.

"You still say this thing is fishy and bitter? Manxi is not bitter at all, it is very delicious. He said vaguely to his aunt.

"How can it not be bitter, you have picked up this thing several times, which time is it not bitter?" The eldest aunt didn't believe it, so she also took a piece of chopsticks to eat, and suddenly said in surprise, "It's really not bitter, in charge, you said that Manxi's craft, can't you be Uncle Li's apprentice?" ”

"I'll see it!" The uncle also nodded again and again.

"Big brother is back, what leak did you pick up this time? I've been smelling the fragrance from afar. An abrupt voice interjected for no reason.

The eldest aunt's heart sank, and when she looked up, she saw her brother and daughter-in-law coming in with two children.

"Brother and sister are here? Sit down, have you eaten? Uncle Hua is a sincere person, so he hurriedly greeted.

"I haven't eaten yet, this master is not at home, I took the child to work in the field all day, and I didn't even have hot water when I got home, which is like the eldest brother and sister-in-law are so blessed, and there is a full stream waiting for me when I return home, I heard that today Manxi also fried meat, cooked meat porridge, but it was delicious, the whole village is saying that the eldest brother and sister-in-law are so blessed, picking up a niece as a daughter and raising it, in the future, Manxi will be married, or filial piety to the eldest brother and sister-in-law."

Uncle Hua was worried about Hua Manxi's family affairs, in order not to make her sad, he pretended to be forced to laugh, and when the second aunt said this, he suddenly sank his face and was worried.

The second aunt looked at Hua Manxi with a strange yin and yang, and when she saw that she had put a few feet of new cloth in front of her, she knew that the eldest brother had bought it for her, and she was even more disdainful in her heart, so she didn't believe it, and it was her eldest brother who was in charge of this family! Can the eldest brother still marry the fool of the Ding family by her?

This family business, she must say it! Otherwise, I can't stand the board that Da Zhuang suffers!

"Uncle, what are you eating? It's so fragrant—" The second aunt was thinking in her heart, but her youngest son, Hua Xiaobai, who she brought over, approached the table, and watched Uncle Hua eat, drooling.

The eldest daughter of the second uncle, Hua Sangsang, was only a few months younger than Hua Manxi, and she didn't dare to ask for food, but a pair of eyes turned and turned on Hua Manxi's new cloth.

"It's seafood, your cousin Manxi is fried deliciously, you can also sit down and eat it, Sangsang will eat it too." Uncle Hua smiled, turned to Hua Manxi and said, "Manxi, go to the stove room to get dishes and chopsticks." ”

Hua Manxi originally only made a meal for two people, but Hua Sangsang and Hua Xiaobai obviously hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and even if the spicy Sisi was pumping, they still kept eating squid.

"It's delicious, it's so delicious, my cousin's cooking is so delicious!" Hua Xiaobai ate a mouth full of oil, which showed that he was hungry.

"Since Xiaobai likes to eat, let's take some back, Uncle will bring back a lot." Uncle Hua is very good to Hua Manxi's niece, Hua Sangsang and Hua Xiaobai are his own nephews, so they naturally love him.

The second aunt had this intention and glanced at Hua Xiaobai.

"Thank you, uncle, it's so nice." Hua Xiaobaizui thanked sweetly.

"That big brother, do you know about Manxi's resignation? Are you really going to let Manxi marry a fool from the Ding family? The second aunt asked in a pretentious voice.

Hua Manxi suddenly set his eyes on his uncle.

"Naturally, you can't marry Manxi to him!" Uncle cut the railway.

"But five taels of silver, where can you get it, it's better to fill the stream-"

"I naturally have a way to do it!" The eldest aunt hurriedly stepped forward and interrupted the second aunt's words, "It's a big deal that I killed the pigs at home and sold them!" ”

The eldest aunt refused to marry Hua Manxi to Wang Dazhuang no matter what, so she pushed the second aunt forward: "Brother and sister, it's so late, you should take the child back to sleep quickly." ”

"Hey, eldest brother, if you think about it, where can you get five taels of silver?" The second aunt's heart is not dead, "How good it is to marry Da Zhuang, it is close!" ”

Only then did the uncle know what her idea was, and he was so angry that he snapped the door shut!

"Auntie, uncle, you are so good. I will definitely show my ability to entertain Uncle Li tomorrow and let him take me as an apprentice!" Hua Manxi looked at his uncle and aunt gratefully and reassured.

She wants to make money well and make a fortune with the flower family!

The conditions of the Hua family are limited, and Hua Manxi wants to show his hand, thinking about going up the mountain to pick some delicious ingredients, wild vegetables, mushrooms and the like.

The original owner had just gone up the mountain and was killed, and she was so frightened that she didn't dare to go any further, preferring to go farther away and dig somewhere else.

After walking for a while, I didn't see the wild vegetables, but I found some wild mustard greens, this land is a little barren, the wild mustard greens don't grow very well, the leaves are yellow and wilted, and they are already inedible, but some seeds can be used.

The seeds of wild mustard are called mustard seeds, and when they are crushed, they are mustard, and Hua Manxi picked a lot of mustard seeds, crushed them with stones on the spot, and put them in a bamboo tube that carries water.

Hua Manxi grinded half a tube of mustard, and then got up to look for wild vegetables, and this time she was lucky enough to find a large field of dandelions.

She picked out some tender ones, and in a few moments, she filled a whole large basket.

Just as she was about to get up and go back to cooking, she suddenly heard a sound of fighting, and she followed the sound and saw only five or six men in black besieging a man in green clothes.

Hua Manxi thought of the person who killed the original owner and fell off the cliff, and his face suddenly turned white.

On this mountain, there should be real thieves and bandits, right? Why is she so unlucky, she was on that hill yesterday, the bandits were on that mountain, today she changed a mountain, and the bandits also changed a mountain?

"Chase! Gotta kill him! Hua Manxi only heard a gloomy voice, and before she could react, she was suddenly hit by a figure flying over, and as soon as the basket in her hand was loosened, the whole person rolled a few times with the person who pounced, and rolled into a dense field of weeds.

Hua Manxi only felt that his brain was dizzy a few times, his eyes were closed, and his voice trembled and begged for mercy: "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I didn't see anything, that she is dead, I am not actually me-"

Before she could finish her sentence, a burst of warmth was blocked in her mouth. It was the man who was holding her down and reached out to cover her mouth.

"Don't make a sound." A faint hoarse voice sounded overhead, and there seemed to be no killing intent.

Hua Manxi just wanted to open his mouth to speak, but a warm salty liquid suddenly poured into his mouth.

It was blood, and his hand was injured.

Hua Manxi's eyes widened suddenly, and he met a pair of deep and cold eyes.