Chapter 54: The School Cook
"Thank you, mother!"
"Great."
Seeing that their mother was willing to accept it, several children jumped happily in the small yard.
Not long after, "Erya, go to Shanliang and call your father home for dinner." The fragrance in the kitchen was permeating, and the daughter-in-law called the eldest daughter to her side while stir-frying, and commanded.
"Okay." The eldest daughter ran out with a cigarette.
"Daughter-in-law, what's the smell outside?" Next to the house of villager Lu Dali is the home of the little widow Xiaoxiao. Xiaoxiao was eating lunch with her mother-in-law at the door at the moment, and in the bowl was a few pieces of wild vegetables mixed with a pinch of sorghum noodles.
Because there is no man in the family, the life of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is even more difficult than that of other villagers.
My mother-in-law is over 60 years old, her body is rickety, her eyes are blind, and she is completely a burden. Xiaoxiao has always adhered to the tradition of Chinese women for thousands of years, although she did not have a round house with her husband, but after her husband died, she still took care of her blind mother-in-law day after day and year after year, and was respected by the villagers.
"Mother-in-law, it's a daughter-in-law who is frying meat at home." Xiaoxiao replied.
"Daughter-in-law...... mother-in-law put down the dishes and chopsticks, "My mother is sixty-seven years old this year, and she can't see with her eyes, so she doesn't have a few years to live...... My mother hasn't tasted meat for a year, and I'm greedy. ”
The meaning is obvious, she wants to have a good meal before she dies.
"Mother-in-law, there are seven or eight people in the Dalijia family...... Xiaoxiao said helplessly after hearing this, "I vaguely heard it just now, the black egg said that the rice and bacon were all sent by Mr. Qin." ”
"Mother wants to eat meat......
"There's no way, if you are such a mother-in-law, your daughter-in-law can only be shameless."
Lujia Village Ancestral Hall.
That is, in school.
Several princes and students were busy, Zhu Biao was burning the fire in front of the open-air stove, and from time to time he was blowing vigorously into the stove with his mouth, Zhu Di was breaking branches next to him, Zhu Fan was washing rice, and Xu Da was chopping wood......
All of them were covered with black ash and were extremely embarrassed.
Only Qin Yu is idle, in fact, he is the only one among these people who is the best at cooking, after all, he has taught before. However, in order to exercise the students' hands-on ability, he did not come forward to help.
It can be seen that the children of the village chief usually do little housework, after all, Village Chief Huang is the richest man in Lujia Village.
This is probably the so-called starving his body and skin, Xu Da looked at it with a smile on the side, and said in his heart. Only the prince educated in this way is the hope of the Ming Dynasty.
If the prince only knows pleasures, only knows how to study in the inner courtyard of the palace, and does not work hard and does not distinguish between grains and grains, he may become a scourge to the country in the future. Now let them cook a meal themselves, at least know how the people live.
Only by experiencing the suffering of the people will they not treat the people as cattle and horses.
"You big men know how to cook, look at your gray face......" At this moment, a voice came. The crowd looked back and a young woman appeared at the gate.
The woman walked in directly, not treating herself as an outsider at all, "Come on, come on, you all go to the side and rest, I'll help you do it." After speaking, he snatched the basin in Zhu Zhang's hand and began to wash the rice skillfully, and then put it in the pot, and then asked Zhu Biao to go away and help him light the fire...... After a few gouging in the stove, the fire ignited.
Everyone was on the spot, looking at the woman and extremely surprised: she was quite handsome, but she was a little spicy.
"You are ......," Qin Yu asked.
"I'm Lu Dahong's daughter-in-law, and I'm here to help you cook." Xiaoxiao said.
"Okay then, goose." Qin Yu said he was very helpless.
After cooking the rice, Xiaoxiao began to chop vegetables and stir-fry vegetables again, and suddenly a rich fragrance came out. "It smells too good, doesn't it?" Zhu Biaodao. "yes, it seems to be even better than the food at home." Zhu Di said. After all, it is fried bacon, and the aroma is much stronger than that of fresh meat. And a few people were also busy for a long time, and the food was more fragrant after they were hungry.
And Xiaoxiao is stir-frying while swallowing saliva.
"That's it!" Soon, Xiaoxiao said. Packed the rice for a few people, brought the bowl to a few people, and put the stir-fry on the table, like the hostess of a home.
"Thank you." Qin Yu said to this woman who took the initiative to help and was familiar with herself.
"You're welcome...... This is what I should do......" Xiaoxiao, after speaking, she stared at a few people eating, as if thinking about how to speak. Although she has lived in Lujia Village for a long time, she is young after all, and her skin is not so thick.
"You haven't eaten yet, do you, why don't you stay and eat together?" Qin Yu seemed to see something and said.
"What's so embarrassing?" Xiaoxiao said, she also wants to eat it herself, after all, she hasn't eaten meat for nearly a year, but she is still refusing, "I'm just doing a favor casually." ”
"You said you were helping, since it was a help, then the master should leave you for a meal." Qin Yu said.
"That'...... Then you're welcome. Xiaoxiao said embarrassedly.
"You don't need to be polite here, just order it, go and serve the meal yourself, and then come over and eat together." Qin Yu said, "Anyway, there are more in the pot." "Xiaoxiao deliberately fried a little more just now.
"Mr. Qin, I also have a seventy or eighty-year-old mother-in-law at home......" halfway through eating, Xiaoxiao wanted to speak and stopped.
"Then you can bring her a copy back." Qin Yu immediately understood what she meant and said.
"Then thank you Mr. Qin." Xiaoxiao said sincerely, "Mr. Qin, why don't you let me cook for you in the future, and I will ......help you wash any dirty clothes."
"Okay, then I'll bother you." Qin Yu said.
At this time, he also saw that this woman was here to eat. In order to make it more convenient for her to eat in the future, I agreed to her request and asked her to help wash her clothes or something, and she would be at ease.
"Also, if you come and cook for us every day, I'll pay you at the end of the month." Qin Yu said. If she comes every day, she is equivalent to the cook in the school cafeteria, and she is the school employee.
And he also helps with laundry part-time, which is equivalent to a laundry room.
Will Mr. Qin still give money? Xiaoxiao was overjoyed when she heard this, and her heart beat wildly.
In this small mountain village, it is difficult to make money. The villagers' only source of income is those hunters who can hunt, and after catching the prey, they will sell it at the market where they have to walk for several days, and then buy some daily necessities. This is almost exclusive to capable men in the village, praised by every family, and the prey cannot be exchanged for a few dollars.
Xiaoxiao is a woman and can't hunt, so her family has almost no income all year round.
Now Qin Yu is actually willing to give her a job and give her silver!
This time, she compared all the capable men in the village, how could she not be excited?