Chapter 12 Chapter 12

Pei Silk An’s expression wasn’t very good, and Lu Neng realized that he had violated a taboo.

Eavesdropping, in a military family like the Pei family would be suspected as inter/intelligence, and even though Lu Neng had no intention of doing anything, the mere act of eavesdropping was very sensitive.

Or modern thinking has not been converted, Lu Nong chagrin, in the future to pay more attention to it, but …… what to do now?

“Do you eat candy?”

In a flash of inspiration, she reached out and took out the milk candy she had just purchased today and handed it to Pei Shenan.

Pei Jingan looked down, a large white rabbit milk candy lay quietly in his small white hand, exquisitely cute.

He ghosted the candy.

Lu Nong side unilaterally and happily make a decision: received her sugar, just now nothing happened.

Awkward is never awkward anyway!

“I came to check on Xiao Huai,” Lu Nu quickly stepped into the role of nothing happening and asked as if nothing had happened, “Did he disturb you?”

Pei Silian: “……”

Wanting to say something, he glimpsed Lu Nu trying very hard to make a confused expression: why don’t you answer my question? I won’t understand any of what you are about to say.

Pei Jingan swallowed the words he wanted to say and faintly said, “No.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking …… about huh?”

Lu Nu almost cracked, careless, Pei Shenan’s expression just now was clearly trying to preach.

“No is good, no is good, huh?” You scheming old man!

A hint of a smile flashed in Pei Jingan’s eyes as he stepped aside and brought Lu Nong into the study.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw that little Gu Huai was lying on the table where Pei Silk An was working, staring intently at a picture book, not even noticing that his own mother had come.

This scene is greatly out of Lu Nong’s expectations, she thought that small Gu Huai will cry, and then Pei Silian cold face to coax the baby, the results of the more coaxing the baby the more he does not eat his cold face, and finally do not know what to do ……

The picture is absolutely beautiful enough, but unfortunately it didn’t materialize.

At this time, Pei Shenan walked over to Lu Nong, looked at Gu Huai with her, and said rather solemnly to Lu Nong:

“Xiao Huai is very capable of self-care, and he is very smart, he learns the words he is taught in one sitting, and I suspect he has the ability to forget things.”

“Oh.”

Lu Nong heard the flat reaction, after all, is the villain boss of the IQ ceiling in the novel, it is not surprising that he has been different since he was a child.

Besides, both of his moms (the original owner and Lu Nu) are unforgettable, and the skill of unforgettable memory has almost become a wholesale cabbage, so wouldn’t it be too useless if it’s not inherited?

This reaction might be too flat, Pei Jingan looked sideways at Lu Nong, his gaze deep with deep meaning.

It was only after a long time that Lu Neng clapped twice in hindsight, slightly perfunctory, “That’s really great haha.”

Pei Jingan rubbed his brows, “Did you come over just to take a look at Xiao Huai? Or are you taking him away?”

“Yes, I was just checking to see if he was well-behaved, and since he was I was relieved.”

Lu Nong hid his sinister intention of wanting to watch the fun and replied politely to Pei Silk An.

Taking away Xiao Huai is also impossible, she is still ready to go to the kitchen to make desserts for snacks and water to eat it, someone to help her with the baby, she is not going to refuse le.

“It looks like Xiao Huai likes the picture book, since he likes it let him look at it for a while longer, I’ll go get strawberries for you guys to eat.”

Waiting to walk out of the study, Lu Nong only came back to his senses, Pei Silk An’s last line of questioning seemed to be the meaning of letting her go?

“……” wasted her strawberries.

To the downstairs, Lu Nong still divided the strawberries brought back from the Li Garden into two, one served upstairs to the study, instructing Pei Silk An to only give Xiaohuai one or two.

The other serving of strawberries is just right for making Great White Bunny Strawberry Ice Cream with Great White Bunny Cream!

Lu Nu can make desserts thanks to her ex-boyfriend, who was a food blogger who made desserts and knew that “to capture a woman’s heart, you have to capture her stomach first”.

From the day he courted her, he would make a kind of dessert every day for her to eat, and he would also film and edit how to make these desserts and post them on the Internet, and in the meantime @ Lu Nu confessed his love.

Lu Nu would sometimes look twice, and when she did, it naturally loaded into her brain.

Never thought I’d have the opportunity to make it myself one day.

As for the food blogger, er …… he became Lu Nong’s ex-boyfriend two months later.

Do not blame Lu Nong, even ate dessert for two months, one day she found herself fat ten pounds, painfully resolute decision to break up.

The food blogger was heartbroken and finally tweeted, “I still don’t know enough about women, success is also dessert, failure is also dessert,” as a summary of his failed love.

Lu Nong saw also a small guilty conscience, privately bought promotion for the food blogger, Dongfeng sent him fire out of the circle, a kind of spiritual compensation for him.

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When I came to the kitchen, Wu Ma had already soaked the bird’s nest, it takes about three to four hours to soak the bird’s nest, so dinner shouldn’t be in time, I don’t know if I can make it to the night snack.

Lu Nu gave Wu Ma a bear hug, Wu Ma also too much love for her bahahahaha, want to eat what do not have to say to prepare.

Wu Ma disgustedly pushed Lu Nu away, but the corners of her mouth hung with a smile that could not be wiped away, she was making honey pear balls, a traditional dietary tonic and a specialty snack, belonging to the Lu cuisine.

Lu cuisine since the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in the development of the capital city, and even become the court dishes, so the north famous family, most of the chef will be so a hand or two Lu cuisine.

Mrs. Wu is one of the best, she has learned her trade from a Lu cuisine chef.

Honey pear ball practice is simple, pear washed and peeled to dig out the kernel, cut into fine silk ready, and then the egg white, starch, flour one by one added to the pear silk, kneaded into small balls.

Put the small balls into the frying pan and fry until golden brown and remove, finally turn the sugar to color, reduce the sauce over low heat and add honey when appropriate.

Serving the dish would be even more perfect with cinnamon sprinkles, but unfortunately cinnamon is not yet in bloom this time of year.

As soon as the Honey Pear Balls come out of the pot, the sweet aroma tickles Lu Nong’s taste buds from all directions.

Pears have the effect of generating fluids, moistening the throat, resolving phlegm and relieving coughs, but they are also cold in nature, so Lu Neng is not good at eating more of them himself, and this dish is mainly intended to be made for Xiao Gu Huai to eat.

Every child has one or two dishes from their childhood that are etched in their memory, and when they grow up, they look back on them as the taste of home and their mother’s loved ones.

Gu Huai didn’t have it in the novel, but Lu Nong wished he did.

Lu Nong washed his hands, while Wu Ma prepared other dishes, peeled off a dozen pieces of Great White Rabbit milk sugar in a pot ready, took out the milk from the refrigerator and poured it into the pot, turned on the smallest heat and stirred, cooked the milk sugar and milk into a milk sugar sauce, and poured it out and let it cool.

Turn the heat back down to low and cook the milk with the egg yolks, whisking as you pour, and finally pour in the custard sauce and whisk until it thickens.

Divide it into portions, pour it into the glass goblets Wu’s mom brought from Lee Gardens, dice the strawberries and pour them over the top, and finally cover it with a layer of clean, fine cotton cloth and place it in the freezer to chill.

In the meantime, Wu Ma also successively made braised pork, sweet and sour cherry meat, served into the elegant and nice porcelain plate, very beautiful, can be described as colorful and fragrant.

Finally, place in a large pot to warm and wait for serving.

Sweet and Sour Cherry Pork is said to be the predecessor of Sweet and Sour Pork, another saying is that it is the traditional famous food of Su Cuisine, which was created in Jiangsu Province, and was introduced to the palace in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and made into a small form such as cherries, with a reddish color and a sweet taste of rotten meat and soft skin, which makes it very good for drinking.

And braised pork with pork skin taken from the pork, pork skin glue, pork red and fat, a glue and a soft, Lu Nong picked a piece of meat and salty-sweet juice to eat down the mouth, taste buds and taste both to get satisfied.

What’s even better is that the pork in the 1960s is more than half a star better than in later times, and it’s even better when used to make braised pork, and if it’s accompanied by a bowl of white rice, the gods won’t even exchange it for a bowl of white rice.

Wu Ma was clearly prescient, and by now the rice in the casserole was bubbling with sweet flavor.

There are still two vegetarian dishes and a soup missing, the vegetarian dishes made coral cabbage and roasted eggplant according to Lu Neng’s idea, and the soup was only a simple vegetable soup because of the lack of time.

It took more than two hours to cook a meal, and Pei Zheng and Shen Jiming had returned from their run at some point.

The two of them were physically exhausted from the exercise, and their stomachs had long been hungry, and their mouths were watering at first smell of the aroma that kept coming out of the kitchen.

So from time to time, he hovered in the kitchen doorway, saw Lu Neng taste a piece of braised pork, and hated to replace it with his body.

Lu Nong also narrowly, knowing that the two of them crave meat, prefer not to tell them to go in and eat, picked another piece, deliberately slow to put into the mouth, chewing slowly, with an exaggerated expression.

Pei Zheng: “……”

Shen Wenming: “……”

Pei Zheng took a deep breath, this moment can not offend Lu Nu, offend hard in case there is no food to eat how to do, after all, Wu Ma is her people ah. (Since knowing Lu Nu’s age, the word stepmother, even flirting with him can not speak.)

So he elbowed Shen Jiming deeply, his eyes ferociously signaling, it’s all your fault for having a cheap mouth and having to offend her.

Shen Jiming:”…… “He also did not expect Wu Ma to cook so fragrantly and hastily.

When all the dishes were ready, Lu Nong finally took care of (made) these two people, letting one of them serve the dishes on the table, and the other one went upstairs to call Pei Silent An and Gu Huai, and by the way, called Xiao Zhou, who was still busy installing the beds and desks and bookcases, to come.

That’s right, the bookcase desk that Lu Nu wanted is finally done.

Originally, after measuring the dimensions, the bookcase and desk could be bought ready-made, but Lu Nong made a small request for the table, she wanted a minimalist desk similar to Ikea’s, with only four legs and no drawers under the solid wood panel, so it took a little more time.

After the people arrived, Wu Ma didn’t want to go to the table, Lu Nu pulled her hard and pressed her into the chair beside herself.

Aside from Lu Nong and Wu Ma, everyone else was shocked in unison when they saw the dishes on the table.

Four dishes, one soup and one dessert, whether it is plating or serving all have their own way of talking, even the plate for serving the dishes are all good looking, the edge of the plate is not stained with a trace of vegetable juice and soup, to be more delicate and more delicate.

Not to mention the aroma that hits your nose and you can’t help but gulp at the smell.

Is this a dish? Is it something they can eat?

Pei Zheng was also considered fine since childhood, and occasionally followed his grandparents to a state-run restaurant to eat a good meal, but when compared to the meals made into works of art by Wu Ma, it was simply out of hand.

But look at Lu Nong and Wu Ma with a usual face …… Pei Zheng fell into contemplation, this stepmother of his, bah, Lu Nong, seems to be really something ah.

After lamenting, Pei Zheng wrapped his hands around little Gu Huai and looked at his father, Pei Li An, just waiting for him to give the word to eat.

It really smelled too good, not only Pei Zheng, but Shen Jiming and Xiao Zhou also unconsciously looked at Pei Yinan.

Pei Jingan huffed and said, “Let’s eat.”

With an order, everyone just kept their heads down and ate, no one pretended to be polite because it smelled so good that it was too late to talk.

Pei Zheng chucked a piece of braised pork and chopsticks of rice, mixing them together and eating them in his mouth.

! Why the rice tastes better than usual too!

If Lu Nu knew what he was thinking, he would say, “Of course, the rice has some glutinous rice in it, and it tastes a lot softer.

Lu Nong chucked a pear ball and sweet and sour cherry meat into Xiao Gu Huai’s bowl, Xiao Gu Huai’s rice was different from everyone else’s, he ate the omelet rice that Wu Ma made for him separately, egg pancake wrapped in scrambled egg and drizzled with a little bit of sesame seeds on the outside.

Pei Zheng, this shameless one, even sneaked a bite of his brother’s rice, and after eating it, he looked at Wu Ma with both eyes, not knowing what ghost idea he was playing.

“Not enough for the pot, there’s more in the pot, and there’s enough meat and rice to go around.” Wu Ma was happy that everyone enjoyed eating the dishes she made, even Pei Zheng and Shen Jiming, who were not very fond of them earlier, were much more agreeable.

Seeing this, Pei Zheng immediately climbed up the pole, sticking out his thumb and praising, “Mrs. Wu, your cooking is also too delicious, can you do it again tomorrow?”

“Okay, why not.” Mrs. Wu cracked up with a smile.

Only then did Pei Zheng continue to lower his head and dry his rice with a satisfied face.

After the meal, everyone had a full belly, and even the cubs were holding their little bellies.

Wu Ma got up and went to the kitchen to take out a pot of elimination tea brewed with Chen Pi and malt and poured a cup for everyone.

This meal directly established Wu Ma’s position in the Pei family that could not be offended.

Go back to your homes at night.

Pei Silk An went to the study, Lu Nong washed up without waiting to do the daily mandatory maintenance, excitedly pulled out the carved box brought out from Li Garden, and from the makeup box Pei Silk An gave her passbook, the money saved before and the jadeite jewelry sent by her aunt and uncle to rummage through them one by one and pile them up on the bed.

Lu Nu inhaled deeply, ah~ this is the fragrance that belongs to money.

Hey, hey, she’s got a lot of property in her possession at the moment.

Twenty small yellow fish, a set of jadeite jewelry, and two pieces of fine warm jade.

In cash: $350 from deceased husband’s pension plus original owner’s savings, $5,300 family savings from current husband, $3,000 from cousins, $800 from sale of job, $67.50 in back wages.

Today’s grocery shopping for meat and all sorts of miscellaneous things cost the original owner thirty-five dollars of saved change.

When you do the math, all the money adds up to nine thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars and a half, rounded up that’s ten thousand dollars!

She became a millionaire in the sixties.

Lu Nu laughed so hard that her mouth couldn’t close and she rolled around on the bed.

Pei Silian: “……”

Noticing the line of sight at the door, Lu Nong hurriedly got up and quickly gathered a bunch of things on the bed into her arms, looking at Pei Silk An warily, My my my are mine, don’t want to hit me with the idea of money!

Pei Silk An did not covet, he was just surprised that his little wife uncle’s family was indeed extraordinary, just that pile of gold bars that shook people’s eyes hurt, it was not something that ordinary people could have.

And it’s a good thing I married him, or else I’d have had a hard time carrying the weight.

“Put it away, it’s best not to take it out again in the future.” Pei Jingan faintly instructed.

Lu Nong was like a hamster, slowly taking things back into the box, finally leaving behind the bankbook Pei Silk An gave her and some change.

The change is her salary, Pei Silk An gave the passbook is obviously for her to use for family expenses, she can not take it as her own, as for Gu Weiguo’s pension to leave to the little Gu Huai later, it is a thought, this can not be moved.

The machine box was closed and immediately locked, the world in addition to Lu Neng a person can no longer open.

In order to prevent Pei Silk An from coveting her property, Lu Nu planned to sleep with the box in her arms tonight. ()

This night, after wiping all kinds of cosmetics, Lu Nong really hold the box on the bed, back to Pei Silence to sleep peacefully, less than ten minutes later, sleep peacefully.

As for the wooden box that had been clutched tightly in his arms before he went to bed it had fallen under the bed.

Pei Silian: “……”

Midnight.

Pei Jingan looked at the woman who was rubbing herself around, sighed, and pulled down the blouse that she had slept in up to her collarbone, and in the confusion, he touched a certain warm softness, and let go like a pinprick.

But when she let go, the woman began to be dishonest again.

Pei Jingan had to use his hands to confine her and hold her in his arms before he could stop.