Chapter 50 The threshold girl, Lu Miao

Fu Jingyou turned around after finishing her work and saw Lu Miao sitting innocently on the threshold with her back to the door and facing out. She took off her wet shoes and socks and pushed them far away. She was cold and white from the water. Put your feet together and stand firmly on the small bench.

I don't know if it's because of the cold or other reasons, but her toes would occasionally curl up, making her look spoiled and fussy, but also a little bit playful and cute...

Fu Jingyou looked at Lu Miao silently for a while, thinking that this indulgent girl refreshed his knowledge all the time.

After sighing slowly, Fu Jingyou went to the front room and fumbled around for a long time before bringing out a pair of straw sandals.

He placed the straw sandals in front of Lu Miao and said in a soft voice, rarely joking:
"Just dress appropriately for now, girl at the threshold."

"What threshold girl?"

"If your feet don't touch the ground, you can't go anywhere except the small piece of land on the threshold. What is a threshold girl if not a threshold?"

Lu Miao's eyes swayed. Fu Jingyou's joke reminded her of the snail girl who couldn't escape from the shell. In a sense, there seemed to be some similarities.

But she is not a "threshold girl" who is limited to a "threshold" everywhere.

The straw sandals were worn. Fu Jingyou had worn them before, but they were clean now.

Lu Miao didn't think much, curled up her feet and put on her shoes directly.

The shoes belonged to Fu Jingyou, so you can imagine how big they were. Every time Lu Miao lifted her feet after putting them on, the shoes almost fell off her feet.

In order to avoid stepping on the wet ground, she couldn't help but raise her toes, which made her walk look stupid, a bit like a goose.

Unaware of it, she still followed Fu Jingyou around the stove naively, "What can I do for you?"

Fu Jingyou took a handful of shallots and two heads of garlic. Lu Miao took them knowingly, moved a small bench and sat down next to the table, and concentrated on picking the shallots.

Seeing that she was serious, Fu Jingyou didn't bother her.

After sweeping around the house, Fu Jingyou clapped his hands and walked out of the kitchen. He gathered a handful of bamboo twigs at the back of the house. He picked off the bamboo leaves and gathered them into a small handful to temporarily resemble a small brush.

Inside the house, Lu Miao was picking garlic. Outside, by the well, Fu Jingyou held her shoes and socks and began to brush them carefully.

There are a lot more things in the kitchen than when Lu Miao came last time. In addition to the various spices left over from last time, there are small baskets each of dried chili peppers and fresh red and green peppers. There are also a lot of green and steamy fresh Sichuan peppercorns. .

Lu Miao looked surprised and raised her voice to ask Fu Jingyou:

“Where did this fresh peppercorn come from?”

"Picked in the mountains."

"Is there one in the mountains?"

Fu Jingyou said "hmm" and said nothing.

Lu Miao was quick-thinking and immediately said:

"Fu Jingyou, Sichuan peppercorns are a good thing to get rid of the smell! If there are a lot of them in the mountains, you can pick them all back when you are not busy!"

Eat it fresh when it's fresh, dry it if you can't use it up, and put it away so you can use it slowly.

Fu Jingyou said "hmm" again, but still didn't speak.

Fortunately, Lu Miao's mind was not on him for the time being, otherwise she would have stomped on him and asked him why he was so cold.

Anticipating that Fu Jingyou couldn't make any tricks in cooking, Lu Miao looked at the ingredients on the table and those she had just brought over, thought about it in her mind, and started preparing it herself.

Although he hasn't discussed it carefully with Fu Jingyou yet, Lu Miao has already planned in his heart that he will use this place as a secret base for running a small stove in the future, so he brought a complete set of things when he came here, not only the rice wine and spices he bought before, but also the rice wine and spices he bought before. She also took a lot of the brown rice received from the team.

Fu Jingyou was busy in the backyard and didn't come in. Lu Miao rolled up his sleeves, scooped water from the bucket, washed some brown rice, and finally poured the brown rice into the pot. He recalled that he had heard before that the water in the rice should cover one knuckle. She carefully weighed and added water carefully.After finally measuring and closing the pot lid, she touched the mouth of the stove to light the fire.

When Fu Jingyou came in from outside, Lu Miao's fire had already risen, but there was a lot of smoke in the room. She also had a cat face, and there was a large piece of black ash on the outside of her light blue sleeves.

Fu Jingyou's forehead was throbbing with veins, and he hurried to see her take it out of the stove, "No one asked you to do this!"

Lu Miao explained: "No one asked me to do it, but I did it smoothly."

"..."

Fu Jingyou didn't say anything. He heard "gurgling" bubbling in the pot. He approached the stove and opened the pot. When he saw the almost low water level and tumbling brown rice in the pot, Fu Jingyou almost fainted.

Quickly adding two ladles of water to the pot, he turned around and asked Lu Miao seriously:

"What's going on here?"

Lu Miao's eyebrows were knotted, with a puzzled look on her face, "What's going on? I'm making rice!"

Fu Jingyou looked at her steadily, was silent for a while, and then spoke with difficulty:
"You were at home before and never cooked."

This is a statement, not a question.

Lu Miao pursed her lips and opened her eyes, her pupils slightly raised to look at him.

The dissatisfaction and grievance in his eyes could not be hidden, and the meaning was obvious.

Fu Jingyou rubbed his forehead and felt deeply that Lu Miao's family protected her very well.

"After washing the rice, you should first drain it into half-cooked water."

Shen Xin led Lu Miao closer to the stove. Fu Jingyou asked her to look into the pot while patiently explaining:
"When the water boils, fish out the rice grains. What's left is rice soup. You can use it to make soup with rice crackers later. This is how you made the porridge you had at my aunt's house last time. Remember?"

Lu Miao looked up at Fu Jingyou and nodded hesitantly.

Lu Miao also knew where he had made a mistake.

She was a little too subconscious. The water in the rice had to cover one knuckle. The prerequisite was that the rice was steamed in a rice cooker. But there was no electricity at this time, so how could there be a rice cooker?
People in the countryside rarely eat refined grains when cooking. On the one hand, they can't afford it, and on the other hand, they can't bear to eat it. Even if they eat rice for a while for some reason, that's also the way to catch rice.

The big pot rice I ate at the educated youth restaurant before was steamed on the same steaming tray and separated by water because there were many types of rations. I had never cooked rice separately.

Lu Miao had never seen it with her own eyes, so she had no idea. Now that Fu Jingyou explained it, she understood it immediately.

The grievance and indignation disappeared instantly. She clamped the hem of Fu Jingyou's clothes and coquettishly subdued him:

"I have never cooked before, so I don't know these things. I will know them in the future."

Fu Jingyou was not angry, but more helpless. The pampered girl was subdued. Of course, he would not say anything more and only comforted:

"Just sit down, there's no need for you to do this."

Lu Miao said unwillingly: "No, I don't know how, but you have to give me a chance to learn! Besides, I'll just watch from the side, so I won't bother you!"

She didn't know how to tie braids or make fire before. Didn't she learn these things by observing others?
Others can take care of her for a while, but they cannot take care of her for a lifetime. She may not be able to do these things now, but she cannot always be able to do so.

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(End of this chapter)

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