I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 165

Li Xiuju was not hungry at first, but when she smelled the aroma wafting from the kitchen, she suddenly felt greedy and quickly washed her hands, "I came back at the right time."

Zhou Chenyu smiled, divided the noodles into three bowls, and glanced at Zhou Wanqiu, who was standing aside unable to help, "Please help me get a few pairs of chopsticks out."

After hearing this, Zhou Wanqiu nodded happily, picked three pairs of chopsticks and washed them by the well.

Zhou Chenyu brought three bowls of noodles to the table in the main room. The three bowls of soup almost came out of the rim. White rice noodles were soaked in the sour soup. The middle was covered with slightly burnt minced meat, sour and crispy pickled radish leaves and Dried radish and a few slices of green coriander float on the surface of the soup.

"I haven't eaten this rice noodle for a long time since Baoyu went to Stone Mountain. I can finally have it today." Zhou Chenyu took a sip of the hot soup first and was extremely satisfied.

Li Xiuju smiled faintly and pushed the bowl closer to Zhou Wanqiu, "Good boy, from now on you will treat this place as your own home. You can eat whatever you want. You don't have to be polite to my aunt and sister, do you understand?"

Zhou Chenyu also put some meat into her bowl, "This rice noodle is best eaten while it's hot. Eat it quickly."

"Okay." Zhou Wanqiu looked at a large bowl of noodles. He was stunned for a moment, then picked up his chopsticks, gently stirred the soup bowl, and fished out a lot of meat and vegetables.

She looked at the people around her out of the corner of her eye, couldn't help lowering her head, bit off the rice noodles, and shed a few tears into the bowl.

Seeing Zhou Wanqiu finally using his chopsticks, Zhou Chenyu went down to pick up the rice noodles with his own chopsticks. He also sucked the side dishes into his mouth, chewing the appetizing pickled cabbage and burnt minced meat, and then paired it with a mouthful of spicy and sour soup. , the bowl of rice noodles quickly bottomed out.

After filling his stomach, Zhou Chenyu looked at Zhou Wanqiu, looked at her eagerly, and asked expectantly: "How is it? How is it? Is my cooking delicious?"

Zhou Wanqiu looked at the big bright eyes opposite him, then looked down at the finished noodles in his bowl, put down his chopsticks, held the bowl in both hands, and asked in a low voice:
"Sister, I also want to finish the soup."

Li Xiuju pursed her lips and smiled, reaching out to lift the broken hair beside Zhou Wanqiu's ears: "You silly child, if you want to drink soup while drinking soup, you don't need to ask your sister. If she dares to stop you, I will teach her a lesson for you."

Zhou Chenyu turned away proudly. From the corner of his eye, he saw Zhou Wanqiu pick up the bowl, raise his head and drink all the soup in the bowl, and smiled unconsciously.

After lunch, Zhou Chenyu and Li Xiuju helped Zhou Wanqiu change the medicine, and were busy with some other trivial matters in the middle. After taking a nap, Li Xiuju grabbed the lame chicken from the cage and said, "Make some chicken soup tonight. , kill it in advance and stew it longer to replenish it in late autumn."

Killing a chicken is easy, just swipe the neck with a knife and let out the blood. The more troublesome part is plucking the feathers and cleaning the internal organs.

Zhou Chenyu slipped into the kitchen to boil hot water and brought it out to Li Xiuju.

Li Xiuju immersed the whole chicken in hot water, scalded it several times, and then plucked the feathers while it was still hot.

Zhou Wanqiu brought a small stool over and helped remove the offal chicken feathers. His hands were burned red.

"Is it hot or not?" Li Xiuju looked at her little face and asked softly.

Zhou Wanqiu shook her head with a smile, "Mother, I don't want to perm."

Li Xiuju looked at her distressedly and said to Zhou Chenyu: "Chenyu, the past few times I ate chicken, I ate it plain. Why not change the taste this time and make a stir-fried chicken with ginger and scallions. What do you think?" "

Zhou Chenyu poked his head out of the kitchen and replied to her: "Okay, as long as it is cooked by you, I like to eat it." Li Xiuju knew that she was poor, so she smiled helplessly, plucked the chicken feathers twice, and raised her head again: "There is a winter melon in the vegetable garden that has not been cut yet. You bring it back and add it to the chicken soup tonight. The winter melon will be soft and delicious."

"Okay." Zhou Chenyu walked to the vegetable garden with a knife, pulled out a handful of green onions and perilla, then got into a pile of winter melon vine leaves and cut a large winter melon.

"Oh my god, the skin has so many little thorns." Zhou Chenyu was pricked by the fuzz on the surface of the winter melon. He didn't dare to hold the winter melon anymore, so he had to pick up the small stem on the tip of the winter melon and put it in his hand. Put it in the basket and raise it to the yard.

But this winter melon weighed ten kilograms. She carried it to the door of the courtyard, and suddenly heard a thud. The winter melon crushed the vegetable basket and rolled downhill.

Seeing that the round winter melon was about to roll into the ditch, Zhou Chenyu hurriedly chased after it and intercepted it.

"What happened?" Li Xiuju asked while sitting in the yard. Zhou Chenyu shook his head and shouted loudly: "It's nothing, it was just a little accident."

Zhou Chenyu looked at the winter melon on the ground and didn't dare to take it back. After thinking about it, he directly lifted up his skirt, put the whole winter melon on it, picked it up, and was about to walk back when he heard a voice behind him. She yelled at the top of her lungs: "Sister, sister!"

Ok?
Zhou Baoyu's brat voice?

Zhou Chenyu hadn't seen Baoyu for more than ten days, hadn't heard his voice, and wasn't sure if it was him. He stood at the door holding the winter melon and turned his head to look over.

Before he saw Baoyu, a dog's head appeared under his feet. Huangdou hadn't been at home for more than ten days, and when he saw Zhou Chenyu, he rubbed his head against her leg desperately.

"You are really back!" Zhou Chenyu was happy and touched Huang Dou's furry head.

Baoyu held the trolley behind him with one hand, looking here, and waved his other hand violently, as if he was afraid that he would not be able to attract his sister's attention.

But after waving his hand twice, he couldn't hold the weight of the cart with one hand, and he was almost pushed back. Baoyu quickly retracted his hand and held the cart with both hands.

Zhou Chenyu looked at his panic and embarrassment and laughed out loud, "I haven't seen him for more than ten days, and this brat seems to be as unintelligent as ever."

Seeing Zhou Chen Yuchu motionless at the door, Li Xiuju raised her head and asked, "What happened to Chen Yu?"

Zhou Chenyu quickly moved the winter melon into the house and smiled at Li Xiuju and Zhou Wanqiu: "Baoyu is back. I'll go out and help him push the cart."

After Zhou Chenyu finished speaking, he put down the winter melon and immediately ran outside the door to help him push the cart.

Baoyu is back?
Li Xiuju realized it later, looked at Wan Qiu, hurriedly let go of the chicken feet, rubbed her hands dry, and followed Zhou Chenyu out the door.

Zhou Wanqiu looked at Huangdou spinning in the yard. Although he wanted to go out, there was no one in the yard, so he stayed there and waited.

Baoyu saw her sister and mother coming out to greet her, and raised her eyebrows triumphantly, showing her white teeth: "What? You haven't seen me for a long time, but you miss me so much that you can't wait to greet me in person?"

Li Xiuju came closer and looked up and down his arms and body. He had been alone in the mountains and forests for more than ten days. She was always worried that he would not have enough to eat, not enough clothes to wear, and even more afraid of being in danger. Now he was completely human. She burst into tears with joy: "It will be good to come back, it will be good to come back."

(End of this chapter)