A leisurely life with Lingquan

Chapter 17 Cooking
After coming here, I ate two meals, and every meal was still porridge, and I was still half full. Li Xi really felt a little uncomfortable. After looking at the rice noodles brought by the village chief, he gritted his teeth and decided to eat dry mouth today. Clean the kitchen So I scooped up two bowls of brown rice, washed them, put them in a small pot, added some water, washed them and shredded the leaves of the vegetables and put them in it.

He was about to put the lid on the pot, but when he glanced at Zhao Mu who was burning under the stove, Li Xi thought for a while and stuck his left hand into the pot, and a little bit of green spring water flowed into the pot, mixed with the water in the pot, and disappeared without a trace. Seeing this, she smiled and put the lid on the pot, and told Zhao Mu to light the fire carefully, while she also swept the rest of the kitchen.

Zhao Mu is still very familiar with burning fires. Seeing his serious appearance, he is not so stupid when he looks closely. He shakes his head to shake away all the mess, and Li Xi walks into the yard.

The small yard is divided into two parts by a gravel path. The kitchen is on the right side, and the well is on the other side. There are several sheds. It seems that they were built when raising poultry before, but now they are crooked. Li Xi didn't care about that, but was thinking about the weeds in the yard, and it would be a laborious job to remove them.

She stretched out her hand and pulled it out a few times. It just rained a few days ago, and the ground was wet, but it was easy to pull it out. She was tired after pulling it out for a while, but Li Xi's body was used to the job, so she pulled it out like this. The hands didn't get soaked or anything, but they were tough.

"Daughter-in-law, Xi'er..." Zhao Mu's voice came from behind, and Li Xi frowned. She was sure that this guy should have called her daughter-in-law, but she probably changed it because of what she said. .

"The rice is ready?" Li Xi looked over, walked back quickly, lifted the lid of the pot, and a scent of rice came to her face, causing her to swallow a couple of mouthfuls of saliva, thinking to herself, sure enough, sometimes people are I don't need to clean up, thinking about her picky mouth in the past, now even a pot of rice can make her feel like a big meal.

"We have to wait." After it boiled, and after a while, Li Xi scooped out some salt from the oil and salt brought by the village chief and sprinkled it evenly on the rice, then covered the pot, and saw the hole in the pot There is still a fire inside, and you can eat after a while. If you think about it, you can't sit still and wash the dishes and wait for the meal.

"Xi'er." Zhao Mu sat down next to Li Xi, and suddenly waited for Ai Ai to speak.

Looking at him suspiciously, Li Xi said dryly, "What are you doing?" In fact, Li Xi felt that Zhao Mu was not very stupid sometimes, and could speak some words, but he stuttered and couldn't enunciate clearly. It does matter, the brain is the most mysterious, who knows which muscle Zhao Mu broke.

"Here, here you are." At first I thought that Zhao Mu just wanted to call her suddenly, but he suddenly took out a small black pot from his arms and pushed it to her.

Of course Li Xi knew what was in this little black jar. It was Zhao Mu's current possessions. The five liang of silver that bought her was poured out of it, and the rest was left here. I haven't thought about the money until now, but I didn't expect him to give it to her himself.

"This is money, you are sure to give it to me." Li Xi bit her lower lip and asked hesitantly. This money is very important to them now, but if Zhao Mu keeps holding her by herself, she won't move. But if you give it to her, it's not necessarily the case, she will definitely use it.

"Here, here you are, Xi'er." Zhao Mu was tall, and he didn't know what he ate to grow it. He stretched out a healthy arm, and he could see the bulging muscles on it. I believe that the power hidden there must not be underestimated. The big palm held a small pot that was out of proportion to it, and eagerly stuffed it towards Li Xi.

This time Li Xi didn't hesitate any longer, and stretched out his hand to take it, pursed his lips and looked at him, regardless of whether he understood or not, he smiled slightly and said: "I will return the money to you, although it is not for me alone."

Zhao Mu didn't care about these things. Seeing Li Xi take it away, the silly smile on his face widened, and he muttered: "Give it all to Xi'er."

"Thank you." Clutching the little pot, Li Xi was still very moved in his heart. Although this person was a fool, his behavior was the most sincere. She was the only one in sight in the eyes, which made her have an illusion that this person was only her at this moment... Or maybe it wasn't an illusion.

He lowered his eyes and put away this complicated thought, turned his head to see the smell of rice coming from the stove, it was ready to eat, and immediately he didn't have the heart to think about other things, he took the bowl and went to scoop the rice, and the lid of the pot was lifted A fragrance from the rice rushes over, and at the same time, it is mixed with a trace of fragrance, which is the fragrance of the vegetables in the rice pot.

"Fragrant." Zhao Mu drooled.

"Hehe, let's eat." After scooping up a large bowl and handing it to Zhao Mu, Li Xi came to scoop up his own.

A large bowl of green vegetables and rice for each person, the first bite into the mouth, even if the rice is the roughest brown rice, it can't stop the sweetness, "Gudu" swallowed it and looked at the rice bowl in his hand, sure enough, adding a little spring water tastes really good It was to rise to a higher level, otherwise she didn't think brown rice and vegetables would have such a good taste.

After eating two mouthfuls of rice, Li Xi turned his head to look at Zhao Mu, and saw that he was eating very deliciously with big mouthfuls, so he nodded in satisfaction and ate his own.

Both of them ate half of the pot of rice. After Li Xi ate two bowls, Zhao Mu rounded up the rest by himself. After cleaning the pot and bowl, the two of them started to work again. Li Xi From the collapsed poultry shed, I found a few rusted agricultural tools, a hoe and a shovel, and Zhao Mu each, and planned to remove all the withered grass in the small yard. Pulling it was too slow, although the two agricultural tools were not very useful. But it's better than bare hands.

Such busy work lasted all afternoon, and then Zhao Mu was busy with the rest, and took the fallen grass to the kitchen as firewood, while she tidied up the big room in the house, swept the dust, and I brought a small cabinet from the room to the kitchen and used it as a cabinet for the time being.

After it got dark, Li Xi boiled hot water. He wanted to take a bath, but the wooden basin in this house was dry and cracked, and he had to soak it for a few days, otherwise it would definitely leak, so Li Xi still couldn't take a bath that day. Take a shower, but this time I untied all the clothes in the room and scrubbed it with a cloth before giving up. When she was brought out, she didn't bring anything, and the clothes she was wearing all over her body didn't have to be changed at all. After scrubbing , she had to endure putting on the dirty clothes.

When she came out to pour the water, she found that Zhao Mu was washing shirtless in the main room, and immediately poured out the dirty water with a black thread, and saw him clumsily holding the cloth to wipe himself, and the cloth did not wring out the water. After a while, I wiped it while dripping water, and couldn't help sighing.

(End of this chapter)