Chapter 240: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 240: Gaining Another Uncle (8)
Zhen'er was so engrossed in this fun and exciting game that he didn't want to get off the red python's back.
Mo Yan was helpless with the red python. Even if she didn't give it Spirit Spring water and the chickens and fruits in the space, it would still come. It had thick skin and couldn't be driven away or scolded. The newly planted thorn forest outside the courtyard wall couldn't stop it either. After a few attempts, Mo Yan couldn't be bothered to deal with it anymore.
In the blink of an eye, Mo Qingze had been away from home for half a month. On this day, Mo Yan took her siblings into the city early in the morning to visit their father. When they reached the vegetable market street, she asked Li Zhong to wait with the two younger ones in place, while she went to buy some fresh vegetables for Mo Qingze.
Finding a deserted place, she took out the vegetables and cleaned chicken she had prepared last night, and then bought a large piece of pork ribs and two palm-sized crucian carp before returning to the street corner.
The vegetable garden in the backyard had already been set up. Mo Yan was worried that it would attract too much attention, so she only dared to water it with diluted spring water. The vegetables grew at about the same speed as those in the greenhouse before, and they weren't ripe yet, so they couldn't be picked.
Otherwise, she could just exchange the vegetables in the ground with those in the space, and she wouldn't have to bother going to the street to "buy" them.
The group arrived at the place where Mo Qingze was renting. Mo Yan used the spare key to open the door, and Li Zhong carried the vegetables and chicken inside.
"Father's place is quite small, but very clean." It was the first time the two younger ones had come, and Zhen'er gave his evaluation of "small and clean."
"It's not small anymore. It's good for Father to live alone. The rooms we used to live in were even smaller than this. Don't look down on small rooms just because you live in a big one now!" However, Xin'er thought it was very good, but she was worried that her brother would become picky again like before when he had something good to eat, so she reminded him.
"I know, I know!" Zhen'er muttered a few words and then picked up a book to read, but found it incomprehensible, so he put it down again.
The siblings sat on the bed chattering. Mo Yan began to prepare the chicken and pork ribs, preparing lunch before Mo Qingze returned from school.
Li Zhong took a basin and the vegetables to wash by the communal well outside.
Chicken is best stewed for nutrition. There was no shortage of chicken at home, and this time it was specially brought to Mo Qingze to nourish him. Mo Yan divided the chicken in half and stewed one half first. Before leaving, she would stew the other half, leaving it for her father to drink when he came back in the afternoon.
There were quite a few things brought this time, including fried wild chestnuts and some raw chestnuts. Now the chestnuts in the mountains were ripe. Mo Yan only said that she found them in the mountains, and no one in the family suspected anything. After cooking chestnuts with chicken a few times, they all became addicted.
After washing the vegetables, Li Zhong lit the stove. Estimating that Father would be back in about half an hour, Mo Yan put the pot containing the chicken and chestnuts on the stove.
The chickens in the space were very tender. After the water boiled, they only needed to stew for another twenty minutes or so to be done. As the water boiled, the fragrance of chicken and chestnuts gradually wafted through the room. Mo Yan then added the soaked shiitake mushrooms.
When she went into the mountains before, she picked up a lot of shiitake mushrooms. Later, she used the method of planting shiitake mushrooms in the ground and planted some in the space. Now they had grown into a patch, and their fragrance was even stronger than those sold outside. Just three or five of them in the pot would make it very fragrant.
Next, Mo Yan started to stir-fry vegetables. Before long, five dishes with different colors, flavors, and aromas were ready: steamed pork ribs, garlic stir-fried greens, braised crucian carp, tomato and scrambled eggs, and salt and pepper corn kernels.
Estimating that Father would be back soon, Mo Yan took off her apron, washed her hands, and brought out the dishes with bowls, ready for Father to uncover and eat when he returned.
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