Chapter 167 Please Help Me Light the Fire

Zheng Xinyue answered calmly. She had thought of an excuse in the warehouse. Otherwise, how could she explain that the potatoes were cut into pieces when she didn't bring a potato scraper or a kitchen knife?

"Ah? A sickle? What did you use to wash it?"

Li Xiuqin couldn't believe it. How could a sickle cut potatoes? Wasn't Xinyue afraid of cutting her hands in the dark warehouse?

"I didn't wash it.

Zheng Xinyue replied sparingly and quickly scooped water from the bucket. People should not be proud. She still didn't think it through.

Seeing that Zheng Xinyue was unwilling to pay attention to her, Li Xiuqin didn't dare to ask any more questions. She went to knead the dough honestly and didn't dare to be lazy anymore. What if the sister-in-law reported it to the mother-in-law, she would be scolded.

Zheng Xinyue was relieved when Li Xiuqin stopped asking.

"Mom, it hurts. "

Erniu cried timidly, Zheng Xinyue turned around and saw Erniu holding up her finger to show her mother with tears in her eyes, and red blood beads appeared between her fingers.

"Second sister-in-law, why did you let Erniu clean the fish?"

Zheng Xinyue hurried over to pick up Erniu, scooped clean water for her to wash her hands, and asked Li Xiuli complainingly.

"I'm afraid there's not enough time."

Li Xiuli glanced at Li Xiuqin before answering in a low voice.

"I'll help you clean it up, Tiechui, Erniu, go and recite the pinyin that your aunt taught you last night.

Zheng Xinyue saw Li Xiuli looking at Li Xiuqin, and remembered the way her sister-in-law stood up and watched the excitement when she entered the kitchen, and she felt a little angry in her heart. Pushing the four-year-old child out to work and being lazy? Don't blame my mother for looking down on her sister-in-law, this person is not good.

Without saying a word, she rolled up her sleeves and squatted on the ground to help her second sister-in-law clean the fish. Li Xiuli's eyes flashed with emotion, and she pursed her lips without saying a word. She cleaned the fish much faster than before. If she cleaned more fish, her sister-in-law would have less work.

Li Xiuqin watched Zheng Xinyue go to help Li Xiuli. She blinked and felt uncomfortable. Was she isolating herself?

"Second sister-in-law, put some soybean paste when stewing the fish! It will taste better."

Zheng Xinyue washed the cleaned fish and said to her second sister-in-law with a smile. This is what she learned from the book. In this era, most people are reluctant to buy soy sauce. Soy sauce stewed fish has a soybean flavor, which is better than soy sauce.

"Okay."

Li Xiuli smiled and agreed. What happened at noon made her see clearly that her sister-in-law was really good to her children, and she felt closer to Zheng Xinyue in her heart.

On the contrary, the cousin, who was obviously the child's aunt, was lazy for her own sake. She drove Erniu and Tiechui to work. Why didn't she send her own children? They are all mothers. Whose children are not the flesh and blood of their mothers?

To stew fish, you need to put more oil to make it delicious. Li Xiuli didn't dare to put more. She only scooped a small spoonful into the pot. The oil melted and only stuck to the bottom of the pot.

"Sister-in-law, let me do it! Please help me light the fire."

Zheng Xinyue saw that it was not going to work, so she took the spatula and put a large spoonful of oil into the pot. Li Xiuqin was grinning. This spoonful of oil dug a hole in the oil jar, and her mother-in-law would definitely scold her when she came back.

But fortunately, she was not cooking by herself, so her mother-in-law was partial and would not scold her daughter.

Zheng Xinyue saw that the oil was hot, so she put the fish into the pot first, then scooped a spoonful of soybean paste into the pot, and threw in chopped green onions and wild ginger. Suddenly, the fragrance overflowed, and the five children came to the kitchen door, sniffing their little noses like greedy cats.

"Wait, each of you will have one in a while."

Zheng Xinyue looked at the greedy look of her nephews and nieces swallowing their saliva, and couldn't help but smile and promised.

The eyes of several children lit up instantly, and they all waited obediently.

"It smells so good, it must be made by my little sister, Changfeng, you are still lucky, my little sister personally cooked fish for you!"