Chapter 41: Such a wife makes him want to monopolize her
Shi Xiaoai slept soundly. She overlooked Cheng Yang and the children entering the house several times. It was past four o'clock in the afternoon when she woke up.
She slowly got up from the bed. She had slept too long, and for a moment, she felt like she didn't know what year it was.
After rubbing her eyes and going out, Shi Xiaoai immediately smelled the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes, and she suddenly felt her stomach growling with hunger.
She touched her belly and followed the smell to the newly tidied small room.
As soon as I entered, I saw the three sitting on a small bench, surrounding a brazier, warming themselves over the fire and eating sweet potatoes.
Instead, the two kids were warming themselves over the fire while eating sweet potatoes roasted by their father.
Seeing Shi Xiaoai enter, Cheng Yang moved the stool to the side.
Mingrui moved a small bench to the side and placed it in the vacant space. He said, "Mom, eat the sweet potatoes that grandma sent. They are so sweet!"
Shi Xiaoai knew that the grandma the child referred to was Aunt Liu. It seemed that Aunt Liu had been here while she was sleeping.
She spoke softly: "I have inherited so many favours from Aunt Liu, and I don't know how to repay them?"
After saying that, she remembered that Cheng Yang noted that those two quilts were made by Aunt Liu.
She sat down on the bench and then looked at Cheng Yang: "You and Aunt Liu are also familiar with each other?"
Cheng Yang nodded: "She took the initiative to talk to me on the first day I came home."
At this point, he raised his eyes and looked at Shi Xiaoai: "I didn't let Aunt Liu work in vain. I gave her the remaining cotton coupons."
Only then did Shi Xiaoai realize that the voice she had just spoken to herself was a bit loud, and this person had heard her.
She hummed and said nothing.
Maybe the severe manner in which Xiao Ai talked to him before that scared Cheng Yang. Cheng Yang subconsciously wanted to avoid her when he saw her as if he was afraid that if he said something wrong, she would start to talk to him again the next minute.
When she sat down, Cheng Yang picked up a sweet potato from the brazier and handed it over, saying, "You eat it first to pad your stomach first, and I'll heat up the food."
After that, he left.
Xiao Ai was a little amused when he looked like he was trying to avoid her. She thought she was not a tiger, so why were you running away?
Besides, I have agreed before that I can let you recuperate at home, and I am not a person who goes back on my words. As for hiding from me like this?
But she didn't expose it. Instead, she yawned, and when Cheng Yang was about to reach the door, she suddenly asked: "Where did this brazier come from?"
Sure enough, Cheng Yang stopped immediately.
"Local product store, when I went to buy a stove, I saw it and bought it."
Having said this, Cheng Yang thought for a while, tentatively walked back a few steps and stretched out his hand to Shi Xiaoai: "I also bought a New stove and cast iron. Do you want to go take a look?"
Did you buy a new stove?
Shi Xiaoai stared at the hand stretched out towards her but ignored it. She stood up and followed him towards the kitchen.
"The briquette stove at home was too small and couldn't carry such a long chimney. Besides, the tea stall also had to be used, so it was inconvenient to move it around. So I bought a cast iron stove. I just put this in the kitchen. It's moving."
When Xiaoai entered the kitchen, she realized that the place had also changed drastically. In addition to adding a stove, the entire kitchen was cleaned from top to bottom, inside and out.
Especially the oil smoke on the roof and the highest window glass have been wiped clean. The windows are bright and clean and are not the same as before.
Shi Xiaoai did some cleaning after she returned, but it's still the first month of the year, and it's really too cold. The tap water can be said to be bone-chillingly cold.
This house is relatively large, and because it is old, there are many nooks and crannies. In addition, she couldn't reach some very high places, so she was lazy and didn't touch them, thinking to wait until the weather warmed up.
After living there for a long time, she has gradually gotten used to it, and she will even deliberately ignore the old and shabby things in the house. But now, after being cleaned out, she realizes she can live comfortably here.
But when she thought that Cheng Yang had done all this work within a week and that he was still injured, Shi Xiaoai couldn't tell how she felt.
She glanced at the seam of the stove that had been wiped clean of dust and looked at Cheng Yang with a straight face: "If you don't do these jobs, will you lose some meat? Do you think your body is getting better too quickly, or do you still want to have a fever? After saying that, she pushed him aside angrily and said in a disgusting tone: "Let's go and look at those two. Don't burn the skin off your fingers again if you can't see them." As he said this, she started to roll up her sleeves quickly to make a fire.
Although he was disliked by his wife, Cheng Yang felt the concern hidden behind the duplicity.
This made him feel as if he was filled with electricity in an instant, and the minor trauma he had suffered in his heart was suddenly wiped away, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
While laughing, Xiao Ai couldn't help but roll her eyes at him again, feeling that this man was a bit silly.
Although Cheng Yang repeatedly claimed he could help, Shi Xiaoai was mercilessly kicked out.
Lifting the pot lid and looking at the rice Cheng Yang had specially left for her, Shi Xiaoai found that it contained a bowl of rice, a boiled egg, and a plate of scrambled eggs with green onions.
Is this an egg meeting? She couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
She opened the cupboard again and found it full of rice, flour and dry goods, but the most conspicuous thing was the basket of eggs Minister Shen had sent before.
As for vegetables, there were only two Chinese cabbages, a few small white radishes, a few green onions, and three or four potatoes that were already a little wilted.
At first glance, they were the ones I had left at home before I was hospitalized.
Looking at these things and thinking about the meals delivered by Cheng Yang in the Hospital before, Shi Xiaoai suddenly realized - that those were all bought in restaurants; this person probably doesn't know how to cook!
No one is perfect, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't know how to cook. But she suddenly lost her appetite when she looked at the green onions in the scrambled eggs, which were chopped thicker than the belly of her finger.
Shi Xiaoai picked out kelp, fungus, and a small pack of precious dried shrimp from the dry goods. This dried shrimp was something she had snatched from a grocery store before. She happened to catch up when she went grocery shopping that day, and her braids fell apart before she could get such a small package. She cherished it.
Carrying the thermos aside, Shi Xiaoai found that there was still hot water in it. Shi Xiaoai used warm water to distribute the dry goods and then processed the vegetables.
Break the cabbage into large pieces and wash them, cut the radish into cubes, peel the potatoes and cut them into large pieces, then soak them in salt water to prevent discolouration.
Wash the soaked dried vegetables and put them aside to drain. Shi Xiaoai sets an oil pan on the fire. After hot oil, add the soaked dried shrimp and fry them carefully over low heat.
The dried shrimp turned red quickly, and the fried shrimp brought out the unique umami flavour of the seafood. Shi Xiaoai pushed the fried dried shrimp aside, took the eggs he had taken out before, cracked them open, and fried two beautiful poached eggs in the base oil.
The rich aroma of fried eggs wafted out through the window, and at some point, three more heads appeared at the kitchen door.
Cheng Yang could still hold his nerve, and just stood and watched without saying a word. The two little ones couldn't care less, so they all started shouting: "Mom, what are you cooking for delicious food? It's so delicious!" "
Shrimp! Mom, I saw the red shrimp, I want to eat that!"
"Wait, let's eat together later." Shi Xiaoai said while busy.
Seeing that Cheng Yang could still restrain the two little ones from squeezing into the house, Shi Xiaoai stopped caring about them and continued to be busy with her work.
She did not take them out after the poached eggs became golden and burnt. Instead, she picked up the kettle and poured half a pot of hot water into the pot.
With a chirping sound, the hot water turned milky white and aroused a strong oil aroma. A mouth-watering smell filled the entire kitchen.
At this time, people are already short of oil and water. If you put more oil in the dishes, everyone will find them delicious, not to mention the delicious aroma of fried eggs and fried shrimp.
The noise of the two cubs could no longer be heard. One of them was held by Cheng Yang, and the other was being led. They stared blankly at Shi Xiaoai with their mouths half open, staring at her hands, wanting to see their mother. What kind of delicious food can I make for them.
Cheng Yang also stared at his wife closely, but his eyes were fixed on her profile, and he couldn't move away.
The more he gets in touch with her, the more he feels that his wife is a treasure, a treasure that he wants to keep for himself and doesn't want others to take a look at.
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