Chapter 286

Ms. Zhu never forgets that she has opened her eyes.

She hadn’t seen so many good things at home for a long time, the Chen driver who had met her once brought a car full of things with two people, live chickens, live fish, live shrimps, abalone and sea cucumbers.

She came down from upstairs and sat on the sofa, with American Coca-Cola and Swiss chocolates in front of her.

Zhang Ma said, “You eat first, I’ll heat up milk for you!”

Driver Chen brought fresh milk.

Zhang Ma heated up a pot and brought it to Zhu Er Miss, stood in front of the table and said, “I’ll make a yellow fish for your mom for lunch today, and you’ll eat something nice too, I’ll make a roasted yellow fish, okay?”

Zhu Er Miss hadn’t sacrificed her organs for a long time, so she nodded her head.

Zhang Ma unwrapped another box of cookies, saying, “These are American cookies, you taste them first, I’ll see what other cake mixes they have, I’ll try to see if I can make a cake.”

Zhang Ma wanted to show off her skills, and the whole family was blessed.

Ms. Zhu first tasted half a cup of American cola, and then ate and drank milk with American cookies.

–The cookies were dry and hard on her teeth, but soaked in milk, they were still edible.

She ate a plate of them in one gulp, and when Ms. Zhu came downstairs to see her, Ms. Zhu disliked them and kept putting them in her mouth, “They’re too dry. Too hard. Too sweet. It’s just as good as soaking milk and eating it.”

Ms. Zhu twisted up the cookie crumbs on the plate and laughed, “So hard to eat.”

Ms. Zhu Ershi stuffed another piece into her mouth and nodded, “It can be hard to eat.”

The cookies, which were known to taste like bran, were all eaten up by Ms. Zhu Er.

Ms. Wish thoughtfully said she didn’t want to eat it, but just sat and drank her coffee with milk and tasted two pieces of chocolate.

Ms. Zhu looked around the floor and asked, “Is this all that Mr. Su sent back? Where’s Mrs. Zhang?”

Ms. Zhu Er: “Zhang Ma is in the kitchen.”

Ms. Zhu got up, “I’ll go check on her.” Turning back, she instructed her daughter, “Don’t eat all the chocolates too.”

Zhu Er Miss was eating her fourth piece of chocolate, her eyes innocent and pure, “How could I?”

Ms. Zhu glanced at her cute face, picked up the box of chocolates and said, “I’ll put it away first.”

Zhu Er Miss was instantly displeased, “Mom, I’m nineteen, you still care about me eating candy.”

Ms. Zhu: “You are ninety years old, I still control you.”

Zhu two ladies do not dare to resist, can only watch the chocolate away, as if parting with a lover, reluctant to give up very much.

At noon, the table burned two yellow fish, served in a large soup pot, soup milky, fragrant. There are also stir-fried kale and roasted tofu, but also made a plate of fried egg dumplings, steamed a pot of fragrant rice.

Ms. Zhu and Ms. Zhu for the first time lost ladylike manners, after serving the food do not care, head down to eat, rice are added twice.

Even Zhang Ma after the table also called out “eat too much, eat too much, have not eaten so happily for a few days”.

Fortunately, Zhang Ma thought of making sweet soup before and asked for hawthorn. After Su Chunjun ordered her to go down, the people there sent over a sack directly.

Zhang Ma cooked hawthorn, red dates and rock sugar water, brought it out and told Zhu Er Miss, “There are still a lot of hawthorns in the kitchen, I’ll make you fried hawthorns with sugar and iced sugar gourds to eat.”

Zhu Yuyan finally picked up her brain after her stomach was full and asked, “Did Mr. Su have a lot of things sent to her?”

Zhang Ma: “No! It’s a lot. I asked him to send some random vegetables, it’s only fresh when it’s cooked and eaten on the spot, go to the kitchen and take a look, the floor is full of vegetables. There are twenty pounds of vegetables and gourds! It can’t be kept for too long, and you can’t eat it every day, so you have to pickle it.”

Zhang Ma said this is bad!

Ms. Zhu and Second Miss Zhu both felt that they should learn some life skills, and this making pickles was a life skill.

Both of them stopped sitting, put down the hawthorn sugar water, stood up and said, “We’ll go give you a hand.”

Zhang Ma’s eyes widened in fear: “Living ancestors! You guys are trying to toss me to death.”

However, these two first and second young ladies still went into the kitchen, and they both changed into convenient old clothes, and put on aprons and sleeves, their preparations were complete.

Zhang Ma sat on a stool and looked at these two mothers and daughters coldly.

Ms. Zhu asked vainly, “Shouldn’t we wash first?”

Zhang Ma: “Yes.”

Ms. Zhu picked up a green vegetable melon and examined it for a moment, “How can this melon be considered washed? I think it’s quite clean, there’s no place for it to get dirty.”

Mrs. Zhang: “Just wash the floating soil.”

Ms. Zhu: “How?”

Mrs. Zhang: “By hand.”

Zhang Ma watched the two mothers and daughters earnestly receive a basin of water, put the gourds in one by one and carefully rubbed them three times, head, tail and body.

Zhang Ma told Su Chunjun that the melons were two pounds, Su Chunjun told the clerk of the quartermaster’s department to get some fresh melons, and the clerk brought a basket, conservatively estimating that there were sixty to seventy of them.

Zhang Ma fried a plate of vegetables, the most with two, so a look at know that this eat to bad can not eat, can only pickle up.

She would have been able to do it all by herself in one afternoon, and now with the addition of two helpers, I’m afraid it will take five or six days to pickle.

The two mothers and daughters washed the melon, still want to chat.

Ms. Zhu said, “I don’t see any difference between washing the melons and not washing them.”

Ms. Zhu thought the same thing, but she taught Ms. Zhu, “Work hard or I’ll beat you up.”

The education was successful, and Ms. Zhu shut up and continued washing the melons.

Zhang Ma sat for a while, had nothing else to do, and began to pack up the dishes that had been delivered.

She told Su Chunjun to send some greens, and other vegetables as well, so that there would be more varieties for cooking. Su Chunjun said, “Give me some of everything.” So there was a big bundle of kale, a big basket of bok choy, a big basket of carrots, and a whole plate of tofu.

Zhang Ma looked at the dishes and sighed deeply.

This was all going to tire her out!

Zhang Ma washed the kale and prepared to pickle the kale as well. In order to avoid these two mothers and daughters having to come and do her favor again, so she did it quietly, without saying a word, and with a light hand.

When the two mothers and daughters finally washed off the skin of the gourd, Zhang Ma had already washed the kale and was setting it up to dry.

Zhu Yuyan was relieved to have finished a job, when she turned her head and saw that Zhang Ma had started working again without saying a word, she immediately said, “Zhang Ma, let me help you!”

Zhang Ma quickly said, “No need! I’m done!”

She hurriedly set up the pole and turned around and began to boast, “Oh, how fast you washed it, how well you washed it, and how clean this melon is!”

After praising, Zhang Ma said, “Alright, you guys go, the rest will be easier, I can do it alone.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Mrs. Zhang, what are you going to do next?”

Zhang Ma: “…… This melon has to be cut and the seeds inside have to be taken out, I don’t feel comfortable with you guys using a knife, so this is really not something you guys need to do.”

Ms. Zhu: “It’s okay, you cut the melon, we’ll take out the seeds. What do you use to take out the seeds?”

Zhu Yuyan: “Hands?”

Ms. Zhang: “…… Ugh, just use a spoon.”

Thus, Zhang Ma silently split all the melons in half in front of the chopping board, and then handed them over to the two mothers and daughters to pull out the seeds with a spoon.

–She clearly could have done it all at once with a cleaver.

Zhang Ma advised herself.

The child has grown up and knows how to work, so she should be relieved.

–Finally, she didn’t have to worry about them starving themselves.

The seeds that were pulled out looked delicious and refreshing as well.

Zhu Yuyan curiously asked, “Does this seed need to be pickled?”

Zhang Ma clanked and split the melon: “Not pickled.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Can’t we eat this? What a pity.”

Zhang Ma clanked and split the melons, not saying anything to save her strength.

After the melons were finally chopped and the seeds removed, Zhang Ma began to set up a pot and boil water to prepare the melons for boiling.

From this step onwards, finally the two mothers and daughters do not need to help, Zhang Ma let them stand far away to watch it.

Zhang Ma: “You’re both smart, you’ll know what you’re doing, you don’t even need to learn.”

Zhang Ma quickly put all the melons into the water, put salt, take the spatula and gently push until the water boils again, then fish out all the melons, lay them flat in the bamboo basket, wait for the sun to dry and then pickle them.

Zhu Yuyan: “This is good?”

Mrs. Zhang breathed a sigh of relief: “Yes, the next step is simple, put the ingredients into the jar and marinate on it.”

Zhu Yuyan: “That’s pretty easy.”

Zhang Ma: “Right, so you guys don’t need to help me tomorrow, okay, all go out, tired, all go rest.”

A group of three people all left the kitchen, each looking for a place. Zhang Ma was to the living room and sat down on the sofa with her butt, “I’ll take a break, I’ll take a break.”

Zhu Yuyan kindly went and brewed tea and brought a cup over to Zhang Ma.

Zhang Ma accepted the tea and touched this cute child’s head, “Thank you Yan Yan. You don’t need to help me next time, go learn your studies.”