He was reborn and I wasn't!

The two went up the mountain and into the yard, followed by Rhubarb who was shaking his head and tail.

Jiang Yan put down the shoulder pole, took the small bucket in Shang Ning's hand, and said to him, "Go sit down, I'll boil some water, and I'll bring it for you to drink later."

Shang Ning nodded.

So Jiang Yan carried the bucket into the kitchen.He is not very good at the stove, nor does he have the ability to cook raw food, but it is no problem to add firewood and fire to boil water.Jiang Yan washed a clay pot and filled it with water, and emptied the ashes in the stove, and a little spark rose up.He picked up a twig and ignited it, and put the clay pot on the stove.

After finishing these tasks, he poked his head out of the door and looked into the yard, and saw his junior brother sitting in the shade looking at the little cabbage next to him in the sun in a daze.Jiang Yan thought that he would have to do the laundry later, it would be boring for his junior brother to sit there alone for so long, so find something for him to do.After thinking about it, he went back to the house and took a small watermelon out, washed it with water, cut it in half with a knife, took a sea bowl with a gap, put half of the watermelon on it, picked up a spoon, and went to his little brother. side went.

Shang Ning saw his senior brother walking towards him with a watermelon and a spoon, before he could speak, he heard Jiang Yan say: "I think you are boring, why don't you eat watermelon."

Shang Ning: "..."

Shang Ning silently watched his senior brother bring the watermelon to the table in front of him, and then gave him a small spoon.

Jiang Yan was very satisfied with what he did, clapped his hands and went back to boil water.

Shang Ning looked at his back, reached out and dug a spoonful of watermelon on the table and put it into his mouth.Very sweet, cool and delicious.

In the previous life, he accumulated cold poison all over his body, so many fruits were not destined for him.Now he just got cold poison in his legs, but watermelon is cold in nature, so it is not advisable to eat more.It's just that his senior brother was careless and didn't think of this level, but his heart is still good.

Shang Ning dug watermelons one after another, watched Jiang Yan come in and out, and finally sat in the yard to wash clothes.He sprinkled some firewood ash into the small basin, rubbed a few handfuls with his hands, and then picked up a mallet to hammer.

Jiang Yan was hammering seriously at first, but found that with a hammer, a water splash could fly up and fall back into the basin with a little force, showing colorful lights in the sun.He thought it looked good, so he hammered it several times quickly, and the water splashed one after another, tearing into a thin water curtain, and separating countless crystal water drops.The more Jiang Yan hammered, the happier he became, and he hummed a ditty according to the rhythm of the rising and falling water splashes.

Shang Ning: "..."

It seems that the uncle is right, his brother really likes to play with water.

After Jiang Yan poured all the water in the tank into the large basin for washing the quilt, he poured all the two buckets of water he had brought back into the tank.Jiang Yan floated a few quilts that floated up, picked them up and wrung them dry, and hung them on the drying line one by one, and clamped them with wooden racks.Under the sun, large pieces of quilt clothes flew high against the mountain wind and were blown up and down.

As soon as Jiang Yan turned around after finishing all this, he saw his junior brother sitting in the shade of a tree and looking at him.Jiang Yan glanced at the sundial in the yard. It was almost noon. He wondered if he had starved his junior brother, so he hurried over and said, "Are you hungry? Let's go, senior brother will take you down to eat delicious food." .”

Shang Ning didn't move, he looked up at Jiang Yan and said, "Aren't we going to cook for ourselves?"

Jiang Yan smiled and said: "Brother can't do it. Otherwise, why do you think why Master keeps money for us to go out to eat? We have vegetables and meat at home, so we don't need to buy them at all."

Shang Ning said: "Then I'll cook it for you."

Jiang Yan opened his eyes wide: "Can you still cook?"

Shang Ning nodded.

Jiang Yan murmured: "Wow, little brother, you know everything, so powerful, I am ashamed, brother."

Shang Ning clenched his hands a little bit: "No, I just know how to cook, and I didn't do it very well." He used to live alone, and he didn't always meet restaurants on the way to find Huiyangcao. When in the wilderness and ridges, you can only use local materials.He used to just want to live, so as long as the food in his mouth was cooked, he didn't care about the taste.

Thinking of this, Shang Ning somewhat regretted his opinion.He doesn't recognize many spices, and his knife skills are so-so, so the dishes he makes may not look good or taste good.For a man like his senior brother who costs two taels of silver for a piece of clothing, he probably sees a lot of delicacies, so he should look down on his dishes.Even if his senior brother doesn't laugh at him on the surface, he might feel that he might as well go down the mountain to eat.

He was about to open his mouth to take back his words, when Jiang Yan said excitedly: "What's the matter, I can't even do it. We can do it together. I will learn and you will practice. It's still early , don’t be in a hurry to eat, make a few more, there will always be something that can be eaten. If there are any bad ones, we will secretly throw them away. Anyway, Master is not here. If you don't talk about it, no one will know." After speaking, Jiang Yan blinked at Shang Ning.

Rhubarb, who was strolling over to prepare for dinner, saw this scene, and let out a "woof" in response to the occasion.

Jiang Yan was amused: "Look, Rhubarb agrees with my words, so why don't you agree quickly."

Shang Ning smiled and said, "Okay."

So the two of them went into the kitchen together.Jiang Yan searched for dishes everywhere, took out all the meat and vegetables he could find, and piled them on the stove, waiting for Shang Ning to choose.He looked at some fresh and juicy vegetables, and said, "Master, did you think that we might cook by ourselves, and he even kept these green vegetables. Usually he always said, eat this one quickly, or it will be bad, and eat that one quickly, otherwise It's stale. I didn't expect there to be so many left in the kitchen."

Shang Ning said: "Maybe I left too hastily and didn't take care of it." He looked at the meat and vegetables on the chopping board and thought about it: "Let me make broth for senior brother." He used to spend nights in the wild, so he would Prepare a small pot, and cook the soup in one pot with the ingredients that can be obtained.It was the first time Shang Ning cooked for Jiang Yan, so he naturally wanted to show off his most proficient skills.

Jiang Yan didn't care at all: "You can do whatever you want, don't worry about me, I'm easy to support."

Shang Ning pursed his lips.

Jiang Yan said: "If you want to make broth, what kind of vegetables do you need? I'll keep everything I need and put back what I don't need, so as not to take up your place."

Shang Ning took a look and left a big wax gourd and two eggs, and asked Jiang Yan to put the rest back. Then he went into the yard to pick a few small cabbages and put them back on the cutting board.Jiang Yan saw it when he came back, and was a little surprised: "I still make cabbage."

Shang Ning nodded and said, "You like to eat."

His tone is very sure, he should have known it long ago.Jiang Yan was a little embarrassed, he was a troublesome person, and his favorite food was leafy vegetables, the master said that picking this kind of vegetables was time-consuming and laborious, so he wouldn't make it for him every day.He himself is really not picky, never forceful, and eats whatever he has, but he didn't expect his little brother to notice it.

Jiang Yan said: "If the younger brother finds it troublesome, there is actually no need to do it. I really don't pick anything, I can eat anything."

Shang Ning said: "No trouble." As he spoke, he picked off the bad yellow leaves and peeled off a small cabbage piece by piece.

Jiang Yan watched his junior brother's movements.Shang Ning's hands were not very old, but it could be seen that they were well proportioned, with slender fingers and well-defined joints.Moreover, his fingers are very flexible. When he moves, the tendons connected on the back of his hand rise and fall, and he can pick up several handfuls of cabbage in two or three strokes.Among them, Shang Ning's gesture of picking up vegetables and the action of peeling off the leaves are very enjoyable to watch.Jiang Yan sighed: "Junior brother, you really have a bright future." Such a hand is also a kind of magic weapon.Still the same sentence, his little junior brother grew up to be the dream man of countless women.

Shang Ning couldn't understand what Jiang Yan was saying, and thought that his senior brother was praising him, and felt that his cooking skills would definitely improve in the future.He didn't know how to answer, so he just silently put the picked vegetables in the basin, ready to wash them.But Jiang Yan was one step faster than him, grabbed the basin first, and said with a smile: "Leave it to me to wash the vegetables. You still have cold poison on your body. If you can get less cold water, do less cold water." The meat and wax gourd were all put into the basin, and only two smooth eggs were left on the cutting board.He hugged the basin in his arms and went out.

Shang Ning looked for spices in the kitchen. There was salt, vinegar and oil on the stove, but these alone were not enough.It seems that his senior brother really has never cooked, and some common seasonings are not clear, so he didn't bring them over.Shang Ning walked around the kitchen, picked up onions, ginger and garlic from a corner, and cut them up on the cutting board for later use.

After a while, Jiang Yan came in.He frowned and said, "It feels weird to touch the meat with bare hands." He put the meat in the pot on the cutting board, and brought up the pot with Chinese cabbage and wax gourd.The fat winter melon was lying in the middle, surrounded by vegetable leaves, Jiang Yan smiled and said: "Look at how cute this winter melon is, chubby, wearing a green skirt. The vegetable leaves around here are her skirt, scattered One turn. It’s like dancing, and the skirt will fly with one turn.”

Shang Ning has seen dancing once or twice, and after thinking about it, it seems that it is really like this, so he couldn't help laughing: "Yes."

Seeing him smiling, Jiang Yan was also happy.He shook the vegetables in the pot before putting them on the cutting board, and said solemnly: "The rest is up to you, little junior brother, I'll just wait to eat." Then he sat down in the kitchen with his buttocks alone. On a small stool, with one hand resting on his chin and propping up his knees, he just looked at Shang Ning like that.

So Shang Ning cut the vegetables, marinated the meat, lit the fire, put it in the pot, stir-fried it, and added water by himself.Jiang Yan sat on the sidelines and watched him, not even helping him.

Shang Ning saw how innocent he looked, and only stared at his hands and pot, knowing that he didn't mean not to help, but was completely unconscious.When Shang Ning put the lid on the pot to cook the soup, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.People are different after all, some people always sit back and enjoy their success, while others are diligent and let others sit back and enjoy their success.The biggest difference between his senior brother and the former may be that the former is usually annoying, while his senior brother always makes others willing to work hard for him.

At the very least, Shang Ning himself didn't dislike Jiang Yan for not helping at all, and was even somewhat willing to do it for him.He thought that his uncle probably thought the same as him, otherwise why would the senior brother come to this mountain for so many years and still not even know how to cook a single dish.

While Shang Ning was waiting for the soup to be cooked, he was preparing to wash the rice for cooking. Jiang Yan quickly stood up and picked it up carefully.After picking up the water, he put it on another stove, sat down without even knowing how to turn on the fire, and looked at Shang Ning with open eyes, as if he was waiting for the other party to praise him for his initiative.

Shang Ning felt a little funny, he didn't know how to praise others, so he said, "Thank you, brother."

Jiang Yan's eyes lit up immediately: "Young junior brother is the best!"

Shang Ning turned his back to light the fire to cook.Seeing the redness on his ears, Jiang Yan was very happy in his heart, and felt that his junior brother was not unresponsive to his praise.

After dinner, Jiang Yan helped Shang Ning serve the meal.Shang Ning's craftsmanship was indeed not very good, but Jiang Yan ate an extra bowl of rice than usual.After all, it was cooked for him by his junior brother, with intentions in it, and ordinary meals also made him feel delicious.

The two had a hearty meal.

At this time, the sun has risen to the center of the top, and the strong sunlight makes people listless.Jiang Yan dragged Shang Ning to take a nap, and he said: "Naping at noon can generate yang energy, which is good for your health. You can sleep with me. Master entrusted you to me, and I will be responsible for you."

Rhubarb, who was also full of food and drink, was lying in the shadow of the eaves like a dead dog, echoing loudly with a "woof".

Shang Ning: "..."