The Lady of the Farm in the Red Mansion

Entering the boat cabin, the island master in white began his daily breathing adjustment again.

Xiuyan found a place closest to him, rested her chin on one hand, tilted her head, and stared at him quietly. He looked so pretty with his eyes closed. Looking at her, a trace of warmth overflowed from the corner of her mouth unconsciously. laugh.

The warm sunshine at noon spilled in through the large windows on the cabin, and sprinkled a layer of warm golden sand on the entire wooden cabin, bringing people into a dreamy realm. The big boat undulated with the waves, It's easy to make people feel drowsy, especially for someone like Xiuyan who has never been on a boat. Just now she was staring at him with great interest, but after a while, her upper and lower eyelids began to fight. The body swayed with the ups and downs of the big ship.

Suddenly there was a strange "gulu", Xiuyan's arm slipped, her body sank, her chin almost hit the table, she propped herself up with both palms, and looked at the person on the couch suspiciously.

The man rubbed his stomach and smiled slightly: "Xiuyan, I seem to be a little hungry!"

"Are you hungry?" Xiuyan scratched her head, looking around with her bony eyes, "I don't know if the second island master has prepared dry food for us!"

The island master in white put his hands on his knees, frowned deliberately, and said with a bitter face, "Don't Xiuyan plan to cook?"

"Cook?"

"Of course, cook for me!" He said as a matter of course, and then pointed his mouth at the corner of the boat cabin.

Xiuyan followed his line of sight, and saw several bags of rice, potatoes, pumpkins and winter melons piled up in the corner, as well as some dry goods. Pickled fish, Xiuyan looked at the enough food for the two of them for half a year, then looked at the white-clothed island owner, and asked uncertainly, "Are we planning to live and eat on the boat for a year or so?"

The island owner in white got up slowly and walked to the big window. Xiuyan also followed his steps. He looked at the boundless sea and said sadly: "A year and a half is not enough. If our luck is bad enough, we can find a There are no other islands and no passing merchant ships, it is possible in three to five years! However, "

He turned around suddenly, Xiuyan's nose just hit his elbow.She lowered her head and covered her nose, complaining of pain.

"Why are you so careless, and you don't make a sound when you walk behind me!" He wondered.

Xiuyan rubbed her nose and pouted aggrievedly, and murmured: "How can this be my fault!" Her voice was very weak, barely audible.

Unexpectedly, he heard it, and he said, "Why don't you blame me. I don't have eyes behind me!" His tone was strong.

"You're unreasonable, I'm the one who got hurt, and you still blame me!" As she spoke, her eyes became moist, she didn't want him to see her tears, she swung her arms, wiped away the tears, turned around and ran to Cangjiao, Squatting down, picked up a small half bag of rice and picked two potatoes.Picking up a pumpkin, looking at the island owner in white, he tiptoed to pick up a salted fish, raised the fish to the island owner in white and said, "I'll cook!" After finishing speaking, he quickly ran out of the warehouse go.

Because she was too flustered, the pumpkin rolled out of her arms. When she hurriedly squatted down to pick up the pumpkin, two more potatoes rolled away. Xiuyan hurriedly bent down to chase the potatoes, and the potatoes were also mischievous.But after chasing to his feet, she raised her head to look at him, only to see that he was still looking at her angrily, Xiuyan's nose twitching.She picked up the potatoes and ran out. The pumpkin fell again, but she didn't care.

When I came to the deck at the stern, I saw a small shed there, which seemed to be the kitchen of the ship.She lighted the stove and put down the rice.Then he began to cut potatoes one after another, pouted and murmured: "Obviously I was the one who was hurt, so it's fine if you don't apologize, but you still blame me!" With a twist of his nose, he stretched out his hand to wipe the snot, and wiped it on his body with his backhand After wiping, he grabbed the handle of the knife and cut the potatoes into strips lightly and heavily. Due to his absent-mindedness, the potato strips were of different sizes.

"I dare not eat your food with tears and snot in it!" A man's voice suddenly sounded from behind.

Xiuyan turned her head away, and saw the island owner in white holding a yellow pumpkin in one hand and several packages of dry goods in the other, looking at her with a gentle smile like water.

"Then what do you want?" Xiuyan raised her neck slightly, questioning her words, she swears to him with her actions, although she is gentle but not cowardly, she is not someone who can be manipulated and bullied at will, you know Rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry.

Seeing her like this, he was angry, funny, and distressed. He turned behind her, put the things on the chopping board, grabbed her hands from behind, turned his head and whispered softly in her ear: "Just now It's my fault, I was too nervous, that's why I scolded you, cared about it, I didn't know that my tone would hurt you, now I know I was wrong, I apologize to you, okay!"

His breath was blown into her ears, itching and numb, she shrugged, giggled and said: "Apologizing is not something you just say, you have to show something!"

"Of course!" He pinched her wrist with his fingers holding her hand. Before she could react, the kitchen knife fell into his hand smoothly. The kitchen knife was gorgeous in his hand. As soon as he turned around, there was a series of "snapping" sounds of cutting potatoes on the cutting board, and he said while cutting, "I've never cooked for others, today you are No.1!"

Xiuyan tilted her head to look at his knife skills, and praised him, "The island owner's knife skills are among the best in the culinary world in the capital! The island owner's cooking must be very delicious!"

In response to her praise, the white-clothed island owner pursed his lips and smiled, then said to the pumpkin Lulu on the ground: "If you want to get the delicious food early, you can help me!"

"Then what should I do?"

"Wash the pumpkin!"

So Xiuyan took the golden south claw to the side of the bucket to wash it off. Xiuyan held it in front of him and asked, "Do you need me to cut it into pieces?"

The island master in white shook his head and said, "You don't need to cut it into pieces, you just need to wash it clean!"

"I've cleaned it!" Xiuyan held it closer again.

After tilting his head to look at it, he pursed his lips and said, "It's really clean, then you can wash those dry goods a little bit, then wash the dried shrimps, and soak them in clean water!"

Xiuyan opened the small bags containing dry goods one by one according to her words, and saw that there were black and white sesame seeds, barley, walnut kernels, red dates, wolfberries, and hawthorn ginseng slices.

Xiuyan raised her eyes and saw that he was peeling off a piece of the cover from the pumpkin with a knife, and then reached in to dig out the flesh inside.

Xiuyan let the black and white sesame seeds slip through her fingers, and asked, "Islander, what are you going to do? Is it pumpkin, black and white sesame, barley and wolfberry?"

"Good stuff, you'll know it when it's done!" This guy actually started to play tricks too.

Xiuyan watched as he dug out all the pumpkin flesh, then poured the washed barley, black and white sesame seeds, red dates, wolfberries, and walnuts into a large bowl, mixed it with water, added seasonings, covered it, and put it on Steam on high heat until it is fully cooked, then pour it into the pumpkin Gu and continue steaming.

Taking advantage of this moment, he fried a few small dishes by the way, while Xiuyan was sitting at the table, tapping the rim of the bowl with chopsticks, happily waiting for the meal to start. (To be continued.)