Reborn peasant girl: I became rich overnight by traveling to sea

Chapter 19 What to choose among three short and one long

Unexpectedly, the Liu family moved very quickly. Aunt Qiuhong left the Guo family's yard, and Manager Liu stood outside the Guo family's yard, saying hello.

"Is Madam Guo here?"

Hearing the sound, Chang Pingning quickly asked Manager Liu to come in. Unexpectedly, Meng Xia walked in behind Manager Liu, looking beaming with joy.

"Please sit down, both of you." Chang Pingning invited the two of them into the main room, "I'll call mother and father."

The sales of Guo Dayong's sea fish were a bit slow, and it took a long time before he returned home after lunch.Now I am resting in the back room.After Qiu Hong left, Ye Xiuying collected seafood in a shady place in the yard.

The two of them were called by Chang Pingning and quickly walked to the main room.Seeing this, Chang Pingning went to the kitchen to pour water for the guests.

When Chang Pingning returned to the main room with water, he saw Meng Xia smiling and asking herself.

"I heard that Mrs. Guo is a good cook. I wonder if I can see it with my own eyes."

Chang Pingning looked at his mother-in-law, who looked at Guanshi Liu.

"Manager Liu, I'd like to ask, is it true that the Liu family wants to invite a sushi mat?" Ye Xiuying had an obviously inquiring look on her face, "Are you still looking for a cook in our village?"

Meng Xia and Manager Liu looked at each other and looked at the three Guo family members with a smile.

"The village chief should give a proper notice about the flowing water mat later." Guanshi Liu said.

"If you want to help in the kitchen, I want to see Mrs. Guo's skills on the stove first." Meng Xia looked at Chang Pingning, "Is it convenient for me to take a look?"

"Miss Meng, please come with me. Our kitchen is in the yard." Chang Pingning said, lowering his head, not wanting to look at Meng Xia.

"Just call me Meng Xia." Meng Xia said, "I heard - Mrs. Ye doesn't have to get up and talk to Manager Liu. Mrs. Guo, you look a little older than me, I'll call you 'Sister Ning' How about it?"

Chang Pingning was stunned. The name "Sister Ning" was exactly the name Meng Xia proposed when Dong Xiuyuan introduced Meng Xia to him in the previous life.

"Miss Meng..." Chang Pingning saw Meng Xia's disapproving look and changed his words, "Meng Xia, you still call me 'Ms. Guo' like everyone else. The kitchen is here, do you want to watch vegetables being cut or something else?"

Meng Xia glanced outside the kitchen and confirmed that there was no one outside. When they were alone in the kitchen, she looked at Chang Pingning with a serious expression: "Why do you know how to make sea urchin fried rice?"

Stunned by this question, Chang Pingning couldn't tell Meng Xia that she had learned this specially in her previous life to please Dong Xiuyuan.

Chang Pingning had no choice but to fool around and said: "Well... when I first got married, my mother-in-law took me to catch the sea. The sea urchins I saw happened to be some rice at home... How did Miss Meng think of asking this?"

Meng Xia was caught off guard by Chang Pingning's change of topic: "I heard from the young master that there are still people in this town who know how to cook sea urchin fried rice..."

Chang Pingning felt relieved when he heard that Meng Xia's explanation was in line with what her mother-in-law said.

"Which one should I choose?" Seeing Chang Pingning's relaxed expression, Meng Xia suppressed the surprise in her heart and asked suddenly.

"What?" Chang Pingning didn't react, "Can you say it again?"

"It's nothing." Meng Xia saw that the confusion on Chang Pingning's face was not fake. She was sure that Chang Pingning was different from her.

The kitchen fell silent for a moment.

Chang Pingning could also see that Meng Xia's eyes were obviously shining when he asked her about "sea urchin fried rice", but after her confused reaction, the light in Meng Xia's eyes quickly dimmed.

The conjecture that once appeared in Chang Pingning's mind reappeared.

Could it be that Meng Xia was also reborn?
Then does Meng Xia, like herself, still remember the events of her previous life?
Does Meng Xia still remember that she killed him?Thinking of his death in his previous life, Chang Pingning felt that Meng Xia in front of him had become a bit annoying.

"Miss Meng, I wonder what kind of cooking skills you want to see when you come to the kitchen?"

"What? Oh, let's look at the way you clean seafood first..." Meng Xia woke up from a dream and answered Chang Pingning's question. After thinking for a while, he added, "And then look at your knife skills. Let's do these two things first. "

After Meng Xia finished speaking, he walked to the other side of the kitchen, folded his arms, and prepared to see Chang Pingning's performance.

He didn't know why, but when the topic returned to the kitchen stove, Chang Pingning felt inexplicably relieved.

Chang Pingning took a small wooden basin of seafood and began to clean it. Then he sorted them on plates and took some larger snails to the cutting board to slice them.

"Please ask Miss Meng to check whether my knife skills of this level can be your helper?" Chang Pingning placed the cut snail meat in front of Meng Xia.

"It's okay. I'm going to visit other houses in the village with Manager Liu." Meng Xia picked up a few pieces of snail meat with chopsticks to check. Then when he walked out of the door, he saw a wooden basin with seafood, "Your house doesn't have oysters." son?"

"Oysters can't be picked up at any time. On the day they are picked up, they will be sold directly outside." Chang Pingning replied, not knowing why Meng Xia would ask this.

"Then how do you clean oysters?" Meng Xia turned to look at Chang Pingning and added, "If you want to eat them at home."

Chang Pingning felt that Meng Xia's attitude was not as friendly as it was at the beginning, but like the friendship between strangers that was separated by a layer of something.

"Oysters are expensive, so our family usually sends them to the town to sell them." Chang Pingning replied, "If you eat them yourself, you will clean the things on the shell."

"Okay, thank you Madam Chang for your answer. I will discuss it with Butler Liu." Meng Xia thanked him politely and walked towards the main room.

As for Chang Pingning, she was a little stunned when she heard the name "Ms. Chang".Since she got married, she has either heard of "Ms. Guo" or "Ms. Dong" from her previous life. It’s been a long time since I’ve been called “Ms. Chang”.

After Meng Xia and Manager Liu left the Guo family, Chang Pingning saw his mother-in-law and father-in-law looking at him hurriedly.

"Does the Liu family's cook want you to be the assistant cook?" Almost in unison.

Chang Pingning shook his head, and after seeing the regretful expressions of his mother-in-law and father-in-law, he quickly explained: "I'm not sure yet. Chef Meng didn't say anything, she just said we would discuss it later."

Facing her mother-in-law's questions, Chang Pingning talked about her performance just now, but did not mention Meng Xia's abnormal behavior and strange problems.

That evening, when Chang Pingning followed the Guo family back to the Guo family from the seaside, they saw the village chief waiting at the door of their house. It seemed that he had been waiting for a while.

"Brother Dayong is back." The village chief greeted them and teased the children next to him, "Why did Ling'an pick up so many sea urchins?"

"Ah, there is a thorn." Guo Ling'an glanced at her mother.

Fortunately, the village chief didn't pay much attention to what Guo Lingan said. After walking into the Guo family's yard, he talked about the Liu family's plan.

After three or five days, a flowing table will be set up in the village and the whole village will be invited to eat.But we need manpower, and we want to invite the eldest daughter-in-law of their family, as well as the daughters-in-law or daughters of several other families in the village, a total of five people.Tomorrow they will go to the Liu family again and let Miss Liu have a look.

If they behave well, they will all stay, and the whole village will have a banquet in three days.If the performance is not good, more time will be needed.

After listening to the village chief's words, Chang Pingning remembered Meng Xia's somewhat disappointed expression when he left the kitchen.

I don't know what she was looking for, but she didn't seem to find it.

(End of this chapter)