I will never give in to Miss Death

"correct."

While chatting with Zhou Xiaofei, Elodie's mother in the kitchen seemed to be having a great time talking to Lan Jiajia. She poked her head out of the kitchen and waved to me, "Child, come here."

"What's wrong, Auntie?"

I quickly stood up and walked to the kitchen: "You looking for me?"

Elodie's mother got straight to the point: "When will Xiaomo come back?"

"She?"

I took out my phone and checked the time. "They said they'd be back before eight, so there's still about an hour left. How about I give them a call?"

"No, no, since they are busy outside, I won't bother them."

Elodie's mother also took out her phone: "Do you have Alipay or WeChat?"

"Hmm? Yes."

"Open any one and scan the payment code for me."

"what happened?"

Although I didn't quite understand what the mother was trying to do, I still obediently swiped the screen and clicked on the payment code.

"Don't move, sweep it for me, Auntie."

Elodie's mother used her mobile phone to scan my payment code, and then seemed to enter some numbers on it.

"Ding, Alipay received 2500 yuan."

"Eh?"

The clear sound of Alipay payment came, and I was confused for a moment: "Auntie, what are you doing..."

"My daughter told me about the computer, so I went to look for that distant relative."

Elodie's mother put away her phone and said, "I'm sorry, kids. I didn't know he gave you that kind of computer. He seemed like a nice guy before..."

"Ah, this..."

When I heard about this, I quickly checked the balance on my phone: "I really don't need this..."

"Take it. Yesterday, my aunt went to that relative's house and beat him up just for this matter. This is what he returned, minus the 200 yuan for the car fare."

Elodie's mother had a look on her face that said, "Don't give me back any more." "Okay, that's it for now. I have a guild war to participate in later, so I won't bother you any more. I'll leave my daughter in your care from now on!"

After saying that, she walked directly to the entrance, quickly changed her shoes, and opened the door: "No need to see me off!"

As the door closed, I looked at the empty entrance, then at the 2500 yuan that had just arrived in my account on my phone. For a moment, I didn't know how to react.

"Auntie is a very nice person."

At this time, Lan Jiajia also came out of the kitchen: "She talked to me a lot just now, and it seems that her mentality is younger than many young people nowadays."

I nodded: "Indeed."

"Noer, you have to work hard too, ok?"

Lan Jiajia looked at me with interest: "When did Xiaomo take it down?"

"Why is it that when it's my turn, I'm the one who gets taken down? Can't I just take her down?"

I put away my phone in dissatisfaction and walked into the kitchen——

"Let's prepare the meal first."

"..."

……

【Thanks to the rich loli Mingjiu Fuyu in the group for the reward of Yan Di!!! Thank you!!! =3=】

No. 210 The love of the sea is too shallow, the world is changing

Lan Jiajia and I were busy in the kitchen until after six o'clock before we finished processing the large amount of ingredients we bought.

Orleans roast chicken is the simplest one among them. Now there are many places selling Orleans roast chicken coating. You just need to wash the chicken and evenly apply the baking seasoning on it, and then add some of your own preferences. For example, this time I specially added some cumin on it. Anyway, those coatings were bought casually when I lived in a small apartment before. They were one dollar a bag and I didn’t use them many times, but they tasted really good.

As for the fish head soup and Lan Jiajia’s steamed chicken...just prepare the seasonings and put them in and let the machine heat them. As for the hairy crabs, just steam them directly. Then Lan Jiajia and I will each be responsible for two different dipping sauces.

Generally speaking, it is not difficult to cook seafood and most marine products. Basically, you can either steam them or blanch them. As long as they are cooked, it will be fine. The difficult part is the ingredients.

The dipping sauce I made here is a version with garlic, a little soy sauce, peanut oil and sesame oil mixed together. Stir-fry them together until fragrant, and then divide them into versions with and without chili. Taking into account that the little guy in the living room and the dragon from another world may not like garlic, I also made a version without garlic. That is, put soy sauce, peanut oil and sesame oil in a pan and stir-fry them together, let the aroma of peanut oil and sesame oil burst out and mix into the soy sauce, so that it has both fragrance and fresh and salty taste. This way, you can eat it directly after the hairy crabs open their shells.

A long time ago, I actually had a certain prejudice against garlic and garlic cloves, but since I have eaten some oysters and large shells with garlic cloves, I no longer think this thing is unpalatable. It is also said that garlic has a strong bactericidal effect and is of certain help to the stomach and intestines.

Lan Jiajia added some coriander and peanuts to the dipping sauce and fried them with soy sauce. We made several different dipping sauces in this way.

"Is that all?"

With the aroma filling the house, I walked out of the kitchen and tried to pull the big table in the corner of the hall out.

Ah...I can’t move it.

"So Nuoer needs to eat more to gain strength."

Lan Jiajia, who followed me, couldn't help laughing when she saw my expression. She walked over quickly, took off her apron, helped me lift the dining table, and moved it to the center of the living room.

The dining table on the first floor of Elodi's rental house is usually placed in the corner by the window. Because there are only four girls living in this house, and Elodi's schedule is staggered with ours, it is rare for four girls to sit together to eat. Therefore, there are no chairs on the corner side of the table, only three or four folding chairs facing the corridor.

But this does not mean that this dining table cannot meet the dining needs of four or five people, because it is also a "folding" dining table.

The originally round dining table can be pulled apart from the middle to the front and back, and then the baffle at the bottom can be put up to turn it into a large oval dining table. Pull it into the living room, take out all the folding chairs, and everyone can gather around it. Not to mention four or five people, even ten people can sit there.

"I'm here to help too!"

When Lan Jiajia and I were lifting the table, the thin Zhou Xiaofei on the sofa ran to the corner where the table was originally placed and took out the folding stool there.

"Be careful."

Lan Jiajia regained her usual maternal glow, looking at Zhou Xiaofei with tenderness: "If it doesn't work, don't force it. Sister Nuoer and I will come later."

"It's okay. I often help grandma with housework at home."

Although it was a bit difficult to move, Zhou Xiaofei gritted her teeth and carried the folding chair to the center of the restaurant, then turned around to pick up the next folding chair.

This child is so sensible...

I looked at Zhou Xiaofei, who looked like "I'm very happy I helped", and silently praised the little guy in my heart.

It can be said that children from poor families have to grow up early. Zhou Xiaofei is not only kind and polite, but also very considerate in other people's homes. It can be seen that her grandmother must have educated her very well when she was a child.

A certain proud little princess who stays at home should really learn this.

The scenes of my first meeting with Li Denghua not long ago emerged in my mind.

Putting aside her proud little princess appearance, Li Denghua was really like a naughty child most of the time. She spoke very bluntly, which made me angry many times and I wanted to hit her on the forehead.

Now Li Denghua and Zhou Xiaofei have become friends. I hope that child’s bad temper can be changed in the future.

"Noer, pull that way."

Move the table to the center of the living room and move the sofas and small chairs around it. Lan Jiajia bent down, unfastened the buckle under the table, and then grabbed a corner.

"Ah."

I grabbed the other corner, and with a little force from both of us, the round dining table instantly cracked open with a crack of nearly half a meter. Lan Jiajia let go of her hand, bent down, fiddled with the table under it for a while, pushed a baffle up, and aligned the baffle with the crack in the middle of the round table.

"All right."

After finishing the table, Lan Jiajia walked to the other corner and moved the table with Zhou Xiaofei: "It should be enough for us to eat."

"That's certainly enough."

I ran to the kitchen, came out holding the still steaming chicken, and placed the entire cage directly in the middle of the dining table.

This steamed chicken will be the signature dish for dinner tonight, along with fish head tofu soup and Orleans roast chicken...

Back in the kitchen, I rummaged through the safe above the refrigerator, took out two disposable gloves, took a deep breath, moved the Orleans roast chicken that had been out of the oven next to it to me, and started to tear the chicken.

Hand-torn chicken worker is a "profession" that requires a certain understanding of the chicken itself in order to tear it to bring out the flavor.

When I was still living in a small apartment, there was a shredded chicken shop next to where I lived. The price of buying their chicken and ingredients and cooking it yourself and having them do the whole process is different. The difference between the two was about 5 yuan. At that time, I thought I could save 5 yuan by shredding the chicken, so I bought the chicken and seasonings without hesitation and came back to cook it myself. Then when I got home and started to fiddle with the chicken, I realized that this job is really not suitable for novices.

Having never slaughtered chickens before, I really didn't know the structure of the whole chicken. I didn't know where the chicken skeleton was the most fragile, or where the meat was the softest and hardest, or where I could easily tear off a whole piece of meat. This process took me the entire evening, and in the end I just used a kitchen knife to cut the meat and ate it.

From then on, I started my career of studying hand-shredded chicken, until I could perfectly tear the hand-shredded chicken with a taste and texture that was almost the same as that of the store outside...that store went bankrupt and was replaced by a sacrificial supplies store that "tells fortunes and feng shui."

After today, although I have almost forgotten the process of tearing a chicken by hand, and my body has become that of a little girl with no strength, the Orka roasted chicken in front of me is roasted to the point that the bones are crispy, so even a little girl can tear it without any effort.

"They haven't come back yet?"

While I was busy tearing the chicken, Lan Jiajia, who had just finished preparing the dinner table in the living room, came over and brought me some fish head tofu soup. "By the way, what does Xiaomo like? I'll see what I can give her as a birthday present."

"Xiaomo's words..."

I thought about it: "Like flowers?"

"Understood. I'll go make some handmade flowers later."

Lan Jiajia smiled and said, "Is there any cake for us tonight?"

"cake?"

Lan Jiajia’s words made me stunned.

Yes! Cake!

If it’s your birthday, you should eat cake!

"Looking at Nuo'er's expression, maybe not?"

Lan Jiajia took the fish head soup out and put it away, then came back with a plate of vegetables and said jokingly: "If there is no cake, then Nuoer will have to give herself to Xiaomo as a birthday cake."

"Yes, yes! I'll go down and buy it now!"

I tore the New Orleans roast chicken on the plate as quickly as possible, took off my gloves, and said to Lan Jiajia, "I'll leave this to Sister Jiajia!"

Cake... yeah, I actually forgot about this.

It is a custom for city people to eat cake on birthdays.

I grew up in an orphanage, and my understanding of "birthday" is somewhat different from that of city people.

In our place, if a child has a birthday, the food for that day will be slightly better than usual, and the welfare home will also organize some small activities for the child whose birthday it is, such as shooting basketballs in the small yard outside and winning prizes, or everyone can play some small games such as hide-and-seek and hopping together, so that all the children in the home know that today is that child's birthday.

I still remember playing hide-and-seek on my birthday. I hid at the top of a tree. The kid in charge of catching me searched for half an hour but couldn’t find me. He called the dean over, and the dean searched for more than ten minutes before he found me. He said on the spot, “You are worthy of being the birthday boy today. You are the first in hide-and-seek.”

This is all I know about “birthday” as a child from an orphanage.

I know that birthday is a very important holiday for a person, and the birthday boy or girl will receive blessings from friends around him or her on the birthday, but I didn’t know that we should eat birthday cake on birthdays - because the welfare home was too poor.

What’s even worse is that my birthday is December 12th, which is Christmas Eve. The next day is Christmas. On this day, people will remember more about eating apples, Christmas trees all over the streets, and receiving Christmas gifts, rather than “Today is Yin Shiren’s birthday.”

Birthday events continued until we entered junior high school. Basically, after junior high school, people in the welfare home rarely paid attention to our birthdays. They would either simply buy us some small gifts or write a letter to school with a few dollars in it and the words "Happy Birthday" written on it.

You are a big kid now. You have to walk your own path and celebrate your birthday by yourself.

This is what I have always believed.

It wasn't until I went to college and saw some of my roommates buy a super big cake on their birthday and call boys from several surrounding dormitories to eat the cake together that I realized...it turns out that you have to eat cake on your birthday.

For children from ordinary families, their parents will buy them a big, sweet cake on their birthday, and then invite all their friends to their home, where they will sing birthday songs, eat cake, and play games together. This is the "reward" that children in the city can get on their birthdays.

But I’m not too envious. After all, it’s your own life and it’s yours to live however you want.

Children from ordinary families have cakes on their birthdays, but on my birthday I have a Christmas tree and apples, and so many good friends to play with. It’s the same for everyone.

But...I can live without a birthday cake, but Xiaomo can't.

I don’t care how Xiaomo has spent the past few years, but at least this time, I will celebrate her birthday according to the procedures here.

Birthday gifts, birthday cakes, birthday wishes, don’t miss any of them!

Really, I almost forgot about the cake. Habits are the real culprit...

I untied my apron, changed my shoes at the entrance, walked out with my phone, and took the elevator downstairs.

The current time is 6:50 pm. Xiaomo and the others said that if we come back before 8 o'clock, there is still time.

Nannagi District is a relatively remote area. Although there are few basic facilities near Elodie's Xingxing Garden Community, it has everything it needs. For example, I remember that the cake shop should be in...

After going downstairs, I quickly ran out of the community and came to the path behind the community.