After Liao Hongmei put the lid back on the pot, she met He Jing's eyes and immediately felt embarrassed.

"Sister-in-law, do you have any dried radishes at home?" He Jing asked her, pretending she knew nothing.

Seeing that she didn't care, Liao Hongmei breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Yes, there is, but how did you know?"

Liao Hongmei turned around and used the key to open the cabinet, saying, "The keys are taken in turns. Today I'm the one making breakfast so I'll take it."

"If you don't take them, the four bone-dissolving dragons at home will eat up all the dried radish and sugar in less than a day." Liao Hongmei took out a bag of dried radish and continued, "Here it is."

"I smelled it." He Jing listened quietly and answered the first question after she finished speaking.

At this moment, she looked at the dried radish, picked it up and squeezed it. It was just the right hardness and softness. She smelled it and found the saltiness was just right.

Liao Hongmei took a glance and pursed her lips, "You are the same as your mother-in-law, with a very keen sense of smell."

"Really?" He Jing was a little surprised. She looked up and asked, "Sister-in-law, can I have some fried radish to go with the porridge?"

"I was going to stir-fry the dried radish." Liao Hongmei blinked, looking her up and down curiously, and said, "Sister-in-law, I don't think you can cook."

"I ask you to come, is that okay?" Liao Hongmei doesn't like beating around the bush. She likes to be straightforward and say whatever she wants to say.

He Jing was stunned after hearing her straightforward question.

Liao Hongmei glanced at her and continued, "Sister-in-law, this is how I am. If you have anything to say, just say it directly."

"If you don't like it, I'll be more tactful next time."

He Jing shook her head. "It's not that I don't like it. I like you like this, sister-in-law."

Just say whatever you want to say directly, without having others guessing, this will avoid a lot of conflicts.

"Sister-in-law, I can cook." He Jing followed up on the previous question and continued, "If you don't believe me, you can just watch from the side."

Liao Hongmei was skeptical.

He Jing washed the dried radish, then wrung it dry. Finally, she heated up the iron pan, added a small amount of lard, and stir-fried the dried radish.

In an instant, the fragrance came out.

Liao Hongmei's eyes widened. She was clearly watching every step, so why did the dried radish fried by He Jing have such a strong aroma?

"How did you do it?" Liao Hongmei asked impatiently, taking a deep breath and her stomach growling.

It smelled so good that Liao Hongmei felt she could finish a bowl of porridge with just one dried radish.

"Sister-in-law, the key to stir-frying dried radish lies in the moisture. I squeezed out the moisture of the dried radish before putting it in the pot, and also boiled the water in the iron pot. When the pot is hot enough to feel over 180 degrees, I put in the dried radish..." He Jing explained in detail.

Liao Hongmei was stunned when she heard this. She only remembered to squeeze out the water from the dried radish before putting it into the pot. "I'll try it next time."

"Hmm." After frying the dried radish, He Jing skillfully extinguished the fire in the stove and waited for the pot to cool down slowly before pouring water in to clean it.

However, at this moment, the He family woke up and came to the kitchen to see what was going on, smelling the fragrance.

Shi Chunlan came to the kitchen and saw He Jing and Liao Hongmei were there. She looked at the fried radish on the stove and asked, "Did Jingjing make this?"

"Yes, Mom!" Liao Hongmei was very happy. "Jingjing's cooking skills are as good as yours. It's amazing."

"It only takes a few steps to fry such fragrant dried radish."

Before Shi Chunlan could answer, she heard her four grandchildren running over and surrounding the kitchen. "Grandma, what delicious food have you made?"

"Mom, it smells so good, when can we have breakfast?"

"smell good."

"Grandma, I'm hungry."

The four children chattered endlessly.

Liao Hongmei shook her head repeatedly after hearing this. She glanced at He Jing and saw that she didn't look impatient at all. Instead, she smiled gently at the children. She couldn't help but smile, "Is it very noisy?"

"No, it's very lively." He Jing denied. In her previous life, she was beaten by an old man and would never be able to have children again.

And her stepchildren don't like her.

He Jing didn't force it, but in her later years, after the old man passed away, she finally relaxed and could do what she wanted, but there was no one to share her joy.

The envy in He Jing's eyes was not fake. Liao Hongmei saw it and looked at her two children thoughtfully.

Shi Chunlan asked her grandchildren to go out and wash up, and then she had time to look at He Jing, "Did you do all this?"

"Yes." Liao Hongmei was quick to explain, "I was supposed to do it today, but Jingjing had already prepared it when I came over."

"Mom, I'll do it for one more day tomorrow, and it will be Zhaodi's turn the day after tomorrow." Liao Hongmei looked at He Jing again and said with a smile, "You can't snatch it from me again."

"In our family, the work is assigned."

Shi Chunlan nodded in agreement, "Jingjing, follow your sister-in-law's arrangements."

"Okay." He Jing didn't know the rules of the He family, but she could adapt to them slowly.

Liao Hongmei went out, leaving only He Jing and Shi Chunlan in the kitchen.

Shi Chunlan looked at the fried radish on the stove, her eyes moistened, "Jingjing, who taught you to cook?"

He Jing hesitated for a moment, then shook her head, "I don't remember much, it seems like it always has been like this."

No matter which life it was, He Jing never learned how to cook. When she saw the ingredients and seasonings, she seemed to know how to cook them.

"That's right." Shi Chunlan smiled kindly and reached out to touch her hair. "I was skeptical before because Fangfang couldn't cook."

"It's just that I brought Fangfang home, so I didn't think too much about it."

"But Jingjing, there is something I must tell you." Shi Chunlan suddenly became serious.

He Jing couldn't help but stand up straight and listen carefully.

"Jingjing, every woman in our lineage is born with the ability to cook. Not only that, our lineage's hearing, vision, smell and taste are all different from those of ordinary people."

Shi Chunlan looked at her with a firm look in her eyes, "These are our secrets. You can only tell us when you have a daughter, understand?"

He Jing never thought that there was such a mysterious story about her life experience. She nodded firmly and agreed, "Mom, don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

"That's good." Shi Chunlan relaxed and continued, "It's not a big deal."

"But your grandmother said so, and I told you so too."

Shi Chunlan patted her shoulder and said, "Let's go have breakfast."

"Wait a minute, we still have to go to town."

In the hall.

The He family members all sat down, and everyone was looking at the dried radish that He Jing fried.

He Jidong looked at the dried radish on the table and took a deep breath, "Little sister, you made this, I really can't tell."

"This is our mother's cooking skills." He Jijun reached out and picked up a piece and put it into his mouth. It tasted crispy and delicious.

He Zhiqiang looked at the three children getting along well with each other and started laughing happily too.

Only after Shi Chunlan arrived did the family start to have breakfast.

The four children loved the fried dried radish very much. They ate bowl after bowl of white porridge but it was still not enough. However, Liao Hongmei and Xu Zhaodi were worried that they would be too full, so they stopped them from eating. Only then did they put down their chopsticks awkwardly and stared at the last bit of dried radish left.

He Zhiqiang couldn't help laughing when he saw them staring at him, and he picked up a piece of dried radish for each of them to hold in their mouth to satisfy their cravings.

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