He Jijun turned his head and looked at him, "That's all you can do."

However, he had to admit that He Jing's cooking skills were good, better than his mother's.

He Jidong chuckled twice, "Brother, food is the most important thing for the people."

In early April, the weather warmed up and the sun was shining brightly. I started sweating after walking on the road for a while.

He Jing raised her hand and gently wiped the sweat from her forehead. Looking around, she saw fields everywhere in the village.

But the fields are all bare and the rice seedlings have not been planted yet.

Someone was plowing the field.

He Jing squinted and felt that the man plowing the field looked familiar, then she heard Shi Chunlan beside her say.

"Zhou Qi'an is a master at plowing in the village." Shi Chunlan also saw it, with a bit of satisfaction in her eyes, and then said, "Your eldest brother and second brother can't be as meticulous as him."

He Jing looked over when she heard that. The iron shovel under the wooden plow had turned up the soil, which was then stepped on by the man.

The man who was plowing another field did not do this, and the turned up soil was arranged neatly.

Shi Chunlan continued, "This is just the first time. We will have to plow the field again later."

As she spoke, Shi Chunlan pointed in another direction. He Jing looked over there and saw that there were still people plowing the fields, but the tools were different. They were plows and harrows used to level the fields.

"It's easier to harrow the land that Qi'an has plowed."

"There are no big lumps of soil left, only small lumps. They will become soft after soaking for a few days."

He Jing listened while looking at the man. When they first met, she already knew that he was very tall, at least 1.85 meters.

Now looking at him from a distance, He Jing realized that the man had perfect proportions, with broad shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs.

He Jing couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, and after admiring him for two more seconds, her gaze shifted from him to He Jijun.

At the same time, Zhou Qian turned his head and looked over. The woman on the path was wearing a white shirt and black suit pants, with the corners of her clothes tied up, which made her waist look even thinner and her legs longer.

The shirt had long sleeves, but she rolled up the sleeves, revealing a part of her wrists, which were thin and white.

When I turned around, I saw several men staring at her.

Zhou Qian'an's eyes darkened a little. He swung the whip in his hand, making several sounds of breaking through the air, scaring several people around him back to their senses.

"Is that Jijun's biological sister?"

"She's really pretty."

"Girls in the city are just different. Look how white she is."

"I don't know if they're engaged yet."

"Don't even think about it. He's back from the city, so he definitely doesn't like us villagers."

Can't see it?

Zhou Qian'an's eyes tightened and he stared at He Jing and the other person as they walked further and further away.

After returning from the town, He Jing and Shi Chunlan not only bought daily necessities, but also meat.

When the four children in the family came home from school and saw Shi Chunlan holding the pork, they immediately cheered and surrounded Shi Chunlan and asked her questions.

"Nanny, how do you eat meat?"

"Grandma, can I have meat for lunch?"

"Granny, can I have one more piece?"

"Milk……"

One by one, they were talking non-stop, chattering so much that I could hardly hear what they were saying.

He Jing looked at how excited they were, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.

"Mom, take a rest. I'll cook later." He Jing put down what she was holding and took the vegetable basket from Shi Chunlan.

He Jing's cooking skills are obvious to all, so Shi Chunlan feels at ease leaving the task to her.

However, there was one thing Shi Chunlan still needed to make clear to her.

"Jingjing, the work at home has been assigned. Today is your turn to cook, so you will be cooking for the whole day."

"Tomorrow, you don't have to cook, so you have to wash the dishes and wipe the table."

"The day after tomorrow, you will go sweep the floor and feed the chickens."

"The day after tomorrow I'll go cut grass for the pigs."

"The children are still young, so they can help cut the grass for the pigs, but not much, so we adults still have to do it."

"In addition, the firewood for the family is collected from the mountains, and the water is carried back from the river every day, but we don't have to worry about these things, the men in the family can do it."

Shi Chunlan told her a lot of details about important household affairs, and He Jing listened carefully and wrote them down one by one.

After finishing the important tasks, Shi Chunlan took her to the vegetable garden, picked a handful of fresh sweet potato leaves and told her that cooking includes picking and washing vegetables, which are all one person's work.

The others were working in the fields and would come back to eat when they were done.

The sweet potato leaves are grown at home. They are green and juicy with a pleasant fragrance. After washing them, I tear off the skin on the stems and put them in a vegetable basket to drain the water.

What I bought was white meat, but there was also two taels of lean meat.

He Jing cut them into thin slices.

The white meat is used to extract oil.

He Jing heated up the iron pan and put in the chopped pork belly. It immediately started sizzling and emitted a fragrant aroma.

The four children who were playing at the door ran in, looking at He Jing eagerly, and no one dared to speak.

He Jing saw it, her eyebrows curved, and she waved at them, "Do you want to come over and take a look?"

Jinbao is the oldest of the four children. He looked at He Jing, sniffed, and took the initiative to walk over.

"Be careful not to get splashed." He Jing stood in front of him and stir-fried the pork, the aroma became more and more intense.

The aroma of oil is so tempting.

All four children came over and surrounded her.

The slices quickly shrank, turned golden, and sizzled.

He Jing fished it out when it was almost done and put it on the stove. The four children rushed over immediately and stared at it closely.

"It's still hot, eat it later." He Jing said as she poured the boiled lard into a jar, leaving a little for stir-frying sweet potato leaves.

Before that, she added a handful of salt and some chopped garlic.

The lard was still boiling hot, and when the salt was added, it splashed and crackled.

After the crushed garlic was added, the sound became even louder.

In an instant, the whole kitchen was filled with the aroma of garlic.

The fried garlic soon turned golden. He Jing did not scoop up the chopped garlic, but immediately poured it into the sweet potato leaves, which made another noise.

The four children watched her cooking, all with their eyes fixed on her.

The sweet potato leaves under the pot softened quickly, and He Jing started stir-frying them right away. After a while, all the sweet potato leaves were soft. After stir-frying for a while longer, the color turned bright green. The fragrance of lard mixed with minced garlic and sweet potato leaves filled the kitchen, and the aroma gradually drifted out.

Shi Chunlan smelled the fragrance in the yard and couldn't help but take a deep breath and swallow her saliva.

She thought she was a good cook, but in front of He Jing, she was nothing.

Shi Chunlan took a deep breath and smelled the rich fragrance. The emerald green and shiny sweet potato leaves seemed to appear in front of her eyes. When she looked up, she saw Zhou Cuihong coming from next door.

"Chunlan, is your daughter cooking?" After Zhou Cuihong entered the room, she kept looking towards the kitchen, but she could not see anything and could only smell the fragrance.

"Yes." Shi Chunlan was very happy and proud.

The fragrance lingered around her nose, making her very tempting. Zhou Cuihong took a glance and said sourly, "Chunlan, didn't the person from the city say that your daughter wouldn't come back?"

"Why did you come back today?"

"Anything happened in the city?"

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