A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

The next morning the air was still damp and cold. Shen Wu pushed open the door and saw the raindrops falling outside. She felt very tired. It had been raining for two days in a row. If it continued like this, she was afraid that there would not be a sunny day, and it would rain and then snow.

Because it was still raining, the dough she made at night still didn't rise much, and the children were still asleep. It was just dawn outside but very cloudy.

Shen Wu carried the wash basin and tiptoed to the kitchen again.

She was going to make fried buns today. Fortunately, there was still shepherd's purse at home, which she could use up. As for the wild vegetables that Gu Zhou brought back yesterday, she planned to make them at noon.

Shepherd's purse stuffing has been made frequently recently, and she is quite skilled at it. After quickly preparing the stuffing, Shen Wu directly pulled the dough onto the chopping board, sprinkled some flour on it to prevent it from sticking, and without releasing the air. She still used the palm of her hand as a standard, roughly the size that she could hold, and began to divide the dough into portions.

There were some vegetable cakes left over from yesterday, so she made less dough today, only about a few dozen.

Shen Wu quickly rolled out the dough and then opened the package directly.

She only takes about ten seconds to make a bun, and at this speed, she can finish the buns within a few minutes.

Shen Wu covered the buns with a cloth to let them rise a second time, then wiped his hands and lit the two stoves.

Use one to make soup, one to fry buns, and heat up the remaining cakes.

She is used to boiling more hot water. Some people may think it is strange that she washes her face with a mixture of hot water and cold water in summer. However, after experiencing an infection and blisters on her face caused by washing her face with cold water, she never does this again.

If it wasn't tap water, she would definitely boil it before using it.

She replaced half of the boiled water with water to drink that day. Of course, she would re-scald the bottle and pour out the water to wash her face.

When she put the bottle back in its place, she just got up and put on the bottle.

"You..." Gu Zhou was stunned, not knowing what to say.

"Awake?" Shen Wu saw that he looked sleepy and then saw his thin coat, and couldn't help but frowning: "It's still raining outside, you should put on a few more clothes, otherwise you will get sick."

As she spoke, she took the bowl of water prepared for drinking, poured some hot water from the hot water bottle that had just been put in, poured out the bowl, and then poured out almost a whole bowl of hot water.

"Don't go out since you just woke up. Let the hot tea I poured for you cool down before you drink it. I'll half close the door leaving a gap. Don't come out yet. Put on your clothes and don't catch a cold." Shen Wu kept giving instructions to Gu Zhou like an old nanny.

"Okay... okay." Gu Zhou waited for her to finish speaking before responding.

Seeing him like this, Shen Wu walked over and pushed him back into the house: "Do you have any clothes? Go find another one to put on, a torn one will do. If you don't have any, just make do with the bed sheets."

Shen Wu wanted to laugh when she talked about this. It was too cold yesterday and she wanted to find something to cover herself with, but she didn't expect Gu Zhou to hand her a thin piece of cloth. When she asked in surprise, she found out that this was the quilt at home.

Although in Gu Zhou's eyes there was a layer of oil paper inside the cup to keep it warm, but... in Shen Wu's eyes it was just a piece of breathable cloth.

Looking back to the day, Shen Wu hurried back to the kitchen with the flour.

The hot water in the pot was about to boil, and she hurriedly stirred the dried noodles out.

In modern times, she would eat fried buns with soup in the morning, and naturally she did the same in ancient times.

Boiling water with firewood is extremely fast. The water in the pot boiled as soon as she finished stirring it.

Shen Wu opened the lid of the pot and put it aside. He carefully put the crumbs into the pot while quickly stirring the dry crumbs in the pot with chopsticks.

After stirring it, all you have to do is open the lid and wait for it to boil and foam. Every time foam appears, she adds a spoonful of cold water to suppress the boiling foam. After repeating this three or four times, you can turn off the heat and simmer it.

This method is a convenient way she has figured out through years of cooking. It not only makes the soup thicker, but is also extremely easy to use.

While the soup was boiling in the pot, she started to fry the dumplings. She put a spoonful of lard into the pot to lubricate it, and after it melted, she put the dumplings directly into the pot.

Start from the center and quickly spread out radially to fill almost the entire bottom of the pot.

In order to prevent the first bun paste put into the pot from being ruined, she would swap the positions of the first and last buns put into the pot.

In this way, when the first one is almost burnt, put it farthest from the fire, and the last one is placed where the fire is the strongest.

Shen Wu glanced at the bottom of the pot and thought of pan-fried dumplings, so she decided to use it to make pan-fried dumplings.

While the soup pot was boiling, she scooped three spoonfuls of noodle soup into the middle of the fried buns, then added half a bowl of water to the boiling soup and covered the pot with the fried buns.

Frying buns is easy and you can eat them as long as they are not burnt.

Shen Wu was afraid that the soup was too sticky and would not last long, so he opened the lid of the pot and poured some water into it.

Shen Wu covered the lid again and added water to the soup pot. Looking at the soup gradually changing from thick to thin, she decided to cook it for a little longer to avoid it becoming a watery soup.

The first pot of fried buns came out very quickly, about seven or eight minutes. Shen Wu opened the pot and checked the situation. Seeing that there was no soft dough, he shoveled the buns directly into the basket used to hold buns and cakes.

Shen Wu felt that there was nothing wrong except that the bottom was a little overburned, so he continued to repeat the steps.

Of course! Some steps are simplified.

Gu Zhou put on the clothes she had made for him before. In order to prevent them from being damaged, he put on the inner layer and put his new clothes on the innermost layer.

When the second pot of fried buns was put into the pan, Gu Zhou had already finished the hot tea she poured and was standing at the kitchen entrance.

He was puzzled as to why she insisted on drinking hot water and why she had to boil water and then mix it with cold water in the middle of summer.

But...she's a very nice person.

Shen Wu stirred a few spoonfuls of soup and cold water into the pot. This pot contained her last batch of buns, and she could make hot cakes after they were done.

She turned around subconsciously and saw Gu Zhou standing silently at the door.

"Fuck! You scared me!" Shen Wu patted his chest as if he had lost his soul.

"I'm done drinking." Gu Zhou stepped into the kitchen, his hair dotted with water droplets from the dense rain. Seeing this, Shen Wu couldn't help but nag again: "Why are you still getting wet! Come to the stove quickly!"

She pulled Gu Zhou over and asked him to sit on a stool close to the stove. The coldness on her body seemed to be dispelled.

"Just sit here and don't move. Wait until the moisture and coldness on your body is dried off before you move."

Shen Wu was glad that she had made fewer buns, so that she could finish making them by the time Gu Zhou finished making them, and her buns could be out of the pot.

She scooped out the buns, put a little lard in the hot pan to prevent them from sticking, and then put the leftover pancakes from last night into the pan.

There are not many pancakes left, only three. It's just right that you push against me and I push against you, so we are good brothers, lying at the bottom of the pot together.

As usual, Shen Wu added some water and covered the pot, then moved the fire for cooking the soup under the stove for heating the pancakes.

"Let me help you." Gu Zhou was embarrassed to sit there and wanted to get up to work, but was pushed back by her several times. Finally, he spoke when she was free.

Shen Wu shook his head: "My hair is still damp, wait till it's dry!"

It’s not that she doesn’t want help, but she is afraid that he will get sick and she can’t take care of him. It’s raining now, what if he gets sick, how can she take care of him?