A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

Gu Zhou got even more angry and seeing that there was nothing to do, he came over to Shen Wu.

"Do you want to eat the noodles you had before?"

Shen Wu said "hmm" without stopping her hands. After a few strokes, the dough was made very smooth. She divided the dough into two and took one in her hand first, and put the other back in the dough basin for the time being.

"By the way, try some wild amaranth later. It’s ok if you can chew it. Then take it out and blanch it with bamboo shoots."

"Okay." Gu Zhou wanted to come over to lend a hand, but felt that he couldn't help much, so he went back to the stove to serve the dishes.

Shen Wu was an expert at rolling noodles. If the chopping board wasn't small, she wouldn't have separated the noodles. She quickly pressed the dough into a pancake, took out the rolling pin and rolled it a few times, and a slightly thick pancake came out.

While I was busy, I was a little worried about Gu Zhou, so I took a look while flipping the pancake. He saw that he had already picked out all the wild amaranth and put it in the bowl.

Shen Wu felt relieved and concentrated on rolling the dough thinner and bigger. In fact, hand-rolled noodles cannot be too thin. If they are too thin, they will have no taste and will easily become sticky.

Years of experience in making noodles made her very skilled. Although she had changed her body, the technique had been deeply imprinted in her memory. In less than ten minutes, a large, round noodle cake was ready.

She stacked the dough layer by layer, picked up the knife and started to cut it. If you want to eat wider, leave more, if you want to eat thinner, leave narrower. In just a few strokes, Shen Wu had cut all the rolled dough.

After finishing this, she immediately went to make another piece of dough, quickly processed it with the same steps as the previous one, and placed it on the chopping board for later use.

"The dishes here are all ready, but you have to wait for the hot water," Gu Zhou said as he squatted on the ground and headed towards Shen Wu.

Shen Wu clapped his hands to brush off the excess flour and walked around the small table where the chopping board was placed.

"Please light up the other stove for me. I'll heat up the oil first and then stir-fry some vegetables." Shen Wu found the remaining double pepper powder and took it to the prepared dishes to be used later.

Gu Zhou was an experienced fire-maker. He had always been helping with the fire at home. He took some dry grass and firewood into another stove, and put a burning firewood in there, and the stove started.

The pot heated up quickly as the firewood burned. While the pot was hot, Shen Wu wiped the spoon he was going to use with a clean cloth to ensure there was no moisture, and then started putting lard into the pot.

She doesn't use much lard. When making the buns she sells, she often uses a combination of lard residue and smoking hot oil. The hot oil gives the cooking a strong aroma. Even if she uses a small amount and adds the lard residue later, the fragrance of the stuffing is so addictive.

She was a little worried when she saw that there was only half a can of lard left. If she finished this oil, she would have to buy more oil. It was okay for her family to eat, but it was mainly because it would make buns more fragrant. She would see if she could last a little longer.

Green smoke rose less than a minute after the oil was put into the wok. Shen Wu asked Gu Zhou to stay away, then took the prepared green bamboo shoots and wild amaranth, scooped a spoonful of hot oil and poured some on each of them, then quickly added some salt and double pepper powder, taking advantage of the aroma of the oil.

The purpose of pouring oil on top is to stimulate the flavor of the seasonings and shredded green onions and ginger. This time she poured all the oil on them. When the sizzling sound was heard, the fragrant aroma was stimulated.

Gu Zhou did not walk far. When he saw that she had finished her work, he immediately stepped forward and took away the two prepared dishes.

Shen Wu immediately added more oil, and while the temperature of the hot and cold oil mixture dropped, he quickly added the chopped green onions.

Frying scallions requires cool oil to be cooked slowly, but she has been cooking for many years and can do it even with hotter oil.

The scallions were fried very quickly, and after a while the color of the scallions became a little darker, so she quickly took a bowl to scoop them out.

Fortunately, their bowl is sturdy, Shen Wu was really afraid that the bowl would explode due to the high temperature.

Leave some oil in the pan, add some fresh chopped green onion, stir-fry for a few times and then add purslane.

In this way, the aromas of the chopped green onions and purslane will be mixed during the stir-fry, and the dish will taste better.

It is just right to eat purslane in this season. The vegetable is too tender to be eaten. Just stir-fry it for a minute or so until the color changes slightly and then you can eat it.

After the purslane was out of the pot, Shen Wu turned off the fire on the stove, and without cleaning the pot, poured the boiled water that had been cooled previously into it.

"The water is just right, shall we go down now?" When Gu Zhou asked, Shen Wu had already turned around to get the noodles.

When he opened the pot, the water was already boiling. Shen Wu quickly shook the noodles on the bamboo sieve into the pot.

When cooking noodles, be sure to shake them out in batches so that they won't stick together and will cook faster.

After closing the lid, Shen Wu saw that Gu Zhou's back was soaked, and quickly asked someone to go out: "You go out and rest first, I can take care of the rest."

Gu Zhou did not insist and went to the main room carrying the two prepared dishes.

Cooking in hot weather is really torture, but Shen Wu has long been used to it. When her family was poor, they used to cook by burning fire on hot days. She can still bear this heat.

The noodles cooked quickly, so she picked them up and put them directly into the pot next to her, which contained boiled water that had been left to cool. She just put them in and it was like she was rinsing the noodles.

A pot of noodles only has half of the noodles, and the remaining half will be put into the pot quickly.

While waiting for the other half to be ready, Shen Wu took out the large basin from home, squeezed the noodles out of the cold water as much as possible and put them into the basin.

Add double pepper powder, green onion shreds, and salt into the bowl, then add the fried scallion oil, stir it slightly, and the noodles are ready.

Fortunately, the basin was big enough to hold all the noodles, so she waited for the second pot of noodles to come out before putting them in to mix.

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"The meal is ready!" Shen Wu walked quickly into the house carrying a large bowl of noodles. It was noon outside and she was sweating profusely when she came out of the kitchen.

After putting the meal away, she hurried into the house and called out, "Auntie, Xiaowei is out for dinner!"

She leaned her head in and was surprised to see that Gu Zhou was not there: "Auntie, have you seen Gu Zhou?"

Aunt He placed a small quilt around my little brother to block it. Children usually have a long nap, so there is no need to worry about them waking up.

When Jiang Yu called them, Gu Wei ran to the main room and drooled over the table full of food.

Aunt He got out of bed quietly and gestured to go out to talk.

Shen Wu smiled awkwardly, knowing that her voice was too loud and fortunately she did not wake up her little brother, and hurriedly followed him out of the house.

Aunt He didn't notice the food in the room. She turned around to look at the child and whispered, "Gu boy has fallen asleep. I saw he was sleeping soundly so I didn't call him."

Shen Wu nodded as if he understood, and whispered, "Auntie, you and Xiaowei eat first, I'll go see Gu Zhou."

Aunt He wanted to say something again, but Shen Wu spoke first as if he knew what she was thinking: "Aunt, don't refuse. You've helped us so much. I'll feel even more guilty if you continue to be so polite."

Aunt He didn't dare to say anything more when she saw her like this. She thought to herself how could this child become so sweet and clever after forgetting the incident.

Shen Wu pushed the person down on the stool and said, "You guys eat first." Then he went to the inner room to see Gu Zhou.