I have been farming since I crossed over.

Yang Mingxi looked at Yang Mingqian's smiling face, and her flustered heart suddenly calmed down. Yes, we are all family, so even if I cook a little late, it doesn't really matter!

Yang Mingxi, having figured it out, smiled and said to Yang Mingqian, "It won't be too late. It should be ready by the time Dad and the others get back." As she spoke, she scooped the water from the middle pot into the innermost pot, leaving only a little, and said, "It's shallow. Let's stir-fry! This way it's quicker. Let's make some twice-cooked pork, some shredded potatoes, some mapo tofu, and some cabbage soup, and we'll be done."

Yang Mingqian looked at what was already in the kitchen and said with a smile, "Okay, Third Sister, see if you need any other seasonings. I'll add some firewood and go to the vegetable garden to get some."

Yang Mingxi cut a large piece of pork belly into palm-sized pieces and put them into the pot to cook. She said, "Pick some green peppers and some cabbage. I just got the other seasonings."

Then he picked up a kitchen knife, chopped a few pieces of ginger and put them into the pot, then added a section of scallion, covered the lid, and cooked the meat first.

I picked up two pieces of tofu from the drying rack outside the kitchen, cleaned them, cut them into pieces, sprinkled a little salt on them, mixed them well, and set them aside.

Take out a dozen potatoes from the box under the chopping board workbench, wash them, peel them, cut them into shreds, put them in a basin, and scoop a ladle of water to soak them.

Then, chop the meat you just hurriedly chopped into pieces and set aside for making mapo tofu later. Chop the green onions, mince the ginger, mince the garlic sprouts, and cut the rest into long sections. Then, scoop out a large spoonful of my mother's homemade soybean paste, and you're almost ready.

Wash your hands, take a basin, and prepare to give the steamed rice a bath. Use a spoon to scoop the rice out of the rice steamer, put it into the basin, rinse it with clean water for a while, and then use a wooden drain spoon to scoop it back into the rice steamer and continue steaming until cooked.

Add firewood to the stove, wash your hands, and check the doneness of the meat. Use chopsticks to poke it. If it is tender, remove the meat and keep the broth in the pot. When you are ready to cook the cabbage, scoop it out.

Slice the pork belly and scoop out the broth in a bowl. Wash the pot and add a little lard, minced ginger, and minced garlic. Stir-fry until fragrant. Add the pork slices and stir-fry over low heat until the oil is released. Add a spoonful of soybean paste and a little salt, stir-fry evenly. Add the garlic sprouts and stir-fry until they are cooked through. Remove from the pot. The pot is full and the aroma is fragrant.

Place a steamer basket on top of the rice steamer, put the fried twice-cooked pork and the pot in it, and keep it warm.

Wash the pot, add a little cold water, put the tofu you just cut into the pot, bring to a boil, quickly take it out and put it in a basin, leaving some water in the tofu for later use.

Wash the pot, add oil, add minced ginger and garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, pour in the minced meat, stir-fry until the minced meat changes color, add a little tofu and continue to stir-fry.

At this moment, Yang Mingqian came back, put the washed cabbage and peppers on the chopping board, sat in front of the stove, added firewood and said: "Third sister, it smells so good."

Yang Mingxi smiled and said, "Then eat more later."

Yang Mingqian came to the wok and saw that Yang Mingxi had only fried a small bowl of tofu. She said, "Third sister, why don't you put all the tofu in? What should I do with the rest?"

"This is for my sixth and seventh brothers. The rest can be used to make Mapo Tofu." As he spoke, he scooped some of the tofu and minced meat from the pot into a bowl. He then put soybean paste and chili powder directly into the pot and stir-fried them until fragrant. He then poured in the tofu and scraped it to make sure it didn't stick to the bottom of the pot.

Put the tofu in the bowl into the steamer to keep it warm, scoop up the potato shreds with a drain spoon, slowly pour out the remaining water, and leave the potato starch at the bottom of the bowl, which will be used as water-setting powder before removing the tofu from the pot.

Yang Mingqian looked at her third sister's operation and asked curiously, "Third sister, why did you keep that white thing?"

"That's potato starch. Add it when you take the tofu out of the pot. It will taste better." Yang Mingxi said as she cut the green pepper into shreds to use for stir-frying potato shreds later.

The tofu in the pot is already collecting juice. Add a little salt and pour in potato starch. Stir-fry for a few times and wait for the potato starch to slowly become sticky. Then you can remove it from the pot and sprinkle with chopped green onions.

Then I fried shredded potatoes with green peppers. This is simple. Just heat the pan with cold oil and add the shredded potatoes so that they won’t stick to the pan.

After the potato shreds are fried, add them to the steamer and keep them warm.

Pour cold water into the pot, add the cabbage when it starts to steam, put in some ginger slices, do not stir, wait until it has expanded, then pour in the pork soup and cook until it is soft.

Yang Mingqian watched Yang Mingxi cooking skillfully while adding firewood to the stove from time to time, and thought that her third sister was really nice.

Seeing that the food on the table was ready and the fathers had not returned yet, Yang Mingqian could not help but look at Yang Mingxi several times before she said, "Third sister, you are really good to my sixth and seventh brothers. When we eat later, I must tell my sixth brother that you cooked specially for them today. You didn't take them out to play before, not because you didn't like them, but because you were too busy and couldn't spare the time to accompany them!" After saying that, Yang Mingqian winked at Yang Mingxi mischievously, as if waiting for her response.

Yang Mingxi was stunned. Didn't she dislike her sixth and seventh brothers? Probably not! Yang Mingxi, who had just returned to the old Yang family, always thought of her youngest son when she saw her sixth brother, so she felt a little distant.

Hearing Yang Mingqian say this, it really made sense: children's feelings are the most genuine. It seemed like I had really neglected a lot of things.

Yang Mingxi said awkwardly, "I do spend less time with them, so it's normal for him to say that. I'll pay attention in the future and take them out to play more."

"Who are you taking to play? Xier, what did you make? It smells so good! I'm starving." Yang Mingyu walked into the kitchen and said.

"Third brother, you are back. Is Dad back? Now you can wash your hands and eat." Yang Mingxi said as she scooped a ladle of hot water from the pot at the back and prepared to put it in the basin for her third brother to wash his hands.

"Scoop out more, Dad. My second brother, fourth brother, and fifth brother are all back. I'll take them out to wash together." Yang Mingyu said as he stepped forward and looked into the pot.

"Okay, then I'll serve the food and eat." Yang Mingxi scooped half a basin of hot water and handed it to Yang Mingyu.

"Great. I didn't feel hungry just now, but now when I smell this fragrance, I feel like I haven't eaten in years. I'm starving." Yang Mingyu said as he walked out with hot water.

The two sisters worked together, one scooped the food from the basin into a bowl, and the other carried it to the dining room next door. When Yang Mingxi brought the food to the table, Yang Laowu and his father and son were already sitting at the table waiting to eat.

At this time, Yang Minghong also came over with Yang Mingqing. Behind the little person was an even smaller person crawling over. Yang Mingxi looked at them with tears in her eyes.

What did she do all day? She didn't get anything done, and she neglected her family, not just the two little ones, but everyone else. It had been almost four months since she came back, and today was the first time she cooked for her family.