The aroma of cooking filled the house: I sent my eldest brother to become the Grand Secretary.

Li Xiaoyu was worried that Shen Cao would be angry because of her refusal, so she immediately explained, "Sister, my grandma is getting old now, and she still has to go fishing every day to earn money. It's very hard for her."

"I still have to take care of my grandma, so I can't agree to that," Li Xiaoyu said, somewhat disappointed.

She liked this older sister very much, but she didn't want the older sister to think that she was helping her out of pity. Besides, she and the older sister were not related, and she didn't want to trouble the older sister. Today's opportunity was already very rare.

Shen Cao, unaware of the girl's thoughts, assumed she simply needed to take care of her grandmother, and thus stopped mentioning asking her for help.

"Then you take care of Grandma first. Come visit Shen Family Restaurant whenever you have time."

"Sister..." Li Xiaoyu was a little embarrassed.

Shen Cao gently patted her head, "If you were me, you would also think about it carefully, after all, Grandma is the most important."

"Alright, let's continue."

The two quickly finished picking the vegetables.

"Xiaoyu, go to the pool and wash all these vegetables clean before bringing them back," Shen Cao gently instructed Li Xiaoyu.

After Li Xiaoyu finished washing the vegetables, she saw Shen Cao holding a very strange thing that she had never seen before.

Shen Cao introduced it to her, "This is a knife that my older sister made herself, specially for cutting potatoes and making potato snacks."

She was about to pick up a potato to cut it when she noticed teeth marks on it.

"Xiaoyu, take a plane and trim all the gnawed parts. Even though you're eating it yourself, it doesn't look very nice."

Li Xiaoyu was actually about to cut it off, but she was afraid Shen Cao would say she was wasting her time.

Potatoes are not a rare thing in the countryside; every household has them.

When Shen Cao asked her to peel it, she took a peeler and peeled the potato she had already gnawed on.

After finishing, Shen Cao picked up the knife she had specially made at the blacksmith's shop for cutting wolf-tooth potatoes.

First, cut the potatoes horizontally into thick slices about the width of your index finger.

Li Xiaoyu was puzzled. Why did her sister cut the potatoes so thick? How could they taste good?

However, the cut looks strange; it doesn't look smooth and even like it was made with a kitchen knife, but rather it's crooked and twisted.

Just as she was wondering, Shen Cao flipped the thick potato over again and cut it into potato strips about the thickness of chopsticks, although the potato strips were also crooked.

It looks pretty good, it's amazing!

After cutting one, Shen Cao explained, "Xiaoyu, this knife was specially made by me."

"Here!" She picked up a potato strip. "This one is called a wolf tooth potato. The curved surface is so that it can absorb more seasoning later and taste better."

After saying that, she handed the knife to Li Xiaoyu, "Try cutting up the rest of the potatoes."

Li Xiaoyu picked up the knife and began to cut.

"Be careful, remember to curl your fingers when you handle potatoes, so you won't cut yourself when you cut them."

Shen Cao demonstrated to Li Xiaoyu, and Li Xiaoyu imitated Shen Cao's movements. Although she was not used to it at first, she did feel it herself. If she made a mistake, it was indeed not easy to cut her hand with the knife.

Shen Cao then taught Li Xiaoyu a more effortless way to hold a kitchen knife.

Potatoes contain starch and are easy to slip when cutting, so Shen Cao didn't rush her and let her cut slowly.

After cutting a few, Li Xiaoyu became noticeably more skilled and her cutting speed gradually increased. She quickly finished cutting all the potatoes in the bowl.

"Sister, I'm done cutting. Do you want me to cut the sweet potato too?"

Shen Cao immediately stopped what she was doing. "Shut up, just cut the sweet potato into chunks."

"Sister, what is a rolling cutter?" Perhaps because Shen Cao had been very patient and gentle in teaching Li Xiaoyu before, Li Xiaoyu dared to ask questions when she didn't understand something, unlike her nervousness just now.

Shen Cao picked up a sweet potato to demonstrate, "Rolling cut, as the name suggests, means rolling the knife. Since we can't roll the knife, we change our approach and roll the ingredients while cutting."

After watching Shen Cao's demonstration, Li Xiaoyu learned how to cut sweet potatoes into chunks and happily picked up a sweet potato to cut.

Seeing how easily Shen Cao chopped the grass, I was surprised at how clumsy I was when I chopped it myself.

After cutting a few, it got much better.

She quickly finished cutting the sweet potatoes.

"Sister, it's all cut up."

"Take that small pot from the corner of the table to the sink, wash it, and then fill it halfway with water."

This time, Shen Cao didn't look up, but focused on doing her own thing.

Li Xiaoyu looked at the corner of the table and sure enough, there was a small iron pot.

Following Shen Cao's instructions, she first washed the pot. The pot was very clean, clearly having been washed after use; she only needed to rinse it with water.

After filling the water tank, Shen Cao had already cleared out the stove and pointed to it, telling her to put the pot on it.

"Next, bring the sweet potatoes over, and once the water boils, put them in and cook for a while."

"It should take about half an incense stick's time to boil. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions."

"it is good."

Li Xiaoyu had gotten used to Shen Cao's rhythm and cooked the potatoes for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, as she instructed.

"Sister, it's cooked long enough, do you want to come and take a look?"

Shen Cao walked over, picked up a slotted spoon, scooped up a piece of potato, and poked it with chopsticks, but couldn't pierce it through.

"Cook it for a little while longer. From now on, just follow my instructions. If you can pierce the potato chunks with chopsticks, then you can take them out."

"Ah."

Shen Cao was frying sweet potato chunks on the stove next door.

Li Xiaoyu saw Shen Cao heat up most of a pot of oil and then pour in the sweet potato chunks.

She thought the oil would be thrown away after frying, but it pained her to see it was so much oil, enough for her and her grandmother to eat for many years.

Shen Cao saw through Li Xiaoyu's thoughts, "Xiaoyu, this can still be used after it's been fried, so it won't be wasted."

"Xiaoyu understands." Hearing Shen Cao say that the remaining oil was still edible, she smiled happily.

Once the sweet potatoes are fried until golden brown and crispy, they are done when you can hear a crunchy sound when you toss them up and down with a slotted spoon.

She scooped the sweet potatoes out and put them into a clean, dry basin.

Shen Cao then added potato starch to the potatoes that had been scooped out.

"This is potato starch noodles."

"Yes, I know. My grandma makes some potato noodles for us every year."

"After pouring potato starch into the potato chunks, turn the bowl of potatoes upside down to coat the potato chunks evenly with potato starch."

Then pour the potato chunks into the oil used to fry the sweet potatoes.

"Remember, don't stir it right after you pour it in. Wait until the potato starch has set before stirring it."

"Otherwise, the potato starch will fall off the potato chunks when they are turned over."

While keeping an eye on the potato chunks in the pot, Shen Cao explained to Li Xiaoyu.

"Sister, I've never seen this way of cooking before. What kind of food are you planning to make?"

Li Xiaoyu stared for a long time but still couldn't figure out what Shen Cao was making.