Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 69

After sending Wen Peifeng, Mrs. Wang went into the room and quickly dried Gu Yin’s hair – before, it was to prevent her from going out, so she only let her wrap it up first, but since Mrs. Wang knew that Gu Yin would go out the next day, she didn’t have to think so much.

After all, it was not as convenient as having a hair dryer in that world, and since there was still no sun in the morning, Gu Yin’s waist-length hair was not dry until almost noon.

At noon, the not-so-hot sun came late, and Gu Yin helped Mrs. Wang take out the bedding at home to dry.

Mrs. Xu opened her door, yawned and stretched.

The three courtyards of the Xu family used to be together, and it was only later that Mrs. Xu wanted to rent it, so a high wall was placed in the middle.

Gu Yin and Mrs. Wang were drying the bedding when they saw Mrs. Xu’s two fat arms sticking out from the wall.

Mrs. Wang said with a smile, “The sun is on your head, so you just got up? I heard Qingchuan reading in your house when it was just dawn. Why did you get up so much later than your son?”

Mrs. Xu’s replied from across the wall, “I rarely get up late to meet you!”

Afraid that the two would quarrel again, Gu Yin hurriedly added, “Perhaps my aunt was tired from going to the market to buy New Year’s goods yesterday, and the weather this morning was really bad, so it’s normal to sleep more.”

Mrs. Xu didn’t care about Mrs. Wang anymore, and yawned, “It’s not too tiring to go to the market to buy things. It’s just that I didn’t sleep well at night. A wild cat scratched the window in the middle of the night. It woke me up. I hit the window with my shoe, and drove the stray cat away.”

Hearing that, Gu Yin couldn’t help laughing and said, “Wild cats are noisy in the spring, in winter…”

Speaking of it, Gu Yin stopped the movement in her hand, thinking of the dark shadow she saw at the entrance of the alley when she returned home the day before.

Seeing her stop, Mrs. Wang asked her what she was thinking.

When Gu Yin finished speaking to her in a low voice, surprise flashed in their eyes at the same time.

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Before lunch, a particularly attractive scent wafted from the kitchen, pulling Xiao Wu’an out of the house.

“It’s so fragrant, so fragrant, what is my sister-in-law making?” Xiao Wu’an snorted and jumped into the stove.

Gu Yin was stewing pork knuckle.

Her craftsmanship with meat was a little bit worse, but stew, a dish that required control of the heat, was similar to cooking porridge, and she did a good job.

The pork knuckle was first set on fire to scald the hair, and then the surface was brushed clean to remove the bloody smell. Then spread the soy sauce evenly on the surface. When the oil in the pot was 50% hot, she added the knuckle and half fried them. When the skin turned brown, she took it out, then heated the oil in the pot again, added sugar, and when the sugar syrup in the pot turned jujube red, she added boiling water to stir the sugar syrup, then added the pork knuckle, onion ginger, soy sauce, appropriate amount of salt and star anise and other spices.

Xiao Wu’an came in at that moment, smelling the fragrance and circling around the stove.

Mrs. Wang was amused and pulled him back, “Your sister-in-law is stewing knuckle, do you want to drill into the pot?”

Xiao Wu’an’s eyes lit up, and he was pleasantly surprised, “Didn’t you say that we can only eat knuckle during the New Year?” Then he counted the days mentally, “Isn’t there a month before the New Year?”

Mrs. Wang and Gu Yin looked at each other and laughed. 

She winked at him, “Let’s stew knuckle to catch the wild cat!”

Xiao Wu’an wanted to ask in detail, but Mrs. Wang covered his mouth, “Don’t ask, just pretend we are celebrating the New Year early!”

The knuckle was stewed until after lunch time, and when it came out of the pot, the aroma was so fragrant that even Mrs. Wang swallowed her saliva several times.

Xiao Wu’an was already waiting beside her with a small bowl.

However, after Mrs. Wang presented the dish, she did not bring it to the table, but went straight out of the house with a bowl.

Xiao Wu’an looked at Mrs. Wang’s back in disbelief, put down the small bowl and chased out.

Mrs. Xu next door had already smelled it. At first, when she smelled the more intense fragrance, she thought it was specially delivered to her house by Mrs. Wang, so she opened the door and said with a smile, “Why are you being so polite? “

In the end, Mrs. Wang left without looking back, and she didn’t send it to another house, but walked around all the nearby alleys to the entrance of the alley where Gu Yin saw the shadow the day before.

After going around three or five times, many people could smell the fragrance and stuck their heads out from their homes to see. Mrs. Wang felt cold so she walked back with the bowl.

Mrs. Xu was still standing at the gate of her house, and she said, “Isn’t it just a stewing knuckle? Who can’t eat meat in their old age? Is it worth showing off? Afraid that others won’t know?”

Just as Mrs. Wang was about to elaborate, she couldn’t as the “little kitten” might be nearby.

So she curled her lips and said, “What’s the matter? There’s no rule that you can’t bring out the cooked food for everyone to smell, right?”