Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 79

Gu Yin went to Old Master Wen. After tasting it this time, he had to believe that there really existed such a person in the world – one could give her twenty or thirty words about the method and ingredients, and she could almost make the same thing.

The two ate it separately, and Gu Yin’s tongue was more stubborn than the old man’s. After eating, she reflected, “This fresh milk jelly has a milky smell, I’ll try to add more tea next time.”

The old man nodded casually, his mind was actually no longer on the food.

He didn’t sleep after lunch, but taught Gu Yin how to read.

Gu Yin was stunned, and Mr. Wen said, “You are talented and smart, and it would be a pity to only study cooking skills. Come on, take a look at this ‘The Analects of Confucius’.”

After Gu Yin repeatedly said, “I can’t, I really can’t,” Old Master Wen forced her to read the book for half the afternoon.

In her previous life, when she went to school, Gu Yin’s Chinese grades were average at the middle to lower level. Although she barely knew the traditional characters, that book was still in vertical version from right to left, and there was no sentence to read.

It was exhausting to read, and she was asked to draw inferences from one thing, only if she could figure it out.

Of course, thanks to the nine-year compulsory education, Gu Yin still had some understanding of the book, but that understanding was naturally nothing in front of an old scholar like Old Master Wen.

In the end, both of them were sweating. Gu Yin read the vertical version of the book, and Old Master Wen was helpless. How could someone who learned without a teacher be so bad at studying?

At dusk, Old Master Wen was too tired to look after Gu Yin, so he let her leave work early, and asked her to put the remaining pastries in a food box and let her take it back.

Carrying the food box, Gu Yin returned to Jinyi Alley. Mrs. Wang didn’t expect her to come back at that moment and was collecting clothes in the yard.

Seeing her collapsed face, Mrs. Wang put the clothes back on the shelf, took the food box with one hand, and led her into the main room with the other.

She went to the kitchen and poured hot water for her, and said distressedly, “I was thinking why they pay ten taels, it must be a tiring job! Look at your pale face, are you exhausted?”

Gu Yin drank a bowl of hot water, pinched her aching eyebrows, and said, “Actually, it’s not that I’m tired, it was quite relaxing at first.”

She had always liked to study recipes, and she had never seen the food recipes given by the old man, and it was too fresh. Moreover, she only made four kinds of food in one morning. While waiting for them to get ready, Chef Xu gave her his chair. It was easier than making hundreds of buns at home when doing business.

“If you’re not tired, why do you look like this?”

Gu Yin couldn’t explain that in a few words. She glanced at the house and saw no child. She hurriedly asked Mrs. Wang seriously, “What about the child? Didn’t he make a fuss during the day?”

Mrs. Wang waved her hand and said no, “Children are easy to take care of!”

Just as she was talking, Wu’an came home with the child.

The child put on the cotton robe that Mrs. Wang sewed for him earlier, and put on the small cotton shoes sent by Aunt Ge. Although he looked thin and small, he was full of smiles.

Wu’an didn’t look so good. His face was flushed red, panting and sweating profusely, as if he had just run 800 meters.

That boy had a quiet personality. Gu Yin had never seen him play in such an embarrassed state, so she laughed and said, “How can you sweat so much in such cold weather? Just wipe it off and be careful not to catch a cold.”

When the child saw her, he was about to pounce on her, and when he moved, Xiao Wu’an moved as well.

Only then did Gu Yin notice that the hands of the two little guys were tied together by a half-meter-long rope.

She finally understood what Mrs. Wang meant when she said that children were easy to take care of, because it wasn’t her taking care of it at all, it was Wu’an taking care of the kid.

Mrs. Wang explained, “He woke up in the morning and didn’t see you, so he made a fuss. I explained to him for a while as you said. Although he didn’t look for you anymore, he just wanted to go out. I didn’t dare to let him go out alone, and I couldn’t keep him locked up. It just so happened that Wu’an told me that last night you tied your hand to the child’s hand, so I followed suit and found a rope to tie them together.”

Well, the source of the co-authorship was still Gu Yin herself.

Speaking of which, Mrs. Wang pulled her son to her, wiped his sweat and said, “Didn’t you take him with you? Where did you go?”

Xiao Wu’an was almost out of breath. He held the water bowl on the table and drank a large mouthful of water before he said, “I have been to many places, the wharf, the market, the big restaurant… the whole town. Fortunately, fortunately, I told him that my sister-in-law will come home in the dark, and he finally agreed to come back with me. “

Hearing that, Mrs Wang clicked her tongue, “This little brat is too good at running. Don’t complain, Wu’an, what’s wrong with running two steps? You usually don’t like to move, but you get sick when seasons change, and being active is good for you.”

Although Xiao Wu’an was tired, he was actually quite happy.