Ways to Make Money
The morning of the next day, Du Xiao Li got up from bed, and after a quick wash of her face, she went outside, preparing to make breakfast.
Because Du Xiu Heng was too tired from yesterday, he still hasn’t gotten up yet.
She had the sweet potatoes they brought back yesterday peeled with a knife, and then cut into small pieces. Afterwards, using a bamboo stear, she placed it onto the pot to cook. Soon after, Du Xiu Heng woke up.
“Younger sister, why didn’t you wake ?” Du Xiu Heng rubbed his eyes and said.
“I saw that big brother was too tired yesterday and the day before, and wanted to let you sleep so more. The face washing water is in the basin, why don’t you go wash your face first.” Du Xiao Li said while she added firewood into the temporary fire.
After Du Xiu Heng ca back from washing his face, he saw Du Xiao Li still not done and asked, “What are you making to eat?”
“I saw the sweet potatoes we got back yesterday, and wanted to make so sweet potato cake to eat.” When Du Xiao Li felt it was about done, she removed it from the fire, and afterwards, opened the bamboo stear lid. The sweet aroma of the sweet potatoes a.s.saulted their nose.
Du Xiu Heng watched Du Xiao Li use chopsticks to pick up the sweet potato and placed it into a bowl, afterwards slowly pressing it into mashed sweet potatoes. Then, she added in glutinous rice flour, and used chopsticks to mix it evenly.
“Younger sister, when did you learn to cook?” Du Xiu Heng skeptically looked to Du Xiao Li. Yesterday’s wild hare stew was also good, and today’s sweet potato cake, he’d never heard her ntion before.
“I just randomly thought about it and felt it can be made like this.” Du Xiao Li replied, and then ran to go wash her hands. When she ca back, she had the sweet potatoes kneaded into palm size, and finger thick, flat cakes. She then took down the pot, and replaced it with the pot for stir-frying, letting Du Xiu Heng light the fire for her.
After waiting for the pot to heat up, she poured the vegetable oil into the pot. Then after the oil heated up, she had the pieces of flat cakes placed into the pot to pan-fry. And when the two sides beca a golden color, she found a plate to put them onto.
Very soon, a plate of sweet potato cakes were made.
Du Xiao Li used chopsticks to separate a little piece for Du Xiu Heng, and watched him eat it, asking: “How’s the taste?”
“Very delicious! Didn’t know that sweet potatoes could be made like this to eat too.” After Du Xiu Heng swallowed it down, he successively exclaid in admiration.
“Then quickly go wash your hands and co back to eat.” Du Xiao Li, seeing Du Xiu Heng liking it, happily smiled. After she plated all the cakes, she had the pot washed, then poured in the remaining wild hare stew from yesterday.
“En, how pleasant slling. Xiao Li, what are you making here? Slling this good!” Niu Jing, who was pa.s.sing by Du Xiao Li’s courtyard, slled the sweet potato cakes, and couldn’t help stopping to ask.
As soon as Du Xiu Li saw it was Niu Jing, she replied with a smile, “I made so sweet potato cakes for big brother. Grandpa Niu, do you want to co in and try so?”
“Okay!” Niu Jing pushed opened the very worn-out wooden fence and walked in, behind him, also followed Han Ming Yi and those two n in black.
“Grandpa Niu, he is?” Since it was their second ti eting, and even in her own ho, Du Xiao Li couldn’t continue to pretend to not see him, thus asked.
Niu Jing picked up a piece of sweet potato cake with chopsticks and took a bite. A sweet but not greasy taste dispersed in his mouth, delicious to the point where his entire face even smoothed out. Hearing Du Xiao Li ask about Han Ming Yi, he swallowed the sweet potato cake in his mouth, and said, “This is the grandson of a friend of mine. Because he’s sick, he ca to my place to recuperate for a period of ti. You can just call him big brother Xiao Yi[1].”
“Oh. Big brother Xiao Yi, do you want to eat?” Du Xiao Li went and had one of the plates cleaned. Afterwards, she picked up a piece and placed it onto the plate, placing it in front of Han Ming Yi.
Since he’s co to her ho, no matter what, she should at least make a friendly gesture. However, based on her experience with his type in her past life, he won’t eat it, so she was only just going through the motions.
Sure enough, Han Ming Yi looked to the the golden brown sweet potato cake on the plate, then shifted his gaze towards the mountains in the back. Not even making a peep.
“nsao[2]!” Du Xiao Li couldn’t help mouthing. Afterwards, she also gave so to those two n in black, but as expected, they both refused.
Niu Jing had two great loves in his life, one was dicine, and the other was delicious food. He also liked drinking wine, but because after drinking wine, he can’t see patients, he usually very rarely drank. He saw that Han Ming Yi didn’t eat, so he took the piece from his plate and said, “He doesn’t want to eat, I’ll eat! Xiao Li ah, how did you make this? So delicious!”
“It’s very simple.” Du Xiao Li, although didn’t like Han Ming Yi that much, she liked Niu Jing a lot, thus she told him the thod for making sweet potato cakes. When she finished, she even poured a bowl of wild hare stew for him to drink.
Niu Jing drank a mouthful of wild hare stew and said, “We also used the wild hare for stew last night, how co it wasn’t as good as yours? What did you put in it?”
“Just put a bit of salt, and also mushrooms picked from the mountains.” Du Xiao Li answered. She waited for him to finish drinking and took back the bowl, asking: “Grandpa Niu, what are you doing coming up the mountain this early?”
“I’m going into the mountains to find so dical herbs, and also bring Xiao Yi around to look, climb so mountains, and exercise a bit.” Niu Jing answered.
Du Xiao Li looked to Han Ming Yi’s pale white face, and also the gown on his body, silently sitting there. With him like this, it was useless now matter how much he exercised. However, Niu Jing’s words pointed out a money making path for her. “Grandpa Niu, do you think if I dig up dical herbs from the mountains to sell, will the dicine shop accept them?”
“The dicinal herb shop naturally will accept them, but the dical herbs you dig up, probably no one will dare to accept.” Niu Jing said with a smile.
“Why?” Du Xiao Li instinctively asked. In her past life, she was called the exotic flower of the dical world. There weren’t many dical ingredients that she didn’t recognize. To actually dare disdain her?!
But she forgot that she herself right now was just a seven year old little girl, who would believe that a seven year old little girl could distinguish between dical ingredients?
“You’ve never studied dicine before, nor have learned how to handle dicinal ingredients, who do you think would dare to want yours?” Niu Jing looked to Du Xiao Li’s little face and said.
“What if I can dig up so useful dical herbs?” Du Xiao Li, unwilling to give up, asked.
Niu Jing looked to the worn-out house, and knew that Du Xiao Li and her brother, without fields, could only think of other ways to earn money. “If you dig up any dical herbs, you can sell them to . When the ti cos, I’ll sell them together to the dicine shop in the county seat[3].”
“Really?!” Du Xiao Li looked up to Niu Jing, sowhat in disbelief.
“Of course it’s real. But you need to learn how to distinguish dical herbs first. Else, poisonous or not, useful or not, you’ll dig them all up. I don’t have that ti to sort through them.” Niu Jing saw Du Xiao Li’s joyous appearance and felt happy inside too.
“Thank you, grandpa Niu!” Du Xiao Li wished she could run up and Niu Jing and give him a kiss on his face.
“Haha, then later co by my house to learn so dical ingredient knowledge. Now then, I’ll take him for a stroll in the mountains first. Quickly eat your breakfast alright.” Niu Jing patted Du Xiao Li’s head and got up, taking Han Ming Yi and the others towards the mountain top.
Du Xiu Heng finally ca to Du Xiao Li’s side after Niu Jing left, asking: “Younger sister, do you really plan on learning dicine?”
Du Xiao Li nodded. It’s not that she wanted to learn dicine, but that she originally already knew how. If she doesn’t learn anything now, in the future, if she were to accidentally expose her dical knowledge, then that would be troubleso.
“Since you want to learn, then just go. Whether or not you can make money, all that is secondary. Big brother will support you.” Du Xiu Heng firmly said.
Perhaps Du Xiu Heng’s words weren’t for her to hear, but in that mont, Du Xiao Li felt a never before warmth in her own heart.
[1] Xiao Yi – ‘Little Yi’; since his full na is Han Ming Yi
[2] nsao – used to describe soone who’s outwardly cold, but deep and pa.s.sionate inside.
[3] Country Seat – the town that is the governntal center of a county
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