“Spouse, it smells so good.”

Aunt Wang rapidly processed the duck, placing the organs collectively and reducing the duck into items.

“These intestines don’t style good, with a robust fishy scent, however they’re thought of a meat dish in spite of everything. Stir-fry them with some onions and ginger for one more meal,” Mrs. Wang mentioned as she minimize. “The duck neck shouldn’t be very helpful. There’s not a lot meat and it’s not very tasty, however I’ll nonetheless put it aside for you. You’ll be able to determine whether or not or to not make it. Mixing it with rice could make a meal.”

It’s not simple to eat meat today. Though chickens, geese, and geese might be raised at dwelling, not each rural household can eat meat day by day. Consuming some meat is best than simply consuming vegetable leaves. Considering of Cheng Yun’s state of affairs, Aunt Wang didn’t dare to throw away the issues for him.

Cheng Yun watched Aunt Wang’s each step rigorously, pondering that the whole lot on the duck was good. He additionally needed to make the duck neck. He had purchased numerous spices on the town within the morning, however he hadn’t made it earlier than and wasn’t certain how it could end up, so he didn’t say something and simply let Aunt Wang put it aside for him.

Quickly, Aunt Wang completed processing the entire duck and taught Cheng Yun prepare dinner it. Cheng Yun had been fascinated with his 5-Cup Duck the entire time, however he additionally remembered the whole lot Aunt Wang had mentioned and stored it in thoughts.

After ending the work of slaughtering the duck, Aunt Wang didn’t keep and trouble them any longer. She talked about to Wang Liang to observe Yang Hongjin to study woodworking and left with him.

Nonetheless, when Cheng Yun sorted out the issues and took out the spices he had purchased within the morning, Aunt Wang got here in with a bowl in her hand. “Take these first. They’re some rice bran and rice crumbs combined with some vegetable leaves and soybean meal. They’re all leftovers with a foul look. It’s finest to feed them to the chickens and geese. When you may have time, you possibly can go to the river to catch some small fish and blend them with small stones. The geese love them.”

Cheng Yun paused for a second and dumbly took the bowl Aunt Wang handed him, holding the heavy bowl in his fingers and feeling heavy in his coronary heart.

He felt his nostril beginning to tingle and sniffed. He smiled at Aunt Wang and mentioned, “Thanks, Auntie.” He cleared his throat and continued, “When the duck is prepared later, I’ll convey you a bowl to style. And as for Hongjin, I’ll ask him as quickly as he comes again. So long as he may also help, we are going to by no means refuse.”

Aunt Wang smiled and agreed to his later phrases however didn’t comply with the previous. She mentioned they might simply hold it for themselves to eat.

After seeing off Aunt Wang, Cheng Yun nonetheless felt a bit dazed. He seemed on the bowl of feed in his hand, and his coronary heart couldn’t settle down for a very long time.

To not point out this period, even up to now, he hardly ever encountered somebody who cared about him a lot with none blood relationship.

Cheng Yun’s household was not harmonious since he was younger. His dad and mom divorced when he was very younger, and later they every began a brand new household. They handled him like a soccer, kicking him forwards and backwards. After he entered junior highschool, he stayed within the college dormitory when he might and stayed at dwelling for a number of days throughout holidays. The factor he did essentially the most was to take the cash his dad and mom gave him to the web cafe and keep there for a complete day. Nobody cared the place he went.

After coming to this world, he additionally considered what his dad and mom would suppose in the event that they discovered he was gone. However this concept solely flashed by his thoughts for a second, and he instantly laughed it off.

The previous is gone, and now he has a brand new life, a brand new household, and the whole lot continues to be good. There isn’t any must dwell on the previous.

As a result of it’s laborious to come back by, it’s particularly cherished.

Cheng Yun shook his head and stopped fascinated with it. He targeted his thoughts again on the 5-Cup Duck.

Because the title suggests, the 5-Cup Duck is constituted of 5 cups of seasoning: one cup of cooking wine, one cup of white vinegar, one cup of soy sauce, one cup of white sugar, and one cup of saltwater. Cheng Yun as soon as made a joke, pondering that the 5 cups have been 5 completely different seasonings. He didn’t know the true recipe till he was teased by his faculty roommate from the South.

When he acquired married, there was nonetheless some rice wine left in the home. Though the style was a bit completely different, there wasn’t a lot cash in his pocket, so he might solely make do with it.

He added some firewood to the range, poured two bowls of water and a cup of rice wine into the pot, after which put the washed and minimize duck into the pot and lined it for a second.

Through the wait, he cleaned and minimize the duck offal and neck, eliminated the membrane from the neck pores and skin, and put them in a barely bigger bowl and soaked them along with the duck’s offal in water.

He washed the scallions, ginger, garlic, and small chili peppers that he had purchased from the city and minimize them into small items. He sliced the ginger, minimize the scallions and chili peppers into small sections, and minimize the garlic into halves, and put them apart. He additionally took out the spices he purchased from the city, grabbed a bit of every and put them apart.

When the blood from the duck meat started to overflow and white foam floated on the water, Cheng Yun scooped up the duck meat and rinsed it with clear water, drained it, and set it apart.

He poured out the water within the pot, added oil, and sautéed the ginger, scallions, and garlic. The small kitchen was instantly crammed with a aromatic scent. Cheng Yun licked his lips and poured the drained duck meat into the pot. The heated pot immediately made a scorching sound.

Cheng Yun grabbed the wok and rapidly stir-fried the components. After frying the oil, he added a cup of rice wine, a cup of white vinegar, a cup of soy sauce, a cup of white sugar, and a cup of salt water so as. He stir-fried a number of extra instances and waited for the excessive warmth to boil earlier than masking the wok.

He squatted down and picked a number of items of firewood, wanting to cut back the warmth of the fireplace. He imitated Yang Hongjin’s earlier actions and used tongs to maneuver the ash to extinguish a part of the fireplace. Nonetheless, the fireplace not solely didn’t turn into smaller but in addition grew to become stronger, inflicting Cheng Yun to cough.

“Right now, it was nearly time for Yang Hongjin to return dwelling. Positive sufficient, as quickly as he raised his head, he noticed that fool squatting on the kitchen door, following his gaze curiously.

Cheng Yun coughed a number of instances and waved his hand for Yang Hongjin to come back over and assist him scale back the fireplace. Yang Hongjin obediently moved in and took over Cheng Yun’s work. He merely moved it twice, and earlier than Cheng Yun might determine something, the fireplace was all of a sudden lowered by half.

“Okay, it’s okay. Don’t make the fireplace too small.” Cheng Yun rapidly stopped him, let Yang Hongjin put down the issues, and took him to the yard to clean his fingers and face collectively.

“It smells so good,” Yang Hongjin mentioned as he walked and seemed within the path of the kitchen. Though the pot was lined, the kitchen was filled with perfume that couldn’t be hidden. Few folks within the village would use so many components to prepare dinner, and for somebody like Yang Hongjin who seldom had an opportunity to eat good meals, he nearly couldn’t transfer his toes and simply needed to show round and return to the kitchen to scent extra.

“A spouse shouldn’t be aromatic, however a duck is aromatic,” Cheng Yun joked with him.

Yang Hongjin nodded and obediently adopted, “The duck is aromatic.”

Cheng Yun was happy and amused by his trustworthy response. After working laborious all afternoon, even when the style was not good, simply having somebody’s endorsement made him really feel half-successful.

Cheng Yun helped Yang Hongjin wipe his fingers and face and talked to him as if he was speaking to himself. On this unfamiliar world, the one individual he might depend on was this fool, and he didn’t have to fret about him listening to his innermost ideas and discovering them unusual.

“…I don’t know if I can return, however even when I can’t, it doesn’t matter. In any case, if I am going again, my dad and mom will simply deal with me like a ball and kick me round. It’s higher to reside right here freely and fortunately with out worrying about their temper.” Cheng Yun sighed, “Your stepmother isn’t individual both. I believe solely your second brother is okay, I haven’t had a lot contact with the others and don’t know them properly.”

“Second brother!” Yang Hongjin grabbed a well-recognized phrase and fortunately repeated it.

Cheng Yun smiled helplessly. “Sure, your second brother.” He continued, “Issues are okay within the Cheng household, however we’re poor and have rather a lot to fret about. However we will’t blame them for that.”

He considered Aunt Wang who had been so variety to them. Though she had coronary heart, the primary motive she helped them was as a result of their household had sufficient to eat and a few cash of their pockets, which allowed them to have the leisure to assist others.

Cheng Yun sighed once more. He couldn’t really feel safe if he didn’t have cash in his pocket. Seeing Yang Hongjin taking a look at him with a puzzled expression, he shook his head and pinched his hand, laughing and saying, “Don’t fear. Now that we’re married, you’re my household. So long as I’m right here, I’ll do my finest to run this family properly.”

He raised his hand and touched Yang Hongjin’s head with a targeted look. “I’ll do my finest that can assist you together with your mind,” he mentioned with a smile. “You’ll get higher and higher.”

Writer’s be aware:

A few years later…

Cheng Yun: I can’t do something about your mind.

Yang Hongjin: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ