Ever since Ning Shuqian's pregnancy was revealed, because she was a rich girl, both the media and the circle had doubts about her status in the Wen family. It was indeed a big shock to her. In the past few days, she participated in several small banquets in the capital. The eyes of the people looking at her were full of inquiry, suspicion, sympathy, gloating and other emotions.
However, due to the Wen family's indifference to the matter, such doubts gradually dampened everyone's enthusiasm for the matter. More importantly, because it was the Spring Festival, everyone's attention was focused on it.
As for the Spring Festival, grandpa just didn't care about anything, and she went to the Mo family every day these days to help grandpa buy New Year's goods, intending to make the Mo family's New Year a lively one.
Wen Xinya accompanied her grandfather to finish the New Year's Eve dinner on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Her grandfather gave her a big red envelope. She then accompanied He Ma and Jiang Ma to make many dumplings with various fillings. Of course, the fennel filling, which was her grandfather's favorite, was the most popular.
She returned to the Wen family on the morning of the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.
After having New Year's Eve dinner on the morning of December 30th, Wen Xinya received another red envelope from her grandfather and went to Lishan Manor with a happy smile on her face.
Si Yiyan was talking with Gu Yuehan when he saw Wen Xinya coming over. He decisively finished his work, took the bags from her hands, and took them to the kitchen.
"I bought fresh shepherd's purse and pork. We will make dumplings later and you guys have to help." Wen Xinya directed Si Yiyan to pound the pork into stuffing, while she washed the shepherd's purse in the sink.
Gu Yuehan looked at the Ninth Young Master, who was always wise and brave, elegant and noble, aloof and indifferent, and who was in charge of the country. He rolled up his sleeves, bare his arms, took the kitchen knife and stomped on the chopping board, his eyes almost popping out.
"Okay, Master Xia Sijiu, you look very good at stomping pork." Wen Xinya almost laughed to death when she saw him stomping pork. It was really damaging to his image and she was very disillusioned.
A piece of pork was quickly pounded into paste.
Si Yiyan came over to help Wen Xinya wash the vegetables.
Wen Xinya suddenly reached out and pressed the faucet, and water splashed all over Si Yiyan's body and face, and Wen Xinya was not spared.
“Hahahaha…” Wen Xinya couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
"Naughty!" Si Yiyan lovingly wiped the water stains on her face with his sleeves.
Everything was ready. Wen Xinya mixed the meat paste and fried it with shepherd's purse in the pan, while she kept giving instructions to Si Yiyan.
"Salt!"
Si Yiyan handed her the salt shaker.
"pepper!"
Si Yiyan searched for a while and finally found the box of what looked like pepper powder and handed it to Wen Xinya.
Wen Xinya said without even looking at it: "This is pepper powder, not pepper powder. Pepper powder is placed next to the pepper powder."
Gu Yuehan had a wooden face. He was a little unable to adapt to the sudden fall into the mortal world from the high and mighty Ninth Young Master.
After all this trouble, Wen Xinya had already fried the meat filling. Si Yiyan smelled the fragrance of the big pot of meat filling and couldn't help but salivate. He immediately took chopsticks and tasted it: "It's really delicious."
Wen Xinya smiled and said, "It will taste better if it's made into dumplings."
Because dumpling wrappers are complicated to make, Wen Xinya bought ready-made ones. She stuffed a dumpling wrapper into Si Yiyan's hand and said, "Xia Sijiushao, everyone has a share in making dumplings, and you are no exception."
Si Yiyan stuffed the dumpling wrapper in his hand into the dazed Gu Yuehan's hand and said, "Do it yourself and you will have enough food and clothing."
Gu Yuehan had a wooden face, staring at the dumpling wrapper in his hand.
Si Yiyan held the round dumpling skin and watched Wen Xinya put the meat filling on the dumpling skin with a spoon, and then molded the dumpling filling into a crescent shape.
Wen Xinya saw him holding the dumpling wrappers but not knowing how to start, and she couldn't help but feel a strange sense of balance in her heart: "I thought you, Master Xia Si, were omnipotent, but I didn't expect... there are things in this world that you can't do."
"Then teach me." Si Yiyan asked humbly.
Wen Xinya felt that her image had become more noble and impressive in an instant, and a feeling of vanity spread. She leaned over and taught him step by step: "Do you understand now?"
"Let me try." Si Yiyan took another dumpling wrapper and imitated Wen Xinya. He scooped the meat filling with a spoon and put it on the meat filling. Then, he imitated Wen Xinya to stuff the dumpling wrapper into a beautiful shape.
When a small and exquisite dumpling was placed in her palm, Wen Xinya had an urge to complain. She only taught him once, but the dumplings he made were more beautiful than hers.
The little sense of superiority and vanity in her heart disappeared instantly.
Seeing her expression changing from gloomy to bright, sometimes glaring at him, sometimes gritting her teeth, Si Yiyan couldn't help but ask, "Did I wrap it badly?"
Wen Xinya gritted her teeth at Si Yiyan again: "No, it's wrapped very well!"
She thought back to how He Ma and Jiang Ma had to teach her for several minutes before she learned how to make them. And only after many ugly dumplings had come out of the oven did she manage to make them look a little better.
That is to say, she was able to show off her bag in front of Si Yiyan, but she didn't expect...
As expected, comparing yourself to others will make you feel nauseous.
The saying "practice makes perfect" is simply nonsense when applied to someone like Si Yiyan who can do everything to perfection.
Si Yiyan carefully compared the dumplings he made with those Wen Xinya made, and immediately knew where her anger came from.
So he calmly took a dumpling wrapper and made another one. This time, because he put more meat filling, the thin dumpling wrapper was broken.
Wen Xinya couldn't help but laugh smugly after seeing this: "It's okay, I'll make fried dumplings for the ones that are broken later. Practice makes perfect, and it won't happen again if I make a few more."
At the beginning, He Ma and Jiang Ma also used these words to comfort her.
There was a doting light in Si Yiyan's eyes, but the dumplings he made were always uglier than Wen Xinya's, no matter how many he made.
And when Gu Yuehan successfully made dumplings that looked better than Wen Xinya's, he calmly glanced at the dumplings in Gu Yuehan's hand.
Gu Yuehan suddenly felt a slight chill on his back and subconsciously stuffed the dumpling twice. Then... a dumpling that was uglier than Tianjin Goubuli came out of the oven.
Wen Xinya found that her dumplings were the most beautiful, and she was so proud of herself that she rubbed flour on Si Yiyan's face when he wasn't paying attention. Seeing his clear and unparalleled face turn pale in an instant, she couldn't help laughing until her stomach hurt. She lifted his chin and teased him: "Hey! Where did this pretty boy come from? He's so handsome! Smile for me."
Gu Yuehan's expressionless face began to twitch, and a strange expression of dullness appeared on his cold face.
Jiu Shao, you are being teased, okay
Can you be a little more aware of the fact that you are being teased