NFBE Chapter 197 If you have nothing to do, you don't have to come over to pay your respects.
Chapter 197 If you have nothing to do, you don't have to come over to pay your respects.
Xia Weiwei followed the method she remembered and asked the cook to bring a pound of flour, divided it into two portions and put them in separate bowls. She gave one portion to Liu and asked her to follow her steps.
"Don't pour all the water in at once. Add it little by little, stirring as you go." Xia Weiwei stirred the flour with chopsticks. After the flour was stirred evenly, she started kneading the dough directly in the basin.
"Mother, sprinkle some corn flour on the chopping board now, and also on the dough to prevent it from sticking. Rub it evenly with your hands, making sure to rub every piece." After rubbing the dough evenly, Xia Weiwei folded the dough over, kicked it with her fist, and then folded the dough and kicked it again, folding it and kicking it many times.
After the operation, she felt her arm was a little sore. When she saw Yang Biao doing it, it seemed quite easy for him. Liu, who was kneading her arm happily, seemed to be doing it easily too, and her arm did not feel any discomfort.
"Leave it like this for the time it takes to burn out for one incense stick." Xia Weiwei put the dough back into the bowl, covered the mouth of the bowl with a clean wet cloth, and asked the cook to light a stick of incense. The quality of the incense was relatively good, and it would take about twenty minutes to burn out in modern time.
"Do you have to work like this in his house?" Liu hugged her with heartache. The young lady from an official family who had never done housework at home, had to do housework after marrying Yang Biao.
"No, I just watched my husband do it and remembered the steps. Mother, this is my first time doing it today, and my arms are sore." Seeing that Liu had misunderstood, Xia Weiwei hurriedly explained.
"Oh, baby, your arms are sore. Let me massage them for you." After hearing her daughter say that it was her first time, Mrs. Liu felt relieved. Then when she heard that her arms were sore, she hurried to massage her to relieve the symptoms.
"Take out the dough and knead it evenly." After a stick of incense burned out, Xia Weiwei took Liu to continue kneading the dough and looked at the clepsydra. "Let's wait half a minute before kneading it again." That was five minutes now.
"Sprinkle corn flour on the chopping board, press it with a rolling pin, turn it over and press it again, sprinkle corn flour while rolling, roll it up with a rolling pin, push and roll it, the dough will grow bigger." Xia Weiwei turned over the dough, rolled out the thicker parts at the edges with a rolling pin, continued to roll it up and roll it, then pushed and rolled out the thick parts, sprinkled with flour, and repeated the steps until the light shadow could be seen when the dough was picked up.
"Cut off the uneven edges," Xia Weiwei gestured with her hands, cut a wonton wrapper to size with a knife, cut another one according to the same cut, and handed it to Liu.
"Mother, cut it with a knife according to this dough." So the mother and daughter cut the dough they had rolled out according to the dough.
"Daughter, there are actually fifty-six pieces of leather." Liu happily counted the number of pieces she had rolled out. Seeing that she had been hitting her arms, she hurriedly pulled her to wash her hands.
"We will eat wontons tomorrow morning, made with the dough my daughter and I rolled out." Before leaving, Liu instructed the servants in the kitchen.
"Weiwei," In the evening, under the guidance of Shi Rui, Yang Biao met Xia Weiwei who was sitting in the yard in a daze. When he returned to Jinlou, he heard Jiang Sheng say that his wife went to Xia Yuxuan to see Liu.
"Husband," hearing his voice, Xia Weiwei quickly stood up and came over here.
She asked Shi Rui to wait at the door at night, and if Yang Biao came, bring him over.
It was inconvenient to disturb the young couple, so Shi Rui quickly stepped aside.
"Let's go," Xia Weiwei saw that there were servants around the yard, so she pulled him to a room in another yard, because Liu was resting in this yard.
"Where is your mother?" Liu had even followed her all the way to the capital, which showed how deep her feelings for her only daughter were. Now that she saw her mother, there was no way she wouldn't follow her.
"She's already fallen asleep." Xia Weiwei smiled. The person who tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep might have been tired from rolling noodles, so she fell asleep as soon as she lay down on the bed.
"What about you? Why aren't you asleep yet so late? The baby also needs to sleep." Yang Biao pulled her to the bed and sat down, then helped her take off her clothes.
"I took a nap in the morning, rested at noon, and at night..." The child should be fine, she had rested.
"Oh, then let your husband help you sleep well." Yang Biao kissed her. He had been fed by Qin Xiaoran and Hong Yan before he came. In order to prevent the pregnant woman from smelling their fragrance, he would take a bath, change clothes and then accompany Xia Weiwei. Now when he sees her, his body still feels palpitations.
"Okay." Xia Weiwei kissed back, and the two quickly started exercise mode.
"Madam, the son-in-law came last night." Liu got up early in the morning. Aunt Xu helped her change clothes and told her that Yang Biao came last night and left after a while.
"Oh, this is outrageous!" Liu was angry. Why was this man so persistent and kept pestering her daughter?
She had to find a way to help her daughter resolve this mismatched marriage and find a man of equal status in the future. As for the baby in her daughter's belly, she would help take care of it after it was born, so that her daughter would not have to worry about the future.
"Mother," Tan came running over early in the morning. Someone informed her that Yang Biao went to Xia Weiwei's house last night.
"If you have nothing to do, you don't have to come over to pay your respects." Liu looked at her coldly. If it weren't for the sake of her children and grandchildren, she would have kicked her out long ago.
"Mother, my sister is in serious condition now. I heard that man is trying to provoke her. How can we do that?" She was more anxious about this matter than Liu. The two of them were so inseparable, how could she possibly snatch the dowry away from her.
She had to find a way to separate the two people. If they divorced, Yang Biao would have to return all the dowry according to the law.
"Then do you have any idea?" Liu was picking out her jewelry, seemingly nonchalantly, but her eyes were looking at Aunt Xu sharply.
Aunt Xu, who had served her for many years, understood what she meant. There was a traitor in the mansion, and the person must be found and killed to serve as a warning to others.
"Mother, it's actually very simple. We can give Yang Biao two beautiful concubines and let the beauties hold him back. Then he won't have the energy to bother my sister anymore." The two of them might as well become estranged from each other and go their separate ways.
"Well, do you have any candidate?" It seems that Mr. Tan has an expert to give him advice, otherwise he would not have the brains to come up with such an idea.
"My younger uncle has a concubine daughter who is sixteen years old and very beautiful. My husband has a colleague who is a fifth-rank imperial doctor. As he wants to move to another mansion and is short of money, he is willing to give his beautiful concubine daughter to someone as a concubine to help him out of his current predicament." The imperial doctor was going to give his original wife to Xia Yuxuan, but was stopped by Tan. Her eldest sister-in-law advised her to send the person away as soon as possible, otherwise there would be more trouble.
"Well, Lotus, go and give the doctor a betrothal gift, and tell him that we want this girl." The girl was sent to Xia Yuxuan's house by her mistress that day. Tan was annoyed, so in order to avoid any complications, she brought the girl here this morning. Liu saw that the girl was indeed outstanding in appearance, and she also became interested.
"Hey, mother, you don't know where that gentleman lives. Let your daughter-in-law handle all matters." Seeing that Liu actually asked Nanny Xu to deliver the betrothal gifts, Tan hurriedly tried to stop her, as she still wanted to make some money from it.