mesbooks Chapter 136 Building a House is on the Agenda
Chapter 136 Building a House is on the Agenda
After eating it, he also thought it was delicious, and glanced at the dough pieces and fillings on the table.
He squatted down and, following the method Lin Cai had just demonstrated, copied a mochi with nut filling.
Seeing the oddly shaped, almost obviously distorted object in Scarface's hand, Lin Bao burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, why is a burly, rough man trying to make such delicate food like a girl?"
"Look at what you made, and then look at what my little sister made. I doubt anyone will even ask about yours."
Scarface glanced at his own hand upon hearing this, then looked at the one Lin Cai had made; the difference between the two was indeed significant.
The little ones Lin Cai made were white, tender, and adorable.
What he made was not round at all, and the filling was leaking out in the middle. Although it was patched up, it was still not perfect.
After glancing at it twice more, Scarface threw his own creation into his mouth, then took another piece and continued making it.
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Li Guixiang caused a scene at the Gu family's house, but Gu Jinniu knocked her unconscious and took her back. Not long after, Li Guixiang was awakened by the cold.
Before she even opened her eyes, she felt dizzy and lightheaded, and then the image of being beaten earlier flashed through her mind.
She probably had never experienced that scene before, because she suddenly opened her eyes.
As she opened her eyes, she was startled again, because the person who had hit her earlier was sitting in the room.
"Hey boss, why didn't you go to work today?"
The pain on her face hadn't subsided, and Li Guixiang was now somewhat afraid of her husband.
When Gu Jinniu saw that Li Guixiang had woken up, he looked up at her, and his leisurely gaze frightened Li Guixiang again.
In all the years she had been married to Gu Jinniu, she had never seen such a look in her husband's eyes.
"You really want me to go to work, you'd love for me to work myself to death out there, wouldn't you?"
"No, I didn't, I didn't think that way. I was just worried that if you didn't go, your employer might deduct the pay..."
"You're worried about my employer withholding my wages, not about my health, so you don't care what happens to me. You only care about whether you have money to spend, right?"
Gu Jinniu's voice was very calm, without any fluctuations, and his face was expressionless, which Li Guixiang found terrifying.
Hearing this, Li Guixiang became even more frightened and quickly got out of bed, letting go of the blanket.
"No, no, Taurus, I... I'm just worried about you. I don't care if I have money or not, I... I'm really just worried about you..."
Li Guixiang wanted to get closer to Gu Jinniu, but when she saw Gu Jinniu's eyes and expression, she didn't dare to reach out her hand.
Gu Jinniu naturally saw it too, and seeing that Li Guixiang didn't dare to approach him, he slapped her and then kicked her.
He stood up, walked over, grabbed Li Guixiang's hair, and pulled her up from the ground: "Since you don't want the money so much, what were you doing before?"
"The Gu family is such a big family. As your husband, have I not given you food or drink? Why are you going to their house to make a scene and demand money?"
"Do you think you can take the money from the third son's family?"
"We have everything at home. If you're short of money, you can tell me. Why did you go to the third brother's house?"
"You went, fine, but you even used your mother as a raft. Do you want the whole Gu family village to know that my mother, Gu Jinniu's mother, has been missing for a month and no one in the family has noticed?"
With each word Gu Jinniu spoke, he increased the pressure in his hand, forcing Li Guixiang's head to tilt back.
She felt like her scalp was being ripped off, but no matter how much she begged her husband, he wouldn't let go.
Gu Jinniu didn't make much noise, and he also told Li Guixiang not to make any loud noises.
If Li Guixiang raised her voice even a little, Gu Jinniu would slap her across the face.
The second wife knew nothing about what had happened to the first wife and her husband. Gu Jiao'er, the only one who heard the noise but remained unmoved, sat in front of the mirror, looked at herself in the mirror, and revealed a sinister smile.
Everyone thought the newly made pastries were good, and they all assumed that Lin Cai would have Hua Ni take them to Bai Xiang Zhai.
But Lin Cai doesn't have any. Although the desserts are delicious and very easy to make, the ingredients are not easy to come by!
She used two kinds of rice, and the taste of the noodles made from the two kinds of rice was significantly different.
The texture of rice made from glutinous rice is more glutinous, while the texture of rice made from regular rice is not as good.
The men couldn't tell the difference; they all thought it tasted the same—both were sticky and fragrant, with no discernible difference.
Lin's mother and Huani ate from different places. After they finished eating, Lin's mother asked Lin Cai what kind of rice it was and where it came from.
There was still half a bag of glutinous rice in the refrigerator. Lin Cai put all the glutinous rice into a cloth bag, took it out, and handed it to her mother.
"I bought this when I went to the county last time. The person there said this kind of rice is delicious. I don't know if it's true, but I bought it to try."
Looking at the half-full sack of rice, Lin's mother asked her daughter, "Is that all? How much did it cost?"
Lin Cai casually mentioned five taels of silver, and immediately felt a blow to the shoulder.
"Five taels of silver? Oh dear, you spendthrift girl, five taels of silver to buy such a small amount of rice. If you took this to the market, you could buy rice from several granaries."
"Oh dear, you spendthrift girl! How can you be so wasteful!"
Lin Cai, who had just been slapped on the shoulder, quickly helped her mother up: "Mother, five taels of silver is not a bad deal. First of all, this is the only one of its kind, and secondly, this rice is indeed tastier than other rice!"
“If there weren’t so few of them, I would have used them to make rice.”
No sooner had she finished speaking than she received another pounding on her shoulder, though Lin's mother didn't use much force, and the punches didn't hurt.
Lin's mother was furious. She had spent five taels of silver on such a small amount of rice, and this spendthrift girl still wanted to use it to steam rice.
This is such a small amount, not even enough to eat after steaming. Oh dear, what a waste!
Finally, Lin Cai watched as her mother took the half-bag of glutinous rice as if it were a treasure.
As she watched Lin's mother's retreating figure, she wondered if she would be beaten if she took out some glutinous rice again.
Regardless of whether she would be beaten or not, Lin Cai couldn't worry about that long-term right now. She turned her head to look at the house in front of her.
He turned around and spent an hour taking out several blueprints, which he then handed to Scarface.
Looking at the blueprints in his hand, Scarface was somewhat bewildered: "I don't know how to build houses, why are you giving me this?"
"I know you can't build houses, but I still need you to find me a craftsman, a craftsman who knows how to build houses..."