Reborn in the 80s: Everyone Falls For Me
Chapter 550 - 549: Mass Release 29

Chapter 550: Chapter 549: Mass Release 29

When she got home, the old man in the yard saw Xu Niannian and Hu Yue enter one after the other, his eyes swirling around the chicken that had started flapping again, his aged eyes gradually lighting up, becoming more and more lecherous, more and more perverted.

"Niannian, what’s this..." The old man stared at the chicken and gulped, "Are you preparing to cook?"

Chicken: "..."

Why are you staring at me?

Why do you salivate while looking at me?

Why are your eyes so lecherous, so perverted?

I’m just a chicken, what do you want to do?

The chicken, frightened, hugged itself tightly with its wings.

Xu Niannian was amused by the old man’s gluttonous expression.

"Grandpa, I’m cooking today," she confirmed to him, "What would you like to eat, Grandpa?"

As soon as the old man heard that Xu Niannian was really going to cook, his smile grew wider, and his eyes squinted into slits, his face full of wrinkles as he laughed.

"Chicken."

Chicken: "..."

The chicken flapped even more intensely.

Xu Niannian crisply said, "Alright, Grandpa."

She planned to make crispy fragrant chicken and steamed fish with rice flour.

The crispy fragrant chicken was a dish Xu Niannian had developed herself, adapting the method from other dishes.

The taste was quite good, and Xu Niannian liked it herself too.

Xu Niannian carried the groceries to the kitchen, receiving the inquisitive glances from her family along the way.

Jin Nanxi stopped mid-step as he was coming downstairs, his gaze slowly becoming lecherous, "Niannian, are you going to cook?"

Xu Niannian: "Mhm."

"Making a lot?" she asked.

"Enough for our whole family," Xu Niannian answered, aware of their appetites, so she didn’t dare to make too little.

Ye Qin, who originally planned to go to work, thought it over and decided to take the day off.

Jin Xiaoni and Xu Xiaoxia had already returned to school.

Jin Ruibing and Xu Qiang were about to return to school, but hesitated for a moment when they heard Xu Niannian was going to cook, and calmly settled back on the sofa.

Ye Qin asked, "Ruibing, Xiao Qiang, weren’t you guys going to school?"

Jin Ruibing and Xu Qiang, when questioned, answered in unison, "We have the day off today."

Hearing this, Ye Qin dropped the subject.

Xu Niannian went into the kitchen to handle the other ingredients and handed the chicken over to Hu Yue to slaughter.

Hu Yue knew how to slaughter a chicken.

Slit the throat, let the blood drain, toss it in a basin, then scald it with boiling water to pluck the feathers.

However, as soon as she slit the chicken’s throat and dropped it into the basin, and went to fetch water, the chicken had already run off.

Hu Yue was stunned at first, then saw the chicken stumbling and flapping as it ran, its stubborn attempt at escape made her lose the heart to kill it.

She thought to herself that she still lacked experience for not having finished the chicken off with one cut, letting it suffer so much for nothing.

Moved by pity, Hu Yue chased the half-dead chicken around the yard with a kettle in hand, the chicken leaving a trail of blood but still stubborn in its fast escape.

Step by step, footprints marked with blood.

Unfortunately, as an injured chicken, it was impossible to outrun Hu Yue, and it wasn’t long before it pathetically fell into her hands again.

Hu Yue felt sorry for it, deeming it her own fault, since her lack of experience had caused it not to quickly die.

So, with overflowing sympathy, Hu Yue returned to the kitchen with the injured chicken, borrowed Xu Niannian’s kitchen knife, and quickly and precisely chopped off the chicken’s neck, clean and efficient.

Xu Niannian suddenly had her kitchen knife snatched away.

Does anyone kill a chicken like this?

Why does she look so piteous while she’s killing a chicken?

Hey, buddy, your expression doesn’t match your actions at all.

Your face looks like you should be bandaging it, not chopping off its neck.

But Xu Niannian was already used to Hu Yue’s quirks, silently criticizing her for a while, outwardly as calm as an old dog.

"Are you done with the knife?"

With a stern face, Hu Yue thrust the knife forward, "Done."

Xu Niannian took a step back, startled by her gesture, subconsciously covering her belly, and broke into a cold sweat, "Be careful."

Hu Yue: "Don’t worry, I’ve got it under control."

Don’t worry, how can I not worry? I’m going to get scared sick sooner or later.

Xu Niannian hesitated, wondering if she should get a new bodyguard?

Otherwise, she might end up being stabbed by her own bodyguard without any accidents happening to herself.

The thought amused Xu Niannian.

Forget it, forget it, Hu Yue is pretty good.

So she consoled and cured herself with this little pep talk.

After Hu Yue finished slaughtering the chicken, Xu Niannian began cooking.

The main tasks were two big dishes.

The two main dishes she was preparing to make were the crispy fragrant chicken and the steamed fish with rice flour.

The steamed fish with rice flour was an adaptation from the method of making steamed pork with rice flour.

The other side dishes wouldn’t take much time; they could all be stir-fried in less than twenty minutes.

So Xu Niannian started with the main courses first.

The method for crispy fragrant chicken was straightforward, mainly because Xu Niannian had already mastered it.

First, she put the whole cleaned chicken into a pot of brine.

The brine was her own blend, with a mild spicy flavor, enriched with many ingredients.

Before putting the chicken in the pot to stew, Xu Niannian made several cuts across the chicken’s body to help it better absorb flavors and soak up the juices.

Stewing the chicken would take at least an hour, so taking advantage of this time, Xu Niannian went on to prepare the fish.

The bass didn’t have many bones; she sliced the fish flesh, removed the bones and spines, and began marinating it with a proper amount of salt, sugar, cooking wine, soy sauce, and oyster sauce.

Unable to find good cooking wine and oyster sauce for sale, she had concocted these herself out of raw ingredients.