My Stepbrother Is a Little Pitiful (ChatGPT Translated)

☆ 28. Chapter 27. Worries and concerns.

Chapter 27: Worries

"Brother?" Seeing Cheng Qingzhi staring at her dumbfounded without answering, Cheng Songer asked again.

"Hmm? Okay." Cheng Qingzhi suddenly woke up from his daydream, his face turning red. He also followed her lead and took a bite.

"Is it delicious?" she asked.

Cheng Qingzhi nodded, "Delicious."

At this moment, a strong aroma of meat wafted from the Lin family's courtyard. It turned out that their meal was ready, consisting of braised pork with vermicelli, spicy stir-fried ribs, and Uncle Xu also made pancakes. The villagers gathered in the Lin family's courtyard, enjoying the meat pies and hot soup with great delight.

Cheng Songer, who hadn't eaten lunch yet, also felt a bit hungry from the smell.

Cheng Qingzhi sensitively sensed Cheng Songer's thoughts, "Are you hungry, Songer? I'll cook for you."

"No," Cheng Qingzhi quickly found an excuse to pretend to be sick and rest in the room. If he went out to cook now, wouldn't it be embarrassing? Especially that Lin Yuxiu, his eyes occasionally glanced towards their room. If he saw smoke coming out of the kitchen chimney, who knows what kind of mockery he would unleash.

At this moment, Cheng Songer's eyes lit up as she looked at the charcoal fire in the room. She had an idea.

"Brother, let's have hot pot!"

"Hot pot? What's a hot pot?" Cheng Qingzhi's eyes showed a hint of confusion. Even though he was skilled in cooking, it was the first time he had heard of it.

"Don't you know?" Cheng Songer was a bit surprised. Could it be that hot pot hadn't been invented in this world yet?

"Have you heard of dipping lamb meat?" she asked tentatively.

Cheng Qingzhi shook his head, "Never heard of it. What is dipping lamb meat? And what is hot pot?"

It seems that because the original author wrote this book in ancient times and it is a martial arts novel, they didn't describe everyday life in detail.

"In simple terms, it's putting all the ingredients in a pot and slowly simmering them," she explained.

"Is it. . . a big stew?" Cheng Qingzhi tried to understand.

"No no no, it's more complicated than a big stew, and the taste is spicy and numbing, but it's delicious, especially in winter, hot pot is a must-have at home." Cheng Songer looked at him with a face of trying to understand and failing to understand, and chuckled softly, "I'll make it for you, you'll know once you taste it. Brother, you set up the charcoal fire first."

Cheng Qingzhi obediently did as she said.

When she bought the charcoal fire, she also bought a small copper pot, placed the charcoal fire on the charcoal basin and lit it, then put the copper pot on top, and soon the copper pot heated up.

Cheng Songer entered the kitchen, looked at the seasonings inside, and suddenly hesitated and felt troubled.

The limited seasonings in front of her were far from meeting the standards of modern hot pot.

The production of general hot pot base requires the use of red oil, magnet chili, soul Pixian bean paste, as well as a large amount of chili, Sichuan peppercorn, cinnamon, fragrant fruit, star anise, white wine, and other seasonings. The production process is very complicated.

But she only had soy sauce, soybean paste, sesame oil, and cooking wine in front of her, at most enough to make a dipping sauce.

She pursed her lips, forget it, since the seasonings are not enough and making hot pot is not possible, let's make a simplified version of sukiyaki.