Chapter 129: Cooking at Old Zhou house Part 2

"Jie, I brought it over!" Zhou Zi San bring over a big plastic of bean sprout with him, Zhou Zhu Yao is following behind with the other ingredients.

"Lian Song, you are here too?" Zhou Zhu Yao said when she saw the young man next to Bai Yi Yang. Lian Song is the guy who have been assisting Bai Yi Yang with Zhou Zi San this whole time. Now, he is boiling water to blanch the bean sprout.

"Hi." Lian Song grinned to Zhou Zhu Yao. After that, Zhou Zhu Yao also joined their team. She help with blanching the bean sprout while Lian Song control the fire.

"Yi Yang, we are done with the eggplants. Whats next?" The people doing the eggplants ask. Bai Yi Yang is making eggplants with garlic sauce. Its just that, instead of steaming, she prefer to fry the eggplants. That's why the people is a bit clueless.

"Coming!" Bai Yi Yang said.

"Blanch it and wash it in cold water. I will be back soon." Bai Yi Yang said to Zhou Zhu Yao, referring to the bean sprouts. Bai Yi then run to the other side. She check the eggplants and they are fried nicely.

"It's so fragrant..what did you cook over there just now?" One person ask.

"General Tso's chicken." Bai Yi Yang smile.

"I never had it before, how does it taste like?" They ask again.

"A bit spicy, sweet and sour." Bai Yi Yang said. After that, they start making the eggplants dish, it wasn't hard, she is done in 15 minutes.

"Yi Yang you are really a good cook." The people praise her.

"Nothing. I am just used to cooking at home." Bai Yi Yang smile before leaving back to Zhou Zhu Yao side. While waiting for her, they are chatting now, even the 12 years old Zhou Zi San joined them.

"Okay, let's start." Bai Yi Yang said.

The first step in making Mongolian Chicken is stir frying the marinated chicken, then take it out from the pot when it is 80% cooked. After that, add oil and fry the onion, garlic and green onion then add the chicken again before stir frying it together.

"Sauce." She said. Zhou Zi San come to bring over the sauce and it was the same, he pour it in the middle and of course after that is the starch. Bai Yi Yang mixed it a bit more before telling them to add the blanched bean sprout, stirring it again and complete.

"It's cooked." Bai Yi Yang said. Lian Song immediately put out the fire and Zhou Zi San run to take the serving pot. Zhou Zhu Yao saw this and laugh, these three people really match well.

When they transferred the chicken to the serving pot, Bai Yi Chen and one elderly uncle come and ask if there is any dish that is finished cooking. Zhou Zi San call them over and point at the Eggplants with garlic sauce dish and also the General Tso's Chicken dish.

When the third dish Mongolian Chicken with bean sprout is done transferred, someone come to look for Bai Yi Yang again, it was the one that take care of the Red braised pork belly.

"Its done." Bai Yi Yang said when the cover is removed. Zhou Zi San, her small assistant bring the serving pot and called over someone to bring over the dish. The serving pot cannot content all of it so a smaller serving pot was bring over.

"Jie, can I have a taste?" Zhou Zi San almost drool when he saw the shiny and tender braised pork belly was transferred.

"Okay ah." Bai Yi Yang nod. She told him to take a plate and chopsticks and let him have a taste.

"So good, it smells good, taste very good and tender! Jie, you are a fairy chef." Zhou Zi San said. Where did the obedient looking boy not long ago disappear? He was still calm at the beginning, after running around and following her, his childish nature immediately come out.

"Let uncle taste too." The person who look over the braised pork is the most tortured one. Can look but cannot eat. Bai Yi Yang ket him taste it too, he deserves it for taking care of it to cook this perfectly.

"Good, very delicious. Eldest Bai yatou, you really are a fairy chef." The uncle said. Bai Yi Yang laugh and after that she returned to her station.

"Yao Yao jie, I see that they already finished the steamed stuffed tofu. If you go to the kitchen, there is a sauce at the table. That's for the stuffed tofu, since it's still hot now, you pour it evenly on top of the stuffed tofu so that the taste will be infused in." Bai Yi Yang said.

"Okay." Zhou Zhu Yao nod and enter the kitchen.

"This one?!" She shout and show Bai Yi Yang from the kitchen door.

"Yes, that one." Bai Yi Yang nod. Zhou Zhu Yao then bring over the sauce to the canopy. The people has transferred the steamed stuffed tofu into the serving pot, to be exact there are two serving pot filled with it. Zhou Zhu Yao did as Bai Yi Yang told her, open the covering and spread the sauce evenly.

"Smells so good. Yao Yao, what is that?" Uncle Zhou come over and look.

"Stuffed tofu." Zhou Zhu Yao answer.

"Can I try?" Uncle Zhou laugh.

"No. You will ruin the visual." Zhou Zhu Yao scold. Uncle Zhou can only step back and look from afar.

When Zhou Zhu Yao returned, Bai Yi Yang is already start making the seafood soup. The seafood soup is a very simple one, the ingredients are fresh mushrooms, small carrot cubes, corn, snow pea and seafood, the seafood used are things such as scallops, peeled shrimp and carb meat.

"Do they use this much cornstarch solution?" Zhou Zhu Yao ask when she saw Bai Yi Yang stirring the soup while Zhou Zi San pour the cornstarch with her instructions.

"Of course, this is so that the soup will become thick, if not, it won't look appetising." Bai Yi Yang said.

"What else do you need to add later?" Zhou Zhu Yao ask.

"Egg. Egg white." Bai Yi Yang said.

"Okay, I will go prepare it." Zhou Zhu Yao once more enter the kitchen. While working, Bai Yi Yang ask a few things to Zhou Zi San.

"Are you used to living here now?" Bai Yi Yang ask.

"En. It's fun, there are a lot of people around." Zhou Zi San answer. What a pitiful child, Bai Yi Yang thought. If his mom got married again 6 years ago, then he was 6 at that time. He should have understand things by then.

"It's quite good here. When you move back, you will like it here." Bai Yi Yang said.

"I also like it here. But we still not sure if we can move soon. Depends if dad can get a good job, of not we will stay there a bit more." Zhou Zi San said.

"En, you are right. But I am sure your dad can bring all of you here soon." Bai Yi Yang said. Zhou Zi San smile and nod. With the way he is now, Bai Yi Yang can guess that second Zhou is a good father, if not how can other people son like Zhou Zi San can grow up normally like this. She is glad that some people is still very good to people who doesn't have blood relation with them, compared to the Bai family in City Bei, Old Zhou family is really.

When the big pot of soup is done, the whole pot was carried directly, no need to transfer it to serving pot.

And finally they came to the last dish which is stir fry cabbage with peppercorns and dried chills. It has simple seasoning and perfect when combined with all the other more complaints dishes.

"Finally done, I am exhausted." Zhou Zhu Yao said.

"Jie, I will go over and look at the the roasted pig, then I will go back with my siblings first, I am sure they are playing somewhere." Bai Yi Yang said.

"Go, go. Just be back by 4.00 pm. I also need to take a bath, can't welcome my friends looking like this." Zhou Zhu Yao said.

Bai Yi Yang went over the group of leisurely sitting uncles, don't know when Grandpa Zhou and Uncle Zhou has also joined.

"Eldest Bai yatou, you see. We do exactly what you tell us." One uncle said when they saw Bai Yi Yang. Bai Yi Yang smile and look closer.

"Another 15 minutes and you can remove it from the heat." Bai Yi Yang said.

"Good, good." The uncle said. After saying a few more words, Bai Yi Yang left the area and search for her siblings. She first found Bai Yi Ling and went to TongTong in the bedroom.

'Going home or not? We will only take bath and return again' Bai Yi Yang said to TongTong.

'Then, I will just stay here.' TongTong said. Bai Yi Yang nod and bring Bai Yi Ling to search for her siblings.

As she have guessed, they were playing like crazy, their clothes is also dirty. Bai Yi Chen come over after a while and they leave home to take a bath. They are used to riding bike now, so it was easy and they arrived home not long after.

Bai Yi Yang prepare outfits for her siblings and herself before she also went to take shower.

[24 points earned. Total points: 1,216]

Ah, this time she earned 3 points for each dish she make. Is it because they are made in large quantities? Should be. It was indeed a bit tiring because the portions is so big and there is so many too cook.

"Jie, I want to wear my beautiful pink dress." Bai Yi Fang said. She is already holding it, this is a bit over the top dress to wear to be honest.

"You sure? If you wear it you can't go play like before. If it become dirty it will be hard to remove the stain." Bai Yi Yang said.

"I told you. You won't listen." Bai Yi Ling said. She already changed into the casual dress that Bai Yi Yang prepared for her.

"Then I will just wear this one." Bai Yi Fang put the dress back and opt for the one Bai Yi Yang prepared. Anyway, she will still look good.

Bai Yi Yang smile and changed into a casual outfit too. She choose a jeans shorts and also a cream colour short sleeve blouse that she tucked into her pants. As for her hair, she tied it into a ponytail and tied a dark blue scarf as accessory.

Overall, them siblings looks quite casual but not shabby. Bai Yi Chen also changed into a baggy short and a white printed T-shirt, his hair is pushed back casually, looking like those stylish boy filmed on the street.

"Ge, so handsome ah." Bai Yi Yang tease him when he come out of the East house.

"You prepared it, I just wore anything." Bai Yi Chen said, pushing her forehead.

Before leaving, the siblings sat at the living room enjoying the cool air conditioning and drink some cool water. They also fill the puppies bowl first, and also didn't forget to turn one the lamp outside the house. Just in case if they return home late. When it was almost 4.00 pm, they finally leave the house.

Bai Yi Yang didn't forget to take her camera, she is going to take a lot of pictures for Old Zhou family. They probably didn't think of calling people to take pictures properly, this is a historical event for their family, more pictures should be taken. On the way down the mountain, Bai Yi Yang and her siblings didn't miss a mini photoshoot. Bai Yi Yang ask them to pose and she will take pictures, that is why they are a bit delayed.