CHAPTER 435: CHAPTER 147 EXPLODING SWEET DUMPLINGS_3

Wenren Yu, with the nature of an elder brother, saw everything, but he didn’t say much, only comfortingly patted Chen Si’s shoulder, using action to express his meaning.

Chen Si glanced at him gratefully, but he also remained silent, following the coming plan, picking up a piece of pork belly, and started carefully slicing it.

The sound in the classroom gradually reduced to the noise of knife and cutting board constantly interacting, nobody spoke again, even though Du Xixi had already practiced her various kitchen skills to perfection; she was seriously carving the winter melon thinly, honing her control over the blade.

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In the evening, Du Xixi dragged her exhausted body back home. Ke Xing, as usual, was leading the two children in the living room to play. Du Xixi didn’t have many restraints in front of her family; after greeting, she directly flopped onto the sofa, like a corpse, feeling too tired to move.

"So tired?" Ke Xing quietly asked, only to hear Du Xixi’s grunt of not wanting to talk, so he immediately shut his mouth, telling the two children not to go disturb Du Xixi’s rest.

Now that his son and daughter-in-law were busy with work outside, Ke Xing stayed at home just to take care of Yiyi and Er Er, those obedient children. The most tiring thing on usual days was just carrying them upstairs to sleep, but the rest of his time was quite leisurely.

Ke Xing felt sorry for Ke Lian and Du Xixi but realized that neither the Military Department nor Blue Star University were workplaces they could easily leave. He couldn’t ask them to rest, only able to take care of them a bit more within his capacity.

Du Xixi’s exhaustion soon vanished. Perhaps it was the Purification Talent helping her, or maybe the home environment helped her relax more. Before Ke Lian came home, she was already fully revived, sitting up from the sofa.

Lazily stretching, Du Xixi’s face showed a slight blush, along with some comfort and tranquility. Seeing the time on the wall was almost four-thirty, she stood up and walked to the kitchen: "Dad, I’ll make something delicious."

"Is it Tangyuan?" Ke Xing asked loudly towards Du Xixi, who was walking ahead of 2569, waved her hand back towards him: "No, it’s Tangyuan’s relative, Yuanxiao."

Ke Xing: ... What’s that? Tangyuan has relatives?

Unexpectedly, Ke Xing’s eyebrows twitched at the thought of food having relatives. He guessed Du Xixi might be teasing him, but since he had to take care of the children, he was unable to go to the kitchen to examine it himself, so he could only sigh and await dinner time.

The kitchen door was closed by Du Xixi herself, worried that any noise might disturb those outside. With a gentle expression, she began processing the fillings as she did the previous day, only changing the sesame filling to red bean paste filling, with peanut filling still needing to be made.

Knowing that the grinder wasn’t very suitable for peanuts, 2569 proactively took on the task of grinding peanuts today. However, following Du Xixi’s guidance to tilt the grinder, the crushed peanuts all came out suddenly, as if the grinder that refused to work yesterday wasn’t the same one today.

"Huh, can it be that using the grinder has an advantage for robots?" 2569 naively wondered, collecting the roasted and crushed peanuts together while tilting its electronic display, looking at Du Xixi quizzically.

Because of a slip of the hand, Du Xixi surprisingly didn’t crush even the red bean paste: ...

Du Xixi quickly adjusted her state, arranging the red bean paste and crushed peanuts in separate dishes, instructing 2569 to make peanut filling as it had made black sesame filling the previous day.

quickly got the hang of it, thanks to its good data simulation capabilities, listing all necessary data, then integrating them into the crushed peanuts at the appropriate stages.

Compared to 2569’s methodical and mechanical actions, Du Xixi was evidently more natural; the large plate of red bean paste she handled had somehow become smooth and delicate, glossy and beautiful after numerous stirs, even showing no small pieces of bean skin.

"Tangyuan is wrapped, but Yuanxiao is rolled." Du Xixi softly told 2569, saying as she poured glutinous rice flour into a large plate, grabbing a portion of red bean paste that was slightly frozen, just right to be shaped, placing it gently on the plate, "Watch closely."

watched intently, unable to resist activating a recording feature. Du Xixi held the plate with both hands, gently swayed it a few times, and the red bean paste ball was soon wrapped in glutinous rice flour, becoming a snow-white Yuanxiao.

"Wow! It really rolls out!" 2569 exclaimed in amazement, looking at the small Yuanxiao, thinking that although Yuanxiao wasn’t as smooth and fine on the surface as Tangyuan, it had some uneven parts, but because of its unique "birth method," it made Yuanxiao seem interesting.

"Want to try?" Du Xixi picked up the red bean paste Yuanxiao, putting it on a clean plate, then gave the plate full of glutinous rice flour to 2569, watching as 2569 interestingly rolled the Yuanxiao like a child.

This scene made Du Xixi momentarily feel back at Blue Star.

During the Lantern Festival, the Du family’s Yuanxiao was rolled together by everyone, with over twenty small Yuanxiao rolling around in a large sieve, looking just like small snowballs in the snow, very interesting and pleasing to the eye.