CHAPTER 106: 106: WHAT ABOUT THE PROMISED RESPECT BETWEEN BROTHERS (PART 1)_1

Seeing Liang Shujun rendered speechless by her own doing, Dong Huiying felt satisfied.

She unwrapped the bandage from Shujun’s abdomen to check his wound, and seeing that he was recovering well, felt greatly relieved.

However, when she looked up, she suddenly saw Fourth Brother Liang Haoming standing at the doorway, which was... awkward.

Haoming shot her a glance, then silently walked to the cabinet, took out an item of clothing, and turned around with an expressionless face.

Dong Huiying: "..."

Shujun, watching this scene, couldn’t help but feel a bit like laughing.

"Did you make fourth brother angry?"

"I, how could I?"

She struggled to spit out these three words, thinking only that her body had been seen, which was a bit embarrassing, but the problem was, with Liang Haoming’s icy, stoic face, how on earth could Liang Shujun tell he was angry?

Shujun smiled slyly, his eyes full of schadenfreude.

Dong Huiying sheepishly said, "Alright, that’s enough, I should get going. I’ve got a ton of things to do, just bought quite a lot of herbs, and I still need to prepare the medicine."

She dashed out the door and happened to bump into Liang Zhi Chen. She hit her nose against Zhi Chen’s chest, causing it some pain.

Zhi Chen quickly steadied her shoulders.

Dong Huiying, rubbing her nose and with teary eyes, looked up.

In his eyes was a faint smile as Zhi Chen said, "The pork you bought is so much that Yixuan is having a headache. He wanted to ask how you plan to deal with the pork, and also the offal. This... Yixuan has never done it before, and doesn’t really know how."

"Ah, that’s simple."

With that, Dong Huiying turned on her heel and rushed into the kitchen, where she saw Liang Yixuan sighing at the sight of the stovetop crowded with pork and offal, seemingly clueless about where to start.

Dong Huiying smiled quietly, "We can make some cured meat, and what we can’t eat we can pickle, or we can turn it into meat sauce and stock up."

She herself didn’t eat offal, but knew the nutritional value was high and it was also very cheap. The issue was that it stank, and because the gallbladder might be punctured when the pig was killed, there was a bitter taste and even some toxicity, which was difficult to remove even with high-temperature steaming.

So, handling it was quite troublesome, no wonder Yixuan didn’t know where to start.

She rolled up her sleeves and brought over a large basin. First soaking it in water, then repeatedly cleaning and scrubbing the intestines, using alcohol and baking powder to dissolve the bile and remove the bitterness.

After she properly dealt with the offal, she grabbed the cleaver and began chopping with a rhythmic thudding on the cutting board, her knife skills decisive.

Yixuan watched, a bit dumbfounded.

The young girl was chopping so fast, and the way she did it looked so dashing, with her dark little face brimming with confident smiles, shining brightly.

"Yixuan?" she called out, tilting her head, "Could you pass me a plate, please?"

"Ah, sure." He handed over a plate in a daze, then went on to help Dong Huiying with some green onions, ginger, and garlic.

With everything ready, Dong Huiying began to take charge of the cooking.

"There’s a saying that food is the best medicine. Many pig organs are very beneficial, like pig heart and liver which enrich blood and qi, and pig intestines can moisten dryness, nourish deficiency, quench thirst, and stop bleeding. They can also be used to treat conditions like weakness and thirst, rectal prolapse, hemorrhoids, bloody stools, and constipation. However, due to their cold nature, they should be avoided by those with spleen deficiency and loose stools."

She rendered some lard from pig fat, scooped some out, and when the oil got hot, she stir-fried the spring onions, ginger, and garlic with smoke rising from the pan. Then, she added the chopped intestines into the hot oil, and soon, the scent filled the air.