Chapter 326: There’s a Ghost
The Shen family’s three sisters were busy preparing fried meatballs, making dumplings, sugar-coated buns, stir-frying nuts, and various meat dishes. With a large number of people in the house, there was much to prepare, so after dinner tonight, they split into two groups, one still bustling in the kitchen and the other busy making dumplings in the room.
This was also considered a basic skill, with children who knew better all able to wrap dumplings. Yang Peimin also sat by the kang, doing her part for the dumpling-making cause.
Shen Yiguang was sitting beside her. After she wrapped one, she felt it was quite good. She didn’t have much experience, having only tried it on one or two occasions, and those times weren’t long. Now she thought her dumplings looked quite professional and couldn’t help feeling slightly self-satisfied.
She leaned over to look at Shen Yiguang’s dumplings and thought to herself that this person should be worse than her. Unexpectedly, the dumplings Shen Yiguang made were both neat and pretty, with evenly spaced pleats, almost all the same size, "Eh, you know how to make them too?"
Shen Yiguang glanced at her and said, "Are you amazed? Don’t you know our family is full of capable people? We only got to eat dumplings a couple of times a year when we were little. You can’t imagine how much we craved them. This kind of task was something everyone fought to do. Watching them take shape one by one and then go into the steamer, when they were ready to eat, we knew exactly how many were inside, and no one could sneak any; we had already counted them while wrapping... In such situations, even though it wasn’t frequent, the proficiency isn’t any less."
Yang Peimin laughed when she heard this and casually glanced at the other dumplings that had already been wrapped. To her surprise, even her second sister’s five-year-old son made better dumplings than her, which made her eyes widen in astonishment.
Shen Yiguang burst into laughter.
The other children also looked over and joined in the laughter.
"Uncle, did auntie slack off when she was young?"
"I don’t know, you ask her."