Chapter 332: Making a Fire (Sixth Update)_1
Gu Qingheng nodded, then began to feel around the stove before touching the firewood and nodding again.
"Why is Brother Gu here?" Erni came to help Yang Ruxin cook, and seeing Gu Qingheng sitting in front of the stove was a big surprise.
"I’m helping her light the fire." Yang Ruxin rapidly continued her preparations, "You go wash the rice. Tonight, we are eating rice, pure rice."
Erni glanced at Yang Ruxin, and without any objection, really went to wash the rice.
In the evening, Yang Ruxin deep-fried eggplant patties, made potato cakes, steamed eggs with shrimp paste, dry-fried kidney beans, cooked a dish of syrup-coated sweet potatoes, and finally stewed cabbage with meat. It was a bit of a pity that there were no vermicelli for sale; otherwise, the taste would certainly have been even better.
To Yang Ruxin’s amazement, throughout her cooking, Gu Qingheng very well controlled both the high and low flames.
"I say, aren’t you too amazing?" Yang Ruxin furrowed her brows. However, seeing the other’s slender, white fingers all smudged with black and gray, she somewhat regretted letting him tend the fire. It was a waste of his hands. "How can you control it so well?"
"The distance lets me sense the temperature," Gu Qingheng smiled, his face smeared with ash but not detracting from his good looks, "and I can tell the size of the flames by the thickness of the firewood..."
"Alright then." Yang Ruxin was thoroughly impressed, "Gu Qingheng, when I said I admired you before, I wasn’t kidding."
Gu Qingheng just laughed, his fingers feeling a scar on the palm of his hand, a burn he got from when he first helped the Feng Family light a fire. But fortunately, now he was able to do it.
Everyone had a very enjoyable dinner.