Seeing the seriousness on the child’s face, Gu Jin didn’t expect him to be such a little prodigy.
When An Ming’s father passed away, he was only a few years old, yet he has already started teaching himself first-year middle school knowledge.
Thinking about it, Gu Jin nodded, "Alright, start by reading the first-year textbooks. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask . I hope that in two months, you can enter the advanced class at Wanhai City Middle School."
"Okay!" An Mingji nodded vigorously.
As long as it’s sister Ah Jin’s wish, he would definitely fulfill it.
Gu Jin was never stingy with her praise for obedient children.
She stood up, walked up to the little one, patted his head and praised, "So good."
Being repeatedly praised for being good, An Mingji lowered his head shyly.
Good, actually, didn’t suit him at all.
But if Sister Ah Jin liked it, he didn’t mind being "good" like this all the ti.
Gu Jin didn’t know the little one’s thoughts as she withdrew her hand from patting his head, "I’ll go cook, you study well."
The child responded, and she turned to leave the room.
Entering the kitchen, Gu Jin found that there was not much rice left in the house, and the flour was also running low.
Aside from the wild vegetables on the chopping board, there were no other ingredients to be found.
Gu Jin walked out of the kitchen and headed to the cellar in the small courtyard.
The cellar had several jars of wine stored, which were treasures of the family’s old man, and no one had ever dared to touch them.
There was also the leftover wild boar at that had been salted, and a foolish roe deer thrown in the corner, still maintaining its initial freshness after so long.
Gu Jin took so wild boar at and also brought out the roe deer.
Not much food was left at ho, and there wasn’t much that could be made.
Returning to the kitchen, Gu Jin cleaned and gutted the roe deer, cutting the at into pieces.
The at to be used imdiately was set aside, and the rest was salted and stored back in the cellar.
The first dish Gu Jin made was braised roe deer at.
She put firewood in the stove and lit it to warm the pot, pouring in an appropriate amount of cold water, and the chopped roe deer at went directly into the pot, without waiting for the water to boil.
After covering the pot with a lid, Gu Jin sat on a stool watching the flas in the stove.
When the water in the pot started boiling, she tid for fifteen minutes, then took the roe deer at out to drain the water.
She poured out the waste water, heated the pot with oil and added Sichuan pepper, star anise, scallions, ginger, and dried chili. Once the aroma was released, she added the roe deer at and stir-fried it for a few minutes.
By this ti, the aroma of roe deer at was already wafting through the air.
She added in other necessary seasonings, poured water to cover the at slightly, covered it with a lid, and let it boil over high heat, then simred on low heat for over half an hour.
During this half hour, Gu Jin watched the fire while preparing wild boar at for the atball soup.
The wild boar at was chopped into fine bits, mixed with various required seasonings, cracked an egg in, poured in prepared soaked Sichuan pepper water, and added scallions, ginger, and garlic, stirring constantly with chopsticks.
Gu Jin moved to another stove, cleaned the pot, and started boiling water.
When the water was about to boil, she ford the prepared at mixture into small round balls and put them into the pot.
Once the small atballs were in, and the water started boiling, she skimd off the white foam with a spoon and threw in two pieces of star anise.
Then, she tossed in a few wild vegetables, covered the pot, and didn’t add more firewood to the stove.
The braised roe deer at on the other stove was ready to be served.
Gu Jin took out a large enal bowl and filled it with the fragrant and enticing braised roe deer at, filling it to the brim with at.
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