Chapter 629: A Heart’s Obsession
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Su Wenzhe’s eyes lit up. “Sister, you can make sweet potato cakes with roasted sweet potatoes?”
Su Binglan nodded. “That’s right. I can also make potato rice cakes with normal potatoes, not to mention peanut cakes and so on. They will all be delicious.’
Su Wenzhe wondered what the sweet potato cake and potato cake would taste like. Although he just had lunch, he felt hungry again. His eyes shined with antic.i.p.ation when he asked, “Will we make those later?”
He could not wait to eat, and Liu Yinyin looked forward to it. However, the latter was still more reserved and less obvious than Su Wenzhe. She could not help but look at Su Binglan and imagine making sweet potato cakes later.
Su Binglan understood the look in her brother’s eyes and smiled. “We’ll make sweet potato cakes tomorrow.”
“I’m looking forward to it,” Su Wenzhe said excitedly.
“The cooking method is simple, but it’s not what you imagine because we have to add something to make it taste better. Let’s make rice cakes since we’ve made enough dough and rice today.”
Su Binglan looked at the dough her big brother had kneaded and the rice her sister-in-law had cooked. She figured having rice cakes for dinner would be good for the family.
Liu Yinyin nodded, “Indeed. We could barely afford to have rice cakes in the past. We could only have it during the New Year celebrations.
She remembered how she felt during the previous New Year. Rice cakes were a privilege then, so even if the family had them for New Year. they could only
have a little.
Liu Yinyin never forgot how rice cakes tasted and knew they would taste just as good, if not better this year. Also, she could eat as much as she wanted this year.
The family made two big pots of rice at once. Moreover, they could cook more if they did not have enough.
Shen Qiuhua said, “It’s tradition to have rice cakes for the New Year. Binglan said she could make many cakes so we could take them when visiting relatives. Yinyin, you should bring some to your family to taste.”
Shen Qiuhua had always treated her daughter-in-law well. Now that the family was well-off, she did not want to be stingy and wanted Liu Yinyin to bring more food to her parents. She understood that everyone had a family. Although Liu Yinyin lived with her in-laws, she missed her family. She would feel more at ease when she brought them some things for the New Year. Liu Yinyin nodded and happily replied, “Thank you, Mother-in-law.”
“There’s no need to be so formal. We’re family, after all.”
Shen Qiuhua’s words touched Liu Yinyin. The former was good and treated Liu Yinyin very well, causing many to be envious of Liu Yinyin.
Of course, some also gossiped about her because she often relied on her family to survive, even though they lived in less fortunate conditions in the past. Liu Yinyin also often brought her children to her parent’s house.
However, things had changed, and the naysayers could only envy her. People even desperately wanted to work for the Su family.
Liu Yinyin’s parents told her that everyone in Willow Village respects their family now because they were the Su familys in-laws. Her parents also said that she made them proud and dignified.
The Su family worked together as they spoke, and Su Wenzhe went to boil more rice. Meanwhile, Shen Qiuhua, Liu Yinyin, Su Binglan, and the rest kneaded more dough.
After cooking the rice, the family wrapped it in the dough. Wrapping rice cakes was a technical job, and the family had to be meticulous so that it would cook well.
The family worked together and quickly finished preparing the food. They finished making the dough and rice and wrapping them in just over two hours. Afterward, they placed the rice cakes in a pot and steamed them. If the fire grew too big, the rice cakes would turn hard. While Su Binglan was busy, Shen Mohen looked after Yue Huachen in the guest room. The former was a little curious, wondering how Su Binglan could cure Yue Huachen’s blindness so quickly.
‘Can he see after this? Is Miss Su that capable? I don’t doubt her medical skills, but I doubt mine and those from the Legendary Medicine Valley.
‘Although most say my masters from the Valley are amazing, I finally understand what “amazing” means after witnessing Miss Su l s techniques. If we didn’t lose most of our books in the fire, would we be as extraordinary as her?
‘My father disagreed when I told him I wanted to learn medicine from the Legendary Medicine Valley’s masters. But he later said I might find some clues leading to my aunt if I became a disciple of the Valley.
‘My father agreed immediately after realizing that. I don’t know why he was so constant on me finding my aunt. He told me he would have died as a child if it weren’t for my aunt.’
‘My aunt was a savior in my father’s eyes. Sometimes, I even wondered if he considered my aunt as my mother. After all, Father lost Mother when they were young, and only Aunt Shen had treated him well.
‘Although she died, my father always denied it and wanted to find her. My father quickly became the head of the family and seized the family’s power because he thought he could find my aunt with the influence he had obtained.
‘If not for my father’s belief that Aunt Shen was still alive, he wouldn’t have wanted to become the head of the family.’
Shen Mohen knew his father was a righteous and resourceful man. Otherwise, he could not have become the family head as a concubine’s child who the main family had bullied.
Not only did his father have the means to become the family head, but he also endured many hardships and ridicule.
‘My father always seemed to become a child whenever he mentioned Aunt Shen. I couldn’t understand my father’s feelings but I had to do as he said.
After searching for so long, I still don’t know where my aunt is.’
As Shen Mohen was in deep thought, Yue Huachen woke up. When the latter opened his eyes, his vision was blurry, but he could see the light. He thought he was hallucinating but knew what it felt like to see.
Yue Huachen’s hands trembled, and he dared not blink as he moved his eyes and looked around. Then his vision gradually became more apparent, seeing Shen Mohen sitting by the bed.
“Mohen?” Yue Huachen cautiously called out the person before him.
Shen Mohen looked into his eyes and saw the life inside them.. He excitedly said, “Can you see, Huachen? Are you okay?”