My Dear Wife, Please Be Gentle!-Chapter 27 - I Fan for You_1

But a cup of cold water did little to alleviate the summer’s dry heat.

What hellish weather, it could bake a person alive!

Qiao Duo’er missed air conditioning and electric fans dearly, yet now she had just a palm-leaf fan at her disposal, waving it vigorously with far less effect than she had hoped for.

Damn it, it was still hot no matter how much she fanned!

“Come here, I’ll fan for you,” Tan Zhenghong couldn’t help but say.

Her efforts at fanning were strenuous and thankless; a lot of energy spent with little breeze to show for it.

Qiao Duo’er glanced at the palm-leaf fan, overwhelmed by a sense of defeat.

After thinking it over, she obediently sat at the edge of the bed and handed the fan to Tan Zhenghong.

Soon, a gentle breeze began to blow.

The wind was soft, but constant, and very refreshing.

Qiao Duo’er squinted her eyes in enjoyment; it seemed that waving a fan was an art in itself, and her bargain of a husband was quite skilled at it.

“Sister-in-law, bring the pot over, I’ll fix it for you.”

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Sun Erhu stood at the doorway and shouted, but upon seeing the couple in the room, he wished he could disappear on the spot.

In broad daylight and with the door open, they were all lovey-dovey, and he had to witness it!

Sister-in-law seemed to be living the good life, making him want to find a wife who could fan him too!

Qiao Duo’er was no longer feeling so hot, so she got up to start her chores.

Her task was to help hold the pot in place while Sun Erhu secured it on the stove with lime, ensuring the edges were sealed to prevent smoke from leaking when burning the fire.

Sun Erhu was a handy man, promptly getting the job done.

Seeing Sun Erhu’s dirt-smudged face made Qiao Duo’er laugh, but she kindly held it in, “Go wash your face.

I’ll heat up the morning’s meal; we can eat soon.”

Sun Erhu had no objections.

Even though he had eaten dry rice that morning, after building two stoves all morning, he was starving.

Qiao Duo’er washed her hands and moved on to prepare lunch.

Without a refrigerator, the only option was to keep the meals in a bucket and hang it down the well for cooling.

The natural chill of the well helped preserve the food, which is how that morning’s meal had been kept.

Qiao Duo’er took the meals out and put the recently purchased bones and meat into the bucket.

Back in the kitchen, she poured chicken soup into the pot, added some cold water, and placed the rice on the steaming rack.

That way, as the soup boiled again, the rice would warm up too.

Once the fire was lit in the stove, it didn’t need constant tending, so Qiao Duo’er went to the vegetable garden to pick some fresh green beans.

After picking the beans clean and chopping some garlic into a mince, she was ready to make her favorite dish, green beans with garlic.

Before frying, the beans needed to be blanched.

Then, she would heat oil in a pan, toss in the minced garlic until it was fragrant, add the beans and stir-fry them, and finally sprinkle some salt before serving them up.

The beans were cooked perfectly, and the soup and rice in the other pot were also heated.