[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

"I'm late!" Hurley hurried in, holding a small wooden bucket, panting.

"That's the milk for Berner. It's cold. You can try to keep it lukewarm and feed him later. Remember to wash your hands and face." Jane put the chicken soup and noodles on a dinner plate.

"Me, me?" Hurley's eyes widened.Jane has gone.

Lunch is great. Mr. Gardner often goes out to socialize, and of course he has tasted a lot of delicious things, but the little Gardners usually eat "British dark cuisine" at home: bread, butter, mashed potatoes, roasted meat Meat, salads, ducks that have to be marinated and roasted twice.Even Mrs. Gardner usually cooks meat, that is, puts salt when it is boiled and picked up to eat. How can I eat chicken soup that has been boiled for almost two hours, let alone noodles made of fine noodles.

The four of them ate more than half of a duck at noon. Mrs. Gardner, who usually has no appetite, finished the noodles and drank half a bowl of chicken soup and a few pieces of chicken. Seeing that her complexion improved a lot.

Gardner*4: So delicious!

After eating and drinking enough, Jane happily took a shower and changed her clothes. After sitting on the train all night, she still had to change from inside to outside to feel comfortable.

Taking advantage of the fine weather, Owen and Darlene also took a bath. Mrs. Gardner, who was in good spirits, smiled and watched the maid nurse Bernard and changed the diaper, and suddenly wanted to bathe Bernard too.So Hurley and Bobby ignored the nanny's objection and put a big bathtub in front of the fireplace, and Bernard was stripped naked under the strong onlookers of his brothers, sisters and cousins, and took a refreshing bath in the basin.Don't look at this yellow-haired boy who hums and chirps in a small voice when he is upset in Mrs. Pete's hands. He still likes to take a bath. no.

The next day, Jian Meimei slept until 09:30 and didn't get up. It was very late at the moment, and everyone else had already finished breakfast, but Jane had already reported to her uncle and aunt the day before, and she also told the cook that she would do it at noon What, so there is no rush.

But... why is Mrs. Pitt doing the laundry?Jane thought strangely.Although the nanny is actually not much different from a maid, but looking at Mrs. Pete's proud nose, why doesn't she look like someone who can do maid work?

Not to mention the nanny, Jane came to the living room and saw Mrs. Gardiner in good spirits today, sitting on a long armchair wrapped in a shawl, with Bernard in the cradle in front of her, and two cousins ​​sitting beside her talking to her.

"Aunt." Jane stepped forward and said embarrassedly, "I got up late."

"It's all right, you were exhausted yesterday, thanks to you," said Mrs. Gardner, with Owen and Darlene grimacing behind her, "That pasta was really good, and the leftover Bobby cooked for me in the morning , is also very good."

"That's nothing. Bobby could cook it yesterday. If you want to eat, let her do it. Where's uncle?" Jane said.

"He has something to do today, so he went out early in the morning." Mrs. Gardner knew that her husband had completed the formalities yesterday, so she probably went to implement them today. Of course, there was no need to tell her niece about this.

"Are you hungry?" Mrs. Gardner asked, "Go to the kitchen and let Bobby make you breakfast, I won't go, she muttered early in the morning that you are going to make a palm-sized pie today .”

Jane endured a smile and went to the kitchen. What she was talking about was not pies but dumplings. The cook was supposed to make broth yesterday, but she didn't make it. The meat happened to be her dumplings today, and the vegetables were ready-made.

"I'm going too." Darlene jumped down and followed Jane.

Yesterday, Jane told me to use vegetables and meat, but Bobby didn't know how much, so he washed each of them and cut into a pot. Now he is sifting flour. Of course, the whole family can't use refined flour.

Jane: "..." Is this the Chinese New Year?

"Oh, Miss Jane." Bobby put down the sieve and clapped his hands, "Have you seen enough of this?"

"... Enough, it can pack a lot... Maybe too much..." Jane looked at the vegetables, which were not squeezed, and some of them were a little wilted.Jane rolled up her sleeves and put on her apron, "Darlene, wash your hands if you want to help."

"Yeah." Darlene also learned.

When it was ready, Jane asked Bobby to mix the salt with the vegetables, and let them marinate for a while to get the juice out.

Bobby's flour has been sieved. The flour bought these years is bagged directly from the mill. It is inevitable that it is mixed with wheat bran, sand, pebbles and unground wheat kernels. All of these must be sifted out.

"Meet the same as yesterday, wait, let's make half of it first." Jane asked, "Where's Hurley?"

"She went shopping." Bobby beat an egg in the flour following Jane's example yesterday.

"Jane, Jane, what should we do?" Darlene asked, tugging at Jane's skirt.

"We need some coriander, sage, and ginger." Jane took Darlene to find out these vegetables and wash them.

"I don't like ginger." Darlene grimaced.

"These are for seasoning, and you can't eat them if you chop them into pieces." Jane explained patiently.

In Bennet's house, at the age of seven or eight, Jane has already started to learn to do things at home, but at her uncle's house, Jane found that neither Owen nor Darlene had anything to do except play every day.Don't look at Darlene's initiative to help her now, it's actually just a novelty.

After chopping the spices and putting them in a bowl, Jane began to squeeze the juice. She grabbed and squeezed the salted vegetables vigorously, and the juice flowed out, and all the vegetable dumplings after squeezing the juice were placed in a basin.

This Darlene also likes to play, but she is weak and can't move much. Jian Jian taught her to grab less vegetables.

Jane tasted the juice that was squeezed out, and it tasted salty. "Bobby, use this vegetable juice and the other half of the noodles."

"Huh?" Bobby came over to take a look, "I said, Miss Jane, what kind of kneading can you make with this?"

"It's green." Jane said with a smile.

"I'm talking about the taste." Bobby said worriedly, it's a waste of flour if it doesn't taste good.

Jane knew what Bobby was thinking, "Hejin noodles will have no vegetable taste. If you don't believe me, try it. The water is a little salty. It's just a color. It's okay. Use as much as you can. Let's talk about the rest. .”

Okay, fine, you have the final say, if you say no, it’s fine, I’ll listen to you.

Bobby had nothing to say, she went to knead the noodles with the basin.

"Okay, Darlene, all that's left is to cut meat and knead dough. You don't know either of these. Go to your aunt first. By the way, I don't know London at all, and I expect you and Owen to follow me." Let me introduce, can you tell me this afternoon?"

"it is good!"

Jane coaxed Darlene away with a few words. The most important thing in making dumpling stuffing is the seasoning. It's not easy for her to work here.

Bobby was a little scared seeing Jane holding the kitchen knife, but Jane cut the meat into small cubes very neatly.

"I'll come." Seeing Jane raised the knife high, Bobby hurried over, "What are you going to do?"

"Chop into minced meat."

"Good good."

Jane looked at it, and then at the basin.

"Miss Jane, Miss Jane, I will come." Bobby shouted nervously again.

Jane was wondering now, what's the matter?You don't want me to interfere, do you?

Seeing that Jane's complexion was not good, Bobby also knew that she had reacted too much, she said embarrassingly: "This morning, my wife said about us... Anyway, just take a look, this kind of work that requires a lot of effort is still us." Come on."

Jane understood that it was her aunt who had the energy to tidy up the house.

"Okay." Jane shrugged, "Then you roll out the dough and call me, and I'll tell you how to do it."

"Okay, okay." Bobby agreed.

Jane went to the living room. Mrs. Gardner was breastfeeding Bernard with a small bowl and spoon, and Owen and Darlene were screaming around.

"Oh, Bernard smacked his lips."

"He also sneezed."

"His tongue is so small."

"Mommy, can I touch Bernard's face?"

"Mommy, I want to touch too."

……

Bernard, who was lying in the cradle, sneezed again, probably feeling that his ears were really unclean.

Mrs. Gardner was busy feeding the younger son and satisfying the curiosity of the older son and daughter, and it took a while to stop.

"Jane, you are here." Mrs. Gardner saw that her younger son turned his face away and stopped eating, knowing that he was full.

"Let me carry him." With the help of Mrs. Gardner, Jane picked up little Bernard upright, and put him in the cradle after he hiccupped.

"Owen, didn't you say you have questions to ask Jane?" Mrs. Gardner said, "You can ask them now."

"Owen? What's the problem?" Jane looked at Owen, and he began to hem and haw in embarrassment again, "Yes, it counts." Owen ran to take out his notebook, plucked up his courage and said to Jane: "Yesterday you As for the others, I still don’t quite understand.”

Jane smiled, "What don't you understand? Let me teach you."

Jane and Owen went to the nearby restaurant to study, and Darlene followed curiously.

Mrs. Gardner was very relieved. Yesterday she and Mr. Gardner had a good exchange about Jane. Both of them wanted to let Jane try to be a housekeeper for a while, but they were worried that the other party was not at ease. As a result, both husband and wife found out that The other party admired Jane very much.This was really a surprise, and it was not easy. Both of them had a higher evaluation of Jane.

Mrs. Gardner would like her children to be closer to Jane. Among other things, Jane came here with a textbook, just for this kind of diligence. If Owen can learn, Mrs. Gardner will not know Happy.Not to mention Darlene, as a girl, it is definitely right to learn more.

Jane found that Owen's brain is really not very good, his comprehension ability is not very good, it is difficult to draw inferences about a formula, for example, he knows that 3+2=5, but you ask 13+12=?He was about to count on his fingers again.

When encountering Guo Jing, no matter whether it is Hong Qigong or the old urchin, he will be pissed to death. Unless Owen has other talents, there are not many good ways to make up for his weakness except hard work.

Jane's own younger sisters have their own strengths in studies, and of course she doesn't think that other children should be like this, so she can't say that she is particularly disappointed with Owen, and Owen is a boy, so he must have more prospects than girls.

Simple math problems like this are mostly done by rote memorization. Jane taught Owen the vertical algorithm, even if he just memorized it, he would know how to use it after doing more problems.