Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 179 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 22

When Liu Yuxi and the others returned to the hotel after removing their makeup, Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang had already bought the vegetables. The head chef of the hotel's kitchen was working with his team to process the ingredients.

These past few days, Liu Yuxi has been cooking in the kitchen. At first, the head chef didn't care, but after getting Liu Yuxi's permission, he stayed by her side to help out. This only took the time it takes to cook one dish.

Liu Yuxi didn't hold back. She didn't plan to open a restaurant in this life, so she would give pointers to anyone who wanted to learn her skills. With a master chef and apprentices helping her prepare ingredients, her life would be much easier.

Moreover, the master chef was also discreet, only asking questions when he encountered something he was unsure about, otherwise simply observing from the sidelines without disturbing Liu Yuxi.

I went to the kitchen and made 16 dishes. Luckily, the hotel kitchen had many stoves, otherwise I don't know how long it would have taken to prepare this meal.

The dishes that Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang wanted to eat were reserved in advance. After all, it's not appropriate for the director and actors to bring assistants and drivers to eat together, and of course, the chef's share is also indispensable.

The head chef arranged for someone to help serve the dishes, but Grandma Liu was still not used to eating with everyone, so Liu Yuxi prepared a meal for her separately and brought it back to her room.

Director Wang, the assistant director, the screenwriter, and the main actors of the crew gathered in a private room for dinner. Several men also opened two bottles of wine. Wang Hailan, Guan Qing, and Liu Yuxi sat together.

After everyone started eating, Guan Qing picked up a large shrimp and put it in her bowl. After taking just one bite, she nodded vigorously at Wang Hailan. After swallowing the shrimp in her mouth, she reached for more shrimp with her chopsticks and said to Wang Hailan and Liu Yuxi, "It's so delicious, Xiaoxi, how are you so good at this!"

"She must have some talent! Haha!" Liu Yuxi laughed as she spoke. That's what she always said when others asked her. Otherwise, how do you think a girl from the mountains could have such culinary skills?

After a satisfying meal, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. In the afternoon, Liu Yuxi took her grandmother out shopping, and Guan Qing insisted on going along. She had just arrived, and the other actors in the crew were relatively old, so she didn't have any suitable playmates. That's why she stuck with Liu Yuxi.

Liu Yuxi didn't refuse. She herself seemed a bit precocious. After everyone got to know each other over dinner today, she found that Guan Qing had a more lively personality, and having her around would make things more lively.

Sure enough, while shopping, she would buy milk tea and snacks for everyone, chattering away with Liu Yuxi and her grandmother. She also took many photos of Liu Yuxi and her grandmother together, which was what Liu Yuxi was most pleased about.

Of course, we didn't shake off that little tail during dinner either.

The filming period for TV series is much longer than that for movies. Liu Yuxi's scenes were not finished until almost the Chinese New Year. After celebrating her wrap-up, Liu Yuxi first took her grandmother to receive a Best Newcomer Award.

It was about Director Li's movie. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress but didn't win. After all, the pie is only so big, and you can't have too much for one person. She's still young, and she'll have plenty of opportunities in the future. After receiving the award, she went back to her county town with her grandmother.

She has to take her final exams for the first semester of her second year of high school. After the results come out, she and her grandmother will go back to their village for the Chinese New Year. In the two days while waiting for her report card, she and her grandmother bought a lot of New Year's goods in the county town, especially a lot of candy and fruit. They're sure to have a lot of visitors coming to their house this year for the New Year.

When the results came out, Liu Yuxi was once again first in his grade. The grandfather and grandson bought a lot of things. Since they didn't raise pigs or chickens this year, Liu Yuxi also bought half a carcass of pork, two roosters, four hens, two ducks, two geese, and four large grass carp weighing over ten kilograms each, all for making preserved meat. Liu Yuxi simply called a truck and loaded everything up to take home.

Upon arriving home, they first took the bedding out of the closet to air it in the yard, and then the two of them began cleaning. This time they had been away for too long, and it took them about three hours to get the house tidy.

Liu Yuxi first cooked a simple meal. After the two of them ate, she let her grandmother go inside first while she went to the backyard to take care of everything that needed to be done in the vegetable garden and turned the soil over again.

Then take out all the sheets and clothes that need washing and wash them. Housework is something you can never finish if you want to do it.

After her grandmother woke up from her afternoon nap, the two of them, carrying eel baskets and fishing rods, rushed to the fishpond. After setting the baskets, the grandmother and granddaughter caught a bucketful of fish before returning home. The fish were kept in the small water tank, enough for them to eat until after the New Year.

Then the two of them started processing the chickens, ducks, geese, and fish. They had all been cleaned and prepared when they bought them. They were washed clean, salted where necessary, and marinated for two days. Then they were spread out with small bamboo sticks to dry.

The main ingredient is pork, but Liu Yuxi plans to continue working on it tomorrow. He's too tired today, so he washed up and went straight to sleep.

The next day, the pork was broken down. Some of it was cured into bacon, some was stuffed into sausages, and the ribs were cured as well. The remaining bones were used for soup, and some of the shoulder blade and pork belly were kept to eat fresh.

After several busy days, it was almost Chinese New Year. Although it was just the two of them, Liu Yuxi still prepared ten dishes, for perfection!

From the third year of junior high school onwards, my family has been constantly visiting. It's truly a case of "when you're poor, no one cares even in the bustling city; when you're rich, distant relatives come calling even in the deep mountains."

After her parents' accident, the family relatives basically stopped contacting each other, for fear that the two of them might rely on them again if they needed anything.

This year, Liu Yuxi's movie was released, and all these relatives know that she's in a movie now. They guess her family must be rich now, which is why they've all come to visit during the Chinese New Year.

Liu Yuxi simply acted like a child, leaving the socializing to her grandmother while she just stood by, smiling shyly. After all, her grandmother only had a few hundred thousand yuan saved up from the past few years, and the earnings from these two performances were all going to Liu Yuxi. She wasn't worried about her grandmother being fooled by those relatives.

Besides, in the two years after the original owner's parents died, the original owner and her grandmother had a really hard time, so she didn't believe that her grandmother could forgive those relatives.

Sure enough, the relatives asked to borrow money, for all sorts of reasons. Some said their children were getting married and needed to buy a house in the city, and they didn't have the money. Others said they didn't have the money to renovate their old house. But most of them said their children were starting businesses and were trying to trick their grandmother into investing, promising her a share of the profits.

"You're only talking about making money, why don't you mention what you'd do if you lost money?" Liu Yuxi secretly rolled her eyes as she listened. Her grandma only said one thing: "No money? If you had money, wouldn't you renovate the old house yourself?"

Everyone thought it made sense; in any case, they hadn't gotten any advantage from her grandmother, and they estimated that they would have less than half of the guests at their house next year.

For those relatives who didn't lend money, if they are willing to keep in touch in the future, then treat them as ordinary relatives; if they don't want to keep in touch, then don't keep in touch!

The lively New Year celebrations have come to an end, and Liu Yuxi and her grandmother have moved back to their school dormitory. The hype has died down, and at most, some classmates will still gossip about Liu Yuxi behind her back, but it's all well-intentioned, and Liu Yuxi doesn't care.