Chapter 87: Chapter 87 Tofu Banquet (1)_1 Chapter 87: Chapter 87 Tofu Banquet (1)_1 After all the preparations were made, Lao Fan drove out Lady Liu and the Lin Yuan Sisters, forbidding them from looking inside the room.
None of them were willing, but Lao Fan had given a strict order this time: anyone who peeked inside, he would immediately stop the treatment, no matter if Lin Yuan threatened him with a vegetable knife or tried to tempt him with delicious food, he wouldn’t budge.
With no other choice, they had to obediently wait in the courtyard.
The wait lasted nearly four hours.
Apart from hearing Lin Jiaxin’s painful screams just once, there was no other sound.
Lady Liu clutched the front of her dress tightly, tears swirling in her eyes, as she stared eagerly at the door to the eastern room.
She tried to enter several times uncontrollably but was ultimately held back by her daughters.
While they were waiting, Lan Hua and her older brother Lin Changqing paid a visit, undoubtedly to seek apprenticeship.
Lin Yuan, using the excuse that their father was unwell and resting, asked them to return home first.
Lan Hua could tell something was amiss just by looking at their expressions, but before she could ask, her big brother pulled her away.
Lin Yuan felt grateful for Lin Changqing’s thoughtfulness.
She wouldn’t let anyone know about this until she was certain her father’s legs were healed.
Lin Jiaxin had only just emerged from the shadow of paralysis; if the villagers were to point fingers at him again, who knew if he could withstand it.
Just when they were looking with longing, the curtain of the eastern room finally lifted, and Lao Fan came out, rubbing his wrists, his face gloomy.
Lady Liu hurriedly stepped forward with anxious questions, “Old master, Ah Xin, Ah Xin, how is he?”
Lao Fan with a worried frown and a sigh, was about to speak when Lin Yuan sternly warned him from the side, “Old man, think carefully before you speak, or else, for lunch today, I’ll have you eating grass.”
Xiao Linshuang also stood with her hands on her hips, her innocent large eyes twinkling, smiling as she ground her teeth, “Xiao He’s mother has eaten it before”
Lao Fan suddenly stretched his neck, swallowing hard.
These little ancestors, why was each more fearsome than the last?
“Ahem, that, it’s all right now.
I managed to reset his leg and applied acupuncture for a quarter of an hour.
As long as he doesn’t walk on it for the next three months, once the bones are fused, there will be no issues.” In the end, Lao Fan still couldn’t say anything too alarming; he just didn’t dare.
Lady Liu finally let out a long sigh of relief, nearly kneeling in a thousand thanks.
The women hurried inside to see Lin Jiaxin, but the old man stopped them, “He’s still sleeping.
You ungrateful girl, your lifesaver is now both tired and hungry, aren’t you going to cook yet?”
Lin Yuan knew the old man was in high spirits again, but today he had indeed done a good deed; he had cured her father’s leg, wasn’t that giving her father another chance at life?
Indeed, she should call him a lifesaver.
Please sit and rest a while, I will go cook for you now!” She firmly pressed down on Lao Fan’s shoulders to make him sit on a small stool, then Lin Yuan swung her arms as she headed to the kitchen.
As there was freshly made tofu in the kitchen and soybeans still soaking, she was determined not to let Lao Fan enter the kitchen today.
Naturally, she also declined Liuzi’s enthusiastic offer to help.
Since she wanted to promote her tofu well, the menu was centered around tofu for today’s meal.
She began by steaming a large pot of rice before she started preparing ingredients for the dishes.
She cut down a large piece of tofu, half of which she cut into larger chunks and the rest into small, thin slices – one for making fried tofu, and the others for making homestyle tofu and mapo tofu.
Homestyle tofu and mapo tofu were relatively easy; she just needed to prepare the hot sauce and soy sauce for stir-frying.
Fried tofu was a bit more troublesome; it needed to be fried in oil afterward.