章 65: Chapter 65: Woodworking with Bai Yi Chen
That evening, Bai Yi Yang and Bai Yi Chen was busy in the workshop. They were sanding the doors that Bai Yi Yang made last time. Bai Yi Yang show Bai Yi Chen how to use the hand sander and he wasn't entirely bad, after finishing one side of a door, he became better and sand the door smoothly.
Only after making sure that he is truly good did Bai Yi Yang leave him alone. She is going to install a door frame for the main gate, Main house's main door and East house's main door. These three entrances originally is an open place, so it is necessary to install door frame before she can install the door that she made. As for the bedroom doors, the door frame is still strong, its just that the door is too traditional and doesn't have a lock.
Other than that, she also wanted to install the barn door kit for the West house. This is an easy job compared to making doors from scratch, so Bai Yi Yang didn't even take 1 hour to do that before she start installing the unfamiliar barn door kit.
The instructions is there and as usual, the important things is sturdiness. Bai Yi Yang follow the step one by one, make sure that her measurement is correct, it is balance and the installation site is correct. After seeing her job, she is very satisfied with it. After that she clean the area where she works before returning to the workshop.
Bai Yi Chen has finished sanding more than half of the doors. Of course he is not as fast as her, but its fine since he work meticulously.
Bai Yi Yang think that the prior of their house is to install the Main gate, only then they can leave the house unattended at ease. They have quite a few things in the house now and you never know when people with bad intentions suddenly come out, so it is better to have this layer of security.
Bai Yi Yang took the main gate door outside the workshop to work with. She haven't finished installing the traditional wooden bar so she is working with it in the corridor outside the workshop.
Anyway, the windows installation is pushed back and they placed it temporarily in one of the room in East house. They can work with it tomorrow or later. It is just a simple installation, it can be done in a short time.
Bai Yi Yang quickly finished the wooden bar and since her intention is to show the rustic design of the wooden gate with all those nails, she didn't cover them with wood filler and immediately start coating, that will be all the work because the teakwood natural colour is already beautiful, she didn't have to add any colour to it again. What more, aren't their house has traditional elements to it.
Bai Yi Yang then lean it back to the wall to let it dry. Since it was quite heavy, she painted them while they were leaning on the wall so that she doesn't ruin the paint. Bai Yi Yang finished painting both doors for the main gate then she proceed to process the next one that Bai Yi Chen has finished sanding.
The West house's door and the 5 bedroom doors will be a bit complicated, she need to make the geometric design of the door with gold before coating. So she cannot finished it in one day. She took one bedroom door and start lining it with gold paint carefully, she is using small paint brush, not too small until the colour cannot be seen but not too big that it is too overwhelming. It took high concentration to draw these line so even when Bai Yi Chen already standing next to her watching her working, she didn't realise it.
"Huh.." She sigh after she finished a door.
"It's pretty creative." Bai Yi Chen on the side said. Bai Yi Yang look at her work and it is indeed pretty. The wood colour haven't really pop up now, wait until she coat it tomorrow.
"Right?" She grinned.
"After sanding them I think its already pretty good, but is looks better now." He said. Bai Yi Yang nod in agreement.
"I will go bring in the dried mushrooms first, then finish the rest." Bai Yi Chen said.
"Ohh, alright." Bai Yi Yang nod.
She took the West house's door and lean it onto the wall to start working on this. Since she is used to it now, she work faster also, its just that she can only do one side at a time, so the West house door need to undergo a few more painting process before it can be installed.
Bai Yi Chen also continue working after bringing in the dried mushrooms, they can pack it later. Bai Yi Yang will lean the door on the wall, use the wooden stool to reach high place to paint golden colour to the door.
When she saw the dryer/washer rack, she stopped for a while before bringing it to the laundry room. When she cannot see anyone around, she use her strength to lift up the dryer onto the rack and plug them to the socket again.
"Jie!" Unexpectedly, Bai Yi Mo is standing in front of the West house door, he was watching Bai Yi Yang lifting the machine alone.
"Xiao Mo.." Bai Yi Yang smile awkwardly.
"You are really strong." Bai Yi Mo gave two thumbs up before running into the kitchen to take a glass of water.
Bai Yi Yang sigh in relief. She walk back to the Main house with Bai Yi Mo. She then pretended to ask her siblings in the living room what they were doing? Bai Yi Mo also didn't say anything about her extraordinary strength and just keep telling her about the cartoon that they were watching. So does Bai Yi Fang.
"Don't eat too much snacks, you won't have appetite later during dinner." She said before leaving.
"Yes.." The younger on answer, they immediately stop opening new packet of snack. They already have two packets of snacks in front of them as they watch cartoons. Today, they didn't go to the village, Sunday is always their holiday from playing at the village, other family child will also stay at home on Sunday.
Only then Bai Yi Yang returns to her work. When it was passed 5.30 pm and Bai Yi Chen has finished sanding, Bai Yi Yang also quickly finish up. They can continue again tomorrow.
[10 points earned. Total points: 228]
Bai Yi Yang took the tools that Zhang Yong give her and start checking the dried mushrooms.
"They looks better than last time. Next time, I will go pick them in the early morning and dry them under the sun for three days again. I thought we need to pop them into the oven but the sun is sufficient as long as they are dried longer." She said to Bai Yi Chen.
Other than the plastic sealer, Zhang Yong also give her a weighting scale. So she portion 500 g of mushrooms in each plastic before sealing them. As for those remaining, she still seal them, when she pick another batch next time, she will measure them again.
She may need to go pick 2-3 more times before she can provide enough amount for this month.
Bai Yi Chen organised those sealed mushrooms into a sack and put it inside one of the empty cabinet.
Bai Yi Yang is already removing bones from the mackerel, she is going to make pan fried mackerel with soy sauce. She loves fish, especially when they are cooked like this, she remember that her siblings also loves it. Other than that, she is also going to make garlic shrimp with butter, since she need to peel of the shells, she called Bai Yi Ling to help her pull out the head and peel the shell. She didn't throw away the head and shell, she will make prawn stock with it. Bai Yi Yang doesn't want to disturb Bai Yi Ling work, so she cook the rice in advance this time.
After finished filleting the fish, Bai Yi Yang dried it with kitchen towel before putting basic seasoning and adding corn starch. After that, she pan fried the mackerel, she fried a total of 3 mackerel, should be enough for them. After that she set it aside and cook the garlic prawn with butter first, it is very aromatic. Garlic butter prawn may be unfamiliar to her siblings, it is more towards western style cooking but she can guarantee that it is delicious.
Only after serving the visually appetising prawn then she make the simple soy sauce based with ginger, garlic and scallion sauce for the pan fried mackerel.
[2 points earned. Total points: 230] Just in time, the rice is also cooked.
The foodie younger siblings is already sitting on the table, staring at the garlic butter prawn especially. When did they last have prawn at home? Now, each meal time, they will look forward to the dishes that their older sister cooks, everything taste good. They never eat this delicious food like this since they can remember.
Bai Yi Chen went to help Bai Yi Ling scoop the rice while Bai Yi Yang proceed with throwing in the prawn stock seasoning into the pot together with the prawn head and shells. Then she will let it boil while they eat.
The siblings start having dinner when they are all seated. As expected, the garlic butter prawn is to the siblings taste, the pan fried mackerel is also very delicious. As a result, they ate a lot for dinner too. Bai Yi Yang happily collect the empty dishes. Seeing people enjoying your food is really this enjoyable, of course this didn't change Bai Yi Yang mind into being a chef.
Bai Yi Yang check the prawn stock once in a while. Bai Yi Chen also went to help with washing the dishes after.
"Yang Yang, you go bath first. I will look over the stock." Bai Yi Chen said. Bai Yi Yang also think that she should take a bath. So she let her younger siblings rest for a while and she went to take a bath first.
When she returns to the kitchen to take over, the stock is almost ready. After that, she removed the prawns and other contents before boiling it again, this is so that the stock become more concentrated. Only after feeling satisfied, she turn off the fire and transfer it inside a container to the fridge. Let it cool down and tomorrow she can transfer it to smaller portion and store it in the freezer to be used for a long time.
[1 point earned. Total points: 231]
Bai Yi Yang return to the Main house after she finished with it then she start another round of lazing around with her phone while Bai Yi Chen and Bai Yi Ling do their homework. Bai Yi Chen is really struggling with essays it seems.
The two younger ones is very curious about a lot of things. A few days ago, they see that their older sister is busy doing homework but now, their older brother is still busy but she is free teaching then these and that.
"Jie, you don't have homework anymore?" Bai Yi Mo asked.
"Yeah. Finished it all." Bai Yi Yang answer.
"Why do you finish earlier than gege?" He asked again. Bai Yi Chen who is also present there stop writing for a moment before pretending not to hear it.
"Ermm..how to say this. Well, every people has their own pace in doing things, jiejie is just a bit faster than gege. That's all." Bai Yi Yang said.
"Er jiejie also finished her homework, why does she still study?" Bai Yi Fang then chimed in. Bai Yi Yang feel attacked, she immediately let go after finishing her homework instead of reviewing.
"Well, it is also different for each people in this matter. Some people like to study like you Er jiejie, some people only fulfil the responsibility as student like me. You see, I will pay all my attention during class at school, finish all homework. But other than that I will do other things that I am passionate about. As for your Er jiejie, she also do what a student must do, but she is passionate about reading and studying so she use her extra time to do that. As long as you follow the syllabus in school, listen to the teacher, do homework then you will definitely do well. Maybe you won't be number 1 in class but that is sufficient." Bai Yi Yang told her two siblings. Both of them nod in understanding.
"Then what if we wanted to be number 1?" Bai Yi Mo ask, this child may look quite chill but he is actually quite competitive.
"Then your efforts shouldn't be less than your er jiejie. Every day you must have allocated time to study other than doing homework, but of course you shouldn't focus on study along. Look at your er jiejie, other than studying, she also helps me cook, tend to her plants and so on. Of course, if you are genius like me, going to school is enough." Bai Yi Yang smile widely.
"What is a genius?" Bai Yi Fang ask.
"A naturally talented person who is good in studying or extraordinary talent at a young age." Bai Yi Ling answer. Well she agree that her older sister is a genius. Bai Yi Chen also feels that Bai Yi Yang is a genius even though she seems to be just teasing the younger one. Especially after she woke up from her illness, she become much more clever than before.
"En, I agree that jiejie is a genius." Bai Yi Fang nod.
"When both of you start going to school, we will know if both of you are genius or not." Bai Yi Yang said.
Well, it is hard to say. In the other world, she has always been a genius since child, when other children is reading ABC, she already can read English books. She heard Bai Yi Chen is also like that after their meeting him in high school, Bai Yi Chen is already famous amongst the clever kids so his story is well known. Bai Yi Ling in the other world has always been a nerd, she likes studying that's why she is good. As for Bai Yi Fang, she isn't that bad as a Bai, but more towards the average kind of student in the school, well of course she is good since she can enters the same prestigious elite high school, she is just weaker compared to her older siblings.
As for Bai Yi Mo, she doesn't know, there is no information about him. That's why it is a bit hard for Bai Yi Yang to say anything about Bai Yi Mo.
Bai Yi Yang and her siblings stays to chat for a while more before heading to sleep.
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