Lu Youxi was still busy with the Little Pink Book, even during her winter break.
After work in the evening, stepping through the door with Zhou Shuyan, she was greeted by a mouthwatering aroma of fried foods filling the house.
"Mom, what are you frying?" Lu Youxi asked as she entered the kitchen.
Upon entering, she got quite the shock.
Goodness, everywhere in the kitchen that could hold something was filled with bowls of fried delicacies.
There were twisted dough sticks, smiley-faced pastries, spring rolls with red bean paste, youtiao (fried dough sticks), sangzi (fried dough snacks).
Then there were fried fish, meatballs, shrimp crackers, lotus root slices, and mushrooms.
The fried fish included yellow croaker and belt fish.
As for the meatballs, there were daikon pork balls and celery pork balls.
The mushrooms were varied with shiitake, enoki, and king oyster mushrooms.
"Mom, did you fry all these today?" Lu Youxi asked in astonishment.