Just how bad is Qian's cooking?
Her family doesn't even want to bring it up.
When she was young, her family wasn't well-off, and as the eldest sister, Jia Xiufang was busy with business, while Chen Lin went out to play cards. So Jia Xiufang trained her to help out in the kitchen. Generally speaking, it's normal for the eldest daughter in small business families to cook simple noodles by the age of 10.
When Qian was 12, Jia Xiufang asked her to try making scrambled eggs.
The pan got scorched.
She ended up with a ball of blackened something.
Chen Zilong, still a little kid, cried out in fright when he was given the "egg".
When offered to the neighbor's dog, it ran away without even looking back, tail tucked. In the end, there was no choice but to throw it all away.
No one understood how she was so "talented;" she could turn the simplest scrambled eggs into that. The pan was so black that Jia Xiufang spent half an hour scrubbing it with a steel wool pad to clean it out.
