Xie Jiaojiao and the other three returned to the village. They met many villagers on the way, and the villagers asked them questions honestly.
"Going to town."
Sun Ruhua replied with a smile: "Go to town to buy a pot. There is no pot for cooking at home!"
Everyone just smiled and passed by.
Watching Xie Qian and Xie Kun from a distance, playing on the edge of the field.
These two people must have seen them and immediately ran away from them.
Before Sun Ruhua had time to call out to her two grandsons, she saw that the two grandsons were avoiding her, and she suddenly felt uncomfortable. After all, she had brought up these two guys by herself.
However, in the past month, Sun Ruhua had experienced a lot, and she quickly suppressed the strange emotions in her heart.
When passing by her own field, Sun Ruhua picked a cabbage and planned to fry it for lunch later.
The first thing I did when I got home was to boil this iron pot. Fortunately, I bought pork.
Sun Ruhua cut off a small piece of pig skin and Xie Zhiyi lit it on fire.
Xie Jiaojiao went to prepare tools for pressing sugar cane into water. She also borrowed some tools from Mrs. Wang's house and went up the mountain to cut down a tree.
After these days of hard work, Xie Jiaojiao is very comfortable at work!
I sighed in my heart, alas, habits are so terrible!
Sun Ruhua opened the pot and prepared to cook. Looking at the pound of meat, her heart skipped a beat and she scooped out a bowl of polished rice.
Xie Zhiyi's eyes lit up: "Mom, do you want to eat refined rice for lunch?"
Sun Ruhua nodded: "It's rare to eat meat, it's delicious when you eat refined rice!"
Xie Zhiyi danced happily, and even ran outside to tell Xie Jiaojiao to eat refined rice for lunch. Seeing how happy Xie Jiaojiao was, Xie Jiaojiao just smiled and said, "Is that the case?" Isn’t it just a meal of rice? But when I thought about it, yes, she hadn’t eaten this rice for a long time. She used to eat it every day, but now it’s cornstarch every day!
Sun Ruhua boiled the two bones Xie Jiaojiao asked for in the soup, then went to the ground to pull out two radishes, and then placed a steaming grid on top of the soup to steam rice.
The other side quickly peeled off the yellow leaves on the outside of the cabbage, and asked Xie Zhiyi to throw it into the backyard to feed the chickens. He cut the cabbage in a few times, and immediately cut the pork, preparing to make some oil and eat it slowly.
Before cutting the pork, I found another clay pot among the items I brought over, washed it with water, wiped it dry with a clean cloth, and then started to practice oiling.
Outside, Xie Jiaojiao also made equipment for squeezing sugar cane juice.
She uses the physical principle of extrusion and deformation, just like we use a door to press walnuts. It takes the least effort to accomplish the greatest thing!
When she finished it here, Sun Ruhua also finished it there.
Xie Zhiyi shouted happily: "Sister, it's time to eat!"
Xie Jiaojiao responded, put down her things and went to wash her hands.
Sun Ruhua scooped a bowl of white rice for one person.
Xie Jiaojiao looked at the food on the table. This should be considered the most sumptuous meal she had eaten in more than a month.
Sun Ruhua gave each of the two siblings a piece of meat.
The two siblings immediately gave her a piece and said at the same time: "Mom, you eat too."
Sun Ruhua was thinking, the three of them had a delicious meal. Xie Jiaojiao asked Xie Zhiyi to drink another bowl of bone soup, saying that the bone soup could make him grow taller.
Xie Zhiyi was already full, so he drank a bowl by himself, saying that he could only protect his mother and sister when he grew taller.
Sun Ruhua touched his head and said it was okay, he could grow up slowly.
The family got busy in the afternoon, thinking about getting the sugar cane out early so that they could exchange money for it as soon as possible.
Otherwise, looking at such a large amount of sugar cane would give me a headache!
Xie Jiaojiao said: "Mom, please cut off these sugar cane tips and don't throw them away. I will bury them in the two acres of land you gave me and I can harvest another batch next summer."
Sun Ruhua was surprised: "Can this thing grow so long?"
Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "It can grow two crops a year."
Sun Ruhua immediately became treasured.
Xie Jiaojiao taught her to peel off the skin on the surface and use simple tools to squeeze out the water.
Xie Zhiyi thought it was fun and wanted to do it himself. Xie Jiaojiao directly let him get started and made another one herself.
In one afternoon, I pressed a pot, but only a small part of the sugar cane was gone.
Xie Jiaojiao's hands softened, and she switched with Sun Ruhua.
By night, almost a third of the sugar cane was gone, and the water from the sugar cane weighed one basin and one bucket.
Xie Jiaojiao said, "Mom, I won't do anything today. You go wash the pot, and I'll prepare some firewood."
Xie Jiaojiao originally wanted to take advantage of the daylight and pick up some at the foot of the mountain to boil brown sugar. However, looking at the firewood, Xie Jiaojiao felt that it was not enough, so she thought she might as well forget it and wait until tomorrow during the day to boil the brown sugar. !
Sun Ruhua cooked the bone soup for lunch and put it in. Everyone had a simple meal. They were tired from a busy day today.
So I went to bed early.
Xie Jiaojiao had a dream while sleeping at night.
In the dream, she was still stupid, chasing a man in the town, saying that she wanted to marry him and be his wife, but the man was unwilling.
Xie Jiaojiao still kept chasing and running. Xie Jiaojiao suddenly seemed to have returned to normal. The person she was chasing just now turned around and chased her again, saying that he must make her look good. !
Seeing that Xie Jiaojiao was about to be caught up, the man came closer. After a quick look, Xie Jiaojiao saw clearly that he was the idiot named Jiang Weinan he met in the town.
I saw Jiang Weinan smiling lewdly at Xie Jiaojiao: "Look where you are going!"
Xie Jiaojiao was frightened and shouted: No!
Now wake up!
When I opened my eyes, I realized that it was getting dark outside.
Sun Ruhua knocked on the door and asked, "Jiaojiao, what's wrong with you?"
Xie Jiaojiao hurriedly replied: "Mom, I'm fine, it's just a nightmare."
Hearing what she said, Sun Ruhua outside felt relieved and said, "Get up and eat soon."
Xie Jiaojiao changed her clothes a few times, wondering if the original owner had really chased that guy all over the town before?
Xie Jiaojiao shuddered when she thought of this, it was so disgusting.
After breakfast, Xie Jiaojiao went up the mountain to pick up some firewood and came back. Xie Zhiyi was not idle either and followed Sun Ruhua in the backyard to continue crushing sugar cane.
As soon as the firewood was returned, Xie Jiaojiao began to boil brown sugar and added a piece of sliced ginger to the sugar cane water.
Sun Ruhua came back with another basin of pressed sugar cane water.
Xie Jiaojiao gestured and said, "Mom, do we have that kind of wooden box at home?"
As soon as Sun Ruhua thought about it, she immediately nodded and said yes. She rummaged through the cabinets for a long time and found one. It turned out to be Sun Ruhua's makeup box. However, this year, Xie Zhen fell ill, and the contents of this makeup box were sold to Xie Zhen by Sun Ruhua. After seeing a doctor, the box became empty.
Xie Jiaojiao didn't say anything. She just mixed plant ash and soap locust together, washed the box, and spread a piece of oil paper in the box that she asked the butcher stall owner for extra yesterday.
After waiting for the sugar cane water to boil for an hour, Xie Jiaojiao used a bamboo colander to drain out the ginger slices. She found two bowls and rinsed the spoons with hot water. The water also had a sweet taste and gave it to Sun Ruhua and Xie Zhiyi took it.
Xie Zhiyi took a sip: "Sister, why is this water so sweet?"
Xie Jiaojiao smiled and said nothing, asking him to keep the fire while she took care of it.
Xie Jiaojiao counted the time and thought that it was almost the same. She immediately stopped what she was doing and returned to the kitchen. She turned over the sugar cane water in the pot a few times. It was already very sticky. She looked at the color of the sugar cane sugar and felt it in her hand. Keep turning.
Until I felt that the color was right, I immediately scooped the boiled sugar cane brown sugar into the box.
Sun Ruhua also came in after smelling the smell: "Is it done?"
Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "That's okay, mother, take a look."
Sun Ruhua took a look and saw that the color was darker than the brown sugar sold in the town, and it smelled sweet.
A smile appeared on Sun Ruhua's face: "The hard work these days has not been in vain."
Xie Zhiyi said: "Show me, show me."
He could tell something, just by smelling it, he thought it must be very sweet!
Xie Jiaojiao handed the box to Sun Ruhua: "Mom, take it to the backyard and wait for it to dry naturally. When it dries, it will become brown sugar."
Sun Ruhua nodded.
After finishing this pot, everyone had a simple lunch. Seeing that the brown sugar was cooked successfully, Sun Ruhua also used the leftover oil residue from yesterday to fry shredded radish at noon.
The family of three was very satisfied with the meal.
