Su Qingluan's guess was not wrong at all. Today's meal was served, but the most popular "dessert" was jam and yam puree.
Of course, Su Qingluan thought that the sweet and sour yam paste was not only an appetizer, it also added a taste change to everyone's tasteless mouth.
More importantly, the iron stick yam tastes soft and waxy, and after being fully steamed, the original tongue-numbing taste has disappeared. Moreover, this ingredient is rich in starch and is suitable for use as a staple food. It is naturally better than those that are drier. The throat-clearing rice steamed buns are more friendly to everyone’s red and swollen throats.
So not to mention the two little ones Su Xuanhe and Su Xueyan were enjoying themselves, even the two adults Su Guangfu and Yang couldn't stop eating.
After eating, Su Guangfu and Yang washed the dishes together and simply tidied up the room, while Su Qingluan took the two thickly dressed little guys for a walk in the yard to eat - of course, the two "little tails" at the back You need to keep some distance between you and Su Qingluan to avoid getting sick.
Su Qingluan does not encourage lying in bed all day long to recuperate - rest is important, but appropriate activities and labor can help the limbs regain strength and increase appetite.
Therefore, Su Qingluan hopes that the sick patients at home can move appropriately as long as their physical strength allows.
Originally, Mrs. Yang said that she would help Su Qingluan cook soup for a family of four starting tomorrow, so that she would not be too busy by herself, but Su Qingluan smiled and joked: "Mom, if you are really too busy, At worst, I can just spend two silver to go to any drug store and ask the little drug boy to get it done for me, saving effort and time."
Yang sighed: "It's not like the strong wind brought your money. You can save some at least."
Su Qingluan disagreed and said: "This money must be spent - Mom, think about it, this money can buy me leisure and prevent me from making mistakes while busy, why not?"
"It's because your father and I got sick at the same time that you're in such trouble..."
Seeing Mrs. Yang's guilty look, Su Qingluan said with a headache: "Hey, mom, please don't do this. Aren't we family? Do you want me to blame myself like this when I'm sick?"
"That's different. You are our daughter, so you should naturally be taken care of by us."
"Where are there so many 'shoulds'?" Su Qingluan wanted to grab Yang's hand, but the other party dodged away because he was afraid of being sick. Su Qingluan said helplessly, "Family members should take care of each other. There’s no need to feel so guilty.”
Seeing how Yang wanted to kneel down for her, Su Qingluan felt extremely stressed.
Facts have proved that no matter how brave Yang is, he wants to stay and do more. However, generally speaking, there are more or less sleeping aid ingredients in the decoction to help patients have a better and better sleep state. Recuperate from illness.
So Su Qingluan saw that her mother-in-law, who was "talking big" about sharing more housework one moment, was yawning profusely the next moment.
The younger brother and younger sister, who were eating in the yard for a few times, were also a little weak because of the decoction.
Although her father was not within sight, Su Qingluan knew what state he was in without even thinking about it, so she simply waved them away and asked all the sick people to wash up and lie down in bed to rest while they were sleepy.
On her side, since her parents have almost tidied up the kitchen, she doesn't need to do anything else. Su Qingluan thought about the "thank you gift" she planned to give to Mu Xingzhi, thinking that she had troubled him many times and it would be better to come up with something more practical.
After thinking about it, Su Qingluan suddenly remembered that when she took a carriage to Xie's Mansion before, when she first entered from the side door, she had actually seen the stables where horses were kept.
Then Su Qingluan noticed that no matter whether the horses were taken out for a walk or grazed in the stable, they seemed to have no such thing as stirrups.
Later, she also discussed the issue of "horse stirrups" with Mu Xingzhi, but the other party interpreted it as a "horse stool". After Su Qingluan asked, she found out that the "horse stool" here was not the same as the modern definition of the project. The iron frame stool used in construction is not a thing, but a small stool used by horses to step on and off.
Of course, the function of this "stool" is sometimes replaced by a living person - Su Qingluan was lucky enough to see it, and it left an unknown psychological shadow.
Through this unrelated conversation, Su Qingluan realized that although there are matching protective gears for horses in this era, they are very crude-thinking about it carefully, even the ones she used in her previous life On the historical line that I know, the armament of the "cavalry" seems to have happened after the Yuan Dynasty.
The Sheng Dynasty of this era probably had not experienced large-scale harassment by cavalry, and the horses' protective gear was at most used for "controlling the horse's head" or "arranging seats" such as bridles and saddles.
As for the more detailed iron horseshoes and iron stirrups, there are no such things - the most important thing is that the smelting technology of steel is not very mature yet, and there is no way to mass-produce refined iron, so it is natural to concentrate on spears and swords. on the weapon.
As for the horse's protective gear, we can only "fall back to the next best thing".
So, Su Qingluan recalled how she spent time watching videos of horseshoeing in modern times, and drew the shape and purpose of horseshoes on a drawing, and also drew the stirrups on both sides.
After thinking about it, although she didn't remember it clearly, she had heard something - ancient people once collected the urine of people and animals and used it as a liquid to replace water when "quenching" forged iron tools.
Su Qingluan knew that this was probably using the salt present in the urine to make the forged fine iron stronger, but she was not so shameless as to talk about "people" with a person of the opposite sex whom she was not particularly familiar with and whom she had a vague crush on. "The wonderful uses of livestock urine" is a heavy topic.
Therefore, as for the improvement method of forging iron, she only vaguely said that she could "try other methods besides white water, such as white wine, such as salt water."
In fact, Su Qingluan originally wanted to give these suggestions to Mu Xingzhi, but he has been hesitant - after all, these suggestions are actually suggestions to improve the opponent's individual soldier strength, which means increasing the opponent's entire force damage value.
Even though he had never seen it with his own eyes, Su Qingluan understood that in ancient times, princes and generals burned, killed, looted, and attacked each other for profit, and in the end it was the common people who were unlucky.
In contrast, of course, a wise and benevolent ruler can make the people under his rule live and work in peace and contentment.
Originally, Su Qingluan didn't care who became the lofty emperor - the so-called mountain is high and the emperor is far away. She, a peasant girl, has nothing to do with the lofty palace.
However, the situation of this autumn harvest left a deep impression on Su Qingluan - ancient "taxation" and the so-called "payment of personal income tax" in modern society are completely different concepts!
For the first time, Su Qingluan intuitively felt why taxes in many ancient times were called "exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes" - they could really take away most of the farmers' annual harvest!
She has heard more than once that because of heavy taxes, many people were unable to save enough food after the autumn harvest to use as seeds for the next year, resulting in insufficient harvests and making their poor lives worse.
Since it's impossible to survive anyway, why not just play with a big ticket?
