"All night?" Yang said in surprise, "Then didn't our room turn into a big oven today?"
Su Qingluan turned around and said, "So I want my father and mother to sleep with me and my brother, otherwise there won't be anyone sleeping in your room tonight."
Su Guangfu and Yang's bedrooms are directly connected to the two stoves, so if a fire is lit there, the heat will reach their bedrooms first, then pass through Su Xuanhe's room, and finally reach Su Qingluan.
In the winter, Su Qingluan often had to put another Tangbaozi in to warm the bed because the bed was not warm enough. However, this was summer, and this "not warm enough" situation turned into an advantage.
On the contrary, although the bed in the master bedroom is the warmest in winter, in summer it often takes a long time after dinner for the heat in the furnace to escape before everyone can sleep peacefully in the bed in this hot weather.
If the fire needs to be lit all night like today, no one can sleep in the master bedroom - unless someone wants to use the sauna in it.
But the good thing is that you can sleep outdoors even in summer.
What's more, it's just the beginning of May. The weather outside is already very warm, but the mosquitoes are not rampant yet. So I heard that Su Qingluan will use the stove all night tonight. Su Guangfu suggested that everyone simply sleep in the yard to support themselves. Get up on the bamboo bed and sleep cooler.
But there is only one bamboo bed at home, and the two little guys are very eager to try it.
However, Su Xuanhe is already nine years old, and Su Xueyan is already five years old. Ever since Su Qingluan traveled through time, she has consciously cultivated the gender awareness of her two younger siblings, so let alone others, even they themselves don't really want to sleep together. On the same mat.
In the end, lots were drawn to decide who would sleep on the bamboo bed, and Su Xuanhe won. Although the little girl was a little aggrieved, after Yang promised that she could sleep on the bamboo bed even if she didn't use the stove tomorrow, the little girl became happy again, humming a song and holding her hand to go to Sister. Room.
Su Qingluan asked Su Guangfu to build a simple small stove that was used to boil medicine after the meal, and put a small medicine jar on it - the kind specially used to boil medicine.
"What did you take out this medicine jar for?" Su Guangfu looked at the medicine jar in Su Qingluan's hand while building a stove with adobe bricks.
"This?" Su Qingluan looked at her hand, "Actually, it's just for boiling water. It's just that the shape of this medicine jar is more convenient to use."
The material of the medicine jar and the casserole are actually exactly the same, except that the medicine jar has a port for pouring out the medicinal juice, which is convenient for Su Qingluan to pour the hot water directly.
In fact, it's not that Su Qingluan never thought of using a water ladle instead, but when constantly adding hot water to the pot for cooking rice dumplings, the best situation is that the water will always keep boiling. Otherwise, if the temperature of the water added is too cold, the temperature of the surrounding water will drop, causing the rice dumplings to have inconsistent textures.
This kind of inconsistency in softness and hardness caused by a sudden change in water temperature cannot be improved by extending the cooking time of the rice dumplings, so Su Qingluan can only try to keep the water temperature as constant as possible.
When you scoop out a ladle of water from the boiling pot and add it to the boiling pot, a lot of water temperature is actually lost - because although the stove is close to the stove, it cannot be built at the door of the stove, otherwise it will easily burn the flammable materials near the door. Objects, such as dried garlic hanging on the wall, ignited.
The casserole has such an advantage - because its material is relatively thick and has poor thermal conductivity, it is relatively "slowly heated" during the heating process. However, if the food inside is in a boiling state, it can ensure that even if the pot is away from the The fire can also be continuously kept warm, ensuring boiling for about half a minute.
This period of time was enough for Su Qingluan to add hot water to the rice dumpling pot.
Su Qingluan's most important task tonight is to keep adding water to the two rice dumpling pots to prevent the rice dumplings and stones from being exposed on the water surface of the rice dumpling pots, and to ensure that all the rice dumplings are completely submerged under the water.
It will take at least three hours to keep adding water to the two pots of water to keep them boiling. Fortunately, there are watchmen in this era, and every once in a while, watchmen will walk back and forth in the village to tell the time, so Su Qingluan does not need to do it at all. Worried about overcooking the rice dumplings.
It was late at night, when it was already three o'clock in the night, and everyone was already asleep, Su Qingluan added the last pot of water, extinguished all the fires, and then dragged his tired body to his brother's room. Sleeping with her clothes on - she had already told Liu Yunniang when she left "Su Ji" yesterday that she would not be able to go there until afternoon, so she was not in a hurry to get up early.
Because Su Qingluan slept very late the first day, she slept like a dead pig all morning and couldn't get up at all.
But before going to bed, she left a note for everyone. You can taste the rice dumplings in the morning, but you must remember to put the stone back after taking out the rice dumplings.
In summer, hot water cools very slowly, and coupled with the residual heat in the stove, the rice dumplings are still steaming when everyone takes them out of the pot in the morning.
Yang already knew last night that the big pot contained red date rice dumplings and bean filling rice dumplings, while the small pot contained salty rice dumplings.
However, Su Qingluan even thoughtfully marked it on the note that the single rice dumpling in the cauldron was a red date and wolfberry rice dumpling, and the two tied together were honey bean rice dumplings. Although the rice dumplings are all separate in the small pot, in order to distinguish them from the red date rice dumplings, Ma Lian, who tied the rice dumpling leaves outside, tied a knot at the end after tying the rice dumplings.
To be cautious and out of curiosity, Yang gave everyone a sweet rice dumpling and then took out a salty rice dumpling.
The Su family also makes rice dumplings every year, but everyone's enthusiasm for rice dumplings is always average - because this whole piece of "sticky rice" is a bit laborious to eat and has no taste. It seems that it is not even as good as white rice.
This ball of "white rice" is delicious only when dipped in sugar.
So this time even if Su Qingluan did it himself, everyone was not very interested.
Tear open the leaves of the rice dumplings, and the sticky glutinous rice leaves shiny glutinous rice threads on the leaves. Yang put the rice dumplings in a bowl, picked them up with chopsticks and dipped one corner in sugar: "Eh?"
"What's wrong?" Su Guangfu looked over suspiciously, and at the same time took a bite of red dates - he never liked anything too sweet, so he didn't touch white sugar.
But after chewing twice, Su Guangfu also felt that the rice dumplings made by Su Qingluan had a completely different texture than before.
"You two!" Ms. Yang greeted quickly, "Stop playing with the rice dumpling leaves there and try these rice dumplings. As expected, they are made by Daya. They are so delicious!"
As he said this, he couldn't help but take two more bites.
When the two little guys saw their parents speeding up suddenly, they glanced at each other and took a bite of the white and glutinous rice dumplings at the same time.
