Songbo pushed Mu Xingzhi's wheelchair legs into the yard, clasped his fists in salute, and stood outside the door. Originally, Yang and Su Guangfu invited him to come in and sit down, but he was told that the courtesy could not be broken and that he could not sit at the same table as the host's family.
After all, Mu Xingzhi was the master, and it was hard for others to say anything, so they had no choice but to give up. So Mu Xingzhi and Su Qingluan started one of the "fixed procedures" for returning home, serving tea to their parents.
Although Mu Xingzhi was in a wheelchair, Su Qingluan had to kneel down and perform a full salute. Fortunately, these were their own parents. How could Su Guangfu and Yang be willing to let their daughter kneel on the cold ground in autumn? Basically, as soon as the tips of her knees touched the ground, she was stirred up.
On Mu Xingzhi's side, whether it was serving tea or saluting, there was still no fault in it, as if he had trained this kind of etiquette thousands of times.
In fact, Yang and Su Guangfu still have more or less "Mr. Mu filters" for Mu Xingzhi - even if he has become their daughter's husband and their son-in-law.
After all, it is difficult for people's habitual thinking to reverse changes in an instant. In particular, Su Guangfu and Yang did not have much opportunity to think about such an abstract issue as "inertial thinking".
Even Su Qingluan could see that when his parents faced Mu Xingzhi, even though Mu Xingzhi had a very refreshing attitude, and the two of them could see that they were gradually relaxing from being cramped, but this kind of "Relaxation" was entirely a relationship deliberately guided by Mu Xingzhi. The two of them subconsciously felt a little "respectful" towards Mu Xingzhi and felt uncomfortable.
This is not intentional, but a habit formed over time. Naturally, Mu Xingzhi has the ability to make people take off their guard little by little, but this requires a process and certainly cannot be accomplished overnight.
So when the greetings were almost done, Yang used the excuse that the kitchen was busy and planned to push Su Guangfu over to "deal with" Mu Xingzhi. Mu Xingzhi smiled and suggested: "If my father-in-law and mother-in-law are busy, you can ask Xuan Hexian It’s good if my brother is here.”
Theoretically speaking, it would be very rude for a newlywed to be without the host's family when she returns home in three days, but no one can say that it would be inappropriate for a child under the age of eleven to do this "accompanying" thing. It's "discourteous". After all, although Su Xuanhe didn't get the crown, he was still a member of the Su family.
Except for the little girl Su Xueyan who only focused on studying her brother-in-law's "wheelchair", everyone understood that Mu Xingzhi was trying to find a way for Su Guangfu and Yang to leave smoothly.
As expected, knowing that they no longer needed to maintain such a tiring social scene, Su Guangfu and Yang did not feel at all that they were being disliked by their new uncle, but said happily: "Then let's go and prepare more for you. Let’s have some food while you chat.” He quickly headed towards the kitchen.
...Su Qingluan felt that the footsteps that became obviously brisk could be described as "escaping to heaven".
Seeing this, she couldn't help but reveal a gloating smile, raised her eyebrows and looked sideways at Mu Xingzhi: Wow! It seems you are very unpopular!
Although he didn't know what Su Qingluan was thinking specifically, Mu Xingzhi could clearly see the gloating in that expression, so he made a humble expression and lowered his eyes: It looks like the future is long... …
Although Su Xuanhe is already much more sensible than the naughty kid Su Qingluan originally traveled through time and space, he is still under eleven years old and is still young. It is really difficult for him to "entertain" Su Qingluan and Mu Xingzhi. Although he has done a good job - first serving snacks to the two of them, and then serving fruit tea.
"Qingluan's snacks and tea are really unique." Mu Xingzhi took a sip of tea gracefully and put a delicate and small tea snack into his mouth, "This tea is also uniquely delicious."
The corner of Su Qingluan's mouth twitched: "Because I made all these snacks and fruit tea..." So, does this count as "borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha"?
I have to say, it feels amazing to have the snacks you made served to you.
After listening to Su Qingluan's words, Mu Xingzhi re-examined the tea: the taste was delicate and soft. Since Su Qingluan said it was made by her, it must have been completed for at least three days.
But this tea cake is still soft and delicate, no less than those freshly made cakes. Even in terms of taste, the slightly sweet taste with a hint of tea is even better than many tea cakes in high-end households. taste.
Mu Xingzhi looked at Su Qingluan: "How did you do that?" Generally speaking, the taste of such delicate and soft tea snacks will undergo subtle changes even if they are stored for three hours, let alone three days. .
For example, in this dry and windy autumn, even if the tea with this texture is left indoors for more than an hour, the texture on the surface will become slightly cold and pliable, making it dry and difficult to chew; and in the hot summer, this kind of tea will become slightly cold and soft. The effect of "air drying" will be faster; as for rainy weather, it is not suitable, because the pastry can easily deteriorate and develop turbid gray-green mold spots.
The piece of tea cake in Mu Xingzhi's hand still maintained its delicate taste and fragrant smell, without any signs of deterioration.
Su Qingluan has "worked" with Mu Xingzhi for a long time. When he heard the other party ask this, he understood that he probably wanted to expand this food preservation "technology" to his own army so as to provide military supplies. Provide more choices.
She interrupted the other party's inappropriate imagination with an expressionless face: "It's not that I don't say it, but it's useless to say it. It's too troublesome and expensive, and it's very inconvenient for large-scale promotion."
Mu Xingzhi nodded immediately after hearing this and stopped asking any more questions. After several years of getting along, he also figured out Su Qingluan's temperament. If she decisively said "unfeasible" to those seemingly fantastic ideas, it meant that there was no possibility at all, and it was not an exaggeration or a concealment.
Same thing this time.
Thinking about this, Mu Xingzhi still felt a little pity - if fresh food could be preserved for a long time...
"Unless—" Su Qingluan's next two words attracted Mu Xingzhi's attention again, "unless you can turn colored glass into something cheaper than sunflower seeds."
Although the "Chinese cabbage" in this era is also a home-cooked dish, it is still more valuable than the so-called "cabbage price" in the previous life, so Su Qingluan used sunflower seeds, which are more common and cheaper in this era, instead.
In fact, Su Qingluan's ability to "preserve freshness" is based on the earliest principles of canning. It's just that in early canning, the bottom of the glass bottle was heated to drive out the air, and the plasticity of the glass was used to bend the bottle mouth and add a stopper to create a "vacuum can."
Su Qingluan In this era, glass, that is, colored glaze, has a very low output due to the limitations of the forging process, so it is still considered a "luxury product". Naturally, it cannot be made into cans and bottles at will. So Su Qingluan used an ordinary large porcelain bowl as a "cover" and placed it in a plate with a depth of one inch of water, and burned a candle in it. This way, an internal vacuum could also be created.
And because there is a water surface, it can seal in the air and ensure that the surface of the food will not dry out.
