After eating at noon, Li Changfeng went to the field to look at the crops. Although he said that the weather this year would not look like last year's, but as a farmer, he was not at ease if he didn't go to the ground for a day.
After Xu Qing fell asleep, he took out the quilt covers and clothes at home and washed them. The weather was fine today. After Xu Qing finished drying the clothes, he looked at the sky, thinking that it would take about an hour for Li Changfeng to return from the ground. Xu Qing shook his hand and entered the kitchen.
When Xu Qing was hunting hogweed in Houshan yesterday, he found a good thing, jelly grass.
Jelly is an important medicinal and edible plant resource. The whole plant contains polysaccharides, which have the functions of relieving summer heat, clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. Folks often use its stems to boil with water, and then add thin starch to make frozen (commonly known as "jelly") for consumption, which is an excellent food for relieving summer heat and quenching thirst.
After Xu Qing washed the rice that had been soaked last night several times, he put it in a pot and went to the stone mill next to the well to grind the rice into rice slurry. No matter what he did to nourish his body, he was stronger than the average person's body. It wasn't that Li Changfeng thought he was a "weak" brother.
The weather was hot, Xu Qing finished grinding the rice milk, his back was wet with sweat, and after washing his face, Xu Qing took the rice milk into the kitchen, put it in the wooden tub, soaked the jelly in clean water, and put it down after washing. Boil the jelly grass in a pot with water until soft.
When the weather is hot, what Xu Qing dislikes the most is to set fires, which is simply torture! Especially at this time, there were no fans or air conditioners, so Xu Qing had no choice but to take a palm fan to heat up.
After the jelly grass was cooked, Xu Qing kept the juice in the pot and took out the jelly grass in the pot. When taking it out, Xu Qing also deliberately got the jelly-like substance on the grass into the pot. In the juice, take the water for the second time.
After taking out the jelly grass, put it aside and let it cool, then put it in the water and rub it out, rub out all its essence, the juice that it has not been boiled will flow out, the gelatinous substance on the jelly grass is the essence, and then the jelly Grass can be thrown away.
Then Xu Qing mixed the second water with the reserved juice in the previous pot and poured them together. Then use the slag separator bag made by Li Changfeng to isolate the slag in the juice. At the end of the bag, there will be slag left. The remaining slag is useless. Xu Qing thought about pouring it out to the pig later.
When the juice was put into the pot and boiled, Xu Qing kept stirring with a wooden spoon in his hands to prevent the pot from sticking to the bottom.
To make jelly, there is another very important thing, that is sticky rice flour. When Xu Qing was young, his aunt who brought them to life said: "sticky rice flour is a powder made from the seeds (rice) of the graminaceous plant. , also known as rice flour or indica rice flour, is the raw material of many kinds of food, it is the lowest glutinous variety among all kinds of rice, and it has the irreplaceable role of glutinous rice flour."
At that time, Xu Qing had eaten it secretly. He mixed the sticky rice noodles with water, poured it into the pot when the juice was almost cooked, and kept stirring.
It didn't take long for big bubbles to appear on the surface of the juice. Xu Qing removed the bubbles and stopped when no bubbles appeared in the pot.
Just when Xu Qing scooped up the juice in the pot and poured it into the basin, he heard the awake group in the room starting to "babble", "Tsk, this kid is quite picky about time." Xu Qing smiled, put the basin on the table, washed his hands and face, then entered the room and picked up Tuan Tuan who was already on the bed with his little fat legs.
Tuantuan's small mouth kept spitting out small bubbles, and was supported by Xu Qing to stand on his lap, moving restlessly.
"Ah ah acridine!"
Seeing Tuantuan's energetic appearance, Xu Qing kissed him on the cheek, took him out to let Tuan Tuan settle the peeing, and then wiped him with warm water. Although the person is small, but there is a lot of flesh, this prickly heat is even better and slower, Xu Qing poured some spiritual spring, and gently wiped Tuantuan.
Xu Shi's Lingquan was relatively cool, and when Xu Qing rubbed it on Tuantuan, he could hear "giggling" in his mouth, and his little face was full of smiles.
"Yo, did you take a shower? Look at the way you smile!"
As soon as Li Changfeng entered the courtyard, he saw Xu Qing holding Tuantuan and wiping something for him, and Tuantuan was smiling non-stop. Tuantuan was only so happy when he was taking a bath and eating.
"No, I wiped his body. He has a lot of prickly heat on his body, so I'll wipe him a little something." Xu Qing pulled Tuantuan's clothes, waited for Li Changfeng to wash his hands and washed his face before handing it to him .
"I have something to do in the kitchen, you take him first."
"Okay, come and give me a hug."
Li Changfeng took Tuantuan and kissed him fiercely on the face a few times before giving up.
Xu Qing returned to the kitchen, tied the pot on the table with a rope, then went to the well and put it down. It's cool inside the well, and you're done when the juice cools and solidifies.
Li Changfeng hugged Tuan Tuan to Xu Qing's side. "I saw you come back with so much grass yesterday. Is this what that thing did?"
Xu Qing gave Li Changfeng a blank look, "What is grass? Even if it's grass, it's still good grass!"
"Yes yes yes! It's good grass, it's good grass." After saying this, Li Changfeng felt that this was quite awkward, so he didn't say much, and returned to the main room with the ball in his arms. It was hot outside, so don't get sunburned.
Xu Qing also followed back to the main room, "We haven't seen Brother Xiaoyu for a long time, I'll take a look tomorrow!"
Hearing Xu Qing mentioning Xie Yu, Li Changfeng was a little sleepy, but now he is refreshed. "Didn't you just go there last month? Why did you go again?" Li Changfeng remembered that Xu Qing looked at Xie Yu many times and called it an obsession. He was surprised. How could a brother like to watch other things so much? Brother! Just look at the man, er, no, let alone look at the man, no one can look at him, only him.
Even Xu Qing could be so jealous when he saw a brother himself. If he saw another man, he would not have to kill him.
Xu Qing was a little funny to hear, "What do you mean by going again? When I was pregnant with Tuan Tuan, people would come to see it from time to time, and bring so many delicious and useful things, you don't want to go? Then I Go by yourself."
"Go, of course!" Li Changfeng immediately replied when he heard that Xu Qing actually wanted to go by himself. Even when he and Xu Qing went together, Xu Qing couldn't change the problem. If Xu Qing was really allowed to go alone, He still doesn't know what will happen!
Xu Qing smiled and saw that Li Changfeng was a little tired, so he said, "It's a little hot today, let's take a nap." Last night there was a lot of trouble, Li Changfeng didn't let him get up, he hugged the group and walked back and forth. One hour later, I went to Li's house early in the morning again, and after I came back, the sun was setting on the ground again.
"Okay, I'll go lie down for a while." Li Changfeng was indeed a little sleepy.
After taking over the energetic Tuan Tuan, Xu Qing put Tuan Tuan on the cart and went to the grocery store. On sunny days, most of the peasant family rested at home to catch a cold. Naturally, there were also people who came to buy things. Xu Qing did not. Knowing how the Zeng family's things are selling, anyway, his family's business is not affected.
When no one came, Xu Qing was not idle. He grew up seeing Tuan Tuan. Hearing from Xie Ah Mo, the child needs shoes when walking. He needs to make more pairs of shoes, otherwise, it will be The autumn harvest was over, and I was busy again at that time, so I didn't have time.
In the evening, after dinner and the family enjoying the shade in the yard, Xu Qing lifted the basin in the well and lifted the lid. What appeared in front of Xu Qing was crystal clear and elastic jelly. group.
"Yo, this thing looks like tofu," Li Changfeng said, and leaned in to smell it, "Why doesn't it smell?"
"Of course it has no taste. Eat this thing while you wait." Xu Qing moved the thing into the kitchen and cut it into small pieces with a knife. Then he added some sugar and pounded peanuts, and scooped a bowl for himself and Li Changfeng each.
As for Tuan Tuan, only clinging to Li Changfeng's arm, looking at the white flower in front of him, his mouth was drooling.
"Well, yes, it's quite tasty!" Li Changfeng commented after eating, and then saw the gluttonous appearance of Tuantuan. "Would you like to give Tuantuan something to eat?"
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
As if Li Changfeng said something, Tuantuan roared wildly at the scene.
Xu Qing tasted the smooth and refreshing cold jelly in his mouth. Hearing Li Changfeng's question, he raised his head and looked at Tuantuan, "I'll scoop it up for him. He should eat less of this cool thing." Xu Qing was worried that Li Changfeng would come scoop.
So, the first time I tasted the sweetness, the eyes of the refreshing jelly squinted with a smile.
The next morning, after the family of three had breakfast, they drove a donkey cart to the Lin family's house. Xu Qing took Tuantuan and Xie Amo in, while Li Changfeng was sent to the pharmacy by Xie Amo.
Even though he was reluctant in his heart, he knew that there were all brothers in that room now, and it was not suitable for him to go in alone, but he was still a little worried, and Xu Qing stared at Xie Yu again...
So with an uneasy glass heart, Li Changfeng still came to the pharmacy. Coincidentally, he happened to meet Chen Qi's daughter-in-law going out of the pharmacy.
"Second brother Li is here, come in quickly, but I haven't seen you for some days, are you okay with my godson?"
Lin Fangliang, who had just finished his work, saw Li Changfeng entering the door, and greeted him with a smile.
"It's good, especially the fat prickly heat." After Li Changfeng sat down, talking about the two treasures at home, his mouth and eyes were full of laughter.
"Isn't it okay? What's the matter?" Lin Fangliang was a little anxious when he heard that the regiment leader had a prickly heat, but when he saw Li Changfeng was not in a panic, Lin Fangliang's tone also contained some doubts.
Li Changfeng was amused when he heard Lin Fangliang's question, "It's not because he has a lot of flesh, and the places where it is stacked and stacked, isn't it just good and slow!"
"puff!"
The author has something to say: Tuantuan: "There is a lot of meat, blame me!"