After dinner, the couple went out.
Yang Haiyan: "Husband, can you read?"
Speaking of this, Qin Fang was a little embarrassed: "I was illiterate when I came out of my hometown to serve. In the past few years, I have learned a few words from my comrades who can read in the barracks." Although he was a little lacking in confidence, he was not inferior. But then he said, "Wife, please teach me how to read." To climb up and become a captain, literacy is a must. After saying this, he realized that he actually called her wife, and he felt a little shy again.
Yang Haiyan: “Okay.”
The couple came to the study.
Waiter: "Hello, what would this guy like to buy?" Seeing the two people in front of him, the waiter naturally asked Qin Fang. But looking at Qin Fang, the waiter thought, this guy is so tall, aren't all scholars gentle and refined
Qin Fang didn't say anything, but looked at Yang Haiyan.
Yang Haiyan: "Give me one copy each of Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, and Thousand Character Classic." When the original owner was studying with the young lady and the teacher was teaching her, these three books were the first ones used.
Waiter: "Okay, please wait a moment."
Yang Haiyan: "Wait a minute, give me some paper, some pen and ink, anything cheap will do." If you can only read but not write, your handwriting will not be presentable and will not look good.
Waiter: "Okay."
Qin Fang didn't expect Yang Haiyan to be so thoughtful and was deeply moved: "Thank you, wife." He didn't expect that from today on, he could also be a scholar.
Yang Haiyan: “You’re welcome.”
After the two of them came out of the study, they went to the vegetable market. In addition to vegetables and wine, they also bought a lot of meat dishes for the day, including fish, ribs, pig's trotters, pork belly, and pig's large intestines. The vegetables alone cost them two hundred coins. Together with the money spent on the study, Qin Fang had spent all the monthly allowance he brought back yesterday.
Yang Haiyan has been buying meat from this stall, and in the past month, she has become the stall's biggest customer, contracting fat meat and pig intestines every ten days.
When buying meat, Yang Haiyan asked: "Boss, who in town has sheep or cattle? I want to buy a bucket of goat milk or cow milk."
The butcher was about to answer when someone next to him said, "Madam, would you like to buy goat milk? I have some."
Yang Haiyan looked in the direction of the voice and saw an old woman, dressed very simply and looking somewhat shrewd. Yang Haiyan nodded: "Yes, does my aunt have it?"
The old woman said, "Yes, yes, yes. Last year my daughter-in-law gave birth to twins and didn't have enough milk, so my son bought her a ewe. Now my grandchildren have grown up and don't drink milk anymore. However, goat milk smells fishy, so only babies will drink it. No one in our family likes to drink it."
Yang Haiyan thought the old woman was quite kind. Some people would not say such things in order to do business. Suddenly, she had a better impression of the old woman: "It's okay, can you deliver it later?"
The old woman said: "Yes, yes, my home is in the village below, it's very close, it only takes half an hour to go back and forth."
Half an hour is an hour. Yang Haiyan thought for a moment and said, "It's troublesome for you to go back and forth. Is it convenient for my husband to go to your house with me?"
The old woman thought it was inconvenient, as it would save her the trouble of going back and forth. "Okay." So they agreed on a time and place to meet.
However, Yang Haiyan was much happier now that she had found goat milk. As long as she knew where it came from, she could buy milk powder on the platform. If anyone asked, she would say that it was ordered from this family. Of course, in order to make it look real, she had to order it every once in a while.
Afterwards, the two went to the blacksmith shop and took the baking tray that Yang Haiyan had customized.
The two returned to the family quarters and ran into Yang Dahua, who was out buying groceries and setting up a stall to sell handkerchiefs and purses. If it were normal, she would set up the stall quite early, but Han Zhen came back yesterday, and the couple spent the evening together, so Han Zhen made Yang Dahua a little angry, so that she almost couldn't get up today.
Yang Dahua also saw Qin Fang and Yang Haiyan: "Haiyan, you just came back from the vegetable market?"
Yang Haiyan: "Yes, we are going to have a wedding banquet tonight, Sister Dahua, remember to come and have a drink."
Yang Dahua: "Okay, OK. We'll have it at our house tomorrow night, and you have to come too."
Yang Haiyan: "Of course, of course."
Yang Dahua: "Then I'll go to the vegetable market first."
Yang Haiyan: “Okay, okay.”
After chatting with Yang Dahua for a while, we parted ways.
After returning home, Yang Haiyan washed the clothes she had changed yesterday, while Qin Fang took the wooden bucket to buy goat milk. Before going to buy it, Yang Haiyan said, "Husband, you have to pay attention to hygiene when the ewe is milking."
Qin Fang: "I understand."
After Yang Haiyan finished washing the clothes and vegetables, Qin Fang came back with a bucket of goat milk. The round trip took only 35 minutes (45 minutes), which shows that Qin Fang walked quite fast.
Qin Fang brought a bucket of goat milk to the kitchen: "You want to drink goat milk? It tastes a bit fishy and is said to be not tasty."
Yang Haiyan looked at the bucket of white goat milk and said happily, "Of course it doesn't taste good when you drink it this way. Wait until I make it, and you can try it."
Qin Fang: "Okay."
Yang Haiyan: "Husband, please help me knead the dough first. I have prepared the ingredients. After the dough is kneaded, we will use the oven that was just built yesterday to make snacks."
Qin Fang: "Okay, but I don't know how to do this. You have to teach me."
Yang Haiyan: "Well, it's not difficult. My husband is so smart, he will definitely learn it right away."
The couple worked together very well. Qin Fang kneaded the dough and beat the eggs, while Yang Haiyan processed the goat milk.
Goat milk carries bacteria and viruses, so it needs to be boiled three times for sterilization.
Moreover, goat milk is mild and has a high content of vitamin E, which can prevent the oxidation and decomposition of unsaturated fatty acids in the body's cells, delay skin aging, and increase skin elasticity and luster. In addition, the epithelial cell growth factor in goat milk has a repairing effect on skin cells.
Therefore, in modern times, goat milk has the reputation of being the king of milk and is more conducive to human absorption.
However, goat milk has a disadvantage that is hard to accept, that is, it has a strong smell of mutton. But it is also easy to remove this smell. Just add a pinch of jasmine tea when boiling the milk. After the milk is boiled, remove the tea leaves and the mutton smell in the milk will be gone.
So Yang Haiyan bought jasmine tea on the platform and put it in her purse to prevent the flowers and leaves from spreading. Of course, there are other ways to remove the smell of goat milk, but using jasmine tea to remove the smell is very convenient, and in this world, jasmine tea is more common. If other methods are used to remove the smell, it will not conform to the cognition of this world, and it will arouse suspicion, which is not good.
Cooking goat milk is still very fast. After she finished cooking, she asked Qin to put it in the dough and add goat milk, egg liquid, sugar, etc. After these processes were completed, the baking tray with the cake was put into the oven.
Qin Fang: "Is this okay?"
Yang Haiyan: "After it's ready, just watch it, my husband." Then she picked up a bowl of goat milk with sugar and said, "My husband, try it, how does it taste?"
Qin Fang picked it up. The goat milk no longer had any mutton smell, only a milky aroma. He took a sip and said, "It tastes very special." It tastes good, almost like sugar water, but the milky aroma is really good.
Yang Haiyan: "It is very nourishing, more nourishing than those meats. Think about it, when a baby is just born, its body is so fragile, but it can still thrive because of the good nutrition of its mother's milk. Goat milk is the same as mother's milk, so it is also very nourishing."
Qin Fang: "I see, you really know a lot."
While baking the cake, Yang Haiyan also made biscuits and dumplings. The biscuits will continue to be baked in the afternoon, and the dumplings will be used to make milk tea.
Because it was the first time to use the earthenware oven, Yang Haiyan had to check the cake from time to time to prevent it from being burnt. But even so, after the first batch of cakes was ready, the edges were still a little burnt.
Having learned from the lesson of the first batch, she used a smaller flame when grilling next time, and she was able to control the time.
At noon, the couple had noodle soup with rice balls for lunch. They had to treat guests for dinner, so they had a simple lunch, cabbage and egg noodles with some lard. Qin Fang ate it very well. It was very delicious, much better than what he had eaten in his hometown before serving in the army. He saw that Yang Haiyan ate little, and couldn't help but said, "Eat more."
Yang Haiyan: "I don't eat much. This is just my appetite. If I eat too much, my stomach will feel bloated and uncomfortable." She is always 70% full, and she really doesn't have a big appetite.
After hearing Yang Haiyan say that eating too much would make her feel uncomfortable, Qin Fang stopped talking.
After lunch, Qin Fang washed vegetables in the yard while Yang Haiyan continued to bake cakes and cookies in the kitchen. The cakes were baked and cut into pieces, and they were the same size as the mung bean cakes in the pastry shop. There were more cookies, which were round, rectangular, square, and triangular, and they were printed with small molds, and they were made very quickly.
After the cakes and cookies were ready, Yang Haiyan made soybean cakes, which were the same as pumpkin cakes, but the filling was soybeans. After they were made, they were fried in oil and became golden.
Qin Fang was washing vegetables outside, his mind was all in the kitchen. However, his mind was not on the food, but on the woman who cooked the food.
By the time Qin Fang brought in the washed vegetables, Yang Haiyan had also prepared some snacks which were cooling down. There was also oil paper and a small red cloth bag on the table.
Qin Fang: "What is this for?"
Yang Haiyan: "This is wedding cake. When you get married, you need to prepare wedding cakes and candies. This is what we prepared. I will wrap it with oil paper and put it in a small red bag to match the occasion. What do you think?" Although the fabric of the small red bag costs money, it is not much because the small red bag is not big. These ten small red bags cost only fifteen cents.
Qin Fang: "Very good." Yes, very good, she is careful and smart.
Yang Haiyan waved at him.
Qin Fang walked closer and bent slightly.
Yang Haiyan took a soybean cake and put it to his mouth: "Husband, you have worked hard washing vegetables. This is a reward for you. Eat it."
Qin Fang's eyes were full of smiles when he heard this. He opened his mouth and bit the soybean cake, thinking, it's great that she would kiss him and feed him.