Su Xueyan had obviously never played a game with such complicated rules before, and for a moment she was at a loss as to where to start. Su Qingluan simply removed all the upgraded versions of the game, leaving only the most basic version.

The grid extends from the soles of the feet all the way forward to the "roof". Grids one, two, and three are single grids, extending forward in a series. Four and five are two side-by-side grids, where you can take a short break after jumping on one leg three times in a row. Then there is the single grid "seven", followed by two side-by-side grids "eight" and "nine", and then upwards is the roof.

According to Su Qingluan's impression, the "roof" should be semicircular. However, considering that Su Xueyan had only seen thatched houses or the design of flying eaves and brackets in the town, which generally looked like a "triangle" from the side, Su Qingluan designed the roof to be triangular.

In fact, the stones should have been replaced with sandbags, but due to the rush of time, Su Qingluan did not have the time to make a sandbag. Otherwise, with her mediocre embroidery skills, Su Xueyan probably would not be able to play hopscotch tomorrow.

Seeing that the little sister was still confused even after the difficulty was reduced, Su Qingluan took a piece of stone with a special shape and a little round as a pocket and demonstrated the movements to her.

"Here, watch me." Su Qingluan threw the pebble into the square marked "one" first. "You can only put one foot in a square, and you can't put your foot in the square where you threw the pebble. So we'll skip the first square and land on the second square with one foot."

In fact, according to the rules of the original upgraded difficulty level, after landing on one foot, the foot on the ground cannot move back and forth while picking up stones, and of course the foot that is suspended in the air cannot land on the ground.

Therefore, in the more difficult version of hopscotch, the landing direction and posture are also very important technical difficulties - if the direction is too backward, it is easy to grab stones, but it will be difficult to move forward; on the contrary, if the toes are too forward, it is easy to move forward, but it is easy to fall in the process of picking up stones.

However, you don’t have to be so strict when playing with your sister. As long as the other foot doesn’t touch the ground, she can move freely in the grid.

Su Qingluan demonstrated the single-leg landing move, landing sideways and grabbing the stone in her hand. She then jumped back to the starting point on one leg, then threw the stone into the "two" box. She jumped over on one leg, bent down to pick it up, and jumped back to the starting point. She looked at her sister and said, "Do you understand? This is how you throw the stone into each box, and then you have to return to the starting point every time."

"What if it's thrown outside the grid?" The little girl reacted quite quickly.

Su Qingluan smiled and said, "Whether the stone is thrown outside or the foot steps outside the grid, it is considered a loss. In addition, even if the stone is thrown inside the grid, it is considered a loss if the order is wrong."

Fortunately, the little girl has a basic literacy foundation. Although she only knows about sixty or seventy characters at most, she can recognize and write the characters from one to ten - of course, this is also because these characters are relatively simple and are suitable to be placed at the front when recognizing characters.

To motivate the little girl to play the game, Su Qingluan even made a pinky promise with her: "If you fail, let me play. We'll take turns playing hopscotch. Whoever reaches the end number nine first and returns successfully gets to have a piece of maltose!"

Of course, maltose was only attractive to Su Qingluan when she was taking bitter medicine. But for a child like Su Xueyan, it was a rare delicacy.

Especially since the little girl had a toothache earlier. Su Qingluan had originally thought that such a young child might be changing teeth, but when she leaned in to take a look, she saw that two of the molars near the back had cavities!

It would be strange if it didn’t hurt!

Fortunately, the little girl is not yet at the age of changing teeth. Even if she has some cavities, as long as she maintains her oral health and prevents her condition from worsening, the problem will be solved when Su Xueyan changes her teeth in a year or two and the cavities fall off automatically.

So from that time on, the Su family strictly controlled the frequency of "maltose", "malt sugar" and even white sugar appearing in the house to prevent Su Xueyan from being greedy.

On the other hand, Su Qingluan bought special toothbrushes and tooth powder for her brother and sister, asking them to brush their teeth every morning and evening to prevent them from having a mouthful of black teeth at such a young age. Unsightly appearance was secondary; if they did get cavities, the pain would be unbearable.

Moreover, considering the medical level of this era, Su Qingluan is determined to maintain the dental health of her family and herself.

So the temptation of this "malt sugar" today cannot be said to be extremely great. It can only be said that its attraction to Su Xueyan is like a cat seeing catnip.

However, the reward - especially the reward promised by Su Qingluan - is naturally not easy to get.

After the two of them took turns playing a few times, Su Qingluan was fine. However, Su Xueyan was a child after all, and her physical strength was not as good as Su Qingluan. In addition, playing this game required certain skills, so she jumped around without any plan, which cost her more energy.

As a result, they had only played for less than an hour when Su Xueyan started to complain of being tired.

Su Qingluan asked her to lie down in the room and poured her some water. As a result, when she turned around, Su Qingluan lifted the curtain and went into her parents' room, and saw that her sister was actually sleeping on the edge of the bed.

Su Qingluan simply put the water aside where her sister couldn't reach it, took off the little girl's shoes and covered her with a quilt, letting her sleep well and not catch a cold. She didn't stay for long, for fear that the virus might be transmitted to her sister.

When her sister fell asleep, she went to the kitchen to check on the beans that had been soaking for a while.

Su Qingluan had soaked the mung beans early in the morning, more than two hours later. She saw the skin on the mung beans was gradually peeling off, so she simply scrubbed it back and forth with her hands to speed up the peeling.

Perhaps because the mung beans were relatively new, the skins came off easily. Su Qingluan skimmed off the skins floating on the surface, poured in enough water to cover the peeled beans, and placed the porcelain bowl containing the peeled beans in the pot over high heat to steam until cooked.

Originally, a pressure cooker was needed, but due to limited conditions, Su Qingluan could only increase the steaming time. After about half an hour, Su Qingluan took out the porcelain bowl, and the mung beans that had been added with water had turned into a paste.

Su Qingluan passed the "mung bean paste" through a sieve several times, and then used a garlic pestle to mash the mung bean paste into a finer consistency.

As she worked on it, Su Qingluan sighed, "To be able to make such delicate pastries without any modern tools, the ancient people's meticulousness and patience are simply incomparable to ordinary people..."

For example, she now misses the modern blender and grinder very much!