Although she knew that she would most likely not be able to escape the "blind date" the next day, and that the other party was only a sixteen-year-old boy, Su Qingluan had already prepared herself mentally. However, she still had to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival well, and the necessary rituals, such as eggs, were also indispensable.

In the past two years, as the Su family's living conditions continued to improve, the Su family has completely bid farewell to the situation where eating an egg was a luxury. Therefore, the two little guys are increasingly unwilling to eat the relatively bland boiled eggs.

Fortunately, this "picky eating" problem was still under control. Occasionally, when Su Xuanhe or Su Xueyan acted a little too much, such as skipping meals for a snack, or intentionally throwing away an ingredient because they didn't like it, Su Qingluan naturally wouldn't beat or scold them like Su Guangfu and Yang did.

Her main method was "indulgent correction". For example, if they skipped meals to eat snacks, or deliberately skipped meals to play games, Su Qingluan would let them play to their heart's content, or put piles of snacks in front of them and they had to eat them all. If they couldn't finish them, they couldn't eat anything else.

Or if she secretly threw away the vegetables she didn't like, Su Qingluan would have such dishes for every meal. If she was still picky about food, she would skip a meal. If one meal wasn't enough, she would skip another.

After a few times, this kind of "permissive indulgence punishment" is in some sense much more "impressive" than simple beating and scolding. After all, eating snacks until vomiting or watching family members eat while you are so hungry that you cry, this is an experience that most people rarely have.

With Su Qingluan's methods, even if her younger brothers and sisters don't like boiled eggs very much, at most she will ask Su Qingluan to make them less often, or replace them with other cooking methods such as fried eggs and egg custard.

However, since it is the Dragon Boat Festival, there will always be an "egg-crashing" competition. Although the Su family did not prepare many boiled eggs, in order to give the younger brother and sister a "weapon" to "confront" the children in the same village, Su Qingluan gave each of them a boiled egg.

As for the other eggs, Su Qingluan took out about ten more and put them in a soup made of soy sauce, tea leaves and other spices to make tea eggs.

The tea leaves were broken tea leaves sold in the tea shop in the town. After all, they were only used to make tea eggs. Su Qingluan was asked to make tea eggs with the best tea leaves that cost dozens or hundreds of taels per kilogram. Although Su Qingluan had seen similar "tycoons" in the news in her previous life, she would definitely be heartbroken if she was asked to do this.

After all the eggs are cooked, you cannot take them out. Instead, you need to carefully beat the eggshells to create fine cracks. This will allow the broth to better penetrate into the egg whites, making them more flavorful the next day.

So after dinner, Su Qingluan began to crack the shells of the cooked eggs one by one.

At first, Su Xueyan was curious about cracking the eggshells. However, the wet eggs were quite slippery, and for a five-year-old girl, the task was a bit too much. She only cracked two eggshells before shaking her head and giving up.

The next morning, it was still light and everyone got up early because they were going for an outing.

Although Su Xuanhe always had a hard time getting up every morning to go to school, today was different. Aside from outings and other fun activities, he never complained about getting up early. So, compared to Yang and Su Guangfu, Su Xueyan and Su Xuanhe actually got up earlier, even clamoring to go out and play before daybreak.

"After you finish breakfast, come over and try on the new clothes!" Although Yang said "you", she looked at Su Qingluan deliberately, which made Su Qingluan understand that her mother must have made her a new set of clothes for this "blind date".

Eh? Why did she say "again"?

After washing up, Su Qingluan brought the already cold tea eggs and rice dumplings to the table. Yang was worried that the rice dumplings were too sweet and might cause acid reflux, so she also took a plate of pickled vegetables from the pickle jar and shredded them to eat with them.

After sitting overnight, the tea egg's broth has completely seeped through the cracked shell. Once you peel the eggshell, you'll see the brownish-brown patterns on the egg white, dividing the crystal-white white into various shapes. One bite reveals a salty, flavorful flavor, and a subtle tea aroma.

"Sister, boiled eggs like this are much more delicious than plain boiled eggs!" Su Xuanhe held up the tea egg he had taken a bite of. "Can we eat plain boiled eggs like this from now on?"

Su Qingluan nodded: "If you are willing to eat, you can eat like this from now on."

"I say, Daya, you really dote on your brother too much," Yang disagreed. "He's so picky about food at such a young age. He doesn't even want to eat boiled eggs. He's really not hungry enough!"

Su Xuanhe thought about the days when he was really starving and quickly said, "Mother, I can eat boiled eggs too!"

At this time, Su Xueyan, who had opened the rice dumpling leaves first, exclaimed in surprise: "Today's rice dumplings are even better than yesterday's! They are chewy!"

Hearing what their youngest daughter said, the remaining people in the Su family unwrapped their rice dumplings and put them in their mouths.

Except for Su Qingluan, everyone was amazed by the firmer and chewier texture.

Su Qingluan smiled and said, "When you ate them yesterday, they had just come out of the pot, and the temperature hadn't yet subsided. I kept the rice dumplings in well water. The cold water allowed the glutinous rice to cool down and shrink quickly, making them more chewy. But after all, this stuff is hard to digest, so don't eat too much."

At this time, she saw Yang unpacking a salty rice dumpling and couldn't help but teasing, "Mother, didn't you say that salty rice dumplings were evil? Why are you still eating this evil thing now?"

Upon hearing this, Yang glared at Su Qingluan and said, "Alright, alright, now that I know your skills, can't I, your mother, apologize to you?"

Su Qingluan quickly reached out and peeled Yang's rice dumplings and placed them in the bowl in front of her: "Oh, if you want to eat them, just eat as much as you want. I didn't say anything..."

Because they hadn't cooked this morning's meal, they ate it quickly. By the time everyone finished eating and cleared away their dishes, it was still gray outside, not yet bright.

"Breakfast is over. Come with me to see your new clothes," Yang said to the three children. "I worked late into the night to finish these."

"Mother, we already have enough new clothes, why do we need to make another one?" Su Qingluan sighed and looked at Yang's dark circles with some heartache.

"Who am I doing this for?" Yang glared at Su Qingluan, who immediately lowered her head obediently and acted submissive - then she could no longer remain calm.

The three sets of clothes in front of him were the styles usually worn by the three siblings: a round-necked long gown with arrow sleeves, a chest-length skirt, and a cross-collared straight-hem gown.

Su Qingluan stared at her cross-collared and straight-hem dress—its color, so pink, was almost blinding her titanium dog eyes!