Chapter 15 Chapter 015 Qin Yuan distributes calcium tablets.

Xie Yaer was a man of action. She slept with her daughter for another two hours. When Qin Yuan woke up from hunger, she got up, picked up her daughter, and went to find her mother-in-law.

Liu Chunhua has been really busy these past two days. Her two daughters-in-law are very clever, and even her two granddaughters are helping to make clothes, so the cooking task was left to the three brothers Qin Hu, Qin Xiong and Qin Doudou who did not go out. There is no such thing as a gentleman staying away from the kitchen among farmers. When it comes to cooking meat, men are actually more suitable for making that kind of mixed pot dish. Qin Hu is greedy, so he secretly learned the skills of the village master and did a good job.

Recently we have lamb and pork at home, plus some pickled vegetables, garlic sprouts, bean sprouts, winter melon, etc., which are also delicious.

When Xie Yaer carried her daughter into the main house, she saw all the women busy at work. Although she was good at embroidery, she was not as good as the women in the Qin family when it came to making clothes. After all, Xie Yaer had only been exposed to silk and satin before, and had never seen coarse linen clothes before. So she really couldn't make them.

Xie Yaer feels a little embarrassed when she thinks about it now. She married into the Qin family in a hurry and her wet nurse was sent away, not to mention the maid who accompanied her. After marrying into the Qin family, she didn't even know how to comb her hair with the Qin family's comb. In the past, she always had a maid to serve her.

It was at that time that Wang Pandi, the elder sister-in-law, began to help her comb her hair and taught her how to do it. After a few times, they became familiar with each other. So Wang Pandi regarded Xie Yaer as her own daughter and felt that she was lucky enough to give birth to such a girl.

"Mom, Yoyo is hungry. Stop being busy and let's eat together later."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Qin Yuan also smiled at her grandmother.

"Grandma, Yoyo is hungry!"

Her words made the women laugh. Xie Yaer came over and put Qin Yuan on the bed. This time there was silver charcoal in the room, and it was warm. Everyone was wearing fur coats, so even their hands were not so cold. However, Qin Yuan still saw the chilblains on everyone's hands. After experiencing the cold, they suddenly felt warm. In fact, everyone's hands were itchy.

The reason why women are not allowed to go out in winter is not because of anything else, but mainly because people are afraid that the women in the family will get frostbite. Just like Qin Yuan, the two cousins ​​of the Qin family, Qin Yue and Qin Feng'er have never left the house since the beginning of winter, just like Qin Yuan. Even so, their faces are not frostbitten, but their hands are frozen into carrots, but they still have to work.

Thinking of this, Qin Yuan felt distressed. She quickly took out her calcium tablets. In front of everyone, she took out an oil paper box wrapped in oil paper. After opening it, there were small white particles inside. They looked like sugar, but she was not sure because she had never seen sugar look like this.

Sugar these days is all yellow, so this white thing attracted everyone's attention, but no one knew what it was.

"Grandma, I'll give you some calcium tablets."

She pinched out a calcium tablet and handed it to her grandmother. Liu Chunhua was stunned, but she was also happy. How could she not be happy when her granddaughter thought of her when she had something good? She didn't care what the calcium tablet was. She just leaned over and opened her mouth to let Qin Yuan put the calcium tablet in her mouth. She was still sewing shoe soles in her hands.

"Grandma, this is good for your health. You can chew it or hold it in your mouth. So Yoyo hopes that grandma can stay with you forever and live a long life!!!"

Qin Yuan spoke auspicious words, and as soon as they came out, everyone was happy for the old lady. After all, Yoyo was the prodigy in the family, and his words were really useful!

Liu Chunhua was also happy! She immediately smiled until her face was wrinkled. Then she savored the sweetness in her mouth and was reluctant to chew it directly and eat it. She said happily.

"Youyou is the only one who knows how to care for grandma. Don't worry, grandma will definitely watch you grow up and take care of you for the rest of your life."

Yoyo, their child, is a child prodigy. He cannot get married in the future and cannot be contaminated by the worldly life of ordinary people. Therefore, Liu Chunhua has long decided that the family must support Yoyo for the rest of his life. Now she has started brainwashing her sons and grandsons early on.

Although the Yong Dynasty did not require women to marry at that time, the families of girls who were not married after the age of fifteen still had to pay taxes, which was similar to a single tax. Most families would definitely not pay this and would marry their daughters off early.

Qin Yue is fifteen years old this year and will have to pay single tax next year. Grandma Liu Chunhua has made preparations for her granddaughter in advance and has also discussed with her in-laws to wait until Qin Yue turns eighteen before officially getting married.

Including Qin Niuniu's fiancée, who is already sixteen years old this year, the single tax this summer was paid by the Qin family.

"Grandma is the best!" Qin Yuan was happy, but she immediately picked up another calcium tablet and handed it to her cousin Qin Fenger who was standing next to her grandma.

"Sister Feng'er, open your mouth!"

Qin Feng'er felt a little embarrassed. Although she didn't know what this calcium tablet was, she knew that this prodigy sister would not harm her. Seeing her grandmother nod, she hurried over. In an instant, she felt a sweet taste in her mouth and her eyes lit up.

"So sweet! Is this candy?"

She didn't know about the gods, but she always felt that nothing was surprising when her sister brought out anything. Hadn't she seen bean sprouts and garlic sprouts? They were vegetables grown in winter! Only their family could eat them!

"It's not sugar, but it's sweet. Sister Feng'er, this is a calcium tablet. It's good for your body. Your hair will become darker and your skin will become whiter."

Qin Yuan pinched another one and handed it to her second aunt next to Qin Fenger.

"Second aunt, you eat too!"

Zhou Yan felt embarrassed now and quickly shook her head.

"Oh, your sister can eat this delicious food. I don't need to eat it."

In this family, we have to respect the elders and protect the elderly, so being a daughter-in-law often has the most difficult life.

Qin Yuan didn't say that and pouted.

"Second Aunt doesn't like Yoyo anymore? Yoyo also wants Second Aunt to be healthy forever~"

Now Zhou Yan couldn't say anything to refuse, after all, this was Yoyo's filial piety, so she moved closer, opened her mouth like her daughter, and let Yoyo feed her.

Wang Pandi and Qin Yue on the side were also looking forward to it. Sure enough, it was their turn next. They tacitly agreed not to chew the calcium tablets and swallow them directly. They just thought, why does this medicine that can strengthen the body taste better than candy?

Everyone held the pill in their mouths, thinking that not only would it strengthen the body, but the taste would be even better than malt sugar, and they would never get tired of eating it every day.

However, no one expected to eat it every day. Only Qin Yuan secretly glanced at her mother, and when she found that Xie Yaer didn't say anything, she felt much more relieved.

After everyone had taken the calcium tablets, they put away the things on the bed and went to the living room to eat. The three brothers Qin Hu, Qin Xiong and Qin Doudou had worked together to prepare the meal. They put the dishes in a super big bowl and asked grandma to distribute the dishes to everyone. There was also porridge. Compared with the porridge in other people's homes that was so plain that it couldn't even hold chopsticks, the Qin family's porridge was a mixture of various grains, the kind that would make people feel full. Sometimes minced meat would be added, making it taste particularly fragrant.

There was nothing fancy in this rural area. There was only a slightly larger low table, and low stools around it, most of which were made of not very good wood. Everyone sat there obediently waiting for Liu Chunhua to distribute the food. Qin Yuan twisted her body and got down from her mother's arms.

Fortunately, we now have silver charcoal at home, so it’s not too cold. Otherwise, Xie Yaer would definitely not agree with Qin Yuan running around on the ground.

Qin Yuan had already prepared three calcium tablets and ran to her cousins. The three cousins ​​were lined up in a row. The second cousin Qin Hu from the second room was thirteen years old, the third cousin was eleven years old, and the youngest cousin Qin Doudou from the eldest room was ten years old. The boys and girls were arranged separately in age, but the families were not separated.

"Brother Dahu, I'll give you something delicious to keep you healthy!"

Qin Hu, who was sitting there, was as tall as a small mountain at the age of thirteen. He was already over 1.7 meters tall. Now he had to look down at Qin Yuan. He just wondered why his uncle's daughter was so cute, so sweet and soft. She was completely different from his sister!

"Come, cousin will hold you."

Qin Hu stretched out his hand and picked up Qin Yuan from the ground. His movements were very skillful and he held Qin Yuan in his arms and coaxed her many times.

"Ah~" Qin Yuan held up the calcium tablet, and Qin Hu opened his mouth without asking, letting his sister stuff food into his mouth. In the past, in order to tease this cousin, Qin Yuan had stuffed Qin Hu's mouth with the biscuits she had taken a few bites of, but she didn't expect that big cousin Hu had eaten them all. No food should be wasted in this family.

The sweet taste in his mouth surprised Qin Hu a little, and he immediately looked at his grandmother, and then he heard his grandmother say.

"This is something that only Yoyo has. It's a medicine for strengthening the body. It's good for your health after taking it."

Qin Hu immediately looked at his sister with a happier look. Qin Xiong was a poor talker, and now he was also looking at Qin Yuan eagerly. In fact, he wanted to hug his sister, but he couldn't resist his elder brother.

"Cousin Xiong! Ah~" Qin Yuan turned her head and raised the calcium tablet. Qin Xiong came over and ate it. He was also very happy and thanked her sincerely.

"Thank you for the medicine, sister. It's sweet and delicious."

It tastes better than sugar!

They all held it in their mouths, savoring the rare sweetness, and then the lively ten-year-old Qin Doudou couldn't wait to squeeze over.

"Where's mine? Where's mine? Sister, do you have a brother's?"

The ten-year-old boy has already learned to be a brother. Now he is looking at Qin Yuan with longing in his eyes. It is so cute!

"Yes! Cousin Doudou, come here quickly!"

Qin Doudou came over and took the medicine her sister had recommended. But why wasn't it bitter at all? It tasted just as good as candy! No! It tasted even better than candy!

Now everyone at home took calcium tablets, only the men went outside and would not come back until it was almost dark.

Liu Chunhua distributed the food to everyone, and then personally brought Qin Yuan back.

"Yoyo, grandma will feed you."

Qin Yuan has gone from being embarrassed at first to being completely calm about being fed at the age of five. If it weren't for her family feeding her, she wouldn't be able to eat at all...

Liu Chunhua picked up the small bowl, which contained the stewed meat cooked by Qin Hu. It was cooked with lard and smelled delicious. Qin Yuan immediately became happy. Every time her grandmother fed her, she would quickly open her mouth and start eating with a smacking sound, finishing the whole bowl of stewed meat.

Qin Hu was also eating, but he was secretly watching to see if his sister liked the food he cooked. When he saw that his sister was enjoying the food, he immediately became happy too.

"I can't drink the porridge anymore!" Qin Yuan was full after eating the stewed meat. Apart from the pure egg soup, the Qin family's porridge was all made with whole grains, all kinds of messy grains mixed together. Anyway, the main thing was that if you didn't choke to death, you would at least choke your throat.

So Qin Yuan hated drinking porridge. Fortunately, the Qin family cooked egg soup or other soups for her every day, otherwise she would really starve to death.

"Then grandma will drink it for you." Liu Chunhua was reluctant to waste food. She drank the porridge that Qin Yuan thought was hard to swallow with great joy.

She didn't touch her bowl of porridge, but instead gave more to Qin Yue and Qin Feng'er. These two children had been busy helping to make clothes recently and needed to eat more.

Watching everyone drinking such throat-choking porridge, Qin Yuan looked eagerly into her grandmother's bowl and found that it indeed contained soybeans, black beans, and the chestnuts that her second uncle brought back that day. In fact, it smelled very fragrant, but it was throat-choking.

But today Qin Yuan suddenly saw something and her eyes widened in shock.

Everyone at the table noticed her strange behavior, and Qin Yuan pointed at the yellow particles in her grandmother's bowl and said in shock.

"wheat……"

So there is wheat in this world? Then why is there no flour?

Don't ask her what kind of pancake she ate before. The pancake she ate before was a wild vegetable pancake! There was no hair on it!

Liu Chunhua didn't understand her own Yoyo's shock, and only spoke when she saw her granddaughter carrying wheat.

"Yoyo, you've never seen this grain before, right? It's called wheat, but wheat usually needs to be hulled before it can be eaten, and it's not easy to peel, so wheat is tax grain. Ordinary people only eat wheat when they have no other choice."

After all, it is very difficult to peel off the wheat husk. The wheat tax paid by the Yong Dynasty was pounded by the convicted people every day. It would be exhausting for ordinary people to eat wheat.

...So the Yong Dynasty had not yet mastered the method of peeling wheat?

So... there is no stone mill in this place???

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