Chapter 138 What Did I Forget?

I took half a bowl of chicken blood and added salt to let it solidify.

At noon, in addition to the chestnut stewed chicken, there was also a small stir-fried chicken offal made by Su Heng.

The chicken blood is briefly rinsed with water and then put into the pot and stir-fried with chicken offal over high heat. Dried chilies, ginger and garlic are added to bring out the spicy flavor, making it fragrant and tender.

Chestnut stewed chicken is a homely dish. The free-range chicken is fried and then slow-cooked. Even the soup is golden in color and full of fragrance.

Su Jing seemed to have clairvoyance and came back precisely on time to get a free meal.

He turned a deaf ear to his brother's invitation.

Are you kidding? The food at his sister's house is nowhere near as good as this.

Several people ate without even looking up, especially the stir-fried chicken offal, which was especially delicious with rice.

Su Heng loves chicken wings. The local chicken is very chewy and tastes better the more you eat it. Unfortunately, it still lacks some sweet potato flour.

I bought some before and finished it a long time ago.

But there are still some sweet potatoes.

Since there was nothing to do at home, Su Heng said, "Let's grind some sweet potato flour this afternoon so we can make a stew next time."

Anyone who has eaten chicken stewed with noodles will understand.

Lu Mingchuan agreed: "Then I'll carry all the sweet potatoes out in a while."

"Remember to leave some, I also want to eat roasted sweet potatoes." Su Heng instructed.

"good."

Making sweet potato noodles is a physical job. After dinner, a few people cleaned up and started working.

Su Jing didn't have anything important to do in the afternoon, so he helped wash the sweet potatoes.

The sweet potatoes were poured into the sink, and he took the loofah by the sink and started to scrub the mud off the skin.

The washed sweet potatoes should be cut into pieces and crushed with a mill. Then, they should be placed on a cotton cloth and a wooden basin placed underneath. Water should be poured over the pieces over and over again to wash out the starch.

Su Heng was assigned the easiest job, which was to cut sweet potatoes into pieces.

Lu Mingchuan was fiddling with the stone mill, while Wen Shu was setting up the cotton cloth to wash the powder.

The starch water washed out needs to settle for one or two days, and the powder will naturally sink to the bottom of the water. Then pour out the upper layer of water and you will get sweet potato starch.

The starch needs to be added with water and mixed evenly, just like steaming cold noodles, steamed into pieces of pancake skin, then cut into thin strips and dried to get sweet potato flour.

Sweet potato flour is very cheap in later generations, but it is still quite precious at this time.

There was an assembly line in the kitchen. After Su Heng cut a small bowl of sweet potatoes, she gave it to Lu Mingchuan, then turned to the window to urge Su Jing who was washing the sweet potatoes outside.

"Brother, are you done? I've already cut the last pot."

Su Jing was alone by the pool, enjoying the cool breeze.

Hearing the urging, I had to speed up.

"I'll be right there."

Several people worked in the kitchen for an entire afternoon and finally washed out a wooden basin and two buckets of starch water.

The rest is left to time to settle.

When Su Heng went to bed at night, she was still wondering if she had forgotten something.

But Lu Mingchuan thought about it and realized that the rabbits, chickens, ducks and geese had all been fed, and Zhaocai had also eaten and was taking a nap in the nest, so he probably hadn't forgotten anything.

So Su Heng leaned against him and fell asleep peacefully.

Until the next day when Chen Xiang and others came to the door.

Su Heng then realized what he had forgotten.

She notified everyone and forgot about her little sisters.

Luo Yan only found out about this when Zhang Xinghe mentioned it to her while she was getting her lunch.

The two of them then went to call Song Wan to come and see Su Heng together.

Chen Xiang's lips were pouting so much that an oil bottle could be hung on them.

"Everyone in the team knows you're pregnant, and we're the last to find out! We're not sisters anymore!"

Su Heng felt guilty for a moment. When she went to the laboratory yesterday, she was only thinking about coming back to kill a chicken for dinner.

I didn't think about this at all.

He quickly laughed and said, "Hey, I was just about to tell you guys, and you guys came. Why don't you stay here for lunch?"

It’s the last day off before the New Year, so they don’t have to work today.

"You must have forgotten." Chen Xiang pouted and said that, but she still brought the things.

I pooled money with Luo Yan and bought a basket of eggs.

She remembered that when her sister-in-law was pregnant, all the eggs in the family were given to her to eat, and everyone said that they were good for her.

Song Wan brought a few bags of brown sugar and dried lotus seeds. She came in a hurry and just learned the news when Chen Xiang and the others came to her house.

There was also some resentment in his tone as he said, "You were so close and didn't even tell me."

Su Heng hurriedly coaxed, "I've been so busy that I've lost my mind. I was planning to talk to you today. We're sisters after all, so I should definitely leave such an important person to be notified last, right?"

Several people just listened quietly to her nonsense.

Fortunately, Lu Mingchuan came out at this time and invited a few people in to drink water.

When I entered the room, I found Wen Shu was there too. She was knitting socks. Lu Mingchuan said he wanted to learn and was knitting too.

Su Heng introduced them to each other. Wen Shu didn't act like an elder, so they started chatting in a room.

Song Wan asked, "How do you feel? Stretch out your hand and I'll take your pulse."

As soon as she said this, everyone in the room looked over. This was a legitimate descendant of traditional Chinese medicine.

Su Heng had studied for a few days, but she was still half-baked. Song Wan was a little worried that she would make a mistake.

But Su Heng hadn't had her period last time, so she had a rough idea in her mind that she must have been pregnant within a month, and she wasn't worried that Song Wan wouldn't be able to diagnose the problem.

So he put his hands on the table and said, "To be honest, I don't feel anything."

Song Wan put her hand on it, and everyone stared at her curiously.

After all, the art of taking a pulse is indeed incredible in the eyes of outsiders.

So many diseases can be diagnosed just by taking the pulse.

"How is it? Can you tell how long it has been?" Su Heng asked curiously.

In fact, she really didn't know the exact number of days. After all, it was her first pregnancy, and she could only feel that the life in her belly was developing slowly.

Song Wan smiled and nodded, saying, "Congratulations, you're over forty days pregnant."

"It's been so long." Su Heng was surprised.

Thinking of how he was fooling around with Lu Mingchuan not long ago, a hint of unnaturalness flashed across his face.

He coughed lightly and said, "It seems that my pulse-taking skills are still good enough."

Song Wan chuckled and did not refute her, but just reminded her of some precautions.

Both Lu Mingchuan and Wen Shu listened very carefully.

"It's pretty close, so if you feel unwell, just call me."

Wen Shu felt relieved after hearing this, after all, there was a doctor living next door.

She saw that the girl spoke and acted in an orderly manner, and when she heard that it was a family medical skill, she knew it was reliable.

Chen Xiang and Luo Yan stared at Su Heng's belly. Although they had seen their sisters and sisters-in-law pregnant, they still found it strange to see their friend pregnant.

I used to think that Su Heng had been married only a year or two earlier than them, but when I heard that she was pregnant, I was shocked to realize that she was already the elder.

They were counting on their fingers the month when Su Heng would give birth.

Su Heng laughed: "Not yet, it will be in late September next year."

Chen Xiang held her chin and said, "I don't know if it's a boy or a girl. They all like boys, but I think girls are clean and obedient. But the child of you and Brother Chuan will definitely be very beautiful, whether it's a boy or a girl."

The idea of ​​having a boy to carry on the family line has been around for thousands of years and cannot be eliminated overnight.

As a girl herself, Chen Xiang felt it most directly. Her family was fine, but everyone around her was conveying this idea to her.

She will belong to someone else in the future.

She just couldn't accept it after hearing it so many times, but she only said it directly in front of her friends.

Even my sister-in-law didn't dare to say it. They all wanted to hear others praise them for definitely having a boy.

Before Su Heng could speak, Lu Mingchuan spoke first, took her hand and said:

"It doesn't matter whether it's a boy or a girl. I just hope she behaves well in your belly and doesn't make any noise."

If it makes a lot of noise, it’s better not to have a child. Who cares about the gender of the child?