Chapter 99 Candied Haws

Song Wei was stunned for only a few seconds, and then she saw Lin Zhen's lively figure jumping to the kitchen to wash dishes.

She blinked her eyes. She never expected that Heidan's brother, a burly and rough-looking man, actually had the potential to be a househusband.

Then the househusband yelled loudly outside.

"Heidan, what are you doing standing there? Go get the rag and clean the table outside and sweep the floor."

Lin Zhen was washing dishes and was making his younger brother run around in circles.

But little Heidan was also happy. He wiped the table and went to sweep the floor with the broom.

And he had the same idea as his brother: "Sister Song, please sit over there. I will finish sweeping the floor quickly."

Song Wei looked around and saw nothing to do, so she just went to bring in the hawthorns.

She was afraid that Lin Zhen had no sugar since he had just moved in, so she brought some white sugar with her.

Boil the sugar into syrup, then string the hawthorns together with a wooden stick and evenly spin them in the syrup.

But before that, I still have to carve some wood to sign.

Lin Zhen sat on a stool, holding a chopping knife in his hand, and with a few swipes he split a piece of wood of appropriate length into small sticks of even size.

Song Wei and Heidan sat on the other side, using a knife to carve small wooden sticks into signatures and then stringing them together to make candied haws.

They picked a lot of candied haws from the mountain. They put five candied haws on each skewer, so they only had about twenty strings, which were too many to eat.

Lin Zhen boiled the syrup as Song Wei said and coated the candied haws with sugar.

Song Wei was making a straw target in the yard with a bundle of wheat straw stalks.

She was very strong and she tied the straw target firmly without much effort.

Heidan ran back and forth, sometimes running to the kitchen like a greedy little dog to watch his brother make candied haws, and sometimes running to the yard to accompany Song Wei.

After Song Wei finished making the straw target, he happily followed her to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Lin Zhen had already boiled the syrup and was coating the skewered candied haws with sugar in his big hands.

The red hawthorns are evenly coated in the sweet syrup and immediately become shiny. They look delicious just by looking at them.

Heidan was sniffing hard beside them. Little kids simply couldn't resist the sweetness of candy.

"Are you okay? Are you okay, brother?"

Although they hadn't seen each other for several years, perhaps because of their blood relationship, Heidan became familiar with Lin Zhen in just a few days.

Lin Zhen was annoyed by his noise.

"Go away, why are you so greedy after just having breakfast?"

Then he handed the sugar-coated candied haws to Song Wei with eager eyes and bared his big white teeth.

"How about this? You eat the first one."

Heidan looked at his brother in disbelief.

Brother, why do you have two faces?

Song Wei: "It will taste good only after the syrup cools down."

She casually stuck the string of candied haws on the straw target.

Afterwards, Lin Zhen coated the candied haws with sugar, and Song Wei inserted the candied haws on the straw target.

After finishing making the candied haws, there is still some syrup left.

Song Wei suddenly had an idea: "Let's make sugar paintings of these."

She rolled up her sleeves and moved over, scooped out a spoonful of syrup with a small spoon, then placed a small wooden stick on a clean wooden board and began to paint.

She can't cook, but she can draw some simple things.

So under the two brothers' wide-eyed eyes, Song Wei drew a puppy.

Although it was simple, Heidan could tell it at a glance.

"It's a puppy!"

He was so happy that there was excitement and surprise in his voice.

While waiting for the syrup to cool down, Song Wei carefully drew other things.

However, Lin Zhen stopped looking at the sugar painting and instead fixed his gaze on her side face, which was looking very serious with her eyes slightly lowered.

The girl, who was much shorter than him, looked tiny, pale and soft in his eyes, but she exuded a power that was hard to shake.

It was the first time that Lin Zhen met such a girl. With his limited knowledge, he didn't know how to describe the feeling. It was like a white flower he had seen before, rooted in a rocky cliff.

"What are you looking at?"

Song Wei turned her head and met his eyes.

For the first time, Lin Zhen knew what it felt like to be nervous. His heart beat faster and his ears turned red.

"Nothing... nothing."

He got scared.

The steel-like man who had never been afraid of bullets and gunfire showed his fear for the first time. He looked like a big, aggrieved bear under the gaze of the girl.

Song Wei stared at his slightly red ears for a few seconds, then looked away and continued doing her own thing.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Lin Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, then scratched his head.

What the hell should I say? I'm so worried. What if I scare someone and they ignore me in the future?

Lin Zhen looked down at his feet.

I'm going to go find the old Chinese doctor in the cowshed today. I have to wait until my leg is healed. When his leg is healed, Song Zhiqing will be scared and he will be able to withstand a beating.

Ignoring Lin Zhen's messy thoughts, Song Wei handed the first cooled puppy sugar painting to Heidan.

"Eat it."

The rest of her drawings were basically all kinds of small animals, kittens, piglets, monkeys, bears...

Heidan, the little country bumpkin, was dazzled by what he saw and felt that Sister Song was simply a fairy from heaven, super super awesome!

Song Wei handed Lin Zhen a candy bear painting.

"Will you eat?"

Lin Zhen took it happily: “Eat hehehe…”

Song Wei: It looks a bit silly.

She took a little rabbit and started licking it, and put the rest on the straw target like candied haws.

Heidan held a candied puppy painting in one hand and a candied haws in the other, but he was reluctant to eat either.

"Brother, Sister Song, I want to go out and play!"

He doesn't want to go out and have fun, he wants to show off.

Heidan is just a child after all. He was isolated and forced to stay out of the group before, but he still envies those children who play together.

Now he has the best sister Song in the world and a brother. With the support of others, Heidan feels more confident.

He took the candied haws and sugar paintings and the first thing he wanted to do was to show off to the children in the village. These were snacks that none of the children in the village had ever eaten, and he, Heidan, was the first to have them!

Guessing what he was thinking, Song Wei didn't stop him.

"Go ahead, just don't let anyone bully you."

Lin Zhen didn't care, he just reminded: "If someone hits you, hit them back, if they are not convinced, let them come to me, just don't lose the fight."

Song Wei disagreed: "What if someone bigger than him bullies him? He can't beat him."

Lin Zhen: "Then find a helper. Whoever helps you will be given some candied haws. We have many people here, young and old, so we don't need this stuff!"

Song Wei agrees with this.

Heidan listened carefully and took note: "Got it. I'm leaving now."

It's true that two people dare to teach and only one dares to learn.

After Heidan left and things quieted down, there were only two of them left. Song Wei realized belatedly that she felt a little embarrassed.

Well, I was a single woman and went to Brother Heidan's house. This scene was seen by the gossipy aunts and grandmas in the village. I guess rumors were flying around in the afternoon.

(End of this chapter)