Chapter 115 Shamelessly Keeping Your Mouth
Before Gu Dong reached the gate of the courtyard, he saw Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin.
"Why are you here?"
Wu Chao held a basketball in his arms, put his arm around Zhang Jialin, and said, "We were playing basketball on the court. We could smell something really delicious from a distance. We figured you must have made something delicious again, so we shamelessly came to try it."
Last time, Gu Dong said that if his family was frying snails, he would ask them to come and try two just because they smelled the aroma. So they came today just because they smelled the aroma.
Although, what we are stir-frying today is obviously not snails.
"Then come in. My mother is making sour jujube cakes and hawthorn candy snowballs. They are the hawthorns and sour jujubes my grandmother and her family brought from the countryside."
Gu Dong led the two into the yard.
"Who's here?" Zhao Changying took Beibei out of the kitchen.
Gu Dong introduced them: "They are Brother Wu Chao and Brother Zhang Jialin."
"Hello, grandma." Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin bowed and greeted Zhao Changying very politely.
Zhao Changying nodded, looked at the two of them with a smile and said, "They are our Dongdong's friends. Come in and sit down."
Then he said to Gu Dong, "Gu Dong, take your two brothers to sit in the main hall."
Gu Dong brought them to the main room to sit down, asked them to wait, and then went to the kitchen.
"Mom, Brother Wu Chao and the others came here to keep the food safe after smelling the fragrance." Gu Dong walked up to Yu Hui and said.
Gu Huai frowned, "You can't talk about others like that."
Gu Dong pursed his lips and whispered, "They said so themselves."
Yu Hui smiled and said, "Get a plate, put some hawthorn candy snowballs on it and take them out for them to eat. They should be almost cool by now."
"You can't eat this jujube cake for a while. It needs to be dried before you can eat it." As she spoke, she spread the sticky jujube meat that had been pinched into small cakes onto the winnowing basket.
"Pretty up a bit, you all should go out and eat too."
"Okay." Gu Dong responded.
I took a large plate from the cupboard, took the hawthorns out of the colander with my clean hands and put them on the plate. The hawthorns were almost cold to the touch, with only a little residual warmth.
Except for Yu Hui, Gu Qiuyan and Gu Qiuye who were making sour date cakes, everyone else went to the main room.
"Hello, Uncle Gu." Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin stood up and greeted Gu Huai when they saw him come in.
"This is my cousin Gu Bin and my cousin Gu Yang." Gu Dong also introduced his cousin to the two.
The four of them smiled and nodded, which was considered a greeting.
"This is the hawthorn candy snowball my mother made. You can have some, don't be shy." Gu Dong greeted his friends like a little adult.
Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin took one without hesitation and took a look at it first.
"This hawthorn candy snowball is really nice-looking, even better than candied haws." Wu Chao said as he took a bite.
The sugar on the outside is very sweet and crunchy, and the hawthorn inside is sour and sweet. After chewing it twice, the crunchy sugar and the sweet and sour flesh blend together, the sweetness is enhanced, and the sourness is neutralized. It is especially delicious.
"This is much more delicious than candied haws." Zhang Jialin praised with eyes wide open.
The sugar coating of candied haws will stick to your teeth, but this hawthorn candy snowball will not. It is both beautiful and delicious.
Yu Lixin nodded continuously while eating the sugar snowball. Hawthorn tasted so good when cooked this way.
Zhao Changying also ate one. She had been eating hawthorn for many years, but this was the first time she had eaten one that was so delicious.
If I could set up a stall to sell things, these hawthorn candy snowballs would definitely sell well.
"Yes, I want some..." Beibei watched everyone eating hawthorns and drooled, wanting to eat some.
Just as Zhao Changying was about to feed her, Gu Dong said, "Mom said you can't give your sister candy yet."
Beibei frowned and glared at his older brother. The bad brother didn't let Beibei eat.
Zhao Changying frowned, "How can children not eat candy?"
When Gu Huai was this old, she started to add sugar to his drink.
At that time, sugar water was considered a tonic.
She also knew that the mother Gu Dong was talking about was Yu Hui, not Lin Siyu. After all, Lin Siyu was unwilling to even feed the child milk, so how could she pay attention to what the child could eat and what he couldn't eat.
Gu Nan said: "Mom said Beibei is still young and his body hasn't grown well yet. He can't eat sugar and salt. It's bad for his health."
Zhao Changying curled her lips. It was the first time she heard this. However, Xiaohui would definitely not talk nonsense. She must have put in a lot of effort to understand how to raise a child well, so she definitely couldn't hold her back.
She lowered her head and looked at her little granddaughter eagerly, "Mom doesn't let you eat it. Mom is doing this for your own good. So let's not eat it."
Beibei pouted and was about to cry. Gu Huai held her in his arms and said, "Let's go see how mom's sour jujube cake is doing."
If you can't see it, you won't be greedy.
Gu Huai ignored Beibei's struggle and carried her to the kitchen.
When Yu Hui heard Gu Huai say that she was about to cry because she couldn't eat the hawthorn candy snowball, she washed a hawthorn and let her chew it herself.
She took two bites and stopped eating. It was still too sour for her, and she didn't want the hawthorn candy snowball anymore.
The winnowing basket at home could not hold the sour jujube cake, so Yu Hui asked Gu Dong to borrow a winnowing basket from Yu Lixin's house. When Yu Lixin returned, he also brought a few hawthorn candy snowballs for his brother.
At this time, Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin also went home with a few hawthorn candy snowballs in their pockets.
By four o'clock, the sour jujube cakes were ready and spread on a winnowing basket and placed in the yard to dry.
Zhao Changying asked Gu Huai to kill a chicken and stew it in the evening.
When Wu Chao returned home, he saw his sister sitting on the sofa chair playing with his younger sister. He took out two sugar snowballs from his pocket and handed them in front of his sister from behind.
"What is this?" Wu Tingting asked as she looked down at the two unknown snacks in front of her, which were white with a hint of red and covered with frosting.
"This is called Hawthorn Candy Snowball, made by Gu Dong's mother. Look how much I miss you, I went to keep my mouth shut and still brought back two for you." Wu Chao winked at his sister.
Wu Tingting glared at him in reproach. He had the nerve to keep his mouth shut.
He picked up two sugar snowballs, looked at them and said, "They look pretty good."
“It’s delicious too.”
Wu Tingting rolled her eyes at him. "How can it not taste good with so much sugar?"
"Eat, eat..." One year and five months old Wu Zhenzhen reached out to take the fruit from her sister's hand.
Wu Tingting picked up one and handed it to her sister, "Our Zhenzhen will have one too."
Wu Chao suddenly remembered what Gu Dong and Gu Nan had said when they were at Gu's house just now, so he stopped his sister from feeding his younger sister.
"Don't give it to Zhenzhen. She's too young to eat candy. Gu Dong's sister is only two or three months younger than Zhenzhen, and her family doesn't allow her to eat candy."
Wu Zhenzhen looked up at her brother with an expression that said, "Brother, what are you talking about?"
"Is that so?" Wu Tingting blinked at her sister. "But grandma always puts sugar in her porridge. She won't eat it without sugar."
"See, it's because I gave her candy that she knows the taste of it. Now she starts putting sugar in her porridge. It's true, we shouldn't give her candy too early."
Wu Zhenzhen seemed to understand what her brother said. She looked at him angrily and hit the air with her hand.
"Gu Dong's mother said that children are not fully grown yet, and eating sugar and salt is not good for their health. We also have to change Zhenzhen and can't let her continue to eat so much sugar."
After hearing what her brother said, Wu Tingting didn't give the hawthorn candy snowball to her sister. Of course, she didn't eat it in front of her sister to make her jealous, but put it away.
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