Chapter 255 Mint Cream
Xiao Jiuyue stayed in the workshop for half a day, watching Mother Geng do the whole process from washing to boiling the sugarcane. It seemed that she didn't even need to say a word when it came to boiling brown sugar.
Xiao Jiuyue looked at the sugarcane and thought that crushing the sugarcane and squeezing out the juice was the most difficult step. Could a tool be made for it?
Xiao Jiuyue returned home, but before she could find Ai Qiushi, she was pulled away by the beautiful woman: "Didn't we agree to take a day off today? Why haven't you been seen for half a day?"
"Mom, aren't we harvesting sugarcane and planning to treat everyone to some?" Xiao Jiuyue pulled Su and said, "Mom, I have enough clothes. Don't make any more for me!"
"As a girl, how can you be short of clothes?" Su looked at Xiao Jiuyue's busy appearance, feeling distressed but not knowing how to help her. She said, "You haven't finished trying on the embroidered shoes this morning."
Seeing Su coming with the embroidered shoes, Xiao Jiuyue had no reason to refuse, so she simply accompanied Su to try on the shoes. The hand-knitted embroidered shoes with thousand-layer soles were soft and comfortable to step on. In addition, the exquisitely embroidered uppers were all embroidered by Su stitch by stitch.
"It fits perfectly. As expected, the osmanthus flowers embroidered on the shoes look really nice!" Su admired her shoes and said, "I'll embroider a hibiscus flower on them for you next time."
"Mom, you strain your eyes so much every day. What if you damage them?" Xiao Jiuyue hugged Su. She was busy, but Su was equally busy, taking care of the Xiao Mansion. She also had to go to the embroidery workshop and make clothes, shoes and socks for their family. All of them were made by hand!
Su looked at her with a smile, "Don't worry, I want to see you get married with my own eyes, how could I possibly damage my eyes?"
When Xiao Jiuyue heard this, she immediately changed the subject and said, "Mom, I'm hungry."
After the mother and daughter had lunch together, Su took Xiao Jiuyue to take a nap.
The autumn weather was clear and the sun was warm but not too strong. Su looked at Xiao Jiuyue who was sleeping soundly on the couch, and there was a hint of infatuation in her eyes.
"Madam." Mu Jin came in with pear soup. Su immediately made a hushed gesture to Mu Jin. Su walked out cautiously and said, "Yu'er has been too tired lately. She sleeps late at night and doesn't take a nap during the day. How can her body handle this?"
"Mujin, let's simmer this pear soup over low heat first. You can have it when Yue'er wakes up." Su picked up the needlework basket beside her and started embroidering the shoe uppers again. Xiao Jiuyue often goes out, so she needs to make a few more pairs of shoes.
"Okay, madam." Mu Jin replied in a very low voice, for fear of waking up Xiao Jiuyue in the room.
Su, who was sitting in the hall mending shoes, could see the sleeping Xiao Jiuyue as soon as she raised her eyes. Seeing that she was not awake, she lowered her head and continued to mend shoes. When Xiao Jiuyue woke up, she saw this scene!
Half of the sunlight came in and fell on Su's legs. The needle and thread in her hands flew up and down. There was a smile on the corner of her mouth, which softened the years and amazed her heart!
Su looked up and saw Xiao Jiuyue sitting on the couch, staring at her infatuatedly. She couldn't help but smile: "Awake? I asked Mu Jin to make some pear soup."
Su's voice was gentle, and the look in his eyes when he looked at her was always loving. A sense of happiness surrounded her, and she felt a little uneasy in her heart. Would there be a day when such happiness would just disappear?
Xiao Jiuyue ran towards Su Shi with her shoes on and hugged her: "Mom."
Su put away the needle, afraid of pricking her, and asked, "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
"Yeah, I dreamed that you all didn't want me anymore." Xiao Jiuyue inhaled the faint fragrance from the beautiful mother and felt a little relieved. Over the past year or so, she has completely integrated into the Xiao family. Instead, she has begun to worry about gains and losses, which is not like her at all.
"Silly girl, you are the flesh and blood of my body, how could I not want you?" Su's words did not comfort Xiao Jiuyue. She felt like she had robbed someone else's happiness.
"Madam, Miss, the pear soup is here." Mu Jin brought the pear soup into the room. Xiao Jiuyue, who had been worried just now, immediately focused on the delicious food.
The pear soup simmered over low heat contains not only snow pears but also red dates, white fungus and wolfberries, and tastes particularly delicious.
"Mom, the hibiscus pear soup is getting better and better." Xiao Jiuyue drank a bowl of soup and felt full of energy again. She no longer had any of the anxiety she had just felt. She said, "Autumn is here. Are the pears ripe? I'll have someone make autumn pear paste someday to moisten the lungs and relieve coughs!"
"If you want to eat, ask the kitchen to make it." Su saw that her eyes were full of joy, and she remembered her uneasiness just now, and asked: "Yuer, has anything happened recently?"
"It's okay, I just had a nightmare." Xiao Jiuyue smiled with her eyebrows curved. She repeatedly said that she was fine, then said: "Mom, I have to go find Ai Qiushi and ask him to get a tool for pounding sugarcane juice."
"Mom, I'm done eating. I'll go get busy first." Xiao Jiuyue drank the whole pear and the soup, then ran away holding up her skirt.
When they arrived at Ai Qiushi's place, Xiao Jiuyue directly expressed her intention. Ai Qiushi, who was still improving the thresher, listened to her words, thought for a moment, and said, "There are tools for crushing sugarcane and squeezing out juice, but I'm not sure if they're any good!"
Ai Qiushi took a cut flower branch, removed the leaves and started drawing on the ground. As he drew, he explained how to crush the sugarcane, how to squeeze out the juice from the sugarcane to the maximum extent, and how to collect the sugarcane juice.
Xiao Jiuyue listened carefully and made a few suggestions, but she still felt unsatisfied. She began to try hard to recall whether she had learned this before.
"Miss, why don't you go find Brother Qiu?" Ai Qiushi suddenly said, "Brother Qiudong is quite knowledgeable about this. Who knows, he might have better suggestions?"
"It just so happens that I have some details to discuss with Brother Qiu about the improvement of the thresher." Ai Qiushi smiled embarrassedly and said, "We will strive to make the thresher more labor-saving and thresh the grain more cleanly next year!"
"Then go ahead." Xiao Jiuyue nodded. She had no better ideas anyway.
Ai Qiushi paused, looking at Lianxin beside him, hesitant to speak. He said, "Miss, can I go today?"
"Of course you can. If you make the juice extracting tools sooner, the workshop can use them sooner." Xiao Jiuyue nodded thoughtfully, looking at Lian Xin whose face was blushing beside him, he always felt that something was missing.
That evening, Xiao Jiuyue understood. She asked, "Lianxin, are you sick? Why don't you go see a doctor?"
Xiao Jiuyue happened to come across the medicine that Ai Qiushi sent to Lianxin.
"Miss, I'm really fine. I just have some rashes. Madam Xin said that taking a bath with mugwort water would be enough. I took a bath yesterday and it's much better. Who knew that Ai Qiushi went to the county to buy mint ointment today!"
Lianxin's face turned red. Ai Qiushi happened to go get medicine at that time and she was bumped into by him. She thought Ai Qiushi didn't hear her, but who knew that he went to buy mint ointment without saying a word!
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