Seeing that his sister was paying attention to him, Ning Liang quickly said, "I shouldn't have looked down on you. You're so amazing, yet I said you were no good at anything. Your cooking is incredibly delicious, I didn't believe you."
Hearing Ning Liang apologize to her word by word, Ning Huan felt extremely relieved.
"Alright, that's enough. I forgive you, just be more careful next time. And... be nicer to your mother from now on!"
Ning Liang nodded in agreement: "Don't worry, I will definitely be good to Mom from now on, even if you don't tell me!"
And so, the siblings, who had always been at odds, finally broke the ice today.
When Pang saw Ning Huan and Ning Liang, the two siblings, returning home chatting and laughing in the courtyard, she thought she was seeing things.
She rubbed her eyes and realized it was all real, and laughed happily.
Because she had been busy all day, Ning Huan was exhausted. After telling Zhou Jing'an what had happened at her second grandfather's house, she washed up and went to sleep.
At night, Zhou Jing'an calmly recalled what Ning Huan had been doing recently. Although this woman was not the same Ning Huan as before, she had not done anything bad.
He had originally planned that if this woman did anything wrong, he would tell the village chief and have her burned alive.
However, after getting to know her, Zhou Jing'an found that this woman had not done anything wrong. On the contrary, she treated him and his four little ones very well. Seeing the happy little ones every day, Zhou Jing'an couldn't bear to tell them that the woman in front of them was not their mother.
Now he felt that if this woman could continue like this, then it wouldn't be a problem for her to really be the mother of the four little dumplings.
In the quiet night, Zhou Jing'an thought about it until late before finally falling asleep.
The next day, Ning Huan got up in the morning wanting to go up the mountain to pick some herbs, but she heard Pang sighing.
"Mother, what's wrong?"
Ning Huan asked, "What happened?"
Madam Pang shook her head: "I'm fine, I'm just worried about your father taking care of things at home all by himself."
Ning Huan thought that Pang's arrival to help her had delayed things at home, so she quickly said, "Mother, do you want to leave? If you are worried about the family, don't worry about me."
Pang shook her head and said, "No, I'm worried that your father won't do a good job at home and will delay the business. The economy is already bad right now, and if your father loses the last few orders, we'll really be starving this year."
Pang's father and Ning Huan's father were in the brewing business when they were young, and it was quite successful, making them some money.
Later, as many people saw that the Ning family was making money, they all followed suit and brewed wine, even taking away the business that originally belonged to the Ning family.
Business has been increasingly sluggish in recent years, which is why Ponzi is worried.
Ning Huan comforted her, saying, "Mom, don't worry. Dad has been in business for so many years, he'll definitely be able to handle it. The business downturn is only temporary, it will definitely get better in the future."
Hearing Ning Huan's words, Pang's mood improved considerably.
Seeing that Pang was no longer upset, Ning Huan felt relieved and went up the mountain. Along the way, Ning Huan was also thinking about how she should find a way to help Pang share her burdens.
She thought about it carefully and realized that the brewing methods used in this era were still very primitive. However, as time progressed into modern society, there were already better brewing methods than we have now.
The resulting wine is more fragrant and purer.
If she were to teach Mr. Pang some modern winemaking techniques, the taste of his wine would be very different from that of others.
So Ning Huan gathered herbs on the mountain while thinking about how to tell Pang the brewing technique.
Before long, Ning Huan realized that she had unknowingly wandered far away again, and she had ended up in a place she had never been before.
Just as she was about to turn and leave, a patch of wild grass on the ground caught her eye.
Ning Huan saw on the wild grass that it was shepherd's purse, suitable for cooking. It has the effect of nourishing the body and strengthening the spleen. It also makes for excellent wine.
Upon seeing this sentence, Ning Huan raised an eyebrow.
This shepherd's purse is not a rare wild vegetable; even someone as ignorant as the original owner of this body knows about shepherd's purse.
This wild vegetable can be picked and used in cold dishes or stir-fries, but this is the first time Ning Huan has heard of using it to make wine.
Thinking of this, she went to the patch of shepherd's purse and began to carefully read the words that only she could see.
After a short while, Ning Huan seemed to understand what was going on, and picked all the shepherd's purse from the area. She planted most of it in her consciousness space.
A small portion was left and put into the basket.
When Ning Huan got home, Pang was washing clothes for the four little ones in the yard. Ning Huan happily went up to her and said, "Mom, I know how to make our business better!"
Madam Pang took Ning Huan's words as a joke: "You child, do you know how to brew wine? Mother doesn't need you to worry about me. As long as you are safe and happy, I will be at ease."
Although that's what she said, Ning Huan simply agreed and went to the kitchen.
The biggest difference between modern and ancient brewing methods lies in purification. Ancient brewing methods were limited to distillation, so ancient wines had low alcohol content and lacked the rich aroma of modern wines.
She can distill and purify the liquor, and then add shepherd's purse to adjust the flavor when adding the yeast.
I believe that wine made this way will definitely taste better than regular wine.
Thinking of this, Ning Huan decided to start making wine, but brewing wine would take a long time. Pang Shi would probably leave before her wine was ready.
After thinking about it, she decided that she could secretly put the wine into her consciousness space at night. In the consciousness space, as long as she wanted, the wine could quickly ferment to the state it would be in a few days.
In other words, she can control the time of objects in the consciousness space.
But before brewing the wine, Ning Huan had to take the shepherd's purse she had picked out of her consciousness space and then put it in the yard to dry.
Although shepherd's purse can enhance the flavor of wine, the method of adding it is not simple.
After drying for two days and nights, soak the shepherd's purse in clean water to wash away dust and impurities. Then coat each shepherd's purse with honey and salt and roast it over a fire for a whole day.
After crushing the medicine into powder with a pestle, mix it with the yeast and add it to the wine.
Ning Huan is currently drying the shepherd's purse.
Seeing this, Pang thought Ning Huan wanted to eat shepherd's purse, and said with a smile, "You silly child, if you want to eat shepherd's purse, just tell me. I see there are shepherd's purse fields nearby in your village, so you don't need to go up the mountain to pick them."
Ning Huan explained with a smile, "Mom, I'm not using these shepherd's purse vegetables to cook. Just wait for me for two days, I'll definitely give you a surprise!"
With that, Ning Huan turned around and went back to the kitchen, where she began to crush the rice for brewing wine and steam it.
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