Later, because of this defense that was almost a stress reaction, Su Qingluan paid the price of explaining it to her heart's content - however, it had little effect.
But that's all in the future. The next morning, after Su Qingluan finished her breakfast and waited until her parents had gone about their own business, she took the eggs that Yang had given to Aunt Guixiang across the street yesterday and the dried vegetables that had been drying for a month or so, and knocked on the door of the Li family across the street.
"Hey, why is Madam Su here?" Sun Guixiang, with her big belly, slowly pushed open the door. Seeing Su Qingluan standing outside, a look of joy flashed across her face, and she quickly let her in.
"I just came to see my aunt and brought some dried vegetables I made for you to try!" Su Qingluan raised the things in her hand.
In fact, the moon was eclipsed by the heavenly dog yesterday, and many people in the village were scared. The Su family was also very worried about Aunt Guixiang who was pregnant. If she was scared, it would be a big deal. So when they had breakfast this morning, Yang asked Su Qingluan to take some food to see her.
Of course, sending food is not the main purpose. The important thing is to see if Sun Guixiang is doing well.
Su Qingluan looked at Sun Guixiang carefully - her face was rosy, and although she was a little swollen due to the late pregnancy, she was still energetic, which made her feel greatly relieved.
The two of them entered the room and took their seats. Sun Guixiang wanted to ask Su Qingluan to bring some tea and fruit, but Su Qingluan quickly pushed her back to her seat: "Look at your belly! I feel guilty for you going out to work!" Su Qingluan sighed, "If you just rest here, that would be the greatest 'treat' you can give me!"
Sun Guixiang also knew that her body was heavy now. If she got bumped or bruised, not only would she and the child suffer, but even Su Qingluan would be implicated and blamed. So she did not force herself and sat back down.
After hearing Su Qingluan's intention, Sun Guixiang was very grateful: "I'm sorry to have worried you. My head of the household didn't go anywhere last night and stayed in the house to watch over me. I'm afraid, but I've experienced a solar eclipse before, and everyone would chase the celestial dog away."
Su Qingluan was stunned, then realized: Sun Guixiang was the only one in the room.
"Where's Uncle Li?" Su Qingluan looked around. "Why is there no sign of him?" Leaving his pregnant wife in the late stages of pregnancy alone at home can only be described as careless.
Although she thought so, Su Qingluan did not show it on the surface.
Sun Guixiang didn't notice what Su Qingluan was thinking, and said sweetly, "I don't know what's wrong with me lately. I can't eat anything like I did at the beginning. I have a good appetite now. I've been craving sugar-roasted chestnuts lately, but they're so expensive that my husband has to go to town to buy them."
Su Qingluan nodded: "It's not easy for Aunt to be pregnant, so eating more will give you strength." In fact, the later the pregnancy is, the more appetite will be increased, and the pregnant woman should be extra careful to prevent the fetus from overnutrition and causing dystocia.
This is especially true in ancient times when childbirth was like going through the gates of hell.
However, she couldn't say these things no matter how deep they were. After all, in this era, Su Qingluan was still an unmarried woman. If she interfered too much in matters of pregnancy, no one would think she was knowledgeable or kind-hearted.
I just feel that although she is a virgin, she knows so much about childbirth. I am afraid that she must have read some "difficult to talk about" storybooks.
So there are some things that should obviously be said, but Su Qingluan can only keep them to herself.
In the end, Su Qingluan only gave a subtle reminder: "Aunt Guixiang, I heard that pregnant women have a very hard time in the last few months. You should walk around more after eating to help digest the food, otherwise you will get bloated, right?"
Sun Guixiang didn't think too much about the "difficult birth" and just smiled and said, "Being pregnant is not the same as having a big belly... Well, what can I say to you, a little girl who hasn't married yet? When you grow up and get engaged, you'll understand!"
After leaving the Li family, it was clear that Sun Guixiang was fine and everything was safe, but Su Qingluan always felt a little heavy - perhaps it was because she looked at Sun Guixiang's overly round belly and thought of the difficulties of a mother, she thought so.
In the blink of an eye, another half month has passed and the beginning of winter is approaching.
Although Huaxi Village is not located in the northern part of the Great Wall where the weather is extremely cold and snow starts falling in July and August, it is relatively speaking a small mountain village in the north, so there is a custom of eating dumplings on the beginning of winter.
At this time of year in the past, most villagers in Huaxi Village would make dumplings with vegetarian fillings, eggs, and pastry residue - many people couldn't even afford hot dumplings - but this year was different. Three or five days before the beginning of winter, people would go to the town in groups of three or four to buy pork, or wait for the village pig farm to slaughter pigs.
Therefore, during this period, the amount of residual pig offal and pig bones in each household in Huaxi Village has risen sharply. Although these "scraps" were popular in the past, now everyone has more or less spare money to buy real pork, so these remaining scraps are not enough.
But most people think that pig offal is not delicious, just because they don’t know how to prepare it.
"Doesn't your Su family have a pig offal stall in town? Since you know how to make it and it's not worth much, we'll give it all to you!" After saying this, everyone threw the entire basin of "freshly baked" pig offal into the Su family's yard and turned around and left.
Even from a distance away, you could still hear the villagers yelling, "There's no rush to return the pot. You can return it after you've finished eating!"
Su Qingluan looked down at the supposedly "freshly baked" offal—it really was fresh, still steaming hot. It looked like the offal had been brought over right after the pig was slaughtered.
Although this was a simple process, a large basin... Even though the temperature outside was close to freezing, the water still fell below freezing during the day. Plus, sometimes the sun shone brightly all day, and there weren't any particularly tall buildings in Huaxi Village to block the sun, so the drainage of this basin of water had to be solved quickly.
So Su Qingluan simply changed the way of cooking offal. She first boiled it in braising soup and then smoked it with firewood. In this way, the pig offal, which originally had a strong fishy smell, became a very chewy side dish for drinking.
Su Qingluan kept a little for herself, and returned the rest to everyone - after all, several relatives from the village went to help clean up on the day of slaughtering the pig.
Then, because of sending a round of pig offal, Su Qingluan harvested a bunch of various food again - including but not limited to dried fish, dried vegetables, jerky... and pig shanks with some meat left on them.
Although there is not much meat on pork shanks, the hollow bone sticks contain thick and fatty bone marrow, making them very suitable for making soup!
Su Qingluan immediately decided to use the pork bone soup to make pork bone noodle soup tonight!
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