Although Su Qingluan's own experience showed that she could eat all kinds of "warm foods" and "cold foods" except cold drinks without any discomfort, since Yang believed in this diet theory, she just did it with the attitude of "to make my family happy, why not do it?"
Anyway, she will enjoy eating anything.
So whatever ingredients Yang asked her to prepare, she would process them, turning herself into an emotionless vegetable-cutting machine.
However, before they had been doing it for long, Yang sent Su Qingluan to check on the stove, saying, "You will feel uncomfortable if you bend over for a long time." There was a kettle on the stove, and the water in it was for Yang to make red date and ginger water for Su Qingluan to drink later.
"Here, there is brown sugar to replenish qi and blood." Seeing Su Qingluan pour hot water into the tea bowl, Yang broke off a piece of hardened brown sugar and threw it into the ginger and red date tea.
After stirring it a few times with a spoon, the originally transparent liquid gradually turned into a reddish-brown color. The light yellow ginger slices and crimson dates were reflected in the tea bowl, which actually had a rich color beauty.
Oh, by the way, because the Su family is becoming more and more wealthy, they no longer use the container with a corner knocked off on the left and half of the handle on the right missing.
Of course, the Su family is still not as wealthy as the truly wealthy families who often buy bone porcelain and Ru kiln utensils, but they can still afford ordinary white porcelain that is smooth and delicate.
In fact, according to Su Qingluan's original idea, the whole family should move to a larger provincial capital to settle down, so that the city would be more prosperous and the living conditions would be better.
However, the original plan to move directly to the capital was interrupted by the turbulent situation there. Moreover, in order to consolidate the "regional characteristics" of "Su Ji" fruit jam, Su Qingluan tried every means to use local wild fruits as raw materials. Now the mountains where those wild fruits grow have been protected by the rangers from Xie Mansion to prevent the villagers from over-cutting them.
Because of this, the "main supply point" of fruit jam must be near Huaxi Village and cannot be moved, so if Su Qingluan wants to move to a slightly more prosperous place, it would be Lefeng Town.
Regarding this plan, Su Qingluan said: It is possible, but not necessary.
Not to mention that the two places are actually less than an hour's walk away. From a geographical point of view, although Lefeng Town is more prosperous, it has relatively different opening and closing times, and even a curfew. During the curfew, it is absolutely impossible to take a walk at night like in Huaxi Village.
What's more, for Su Guangfu and Yang, there were fewer neighbors to chat with, and no such beautiful scenery, so the couple were not very willing to move to Lefeng Town, which was almost the same size.
Su Xueyan was naturally unwilling to give up her good friends in Huaxi Village, but if there was any convenience, it would be that it would be more convenient for Su Xuanhe to go to school.
But it was obvious that this had no appeal to Su Xuanhe himself. On the contrary, he had always been a mischievous person. Although he had restrained himself somewhat now, as the saying goes, "It is easy to change the country, but it is difficult to change one's nature." He was still a mischievous person.
For the current Su Xuanhe, he has realized that going to school is a very important thing, so even though he is still not very willing to study in his heart, he still goes to class every day very consciously, so as not to let the tuition fee given to the teacher by his parents and elder sister go to waste.
In Su Qingluan's words - "You don't have to take the imperial examination, but you can't be illiterate, otherwise you will be sold and help others count money."
Su Xuanhe thought this made perfect sense. Furthermore, as he learned more and more about things after his education, he also learned that corvée labor in the Sheng Dynasty was a "lottery rotation." Every once in a while, the village would draft a group of strong laborers to either repair riverbanks and roads or guard the border. The hours were indeterminate, and their lives were not counted.
Su Guangfu was lucky. When he was nineteen, he was assigned to build a road and worked there for two years. When he was twenty-seven, he was again assigned to garrison a small town in the north. However, because he was good at carpentry, he was assigned to work as a craftsman in the rear.
These were things that happened before Su Qingluan traveled through time, before Su Xuanhe could remember anything, and before Su Xueyan was born. They were only mentioned by Su Guangfu and Yang by chance in the tone of anecdotes.
Although his father and mother spoke so casually, Su Qingluan's face was filled with fear. At first, Su Xuanhe didn't know why his sister looked unhappy. As he grew older over the past two years, although he still didn't fully understand what "corvee labor" meant, he had seen the miserable faces of other families whose men were conscripted.
At least now Su Xuanhe has understood that if he is drafted into the army, he may be injured or even die.
Moreover, Su Xuanhe knew that as he grew older, as long as he was over sixteen but under sixty, both he and his father would be drafted again at any time. Who could guarantee that they would still be lucky next time?
However, as long as he worked hard to pass the imperial examination, even the lowest level provincial examination, as long as he was on the list, according to the rules of this dynasty, his entire family, including himself and his parents, could be exempted from corvee labor.
From that moment on, Su Xuanhe knew that he was not a natural at studying, and he actually did not like the act of "studying" itself, but he still worked very hard.
Because he didn't want his father and himself to be "picked" again, and he didn't want to see the heart-wrenching cries of his family.
But knowing what to do is one thing, and one's nature is another. For Su Xuanhe, he wouldn't skip classes now, but the journey from school to home, whether it was the various small stalls and pedestrians in the town, or the rolling hills and wildflowers outside the town gate, was a different kind of scenery.
Su Xuanhe walked quickly or ran briskly along the way, and always found different fun things to do - whether it was the fluttering butterflies or the hawkers, they all made him watch with great interest.
So compared to the "convenient" town, Su Xuanhe actually prefers to live in Huaxi Village.
As for Su Qingluan herself, she actually hopes that her younger brother will continue to walk on the way to and from school to exercise his body. She doesn't want her younger brother to become a weak nerd.
Because of these reasons, although the Su family has enough money to move to a more prosperous area, the family still lives in Huaxi Village.
Su Guangfu was not at home today, so there was one less dish for dinner, making it seem much simpler.
After dinner, Su Qingluan was in her room, planning to read a book of supernatural stories borrowed from Mu Xingzhi to kill time, when she heard Yang knock on the door: "Daya, it's me."
Su Qingluan thought about how Yang was so frightened by the mention of "fox fairy" that she would practice chanting Buddhist scriptures, and then she was silent. She wisely hid the book with the strange picture of a beautiful snake on the cover under her pillow, and then she said loudly: "Mother, I'm not asleep yet, come in!"
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