Su Qingluan thought about the four salty pork rice dumplings left at home, but still didn't say the word "still". However, before leaving, she copied the recipe for making the rice dumplings to Song Bo.
"The stones must be pressed firmly, and the water level cannot be lower than the rice dumplings. For safety reasons, it is best to submerge more than half of the stones on top." Otherwise, if the water is boiling, the water surface will rise and fall due to bubbles, and part of the rice dumplings may be exposed.
"Do you have to continue stewing for three hours after the pot is opened?" Song Bo was surprised.
"So I stayed up most of the night." Su Qingluan sighed, "This is based on the premise that my pot at home is not very big and can only steam 30 dumplings. If it were a large pot, it might take longer."
In fact, the time taken during the steaming and cooking process is almost the same, but it takes almost half an hour to ensure that the "water boils" in a large steamer - Su Qingluan still remembers that in her previous life, she used a gas stove to cook rice dumplings. She took a particularly large steamer and steamed more than fifty rice dumplings in one go. Just to meet the condition of "water boiling", she waited from six o'clock in the evening to nearly eight o'clock!
"Also, don't take out the rice dumplings that have just been turned off the fire immediately. They won't get cold anyway." In fact, during this period of time, even after a night, the rice dumplings will still be very hot the next morning.
"Can we take it out and eat it after it cools down?" Song Bo asked.
"That's fine, but it will taste softer and not chewy enough. If you want that chewy texture, you should put the rice dumplings in well water to cool them down, and then they will taste better." Besides, it's summer now, so you don't have to worry about getting an upset stomach from eating too cold food - as long as you don't eat too much, it'll be fine.
On the way back, Su Qingluan saw someone shooting the Five Poisons on the grass by the river where an inch of green grass had grown - and not just one wave.
In her previous life, Su Qingluan felt like these sports with flying objects were like she had an automatic cruise control function. Specifically, she would pass by the basketball court and get hit on the head; pass by the badminton court and get hit on the head; pass by the football field and want to wait for the ball to be kicked to the opposite court before crossing, but when she was crossing the court, the ball was kicked back and hit her head again...
In addition, Su Qingluan was hit by, but not limited to, sand bags used for throwing bags, shuttlecocks used for kicking shuttlecocks, and small darts used for shooting darts. At that time, Su Qingluan was very glad that the fat was a suction cup type, otherwise she would have been disfigured even if her head was not split open.
So now Su Qingluan’s first reaction to anything flying around is to cover her head with both hands and quickly flee the scene.
"Contract" Jun, who had just spotted Su Qingluan from afar and was planning to show off his superb archery skills that he had practiced hard, saw that his target ignored his call, covered his head with his hands, and ran away.
...Did she do it on purpose or by accident? It had to be intentional! Contract thought to himself: Is this what they call "acting out of character to attract attention"?
If Su Qingluan knew what was going on in Contract-kun's mind, she would have said, "Here's the pen and paper. Go write the script." In reality, she hadn't paid any attention to Contract-kun, and certainly didn't think too much about what was going on in his mind. She simply wanted to stay away from the danger zone.
As for why He Tong had such a misunderstanding, it was because he thought too much and Su Qingluan maintained her social smile too well.
In the business world, although there are some rivals or partners that people admire or like, there are also all kinds of weirdos. As the saying goes, "There are all kinds of people in the world." There are all kinds of people in the forest.
But doing business is like dealing with a network of relationships, and sometimes not everyone is going to be your favorite or satisfying partner. Some people are just plain annoying, yet sometimes you still want to collaborate or even work with them.
Su Qingluan thought that although she was not as strong-minded as Mu Xingzhi, who would not show any emotion on his face unless he wanted to show it, after more than two years of training, she had also learned to "speak differently to different people and different stories to different people."
Although she didn't like people like Hetong, he hadn't done anything seriously wrong, so there was no need for her to offend him. Moreover, Su Qingluan could see that he had no subjective malice, it was just that the cognition of the times made some of his views contrary to Su Qingluan's.
So Su Qingluan could only use a "commercial fake smile" to deal with such people.
However, the fickleness of a fake smile for business purposes is also crucial. Initially, Su Qingluan wasn't used to this fake smile, and her facial muscles would become somewhat stiff after being forced to perform for a whole morning. After more than two years of practice, Su Qingluan has become increasingly adept at it, and her expressions have become more natural and vivid.
So in the eyes of "Contract", Su Qingluan's polite fake smile was interpreted as - she has a good impression of me, an obvious good impression, but she is embarrassed to tell me!
If Su Qingluan knew the other party's psychological activities, she would almost shout "snow in June".
Because "Shooting the Five Poisonous Creatures" is a relatively common and low-cost game during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many people in Huaxi Village who play shooting the five poisonous creatures in groups of three or five. Of course, few people can afford proper bows and arrows, but it is still easy to make "targets" and "bamboo arrows" with bamboo, reed stalks, etc., and the close-range lethality is still considerable.
Su Qingluan fled in panic amidst the flying bamboo arrows, and after returning home, she drank a lot of tea.
Seeing her eldest daughter gasping for breath, Yang poured her another bowl of tea and said, "Drink slowly, don't choke."
After finally catching her breath, Su Qingluan lay down on the seat like a salted fish, looking around: "Where are my father and my younger brothers and sisters?"
"It's a rare holiday, so your father should take them out to play," Yang said with a smile, "I'll go prepare dinner later. You look so tired, so you should take a rest today."
Su Qingluan was indeed very tired after running all the way back, and nodded when she heard this.
"Is Mr. Mu in good health?" Yang looked at Su Qingluan.
"He... is fine." In fact, there was nothing wrong with this man's body, but for some reason, he was able to maintain a frail and pale appearance, which made Su Qingluan feel a little magical.
Yang looked at Su Qingluan. When Su Qingluan felt a little uneasy, she lowered her voice cautiously and asked, "Daya, tell me honestly, you haven't found anyone you like after looking at so many people. Do you have someone in mind?"
If it was before today, Su Qingluan would have immediately replied that there was no such thing. But thinking about what Mu Xingzhi had discussed with her, regardless of the true nature of the matter, from the outside, it was indeed a "marriage."
Su Qingluan was just thinking about how to use her own mother to open the conversation and let out a hint. She was even debating whether or not to show a little bit of "touched". However, Yang looked at her daughter silently with her head lowered, and said lightly, "As expected..."
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