Are the last few people in Chapter 68 your classmates? Yes, they are classmates.
Farming with the help of technology is truly a joy!
After planting a large area of land, everyone was still eager for more.
An Shisi even suggested cultivating the empty space in the front yard to grow vegetables.
An Fusheng did not take his advice. Although the front yard was also spacious, it was more suitable for playing.
The orphanage restaurant hadn't opened yet, but Lin Wuyang insisted on coming to eat on time. Grandma Lin felt embarrassed, but she couldn't bear to disobey her grandson, so she brought a lot of fruit when she came to freeload today.
Although the welfare home usually has no shortage of fruit, there was an unusually large amount today, and the refrigerator was overflowing. How could we resist indulging a little?
So An Fusheng announced, "Let's make candied hawthorn skewers!"
Wen Xingmou: "Okay, okay, I love candied hawthorns!"
An Shisi: "I like it too! I like it too!"
Wen Xinglin: "Big brother, can we make it ourselves?"
An Fusheng: "Yes."
The dining tables in the restaurant were moved to the kitchen.
The children sat around the table, and even Grandma Lou and Grandma Lin joined in.
An Fusheng moved the induction cooker to the dining table, placed a non-stick pan on it, added sugar and water, and started making syrup.
Grandma Lou and Grandma Lin helped wash the fruit, and Xu Sannian taught everyone how to skewer the fruit.
Everyone worked efficiently and in an orderly manner, but things got a little out of control when it came to Wen Xinglan and Wen Xingrui. Xu Sannian would give them a piece of fruit, and they would take a bite. Although the fruit was so big that it took a lot of effort to break off a small piece, the fruit that was finally tied up was all bumpy and uneven.
“You two will be wearing them yourselves in a little while,” Xu Sannian said.
Wen Xingmou: "I want to eat what I make myself too."
An Shisi: "Me too."
Xu Sannian: "Alright, everyone can eat what they made themselves."
But some people don't know how to wear it.
Wen Xinghe was a little disappointed. Did that mean he wouldn't be able to eat candied hawthorn?
“Xinghe, I’ll teach you,” Bai Miaomiao said.
Bai Miaomiao grabbed a small plate of fruit, took a bamboo skewer and placed it in Wen Xinghe's hand, "This is a bamboo skewer, the tip is a bit sharp, be careful."
He then felt her hand again, explaining, "The thicker end is where you hold it; we need to thread the fruit through the pointed end."
Wen Xinghe nodded. "Okay."
Bai Miaomiao handed a strawberry to Wen Xinghe: "This is a strawberry."
Wen Xinghe could barely hold it all: "What huge strawberries!"
"Yes, this strawberry is very big and very sweet. You should have a bite first."
"ah?"
"Take a bite and leave a mark."
Wen Xinghe took a small bite of the strawberry and said, "It's so sweet."
“Right?” Bai Miaomiao helped her successfully thread a strawberry onto a bamboo skewer.
Then I taught her to wear bananas, grapes, cherry tomatoes, hawthorns, cherries, blueberries... and even mix and match them to create various styles.
Wen Xinghe felt like he had made a lot of candied hawthorns and eaten a lot of sour and sweet fruits.
At first, she was silently counting in her mind, but then she lost count. She only learned numbers up to ten at school, but the school also taught her many color terms. She knew that strawberries were red and cherry tomatoes were red. The teacher said that different shades of red were different. Wen Xinghe wondered why they were different when they were all red. She really wanted to see what the difference was.
"Xinghe, what's your favorite flavor? Tell your big brother and I'll make it for you first."
Wen Xinghe was pulled from his thoughts, "I...I like strawberries the most."
“Okay.” An Fusheng took a skewer of candied strawberries from her plate, quickly rolled it in the syrup, and then placed it on the cutting board. “Let it sit for a while, and you can eat it once the syrup has solidified.”
"Okay," Wen Xinghe replied obediently.
"Big brother, it's my turn, it's my turn!" An Shisi handed a string of glucose gourds to An Fusheng.
An Fusheng did not respond to him: "Next, follow the order, the big ones first, the small ones last."
"Ah..." The slightly 'smaller' was very disappointed, but reluctantly followed the rules, while the even 'smaller' was busy eating fruit and didn't care at all.
An Fusheng: "Miaomiao, bring yours here."
Bai Miaomiao gave An Fusheng a bunch of candied hawthorns with strawberries and bananas that looked like a little snowman, saying, "Thank you, big brother."
"I'll put them in order of size, so that no one will covet others' later." An Fusheng put Bai Miaomiao's first.
Before long, someone would be eyeing it.
"Big brother, I...I like this little snowman," Wen Xingmou said.
An Fusheng: "This is for my older sister. You can make it yourself if you like."
Wen Xingmou tried to play the victim: "But I don't know how. Can't you give me Miaomiao's? I'm a little sister."
An Fusheng: "No, if you don't know how to do it, think of a way yourself."
Having failed to charm her way out, Wen Xingmou looked pitifully at Bai Miaomiao, "Sister, can you teach me?"
Bai Miaomiao: "Okay."
Lin Wuyang didn't know his place in the queue, nor did he know how to ask. So he grabbed his candied hawthorn and eagerly handed it to An Fusheng whenever he reached out. After several attempts, it was finally his turn. He grinned and gave a stiff smile, which almost moved Grandma Lin to tears.
After finishing with Lin Wuyang's, An Fusheng realized that no one was handing it to him, and then he remembered that it was Wen Xingrui's turn.
Wen Xingrui was busy gnawing on a strawberry bigger than his fist, his face covered in juice. An Fusheng couldn't bear to look at him. "You really are a sixth brother."
Upon hearing this, An Shisi counted on his fingers and exclaimed, "Yes, that's right, he's the sixth brother!"
This made everyone burst into laughter.
Wen Xingrui was confused, but seeing everyone laughing, he tried his best to join in and laugh along.
Wen Xinglan offered her candied hawthorn to An Fusheng, saying, "Brother."
"Great job!" An Fusheng praised.
Wen Xinglan coated the candied hawthorns in syrup and placed them on the cutting board; the front of the syrup had already solidified.
An Fusheng distributed the candied hawthorns to everyone.
No child can resist the temptation of candied hawthorns, and the temptation is doubled if they make them themselves.
Wow! It's so delicious!
"Mmm mmm mmm!"
"It's delicious. I made the little snowman myself."
The children were engrossed in the delicious treats they had made. An Fusheng quickly finished preparing everything else, and Lou Lan even found a takeout box and wrapped each person's candied hawthorn in glutinous rice paper, placing them neatly in the box to preserve them.
An Fusheng was so engrossed in making candied hawthorns that he momentarily forgot Bai Miaomiao had to go back to school for evening self-study and didn't prepare dinner early.
"I don't have to eat dinner," Bai Miaomiao thought to herself. She could eat the candied hawthorns she made herself that night.
"It's alright, have dinner first, then go. I'll drive you," Xu Sannian said.
An Fusheng quickly started cooking.
The autumn weather was good, and there were several heavy rains. The lettuce that had been planted earlier grew very quickly. An Fusheng asked Xu Sannian to help pick the lettuce to make barbecue.
"I can handle the barbecue!" Xu Sannian said.
Finally, there was a dish he could cook himself. Xu Sannian excitedly ran to the field and picked a basket of lettuce leaves, then took the electric oven out of the kitchen shelf.
Anfusheng has already marinated the pork belly. Xu Sannian only needs to put the meat in the baking pan and adjust the temperature of the electric oven to bake it into a fragrant and delicious roasted meat.
The freshly picked lettuce was crisp and sweet. Xu Sannian wrapped the first piece of grilled meat in a lettuce leaf and popped it into her mouth. "Mmm, so delicious! Is this really the kind of delicious grilled meat I made myself? Waaaaah~"
Due to time constraints, An Fusheng did not prepare a variety of dishes today. For dinner, he made pork belly with plum sauce, braised egg and pork patties, stir-fried celery with dried tofu, stir-fried pickled radish shreds, and a stir-fried lettuce. In addition, Xu Sannian made barbecue. Everyone ate to their heart's content.
The pork belly with plum sauce and the braised egg and pork patty are especially popular with children.
An Fusheng once again exclaimed that the plum sauce was a great deal.
Adults have no resistance to fresh vegetables. At first, they would wrap roasted meat in lettuce leaves and eat it. When they got tired of that, they would add other vegetables to the lettuce leaves and eat the same vegetable in a hundred different ways.
Grandma Lin is a teacher, and she always felt that only by educating children to be polite could she live up to her status. She believed that parents should teach children by example, so her family's meals had always been very formal for decades. This was the first time she had experienced such a free and casual meal, and she felt refreshed and excited. She realized that life shouldn't always be so rigid, and that being a little spontaneous sometimes wasn't a bad thing. Otherwise, look how happy Lin Wuyang was eating today.
After dinner, Grandma Lin took Lin Wuyang, their Samoyed (whose color was so well hidden that it was impossible to tell), and the candied hawthorns that Lin Wuyang had made home.
An Fusheng and Xu Sannian escorted Bai Miaomiao to school.
"Aren't you taking your candied hawthorns with you?" An Fusheng said. "They might not be ready to eat when I come back next week."
“I’ve already eaten, so I don’t need to eat anything else at school. Let’s leave the candied hawthorns for my younger siblings,” Bai Miaomiao said.
“Your younger siblings have their own, and Aunt Lou doesn’t let them eat too much candy. You can take it to school and share it with your classmates.”
An Fusheng still remembers that when he was in school, his grandmother always liked to cook for him to take to school. Whenever his classmates saw him, they would pounce on him like hungry wolves, wanting food. Because he ate so much of his food, when someone thought he was a bit silly and wanted to bully him, his classmates would shout and call a group of people to stand up for him. Sometimes when he was bullied and his classmates weren't around, he would run to tell on them. These are all very precious memories now.
"Okay." Bai Mangmang thought for a moment and picked up her candied hawthorn.
Many people were dropping their children off at school right on time, and Xu Sannian's car got stuck in traffic some distance from the school gate.
"Sister Niannian, please park here. I can walk there myself," Bai Miaomiao said.
“Then Niannian, wait here for a moment. It’s a bit dark on the road. I’ll escort Miaomiao into the school gate,” An Fusheng said.
Xu Sannian: "Okay."
At this moment, several girls walked over from the bus stop not far behind Xu Sannian.
The tallest girl suddenly said, "Hey, isn't that Bai Miaomiao? Why is Bai Miaomiao getting out of the car?"
The shortest girl exclaimed, "Wow, it's a Mercedes! That model costs at least three million!"
The girl of medium height said, "Really? That's impossible! Bai Miaomiao rides in a three-million-dollar car?"
The tall girl added, "Look, there's a handsome guy too."
The short girl swooned over just a blurry silhouette: "Wow, he's so tall! White shirt and black trousers, he looks like the male lead in a novel."
The group quickened their pace to catch up with Bai Miaomiao, but they also acted furtively and dared not approach her.
An Fusheng is now very sensitive to being followed, and he noticed as soon as the group caught up with him.
"Are the people behind you your classmates?" An Fusheng asked Bai Miaomiao.
Bai Miaomiao glanced behind her, where three people were shoving and jostling each other, trying to hide in the shadows. "Yeah, they're classmates."
"That scared me to death."
"Luckily we reacted quickly; she probably didn't see us, right?"
"Probably."
"It's alright, it's alright."
After much persuasion, the group looked up and saw two people standing in front of them.
"ah!"
"ah!"
"ah!"
The three spoke in unison.
An Fusheng: "..."
Bai Miaomiao: "..."
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