Chapter 231: Grown Taller
The winter in Lingnan is completely different from the winter in other places. Even when they see the frost, the villagers of Qingxi Village just change into quilted winter clothes, and everything else goes on as usual.
What else?
Staying indoors for half a month without going out? How is that possible?
Are you not taking care of the family's daily food and drink? Are you not feeding the livestock? Are you not earning any wages?
That is a right only the rich have. The poor work hard every day just for a meal. Once they stop to rest, they will go hungry.
Sang Yu changed into the winter clothes that Xie Qiujin had prepared for her in advance, and still wore her favorite skirt and pants.
In order to prevent wind from blowing in, the trouser legs are specially made slightly smaller, a bit like the skinny jeans of later generations.
"Mom, you made this size just right, it fits my wrist perfectly." Sang Yu boasted to herself in the water while chatting with Xie Qiujin with a smile.
"To the wrist? That shouldn't be the case."
Xie Qiujin was a little surprised. Since this was a winter coat, she had specially made the sleeves a little looser, so that she could curl her arms up in the cold winter weather. How could it be just right?
As a result, she asked Sang Yu to stretch out her arm and saw that it was just right.
"Yu'er, have you grown taller?"
"Huh? Is there? I'll go measure it." Upon hearing this, Sang Yu immediately became excited.
What she hopes most for now is to grow taller quickly. As Sang Xingjia continues to grow taller, she can only reach his chest now, and has to tilt her head back to talk to him.
When they first moved into their new home, she used charcoal as a pen and took Sang Xingjia and Sang Xinghao to carve out their initial heights in the corner of the kitchen.
All three of them are not yet adults and still have a lot of growth to do. The lines carved on the wall are a record of their growth.
Because there were only charcoal pencils, Sang Yu asked the three of them to record separately so that they would not be able to tell whose work was whose.
On the left, Sang Xingjia's latest height line suddenly rose a lot higher than the last time. Sang Yu hurriedly stood in front of her height line and excitedly called Xie Qiujin to help her draw the line.
"Mom, come and help me draw the line."
Xie Qiujin, who followed, nodded gently, walked forward with a smile, pressed Sang Yu's head with his left hand, and drew a straight line on the wall with his right hand.
"Is it okay? Is it okay?" Sang Yu darted around, trying to see the line behind him clearly.
"alright."
After receiving Xie Qiujin's affirmative answer, Sang Yu turned around and subconsciously looked up to look for it - but there was nothing there.
As my sight gradually lowered, I saw the newly drawn height line, which was only one finger joint higher than the previous one, about two centimeters.
Sang Yu, who was originally full of expectations, suddenly became depressed. She thought she could grow at least five or six centimeters, but it turned out to be only this little.
However, Xie Qiujin felt quite emotional when she looked at the two height lines that were a certain distance apart.
Being together all day, sometimes she doesn't even notice her child has grown taller. But the height line she drew can make her feel clearly that her child has really grown up.
Seeing Sang Yu's sad face, she rubbed her head with a smile: "Yu'er is still young and can still grow taller."
This is true. Boys and girls grow and develop at different times. The reason why Sang Xingjia has grown so tall is that it is time for him to grow. It is not strange if he grows taller. It would be strange if he did not grow taller.
Sang Yu quickly regained her self-confidence. She decided to drink more milk every day and she would definitely grow tall and strong.
I went into the greenhouse and changed the direction of the pottery pot where the Tremella fuciformis was planted, and then looked at the slowly growing seedlings.
Feeling that the temperature inside was okay and not affected by the frost, Sang Yu finally felt relieved.
The feedback on the pearl milk tea and rock sugar pear she had made previously was pretty good, so she decided to make a small amount and try to sell them in the city today.
There was one more thing she had to see in person. She thought that after she delivered oden to Liu Mao that day, he would come to her house and ask for the recipe, but she didn't see him for a long time.
He couldn't just ignore the way to make money. Could something unexpected have happened?
Taking out a large bucket of milk bought last night from the cellar, Sang Yu boiled half a pot by herself and gave a bowl of pure milk to everyone, including herself.
The little ones are growing, and the big ones need to supplement calcium. Drinking more milk is good for the body.
After boiling, a layer of milk skin condenses on the surface of the milk. It tastes thin on the top and thick on the bottom, and has a faint metallic taste, which feels a bit weird.
This is why milk is generally not boiled when heated at home. High temperature will cause excessive protein coagulation, dehydration and stratification of the milk, and the Maillard reaction will produce aldehydes that affect the taste.
However, Sang Yu would rather boil the milk even if it affects the taste. If fresh, unpasteurized milk is infected with brucellosis, no one here can cure it.
After adding half a spoonful of malt sugar to the milk and stirring it evenly, she took another sip and felt that the taste was much better than before and was already within acceptable range.
She then called everyone over to drink milk: "Come and drink milk. From today on, you have to drink a bowl every day."
Children have well-developed taste buds. Sang Xinghao didn't want to drink any more after just one sip. He looked at the milk in front of him and shook his head repeatedly: "Sister, this is not as delicious as milk tea. Can I have milk tea?"
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Of course, pure milk is not as delicious as sweet milk tea because of how much sugar is added to it.
Sang Yu was not anxious at all, she had plenty of ways to deal with him.
She picked up her bowl of milk and took a big sip, then sighed as if she felt sorry for him not wanting to drink milk: "Hao'er, if you don't want to drink it, you won't be able to grow as tall as big brother in the future. You'll have to be a dwarf for the rest of your life."
Everyone in the family knew that Sang Xinghao would rush to the kitchen as soon as he got up every day, hoping to see if he had grown any taller. He would eat anything he disliked, as long as it was said that eating it would make him taller.
Sure enough, when he heard that drinking milk could make him taller, and as tall as his older brother, Sang Xinghao's eyes lit up immediately, and he picked up the bowl and drank it down with gulps.
Seeing that he drank it obediently, Sang Yu was just about to see if Xiao Zhao could accept the taste of milk.
But when she turned around, she saw that the other person was already holding the bowl and drinking it in small sips. He was almost finished, so she didn't need to worry about him.
After the pearl milk tea is made, it obviously cannot be directly packed in a bamboo tube and brought into the city, as it can’t hold much.
He used the same method as before to sell skewers, filling the milk tea in a bucket, packing the pearls separately, and then bringing bamboo tubes and reed stems to scoop and pack the pearls when the time came.
The same method cannot be used for the rock sugar snow pears, but fortunately the quantity is small, only about twenty are made.
First put the pears into a bamboo tube and cover it with a lid, then transfer them steadily into a bamboo basket. To prevent them from spilling out, Sang Yu also pressed a wooden board on top.
I got up early enough and after finishing all the work, I saw a hint of orange and red appear on the horizon.
As the temperature gradually drops, even the sunrise time becomes later. Similarly, the sunset time will also become earlier, so you have to come back earlier in the afternoon.
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