After assigning their respective tasks, they returned to their rooms. Tong Wen Yao used the candle to draw on the white paper again. It was very cold at night, so she had to draw the blueprint of the fire pit and ask them to build kangs in the two rooms. It would be easier to sleep by burning the kangs.
She tried to recall the principles of a kang: bricks were laid, with a stove opening in one corner of the bed for heating. To keep the entire bed warm, the chimney was placed at the other end, allowing the heat to reach every corner.
After she had finally finished drawing the blueprint, she realized that there was no light outside, and even snoring sounds were heard around her. Tong Wen Yao flashed into the space, ate fruit in the space, played with Xiaoxue and Guaiguai for a while, and then went to the backyard.
Before she even stepped into the backyard, she smelled a sweet fragrance in the air. Tong Wen Yao knew that the durian might be ripe. The last time she saw it, it had already bloomed. She didn't expect that when she came in this time, it was ripe right away.
Just as she was thinking about which durian to pick from the tree, she unexpectedly saw that durian automatically float in front of her. This surprised her a little, as she had to pick it manually before! Thinking back to her previous actions, she thought about picking the cracked durian in her mind. Unexpectedly, the cracked durian also floated down from the tree in front of her.
This made her feel a little happy. All her hard work in harvesting was nothing! However, her mind was still clear. Perhaps she had done something to make the objects in the space move according to her thoughts.
She recalled that the last time she entered the space, nothing happened. She also went to Changzhen Village. After she came back, the objects in the space could move at will. What did she do in the village?
She kept thinking about it in her mind, and a flash of inspiration came to her, "Good! Yes, she did a good deed." Although she thought that buying the workshop and the mountain was to make more money, for the villagers, it saved their lives. No wonder the villagers gathered food from their homes after knowing it.
So, as long as I do more good deeds, the space will be upgraded? After figuring it out, Tong Wenyao worked much faster, using her mind to collect the durians one by one and put them in the villa to keep them fresh.
When she came out, she brought two more with her. Anyway, she came back late tonight and they had not seen what was in the basket yet. She stuffed two durians at the bottom of the basket of vegetables she brought back, covered it with the vegetables, and then tiptoed onto the bed and went to sleep.
After a good night's sleep, when I woke up the next day, my second aunt came out of the kitchen cursing, "This kitchen stinks so much, I don't know where the smell comes from."
Qian's mother said, "I don't smell a bad smell, but a sweet smell." When Cui's mother heard what she said, her face was full of fear and shock. She thought, it's good to be pregnant. She can say the word sweet when it smells so bad.
Wen Jiang began to look for the source of the fragrance in the kitchen, and finally stopped in the basket that Tong Wen Yao brought back last night. After lifting the cloth, the fragrance in the air was obviously much stronger. Wen Jiang's chubby little hands rummaged in the basket, and soon yellow thorny fruits came out.
He tried several times to take it out, but it was too heavy, so he had to give up. But for the sake of food, after rolling his eyes a few times, he walked towards Qian's mother, took her hand and said coquettishly, "Auntie, eat some fruit." As he pulled her towards the basket, he pointed at the things inside.
When Qian's mother arrived, she smelled a stronger and stronger smell in the air. She couldn't help but admire Wen Jiang's nose, which was even sharper than a dog's. She had been searching for the source of the fragrance for a long time but couldn't find it in a short while.
To have such fresh vegetables at this time of year would probably cost a lot of money. She took the basket and put the vegetables one by one into the basket, and then took out the durian.
This fruit was bought by my daughter, but she didn't know how to eat it. When she was in the capital, the imperial palace didn't have this kind of fruit, so she didn't know how to eat it.
Tong Wen Yao had already gotten up when her second aunt said the kitchen smelled bad. When she finished washing up and went to the kitchen, she saw Qian's mother holding a durian with a troubled look on her face.
With a chuckle, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Mom, let me peel it."
She took out the dagger from the cabinet next to her and cracked the shell open from the crack. Second Aunt smelled it and ran two miles away. When Mother Qian saw it, she frowned and asked, "Is it really that smelly?"
Wen Jiang was puzzled and said, "Aunt, it's not smelly, it's the sweet and fragrant smell of ripe fruit."
Mother Qian rubbed Wen Jiang's face and agreed, "That's the smell your aunt smelled too." After seeing her daughter pry out the flesh, she was about to throw away the peel next to it, but was stopped by Tong Wen Yao.
"Mom, don't throw these peels away yet. You can make soup with them later." She peeled the durian and placed it on a plate. The yellow flesh was sweet and delicious. She picked up a piece and handed it to her mother, letting Wen Jiang eat it herself.
He took a piece and tasted it. It was soft, sticky and sweet. If he put it in the refrigerator for a while, it would taste like ice cream. After eating, he asked Wen Jiang to bring the remaining two or three pieces to the room for them to taste.
She was peeling the remaining durian. Seeing Second Aunt was still in the yard, she couldn't stand the smell of durian, so she went out for some fresh air. She scraped off the remaining durian skin and used the stems to make soup. According to her previous experience, people who couldn't smell durian could eat durian chicken soup. She could make some chicken soup, and then Second Aunt could have a few sips to replenish her body.
After Second Aunt went out to buy chickens, she quickly cleaned up the garbage and threw the peels into the back hill. The flesh was scraped and divided up by several children, and the smell of durian was no longer noticeable in the yard.
When Second Aunt came back, her eyebrows relaxed. "Second Aunt, today we're making durian and chestnut chicken soup. We picked a lot of chestnuts from the mountain last time. Qiu Zhen took half back, and we still have half here, just enough for making soup."
Seeing the disgusted expression on Second Aunt's face, Tong Wenyao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Second Aunt, if you don't want to eat, we'll make chestnut chicken soup first, and then make you a portion later. We'll add durian peel to the soup."
Second Aunt glared at her and said, "You all eat it, so why can't I? Just put it in the pot and simmer it. When I want to drink it, I can scoop it out myself."
Since everything had been said, Tong Wen Yao asked her mother to boil water, and she picked up the knife and cut the chicken's head. There are certain skills to killing a chicken. Chickens are short and ducks are long. This means that when killing a chicken, because the chicken's neck is short, it should be killed close to the chicken's head. If killing a duck, it should be killed in the middle of the neck so that the blood can flow out quickly.
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