Chapter 7
Sang Luo led the two little ones around two hills before finally finding today's target - the double-winged six-path tree.
This thing has another name, called "immortal tree" or Guanyin firewood.
Before coming out, while Chen An was still cooking porridge, Sang Luo was thinking about what to eat.
She was sick and hungry, and recovered a little after eating something, but she didn't dare to overwork herself for the time being. In order to save as much energy as possible, she needed to plan everything in advance.
After searching the original body's memory, it seemed that this thing existed, but it was something that was only glanced at in the original body's memory and had long been blurred. It was not easy to find this kind of memory. Sang Luo was not sure where the original body had seen it nearby. She could only take Chen An and Shen Ning to walk along the mountain paths on several nearby hills and search for it.
Fortunately, God helps those who work hard. When she was almost exhausted, she finally found it.
Sang Luo was very happy. She couldn't pick any more fruits, so she could only order the two little ones around, teaching them to pick out those branches with emerald green and relatively thick leaves and take them back.
Shen An and Shen Ning were dumbfounded.
They are very poor now, but there are many mountains nearby, so they can still find some wild vegetables. They don't have to eat leaves, right?
Chen Ning was soft-hearted and close to Sang Luo. He was confused and asked directly, "Sister-in-law, can these leaves be eaten?"
This question expressed Shen An's inner thoughts.
"Of course we can eat it. Not only that, we might even be able to exchange it for some food."
Many people of the older generation know what Sang Luo is going to make, it's called magic tofu. But if she hadn't lived in the mountains for a few years, she wouldn't have known it at all. But I believe most people have eaten another thing that is very similar to it, grass jelly and jelly.
The shape of the fairy tofu is very similar to the fairy grass, but the ingredients are different, and the color and taste are also slightly different.
Of course, Shen An and Shen Ning didn't know this. When they heard that they could exchange this for food, they were even more incredulous. Who would be so stupid as to exchange precious food for the leaves on the mountain?
Sang Luo did not explain much. In her original memory, tofu existed in this dynasty, but the method of making it was in the hands of a few servants of powerful and aristocratic families. A girl like her, who was born in a commoner family, had only heard of it but had never eaten it, let alone ordinary people.
I'm afraid most ordinary people have never even heard of it.
Sang Luo couldn't help but sigh that even though the time and space were different, things like class privilege still existed.
It's like the population of the Dagan Dynasty is not that large, at least it can't be compared with our Dazhonghua Kingdom behind us. In the Dagan Dynasty, one hundred households make up a li, and five hundred households make up a township. A village of ten li has a total of no more than twenty households, and several villages make up a li.
The population density of the hometown in the original body's memory was not high, and how many people could the entire dynasty have?
Years of war, natural disasters, diseases, and forced labor all consume the population.
However, most of the land in Shili Village is not in the name of these twenty villagers, but is concentrated in the hands of some wealthy households in the village. Apart from wasteland and mountains, ordinary people can accumulate very little good land on their own, and can only rent fields from wealthy commoners for farming.
The same is true for the fields, as well as various inheritances such as book lending and technology, which are all controlled by the upper class.
So what she wanted to make was really something new here. She didn't have to think about making a fortune by selling the recipe, as there were no such rich people in the village market. Even if there were, she wouldn't happen to meet them by chance, and even if she did, they wouldn't be interested in them.
In Sang Luo's opinion, it would be more realistic to hide this practice in the short term, not be targeted, and earn a few copper coins in peace to exchange for some rice so that she and her two children can survive.
Although Shen An and Shen Ning were puzzled, they found it not difficult to break off some shrub branches. The brother and sister worked together and soon broke off two large bundles of branches and leaves.
When I got home, I picked the leaves and washed them. I didn't throw away the branches either, but put them outside to dry. The dried and burned Guanyin wood is the preferred ingredient for making fairy tofu.
However, there is no dried Guanyin firewood at the moment, so other wood ashes will do. There is no need to look for them. They are already available in the simple stove at home. When I cook porridge in the morning, I burn the stored rapeseed stalks. The ashes are also suitable for making Guanyin tofu.
Sang Luo grabbed a handful of noodles, put it in a bowl, poured cold boiled water from the clay pot into it, stirred it, and then let it sit.
Shen An and Shen Ning just watched and no longer made any comments.
Their eldest sister-in-law first picked leaves and said they were edible, and now she is messing with stove ashes... The brother and sister were doubting their lives as they watched, but at the same time they became inexplicably calm. They were even curious about what their eldest sister-in-law could come up with, and couldn't help but follow her around to watch.
Shen An felt that this was quite outrageous.
But he always felt that something was wrong with his sister-in-law today.
Shen An couldn't tell what was wrong. After observing for a long time, he could only attribute it to the illness he had a few days ago, especially yesterday, when he was in a coma for such a long time.
In fact, if Sang Luo hadn’t seemed to be quite thoughtful in catching fish earlier, Shen An would have even suspected that his sister-in-law had injured her brain after fainting from illness yesterday.
Of course, these words only flashed through his mind for a moment. It was too rude and not a good idea, so he quickly suppressed the thought in his mind.
The ash water was left to stand for later use. It was time to process the "magic leaves". The problem came again. There was no gauze...
Sang Luo is really, even though she had gained the self-control she needed during her recuperation in her previous life, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart at this moment, they are too poor!
It's really nothing.
She thought for a long time, and washed the only handkerchief in her original bag that could barely serve as a substitute, then boiled it in a clay pot for disinfection, and used it as filter gauze.
While disinfecting the gauze used for filtering, she ordered Shen An and Shen Ning to pick the leaves and wash them. After that, the two little siblings watched the whole process of how Sang Luo boiled the leaves in boiling water, turned them into crumbs, and then filtered the crumbs into two bowls of emerald green leaf juice.
That's right, two bowls. In addition to the bowl with the wood ash water, the other two bowls contained Shen Ansheng's porridge and another bowl contained malt sugar put by Old Lady Chen. Sang Luo handed the former to the two kids and told them to share it, while the latter had been moved to the stone platform during breakfast and placed on a clean bamboo slip.
We are so poor, we only have one clay pot and three bowls...
Shen An and Shen Ning's faces were full of heartache when they shared the little white rice porridge they had saved with great difficulty. Which family was so wasteful of food? These days people only have two meals a day. Look at their family. They had a meal of sugar and salt water in the middle of the night, a meal of thick white rice porridge at dawn, and another meal this morning. No one would be so wasteful of food.
Although the amount of this meal was pitifully small, the brother and sister had been eating such pittances for the past few months and didn't feel anything was wrong.
In the end, most of the porridge was fed by Shen Ning to the patient Sang Luo. Of course, this is beside the point.
After that bowl was rinsed, Sang Luo filtered the remaining juice in the earthenware jar into the second bowl, and filled both large bowls to 70% full.
Chen Ning looked at the pleasing green juice and asked Sang Luo, "Just drink it like this?"
"Of course not." Sang Luo smiled and stirred the wood ash water that had been left to stand into the leaf juice as the little brother and sister stared in amazement. She poured enough and did not stop stirring in one direction until she felt a change in the feeling in her hands. Then she stopped and did the same with the other bowl.
Shen An and Shen Ning were dumbfounded. Although they didn't believe that the leaf juice was drinkable, if they poured the wood ash water into it, it would definitely be undrinkable...
Sang Luo was amused by their expressions and said with a smile, "It's done. You can wait and see in an hour."
Seeing the two kids looking worriedly at the things in the two bowls, she smiled and said, "Don't just stand there in a daze, let's do something else."
The attention of the Shen An brothers and sisters was quickly diverted, and they asked in unison: "What are you going to do?"
Sang Luo took a small sickle from the wall. It was the only iron-containing tool among the pile of farm tools that the Shen family had given to the eldest branch of the family. She said, "Go cut some wild hemp and bring it back."
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