Shuying plans to use these hawthorns to make hawthorn cake and hawthorn juice. The children should like them very much. "Do you like hawthorn cake and hawthorn juice?"
Chen Yi nodded quickly.
After washing the hawthorn for the first time, Shuying soaked the hawthorn in salt and water for more than ten minutes. After washing it several times and cleaning it, he put it in a pot and added half a pot of water to boil.
Chen Yi followed behind the tree shadow like a little tail. The little guy was not tall enough, so he stood on tiptoe with his two big eyes full of curiosity.
After the hawthorns were cooked and boiled, Shuying took them out, and the pot was filled with boiling red hawthorn water.
Shuying added some polysaccharides, and I took a sip of the hawthorn juice. It tasted sweet and a little sour, and the sweet and sour taste was quite good.
It tastes better when iced.
"Auntie, I want to drink!" Chen Yi grabbed Shuying's clothes with his little paws. Shuying gave him a small sip. The little guy's eyes lit up as he drank, and it was obvious that he liked it very much.
"It's delicious, auntie!" Chen Yi said happily.
This is a simple hawthorn juice. In this era, there were canned foods but no juice, and most things were either sweet or salty.
The sweet and sour taste is very fresh, so you don’t have to worry about your children not liking it.
Shuying thought that it tasted okay now that it was hot, so she would wait until it cooled down and put it in the well to chill it. It would be so refreshing to drink a glass of sweet and sour hawthorn juice on a hot day.
Shuying fed the boy a few sips of the drink and told him to wait until it cooled down so that it would taste better. He could drink it with the Gao brothers then and said he would make other delicious food for him.
Only then did Chen Yi agree.
Shuying removed the stems and cores of the rotten hawthorns, crushed them in a pot, added sugar and a little lemon water.
Cook in a pot over low heat.
The kitchen was immediately filled with the sweet and sour flavor of hawthorn.
Just look, the three brothers from the Gao family next door finished their lunch early and immediately ran over to see what delicious food Aunt Yang had prepared for them.
When they entered and reached the door of Chen's kitchen, the kitchen was filled with the sweet and sour aroma of hawthorn, which made them drool. Gao Yuanlu could not even walk and was chewing his fingers.
Gao Zhigao was very curious and asked Chen Yi what Aunt Yang had done.
Chen Yi said proudly: "My aunt is making hawthorn cake and hawthorn juice! I took a few sips and it was delicious!"
Just then, the three brothers Gao Zhigao, Gao Yuan and others, who are taller than the others, saw a basin of red water, which they had never seen before.
I heard from Chen Yi that it tastes especially good.
The three brothers swallowed saliva wildly.
When the three children came, the hawthorn paste in the pot was almost cooked. I turned off the fire and saw that the children were eating it very happily.
She simply took a bowl from the cupboard, poured half a bowl of hawthorn juice for each of them, and placed it on the table in the main room, letting the children sit outside to drink.
She poured the remaining hawthorn water into an iron kettle, washed it clean, and placed it in the well in the backyard to cool it down. It would taste better if she drank it in the evening.
The four children were drinking hawthorn juice in the main room outside. Shuying took out a large bowl from the cupboard, poured all the hawthorn paste in the pot into the bowl, and put it in the cupboard to cool down before cutting it.
Outside the main hall, the three Gao brothers had never tasted such sour and sweet juice before. After taking a sip, the three brothers' eyes all lit up.
Gao Zhigao said: "Auntie Yang is so amazing!"
The hawthorns that were so sour just now actually became so delicious in Aunt Yang's hands. They want to go pick hawthorns again tomorrow.
"My aunt is the best!" Chen Yi said proudly. He had just drunk hot hawthorn juice and he felt that the juice tasted better when cooled. He looked at Gao Zhigao's satisfied little faces as the two brothers drank the juice mouthful by mouthful.
As for Gao Yuan, after he tasted the sour and sweet hawthorn juice, he could no longer resist it and he drank the whole bowl of it.
After he finished drinking it all, he found that there was still a lot of hawthorn juice in the bowls of his two brothers and his eldest brother. He drank it slowly, mouthful by mouthful, which made his mouth very greedy.
Gao Yuan wanted to cry again.
How come he drinks so fast?
Gao Yuan wanted to ask his two brothers for a few sips, but Gao Zhigao had never tasted something so delicious before, so he was reluctant to do so. He turned around and drank all the remaining juice in the bowl, then said to Gao Yuan, "Third brother, I'm done too!"
"Old Three, I'm done drinking!"
Gao Yuan cried in anger, and then looked at Chen Yi, his eyes glued to his bowl, and shouted, "Boss!"
Chen Yi couldn't drink enough herself, and her face was particularly troubled. After thinking about it, she thought that she was the boss, so she gave him a sip.
Gao Yuan accidentally drank almost half of the remaining juice in his bowl, which made Chen Yi so angry that he wanted to hit someone.
Gao Yuan admitted his mistake with a guilty look on his face: "Boss, I was wrong!"
Chen Yi finished the remaining juice in the bowl and ignored him. He puffed up his cheeks and rushed back to the kitchen and said to Shuying, "Auntie, I don't want Gao Yuan to be my younger brother anymore. I can't afford to support him!"
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"Last time, he ate a lot of noodles from my bowl in one bite. And this time, I gave him a sip of juice, and he also drank a lot!" Chen Yi said angrily.
Shuying thought that she really couldn't understand the relationship between the eldest and the younger of the two children. Gaoyuan was obviously three years older than Xiaoyi, so why did he recognize her child as the eldest?
However, Shuying felt that no one was easier to deceive and coax than Gao Yuan. She could trick him away with just a little bit of delicious food. Fortunately, the military area was very safe, otherwise, with such a son, she would not feel comfortable letting him run away.
Eleven-year-old Gao Zhi was still a big kid. He took the initiative to bring in the bowls they had drunk juice from and put them in the sink to wash.
Shuying asked a few children to go play while she washed the dishes. She also said that the hawthorn cake was ready, but needed to be left to cool.
The hawthorn cake and the remaining hawthorn juice were brought to the shadows of the trees for the children to eat in the evening.
Gao Zhi's eyes lit up: "Thank you, Aunt Yang!"
Aunt Yang didn't let him wash the dishes, but Gao Zhi still insisted on washing them thoroughly and asked Aunt Yang to put the dishes in the cupboard before leaving.
Before leaving, he called Chen Yi to go with him.
Shuying still likes Gao Dasao's three sons very much. They are all very sensible.
At around 4pm, when Shuying was preparing to cook, Li Hongqi came to her house and said, "Sister-in-law, the regiment commander told you not to cook tonight. Teacher Zhou is having a dinner party tonight!"
"Okay! Thank you!" Shuying escorted Li Hongqi out of the courtyard.
Li Hongqi had a very good impression of the team leader's wife. When he first arrived, he only sent the team leader's sister-in-law around once, but he didn't expect that the sister-in-law would send egg cakes to his home the next day. She even invited him to dinner yesterday. He and his wife both had a very good impression of the sister-in-law.
Li Hongqi was afraid that his sister-in-law would worry, so he said, "Sister-in-law, the team leader is very capable, and Teacher Zhou thinks highly of him. You don't have to worry too much!"
"Okay, thank you!" After Shuying sent Li Hongqi out, she planned to make some more egg cakes. After all, Teacher Zhou was her husband's superior, and it would not be good to go empty-handed.
At 5:30 in the evening, Chen Xi smelled the aroma of egg cake when he returned to the courtyard.
Just as he entered the main room, he saw little Chen Yi sitting there with a small cake in her bowl and a cup of red water beside her. Chen Yi was enjoying herself by taking a bite of cake and then a sip of red water. His little face was filled with satisfaction.
The hawthorn juice that had been chilled in the well for an afternoon was really delicious, many times better than what I had at noon, and it was even better when eaten with egg cake.
Chen Xi had been training all day in the hot weather and felt a little thirsty, so he walked over to get the cup and took a sip. When he tasted the sour, sweet and icy taste, Chen Xi was stunned.
Then, with Chen Yi screaming, Chen Xi drank all the remaining hawthorn juice in the bowl. Drinking a bowl of cool and sour hawthorn juice helped Chen Xi cool down a lot.
The sweet, sour and icy taste made Chen Xi particularly satisfied.
"You bad uncle!" Chen Yi screamed and immediately ran to the kitchen to complain.
Only then did Shuying realize that her man had returned.
"What is this? It tastes really good!" Chen Xi asked.
"Hawthorn water!" Shuying simply said that her own children and several children from the neighbor Gao Dasao's family had picked a lot of hawthorns. So she added some sugar and boiled some hawthorn water. Would she put it in the well to cool it down in the afternoon?
Chen Xi now really thinks that his wife is very clever and creative, and can even make something as delicious as hawthorn water.
Chen Xi really felt that his nephew was enjoying a good life with his wife.
Look, how good life is.
"Auntie, your uncle is a bad guy. He drank all my hawthorn juice. He is so mean!" Chen Yi rushed forward and wanted to fight with Chen Xi, but Chen Xi picked up the kid with one hand.
Shuying quickly refilled the child's glass and coaxed him into silence.
Chen Xi also took a bowl from the counter and asked for a cup.
The egg cake had been made long ago and was wrapped in wax paper. Shuying hung up the chopping board and asked the man in front of him about going to Teacher Zhou's house for dinner.
Chen Xi drank it in one gulp and nodded: "Okay, I'll go over now!"
"Teacher Zhou's family is having a dinner party. Are there other sisters-in-law here?" Shuying asked.
"Commander Zhou is my father's former subordinate. Commander Zhou and Aunt Zhou have always been very nice to me. I was transferred here this time, and the Zhou family invited me to dinner a long time ago. It just so happens that Uncle Ye's family was also transferred here this time. It's okay for us to have dinner together!" After drinking the hawthorn water and rinsing the dishes, Chen Xi took his wife to the Zhou family.
"Wait a minute!" Shuying asked Chen Yi to go next door and call the Gao brothers over. If she sent it over, Mrs. Gao would definitely refuse. So she could only ask the Gao brothers to come over to get the hawthorn cake and hawthorn water.
Chen Yi obeyed and ran to call for help.
The three brothers of the Gao family came over soon, and they all called Chen Xi obediently.
Chen Xi usually has a sullen face and the children are afraid of him.
So, after Shuying delivered the hawthorn cake and half a pot of hawthorn water, the brothers thanked him and ran away.
Shuying called Gaoyuan, the youngest brother, and cut a piece of egg cake that was neither too big nor too small for the three brothers to eat with hawthorn water.
"Thank you, Aunt Yang!"
After giving the hawthorn juice and hawthorn cake to the three brothers of the Gao family next door, Shuying took the egg cake and took her children and her husband to Teacher Zhou's house.
At the Zhou family, Commander Zhou and Political Commissar Ye were discussing the current situation. They were talking about the increasingly chaotic situation outside, as many families in the family buildings in the Kyoto compound had already encountered accidents.
Those who reported were reported, and there were many cases of the G Committee raiding their homes.
Political Commissar Ye has been living in fear these days. Now that the G Committee is in its heyday, even Commander Chen is considering retirement.
After learning that Commander Chen's son was transferred back to Gan City, under the persuasion of his daughter-in-law, Political Commissar Ye was transferred from Kyoto to the Northwest Military Region of Gan City for his own protection.
While Commander Zhou and Political Commissar Ye were talking, Liu Shujuan tried to make friends with Aunt Zhou. It was she who took the initiative to attract Zhou Shengtian, a 30-year-old single man who was also the head of a regiment.
Don't you want to connect your niece with your teacher's son?
Aunt Zhou was very anxious about the fact that her eldest son was still unmarried at the age of 30. But after hearing what Liu Shujuan mentioned, she was actually a little tempted.
She looked at her son and niece Liu Shujuan who were sitting on the sofa.
The two children were talking, and Aunt Zhou was quite happy.
Liu Shujuan was relieved to see that her niece had finally taken the initiative. She thought that since the last time Commander Chen's only son, Chen Xi, got married, she had introduced many good candidates to her niece, but her niece just wasn't willing.
She still doesn't understand why her niece jumped into it headfirst when she had only met Chen Tuan once.
What's more, Captain Chen is already married. If she wasn't married, she would have agreed to let her niece give it a try.
Now Liu Shujuan hopes that her niece will be attracted to Teacher Zhou's son, whom she has just taken a good look at.
This Captain Zhou is thirty years old and has handsome facial features. Although he is not as good-looking as Captain Chen from Commander Chen's family, he is also a good-looking man. What a good match!
Zhou Shengtian, who was sitting on the sofa, felt that this female comrade named Liu was quite strange. Every sentence she spoke to him was meant to try to find out information about Chen Tuan in the military region, including information about Chen Tuan's wife.
She kept looking towards the door, with a look of a young girl expecting love.
If he remembered correctly, Chen Tuan was already married, so what did this lesbian mean?
Zhou Shengtian also found that this female comrade was quite sociable. Look, his second sister became friends with a man within just a few words of the other party.
At this time, Chen Xi came in with Shu Ying and the child. Liu Jiao, who was originally talking to the Zhou siblings, saw the tall and extremely handsome man in military uniform walking in from the door, and she stood up subconsciously with excitement.
When her eyes fell on the woman holding the child's hand beside the man, Liu Jiao's excited expression froze on her face. Her nails dug into her palms, but she didn't feel any pain. She stared at the person without blinking, as if she wanted to stare a hole through her.
When Chen Xi entered the room, Commander Zhou and Political Commissar Ye immediately came over to greet him.
Chen Xi shouted, "Uncle Zhou, Uncle Ye!"
Shuying also shouted along with her man. She always felt that someone was staring at her from behind, so she turned her head subconsciously.
Apparently Liu Jiao didn't expect the other party to be so sensitive, and a 'kind' smile subconsciously appeared on her stiff face.
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