Chapter 16: Finished Product
Li Taohua saw Qin Huiyin carrying firewood into the house and said unhappily, "Who asked you to do such rough work?"
Tang Yixiao followed closely.
Li Taohua saw Tang Yixiao carrying a light backpack, and then looked at Qin Huiyin carrying a large bundle of firewood. Her beautiful eyes were spitting fire: "How dare you let Yinyin carry firewood! Yinyin is a girl, with delicate skin and tender flesh, how can she carry such a heavy thing?"
Tang Yixiao rarely did not refute Li Taohua's reprimand.
He glanced at Qin Huiyin, put down the backpack, took the firewood from her back, and moved it into the kitchen.
Li Taohua didn't expect Tang Yixiao to be so obedient today. She looked at Qin Huiyin puzzledly: "What's wrong with him today?"
"Mom, don't talk about him. He didn't ask me to carry him on my own. I wanted to carry him on my own. Just now I saw him..." Qin Huiyin wanted to say something, but when she saw Tang Yi laughing, she swallowed the words back.
Tang Yi came out with a bucket on his shoulder, obviously planning to fetch water.
"Don't go." Qin Huiyin said, "There is enough water for today, you can get more tomorrow."
Tang Yi smiled and looked at her with a complicated expression, pursed his lips and said nothing.
"I need someone to light the fire, you help me light the fire."
Tang Yi smiled and returned the bucket.
Qin Huiyin said to Li Taohua, "Mom, is the braised meat in my pot burnt dry?"
"You asked me to watch the fire, can I still watch it burn dry?" Li Taohua said unhappily, "But the smell is really good. Several people are strolling in front of our yard and asked me what delicious food I cooked, which aroused their gluttony. Bah, they want to beg for food but don't say it clearly, and they expect me to give it to them. I am stupid to bring this up. There are so many mouths to feed at home, and you still want to beg for food from us?"
At this time, several naughty children were lying in front of their door, looking inside eagerly. One of them asked loudly, "Aunt Taohua, what are you cooking? It smells so good."
Li Taohua said unhappily, "What else can you cook? Of course it's food. If food doesn't smell good, even corn steamed buns are delicious!"
"Aunt Taohua, let us try some. Yours smells so good."
"No, no, my family doesn't have enough to eat!" Li Taohua said to Qin Huiyin, "Don't be so kind. There are so many mouths to feed in the village. If you stop one mouth, there will be another. It's not worth it to cause yourself a lot of trouble for the so-called face. But you are a little girl, so let your mother do this kind of offending thing."
"Mom, you are so kind." Qin Huiyin hugged her arm and acted coquettishly. "My mother is so kind, I am so lucky. But mom, can you be nicer to them in the future? I was in the mountains today..."
Qin Huiyin told Li Taohua what she had seen. Seeing Li Taohua's complicated expression, she knew that she had heard it.
"But you still have to treat me the best in the world, otherwise I will be jealous. I will also treat you the best in the world, because you are the most important person to me."
Li Taohua touched her hair and said, "Mom will listen to you."
In the past, my daughter didn't like Song Ruize, and Song Ruize's personality was not pleasing. Although she had been Song Ruize's stepmother for nearly a year, she had never cared about him. Now that my daughter wanted to get along well with the people of the Tang family, she would also be nice to the Tang family's several stepchildren, just as if she had found some playmates for her.
Her bad reputation caused my daughter to have no one to talk to in the village. Tang Luwu is an honest girl and she shouldn't bully my daughter. However, since I want to get along well with the Tang family, I have to reject the marriage proposal for Tang Luwu. Fortunately, the betrothal gift was not agreed last time, so it didn't happen.
"Mom, these wild peppers are very important. Please help me transplant them to the corner of the yard."
"Okay, mom will plant it."
Tang Luwu had just returned from the vegetable garden and happened to hear their conversation. She said, "Aunt Li, how about I come over?"
Li Taohua pointed to the pea flour in the yard and said, "The flour has dried up. Please help Yinyin collect it."
Speaking of pea flour, we have to talk about what Qin Huiyin is going to do next. She took a small amount of pea flour into the kitchen and started today's business.
Qin Huiyin plans to go to the city to sell jelly tomorrow. According to the original owner's memory, jelly has not yet appeared in this world. It is a hot summer now. Ordinary people can't use ice and can't find a way to escape the heat. If they eat a bowl of jelly at this time, they will surely feel alive.
Tang Yi smiled and sat in front of the stove, lighting a fire, his eyes moving uncontrollably following Qin Huiyin's movements.
His eyes widened when he saw the pure white pea powder turning into a thick substance as she slowly stirred it.
The process of making jelly is not complicated. You just need to pay attention to the heat and move your hands skillfully. When it is almost done, just serve it up.
"Okay, turn off the fire quickly." Qin Huiyin told Tang Yixiao, "Take out all the firewood and put it out immediately, otherwise it won't taste good."
Tang Yi smiled quickly and put out the fire while Qin Weiyin was speaking.
Qin Huiyin put the jelly into a water tank and put it on ice.
She began to prepare various seasonings, and even used two wild peppercorns. She knew that people of that era did not know how to eat spicy food, so she did not dare to put too much, and only used it for seasoning.
She tasted some of the vinegar and soy sauce she bought and found that the taste was just okay. If time didn't allow it, she would have wanted to make vinegar and soy sauce herself.
In addition to these seasonings, she also wants to make fermented black beans. But she doesn't have time now, so she has to wait until she solves her current dilemma!
"Cough cough..." Tang Yixiao was smoked by the chili pepper.
"You are not needed here, please go out first!" Qin Huiyin sent Tang Yi away with a smile.
Tang Yi smiled and took the initiative to ask: "What is this thing? Can it really be eaten?"
Don't poison everyone.
"Don't worry, once you taste it, you'll want to swallow your tongue."
Qin Huiyin was busy in the kitchen alone.
Li Taohua came in, but when she saw that she couldn't help, she went out and waited.
Tang Luwu washed her hands and stood beside her awkwardly: "Do you need me to do anything?"
"This pot of braised meat is almost done. Please help me take some out. There are not many of us and we can't eat much. Just take a piece of pig intestine and a piece of pig ear."
Tang Luwu was not afraid of doing things, but was afraid of having nothing to do. She knew that a person had to have value to exist, otherwise she would be sold to an old bachelor as a wife like Sister Juhua in the village, who died of dystocia the following year.
She felt most at ease when Qin Huiyin asked her to do something.
Moreover, Qin Huiyin's temper has become very good now. She neither ridicules her nor deliberately drives her to sleep on the floor. Li Taohua no longer deliberately deducts her food. She eats whatever others eat. She feels that she has been very comfortable these two days. It would be great if she could keep it up.
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