The sunlight was a bit dazzling. Wang Taozhi came out with a washed coarse porcelain jar and pickled salted duck eggs with Zhao Meiya.
First, dry the duck eggs in a sunny place for half a day so that they are more likely to produce sand and oil. Then dip them in He Chunsheng’s treasured white wine, coat them with coarse salt, and turn them around in the yellow mud.
Put it in a jar and wait for ten days to half a month. When you want to eat it, take it out and cook it.
"Mom, where did you get these duck eggs? They're really big."
"Isn't it?"
Zhao Meiya carefully stacked the eggs in a jar and said proudly, "Old Zhang from the next village lives by the lake. He has more than a dozen ducks at home and lets them swim around every day. His ducks eat fish, shrimp, and grain, so how could their eggs not be big?"
This stuff is very nourishing, Dongbao loves it. I bought a basket of it, and when it’s pickled, remember to send it to her.”
"I think she loves to eat anything good. In the past, we would never have eaten this. She is picky and would not eat the egg white, only the yolk.
She must have come from the palace in her previous life. Even the old empress dowager didn’t eat as fine a meal as she did.”
Wang Taozhi complained dissatisfiedly, but her hands were patiently controlling the amount of coarse salt wrapped around each duck egg.
If too much salt is added, the food will be too salty, and Dongbao will be even less willing to eat it.
"Humph, Dongbao is kindhearted and left the egg white for you to eat, but you don't appreciate it."
"Don't flatter her. I know what kind of person she is. You've spoiled her."
"You've been spoiled too much. As soon as you see the salted duck eggs are almost gone, you rush to pickle them, fearing that she won't have any. I don't even want to say anything to you."
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Fang Wanggui walked out of Liu's house with a look of sadness between his brows.
He Ruixue stepped forward and stood beside him. From his perspective, looking towards the Liu family's house, he could see Liu Huixin huddled in the corner through the window, her face pale. He whispered, "Is she still the same?"
The shadow of poisoning someone to death is unbearable for a normal person. Since the day she was rescued, Liu Huixin has had nightmares and often wakes up screaming in the middle of the night.
Later, she dared not close her eyes again and could only stay up all night long.
Lack of sleep made her mental state worse, causing her to be absent-minded all day long.
Now Liu Huixin is afraid to go out, and even more afraid to stay at home alone. She doesn't want others to say behind her back that she is a murderer. She is even more afraid that the wronged souls and evil spirits of those people who died will come to seek revenge on her.
At this moment, she was sitting behind the window, stubbornly hiding in the dark, her eyes staring straight at the peach tree in the yard under the sun, her face haggard and tired.
Although he is at an age where he is not familiar with the world, he looks a bit old-fashioned.
Fang Wanggui sighed, "We can only let her recover slowly. It's not easy for adults to get over such things, let alone she is so young.
Those people's deaths were not a pity, but they left a shadow on her, weighing heavily on her both physically and mentally."
However, he did not regret teaching her about various poisons. If she had not acted decisively, the life she would have faced would have been a hundred times more miserable than it was now.
He turned his head to look at He Ruixue, and seeing the worry in her eyes, he said optimistically, "I've been chatting with her these past few days. Her memory of that day is gradually fading. Now she can sleep peacefully for at least three or four hours. I believe her condition will improve soon."
He Ruixue nodded. When a person's emotions are overloaded, the brain will automatically activate a protective mechanism, blurring or even deleting memories that are too deep to bear.
Moreover, Old Liu was also a wonderful person. He did not accompany her cautiously as if she were a porcelain doll. He told her that since she could not sleep, she could go and memorize medical books. He also did not forget to assign tasks and conduct spot checks every day.
With the new pressure, Liu Huixin had to devote part of her attention to studying. Faced with the numerous and complicated herbs and formulas, she instantly felt like she was back to the days before she was abducted.
When she was busy, she had no time to think about anything else.
Old Liu entered the yard carrying a medicine box. Seeing his daughter in a daze, his heart ached, but his face was extremely stern.
He scolded, "Huixin, the teacher said your school has exams coming up soon. Have you reviewed all the textbooks? If you fall out of the top three in class this time, forget about going out to play during the summer vacation. Go copy the Neijing twice!"
As for asking her to suspend her studies for a while to relax, that's impossible.
For Chinese parents, children cannot be suspended from school even if they are in shock.
Hearing his scolding, the sad girl who had been sitting silently by the bed quickly turned around, sighed, sat at the table, and struggled with her homework while biting the tip of her pen.
When he found a wrong question, he erased it with an eraser, and the expression on his face was much more lively than before.
Behind her, where she couldn't see, Old Liu stared at her quietly for a long time, then took out an oil-paper bag from the bag around his waist. Inside was the preserved vegetable pancakes that his daughter loved, which he had run several blocks over to buy.
He silently placed the pancake next to the enamel jar, closed the door quietly and walked out.
Seeing Doctor Liu enter the yard, Zhao Meiya naturally changed the subject. "Old Liu hasn't been to work for several days, right? I saw him sharpening a knife in the yard a few days ago. He looked so fierce and frightening. I hope he doesn't do something stupid one day. It's not worth it to be with a man like that."
"Alas, what parent would feel good about this? If I knew that Dongbao was being targeted by a disgusting creature worse than an animal, I would rather risk my life than stab him a few times."
Everyone in the yard was paying attention to the follow-up of the trafficking incident. Although the traffickers were completely wiped out, their accomplices were interrogated for several days and confessed a lot of things.
This has exposed a profit chain of human trafficking involving a criminal gang. The police are conducting a joint search with the neighboring province and are already taking action to rescue the previously abducted women and children as soon as possible.
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