This injury not only taught Song Tanglan a profound lesson, but also meant that she might have to stay in bed for the next ten days.
Song Tanglan has only been lying down for a few days, but he's already starting to feel unwell all over.
Every time she wanted to take a walk, her second sister would stop her. If she hadn't insisted on going to the toilet, her second sister might have gotten her a chamber pot, and she would have been embarrassed for a long time. Even now, Song Tangcheng accompanied her to the toilet.
Fortunately, on the day of the Little New Year, Song Tanglan's feet were not as painful as in the previous few days, and his second sister allowed him to go out and sit for a while.
It is the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, and today they are going to make sticky sugar-coated melons.
Early in the morning, after the three of them finished breakfast, Cheng Fangyuan moved everything they would need for the day to the kitchen. Song Tangcheng was afraid that Song Tanglan would be bored alone in the room, so he helped her to the kitchen and let her sit on a low stool to light the fire.
She and her husband began to boil malt sugar. Every household in the Red Star Brigade would make some sticky sugar on the day of the Little New Year to worship the Kitchen God. This way, the Kitchen God would eat the sugar and stick his mouth shut, and say a few good words to the family, hoping for a good start of peace and prosperity in the coming year.
The sticky shape of the sugar melon is very similar to a pumpkin. It is made with boiled malt sugar. The method is simple to make, but it is also difficult to make.
Just boiling the malt sugar takes a lot of effort, not to mention making it into a pumpkin shape later.
Fortunately, Song Tangcheng had learned a lot from Aunt Li before, so he can do it quite well now.
There is no such saying in the Cheng family that "a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen", and Cheng Fangyuan is an exception. Since his wife became pregnant, he has been cooking most of the time.
Sometimes Song Tangcheng would cook when she felt like it, and the rest of the time was Song Tanglan's chance to show off her cooking skills.
For example, now, Song Tangcheng stirred the malt sugar for a while, and when she felt tired, she sat down to rest, and handed the rest of the work to Cheng Fangyuan. The two sisters sat by the stove, chatting while lighting the fire.
Malt sugar is made from yellow rice and malt. During the cooking process, it needs to be stirred constantly to prevent it from sticking to the pot. This is a very patience-testing process.
When the malt sugar is cooked and ready, you need to keep pulling the malt sugar while it is still warm until it turns white. Tie it into small sections with cotton thread and cut it off one by one. The sugar melon will stick to it like this.
It takes a lot of effort to pull the malt sugar, so Cheng Fangyuan took the lead in this step, and the two watched from the side.
When the plate was full of sticky sugar melons, the two remaining sisters took a piece to taste.
When Song Tanglan ate it, he found that it tasted just like ordinary malt sugar, except that it tasted better after becoming hard. It was crispy and had a unique malt aroma. It tasted pretty good.
The two of them only ate a few pieces, and then saw Cheng Fangyuan start to cook another pot. They immediately looked at the pot with shining eyes.
Both of them knew that they were preparing to make sesame candy. The roasted black sesame seeds and malt sugar made the sesame candy with a unique aroma. Although the method was simple, it also required a lot of attention.
Song Tanglan looked at her second brother-in-law's skillful movements and guessed that this was definitely not her first time.
As for why sesame candy is made, it is because every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Su's mother would prepare sesame candy for her children. The aroma of sesame and Su's mother's unique craftsmanship make it very delicious.
Everyone in the Song family loves to eat sesame candy.
Song Tangcheng once mentioned this matter to Cheng Fangyuan. Seeing his wife's nostalgic look, Cheng Fangyuan specially asked Shu's mother for advice.
Su's mother did not hide anything and wrote down every step in detail in a letter to tell Cheng Fangyuan. After Cheng Fangyuan tried it a few times, he mastered the method.
After that, whenever Song Tangcheng wanted to eat it, he would make some.
After the final product comes out, it is dried and cut into small square pieces, which looks particularly pleasing.
Song Tanglan tasted it and found that it tasted really good. It was not too sweet, but had a strong sesame aroma.
The three of them spent the entire day in the kitchen making all kinds of candies, including their favorite sesame candies, sticky sugar melons, various melon seed candies, and long strips of sugar melons.
There was a large quantity of each dish, and some was given to Aunt Li, and the rest was enough for them to eat until after the New Year.
The three of them were extremely happy that day. They put the various candy products they had made into jars and then went back to their room to rest.
The twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Their task today was to clean the house inside and out. Song Tanglan, the injured person, was unable to help and could only watch them clean the house.
Cheng Fangyuan took a broom tied to a stick and swept the eaves all over, and all the spider webs were swept away.
When Song Tanglan knew that she had to clean the house today, she put on her clothes to prevent herself from getting cold, and put all the quilts and cushions on the kang into the cabinet to prevent dust from falling on the quilts.
All she had to do was watch her second sister and brother-in-law clean the house while she sat at the door and watched.
"Second sister, why do I feel like I'm the boss? You guys are cleaning and I'm sitting here watching." After saying that, she raised her eyebrows and looked at Song Tangcheng.
Song Tangcheng looked at her funny look and glared at her helplessly.
"Stop talking nonsense. Your feet don't hurt anymore, do they? You're just lucky to have escaped the spring cleaning. I'll let you do more next year."
"Hahaha, let's talk about next year's work next year." Song Tanglan looked at them working there. He was bored here and suddenly felt that this kind of life could last for a few more days.
Fortunately, her room was not dirty and was cleaned regularly. Now she only had to sweep down the cobwebs on the roof, sweep the floor clean, and wipe the dusty areas, and the house would be cleaned quickly.
Cheng Fangyuan cleaned very quickly. Although there were two people who didn't work much, he still cleaned the house in one morning.
"Ayuan, thank you for your hard work. One of us injured his leg and the other is pregnant. You have worked so hard these days and eat so much every day, but your cheeks are still sunken." Since Song Tangcheng became pregnant, she exudes maternal care, but she is also more childish than before.
He would start acting from time to time. At the beginning, the two of them were a little uncomfortable with it and were often stunned by what he said, but they gradually got used to it.
Seeing his wife doing the same thing again, Cheng Fangyuan shook his head helplessly.
"It's not hard. You two are the ones who suffered. I don't think I lost weight. On the contrary, I think you lost a lot of weight."
Song Tangcheng was very happy to hear this. Now that her belly is more than three months old, she feels that she has become a lot rounder. As a woman, how can she not care about her figure?
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