After Xie Zhengchuan went on a business trip, Su Li started her routine work.
It was a holiday, and the children were playing with sandbags and wooden figures in the yard. Su Li suddenly had the idea of making caramel milk tea at home. The children at home had drunk it several times, and Baoya in particular had always been craving for it. Coincidentally, Xianglan, Xiangzhi, Xiaofang, Xiaoqin and others also came to play at home, so she decided to make more, including some grass jelly and fruit soup.
The weather is getting warmer now, so it's a perfect time to eat this.
I took a can of black tea leaves and white sugar, as well as a bottle of pure milk from the space.
First, boil the milk in a pot and set it aside. Then heat a pot on another stove, pour the sugar into the pot to cook the caramel. When there is a wisp of smoke from the caramel, pour the boiled milk into the caramel pot. Wash the tea leaves with water, wrap them in a tea bag, put them in the pot and boil them over high heat. After about three minutes, you can turn off the heat and filter the tea leaves before drinking. It is rich and mellow and delicious.
Su Li was busy in the kitchen, and soon a big pot of caramel milk tea, grass jelly and fruit salad was ready. There were no nice cups at home, so Su Li directly used a casserole to serve the food. The fruit salad was placed in a soup bowl, with one bowl for each person.
After setting the table in the main hall, Su Li called out and the children came running over. In fact, the sweet aroma of milk tea accompanied by the fragrance of fruit salad was wafting through the yard. The group of children couldn't wait any longer and kept looking into the kitchen.
"Mom, what is this?" Hu Zi asked, looking at the other two casseroles.
When Hu Zi asked, several children looked up at her. Su Li poured a cup of caramel milk tea for each child.
"This is grass jelly, and this is fruit salad. Mom put sticky red beans and taro balls in the grass jelly, and this fruit salad is filled with yogurt! Come and try it and see if it tastes good."
Xie Lai Fu looked at the milk tea and fruit bowl placed in front of him and slowly pushed them in front of Xiangzhi and Xianglan. Xianglan was still young, so he fed her a few mouthfuls before letting her eat them by herself.
Su Li was pleased to see Xie Lai Fu's action. She felt that Xie Lai Fu had really grown up. It was not easy for him to change from a spoiled and unreasonable little boy to a boy who only cared about his father and could take care of his sister. If he was a paranoid child, he might have become rebellious.
"Laifu is really sensible now. Auntie San will clean up the kitchen. Can you stay here and look after your brothers and sisters?"
Xie Laifu blushed a little when he was praised. He was not liked by his third aunt before, but now that his third aunt praised him, he was really happy. He listened to his third aunt's instructions and immediately puffed out his chest.
"Okay, Third Aunt, just go ahead and help me. I will definitely take good care of my younger brothers and sisters."
Su Li smiled at him.
"After you finish the fruit in the bowl, try this grass jelly. Li Dan and Lai Fu, you two are the older kids, so serve it to your younger brothers and sisters later, okay?"
"good."
After giving instructions, Su Li returned to the kitchen and started washing and scrubbing. After a while, she heard the sound of a tractor outside the door.
Boom boom boom.....
"Is anyone there? Is anyone home?"
Baoya heard someone knocking on the door and ran to the kitchen to call Su Li.
"Mom, there's someone knocking on the door."
"Hey! Someone's here, wait a minute."
Su Li shook the water off her hands and quickly opened the door. A dark-skinned man was raising his hand to knock on the door, and behind him were two tractors loaded with red bricks and black tiles.
The dark-skinned man said, "Sister-in-law! I'm Captain Xie's comrade Jiang Meng. Hehe, Captain Xie asked me to get this red brick. You can see where to put it."
Xie Zhengchuan had told her before, "Oh! Hello, hello, my family is full of children, please wait a moment, I will let my eldest brother take you across."
Su Li called Xie Zhenghe from the old Xie family, and she and Xie Zhengyang took Jiang Meng to the homestead to unload bricks.
Baoya looked at the rumbling tractor pulling Su Li and asked, "Mom, what is that?"
Su Li bent down and hugged Baoya and said, "That's Dad's friend. He sent red bricks to our family. We and my uncle's family are going to build a house."
"Mom, we are moving. Will we not live here anymore?"
"Yes! When the new house is built, you and your brothers will each have a room, and mom can decorate it very nicely for you."
Baoya nodded thoughtfully after hearing this, "Is it possible that mommy and daddy are going to have a baby too, so they need to build a house? Isn't the house big enough to accommodate them?"
Su Li almost choked on her saliva when she heard Bao Ya say this.
When Su Li carried Baoya back to the main room, the dishes on the table had been washed clean by Xiangzhi and Tiedan. Su Li looked at them with mixed feelings. Since Pan Zhaodi passed away, Xie Zhenghe's children have changed a lot. Lai Fu has become sensible, Xiangzhi and Xianglan have become much braver.
"Laifu, our family has new bricks for building the house. Take your brothers and sisters to check them out. There are many children in the village. Don't let them take the bricks away."
"Okay, Auntie."
"Mom, I want one too." Baoya also quickly slid down from Su Li.
After Jiang Meng unloaded the bricks, he went back to his hometown. There were still a few trucks of bricks to transport. At night, Xie Zhenghe built a simple shed on the foundation and slept on the homestead to watch over the bricks.
Su Li couldn't help because Xie Zhengchuan had already paid for the red bricks for building the house. He said he used his own bonus. When Xie Zhenghe came to give her the money, Su Li confiscated it and told him that the money was paid by Xie Zhengchuan and she didn't know how much.
There was no other way, so Xie Zhenghe went back to Dong.
The news that Old Xie's family was going to build a red brick house with two courtyards was widely spread in Shanghe Village. However, Ping An's full moon banquet was too lavish. Although quite some time had passed, it was still memorable every time people thought about it. So the news that Old Xie's family was going to build two red brick houses was obviously not a big deal anymore.
Su Li and Xie Zhenghe discussed it and concluded that building the two houses together would require a lot of people, and red brick houses could not be built by the villagers, so they had to find special bricklayers to build them. Xie Zhenghe didn't need to say anything about this, as Li Waishan helped contact a production team where a bricklayer worked. The land in that production team was not fertile, so most of the people there basically had some skills.
Early in the morning, Li Waishan brought the bricklayer Tao Yu to Old Xie's house.
When Xie Laifu called Su Li, she was stunned for a moment. It was just past seven o'clock and she hadn't even started making breakfast yet.
"Third Aunt, First Aunt said she made more breakfast and asked you and your brother and sister to come home to eat. The bricklayer who built the house is here."
"Okay, I'll go to your house first. You go to the east room and tell your brothers. You can stay in my room and watch over your sister, okay?"
"Okay, Auntie San."
Su Li walked to Old Xie's house and looked at the six or seven people in the yard.
"Uncle Waishan, why are you here so early? Have you eaten yet? If not, eat something at home." Su Li greeted the group of people. It wasn't that he really wanted to keep them for dinner. Since they came so early, they must have eaten. As a family member, he had to greet them.
"I ate it, I ate it, thank you, boss." Tao Yu rubbed his dry hands and said a little stiffly.
The few people behind Tao Ren'e were also a little at a loss. Whenever they had work in their hands, they would carry some home-baked pancakes with them.
I had to eat and walk on the road to get here so early. Facing the morning dew, the weeds on the road soaked my cloth shoes when they swept past me. My feet were soaked all the way. My body was hot, but my feet were cold.
But when I think about being able to go out and make money, I still feel happy.
Li Waishan still had to keep an eye on the brown sugar factory, so he left a note for Su Li, "If there's anything you need to do, just arrange for them. They're all good at building houses, so you can use them with confidence. Two production teams are coming to deliver sugarcane today, and I have to watch over them and weigh them."
Having said that, there was no need for Su Li and the others to come out to see him off. He turned around and left, with his hands behind his back and his head held high. It was obvious that he wanted to show off in front of the two production team captains.
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