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Shen Tingsheng smiled bitterly: "No, I don't mean to make new clothes, I just need to prepare something to bring to see your parents."
"You don't have to worry about this, I will prepare it." Xie Huaxiang said decisively.
So the busy activity of preparing New Year¡¯s goods turned into preparing gifts for home.
You don¡¯t need to buy anything in the store. You can buy everything in big cities, and it¡¯s better than what you get here. The main things you need to prepare are some local specialties, preferably ones that your parents have never eaten or used. of good stuff.
Xie Huaxiang started to get busy again. She baked flower cakes and ham mooncakes in the same way as during the Mid-Autumn Festival. These were prepared for her grandmother who loved her. She loved to eat these sweet things.
Her father, Xie Yiping, loves to drink, and Xie Huaxiang plans to brew him a tank of local plant wine, Roselle wine. Roselle is also called roselle. The flowers are bright red, with thick petals, shiny, and look like rubies, especially nice.
The medicinal value of Roselle is also very high. It can regulate blood pressure, improve sleep, and can also refresh and relieve fatigue. Xie Huaxiang feels that her father's blood pressure must be a little unstable due to the long-term oppression of his mother, so he makes this wine to help. It was perfect for him to drink.
For this reason, Xie Huaxiang also made a special trip to the county town and bought the most expensive high-quality liquor in department stores. Brewing Roselle wine is also very simple. Pick the petals, clean them, dry them in the sun, put them in a vat, add Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and high-strength liquor, seal it and store it for a month before drinking it. Calculate the time, it¡¯s just right to take it home for the New Year.
Since she has prepared wine for her father, her mother must also prepare some special goodies, otherwise she will cry and complain that she will forget her mother after having a father.
Hu Aichun loves beauty, and his favorite thing is to tinker with all kinds of beautifying foods, and eat them together with Xie Huaxiang.
The best beauty food you can find here is, of course, soap locust rice. There are many honey locust trees in the village. The team members usually use soap locust to wash their clothes and hair.
But in fact, soap locust is full of treasures. In addition to being used to wash clothes and hair, it can also be used as medicine. It has the functions of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, opening up the mind, killing insects and dispersing stagnation. The most useful thing for Xie Huaxiang, Or you can peel out the saponin rice inside it, a beauty food commonly known as "civilian bird's nest".
Saponite rice, also called snow lotus rice, is high in energy, low in protein, and low in fat. It is thick and sweet when stewed. It also has the effects of nourishing the heart and clearing the meridians, clearing the liver and improving eyesight. It can be said to be a very good food.
It¡¯s a pity that it¡¯s too troublesome to peel off.
Break down the mature soap locust, first peel off the outermost hard shell, take out the green beans inside, and then use the tip of a knife to gently cut open the green skin. There is a layer between the skin and the inner core. The crystal clear white gelatinous substance, the so-called saponin rice, is this thin layer of gelatinous substance, which needs to be peeled off carefully by hand.
There was a big basket of honey locusts, and the remaining honey locust rice peeled out was only as much as a small bowl, which can be said to be very hard-earned.
Of course Xie Huaxiang would not be stupid enough to peel all the rice with his own hands. Isn't there Shen Gugang and his group of friends? Xie Huaxiang paid a high price, one yuan a pound to buy saponin rice, and the group of children were excited. She was almost going crazy, vying to come and skin her.
This is a delicate job. Don¡¯t use too much force when peeling, otherwise it will break accidentally. Xie Huaxiang made another rule, only the intact and intact saponin rice must be harvested, and broken ones are not allowed.
"Forced these little furry monkeys to calm down, sit there with great patience, and peel off the soap locusts obediently.
Xie Huaxiang stewed the peeled saponin rice in a pot while it was fresh, added jujubes, rock sugar and wolfberry, and simmered it for more than two hours. It was soft and glutinous and very sticky. It gave people a feeling of being particularly nourishing. Beauty feeling.
Even the grandma of the Shen family had a huge appetite and couldn't help but drink two large bowls in a row.
The remaining ones were dried in the sun, put in a small bag, and brought back to please Hu Aichun.
While drinking the sweet, soft and glutinous soap rice soup, Shen Lihua said: "Sister Xie, you are so amazing. How come you know everything? You didn't grow up here, so why do you know so many edible things?" Something?" Even she, a native of the country, doesn't know!
Xie Huaxiang smiled and looked at Shen Tingsheng who was not far away: "Maybe it's my fate with you!" But this fate is not destiny, but something she cultivated in her previous life.
The days passed in such a busy way, and finally it was time to go home.
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Hu Aichun clapped his hands: "Isn't it him? The young man's name is Cheng Likun. I know your girl's taste. She is superficial and only likes good-looking people like this. Think about it, two people, a man and a woman, went together. In a strange place, what can we do if we don't help each other? It's better if we help each other. This kid is too embarrassed to say it directly! Really, we are not outsiders."
"Why are there only one man and one woman? There is Tang Guiying!" Xie Yiping said dissatisfiedly, full of displeasure at having his cabbage eaten by pigs.
"I told you not to mention that bitch. My daughter said it in the letter. That bitch couldn't bear the hardships. When he arrived, he couldn't wait to find someone to marry. He was even pregnant with a child. Now he won't go home during the New Year. , I will be a real rural person from now on. Our daughter should be smart and know how to find a fellow villager. When the time comes, we will find a way for both of them to return to the city, and then come back to live a good life. I think the same is true for Xiao Cheng¡¯s child. If you are a capable person, your future will definitely be the same."
Although Xie Yiping is still a little unwilling to have his cabbage taken away like this, the child¡¯s mother says this is great, so what else can he do? Of course, he can only think it¡¯s great!
It was the first time for a child to bring someone to his house, so he must not neglect it. Although Hu Aichun had already done some cleaning at home, he still took Xie Yiping with him and carefully cleaned every nook and cranny and even cleaned the house. The best sofa cushions were taken out and put on the floor. The treasured vases were also taken out and cleaned, and a bunch of newly purchased artificial plastic flowers from the department store were inserted. The TVs and radios at home were polished and covered with gauze. The mesh woven with threads looks like a family living a prosperous and exquisite life.
Food also needs to be carefully prepared. These days, Hu Aichun gets up early every morning before dawn with Xie Yiping, takes all the bills from home with him, and then queues up at the door of the non-staple food store with a basket.
It was freezing cold, sometimes it rained, and it was even colder and colder. Standing in line outside, my toes were about to freeze off. But even so, there were still a lot of people in line. They had gone early enough. It can only be ranked slightly higher.
After rushing to buy the non-staple food, I had to go to the black market. The money in my hand flowed out like water, and I exchanged it for the chicken, duck and fish piled high in the kitchen at home.
"We Xiangxiang must have suffered a lot in the countryside. We don't know how many times we can eat meat all year round. She must be hungry and thin. We need to give her a good supplement. Hey, this is the fish that Xiangxiang likes to eat the most. Buy more. Son, Lao Xie, what's the matter with you? I'm asking you to grab a few more. What's the point of just buying this one? I don't want to give it to your daughter!" In the grocery store, Hu Aichun was queuing up to buy meat when he saw another queue. Xie Yiping, who went in to grab fish, only grabbed one fish and came out jumping in excitement.
"No, they say one person can only buy one!" Xie Yiping said innocently.
"It's really useless!" Hu Aichun finished teaching his man a lesson. When he saw that it was his turn, he quickly said to the salesperson, "Master, cut this piece of meat for me. Yes, it should be thinner. My daughter doesn't like fat meat."
After finally finishing the shopping, the baskets in their hands were both full. As they walked, Hu Aichun told Xie Yiping: "It's the first time that my daughter's partner comes to our door. We can't be too enthusiastic. We have to hold it carefully, otherwise he will I think we are in a hurry to marry our daughter, but we can¡¯t be too pretentious, we must also show enthusiasm and generosity appropriately, and we must make people feel the warm atmosphere of our home and the warmth we give to others.¡±
"Okay, okay, whatever you say will be fine."
After several days of hard work, Xie Huaxiang and his party finally arrived in G City. The experience of taking the train this time was really different from the last time. Although Cheng Likun took good care of Xie Huaxiang last time, he was an outsider after all, and she also Sorry to trouble people too much.
This time, Shen Tingsheng was by his side, but he took good care of her. Except for going to the toilet by himself, he did almost everything else for her. He had to bring hot meals from the dining car for meals, and he took care of her in the morning. It was he who went to the bathroom to help fetch water for her to use on her seat.
Even when going to the toilet, Shen Tingsheng went to the toilet first to see if anyone was queuing up. If there was a queue, he would help queue up first and wait until it was almost her turn before letting her pass.
She put on more clothes when it was cold and fanned herself when it was warm. She was as considerate and considerate as if she was serving the Queen Mother. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com