Juan Wang's Little Lady: Nongmen hunters work hard to plow the fields

Chapter 45 Osmanthus Soap and Chestnut Cake
Su Lian pays great attention to efficiency in starting a business.As soon as she got home, she sent Zhang Jianshan to carry the box of stones to the blacksmith in the neighboring village for refining.

She can still do some serious things while the little boy is not at home.Su Lian took out the lard that had been smelted a few days ago, simmered it, and sprinkled the dried sweet-scented osmanthus in it.

After finishing these, she made chestnuts in syrup again.After a while, when Zhang Jianshan returned home, he could only smell a strong sweet smell in the house. When he entered the room, he saw his family, Su Lian, sitting around an earthen pot, in which syrup was gurgling and boiling. Rolling golden chestnuts one by one.

Seeing him coming back, Su Lian immediately asked: "Is the lime burned?"

Speaking of Lime, it was also the first time Zhang Jianshan saw it.He carried the stone to the blacksmith and said that he wanted to burn some lime, but the blacksmith almost threw him out.He also talked badly, and the old blacksmith reluctantly agreed to help him burn the pile of stones at the price of five cents.

Strange to say, the pile of hard stones turned into a pile of white ashes after being burned in the furnace.At the beginning, it still retained the shape of the stone, but with a little force, it can be crushed by hand.

Zhang Jianshan was also quite curious about what Su Lian was going to do with this pile of lime.

Zhang Jianshan unloaded the pannier, and uncovered the cloth on top, revealing a pile of lime underneath.Su Lian was very happy when she saw it, and couldn't help but took Zhang Jianshan's hand and smiled sweetly: "Thank you Brother Jianshan! Brother Jianshan is the best!"

Zhang Jianshan was extremely helpless, not only for this dead girl who "follows me, prospers and opposes me", but also for himself.

Su Lian turned around and took the cooked chestnuts in syrup, divided half into small bowls, and asked Zhang Jianshan to send it to the next door for the two cubs to eat, and asked Aji to stay at Wang's house for a while longer.

Zhang Jianshan took one at random to eat, and found that it was delicious again, so he couldn't help but eat two more.Su Lian glared at him, and added a few more to the bowl.

As soon as Zhang Jianshan left, Su Lian immediately moved the half box of lime into the yard, poured it out and crushed it with a stick, then stirred the lime with the ashes from the plants burned a few days ago, and finally took out some water to mix well.

Add lime and plant ash, stir it with water and filter it to get alkaline water with high purity.

Zhang Jianshan was trapped by two cubs at the Wang's house next door, and he lingered for a while. When he returned home, he saw Su Lian adding a transparent, slightly yellowish water to the lard.

I saw her adding and stirring, and after a while, the lard became viscous.

Su Lian asked Zhang Jianshan to take out the wooden mold that he made a few days ago, pour the mixed lard into the mold, and then took it to the house, and found a cool place to store it.

"Wait for it to dry for a few days." Su Lian turned to Zhang Jianshan and said, "You must watch Aji these few days. This thing is not for food, it will cause stomach upset."

"What is this thing for?" Zhang Jianshan asked.

"This thing is called soap. It can be used for bathing and washing hands. It is much better than saponin." Su Lian said.

Zhang Jianshan traveled all over Daqi in his early years, but he had never seen any soap or even heard of it.

"Where did Lian'er learn how to make this thing?" Zhang Jianshan asked.

This stumped Su Lian.She couldn't tell him that there was a saponification reaction test site in junior high school chemistry.

"Well... Lian'er also learned it by accident..." Su Lian said perfunctorily.

Zhang Jianshan was still waiting to hear the following, Su Lian smiled and changed the subject, pushing him away: "Lian'er feels that she can't use up all her strength today, and she wants to make some chestnut cakes for Brother Jianshan and Aji. See Brother Shan, let's go to the yard and build a grill!"

Obviously knowing that she was perfunctory, Zhang Jianshan couldn't get to the bottom of it, because his wife started to order him to do this and that.Zhang Jianshan thought to himself, if Uncle Bao saw that he was being teased around by this little girl, he would definitely remonstrate and nag for a long time again.

Su Lian asked Zhang Jianshan to build a stove in the yard, and then moved the water tank with a broken bottom in the corner to the stove, and made a hollow shelf in the water tank to place things.

After finishing the baking cylinder, Su Lian went back to the house, took white flour and mixed it evenly, spread it thinly and brushed it with a layer of oil, folded it up again, rolled it thin, and brushed it with another layer of oil.She deliberately mixed lard and vegetable oil, so that the puff pastry made later will be more fragrant.

After the meringue is done, the next step is to crush the chestnuts in syrup to make chestnut paste.Finally, wrap half a chestnut in sugar water into the chestnut paste, form a ball, and then wrap it into a hemisphere shape with puff pastry, then the chestnut cake is wrapped.

According to Su Lian's instructions, Zhang Jianshan heated up the oven, and Su Lian carefully placed the wrapped chestnut cakes on the bracket, and then sealed the mouth of the oven with a lid.Only a quarter of an hour later, the courtyard was filled with a strong aroma that had never been smelled before.

The two little boys who were playing next door smelled the fragrance and couldn't sit still anymore.Gou'er and Aji rushed into Zhang's yard and shouted, "It smells so good! What is it that smells so good?"

Su Lian rolled her eyes helplessly, she couldn't hide anything from these two snacks, one of them scratched his nose, and said, "Chestnut crisps are being baked, they haven't been baked yet."

The two little guys couldn't help it, they insisted on opening the oven to have a look.Su Lian solemnly said: "Both of you stand at attention!"

Hearing this, Aji and Gou'er immediately stood up straight like puppets on strings.

Su Lian ordered: "I haven't tested your homework for a few days, are you just playing around these days? Now, whoever recites the three-character scriptures first, can eat chestnut cakes first."

The two children scrambled over each other, and finally Su Lian gave an order, and the two stood upright, reciting the three-character scripture from beginning to end.

Normally, even Zhang Jianshan couldn't control these two little devil kings.He looked at Su Lianxun's two children, secretly amused and admired.In just a few days, she made the two children obedient and taught them to recite.In many respects, she is indeed a rare "good wife".

Both Aji and Gou'er could recite the Three Character Classic completely, Su Lian was very pleased, and it was not in vain for her to spend time and effort teaching it these days.

It happened that the chestnut crisps were also baked, so she turned off the fire in the oven, carefully took out the chestnut crisps, and distributed them to the little boy one by two.

Zhang Jianshan was sitting on a bamboo chair in the yard, looking at the two children with a faint smile.

Su Lian took two chestnut cakes, put them in a bowl, and walked over to hold them to him with both hands: "Seeing that Brother Shan has worked hard today, let's eat two puff pastry first, and Lian'er will make dinner right away."

The woman in front of her has slender hands and is gentle and quiet.The setting sun happened to cast obliquely on the courtyard, and it was time for a hundred birds to fling into the forest.

This kind of fireworks in the world does not belong to him, but for some reason, it always pulls him into the long gone time.

Zhang Jianshan responded, took the bowl, and Su Lian turned and went into the house.

Obviously there was nothing special about it, but such an ordinary scene always caught him in awe.

(End of this chapter)