peasant young lady

Chapter 79 Making Rose Sauce Officially

Cheng Xia panicked, and turned around quickly to slip away, just in time to see a cat of unknown origin circling around her feet, Cheng Xia was delighted, and handed the kitten forward, just in time for the kitten to jump On Cuihua's lap who was just coming over, Cuihua was so frightened that she almost fell, and barely stood firm by supporting Headhunter Yang.

Although she was taken aback, she was still a little relieved. It wasn't that people listened to her, so she felt relieved.

Cheng Xia patted her chest with lingering fear, she was scared to death, she didn't mean that she was afraid that Cuihua would hear or see her, but she still wanted to see what these people were doing behind everyone's back, so she had better not show her face.

Seeing Cuihua's nervous look, Yang Erlang couldn't help crossing his arms and sneering, "Why, are you guilty of being a thief? This is what Brother Zeng said about grass, trees and soldiers. It's just a kitten. Seeing you scare me, I will do it." You’re afraid of others eavesdropping on such a thing.”

Cuihua glared at Yang Erlang resentfully, and then looked at Lietou Yang aggrievedly, the intention in her eyes that she wanted him to vent her anger was too obvious.

Headhunter Yang coughed uncomfortably, "Erlang, this is the end of the matter, and the past is the past."

Seeing Headhunter Yang turn around to pass by him, Yang Erlang quickly stepped forward and stopped in front of him, he laughed twice, "Father, what's the matter with this, are you going to give me five taels of silver?"

"Bastard!" Yang Lie punched Yang Erlang in the chest, "You have to force your father to death to be reconciled, right?"

"Don't," Yang Erlang didn't care, "It's only five taels of silver. Dad goes hunting every day, and then sells it for silver. Don't say five taels, she can even get 50 taels." Yang Erlang pointed at Cui. Hua, "Father has never brought any prey home. Everyone knows where it went. My son is so sallow and thin, but her child is fine, white and fat. Daddy is also a competent grandfather. I don't have many If you want, just five taels, five taels of silver, I will leave immediately, if you don’t take it, I will yell, and I don’t want to face this.”

Seeing Yang Erlang's stupefied look, Lietou Yang was really speechless. He turned his head and looked at Cuihua. After making eye contact, he saw Cuihua nodded reluctantly. Cheng Xia knew that five The matter of two silver coins is considered to be agreed.

Unexpectedly, this woman Cuihua is really rich.

Yang Erlang happily followed Yang Lietou back to his room from another direction to get the money. Cheng Xia just wanted to leave when he heard a clear cry. Running towards the weeds in a panic, Cheng Xia was stunned to find that Cuihua's child was lying on the grass beside him, and he should be awake at this moment, crying loudly.

Cuihua ran over to pick up the baby, unbuttoned the clothes she hadn't fastened and began to breastfeed the baby, Cheng Xia was completely convinced, this woman Cuihua is really not an ordinary person, she couldn't help but come to the back of the room with a man Stealing / love, the result is to put the child aside to watch, this kind of thing is also impossible for ordinary people to do.

Seeing Cuihua return to the room with the child in her arms, Cheng Xia stayed there for a long time, until she heard the voices of Mrs. Chen and Lin Xiu from the yard, then she detoured to the neighbors and returned home from the direction of the main entrance.

Chen Shi, Lin Xiu, and Yang Lihua just came back, and they were asking questions to Yang Erlang who was about to go out with a happy face.

This is what Cheng Xia saw when he entered the door. Yang Erlang shook off Lin Xiu's hand impatiently, and walked out in a hurry. Chen's shout did not stop Yang Erlang, but made Cuihua hurry welcome out.

Seeing Cuihua's disheveled clothes, Chen frowned tightly, "Why are you dressed like this, you can blatantly seduce men when I'm not at home, right?"

Cuihua's eyes were instantly stained with tears, her thin lips were tightly pressed, and she raised her eyes to look at Chen Shi aggrievedly. She looked like a poor little girl being bullied by Chen Shi. Shaking her head, Cuihua is really good at making use of her strengths as a woman, and Chen's can't keep up even if she flatters her.

Sure enough, before Mrs. Chen could make another move, she saw Headhunter Yang come out of the house, and frowned impatiently, "I've been making noise all day long, why did you just come back, and didn't you have lunch there?"

Yang Lihua snorted and ignored Yang Lietou, and directly walked into the room with a slap in the face. Yang Lietou's face was not good-looking, but he didn't pursue Yang Lihua's attitude, and asked Chen Shi directly, "Why did you come back?"

Mrs. Chen looked at Lietou Yang carefully, and saw that his clothes were still very intact, so she calmed down a little, and said calmly, "I'll come back if I don't want to eat."

Seeing Mrs. Chen enter the house, Cheng Xia walked over to look at Lin Xiu, "Why did you go?"

Lin Xiu was staring at Cuihua in a daze, and when she heard Cheng Xia asking her, she quickly came back to her senses, carefully pulled Cheng Xia a little further away, and then said, "Today Chunyan is getting married, I'm going to help with my mother and sister-in-law, There was supposed to be a banquet at noon, but Mother was worried and insisted on coming back."

That's it, Cheng Xia nodded.It seems that Chen's intuition as a woman is still very accurate, but it is a bit late.

"Sister-in-law," Lin Xiu pulled Cheng Xia's clothes cautiously. Since Cheng Xia got angry with Lin Xiu yesterday, Lin Xiu dared not speak to Cheng Xia like before.

Cheng Xia couldn't tell that Lin Xiu had become submissive to herself, but she didn't say much, if Lin Xiu's temperament could be changed, it would be good not only for herself, but also for Xiaolong, so she just nodded Ask, "What's wrong?"

"Sister-in-law, do you smell Cuihua's body?"

smell?Cheng Xia was stunned, thought for a while and shook his head, "What's the smell? Haven't you showered for a few days?"

"Oh no," Lin Xiu anxiously wanted to stomp his feet. After struggling for a while, he suddenly raised his head to look at Cheng Xia solemnly, "Well, sister-in-law, don't you and elder brother still have that?"

"What?" Why did Cheng Xia feel that she couldn't understand Lin Xiu's words.

"Oh, that's it, that's it," Lin Xiu turned around anxiously, seeing Cuihua watching from the side, staring at the two of them's movements, Lin Xiu directly pulled Cheng Xia into her room.

Seeing Lin Xiu's actions, Cheng Xia wanted to laugh, "Didn't you take good care of Cuihua yesterday, why has it changed now?"

Lin Xiu's face turned red when she was told, and Cheng Xia knew that she was thin-skinned, so she hurriedly said, "Are you kidding me, what did you want to say just now?"

Lin Xiu thought of what he was going to say just now, so he hurriedly continued, "Sister-in-law, I smell something abnormal on Cuihua's body, like, that," Lin Xiu blushed again as she spoke, seeing Cheng Xia puzzled Staring at himself, he said, "It's a bit like the smell after a man and a woman are in love."

puff!When Cheng Xia heard that she wanted to vomit blood, she saw that Lin Xiu's face was blushing after she finished speaking, and she also blushed. She coughed lightly in embarrassment to cover it up, and then said, "Did you smell it? Maybe you smelled it wrong."

"No," Lin Xiu blushed and shook his head with certainty, "I don't think it's wrong, sister-in-law, do you think Cuihua followed, followed, followed while her family was away?" Lin Xiu didn't dare to speculate too much.

Cheng Xia sighed, even Lin Xiu could sense it, it seemed that the storm in the Yang family was coming soon.

After dismissing Lin Xiu with a few words, Cheng Xia sat quietly in the room for a while, looking at the pot of roses soaked in clear water in the corner, and then calmed down a little and started making rose sauce. It was already noon, and when the rose sauce was ready, In the afternoon, take a hoe to loosen the soil and prepare the ground.

Put some edible salt in the water, and carefully wash the rose petals with light salt water.

Edible roses are needed to make rose jam, not the ornamental roses used in modern flower shops. Cheng Xia doesn't need to worry about this. The roses on the mountain are all edible, so you can use them directly.

Only fresh petals can be used to make rose sauce, and the stamens and calyx must be removed, so what Cheng Xia picks are full rose petals, and this step is omitted, and they can be washed directly in the water.

It stands to reason that Cheng Xia knows that many recipes for making rose sauce do not need to wash rose petals, but Cheng Xia is not at ease. It is best to soak in light salt water.

But after soaking in water, problems arise, because pickled food is most afraid of raw water, and if it is not handled properly, it will bring a series of problems.

Cheng Xia spread the washed rose petals on the newly purchased curtain one by one, then took a new clean towel to dry or blot the water little by little, and after the rose petals were no longer wet, put all the petals Put it into a large ceramic basin, and then add an appropriate amount of white sugar to knead. After the kneading is almost done, let it stand for a while, add white sugar again, and knead until the color of the petals becomes darker and the water comes out, so that the finished Rose petals are placed in small porcelain jars.

Cheng Xia took a look, and only brought two small porcelain jars over, but it turned out that each porcelain jar still had a lot of room left after half of the roses were filled. Cheng Xia took out the high-quality honey that she specially bought yesterday, Smoothly pour a layer on the top of the porcelain altar, completely seal the roses, then cover the lid tightly, and then add a layer of cloth on the lid to ensure that the porcelain altar is airtight , and then relaxed and stretched.

A whole basket of roses, together with white sugar, only made two porcelain altars in total. It seems that this task was not easy to do.

Cheng Xia mixed the two small porcelain altars into a row of small porcelain altars in the corner, planning to wait until the afternoon when the soil was loosened and the small houses were finished before taking them there.

Cheng Xia waited until all these were done before opening the door. The smell in the room was too strong, so it was better to open the door to let the air out, otherwise the smoker would feel drowsy and want to fall asleep.

As soon as he went out, he saw a person approaching gracefully from the direction of the door, saw Mrs. Chen in the yard, greeted him with a smile on his face, and came straight to Cheng Xia.

Cheng Xia paused as she raised her foot to go out, and went straight in to close the door, but saw the man running straight over to block the door, looking at Cheng Xia with a happy smile, "Why are you closing the door, you don't welcome me like that?" ?"

(End of this chapter)