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Chapter 476 Honey Pickled Lemon

Not long after Ruzhen's birthday, the tribute fruit arrived. This time there was a light yellow fruit in the tribute fruit, which was shaped like a tangerine. Lily didn't pay attention at first, so the barbarian took one and peeled it open to eat.

This thing is more difficult to peel than an orange. After peeling it for half a day, the barbarian girl had to cut it open with a knife. Who knew that it was sour and bitter in her mouth, which made her call out: "Heavenly Bodhisattva!"

The barbarian drank water quickly, and it took a long time to suppress the sourness, and she stretched out her tongue and said, "Why did you send such an unpalatable thing? Don't be lazy and send unripe fruit."

Lily heard the movement and came out to look, only to see that the savage girl frowned tightly, and then saw that she was too sour and fell to the ground by mistake, what was it if it wasn't a lemon?
She couldn't help laughing: "This food is delicious, but you can't eat it like this."

The savage girl was skeptical, remembering that Lily had seen the world, she smiled and said, "Then teach us how to eat."

Lily smiled and said: "I remember there is fresh fish at home today? Go kill the fish, wash it, and then slice it into thin slices. Remember to remove the thorns, and then grab some starch on it. Xiao'e found a sauerkraut jar, took two chopsticks Come out, let's cook pickled fish."

Pickled sauerkraut, pickled peppers, pickled ginger, and freshly killed fish, this pickled cabbage fishman girl can make it, but she doesn't mention it since she does it, and she doesn't understand what it has to do with lemon.

Unexpectedly, when the sauerkraut fish was out of the pot, the green onion was put in and removed from the fire. Lily washed the lemon, took a knife and brushed it, cut it into semicircular thin slices, and sprinkled it all in.

The barbarian girl was startled: "It's so sour, I'm afraid I can't eat it?"

"You'll know if you try it?"

The barbarian girl really took a small bowl and scooped up some soup and a piece of fish meat, the fish meat was already stained with the fragrance of lemon, it was not greasy at all, and it tasted better than the old way.The taste of the fish soup is also more mellow, rich in layers, and the barbarian girl's eyes lit up: "So it's the right way to eat!"

Lily Xin said that there are still many ways to eat lemons, but it is just a few ways to make seasonings and soak them in water. If you have the heart, you can find countless tricks.

It just so happens that there is also freshly shaken honey at home. This country honey is bright red in color and thick in texture. It does not mix with a little water and will not deteriorate easily. It does not matter if it is stored in a cool place for a few years.

A few days ago, Xiao'e had a cold, and she couldn't stop sneezing. She blew her nose until her nose was red, and when she soaked her nose, her nose and upper lip were swollen and painful.The savage girl taught her to apply some old honey on the affected area at night, and it really relieved a lot the next day. Xiao'e was also surprised: "The honey disappeared on my face. Could it be that I licked and ate it in the middle of the night?"

Everyone laughed, and didn't ask whether she wiped it on the pillow or ate it, as long as it worked.

After eating the sauerkraut fish, Lily asked Xiao'e to take a few more lemons, rub them in salt water, cut them into large slices, take a jar of honey, and use a pair of clean bamboo chopsticks to put the lemon slices into the honey layer by layer go.

As long as the honey can submerge the lemon slices, you can keep putting them in. When it is full, you don’t need to do other things or add other seasonings, just cover it and put it down.

After seven or eight days, the lemon has been soaked in the sweet honey, and the honey is mixed with the lemon juice, regardless of each other.When you want to drink water, pick out a slice of lemon, scoop a spoonful of honey, and drink it with warm water as soon as it is boiled—honey cannot be washed with boiling water.

Honey lemonade is sour and sweet, no one does not like to drink it, the family will drink this for a while, even the rose dew is late.

Only Ruchun doesn't drink too much: he is still too young, children under the age of three are likely to have problems drinking honey, even if he is four years old now, he can't drink too much, lest his stomach can't take it, he has to eat and drink freely, and wait Just a few years.

Yueniang likes to eat sour during pregnancy, and it is no exception when the month is old. Lily sent her a jar of honey pickled lemons, and said: "When the Laba Festival, I will pickle some Laba garlic for you."

Yueniang was very happy, and as Lily, she just gave her some clothes and jewelry that piled up into mountains and she couldn't wear them, and she could only be grateful for public and private matters.However, these snacks are more thoughtful than the others, and it is nothing to give clothes and jewelry, this is the real closeness, and really treats them as one's own family.

It is said that sour children are hot girls, Yueniang loves sour food, but also spicy food, Qingsong stared at her eating, and couldn't stop beating in his heart: "I don't know if it's a son or a daughter this time."

Don't look at him saying "your grandson" in front of Zhu Shi, it's really for Zhu Shi's happiness, and also for his own convenience, so as not to be talked about by Zhu Shi, if Yueniang really gave birth to a daughter, Qingsong would be just as happy: just look at him The three older sisters knew that it would be best to have daughters, but not just having sons would make the Li family prosperous.

Yue Niang held her stomach and said: "I think this is a brat, not for anything else, but because he has tormented me a lot in the past three months."

At that time, Yueniang vomited even after drinking water, couldn't eat a mouthful of rice, she lost two rounds of weight, and Qingsong was so panicked that she went to seek medical advice everywhere, even to Prince Xin's Mansion.

Prince Xin's Mansion sent an imperial doctor there, but no matter how good the doctor was, he couldn't cure her morning sickness, and he didn't dare to give her more medicine, so he had to prescribe some tonic, and drank it when she could drink it, so as to barely sustain it.

After a few months, not only Yueniang is haggard, but Qingsong also has two dark circles under his eyes, and he is not as good at errands as before. If Chen Bin is not his boss, he is willing to defend him, and he is afraid that he will be released impossible.

Unexpectedly, after three months passed, Yueniang stopped vomiting immediately, and her appetite was very good. She was hungry for three meals a day plus two snacks. She was young and inexperienced, so it was Liu Auntie and Dou Wuniang who persuaded her, saying: " Be careful that the child will be too big to be born in the future." She didn't let go of eating.

Even so, Yueniang was pregnant and gained more than [-] catties. Now her face is like a full moon, shopkeeper Liu is worried: "You are so fat, be careful that your son-in-law hates you."

Yueniang glared: "He dares!"

She worked so hard to conceive the child, could it be her own child?If Li Qingsong thought she was ugly, she would make peace with him!But... Yueniang lowered her head and quietly looked at her high and protruding abdomen, thinking to herself, after the baby is born, she will try to lose weight and look like the eldest sister.

Qingsong doesn't dislike Yueniang, in fact, he is fascinated and thinks that Yueniang can't be any more beautiful.Yueniang didn't understand: "Do you really think I look good?"

Qingsong said: "Elder Sister looks pretty even if she's pregnant like that, but I think you look even better."

When he was a child, his family was poor, and his family was so hungry that they were as thin as firewood, so he only thought that he would look better if he was fatter.Even when she grows up, she understands beauty, beauty and ugliness, but she doesn't completely turn it around. Although Yueniang is fat, she has beautiful features, and because she is going to be a mother, her features are very gentle. In Qingsong's eyes, she looks like a bodhisattva in a temple or a goddess in heaven. But beautiful.

The young Qingsong couple thought about whether the child would be a boy or a girl in the future, and they still had to think of a few names for him. Qingsong didn't have much ink in his stomach, so he discussed with his father-in-law: "You always give him a name."

Shopkeeper Liu said: "Your parents are still there, it's not good for me to pass them."

Qingsong insisted: "They don't know a single character. You see, when we name our sisters, they all point to flowers and trees. It's not a bad luck. You are old and knowledgeable, just name it. My parents, I and them Go ahead."

So shopkeeper Liu turned out the book he hadn't read for a long time, looked it up page by page, and decided to give his grandson an auspicious and pleasant name.

Here Qingsong entrusted his second brother-in-law Yang Lin to rent a house, shopkeeper Liu said: "You can live well with me, such a big house can't accommodate you?"

Qingsong said: "Don't be annoyed, the surname of this house is Liu, after all, Yueniang gave birth, my parents will definitely come to see their grandson, Yueniang and I are happy to grow old with you, but my parents must live in Li's house after all. .”

Shopkeeper Liu knew early in the morning that the water poured out by his married daughter, Yueniang, no matter how precious he was, married Qingsong and was also the daughter-in-law of the Li family, so she couldn't keep her, so he said, "You are a good job. I'll clean it up for you."

Last year Zhao Tutou retired, and Yang Lin has been promoted to Tutou. He has the most friends in Taiping County, and there is nothing he doesn't know about.It is most suitable for Yang Lin to rent a house. The house he found for Qingsong is not far from shopkeeper Liu's house, which is convenient for the two families to travel.

Yingchun freed up her hands to tidy up the house together with shopkeeper Liu, but it was cleaned up well in the past ten days, and Lan Niu also came to see it a few times, and on a good day, Qingsong and Yueniang moved into their new house - if they don't move again, just I'm afraid that the child will come out in a hurry.

Less than ten days after the move, Yueniang mobilized. At that time, Qingsong was still in the guard. Lanniu hurried to tell shopkeeper Liu and welcome the spring. Lalai: Xueniang's acupuncture skills are superb, and she is an old friend with shopkeeper Liu, and she was very good with Yueniang in the past. Yueniang gave birth, so she naturally wants to come to protect the law.

Because Yueniang was the first child, the birth was slow, and after a day of tossing, Qingsong had rushed home, sweating profusely in panic: he still remembered hearing that Song Xiuxiu had dystocia and almost killed two people.

There were more than a dozen arm-thick candles burning in the house, and torches were lit in the yard, which was brightly lit inside and out. The neighbors thought there was something wrong, so they came to inquire, and when they learned that the family had a baby, they hurried back to prepare gifts. .

Seeing that Qingsong was panicking, Xueniang said: "Yueniang's fetus is in the right position, but the birth will be slow, and nothing will happen. Don't panic. They are all from a hundred households, and they panic like a child."

Qingsong wiped his sweat, his wife was crying inside, his son couldn't come out for a long time, he didn't panic, who panicked?

Just after midnight, Yueniang suddenly screamed, Qingsong was so frightened that she was covered in white sweat, and before she had time to rush into the house, she heard a loud cry from inside.

Qingsong sat on the ground as soon as his legs softened, he looked up with a smirk, but saw shopkeeper Liu was also sitting on the ground at a very old age, unable to get up for half a day.

Yueniang struggled with this pregnancy for a long time, but fortunately, the mother and child are safe, everyone is really happy.

Regardless of his fatigue, Qingsong delivered good news everywhere, was so happy that he saw his teeth but could not see his eyes, and everyone was pleasing to the eye. Even if his subordinates made mistakes, he would halve the army sticks to be beaten, and it was right for everyone to celebrate together.

When it was three o'clock, Ruchun looked at his cousin's little hands and feet, and asked earnestly, "Uncle, what is he doing?"

Only then did Qingsong remember that his son didn't have a name yet!His old father-in-law picked out a dozen good names, but he couldn't make a choice. He also thought this one was nice and that one was auspicious, and he hadn't decided on it yet.

(End of this chapter)