Chapter 31: Yang Xuan and the Sugar Gourd

In this era, there are already people selling sugar cubes refined from sugarcane, but the refining technology is immature, and there are many impurities in the sugar cubes that are yellowish, but the advantage is that the sugar cubes are sweet enough. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the afternoon, after Yang Yun bought back the cane sugar, she first soaked the cane sugar in water, and after the impurities precipitated to the bottom of the pot, the clear sugar water was taken out, and then the syrup was slowly boiled over slow heat, until the syrup has come out of a fine and dense foam, like a light golden yellow, you can use chopsticks to dip it in the syrup, if you can pull out the silk slightly, prove that the syrup has reached the required concentration, you can start to dip the hawthorn in the syrup.

Before the hawthorn is dipped in syrup, Yang Yun washes the hawthorn and removes the roots and stems, and then boils it once with boiling water, of course, it can't be cooked too well, as long as the water is boiled, scoop it up, and after the hawthorn cools down, use a bamboo skewer to string the hawthorn, a bamboo skewer Yang Yun only strung about five, if the small one is skewered six, and the big one is strung five. There were a total of more than a dozen hawthorn skewers picked from the mountain, and Yang Yun dipped all the hawthorn skewers in syrup, put them on a board and waited for the syrup on the hawthorn to cool before eating.

After Yang Xuan got the sugar gourd made by Yang Yun, he was overjoyed, this stupid boy heard Yang Yun say that he would make a sugar gourd in the afternoon, and he would follow Yang Yun's ass after eating at noon, and asked her when she could make a sugar gourd. He didn't even want to go when Xiaobao came to him to play, he had to wait at home to eat the sugar gourd made by Yang Yun, Yang Yun was very helpless by his persistent behavior, he couldn't cry or laugh, Yang Xuan has really become a veritable snack now.

After Yang Xuan took the sugar gourd handed to him by Yang Yun, he took a small bite gently, and the crisp sugar coating broke in, and a moderate sweet and sour fragrance instantly filled the entire mouth, this familiar and unfamiliar taste made him close his eyes with satisfaction. He recalls the day when his father took him to the town, and that day he sat on his father's broad shoulders and ate the same sweet and sour sugar gourd, a taste that he could never forget, just as he could never forget his father.

"Silly boy, why do you still close your eyes when you eat a sugar gourd, is the hawthorn too sour?" Yang Yun watched Yang Xuan eat a sugar gourd and close his eyes, and slapped him directly on the shoulder, and Yang Xuan's happy memories woke up Yang Yun with a slap.

"Sister, you hate it." After Yang Xuan said this, he directly reached out and took two strings of sugar gourds from the board and ran out of the kitchen. My sister is really annoying, why do you want to shoot people, people just remembered the feeling of eating sugar gourds with their father.

"You bad boy, my mother worked hard all afternoon to help you make so many sugar gourds, and you actually said that my mother hated it. You kid will come back and dare to eat the sugar gourd made by the old lady, and the old lady will slap you flat. Yang Yun was annoyed by Yang Xuan's words, it was really good to be reciprocated, this kid is getting worse and worse.

"What's wrong, what's wrong, are my sister and brother arguing again?" Grandma heard Yang Yun's lion's roar in the room, and hurriedly ran out to look, thinking that the sister and brother were arguing because of food.

"Grandma, it's okay, just talk to Xiao Xuan to play, he just took a few strings of sugar gourds and ran out to play."

"It's okay, I thought you two were arguing, Yun girl, you are a sister, you have to let your brother order."

"Grandma, Xiao Yun knows, so I'm playing with Xiao Xuan." Grandma saw that there was nothing wrong and walked back to her room.

What's wrong with Yang Xuan, this kid today, I have never seen him so obsessed with any food, he has been with Yang Yun since noon, just to eat a few strings of sugar gourds, and finally he has to eat Yang Yun and dislikes Yang Yun. Yang Yun was puzzled, sometimes I have to say that Yang Yun is a person with very rough nerves, of course, that is also Yang Xuan's little secret, where will Yang Yun, a later person, know what happened before.

Yang Yun took two strings of sugar gourds to Yang Yong, Yang Yong only needed a bunch, grandparents said that they would not eat if their teeth were not good, Yang Yun tasted a bunch by herself, although there was a room of thick sugar coating outside, but this wild hawthorn was still too sour, and his teeth were almost soft. Yang Yun put the remaining strings of sugar gourds on a plate and put them in the kitchen cabinet, and went to the backyard to follow her grandfather and them to pull the grass in the vegetable garden. When I went back to the front yard to drink water halfway, I saw Yang Xuan secretly running to the kitchen and taking away all the remaining sugar gourds. Yang Yun knew that he must have given it to other friends. So I pretended not to see him go to the kitchen to get the sugar gourd.

Yang Xuan is actually a sensible, kind and considerate child, after the Yang family sells bamboo mats, life is better, Yang Yun will often make some small snacks for Yang Xuan to eat, Yang Xuan in addition to eating himself, but also told Yang Yun to send some snacks to other friends, friends have never eaten these things. Yang Yun was very supportive of him doing so.

When it was time to eat in the evening, Yang Xuan sat at the dining table with a bitter face, looking at a large plate of braised pig's feet on the table, and he didn't dare to clip the pig's feet with the chopsticks in his hand.

"Xiao Xuan, what's wrong with you, why don't you eat pig's feet, didn't you like to eat it the most in the past, and you ate the most." Yang Yun looked at his worried little face and knew that he must have eaten too many sugar gourds, and his teeth were so sore that he couldn't bite these pig's feet. Yang Yun was so happy in her heart that she couldn't hold it back.

"Sister, Xiao Xuan's teeth are sore, and he can't bite the pig's feet."

"Haha......" Yang Yun finally couldn't help laughing out loud when she heard his words, she was about to hurt herself just now.

"Who let you eat so many sugar gourds, it's okay now, your favorite braised pig's feet can't be bitten. Brother, let's eat more tonight, Xiao Xuan can't eat pig's feet tonight, we have to eat all his share, we can't waste food. ”

Yang Yong cooperated with Yang Yun on the side to make trouble with Xiao Xuan and said, "Okay." ”

"Sister, bad, brother is also bad, sister, you must have done it on purpose, that's why you cooked pig's feet tonight." Yang Yun would never admit that she did it on purpose.

In fact, it is also a coincidence, I haven't eaten meat in the past few days, Yang Yun thought about buying some meat to eat tonight, and went to Zhou Butcher The meat was sold out, and there was only this pair of pig's feet left, and Zhou Butcher gave it cheaper, Yang Yun bought it back, and when she was cooking pig's feet, she saw the empty plate of sugar gourds in the kitchen cabinet, and remembered that Yang Xuan ate too many sugar gourds in the afternoon, and he must not be able to bite these pig's feet at night, at that time Yang Yun snickered once in the kitchen. At night, when I really saw Yang Xuan's bitter little face, the performance that I wanted to eat but couldn't eat, laughed again until my stomach hurt.

Later, when grandma saw Yang Xuan teasing Yang Yun to the point that she was about to cry, she slapped Yang Yun and asked her to stop laughing at Yang Xuan, otherwise the kid would cry, Yang Yun went to the kitchen again to help him cook some bone porridge, since Yang Yong's hand bones were broken, the Yang family would cook bone broth for Yang Yong to drink every day, sometimes they would cook bone porridge, anyway, they would cook it for Yang Yong to eat, otherwise just drink bone broth every day, Yang Yong would definitely drink it until he vomited.

After the sister and brother slept in bed at night, Yang Xuan hid in Yang Yun's arms and told her that he was sorry, and he shouldn't say that she hated it in the afternoon, in fact, he remembered that his father had also bought sugar gourds for him to eat. And when Yang Yun heard him say this, she sighed softly, hugged Yang Xuan tightly in her arms, and told him that it had nothing to do with him, and her sister should not make fun of him during dinner at night. The sister and brother were reconciled as before.

Yang Xuan is currently living in a room with Yang Yun, Yang Yun knows that he is very insecure after losing his father, and he is very lazy to Yang Yun, so he waits for the Spring Festival to be six years old, and then moves to sleep in a room with Yang Yong, of course, during this time, Yang Yun has done a lot of ideological work with him, telling him that boys should be independent and strong, Yang Xuan was also moved by Yang Yun's words, and promised to wait for the spring weather to be ambiguous after the New Year, and then move to sleep in a room with Yang Yong.