Chapter 51 Boiling Gypsum

After entering Qingguo Village, Zhong Miao and Shen Yanshao parted ways.

In order not to attract gossip, Shen Yanshao got out of the car before entering the village, and Zhong Miao sat down on the bridge at the entrance of the village before walking back to Wang's house.

When the sun was still scorching, the men of the Wang family estimated that they were still taking a nap and resting.

Zhong Miao pushed open the two hidden doors and closed them lightly, not wanting to wake anyone up.

She walked in the direction of the kitchen with the cauliflower in her arms, humming quietly along the way.

When I passed by the lobby, I was stopped, and then I saw Mrs. Jiang, Yang Qingxiang and Wang Baolian sitting inside.

Zhong Miao was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and entered the lobby with a smile.

"Grandma, mother, little aunt, why didn't you go to rest for a while?"

Wang Baolian was holding a fan embroidered with flowers and plants in her hand, and when she heard the words, she spoke first, "Before you came back, my mother has been worried, and she won't listen to any persuasion." Blame me, it should have waited a while. ”

Zhong Miao looked at her and found that her eyes were already red and swollen.

But Mrs. Jiang didn't seem to see it, and said unhappily: "Your heart is really big, Miao Ya has never been alone in the town for so long, and you don't worry about her if she gets lost and gets lost, so what's the matter?" ”

Wang Baolian didn't say a word, tears rolling in her eyes.

Zhong Miao couldn't look at it, knowing that Wang Baolian was aggrieved at the moment.

It seems that they really didn't tell Mrs. Jiang that Wang Baolian was almost robbed after they came back from the town, otherwise Mrs. Jiang wouldn't have this attitude. If she knew, she was afraid that she would have to fight with others at this time.

Where will Wang Baolian be blamed for this?

"Grandma, where can I blame my aunt and mother for this! At that time, I had a bad stomach and couldn't get in the car. I don't know how long it will take, it's up to me to let them go first. ”

"Besides, there is still Dr. Shen by my side, who can hurt me?"

Mrs. Jiang still didn't give up, "You also said, how can a girl's family be alone with a man?" It's okay if you don't understand it when you're young, but one of them is a mother and the other is about to become an old girl, how can they not understand this truth......"

Zhong Miao only felt that one head was two big.

She couldn't tell what had happened in the morning.

Wang Baolian probably couldn't stand it anymore, and said in a low voice that she would go back to the house first and leave.

Yang Qingxiang was very worried about her sister-in-law's state, but Mrs. Jiang became more and more angry, "Don't worry about her!" I've really been spoiled by me all these years, and I'll cry when I say a few words, if I continue like this, if I get married, I can't be disliked by my in-laws? ”

Zhong Miao endured and endured, and simply drove Yang Qingxiang away, saving him from being wronged here.

"Mother, it's okay here, you go and see your little aunt."

Yang Qingxiang had this intention, but she couldn't get away for a while because her mother-in-law was still talking. Now that Zhong Miao spoke, he knew that his mother-in-law would not have any objections to her words, so he trotted away at the moment.

There are only one old and one young left in the lobby.

Mrs. Jiang originally had a straight face, but now that there was no one, she immediately changed to a worried look.

"Wonderful girl, what's wrong with your belly? Is there a lot of it now? It must be that the second daughter-in-law is lazy, and the pot or vegetables are not cleaned, which makes you have a stomach! Does it matter? Otherwise, we will ask Dr. Shen to come over. ”

Mrs. Jiang said a lot, and Zhong Miao directly dismissed it with one sentence, "It's all right, Dr. Shen also said that it's okay, and you don't even need to take medicine." ”

She thought that Wang Baolian was frightened a lot today, and couldn't help but gently persuade Mrs. Jiang, "Grandma, you should actually be a little better to your little aunt." ”

It's okay not to say it, but as soon as she mentioned Mrs. Jiang, she straightened her face again, "Miao girl, don't tell me this, Baolian has always been very well-behaved." But today, somehow, very squeamish, I just said that she shouldn't leave you and come back first, and she cried for a while, and no one can comfort her. ”

"Tell me what has come of this? It's as if I'm scolding and crying. She is already sixteen years old, and sooner or later she will get married, if she doesn't change her character, she will be disgusted by her in-laws! I'm also anxious, worried that she won't have a good life in the future and will be wronged. ”

Zhong Miao had to beat around the bush to let Mrs. Jiang figure it out for herself, "Grandma, you also said that she wasn't like this before, maybe she was in a bad mood recently." You watched her grow up, and you should know very well what kind of person she is. ”

Mrs. Jiang thought about it, "Then what happened to her, and she didn't dare to tell me that she couldn't do it?" ”

Zhong Miao's heart chuckled, she really didn't expect Mrs. Jiang to be so bright.

hurriedly smiled and said, "Maybe it's just because of a bad mood, this person is not happy every day, and there will be some unhappy things." ”

Mrs. Jiang didn't think much about it, but instead saw a large bundle of stone cauliflower beside her, and asked what it was for.

Zhong Miao couldn't explain it clearly for a while, so he had to say perfunctorily: "When I was young, I ate desserts made from this in other houses, and I wanted to try to make them when I had nothing to do." If it succeeds, Grandma will have to try. ”

Mrs. Jiang laughed, but she didn't care much, "You like to toss these." ”

Zhong Miao was relieved when she saw that she didn't ask much, and immediately persuaded Mrs. Jiang to go back to the house to lie down for a while, while she went to the kitchen with the treasure she had worked so hard to find.

There are really a lot of cauliflowers, and it is not realistic to use them all at once.

Zhong Miao rested on the pestle for a while, grabbed a handful and put it in the wooden barrel, and went to the yard to start the complicated cleaning work.

Because the cauliflower grows in water, there is a lot of mud and shell residue on it, and it is not so easy to wash it.

She scooped water into it, soaked it for a while before she fished it out and put it on top of the board, took a rolling pin and began to pound it.

Knock one side and change the other side until the dirt on the top is almost gone, and then rub it with your hands.

This cycle repeats itself almost four times or so.

It really took Zhong Miao's work to wash the handful of cauliflower at hand, and she took it into the kitchen and started to light a fire.

With memory and proportion, he added several scoops of water to the pot, and then put the washed cauliflower into it and boiled it together.

Originally, I should put some white vinegar into it, which can not only remove the fish, but also make the gum in the cauliflower release faster, but the current conditions are limited, and it is not a big problem not to add, but it is just to boil for a longer time.

After doing this, Zhong Miao filled a bowl of well water and found sugar.

The sugar was served in a small jar and wrapped tightly in a cloth. Zhong Miao untied it, and when she looked inside, there was not much sugar left, only the bottom layer remained.

She regretted that she hadn't bought some more from town.

Since there was not much sugar, she didn't dare to use it up all at once. After weighing it, he poured half of the well water into the bowl, leaving only half of the bowl. Then I put the sugar in a bowl and stirred it, and when it was sweet enough, I took the key hanging on the wall and went to the cellar.

Since it is iced gypsum, it is naturally the fastest way to put the sugar water in the cellar full of ice cubes in advance.

After the gypsum is boiled and cooled to form a jelly, the iced sugar water is poured on it, and it is done.