Chapter 42 Tangyuan

After confirming that the spring water is not harmful to the plants and has great benefits, he began to consciously use the spring water to water his vegetable patch.

As she started watering profusely, she noticed a visible change in the growth of the vegetables after watering herself.

After a few days of this, she began to restrain herself from watering the spring in large quantities.

The vegetables in the small vegetable garden grow too quickly and are too eye-catching, and it is easy to attract the attention of those who are interested. After all, there is no shortage of people in the village who have been staring at other vegetable fields for research.

It's not unaware that half of the first month is about to pass, and today is the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month.

In their place, they have to eat rice balls on the day of the Lantern Festival, and they are all home-made rice balls.

Early in the morning, after finishing her housework, Shu Nuan packed a basket of raw peanuts and sat in her yard and slowly began to peel the shells.

"Click...... Click...... Click......"

Gently apply force to the dried peanuts, and the peanuts in pink clothes are exposed.

At Shu Nuan's feet, several sparrows with sheared wings and feathers were chirping on the ground looking for food, and they didn't look panicked at all.

The big cat Ah Huang has recently drunk a little spring water with the sparrows every day, perhaps because of the past few days of getting along, he has lost the desire to prey on the sparrows.

I lazily bask in the sun every day, completely ignoring the sparrows that have been bouncing in front of me.

"Eldest sister, I'll peel peanut shells too."

Shu Zheming moved a small bench and sat down with a smile on his face.

School is about to start on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and after Shu Nuan said two days ago that he would accompany him to the school to register, he has been so happy in the past two days.

Shu Nuan raised her eyes and glanced at her younger brother who had been a little stupid in the past few days, and a trace of helplessness flashed in her doting eyes.

"Sure enough, it's still a child's heart."

She also knew that she had too little time to spend with her relatives in the past, but there was no way to do it, in short, everything was for life.

In Shu Nuan's plan, she now wants to earn money and give her younger brother a bright future, after all, the other party has paid too much for her in the previous life and lost too much.

Even if it is a relative who should not be too clear, she has to use this life and this life to repay the kindness of the previous life.

The previous life was the first half of her miserable life, and this life is the second half of her happy life.

The past is gone, and she decides to look forward.

As for the Shu family's side, everything will be fine, if she doesn't take the initiative to provoke that side, she doesn't want to get any more benefits from her.

Today, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shu Nuan is ready to make sweet rice balls with peanut brown sugar filling, but there are only three people in the family, and they can't eat a few rice balls, and the peanuts used to make the stuffing naturally don't use much.

The two siblings slowly peeled the peanuts, and then cleaned up the peanut shells on the ground.

Shu Nuan picked up the bowl with peanuts, and then instructed Shu Zheming: "Xiao Ming, you look at it here, don't let Ah Huang make mistakes." ”

Recently, the big cat Ah Huang has not harmed the few flightless sparrows at home, but no one can guarantee that when no one is watching, the cat will eat these sparrows on a whim.

Shu Zheming naturally understood her words, nodded and promised, "Eldest sister, you can rest assured." ”

"Well, then I'll fry peanuts."

Shu Nuan said, got up and walked to the kitchen.

The peanuts used to make the filling of rice balls should be made into crispy crushed peanuts, and since they want to be crispy, they naturally have to go overboard.

She took a handful of straw, lit it with a lighter, and put it in the stove, followed by firewood.

When the flame was burning, she put the peanuts into a large clean iron pot and fried them dry.

After a few fires, the peanuts quickly burst open with the heat and took off the pink clothes.

"It should be almost."

Shu Nuan grabbed a few peanuts with his hand, and easily got rid of the peanut coat on it.

Remove from heat, remove from heat, put in a bowl,

Her movements are fluid and pleasing to the eye.

At this time, Shu Zheming came to the door of the kitchen, poked his head out and asked, "Sister, do you need my help?" ”

Shu Nuan turned her head to look at her younger brother, chuckled and said, "Didn't you look at Ah Huang?" Why did you get here? ”

"......" Shu Zheming raised Ah Huang, the big cat who was being lifted by himself, before continuing to explain: "I see that you haven't come out, so I came over to take a look." ”

"Alright, let's get out."

Shu Nuan didn't say much, served the fried peanuts, and walked out of the kitchen to the yard.

At this time, the pestle mortar that needs to be used, which was originally used to pound medicine, is now used to pound garlic The small tool has been cleaned and prepared.

The pestle mortar at home is made of iron, which has been used for many years, and is still in good condition without any damage.

After Shu Nuan cleaned up the peanut coat on the outside of the peanuts, he hugged the pestle mortar on the table.

"It's a bit heavy."

As she spoke, she mashed the peanuts into a mortar with a pestle.

The crunchy peanuts were gently ground with an iron pestle, and they quickly shattered, and the sound of fried peanuts spread.

Once the peanuts are ready, add the brown sugar and continue to pound until the two are completely mixed together.

Because the iron pestle is very weighty, after pounding it for a while, her hands began to be a little sore.

Shu Zheming saw that her movements began to slow down, and immediately knew that she was tired.

So Ah Huang, the big cat who was tightly pressed in his arms, went to the side and volunteered: "Sister, I'll help you." ”

Shu Nuan thought that the glutinous rice ball powder had not yet been reconciled, so he nodded and responded: "Okay, then you take your time, call me when you are ready." ”

"Got it."

Shu Zheming nodded and took the pestle mortar in her hand.

Glutinous rice flour is glutinous rice flour, and almost every household will seriously injure a few points of glutinous rice, and glutinous rice is grown in almost the same way as rice, and there is no difference.

To make your own dumplings, the most time-consuming thing is to make the stuffing, and nothing else is too troublesome.

After Shu Nuan reconciled the rice ball powder, Shu Zheming over there also prepared the filling needed to make the rice balls.

When the time ticked to eleven o'clock at noon, the family sat around and started making dumplings.

Wrapping the dumplings is much simpler than the buns, put the stuffing directly into the flour skin, and knead it into a round ball with both hands.

When the white and chubby rice balls were tumbling in the hot pot of boiling water, the sound of firecrackers came from not far from the village.

Today, some people deliberately set off firecrackers to meet the occasion, but most people don't set off firecrackers to save money.

Shu Zheming used a porcelain spoon to put soft glutinous and sweet rice balls, and after taking a big bite, he hurriedly spit them out of his mouth: "Well, it's so hot......"

"Don't worry, eat slowly, and no one will rob you."

Shu Nuan said helplessly, and handed over a cup of cold white to the younger brother.

After Shu Zheming poured a few sips of water, he only felt that the tip of his tongue was numb.