Chapter Fifty-Six: Pipa Sweet Soup
Du Niangzi just lived like this, the conditions were limited, and she also recognized the reality, fortunately, Du Xuanmo went to the exam, if she had fame, she would not have to suffer again in the future.
Shen Shimei takes good care of Du Niangzi, because Du Niangzi is cold, and since she came, she has maintained a bowl of mutton soup every day.
"Brother Du will leave tomorrow, let's send it off?" Shen Shiliu said.
Although Du Niangzi also wanted to send it, the distance from the county seat to Chaoxia Village was not close, and her physical strength could not keep up.
"I won't go, if you go, help me tell him a few words, be sure to pay attention to your body, don't care too much about anything else, it's true to come back safely!" Du Niangzi said.
Shen Shiliu smiled bitterly: "Brother Du is good at learning, he will definitely be able to pass the exam!" β
Shen Shiliu went to the county seat early in the morning, and a sign was also set up at the location of the bookstall and was temporarily closed for a period of time.
Shen Pomegranate went directly to Du's house, Du Xuanmo was packing his baggage, and when he saw Shen Pomegranate coming, he greeted him.
"Is this what you're leaving?" Shen Shiliu asked.
Du Xuanmo nodded: "Well, if you don't leave, you probably won't be able to catch up." β
Shen Shiliu handed over the package he was carrying: "This is what I did, you take it and eat it on the road, go out, pay attention to eating, don't go wrong during the exam." β
Du Xuanmo took the things, and then said, "When I leave, my mother will ask you." β
"Don't worry." Shen Shiliu smiled, Du Xuanmo is really a filial son.
Du Xuanmo went to his room, and finally took out something and handed it to Shen Shimei.
Shen Shiliu took it, with a brush wrapped in a handkerchief.
"I made it myself, I originally wanted to come back and send it to you, but I think it's better to send it now." Du Xuanmo said, so that during his absence, Shen Shiliu would not forget him, and he still had some sense of crisis.
"Thank you, I'll use it well!" Shen Shiliu directly accepted the things, and the things sent by the nerd were so literary.
Du Xuanmo carried the things, and Shen Pomegranate sent Du Xuanmo to the city gate.
"Take care of yourself all the way, remember to ask someone to send a letter back." Shen Shiliu said.
Du Xuanmo nodded: "Definitely, you should also take care of yourself, wait for me to come back." No matter how much he didn't say, he only hoped that Shen Shiliu would not be married to others during this time.
"Okay." Shen Shiliu only answered this one word, but it made Du Xuanmo feel a lot more at ease.
Du Xuanmo was on the road like this, and Shen Pomegranate was a little empty.
"Maybe that's what worries you, right? I feel like you're not very good......" Shen Shiliu muttered, and finally understood why some people are reluctant to fall in love, although love is sweet, but it also suffers from gains and losses, which makes people feel even more tormented.
The days will go on, Shen Pomegranate returned to the village, it has reached the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies, after the weather warms up, Zheng and Shen's father went to sell broth, and Shen Pomegranate continued his life.
"Pomegranate, are you tired? Let's take a breath and get back to work! "Du Niangzi's body has improved a lot under the warm sun of Shen Pomegranate's sheep soup every day, and now her face is much ruddy. Seeing Shen Pomegranate busy all morning, Du Niangzi wondered where Shen Pomegranate came from so much?
Shen Shiliu first went to the river to eat fish and shrimp in the morning, and then went to his own field to water it.
"I'm not tired, it's still a little cold in this yard, it's better for my aunt to wear more clothes and sit again." Shen Shiliu said, this little work is really trivial to her, but Du Niangzi, who has just raised a little good looks, but don't be sick by the cool breeze again.
Du Niangzi went into the house and took a blanket, and watched Shen Pomegranate work.
Du Niangzi also knows that she belongs to the kind of person who is not very good at working, but watching Shen Pomegranate work is quite pleasing to the eye. How to dive into the water and how to light the fire, a series of actions reveal skillfulness and lightness, and she is not tired to watch, just working hard, Shen Shimei is much stronger than her.
"How can pomegranates be so good at working, they can pick and carry it, and they are also experts in cooking!" Du Niangzi praised Shen Pomegranate.
Shen Shimei was praised, so he smiled and said: "The conditions at home are limited, and if you do more, you will become proficient." She remembered that when she was a child, the family conditions were not good when she was a child, in order to go to school and get out of the village, she used to even go to the construction site to slab bricks, and at first her hands and feet were blistered, and then the worker's uncle saw that it was not easy for her to be a girl, so he taught a lot of hard work.
"And with my body, if I don't have any strength to work, I can't work!" Shen Shiliu laughed at herself, Du Niangzi shouldn't like her round figure very much.
Du Niangzi sighed: "The pomegranate girl is really good at everything." "Except for fat.
Shen Pomegranate didn't care, and continued to work on his own, the small fish and shrimp that were newly brought back today were relatively small, Shen Pomegranate pondered for a while, and then mashed the fish and shrimp into a sauce, and then added some seasoning to make a shrimp paste. After that, he mixed cornmeal with white flour and flour and spread out small pancakes.
"Auntie taste?" Shen Pomegranate smeared the pancakes with shrimp paste, reported the laughing greens, and sent them to Du Niangzi.
The small pizza rolls are small, and the mouths are big enough to take one bite.
Du Niangzi took it, looked at the appearance realistically and said: "This one is so small, it will take some effort to eat a meal." After speaking, he put it in his mouth and took a bite, and then said: "Oh, this taste is really fresh, obviously it is fish and shrimp as sauce, but it is not fishy at all with the green vegetables inside!" β
"It doesn't take much effort, just eat well!" Shen Pomegranate said and hurried to continue wrapping, the sweet potato porridge was boiling in the pot, and the sweet potato was also cut into small pieces, and it slowly boiled.
When the three members of the Shen family came back from the county seat, Shen Pomegranate had already prepared a table of rice, accompanied by the chrysanthemum radish developed by himself, and this meal was very rich.
Du Niangzi was not surprised to live for a few days, although they were all ordinary ingredients, but after such processing by Shen Pomegranate, it felt like she had never eaten before.
The family had a happy meal, Shen Shimei and Hong Xiuhua continued to make pastries, Hong Xiuhua has received the first batch of money in the past few days, it is really a lot of gains, and the money taken home Hong Dadi sighed, it is much better than farming.
"I'm here to help you, eat and live here, you have to let me help a little to feel comfortable." Du Niangzi said.
Shen Shimei didn't refuse, it was not good to let Du Niangzi stay all the time, so it was considered to be an activity.
Du Niangzi also knew that Hong Xiuhua was the fiancΓ©e of the eldest son of the Shen family, so the chat became more lively.
"Miss Xiuhua's hand is also skillful, and the size of the rice cake pinched out is not bad at all!" Du Niangzi said, pinching this thing looks simple, but it is really not easy to pinch out something about the same size.
"It's good if your hands are familiar." Hong Xiuhua replied with a smile, she heard from Shen Shu that the woman in front of her was likely to be her future sister-in-law's mother-in-law, and she was polite before speaking, for fear that her sister-in-law would have a hard time after offending people.
Shen Pomegranate saw that the stuffing was almost finished, so he went to take out the mold and make it into a flower shape, and then boiled water on the pot, and it was almost steamed.
Zheng is watching the broth in the pot on the side, and these days there are more people working in the county, and her family's business is becoming more and more stable.
The village chief said that she would be able to repay the five taels she owed when the autumn harvest was completed today, but she now has a lot of money in her hand, and in a few days, when the money is enough, she will start building a house!
After a busy day, Shen Shimei was finally able to rest when he was lying in bed at night. Du Niangzi's life is relatively resting, and she has already slept at this time, but she is still coughing sporadically from time to time, and the old problems that have fallen from her frail body for many years are not a day or two that can be cured.
The next day, Shen Pomegranate went to the back mountain, the back mountain is now a new green, Shen Pomegranate found a few wild loquat trees according to the place in his memory, although it is not the season to bear fruit, but the leaves are still usable.
Shen Pomegranate picked a basket of loquat leaves and returned home, and when he got home, he used a bristle brush to wash all the fluff on the leaves, and then cut the leaves into fine leaves.
"Pomegranate, what's this for?" There is only one Du Niangzi at home, and seeing that Shen Shimei is busy here, she came over to see the excitement.
Shen Shiliu replied: "This is this year's loquat leaves, which can be used to relieve cough and moisten your lungs, and the effect is very good." So saying, he boiled water on the pot, threw the cut filaments into the pot, and threw brown sugar and wild chrysanthemums into it.
Du Niangzi was moved in her heart, she usually couldn't sleep well at home because of coughing, although the medicine worked, but also because it cost a lot of money to sell the medicine, although Du Xuanmo was reluctant, but she was reluctant, and finally she could only endure the cough. Yesterday, I choked on the wind, and this old problem was committed, but I didn't expect Shen Shimei to notice it.
Shen Pomegranate looked at the fire, and went to wash the remaining leaves, and cut them as well.
"What are these for?" Du Niangzi asked again.
"Eating raw leaves directly is slightly toxic, and drinking water with chrysanthemum tea when dried in the sun also has the effect of relieving cough and moistening the lungs." Shen Shiliu said.
Du Niangzi felt that these things were new to her, so she said, "How do you know so much about pomegranates?" "Do you know that the leaves are toxic?
Shen Shiliu pointed to a few grass trays in the yard and said: "This village is far away from the county seat, and it is not convenient to find a doctor for a little problem, and every household in the village knows some herbal medicine!" After speaking, he pointed to the shelf in the courtyard and said, "Our village usually picks some herbs and sells them to the medicine shop, so it's nothing to understand these." "Shen Shiliu has to say that if the survival of the ancient people is placed in the university, it is estimated that a new major will be created!
Du Niangzi admired, she used to think that most of these countrymen were ignorant, but now that she looks, she is far worse than these villagers!
As soon as the water in the pot boiled, Shen Pomegranate turned down the heat and simmered for a while before coming out of the pot.
Fill out all the soup in the pot, and take out the boiled leaf residue and throw it away.
"Auntie, drink it, be careful of it!" Shen Pomegranate took a bowl and sent it to Du Niangzi, and she also served a bowl herself.
Du Niangzi took it and smelled it first, the loquat leaves tasted more rushed, but Shen pomegranate added chrysanthemums, and the unique fragrance of chrysanthemums was neutralized, and it smelled nothing.
Blow, take a sip, sweet and slightly bitter, but drink with a different flavor!
"It's delicious, it's the sweet pipa soup I've ever drunk!" Du Niangzi was pleasantly surprised, this taste is estimated that she will not feel bad for the rest of her life.