The medicine of rebirth

Chapter 250 Osmanthus Sauce, Mid-Autumn Mooncake
Jiang Zhuohua was still silent for a moment when he sent Mo Yan home, and stopped Mo Yan when he was about to walk into the side door. The arc came and stood with his back to Jiang Zhuohua, neither pretending not to hear, nor continuing to move forward, which made Jiang Zhuohua heave a sigh of relief.

But when the slightly cold words were uttered from the snow-white lips under the pink veil, Jiang Zhuohua's movement of raising his feet to move forward froze in mid-air for an instant, and finally landed slowly and looked at Mo Yan's back with a slight look in his eyes. He calmed down, "Mo Yan, what are you... talking about?"

Mo Yan turned her head to look at Jiang Zhuohua, her eyes, which always had a bright smile, were no longer as bright as they used to be, instead there was only a fading heat and emotions about to collapse, which also made her suffer from grievances and unspeakable pain over the years. At this time, it broke out completely, and said to Jiang Zhuohua hysterically: "Jiang Zhuohua, I know you don't like me, the reason why you are so kind to me is entirely because of our childhood friendship, but you never know it is because of you This kind of friendship will hurt me like this. Since you don’t love me, why didn’t you make it clear earlier and let me stop thinking about it earlier, otherwise why should I suffer and be wronged for so many years? I just like you alone, am I wrong?"

Before Jiang Zhuohua opened his mouth to defend, Mo Yan didn't care about the tears falling from her eyes, as if she was tired and no longer excited just now, the face under the veil was calm with the arrogance unique to her bones, her jaw was slightly too high, and the eyes in her eyes Giving up the bleakness caused Jiang Zhuohua's heart to ache uncontrollably like a needle prick, a very slight pain, but Jiang Zhuohua couldn't ignore it.

"We've been dragging on for so many years, and it's not good for you or me if we are in a stalemate. Since you have no intention of marrying me, I won't force you. I'll go back and ask my father to cancel the engagement. From now on, men and women will marry each other. Marriage is irrelevant."

After finishing speaking, just as Jiang Zhuohua was about to reach out to grab her, he entered the side door, and asked his servants to close the door. Mo Yan raised his hand to wipe away the mist from the corner of his eyes, and walked back to his boudoir with steady steps. The pink veil fell , that horrific scar spread across the tender and snow-white skin, and big tears gradually rolled down from the eye sockets. Sitting on the head of the bed, he bent his knees, encircled his legs and buried his head. Weeping softly in his knees.

She just likes Jiang Zhuohua, no matter whether it is her dependence when she was a child, or her liking after growing up, she just likes this person, but, it's just that this person just doesn't like her.

Since she doesn't like it, she won't force it anymore.

Breaking off the engagement like this, maybe everyone will not be so resentful when they meet in the future.

"Zhaohua...Brother..." Mo Yan whimpered intermittently from her lips, filled with endless sadness and pain. It was raining heavily outside the house, and it had already entered autumn. It was washed away, leaving only a touch of water vapor.

Uncle Jin Zhou who hadn't had time to go back had no choice but to stay at Su's house in the face of such pouring rain. But at this time, Su Banxi and Ning Chen were about to go out with coir raincoats and small baskets. Neither of Shi Sushi stopped them, but they were already used to their behavior.

Jin Zhou was a little curious about where they were going in this rainy day, so he grabbed Ning Chen while Su Banxi and Ning Chen hadn't gone out, but looked at Su Banxi and asked, "Where are you two going when you are dressed like this? "

Su Banxi tidied up her coir raincoat woven with zong leaves, looked back at Jin Zhou with a slight smile in her eyes and said, "Of course I went to pick osmanthus flowers and came back to prepare osmanthus wine. Autumn is the best season for brewing osmanthus wine." gone."

Osmanthus wine?
Jin Zhou's eyes lit up for a moment, but then they were replaced by doubts. He glanced at the dark sky outside and the raindrops that were densely woven into threads: "Then you shouldn't go out to pick osmanthus on a heavy rainy day, because you can't wait for the rain to stop. Do you want to go again? Osmanthus fragrans can’t escape there anyway.”

This time it was Ning Chen who spoke, and pulled Jin Zhou’s crooked coir raincoat back into place again: “Xixi said that it is best to go out to pick osmanthus in this weather, because the rain washes away the dust on the osmanthus. After returning, there is no need to wash and destroy the intact osmanthus flowers, so that when brewing osmanthus flower wine, the scent of osmanthus flowers can be better integrated into the white wine, and it will also make the brewed osmanthus wine more mellow aftertaste.”

Jin Zhou moved his fingers, asked Zhao for a coir raincoat, and imitated Su Banxi and Ning Chen, and tied a small basket around his waist, so that it would be easier to put the picked osmanthus in. Su Wen sewed the inside The bamboo hat with a light layer of oily skin was handed to the three of them, and he himself put one on his head, stepped on Zhao's inferior water shoes made of leather according to Su Banxi's request, kicked his feet and said: "It's a bit heavy, I'm not used to it."

Jin Zhou also got a pair, which was made for Su Shi, but because Su Shi's feet were one size bigger than Jin Zhou's, Jin Zhou was a bit slow when he put them on, but fortunately, they were carefully padded inside. After a while, the cold feet became warm. Jin Zhou happily looked at the gray-brown water shoes on his feet, looked up at Zhao Shi and said, "I said Sister Lan, how about Make me a pair too, so you won’t be afraid of the cold when you wear them in winter.”

Jin Zhou is a typical person who is afraid of the cold. He would stay in the house and refuse to go out every winter. So every time during the winter solstice, Ning Chen's parents would take Ning Chen to Yuning Town to celebrate the New Year with Jin Zhou. Don't expect Jin Zhou to go to Tunjiawan to see them in the winter.

And it doesn't need to be said by Jin Zhou, Mrs. Zhao also has this intention. Now that the family is not short of money, making a few pairs of shoes or some clothes is not a big deal for Mrs. Zhao, who is used to sewing as a female worker, so she nodded immediately: "Yes, if you like to wait and tell me the size of the shoes you are wearing, I will make them for you, and Xiaowen will send them to the town for you later."

Jin Zhou nodded, and it was obvious that he really liked these shoes on his feet, "Brother Shi, I've already worn your shoes, so why not just give them to me, and I'll give you another pair later, although it's not as good as Sister Shanglan did it, but it's still my kindness."

Su Shi didn't know whether to laugh or cry and nodded: "If you like it, just take it and wear it. You're welcome to send me another pair." Regarding Jin Zhou, Mrs. Zhao and Su Shi were very enthusiastic, and they both took him as their own family. Naturally Uncle Nu could not help getting a little bit of glory with Jin Zhou, but he had to tell Mrs. Zhao the size of his shoes with some embarrassment, and sat in the house looking at the burning stove.

The four of them put on coir raincoats and bamboo hats and set off. As always, Mrs. Zhao told them to pay attention to safety. Ning Chen and Jin Zhou all responded one by one, and then gradually disappeared into the rain. Zhao who sat back Shi took the sewing basket, and Su Shi next to him said: "You are always so nagging, be careful when Xiaoxi and the others are impatient with you, they have grown up, and you still treat them like children all day long."

After putting on the needlework, Mrs. Zhao rubbed it in her hair twice before withdrawing her hand. She took out a shoe-like sole from the sewing basket and prepared to sew a mille-ply sole. Hearing this, she retorted back not to be outdone: "You still talk about me, and I don't like it. I know who is pulling Xiaochen to babble all day long, Xiaochen has not bothered you until now, it is because for Xiaoxi's sake, no matter how old they are, they are always my children, Do you dare to say that you don't think so in your heart!"

Qi Shilang and the others took the carriage back with Chen Muyi in the afternoon, and it was simply because Chen Hai didn't dislike them, so he just saw them and dragged them back, but Liu Laotou fell in love with this place and didn't want to stay here When I went back, I saw the couple who were bickering all day long but they were in a good relationship. I took out the wine gourd, took out a cup and poured a glass for my uncle, smashed it and said: "Don't pay attention to them, I'll just talk about it all day. , In fact, both of them are worried about those children in their hearts, hey, duplicity!"

The wrinkles at the corners of Uncle Nu's eyes brought a faint smile, he took a sip of the drink Old Man Liu poured for him, nodded and said honestly, "They have a very good relationship, and they are not partial to Xizi!"

Old man Liu smiled and didn't speak, he just kept pouring wine into Uncle Nu's cup, and when Mrs. Zhao and Su Shi stopped talking, he turned his head and saw that two people who were over fifty years old were already lying on the table and shaking slightly. Hulu fell asleep, and Zhao Shi and Su Shi immediately looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads, got up and helped the two of them onto the kang to sleep.

Now it's autumn, and the temperature will drop when it rains. Su Shi was afraid that Old Man Liu and Uncle Nu would catch cold, so he asked Mrs. Zhao to go to the kitchen to bring firewood to heat the kang for them, so he left some sparks and Mrs. Zhao They opened the curtain together and went out.

Mrs. Zhao looked at the house that was empty but full of heart, turned her head slightly to look at Su Shi's side face and smiled and said, "I never dreamed that our family would live in such a big house, and there was no room in the yard. Then there is the muddy mud when it rains, and there are two sheep in the back room. Before, I always thought that our family can live a good life together. How could I expect to live such a good life now. "

Su Shi gently wrapped his arms around Zhao Shi's shoulders, without saying a word, Zhao Shi leaned on his shoulders and watched the rainwater falling continuously from the eaves, feeling extremely calm in his heart.

There is nothing around Tunjia Bay, but there are many trees, and the osmanthus trees are the most in the depression under the back mountain. Even the heavy rain can't wash away the strong fragrance of the osmanthus. I stepped on my water shoes and came to the osmanthus forest. The four of them sniffed their noses first, and the rich scent of sweet-scented osmanthus was really refreshing, as if even the rain couldn't stop the overflow of this scent.

"How do you pick it? Are you picking it off directly with the branches?" Jin Zhou turned his head and looked at Su Banxi who was walking down with Ning Chen holding hands next to him. road.

The small baskets around the waists of the four of them were all woven by Su Shi, and Su Banxi had cleaned all of them before coming back, so it’s no problem to pick the sweet-scented osmanthus directly into it. When you come down, you can only pick them one by one and put them in a small basket, don’t damage the ones that have been eaten by insects, don’t pick the leaves and branches, and don’t want any impurities, so as not to damage the taste of the sweet-scented osmanthus wine.”

Jin Zhou heard black lines all over his forehead, and picked them off one by one, then they would have to pick them in the year of the monkey, but seeing Ning Chen and Su Wen, neither of them had any objections, obviously they were used to it, so they didn't. After complaining and shrugging his shoulders, he resigned himself to picking osmanthus. At the beginning, Jin Zhou's speed was very slow, but when he found the technique, he started to speed up. However, in half an hour, the small basket on his waist was half filled.

His fingers were a little stiff from the cold, but it couldn't stop Jin Zhou from taking the initiative. He briefly moved his limbs and neck, and then continued to work.

When the four of them came back with a full load, the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus lingering on their bodies, Jin Zhou was even more excited and said that he would continue to pick the sweet-scented osmanthus tomorrow. Su Banxi smiled and said nothing, and would come back tomorrow to pick the sweet-scented osmanthus for half a day. Go back in the afternoon and start making sweet-scented osmanthus Sauce and moon cakes, it seems that she will not be able to pass the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tunjiawan, but she is relieved instantly when she thinks that she is still in debt.

The most important thing now is to open a shop to make money, and then pay off the debts owed to Jin Zhou, so that you can be considered light!
On the way, Jin Zhou seemed to suddenly remember his purpose of coming to Tunjiawan: "Xiao Xi, when are you going to go back to Yuning Town to open a shop? It's been almost a month, everything is ready, just Waiting for you to go back. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Your accountant said it is the best auspicious day. Although it is a bit inhumane to let you go back when you are reunited, if you don’t go back, those workers in your house They're all running away."

Speaking of Jin Zhou, I can't wait to go crazy. Other people's houses choose auspicious days to open their shops after their shops are repaired. It's good for her, Su Banxi. , Jin Zhou didn't have the energy to get angry with Su Banxi.

Because no matter what you do, even if you are about to explode with anger, she still looks tepid, making Jin Zhou really unable to get angry at all, so he had to talk to Su Banxi in a discussing tone.

Su Banxi didn't answer Jin Zhou vaguely this time, she nodded and said, "Well, we'll go back to open the shop the day after tomorrow morning, by the way, don't bother picking auspicious days, how long will the good days be?" so that she can know when to go back, There is nothing else going on here. As for Mrs. Zhao's plan to start a small business in Tunjiawan, it was delayed because of the building of a house. But now Su Banxi doesn't have much time to teach Mrs. Zhao, so she had to do this first. up.

Jin Zhou's eyeballs rolled, and he barely remembered the time Ye Wang told him before: "It's two quarters in the afternoon, so we have to go back an hour in advance to prepare. I really haven't seen anyone who is about to open a store. It's like You are wandering around at home like this, I guess you will be taught a lesson by your accountant when you go back."

Thinking that Su Banxi would be reprimanded by Ye Wang, Jin Zhou couldn't stop gloating and made Ning Chen glance at Jin Zhou, Jin Zhou couldn't laugh immediately, and said in his heart that Ning Chen was eating and drinking, this daughter-in-law didn't even have As soon as she got married, she started to look forward, but deep down she was still relieved.

At least Xiao Xi had to be treated like this by Xiao Chen.

After returning home, Su Banxi was not idle either, boiled the fresh sweet-scented osmanthus they picked with water, and chopped them up for later use.

Put sucrose in the water, let Su Wen heat the water to dissolve the sucrose in the water.

When the water boils, add a little coarse salt, and when the bubbles on the water surface turn small, pour all the chopped osmanthus into it, turn to low heat and boil it into syrup, and the osmanthus sauce is ready.

The sweet scent of sweet-scented osmanthus filled the kitchen, and Su Banxi also took advantage of this time to make a lot of small, white and fat glutinous rice balls, and steamed them in the steamer, "Chenchen, go and dry the glutinous rice balls we picked last time. Bring the sweet-scented osmanthus."

Osmanthus fragrans can be made into many food supplements. Su Banxi liked glutinous rice balls stuffed with osmanthus sauce when she was alive. Now that there are so many osmanthus fragrans, she can’t make it thoroughly. She also wonders if she should make some glutinous rice balls at night. Eat, sweet-scented osmanthus sauce doesn't need to be brewed, it can be eaten immediately after boiled into syrup, but before that, she still wants to make pickled sweet-scented osmanthus.

Although pickled osmanthus is also fresh osmanthus, the fresh osmanthus should be spread flat in a sieve, the impurities inside should be cleaned, and it should be placed in a cool and ventilated place to dry. The family has been busy building a house some time ago, and Aunt Zhu Zhang’s Zhang Dongmei Helping Mrs. Zhao to cook, Su Banxi simply took seven or eight little ghost heads to pick a lot of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers, cleaned them up and put them in a sieve to dry.

In response, Ning Chen brought over the osmanthus that had become darker in the sieve, and Su Banxi rubbed it with her hands, the soft feeling remained between her fingers, with a faint expression of satisfaction on her face: "It's almost done, we can do it." Pickled osmanthus."

Find a clean jar that has not been pickled, and Su Banxi puts the dried osmanthus into the jar. In fact, the container used to make pickled osmanthus should be a glass bottle, but this is ancient times, so Su Banxi will settle for the second best. Use jars to pickle sweet-scented osmanthus.

Then sprinkle a layer of sweet-scented osmanthus with a layer of fine sugar until all the sweet-scented osmanthus is filled, and finally sprinkle fine sugar about three centimeters thick on top, seal the seal with fine sugar, cover with ink pad, and wrap it tightly with oil paper if there is no plastic wrap Put the third layer on the bottom layer of the kitchen cabinet to let it taste naturally. Su Banxi also told Mrs. Zhao that after two or three days, the sweet-scented osmanthus can be eaten when the water overflows. After that, seal the mouth of the altar with ink pad and put it in the cellar to prevent the pickled osmanthus from deteriorating.

Mrs. Zhao nodded, looking at the golden sweet-scented osmanthus sauce. At this time, the glutinous rice dumpling was ready to come out. Su Banxi scooped out a little bit of warm osmanthus sauce with a bowl, and then picked up a soft, white and fat dumpling with chopsticks. The glutinous rice dumpling was rolled in osmanthus sauce and passed to Mrs. Zhao's mouth. Just when she was about to remind Mrs. Zhao that it was very hot, Mrs. Zhao had already eaten the glutinous rice dumpling wrapped in a layer of golden yellow coat into her mouth.

Then Su Banxi couldn't laugh or cry and poured a glass of cold water for Mrs. Zhao, "Mother, you look like a big and small glutton, let me see if you burn your tongue."

The tip of Mrs. Zhao's tongue was a little reddish, and the layer of warm osmanthus sauce on the outside softened the hotness of the glutinous rice dumpling, otherwise Mrs. Zhao's tongue would definitely be bubbling. She took a sip of the cold water poured by Su Banxi and said, "Isn't this Smelling the fragrance, I couldn't hold back."

Afterwards, everyone ate several glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in a layer of golden osmanthus sauce. Although the osmanthus sauce is sweet, the coarse salt added to it neutralizes the sweetness of the sucrose, and makes the fragrance of the osmanthus itself more lingering between the lips and teeth. Lingering around and refusing to disperse, while eating around Jin was also silently thinking in his heart that if this dish also became the table food of the Medicinal Food Workshop, it would probably be a big hit!

Naturally, I didn't eat the glutinous rice balls that Su Banxi was thinking about at night, because the glutinous rice dumplings in the afternoon were so hungry that no one wanted to eat. Su Banxi didn't eat much, so she ordered a bowl of clear water noodles for herself and finished it silently. Naturally, it was a busy day.

In fact, there have been molds for mooncake models in ancient times, and the patterns are much more delicate and beautiful than modern ones. Su Banxi added sweet-scented osmanthus sauce to the mooncakes, boiled them and made them into pureed red bean paste. Su Banxi and his party were leaving early tomorrow morning, and Mrs. Zhao was too busy, so she wrapped the finished mooncakes in oiled paper and stuffed them for Su Banxi to take to the town to eat.

After Su Banxi didn't shirk the acceptance, she asked Mrs. Zhao and Su Shi to do it at home. They have everything at home now, so they shouldn't save money. After Su Banxi and his party left, Mrs. Zhao's eyes were slightly wet, and Su Shi After comforting me with kind words for a while, I got up again and went to the kitchen to make mooncakes again.

(End of this chapter)