Xiuse Farmhouse

Chapter 20 The Wife's Responsibilities

This is the first time Wanwan has heard Baisong greet people proactively.Hearing the sound, Yuan Bao's father and mother turned their heads and saw Baishou carrying the prey. Yuan Bao's father put down a long bamboo he had just cut and said, "Well, hunting?"

Next to her, Yuan Baoniang tied up the picked bamboo, and at the same time, she glanced at Wanwan, who was standing next to her with her back on her back. Seeing that she was looking at her curiously, Yuan Baoniang was slightly stunned.

She met Wanwan once when she first got married, if it were used before, she should be standing behind Baishou with her head down and her eyebrows lowered.

"Want to help?" Baishou said as he unloaded his back, put down his prey, picked up his knife and walked over.

Wanwan thought that Yuanbao's father and mother would definitely refuse, but Yuanbao's father only said: "It's okay, I only have a few shorts here." But he didn't stop Baishou from helping.

Baishou helps Father Yuan Bao cut bamboo.Wan Wan stood by and watched, Yuan Baoniang didn't seem to take the initiative to talk to her, and she didn't want to put her hot face on her cold butt.

When the bamboo was almost cut, Baishou helped to tie the bamboo, and then tied the two bundles of bamboo together with a rope, so that they could carry them easily.In the end, the three of them finished their work, and found that Wan Wan, who had been standing by the side watching, had disappeared. Finally, when they looked carefully, they found that she was squatting in the bamboo forest for some reason.

Baishou stood outside the bamboo forest and called out: "Daughter-in-law, we should go."

"Hey, wait..." Wanwan replied, without looking back, she continued to squat in the woods.

The three were suspicious, Baishou walked into the forest, but saw Wanwan breaking a sharp object, he said: "What are you doing?"

Wanwan turned around, smiled, pointed at the things on the ground and said: "This is a bamboo shoot, it's edible, it's so strong, come here..." Get up and let it go, and said: "Forget it, you'd better use a knife. Cut off this place, and we only need the top part." Keeping the bottom part can continue to grow in the future.

Dig out the bamboo shoots that have grown, and there are some places on the ground where there are faintly pointed shoots protruding. Maybe after a few days, these bamboo shoots will all grow out.

Normally no one in the village would eat this, Yuan Bao's father and mother looked at the few bamboo shoots that Wan Wan handed over strangely.

"Sister Yang, these are for you."

Seeing that Yuan Baoniang didn't take it, she hesitated and asked, "Can this be eaten?"

"Sure, cut it into slices and stir-fry it with the meat. Although it's a bit bitter, it's delicious. It's a good dish for clearing away heat." Stir-fried pork slices with bamboo shoots are very famous in modern times.

Yuan Baoniang glanced at Yuan Bao's father, Yuan Bao's father looked at Wanwan meaningfully, and said to Baishou: "Do you usually eat this?"

Baishou shook his head: "I haven't eaten it." But the daughter-in-law said that if she can eat it, she should be able to eat it.

Yuan Bao's parents suddenly felt some sympathy for Baishou and his wife. Although Baishou's fate is not good and he is not popular with the villagers, he is a good person in nature. Now the couple are so embarrassed that they want to come to the mountains Find these things to eat.

Father Yuan Bao sighed, wanting to help Bai Shou, but considering his temper, he decided to forget it.Yuan Baoniang didn't take the bamboo shoots, and said embarrassingly that she couldn't eat that bitter thing.

Wanwan sighed in his heart, it's a pity that these ancient people really don't understand food!Then baby put all the bamboo shoots in the back.

In an instant, Yuan Bao's parents suddenly felt an impulse to help them.

Green hills and green trees, it's much faster to go back.

The four of them went down the mountain together, and the bamboo was carried down the mountain by Baishou helping Dad Yuanbao.The things were only delivered to the entrance of the village, and Baishou and Wanwan returned home.For this reason, Yuan Bao's parents are very complicated.

The harvest was not small today, and when I got home, Wanwan put the saponins into a sieve and put them under the eaves.

Bai Shou was checking in the new vegetable garden, and Wanwan took out two large bags of peppercorns and spread them on the table.

There are two types of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, raw and cooked.Cooking with fresh pepper is more flavorful.But after roasting, it becomes cooked pepper, which can be ground into pepper powder and eaten directly.

The preservation method of raw Zanthoxylum bungeanum is relatively simple, as long as it is dried in the sun.The traditional method of drying Chinese prickly ash recorded in modern books is to dry it in the sun or dry it in a cool and dry place. It takes a long time, generally 6-10 days, and mildew is prone to occur if it encounters rainy weather during this period.Cooked prickly ash is artificially roasted.Quick and easy.

Wanwan cooks first, and after the meal is done, she cuts up the bamboo shoots. There is no meat, so she has to fry the bamboo shoots in oil.It tastes a bit worse than bamboo shoot meat slices.But Baishou said it was delicious.Because Wanwan filters the bamboo shoots in hot water in advance, there is no bitterness as imagined.

After the meal was cleaned up, the peppers were made.

Without a professional baking sieve tool, Wan Wan had to pour the peppercorns into the pot. If he used a baking sieve to bake, he would only use medium heat, but now he pours the peppercorns directly into the pot, and keeps the stove on a low fire all the time. When the water vapor comes out, use a handkerchief to wipe the bottom of the pot directly to absorb the water.This is dehumidification.

At the beginning, the flipping time interval is longer and the number of times is less.As the moisture is slowly drained, the frequency of turning is increased and the time interval is shortened.so repeatedly.Wait until the dried pepper is fragrant and there is no more moisture on the pepper.

Finally, put the peppercorns in a bag made of a piece of cloth.At this point, the dried peppercorns are made.If it wasn't for the limited tools, she couldn't mass-produce it, otherwise she would have to consider whether to make this thing and sell it in the market.

It was a bit late to make the peppercorns. Baishou took the pot down and replaced it with a new pot. This was bought last time, and it was specially used to boil hot water for bathing.Although the cooking pot for eating and cooking can still boil water after being cleaned, it is no better than the water boiled in this non-stick pot.

In order to test whether the soap is really easy to use, Wanwan washed Baishou's hair first, and found that saponins are indeed much better than the leaves, with more foam, and the hair has a clear fragrance after washing, and the smell is much better .

Bai Shou was happy all night smelling the fragrance of his hair, and now he smells as fragrant as his wife!
Ever since, when he went to bed at night, Baishou was not like before. He was always afraid that he would smell bad for his wife. He took the initiative to make the bed and let Wan Wan go to bed. Usually they are separated by a long distance, and they deliberately turned their heads inward, and then looked at Wanwan with bright eyes.

The next day Wanwan got up early to make pancakes, Baishou held the wrapped pancakes, looked at Wanwan with a piercing expression, and said, "Daughter-in-law, wait for me at home, I'll buy buns for you and come back." up the yard.

Wanwan thought of Baishou wearing obscene clothes last night, lying on the bed and looking at her with piercing eyes.

Without the restraint of the coat, her muscular body exuded a strong masculine aura, and the temperature around her gradually became higher because of him. At that moment, she realized that Baishou was actually quite handsome!
Bai Shou is shy, but he is also his own man. When the relationship between the two gets better and better, she seems to have to fulfill her responsibilities as a wife.Fortunately, that was for the future, at least Baishou didn't ask her anything now.

From the bottom of her heart, she does not reject Baishou, and even thinks it is very good and happy to find such a man.But she was still a little scared and dazed about becoming his wife.After all, Wanwan is still an unmarried girl in modern times!
(End of this chapter)