Old Man Dong went to carry beans. The clan leader took several young adults from the clan to visit nearby villages for a few days and collected a lot of beans.
In fact, it is not easy to harvest beans now because the new beans have not come down and there are not many old beans left.
But I also collected some here and there.
Old Man Dong and Uncle Dong came back carrying two bags of beans each. Tonight, the Dong family needed to move.
After the work in the fields was finished in the third winter and spring, I took the Dong Wu family up the mountain to chop firewood.
To make jelly, you need to boil the beans and separate the starch, which requires a fire!
Old man Dong was afraid that he would not have enough firewood, so he specially asked Dong, San and Chun to go to the mountain to collect some firewood.
By the time Old Man Dong and Uncle Dong came back, Old Mrs. Dong's dinner had already been cooked.
Simple beans and rice, shredded cucumbers and wild vegetables are mixed with salt and can be eaten as a dish.
On a hot day, Mrs. Dong is not willing to cook hot dishes, so she makes something cool and refreshing to eat.
Dong Nuan was given a bowl of beans and rice, but Dong Wu was too tired to talk and just focused on cooking rice.
Dong Tao and the others are now so afraid of Dong Nuan that they don't even dare to look at Dong Nuan, let alone begging for a couple from Dong Nuan.
This meal was quite a leisurely meal. After the meal, the whole family got busy.
Except for Dong Nuan, all the unmarried girls were ordered by Mrs. Dong to be locked back in their rooms and not allowed to peek into the process of cooking the white jade paste.
"I'm going to say something ugly first. If you let me know who is disobedient and returns to her parents' home to report the letter, don't blame my old man for changing his son's wife!" Although his daughters-in-law were involved, Old Man Dong still kept his words.
In the past, I was also afraid that some of my daughters-in-law would be like Aunt Dong, who would eat everything in and out.
The unmarried girls of the Dong family are not allowed to participate because they are afraid that the girls will learn the crafts and later go to their husband's house and reveal all these things.
Dongnuan knows everything, so it's useless for you to lock her up.
So, it's better to just let her go.
In fact, I really don’t want to see the warmth in winter. Who wants to sit around the stove on a hot day?
But Old Man Dong said, if it doesn’t work well, Dong Nuan knows the steps and can give some advice.
In order to make Dong Nuan happy, Mrs. Dong dug around and found a piece of candy, which she used to make Dong Nuan happy.
When Dong Nuan saw that she couldn't leave, she stayed to take a look. If it was too hot, she would go out for a walk.
Old Man Dong stood aside and watched Old Mrs. Dong take a spoon and start cooking beans. The ones they were given were mung beans.
Mrs. Dong had a step in her mind. The patriarch taught them to memorize it sentence by sentence and practiced it briefly before letting them go home.
It's hard for Old Man Dong to get started now. After all, he has never cooked for most of his life. He is really not good at it.
Therefore, he directed Mrs. Dong to come.
"Learn well and don't let your mother-in-law cook alone. We have two large pots at home and a small pot in the yard, but the cooking in that pot is easy for others to see, so we won't use it for the time being. Let's cook it first
Cook it at home." Old Man Dong explained to the family members while instructing Mrs. Dong.
No one is stupid. They all know that this is a craft. If you really learn it, it will be yours. Even if you split up the family in the future, it is a craft that you can take with you. So no one said much, and everyone stared at them with bright eyes.
The green beans in the pot are watching.
The production process of mung bean starch is a bit long, and it doesn't mean just boiling it.
Now it's just a previous step, boiling it just to soften it.
After cooking, it needs to be soaked overnight before starch production can begin.
Starch is just the previous step of jelly.
The process is long, but everything is done step by step.
After struggling for a long time, the whole family finally cooked the beans and soaked them, and then everyone went back to their respective houses to sleep.
Everyone was very tired, but they were very happy in their hearts.
"I just don't know what it will be like when it comes out?" the aunt asked Uncle Dong in a low voice, with expectation on her face.
After Uncle Dong thought for a while, he whispered: "White jade paste, white jade paste, it should be crystal clear and like white jade. You will know when you cook it."
"Can mung beans be boiled into white jade paste?" The auntie couldn't believe it.
In response, Uncle Dong sneered: "Look, are you too happy? The starch comes from beans, why can't white jade paste be produced?"
The eldest uncle was not angry when she was laughed at. After thinking about it, it was really like that. She just thought that this recipe came from Dong Nuan, and couldn't help but sigh softly: "I really looked away in the past, thinking that Nuan was the best thing in the world."
Ya is an inconspicuous person, but in the end, he became rich."
I can even dream of the old god...
Thinking of this, the eldest uncle's eyebrows flashed and she whispered: "Tell me, if I introduce my nephew to Nuan Ya, will my mother agree?"
The auntie didn’t want to let go of such a precious baby who could lay golden eggs, nor did she want to take advantage of others.
Hearing what she said, Uncle Dong frowned: "What are you thinking? Nuan Ya has already made an engagement."
Hearing what he said, the eldest uncle sneered: "He is just an outsider with nothing. Maybe it was Nuan Ya who he bewitched and took advantage of. If we intervened, there would be nothing to do with the Han family boy.
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Uncle Dong actually doesn't want to take advantage of others. If Dong Nuan doesn't have this ability, then who should she marry?
But I have this ability...
Marrying into one's own in-law's family is not a loss after all.
Thinking of this, Uncle Dong frowned a little more and whispered: "I'll try my father's attitude later."
The marriage has been decided, but it is not easy to back out. After all, no matter who backs out, the reputation will not be good.
However, if it is about profit, who cares about the reputation, holding the money in your hands is the serious thing.
The two of them thought their voices were very small, but Dong Nuan was once a bamboo expert, and his hearing was far beyond what anyone could compare to.
So, even though the distance is far, you can still hear it.
Dong Nuan is not in a hurry to take action, because Old Man Dong may not agree with this matter.
Instead of marrying Dong Nuan to the uncontrollable eldest uncle's family, it would be better to marry Han Jianglou, a stranger who is helpless in the village.
After all, Hanjiang Tower would not leave easily. If he did run away, he would have to pass through Li Zheng, and the clan leader would definitely get the news as soon as possible.
Therefore, it is impossible to run away, unless he wants to be a refugee and just run away without any guide.
Otherwise, they will all know.
He couldn't run away, and he had no other support in the village. He could only rely on the Dong family, which was not much different from his son-in-law.
There is only one person in the other party and he is very easy to control. How could Mr. Dong regret his marriage so easily?
Of course, if the interests involved are particularly large, it would be difficult to say.
Don’t worry about the warmth in winter, let’s take our time.
It's so fun to have a family brawl.
Early the next morning, in addition to those who went to dig ditches as usual, the remaining Old Man Dong made some arrangements. Old Mrs. Dong took the aunt and Mrs. Dong to make white jade paste at home, while the others went to the fields.
After that, rotate it every day to ensure that the whole family learns everything they should and need to learn.
The whole morning passed by in a hurry, and when I returned home at noon, Dong Nuan saw with sharp eyes a carriage parked outside the fence of my house!
This chapter has been completed!