The days were spent busy, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the process of making donkey-hide gelatin produced by Su Liu had reached the final moment.
In the small courtyard of the Su family, Su Liu moved a wooden spoon and stood in front of the stove, holding a large shovel and laboriously stirring the donkey skin inside. He paused for a moment, then added Shenqigui, Ligusticum, Orange, Guizhou, Licorice and other herbs.
Juice material.
Mrs. Chen was helping her add firewood to the side, and both mother and daughter were sweating profusely from their work.
In order to ensure the hygiene of donkey-hide gelatin, Su Liu tied her hair tightly and even made a turban to wrap it up to prevent any impurities from falling into the pot.
The most difficult part of making donkey-hide gelatin is the process before the gelatin is produced. It must be stirred constantly to make the gelatin uniform, which is also the most laborious. Thanks to Su Liu's two or three months of raising his body, he is not as weak as when he first came here.
, although it is not exhausted, it is still quite tiring.
Mrs. Chen wanted to help her, but Su Liu was afraid that she wouldn't be able to figure it out. This was the first time she was experimenting, so he didn't dare to let her stir it up, so he had to do it all by himself.
Just two hours passed, and the kitchen was filled with the unique smell of donkey hide gelatin, which was slightly bitter, but Su Liu was extremely excited.
After carefully looking at the colloid in the pot, he felt that it was almost the same as what he had seen in his colleague's workshop in his previous life. Su Liu carefully lifted the pot and put it in a lead basin brushed with soybean oil.
"Is this done?" Mrs. Chen asked, looking at the small half of the colloid in the basin.
"It's not possible yet, it needs to be gelled." Su Liu smiled and put the lid on. The two of them worked together to tie the lead basin firmly with a rope, and then took it to the well.
Gel requires extremely low temperatures. Although it is already autumn, there is no winter at all, and there is no ice cellar at home. In order to gel quickly, Su Liu thought of hanging the donkey-hide gelatin basin in the well.
The water in the well is always cold, and the well is cold. In summer, farmers with wells often hang food in the well to keep it fresh. This is the best way Su Liu can think of at the moment.
The mother and daughter carefully lowered the basin into the well. When it was two feet above the water, they pulled up the rope, tied it firmly to the edge of the well, and closed the manhole cover.
"It's hard for you to think of such a way." After finishing all this, Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Liu laughed and said: "When we have money in the future, we will renovate our home and build an ice cellar, so that we don't have to dwell in the well."
"In the past, I only thought you were silent, and I didn't know how you got your hair done. How did you get so many ideas?" Mrs. Chen pointed to her forehead.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Su Liu's heart skipped a beat, his eyes rolled, and he lowered his voice mysteriously: "Mom, don't tell others, in fact, I dreamed about Mrs. Lu, she taught me
mine."
"Really?" Ms. Chen exclaimed.
Su Liu nodded solemnly and recited "Buddha" in her heart, hoping that Madam Lu would not blame her. She had no choice but to borrow her name.
"Oh, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Mrs. Chen is a typical farmer who always believes in gods and Buddhas. Now when Su Liu said this, she clasped her palms together and said "Hello", and was busy going to give Lu a message.
The eldest lady is burning incense.
Su Liu smiled when he saw it, glanced at the tightly covered manhole cover, and let out a long breath. He finally completed such a big thing, and now he's waiting for the finished product. I hope it won't be too bad.
After thinking about how bad it was, Su Liu remembered that Ning Guang hadn't come in the past few days, and couldn't help frowning. What is this guy doing? Ever since Ning Guang came that day, he seemed very unhappy.
"Mom, I'm going to Ningguang to have a look!" Su Liu thought for a while, then walked into the house to get some things, called to the kitchen again, and heard Chen's answer before going.
Ning Guang didn't go anywhere else today. He sat in his yard and looked at the sky, wondering what he was thinking.
"Brother Ning." Seeing that he was at home, Su Liu trotted forward.
Seeing her coming, Ning Guang snorted lightly and walked aside to chop firewood.
"Brother Ning, why haven't you gone to our house for dinner in the past two days?" Su Liu asked with a smile.
"I'm not who I am. It's not right to go to your house all the time. I don't want people to gossip." Ning Guang said in a lukewarm tone.
Su Liu was stunned for a moment and glanced at him cautiously. Is this person losing his temper?
"Who said that, you and us?" Su Liu blinked, took a step forward and said, "Stop chopping firewood, look what I brought you?" She raised the bundle in her hand.
Ning Guang glanced at him, paused in his movements, and turned away awkwardly, but he was thinking of continuing to chop wood. Su Liu took the opportunity to step forward and snatch his axe, and pulled him to the side of the stone steps to sit down.
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Shaking off the baggage, a sapphire blue silk dress was revealed inside. Although Ning Guang didn't look directly at it, he saw it from the corner of his eye, and his eyes suddenly filled with joy.
"I don't know whether you like this color or not. I think it's good. You stand up and try it on." Su Liu shook off the clothes and said.
Ning Guang was a little shy, so he let her pull him to stand up. Su Liu took the clothes and put them on him, standing on tiptoes to straighten them for him.
She was very close, sometimes standing on tiptoes to straighten his collar, sometimes brushing the hem and sleeves of his clothes, the girl's sweetness penetrated the tip of her nose, and her fine hair blew to his face in the wind.
Ning Guang was in a daze and looked at the person in front of him stupidly.
"The sleeve here is a little longer, but fortunately it is long and can be cut shorter. If it were shorter, I don't know how to change it." Su Liu gestured for a while, then twisted his right sleeve, raised his eyes and smiled.
When she raised her head, she saw Ning Guang staring at her blankly, his eyes as deep as amber. Su Liu suddenly felt a little panicked, his face turned red, and his heart started pounding.
Seeing that her face was as red as a ripe red apple, Ning Guang was also a little embarrassed and felt a kind of commotion running around in his body.
Both of them coughed and looked away.
"Take it off, I'll change it tonight." Su Liu was embarrassed and hesitated.
"Why bother? Just roll it up." Ning Guang went straight to roll up his sleeves.
However, Su Liu clapped his hand and said angrily: "It's a good piece of clothing, how about making it look nondescript." After saying that, he went to take off his clothes.
Ning Guang's heart softened to a puddle of water when he saw her rarely showing off her little daughter's tenderness. He let her take it off, but said: "Women are trouble."
Su Liu glared at him and said: "Come on, I just slapped you on the nose. I haven't made clothes for that man yet. Even I..."
The word "Daddy" in her mouth reached her lips and she swallowed it back. Ning Guang didn't understand, so he changed the subject and said, "Why didn't you go to the stall today?"
Su Liu didn't want to mention those troublesome people, and said: "The donkey-hide gelatin will complete the final process today and the glue will be produced."
"It's done?" Ning Guang was very surprised.
Su Liu showed a smile: "I guess it's not as good as others, there are some who are good enough."
If it's not cooked well, they can eat it themselves, but she didn't say too much. Judging from the quality, it shouldn't be much different. As long as it is seen by someone who knows the goods, they can consider improvements themselves.
Ning Guang nodded and pulled her to sit down. His movements were so natural that Su Liu was stunned for a moment and her face turned red again.
Unable to find a topic for a while, Su Liu talked about her next plan. If the donkey-hide gelatin was finished and sold for money, she planned to buy the nearby land to grow peppers and tomatoes.
Listening to her longing for the future, Ning Guang turned his head to look at her. She raised her head slightly, curled her lips, and her two rows of eyelashes flashed like fans. She looked very peaceful, just looking at her,
I feel like my heart is calming down.
"Let's get engaged after the new year." Ning Guang suddenly said.
Su Liu hummed naturally, then he felt something was wrong when he said the words, and turned around: "What did you say?"
"After the new year, we will get engaged."
Su Liu was really shocked this time. He looked at Ning Guang for a long time and was speechless: "Engagement?"
Ning Guang's face darkened and he said, "Why, you don't want to?"
Could he really have guessed it? Did this girl like Song Fei's appearance? Thinking of this, Ning Guang's face turned gloomier.
"No." Su Liu shook his head and said, "Aren't you unwilling?"
She said this twice, but Ning Guang didn't reply. She thought that he might not be willing and was only interested in making money, so she put it aside in advance.
Ning Guang was a little embarrassed, turned his head and said, "Aren't you still young?"
This is true. After all, Ning Guang is eleven years older than her, and he always feels it is inappropriate. Now that they have been together for a long time, it is not that they have no feelings. Moreover, as soon as brother Song Fei appeared, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
Especially Song Fei.
The key is that those two people talked too much, and he couldn't get in touch with what they said. He was just a rough man about crops. He used to be a swordsman and a gunman. How could he know this?
However, Song Fei showed up. Although he had that status, he loved to work in the fields. He actually talked to Su Liu aside and became so familiar that they called him sister and brother.
Ning Guang couldn't explain what he felt like. He just felt that the pot of meat and vegetables, which contained only the things he liked and no one came to grab, suddenly came and tried to grab it from him, and there were signs of being able to grab it.
Now that he saw that Su Liu was getting better and better, he became a little anxious and expressed his intention to get engaged.
If Su Liu knew that he was comparing himself to a pot of meat and vegetables in his mind, he might have jumped off his feet.
Although he said he was attracted to this person and had talked about getting engaged before, but now that he said it on his own initiative, Su Liu couldn't help but feel a little shy and hesitantly said: "After every year?"
"Yeah!" Ning Guang stretched out his hand to brush the broken hair around her ears and said, "We will get engaged after the new year, and we will wait until you have hair extensions to get married."
Su Liu became even more shy after hearing this. He lowered his head, his face was burning hot, and he hummed like a mosquito.
Ning Guang smiled when he saw that she had agreed. He thought that since he was going to get engaged, and if the marriage happened next year, the house here would definitely not be habitable, so he might as well build one at Su Liu's place.
After thinking about it, Ning Guang walked into the house again, took out an iron can and stuffed it into Su Liu's arms.
"What is this?" Su Liu was stunned and asked while opening the iron can. When she saw what was inside, she opened her mouth in shock: "This?"
There was nothing in it, but a small stack of banknotes. When I picked it up and looked at it, I saw that there were ten taels, fifty taels, and one hundred taels. There were as many as five hundred taels.
"How come there are so many banknotes?" Su Liuke was really shocked. He didn't expect this guy to be a real rich man!
Ning Guang's eyes were a little complicated. He turned away and said vaguely: "It's been saved over the years. You can take it and buy the land near your home and build a bigger house next year."
"Ah?" Su Liu was a little dazed, but then his mind turned around and he understood what he meant. His face turned red again and he coughed and said: "Well, why not rebuild our house?"
"It's up to you." Ning Guang didn't care. He wanted to stand up. Thinking of the past, he asked again: "If I am just a hunter who knows how to hunt and can't give you any glory and wealth, will you still marry? If I just know how to hunt for the rest of my life, will you still marry me?"
Only in this village, are you willing?"
Su Liu felt that he was a little weird today and said: "What other skills do you have that you can't do? It would be good if you can hunt, at least you won't starve to death. As for glory and wealth, we have our own hands and feet, and we can earn it by ourselves. That's all."
Just live a prosperous life."
She was not wrong, the so-called wealth is not just that, having money, land, people to take care of you, and living a prosperous life.
Ning Guang looked at her intently and said, "Don't you want to be an official's wife or a master?"
Su Liu frowned and shook his head: "I haven't thought about it yet."
Ning Guang didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this. Doesn't this little girl have any vanity? Don't women all want to be in good families?
Thinking like this, he asked: "Women all want to live in a good family, and be served by groups of servants, and be envied by everyone."
Su Liu snorted, rolled his eyes, and said: "We have money, so we can do it. Do you think that big families are so good? You just haven't seen the suffering of those women who live in deep houses. Let me tell you,
The rich people do worse things than the poor families like us, and they only have different methods. How terrible is that? It’s better to be the master of your own house and be more comfortable."
Ning Guang looked at her deeply when he heard this. This girl spoke as if she had experienced it herself.
"But before we get married yet, let's make it clear first." Su Liu thought of the most important point and said.
"you say."
"I don't like wealthy families because they have more wives and concubines, which means more troubles. I can't stand a man having three wives and four concubines. If you have me, you can only live with me alone.
You can't take concubines or anything like that." Su Liu looked at him steadily.
She is mysophobic, but she cannot accept her husband sleeping with someone else. It would make her feel dirty, dirty and disgusting, so she would rather say the ugly things first.
Ning Guang was stunned for a moment, with a strange look on his face, and said: "What if you have been childless for many years?"
Su Liu was almost angry to death: "You big guy who wants to die, you are cursing me!" She pinched him hard and said: "Don't worry, if this is the case, I will give you the position of Vine." In this era.
She couldn't let a man accept Dink. If she was so unlucky, she would just give up. As long as she held on to the money, why would she be afraid that she would have no hope for life?
Unexpectedly, these words made Ning Guang angry. He patted her on the head and said angrily: "That's nonsense. They are making peace with each other before they even get married."
Su Liu gritted her teeth after being photographed. Seeing the angry look on his face, she had to coax him with soft words. Seeing that his face looked better, she cursed in her heart, who made you men unable to control your waistband?
