"Xiao Jing, tell mother, did anyone come to the house when we were not at home?"
At night, in the main room of the family, an oil lamp was placed on the dining table, and the huge flames illuminated the room dimly. Jiang Susu frowned and looked at the cloud scenery and asked.
Her eyes were full of heartache and anxiety after her home was stolen. Adding some glutinous rice to a vegetable jar, although not worth much, made the already poor family worse.
In addition, there was a trace of panic in her eyes.
It doesn't matter if you throw something away, you have to know that they are not at home during the day, and there is only Yunjing, a two-year-old baby at home. What if something happens to him?
As the saying goes, mother and son are connected, Yun Jing can clearly feel her mother's fear of having an accident.
Although it is true that no one has been to the family, and he was the initiator, and even his actions were for the sake of a better future for the family, he still felt a deep sense of guilt in his heart for causing his mother to worry.
But I can’t tell them yet that the vegetable jar and glutinous rice were appropriated by me. If I tell them, it will be a big deal and it will be a big deal. If I fall short in making maltose, it will be a headache, especially if I secretly play with fire, I guess it will scare them.
One jump, and your butt will definitely be spread open...
They may not think about why a two-year-old baby does such complicated things, and will only think that he is just being ignorant and random, but that is scarier, right?
I started playing with fire when I was two years old. When I get older, I can’t even go to heaven!
Feeling guilty, Yunjing couldn't tell the truth for the time being. They probably wouldn't believe him if he told her, so he could only shake his head and say: "No one has been here."
"No one has been here, so why is a vegetable jar and some glutinous rice lost at home?" Jiang Susu asked.
Yunjing has been well-behaved and sensible since childhood, and is obviously much precocious and precocious compared to other children of the same age. Therefore, her question may be a bit strange for other two-year-old children, but here in Yunjing, the whole family does not think so.
Something is wrong.
Before Yun Jing could answer, Grandpa Yun Lin frowned and said, "There was a sieve lost at home half a month ago!"
He still remembers this...
Yunjing twitched the corner of his mouth and his head hurt even more.
He had no choice but to shake his head in a normal manner at this age and replied: "I don't know."
The family looked at each other and didn't think he would lie at his age, but how to explain the missing things at home?
Yunlin thought for a while and decided to get the answer from Yunjing. After all, the things were lost when they were not at home. At that time, there was no one else at home except Yunjing, so he could only ask him.
So Yunlin squatted down and smiled: "Xiao Jing, tell grandpa, did someone come to our house while we were away, and then asked you to agree to let him enter the house to get something, but you were not allowed to tell us? If that's really the case
If so, just tell grandpa who that person is and what he looks like. As long as you tell grandpa, I will come back to town in a few days to buy you candy, the same kind I ate last time. It’s delicious. You don’t have the taste.
Forget?"
Well, grandpa actually thought he had been deceived, and even tried to tempt himself with candy to ‘tell the truth’.
"No one has ever been here. The candy is delicious. I want to eat it." Yun Jing tilted his head and looked at his grandfather with an expression of "endless aftertaste" and said eagerly.
Even though they couldn't get the answer they wanted from Yunjing, the family was at a loss.
"Xiao Jing, did you not tell the truth? Did someone scare you and prevent you from telling us? Tell me, if I find out that you lied to us, I will beat you up!" Yunshan suddenly glared at Yunjing and said angrily.
Such a sentence.
Yunjing couldn't laugh or cry in his heart. Dads all over the world are all the same. His father always plays the role of the villain in the family. His mother asks questions with kind words, and his grandfather is good at tempting him. When he comes to his father, he directly threatens him.
Yunjing's mouth dropped, and he looked frightened. He hugged his mother's legs tightly and shook his head and said, "I'm not lying."
Even threats are not enough. The family really has no choice but to teach Yunjing a lesson. Isn't that just a trick?
Three sticks couldn't be beaten, and the family couldn't get the answer they wanted, so the family had no choice but to let it go.
The next day, Yunjing took advantage of his family's absence to check the fermentation status of the maltose. Because of the low temperature in early spring, it would probably take another day for the maltose to ferment properly, so he could only play in the yard counting ants out of boredom.
As a result, except for grandpa, my parents suddenly came back!
"Xiao Jing, no one has been here before, right?" Jiang Susu asked Yun Jing immediately as she walked into the yard.
Apparently something was lost at home the day before, so they were worried and made a surprise attack to catch the mastermind...
To be honest, they suddenly came back and made Yunjing stunned. After all, time is very precious in the busy farming season. For this reason, they even left their farm work to make a special trip, which shows how much they care about this matter.
It's very similar to those parents in previous lives who raided their children to see if they were secretly watching TV...
Fortunately, the maltose has not fermented well. If it had fermented and I happened to be boiling sugar, and I was hit, it would be a lot of fun.
Very scary...
Shaking his head, Yunjing said: "No."
Yunshan and his wife looked at each other, still a little worried, so they went into the house and checked inside and outside to make sure nothing was missing, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiao Jinghao, we have gone to work. If anyone comes, you must tell us. If it is someone you don't know, you should go to the uncle next door as soon as possible. He had a sprained foot two days ago. These two days
You must remember to rest at home during the day, you know?" Jiang Susu warned.
Yun Jing nodded obediently and said, "I remember it."
After asking twice more, it didn't look like anyone had been to the house, so Yunshan and his wife went out to work full of surprise and uncertainty.
After they made such a fuss, Yunjing reminded himself that when making sweets tomorrow, he must be careful of his parents' sudden return.
Sure enough, Yunshan and his wife suddenly came back the next day, even a little earlier than the first day. Yunjing secretly thought that he was lucky enough to be careful and didn't start brewing the maltose in a hurry even though the maltose had fermented.
After they left, Yunjing smiled and started to actually make maltose.
He set up a simple stove again and moved the jar to the yard with great effort. Then he found a wooden basin, a bamboo basket for scooping noodles and a wooden spoon from home.
Put the scoop into the jar and press it gently to separate the impurities. Put the wooden spoon in and scoop the sugar juice directly from the scoop into the wooden basin. Repeat this until the sugar juice is scooped out.
Finally, he thought about it. Without filter gauze, he simply scooped out the impurities one by one and drained the water. He also pressed it with his hands to ensure that not a drop of sugar juice was wasted. In the end, he got half a basin of sugar juice in total.
The wooden basin was not big, just over a foot in diameter and no more than ten centimeters deep. In the end, Yunjing didn't know how much maltose he could boil out of half the basin of sugar juice.
As for the useless impurities after draining the water, he buried them in the vegetable garden and used them as waste to fertilize vegetables.
Pour the sugar juice into the jar, then light a fire to boil the sugar.
During the fire making process, Yun Jing still used a mixture of Glauber's salt and charcoal to light the fire. It was too difficult for him to use a fire sickle to make a fire directly.
The fire should not be too high during the cooking process to avoid burning the sugar. Yunjing should pay attention to controlling the heat.
Gradually, as the water evaporated, he could already smell the aroma of maltose.
Yunjing, who was engrossed in waiting for the maltose to come out, ignored the surrounding situation until a soft click behind him woke him up.
When he turned around, he saw that Jiang Susu and Yunshan had appeared at the door at some unknown time. The hoe Yunshan was holding fell to the ground, which was how the clattering sound that woke up Yunjing came from.
They actually came back!
Jiang Susu and Yunshan looked at Yunjing who stuck out his buttocks and looked at them with a shocked expression. The three members of the family looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.
The scene was very anxious for a time.
"Xiao Jing, you son of a bitch is actually playing with fire, let me see if I don't beat you to death today!" Dad Yun glared and roared, walking towards Yun Jing.
Oh haha!
Yunjing knew that he was miserable, very miserable...
