"Did you hear it wrong? I was talking about the taste that children like to eat! By the way, isn't it time to deliver firewood today? Why hasn't it been delivered yet?" Xia Qiyue hurriedly changed the subject.
"It should be soon, right? The last time it was delivered just before dark!" Xia Jiuyue was indeed fooled.
"Okay, just wait. Come and try it. This is my newly developed sugar, nougat!"
Xia Jiuyue just thought that the white pastry was some kind of pastry, the fragrant milk girl, but it turned out to be the newly made candy by her sister, so she picked it up and put it in her mouth with some curiosity.
The next moment, Xia Jiuyue was about to jump up. The excitement from the heart after eating extremely delicious food was exaggerated and real.
"Sister, this... this is so delicious. It's sweeter and more fragrant than halva! It also tastes like milk. It's so delicious!" She chewed the nougat in her mouth vigorously and danced. "And the more you chew, the more you chew."
The more fragrant!”
"You're exaggerating too much. Pay attention to your image!" Xia Qiyue patted her sister on the shoulder in a funny way.
Only then did she show her childish side. After all, she was only a fifteen-year-old child. In future generations, she would still be a child.
"What's wrong with you?" Xia Xinghe heard the commotion and ran in, with a worried look on his face.
"Come on, come on! Try the new candy made by eldest sister, it's even more delicious than crispy candy!" Xia Jiuyue quickly waved to his brother to come in.
When Xia Xinghe heard that it was candy, he had no resistance at all. He quickly put the nougat in the second sister's hand into his mouth, and then... his performance was even more exaggerated than Xia Qiyue's, which made Xia Qiyue feel full of confidence.
"Okay, you two, stop playing tricks and give it to others to try! I'll make some more!"
Xia Qiyue asked Xia Xinghe to take away a small plate of nougat, but when he saw that he was discarding the ones on the side, he didn't let them go. These were all candies. They didn't want them anyway, so he gave them to them to eat.
If not, you can still take it home.
Xia Qiyue didn't care, so she went with her younger brother and let him take it. Compared with when she first met her, her younger siblings were much more confident and no longer as inferior as before.
"Sister, can I help you?" Seeing that she had nothing to do, Xia Jiuyue proposed to help her.
"No, please boil some hot water. We have to give the three children a bath today. Even though it's cold, we have to give them a bath!"
Xia Qiyue was used to taking a bath every day, but when she came here she couldn't take a bath every day, and when she was fleeing the famine, she couldn't take a bath once a month, which made her feel uncomfortable.
"Okay, then I'll boil the water!" Xia Qiyue had something to do and hurried out to get firewood. Xia Qiyue calmed down again to make nougat.
In Xia Xinghe's room, Liangzi secretly hid some candies in his pocket. An Zihao saw it and he wanted to remind his cousin a few words, but when he opened his mouth to say something, he was interrupted by An You.
Pulled a handful.
"Stop talking!" An Youde whispered in An Zihao's ear, "Let him go, he won't take things he shouldn't!"
An Zihao had no choice but to give up. He was not worried that Liangzi would steal something, but he was worried that if he took the candy back, the uncle's house would start making trouble again. When his mother knew about it, she might cause trouble for the fourth sister-in-law again, and he wouldn't be able to go back.
Go, no one stopped me, just a few sisters-in-law encouraged me to go...
But he was embarrassed to tell Youde all this, so he could only worry in his heart.
"This candy is so delicious, Xinghe, did Fourth Sister-in-law ask you to share so much with us? Is it more expensive than crispy candy? I'm afraid I can't afford it!" An Sijin tasted it
I ordered a nougat and was fascinated by its taste.
"Sister, I didn't say that these are all for us to eat, but you can eat whatever is not ready. I got them for you!" Xia Xinghe said with a naive smile.
"Really? Then I'll give some to my sister to eat!" Dongzi said happily, grabbing three or four of them.
An Sijin's eyes flashed, forget it, he might as well eat it by himself, he was frightened by the commotion of several sisters-in-law.
Without this piece of candy, his nieces and nephews would be starved to death, and he would be too embarrassed to take one from each of them, so he would just eat two more.
I am so happy eating sweets here that Xia Qiyue has already started to make the second dish. If it is successful, the families who come to buy the candies the day after tomorrow will take one back to taste and advertise.
Xia Jiuyue's job is to cook and take care of the children, so she is always busy and can't stop.
The two of them worked late until it was almost dark. Xia Jiuyue also made dinner. However, after lunch, everyone had less to eat in the evening. An Zihao even refused to eat because he was not hungry, but Xia Qi still
Yue said that eating more would help him recover faster, so he picked up his chopsticks to eat.
As expected, the person who delivered the firewood arrived right after dark, twenty bundles of firewood at a time. The family needed a lot of firewood, even if they didn't make a lot of sugar. Xia Jiuyue left her sister with the money she carried.
After settling the firewood, the five people who went home in the evening had finished their meals and left. He closed the courtyard door and then returned to the kitchen.
Xia Qiyue made five kilograms of nougat and came out. Xia Jiuyue helped her sister pack it. The two of them took out the unused satin and packed it carefully one by one. Then they went back to the house to give the three children a bath.
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After everything was done, Xia Qiyue lay down on the kang, one on each side, and Ling'er and Ke'er hugged her.
She suddenly felt that a three-year-old child was still too young and should not leave her mother's arms so early. She got up and knocked on Xia Xinghe's door.
"What's wrong, sister? What happened?" Xia Xinghe opened the door a little, wearing thick clothes, with sleepy eyes.
"Bring my son out, I want to take him back and hold him to sleep!" Xia Qiyue said directly.
Xia Xinghe was shocked. Why would he take the child away? Isn't it a good thing?
"Sister, Xuan'er went to bed a long time ago. After washing herself, she fell into a deep sleep. Aren't you afraid of the cold when you take the child out?"
Moreover, a child of this age in a wealthy family has already slept by himself, and Xuan'er still sleeps with him. This is not appropriate.
Xia Xinghe is usually busy, but he still goes out for a walk after dinner, and he hears a lot more things.
Xia Qiyue felt that she was impulsive. It was such a cold day that the child was already asleep and could not be taken out. Just when she was about to nod and go back, she saw Xiao Xuan'er dragging her own quilt to the door with difficulty.
Behind him was An Zihao's voice reminding him not to fall.
The little man was dragging himself with a pillow and a quilt all the way to the door. Xia Xinghe was so frightened that he quickly ran forward to help him get it.
"Xuan'er, why are you awake? Aren't you already asleep?" he asked the little one while helping because he watched Xuan'er sleeping.
"Xuan'er wants to sleep with mother!" The little child stubbornly walked forward step by step, with happiness that could not be concealed on his face.
Xia Qiyue felt that she had come to the right place again. She had ignored the child's feelings before and thought that girls should be more pretentious than boys. Little did she know that Xuan'er was only a three-year-old child. Looking for a mother was not pretentious, but needed her mother's physical presence.
sense of security.
Moreover, they had just experienced fleeing from famine, and there were wolves and dangers along the way. At this time, she should not rush to let Xuan'er become independent.