As soon as Yan Chen put down the phone, Xiang Jin handed a glass of something crystal clear to him. There were actually a few crimson cherries embedded in the thing. It was crystal clear, clear and moist, and it was really beautiful, just like
They look like several precious rubies.
"What is it?!"
"Try my homemade jelly."
"Jelly?" Yan Chen was a little surprised.
"Ah," Xiang Jin nodded.
Yan Chen stretched out his hand to take it, and then asked, "How to do it?"
Xiang Jin said, "I soaked the sea stone flower and washed it, then put it into a pot, added white vinegar and a little rock sugar and simmered it for a certain time, then filtered it with gauze, and poured the juice into a container with fruit particles.
Wait for it to cool down, and then it will turn into jelly like this."
"Why did you suddenly do this?" Yan Chen looked at her and asked again with a smile.
Xiang Jin said, "The other day I saw Grandma Mo using this to make cold dishes, and I suddenly thought of a book I had read about that said jelly could be made with this, so I wanted to try it.
But I haven’t had time in the past few days. I was on the go the day before yesterday. Yesterday I made chopped chili with Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao. I didn’t have anything to do this morning, so I just wanted to give it a try. Please give it a try and see how it tastes?"
Yan Chen asked, "Have you never tasted it?"
Xiang Jin said, "No, but Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo both said the taste was okay, but I just don't know if it suits your taste?"
Yan Chen said, "What you did should certainly be good."
Xiang Jin said, "That's not necessarily the case. It's the first time I've done it today."
Yan Chen picked up the small spoon she handed over, took a spoonful from the small glass bowl and put it into his mouth.
After he swallowed it, Xiang Jin looked at him expectantly and asked, "How is it? How does it taste?"
Yan Chen said, "QQ is really good, but it's just a little sweet."
"Ah? Is it sweet?" Xiang Jin picked up the spoon and took a sip of the food in her bowl. "It's not sweet, I think it's suitable?" She raised her head and looked at Yan Chen with a suspicious look on her face.
"Isn't it sweet?" Yan Chen picked up the spoon and took a spoonful from Xiang Jin's bowl and ate it. Then he said, "Well, yours isn't sweet. Let's eat something else."
The bowl in his hand was taken away, and his own bowl was directly thrust into Xiang Jin's hand.
Xiang Jin looked at him with doubtful eyes. Is it sweet? Probably not. They are both sea stone flower juice boiled in the same pot. When the rock sugar melts, the sweetness is even.
She took the small bowl he handed over, then took a spoonful of it and ate it into her mouth. It was not sweet. She took another bite and it was still not sweet!
strangeness?!
"You have a problem with your taste today, right?" Xiang Jin tilted his head and looked at Yan Chen.
Yan Chen took a bite of the jelly and said, "Maybe it's because the cherry you put in it is too sweet, but I think the taste of this dragon fruit is just right."
"Shouldn't cherries be sweet with a bit of sourness? I'm just afraid that you might find them too sweet, so I put some cherries in it specially for you."
Yan Chen said, "You can eat the cherries from now on, and I can eat the dragon fruit." After Yan Chen finished speaking, he was afraid that she might have some misunderstanding, and then added, "The dragon fruit, like watermelon, is of a cooling nature.
Fruit, so you eat less in the future."
Xiang Jin was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes and said lightly "Oh", but he was still a little happy in his heart. This person is really awkward. Just say it clearly if you don't want her to eat cold fruits, but you have to talk to her.
The jelly she made was so sweet that she lost confidence in the food she made.
"Why did Yan Fei call you suddenly?" Xiang Jin ate the jelly in his bowl and then changed the subject.
Yan Chen said, "He asked us if we would be at home tomorrow and said he would bring us some newly picked lotus roots."
Xiang Jin's eyes suddenly lit up, "Oh, this is okay. The lotus roots at this time are the most tender and crispy. Alas, did he say when they will be served tomorrow?"
Yan Chen said, "Tomorrow morning!"
Xiang Jin nodded.
After coding for several hours, Xiang Jin felt her neck was sore, so she stood up from her seat and went downstairs. Then she saw Grandpa Zeng wearing a straw hat and holding a pair of scissors in the yard.
Trim flowers and plants.
So she walked over and said, "Grandpa Zeng, those flowers are blooming so beautifully, why did you cut them off?"
Grandpa Zeng said, "These flowers and plants have grown too lush recently and blocked the road a lot. I will trim them to reveal the road."
"Oh," Xiang Jin squatted down and picked from the pile of flowers and plants.
"Why did you pick that one?" Just as she was getting very involved in choosing, Yan Chen's voice suddenly rang in their ears.
Xiang Jin turned his head and looked at him, "Hey, you came downstairs too?"
"Hmm! Why did you pick that up?" he asked repeatedly.
Xiang Jin looked at the handful of flowers and plants in his hand, and then said to him, "Oh, I think these flowers are blooming very beautifully, and it would be a pity to just throw them away, so I thought
You have to pick them up and find a bottle or jar to stick them up and display them in the house. It will look more eye-catching, right?"
Yan Chen immediately knelt down and said, "Then let me help you!"
"Okay," Xiang Jin nodded, and then stuffed the handful of flowers and plants in his hand into its hand, "Well, just pick the ones that are intact, or you can pick some of these with flower bones.
Yes, it will bloom again when the time comes. If you keep it in a bottle, you won’t need the ones with petals that have fallen off. You can also pick some of this kind of grass and put it in the bottle as a decoration." She stood up and said, "You first
Help me carry it while I look for some empty bottles."
Yan Chen said, "I have two ceramic jars for decoration in my room. Go and take them down."
"Oh, good!"
Xiang Jin took down the two ceramic jars, then added some water to each, and then started to pick up the scissors and start trimming and playing with the selected flowers and branches.
"Do you still need to prune?" Yan Chen asked when he saw it.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, this kind of flower branches have a sense of layering, and the flowers bloom in clusters." She had learned the art of flower arranging from a neighbor sister who owned a flower shop in their yard.
After a while, she inserted a jar, then picked it up and asked Yan Chen, "How is it? Does it look good?"
"Well, it looks good!" Sure enough, it bloomed one after another, which gave me a sense of accomplishment.
Xiang Jin said proudly, "Then I'll give you this bottle!"
"Okay!" Yan Chen directly picked up the jar of flowers and plants, turned around and went upstairs.
Just when Xiang Jin was halfway through inserting the second pot of flowers, Yan Fei came.
"Hey, Yan Chen, Xiang Jin, hurry up, come out and help me pick it up?!"
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen both looked towards the source of the sound, and saw Yan Fei standing outside the courtyard with two plastic bags on his left and right, shouting with difficulty.
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen stood up and walked outside, "Oh, you guys are so far away, you're going to kill me!"
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen each took a bag from his hand, and Xiang Jin asked, "Why don't you carry a backpack?"
Yan Fei gasped and waved his hand to them, "Oh, stop talking, I thought you would only need to walk for half an hour to get there, so I didn't carry it on my back and just packed two bags.
, I didn’t know it was more than that!”
Xiang Jin was speechless, and then gave him a thumbs up, "You are awesome!"
You have to walk such a long distance with only two handbags, so it’s no wonder that you’re not tired.
The two led him into the house, and Grandma Mo poured him a glass of water, "Child, are you tired?"
"It's okay. Thank you grandma for caring. Hello grandpa," Yan Fei took the water glass from Grandma Mo's hand and greeted the two elders politely.
"Oh, okay, okay!" The second elder also greeted him.
Then Xiang Jin asked, "Is this the lotus root your family grew?"
Yan Fei nodded, "Yes, we grow it in our own fields."
"Why did you start digging lotus roots so early? It's not the season yet?" Xiang Jin asked again.
Yan Fei said, "Yes, but my parents said that the lotus roots in this season are the most tender and delicious, so they asked me to bring you some lotus roots to try."
"Oh, thank you parents for this," Grandma Mo said.
Yan Fei said, "Grandma, you are too polite. Yan Chen and Xiang Jin are both good friends. What's the point of bringing you some lotus root?"
Grandma Mo smiled and said, "This kid is really good at talking."
Grandpa Zeng also smiled and nodded.
Xiang Jin opened the two plastic bags and saw that it was indeed a bag of cleanly cleaned tender lotus roots and a bag of lotus pods.
"Wow, you brought this?" Xiang Jin immediately picked up one with surprise on his face, opened it and ate it.
Yan Fei nodded, "Well, the lotus seeds this season are also very fresh, sweet and delicious, so I picked some for you."
After Xiang Jin ate one pill, he peeled another one and handed it to Yan Chen, "You want to try it too?"
Yan Chen nodded slightly and took it from her hand. Xiang Jin peeled off two more and handed them to Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng. They both took them and ate them. They both said they were delicious.
Xiang Jin peeled some more for them to eat, but the two old people refused to eat and asked her to eat by herself. They were going to make lunch, and told Xiang Jin and Yan Chen to greet their classmates well.
The two of them nodded, and then only the three young people were left in the room.
Yan Fei asked, "What have you been doing at home these days?"
Xiang Jin said, "Of course it's time to do homework and read!"
Yan Fei curled his lips and said, "It's true that you two didn't spare yourselves even if you took a few days off. I'm not like you. When I got home, I didn't touch my homework or turn over the books at all."
"Then what are you doing?" Yan Chen asked.
Yan Fei said, "I slept for two days in the first two days, and then I watched TV and read novels."
Xiang Jin walked over and sat at the table and continued arranging flowers, "Don't your parents talk about you?"
Yan Fei said, "Say, why don't you say it? I say it every day, but I just don't want to do homework and read books. I have to take exams and question papers all day long at school. When I get home, I just want to
You have to have a good rest for two days, so it’s useless for them to say, well, don’t you feel tired and tired like this every day?”
Xiang Jin tilted his head and looked at him, "Bu Tire? Why Tire?"
Yan Fei was speechless. A top student was a top student, and he was not on the same level as them anyway.
Xiang Jin was arranging flowers there, and Yan Chen picked up the scissors and cut off two branches for her that were about to bloom and half bloomed.
When Xiang Jin saw it, the corners of his mouth curled up into a faint smile, and then he inserted the flower branches into the middle and highest position of the ceramic jar. They would probably bloom at night.
"You really have a leisurely time?" Yan Fei couldn't help but said sourly when he saw her playing with the flowers and plants there slowly.
Xiang Jin rolled his eyes at him angrily, "What do you know? This is called cultivating sentiments, improving the taste of life and the aesthetic point of life."
Yan Fei said nonchalantly, "Isn't it just to insert a flower? Just insert it into it. It's so troublesome and a waste of time!"
Xiang Jin shook his head and sighed, "Oh, it is indeed Xia Chong Bu Yu Bing!"
"What, what do you mean?" Yan Fei looked at Yan Chen.
Yan Chen said, "It probably means playing the lute to the cow."
Yan Fei's eyes suddenly opened wide, he stared at Xiang Jin and said, "Okay, Xiang Jin, you damn..."
Xiang Jin looked at him sideways, and Yan Fei softened his temper immediately, "Oh, forget it, I won't argue with you!"
After Xiang Jin put the last two flowers into the jar, she picked up the jar and looked at it for a while. "Well, it looks good!" After saying that, she hugged the jar and went upstairs.
After coming downstairs for a while, Xiang Jin took a glass bowl directly from the refrigerator and handed it to Yan Fei, "Eat it, don't say I'm not friendly to you, huh?"
Yan Fei took it and said, "What, what is this?"
Xiang Jin said, "Jelly, I made it myself!"
Yan Fei's eyes were as wide as bull's eyes, "Xiang, Xiang Jin, you are so awesome, you can even make jelly!"
Xiang Jin glanced at him angrily, "Do you think it's difficult to make this jelly?"
Yan Fei nodded fiercely, "Yeah, yeah, isn't it difficult?" Then he picked up Yan Chen and handed him a spoon and tasted it. After taking a bite, he nodded again, "Yeah, yeah, okay.
Eat, it’s delicious! It really tastes the same as the ones sold in stores outside! Wow, I
I feel that the jelly in the refrigerator is more comfortable to eat in my mouth. Here, here, here, there is a slight cold feeling. Originally, I felt a little hot, but now I don’t feel much after eating this.
It’s hot, oh, Xiang Jin, how did you do this?”
Xiang Jin said, "It's very simple. I will write you a production process later, and you can take it back when the time comes..."
Before she could finish her words, she saw a car drive into the yard of Yan Chen's house. They were all familiar with that car. It was the one that belonged to Xiang Jin's biological parents.
So the three of them walked out of the house together.