326, rare candy painting
Half a bowl of steaming brown sugar ginger water was eaten, and Xiaoxiao felt much more comfortable.
Resting on the kang, there was a warm and gentle mattress underneath, which was very comfortable.
"I didn't expect you to come so late, you didn't come when you were thirteen years old." Ruicai sat by the kang, pushing the remaining half bowl of brown sugar water over: "Drinke up the ginger water, this way you will feel better."
Xiaoxiao looked at the girls of fourteen or fifteen in front of him, and everyone looked like "a person who has passed". She felt a little funny, so she was so happy that she fell into the role of the little loli and timidly drank the remaining half bowl of brown sugar water.
"It must be because I came late, so it hurts so much." Xizi guarded Xiaoxiao, thinking about covering her hands for the other party. She found that Xiaoxiao's hands were hotter than her. "When I came here, I didn't realize it, but I found it when I woke up early in the morning."
"I came after Xiao Nian'er finished eating dumplings in the evening." Ruicai said.
"I came from the swing competition that time. That time I swung high and steady, and it was like a tiger with wings... Later, I came, fortunately I didn't touch my skirt." Dan Tai Furong said this, her face was a little red.
Aunt Gui brought in a bowl of fragrant egg noodles, looking at Xiaoxiao with a little distressed look: "You should be guarding your own mother now, and this bowl of noodles should be cooked by your own mother."
Xiaoxiao took the bowl of noodles with both hands, and felt particularly warm in her heart.
Dan Tai Furong stood beside him, biting the bacon pancake while saying, "I was so scared to death in the carriage just now. I thought you were sick!" As he said that, he walked over and let Xiaoxiao smell the fragrant rolled pancake: "It smells so good, I'll give you one to eat?"
"It smells quite fragrant, but now I don't want to eat meat." Xiaoxiao put his hands on the small kang table and picked up a fat poached egg with chopsticks to eat.
"Are you going back today?" Dan Tai Furong's eyes were a little reluctant.
"Why do you have to go back?" Xiaoxiao was puzzled for a moment.
"When you have something like Guishui, can you still stay in this wilderness without eggs?" Dan Tai Furong only cared about her own words, completely ignoring the hostile gaze that Aunt Gui next to her was cast.
I didn't expect that the ancients cared about the first menarche like this. I never took leave and stopped working just because my aunt visited me. In addition to avoiding intense exercise, I also went to physical education classes as usual.
Thinking of the past, Xiaoxiao couldn't feel the mystery of his past and present life, as if he was the first man of his past, which happened when he attended a summer camp during the summer vacation, and his mother was not around. He was calm at the beginning, so he borrowed a few sanitary napkins from the lady next door, brewed a cup of hot soy milk and drank it warmly. He slept in a nap in a daze. After waking up, he packed up and continued to climb mountains and play with his friends...
However, before this, there were motion sickness and abdominal pain. After my aunt made a debut, these symptoms disappeared.
"Fortunately tomorrow is the last day, so why not hold on for another day. After tomorrow we will go back to Kyoto together!" Tan Tai Furong said to herself.
Xiaoxiao nodded: "That's good, I can't bear to leave you alone and go back to Kyoto."
"I can't bear to leave you either!" Dan Tai Furong took a bite of the slices of meat that were moderately fat and thin, "I want to continue selling flowers with you! Wow, I actually ate several slices of fat meat. I never ate fat meat before!" Dan Tai Furong chewed the fragrant meat with a happy face, as if she had done such a great thing.
Speaking of these big rolls of meat, the other members of the group were a little excited. Xizi said first: "Our Dawangzhuang gathering is one of the best in the town. It is said to be four times larger than yesterday's Xiaowangzhuang! There are seven or eight stalls selling shoes alone! There are more people visiting, and more eaters. Fortunately, we stew more meat. You would never have thought that the three big pig heads were sold out!"
Dan Tai Furong and Xiaoxiao didn't say anything for a long time. They couldn't believe that the statement of these three big pig heads came from the delicate mouth of the Xizi.
Tan Tai Furong teased her with a smile: "Yesterday, a big pig's head scared you to death! Today, three big pig's heads stared at you together, and now they are still lively, which shows that this courage needs to be practiced slowly~"
Xizi glared at her, trying to annoy her, but she couldn't get angry. Thinking about it carefully, although Dan Tai Furong's words were rough, they were reasonable.
"Since it's so lively, do those female students have stalls?" Xiaoxiao asked what he cared about.
"Apart from our best business, only Xue Cong is the one." Youqing said from the side. She was the farthest away from everyone. If she hadn't spoken at this moment, Xiaoxiao wouldn't have noticed that there was such a person in the room...
"What is Xue Cong selling? Isn't she a bricklayer?" Dan Tai Furong said unconsciously.
The sun shone into the room through the window screen, dyeing Youqing's eyelashes and eyes into amber: "She always has endless cheap goods. Today, she sells some small things that are unfashionable in Beijing. She just bullies the villagers..." Youqing secretly looked at Aunt Gui, hurriedly swallowed back what she wanted to say, "I have never seen the world before" and found a supplement: "Bully the villagers honest and simple."
"Today, the clinic and the school also have new projects. Many villagers have signed up for their children in the school, and many people have asked about their illnesses in the clinic." Ruicai couldn't hide his smile, "But, the stalls of other students are almost ignored, because the things are too fragmented and cannot be sold in batches, or the things are fancy, so many buyers don't buy them."
"So..." Xiaoxiao looked at Ruicai with hope.
Ruicai couldn't hold on and smiled: "So, our pawn shop has the most prosperous business today! Many students couldn't stand it for an hour and ran over to block things. They collected more than twenty bottles of unopened head oil. They were all from famous shops, not to mention those rouge and water powder fan sachets, which were collected in a basket!"
"All of them are new?" asked Dan Tai Furong.
"That's right, we collect 100% of the new ones! They are embarrassed to take out old things. Besides, even if the old girl uses old fans, they can't take them out as a result!" Xizi said.
"What price do you charge at?" Xiaoxiao asked.
"As we agreed on before, half of the original price! We have a unified quote, so we can save us from having trouble with them. Only those small amounts of special goods have discussed quoting the price for each other." Ruicai said with a smile.
Several girls were talking and laughing when they saw Ni Jie coming in with straw sticks, with only a few candied haws inserted on it.
Seeing this, Dan Tai Furong smiled and clapped her hands: "Sure enough, people will get money when they go to the pawn shop. This candied haws will be snatched up in just a while!"
"If you want to, just take it, just take it." Several girls thought of the propaganda slogan of their own pawn shop, and then looked at the few candied haws on the straw stick.
"One of you is left." Ni Jie took out one and handed it to Aunt Gui to taste it.
"You eat it, you eat it. This is something for children. What's the point of eating..." Aunt Gui said, but she couldn't help but bite the crystal clear candy-wrapped hawthorn, and immediately showed a sour and sweet expression: "It's really delicious! But this candy is almost done with it... compared to Grandpa Third."
"Who is Grandpa Third? Is there anyone who makes candied haws in our village?" Xiaoxiao asked. I have never seen anyone who sells candied haws in the village these days.
"The third grandfather's family is of the same clan as ours. In terms of seniority, we should call her grandfather. The old man can cook candy and candy haws since he was a child. He has sold sugar-dipped candy and candy haws for decades. He has been older in the past two years. Both sons took their wives to work in the city and threw their grandson and granddaughters to the old couple to see. How can they still be time to make candy haws!" Aunt Gui wanted to eat the second hawthorn. She looked at the red and bright red fruits, and held back, intending to leave the remaining ones for her boy to eat.
"The third grandfather has such good skills. Why doesn't his son inherit his father's business and continue to make candied haws?" Xiaoxiao asked.
"The more money you make in the city, it's quick to make money. The third grandfather made sugar processes and troublesome, and the profits are too small, so the children naturally don't want to do it. "Aunt Guy also felt sorry for her, "Now the old man is making some sugar paintings for others on the birthdays of the people. People give a lot of money when they are happy, and they also make some money. In addition to these, they can't make a stall without making sugar on weekdays."
"What is sugar painting?" Youqing asked.
"Ah, I was shocked!" Aunt Gui didn't notice that Youqing was also in the room. When she heard a faint voice coming from the corner, she was naturally frightened. The child's presence was too low.
Ruicai explained to Youqing: "You can often see sugar paintings in the market in Kyoto. You can draw them on the board with boiled sugar dilute to form patterns like zodiac signs, fairies, and stick a small stick on the bottom, and you can take them off after the sugar is dry."
Xiaoxiao also saw sugar paintings in his previous life, which were similar to Ruicai’s words. He also made golden flat patterns with candy and had complex ones, making them into a small pagoda or a small bicycle. It was mainly beautiful and fun, and there was nothing to eat.
After hearing Ruicai's explanation, Aunt Gui smiled and said, "The sugar paintings we use for weddings here are very large. The largest one is almost as big as a shadow wall. There are also dragons and phoenixes that present good luck, and peaches that offer longevity. As long as the weather is not very hot, it can be done, especially in winter."
Several girls were very interested in hearing this, and Dan Tai Furong was the first to ask: "Can that big sugar painting be eaten?"
"Can you eat it, isn't it just for people to eat it?" Aunt Gui was a little proud. It turned out that there were things that surprised these Kyoto girls here. She cleared her throat as if she was keeping a close call and said, "If you want to hold a wedding, the groom and the bride would eat the first piece of candy first, and the rest would be given to the guests. The adults were embarrassed to gather there to eat the candy. Most of them were surrounded by children, jumping and jumping, breaking and licking, which was also very lively! If you hold a birthday party, the birthday boy would eat the first piece of candy first, and the rest would be given to the guests."
Wow, this custom is something that has never been heard of. Xiaoxiao has lived for two lifetimes and has never heard of it.
Even Ni Jie, who has always been paralyzed, also showed a look of surprise.
Chapter completed!