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Xie Jiaojiao and her group of three returned to the village. They met many villagers on the way, who asked them questions in a simple manner.

"We're going to town."

Sun Ruhua always answered with a smile: "Let's go to town and buy a pot. We have never had a pot for cooking at home!"

Everyone just smiled and passed by.

From a distance, I watched Xie Qian and Xie Kun playing by the field.

The two men must have seen them and immediately ran away to avoid them.

Before Sun Ruhua could even call her two grandsons, she saw them hiding from her. She felt uncomfortable immediately. After all, she was the one who raised these two guys.

However, Sun Ruhua had experienced a lot in the past month, and she quickly suppressed the strange emotions in her heart.

When passing by her own fields, Sun Ruhua picked a cabbage and prepared to fry it for lunch.

The first thing I did when I got home was to heat the iron pot. Fortunately, I bought pork.

Sun Ruhua cut off a small piece of pig skin and Xie Zhiyi lit a fire.

Xie Jiaojiao went to prepare tools to press the sugarcane into water. She borrowed some tools from Wang Po's house and went up the mountain to cut down a tree.

After working hard for the past few days, Xie Jiaojiao has become very adept at her work!

I sighed in my heart, oh, habits are so terrible!

Sun Ruhua started boiling water and prepared to cook. Looking at the pound of meat, she made up her mind and scooped a bowl of rice.

Xie Zhiyi's eyes lit up: "Mom, do you want to eat refined rice for lunch?"

Sun Ruhua nodded: "It's a rare opportunity to eat meat, it tastes better when eaten with refined rice!"

Xie Zhiyi was so happy that he danced with joy. He even ran outside to tell Xie Jiaojiao that they would have rice for lunch. Seeing him so happy, Xie Jiaojiao just smiled in her heart and thought, "What's the big deal? Isn't it just a meal of rice?" But then she thought, yes, she hasn't eaten rice for a long time. She used to eat it every day, but now she eats corn paste every day!

Sun Ruhua boiled the two bones that Xie Jiaojiao asked for in the soup, then went to the field to pull up two radishes. She then placed the steamer on top of the soup to steam the rice.

On the other hand, he quickly peeled off the yellow leaves on the cabbage and asked Xie Zhiyi to throw it to the backyard to feed the chickens. He cut the cabbage in a few strokes, and immediately cut the pork, preparing to make some oil to eat slowly.

Before cutting the pork, he found a clay pot among the objects he had brought over, washed it with water, and then wiped it dry with a clean cloth before he began to refine the oil.

Outside, Xie Jiaojiao had also prepared the tools for squeezing sugarcane juice.

She used the physical principle of extrusion and deformation, just like we use a door to press a walnut, using the least effort to accomplish the greatest goal!

When she finished her side, Sun Ruhua also finished her side.

Xie Zhiyi shouted happily: "Sister, it's time to eat!"

Xie Jiaojiao responded, put her things down and went to wash her hands.

Sun Ruhua scooped a bowl of white rice for each person.

Xie Jiaojiao looked at the food on the table. This was probably the most sumptuous meal she had had in more than a month.

Sun Ruhua picked up a piece of meat for each of the two siblings.

The two siblings immediately gave her a piece and said at the same time, "Mom, you eat too."

Sun Ruhua felt relieved, and the three of them had a delicious meal. Xie Jiaojiao asked Xie Zhiyi to drink another bowl of bone soup, saying that bone soup could make him grow taller.

Xie Zhiyi was already full, but he insisted on drinking another bowl of food, saying that only after he grew taller could he protect his mother and sister.

Sun Ruhua touched his head and said it was okay and that he could grow up slowly.

The family got busy in the afternoon, thinking about getting the sugarcane out as soon as possible so that they could exchange it for silver as soon as possible.

Otherwise, looking at such a large pile of sugarcane would be a headache!

Xie Jiaojiao said: "Mom, don't throw away the sugarcane tips after you cut them off. I will bury them in the two acres of land you gave me, and I will be able to harvest another batch next winter."

Sun Ruhua was surprised: "How long can this thing grow?"

Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "That's right, we will collect more next year than this year."

Sun Ruhua immediately became a treasure.

Xie Jiaojiao taught her to peel off the skin and squeeze out the water with simple tools.

Xie Zhiyi thought it was fun and wanted to make one himself, so Xie Jiaojiao let him do it and he made one himself.

After an entire afternoon of pressing a basin of sugarcane, only a small half of it was harvested.

Xie Jiaojiao's hands were so weak that she took turns with Sun Ruhua.

By evening, almost one third of the sugarcane had been used up, and the sugarcane juice filled a basin and a bucket.

Xie Jiaojiao said, "Mom, we won't cook today. Go wash the pot and I'll go get some firewood."

Xie Jiaojiao originally wanted to pick up some firewood at the foot of the mountain and bring it back to make brown sugar while there was still some light in the day, but looking at the firewood, Xie Jiaojiao felt that it was not enough. She thought, forget it, and decided to wait until tomorrow to make it!

Sun Ruhua cooked corn dumplings into the bone soup from lunch. Everyone had a simple meal as they were all tired after a busy day.

So I went to bed early.

Xie Jiaojiao had a dream while she was half asleep at night.

In the dream, she was still silly, chasing a man in the town, saying that she wanted to marry him and become his wife, but the man was unwilling.

Xie Jiaojiao was still running after him. Suddenly, she seemed to return to normal. The person she had just been chasing turned around and ran after her, saying that he would definitely give her a lesson!

Seeing that Xie Jiaojiao was about to be caught up, the man walked closer. Xie Jiaojiao took a look and saw clearly that it was the idiot named Jiang Weinan whom she met in the town.

Jiang Weinan smiled obscenely at Xie Jiaojiao: "Where can you run to?"

Xie Jiaojiao was scared and shouted loudly: No!

Wake up now!

When I opened my eyes, I realized that it was already light outside.

Sun Ruhua knocked on the door and asked, "Jiaojiao, what's wrong with you?"

Xie Jiaojiao hurriedly replied: "Mom, I'm fine, I just had a nightmare."

After hearing her say this, Sun Ruhua outside was relieved and said, "Hurry up and eat."

Xie Jiaojiao changed her clothes quickly, wondering if the original owner had really been chasing that guy around the town before?

When Xie Jiaojiao thought of this, she shuddered. It was so disgusting.

After breakfast, Xie Jiaojiao went up the mountain to pick up some firewood. Xie Zhiyi was also not idle, and continued to squeeze sugarcane in the backyard with Sun Ruhua.

As soon as the firewood was brought back, Xie Jiaojiao began to boil brown sugar and added a piece of sliced ​​ginger to the sugarcane juice.

Sun Ruhua came back with another basin of squeezed sugarcane juice.

Xie Jiaojiao gestured and said, "Mom, do we have that kind of wooden box at home?"

Sun Ruhua thought about it and immediately nodded and said yes. After rummaging through the boxes and cabinets for a long time, she found one. It was obviously Sun Ruhua's makeup box. However, Xie Zhen fell ill in the past year, and the items in the makeup box were sold by Sun Ruhua to pay for Xie Zhen's medical treatment, so the box was empty.

Xie Jiaojiao didn't say anything. She just mixed wood ash and soap beans together, cleaned the box, and put the extra piece of oil paper she asked the butcher yesterday inside the box.

After waiting for the sugarcane juice to boil for an hour, Xie Jiaojiao used a bamboo colander to strain out the ginger slices, found two bowls, rinsed the spoon with hot water (the water also tasted sweet), and brought it to Sun Ruhua and Xie Zhiyi.

Xie Zhiyi took a sip and said, "Sister, why is this water so sweet?"

Xie Jiaojiao smiled and said nothing. She asked him to watch the fire while she would do it.

Xie Jiaojiao calculated the time and thought it was about time, so she immediately stopped what she was doing, went back to the kitchen, and stirred the sugarcane juice in the pot a few times. It was already very sticky. She looked at the color of the sugarcane sugar and kept stirring it in her hands.

When you feel that the color is right, immediately scoop the boiled sugarcane brown sugar into the box.

Sun Ruhua also came in after smelling the smell: "Is it done?"

Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "It's OK, mother, take a look."

When Sun Ruhua took a look, she found that the color of the sugar looked darker than the brown sugar sold in the town, and it smelled sweet.

Sun Ruhua smiled: "It's worth the hard work these days."

Xie Zhiyi cried out, "Let me see, let me see."

He couldn't see anything, but just by smelling it, he thought it must be very sweet!

Xie Jiaojiao handed the box to Sun Ruhua: "Mom, take it to the backyard and wait for it to dry naturally. When it dries, it will become brown sugar."

Sun Ruhua nodded.

After finishing this pot, everyone had a simple lunch. Seeing that the brown sugar was successfully cooked, Sun Ruhua also fried some shredded radish with the leftover oil from yesterday at noon.

The family of three enjoyed the meal very much.