Raising children in an ancient county

Today is the Xiayuan Festival, and the common people eat vegetarian food on this day, so Qi Shuo and Qiao Shen gave themselves this day off, and the shop will not open today.

While washing his face, Qiao Shen shivered from the cold well water. After autumn, the temperature dropped quickly.

After washing, Qiao Shen imitated Qi Shuo's movements and stood beside the willow tree stretching his arms and kicking his legs for morning exercises.Since opening the shop, Qiao Shen's workload has increased, and the feeling of stretching and soreness made Qiao Shen grit his teeth.

Qi Shuo walked over to help Qiao Shen squeeze his shoulders, and then put his arms around Qiao Shen from behind. The couple leaned against each other, enjoying a moment of peace without work and without children.

"Help a helper to help carry heavy objects and clean the shop. Chang Le is more active than before. I'm afraid you are too tired." Qi Shuo felt that the person in his arms became thinner, and he couldn't help feeling distressed.

"Alright, I'll make a plan. Chang Le has gained so much weight that I can barely hold it anymore." Qiao leaned deeply into Qi Shuo's arms, it was a bit cold in the early autumn morning, and Qi Shuo was like a big personal stove, simmering him Warm all over.

"He has grown taller. He stood next to my legs and made gestures yesterday. He almost reached his thighs." Qi Shuo paused, then leaned into Qiao Shen's ear and whispered, "Thank you for your hard work, my Qiao Er."

Qiao Shen's ears were itchy from the stimulation of the breath, he shrank his neck, and looked up at Qi Shuo sideways, who looked at him tenderly, with handsome eyebrows and slightly raised thin lips.

Qiao Shen leaned over and lightly pecked Qi Shuo's chin, turned around in his arms, hugged each other face to face, Qiao Shen pressed his forehead against Qi Shuo's neck, and Qi Shuo lowered his head and rubbed against the top of his head.

The two were intimate for a while, Qiao Shen went to prepare breakfast, and Qi Shuo also went to urinate for Xiao Changle. After urinating, Xiao Changle was still sleepy, so Qi Shuo let him go to the kitchen to light a fire for Qiao Shen went.

After breakfast, Qiao Shen and Qi Shuo planned to go to Buzhuang to order some winter clothes. It's autumn and the temperature is dropping rapidly.

A few days ago, Qi's mother used the newly harvested cotton to make a winter coat for Xiao Changle and sent it to Qiao Shen. Only then did Qiao Shen realize that he had to prepare some thick clothes.

"Winter is coming, and Chang Le has grown a lot. I'm afraid I won't be able to wear last year's clothes. Let's go shopping in the morning." Qiao Shen said to Qi Shuo, holding little Chang Le's padded jacket.

"Okay, I'll buy you a body too." Qi Shuo responded.

Qiao took a deep look at what he was wearing, and then at Qi Shuo. Because he was doing woodwork, most of the clothes were made of coarse cotton and linen, and the black was washed to the point of whitish. I can't sew."

Making clothes is too embarrassing for Qiao Shen. Qiao Shen doesn't intend to try it.

"If you don't know how to sew, don't sew. My Qiaoer is so smart, sewing clothes is a shame for you." Qi Shuo walked over, pointed Qiao Shen's forehead with his fingers, and said with a smile.

Qiao Shen was very happy, taking advantage of today's rest, he went to order a few more sets. Xiao Changle's previous years were all small, and the set given by Qi's mother must not be enough.

The family came to the cloth village. The last time they came to the cloth village, the shopkeeper Xiu Niang was not there, so they thought it was the first time they came.

Xiuniang saw that Qi Shuo was tall and handsome, and Qiao Shen was thin, but his skin was fair and tender, and his complexion was very good, and the baby he was holding in his arms was white and tender. The family looked like they were rich, so they would spend a lot of money. Silver comes.

He hurriedly approached to say hello, and took a closer look, isn't this the shopkeeper Qiao of Qiao Ji Braised Meal?Not long after it opened, the reputation has spread throughout Dongzhen.

She also heard that some dignitaries were entertaining distinguished guests at the Fuman Restaurant, and they specified that they wanted to eat Qiaoji's Braised Duck. Ah, buy food from other restaurants and sell it on a plate. When the news got out, the common people praised Qiao Ji's braised meat like a hype.

She bought it and ate it out of curiosity, but she fell in love with it, and often sent Xiao Er to help buy and eat chicken feet.

"Isn't this the shopkeeper Qiao? Rare customer, come and sit inside quickly. I'll have someone fetch it for you to sit down and choose what color you like..." Xiu Niang hurriedly poured tea.

"Excuse me. It's almost winter. I'll make some winter clothes. Does the embroiderer have any styles for you to show?" Qiao Shen looked at the enthusiastic embroiderer and hurriedly explained the needs.

"Want to see ready-made clothes? If there are any, then follow me." The embroiderer took Qiao Shen to see several sets of winter clothes, and Qiao Shen looked at the styles and chose two.

"You have a good eye. This style is simple and elegant, and it suits you well." After the embroiderer finished speaking, she sent Xiaobutou to fetch fabrics of different colors for Qiao Shen to choose.

In ancient times, because people had to do physical work, go to the ground, etc., most of them liked gray colors in their daily wear.Qiao Shen ordered dark blue ones for himself and Qi Shuo each, thinking of the dark blue ones in the closet at home, and ordered blue ones each.

I ordered three sets for Xiao Changle, one set of true red, one set of earthy yellow and one set of moon white.Qi Shuo didn't have any demands on these things, he nodded and agreed to Qiao Shen's purchases, and finally just waited to pay.

There are not many pedestrians on the street, presumably they are all at home for the festival.So the family had nothing to go shopping, so they went to buy glutinous rice and went back to the yard.

Qi Shuo carried a large stone mortar to grind glutinous rice flour at the door of the kitchen, while Qiao Shen mixed the stuffing inside.He also understood the customs of the Lantern Festival, which is actually making fasting cakes.

Blanch the wild shepherd's purse with boiling water, dry it and let it cool, chop it and mix it with chopped tofu and mix it together, make the stuffing heart, wrap it with glutinous rice balls, knead it into a ball, then put it in a pot and steam it until it's done .

Qiao Shen boiled some red beans again. When the red beans were slightly fried and the grains were clear, scoop them out and mix them with sugar. The red bean glutinous rice balls were ready. Fry them until they were golden, then scoop them out and put them on a plate.

The Xiayuan Festival is a festival that children like, and they can eat a lot of fruit food called "Fuyu" after offering sacrifices.

After doing this, put a "Zhaitian" at the gate of the yard, fold the red and green paper, and burn it after prostrating, praying for the blessings of the heavenly officials, the forgiveness of sins by the local officials, and the relief of the water officials.

Xiao Changle followed his father's example and knelt down to worship.

After the "Zhaitian" is over, the family sits in the main room, drinking sweet-scented osmanthus wine and eating dumpling.

"Daddy...it's delicious..." Xiao Changle was overjoyed. Glutinous rice is not easy to digest, and Qiao Shen didn't make dumplings for him to eat. Today he could eat it.

"Eat less, baby, this is made of glutinous rice, it's not easy to digest." Qiao Shen wiped his son's greasy mouth.

Xiao Changle refused to rub it, turned around and gnawed on the oily fruit, leaned in front of Qi Shuo, and looked at the cup curiously. The sweet-scented osmanthus wine smelled sweet and sweet, and he wanted to drink it too.

Qi Shuo dipped a chopstick in the sweet-scented osmanthus wine and let Xiao Changle lick it. Xiao Changle smacked his mouth and wanted to touch the cup.

"Don't give him a drink." Qiao Shen gave Qi Shuo a sharp look.

Qi Shuo picked up the cup and drank it down, and gave Xiao Changle an empty cup, "It's okay, just a drop."

The homemade sweet-scented osmanthus wine has an extremely low alcohol content, so it's fine for Xiao Changle to take a sip.

Little Changle smashed his little tongue, but he couldn't taste the taste, there was too little sticking on the chopsticks, "Father, yes, yes!"

"No, you can only drink it when you grow up. Daddy will make sugar water for you." Qiao Shen refused for Qi Shuo.

"Well, hum... um..." Xiao Changle was about to hum again.

"Don't make trouble, if you do this again, Daddy won't give you any sugar water."

"Wow... woo woo... Yes, Daddy, woo woo..."

"Then you are not allowed to cry, one..."

"Woooo..."

"two"

"Hi~" Xiao Chang Le hurriedly closed his mouth that wanted to cry, and accidentally hiccupped, feeling too full.

Qiao gave a deep laugh, and scraped his son's face with his fingers. Looking at the smooth and tender milk, Qi Shuo got up and went to make sugar water for his son.