Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 204 Picking Sweetgum Leaves

Qin Muzhang and his family of three stayed in Ping'an County for less than three days, and they left Ping'an County on the morning of the third day.

They also made an appointment with Liang Feng and the others to communicate frequently. Both Liang Feng and Xiao Yan liked Qin Xiaobao very much and liked to communicate with him.

Qin Xiaobao also liked Liang Feng and Xiao Yan very much. Although these two dudes were well-known far and wide, they did not stop studying when they were sent by their families to study in Jianghu sects, so their knowledge is still good.

When they had achieved success in their studies, they also went out to travel, so they had good knowledge. When they communicated with Qin Xiaobao, they could teach Qin Xiaobao a lot of things.

The carriage drove out of the county seat of Ping'an County, and after an hour or two came to a wilderness, Chen Qiuxiang looked at the sweetgum trees outside, and said to Qin Muzhang, "It's almost March [-]rd, we should do some tricolor Food?"

Qin Muzhang also looked at the sweetgum tree. He had cooked three-color rice once in the second year they had just crossed over, but he hadn't done it last year.This year, it should be possible to do a little bit.

"Do you want to eat three-color rice?" Qin Muzhang asked.

"I want to eat a little bit." Chen Qiuxiang said.

"That's okay, let's pick some liquidambar leaves and soak them, then we will make three-color rice." Qin Muzhang stopped the carriage, and the carriage stopped under a big tree.

After Qin Muzhang parked the carriage, he let go of Chasing Feng, letting him go around by himself, doing whatever he wanted.

The sweetgum trees here are growing very well. In a large forest of sweetgum, there are more than a dozen trees that are more than a hundred years old. Most of the rest are decades old, and some are less than ten years old. small tree.

Qin Muzhang took a look, chose a century-old tree, and planned to pick the leaves of this tree to make three-color rice.So he rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the century-old tree.

"Come on, Dad." Qin Xiaobao stood under the tree and looked at his dad who was climbing the tree, applauding happily.

"Would you like to try climbing trees, Xiaobao?" Chen Qiuxiang looked at Qin Muzhang who was climbing a tree, and then at his short and stubby son.

Qin Xiaobao looked up at the huge old tree, nodded excitedly and said, "I want to climb a tree."

When he was in the village before, he never climbed a tree because he was too young. Later, when he was four years old, he climbed a litchi tree or something in the village, but he had never climbed a tree outside.

Seeing his father climbing such a tall and thick tree now, Qin Xiaobao is also eager to try, as if to climb up to see what it feels like.

Qin Muzhang took a look at his wife and son, and asked his wife to tie a rope around his waist, and the other end to Qin Xiaobao's waist.

"Hee hee..." Qin Xiaobao happily climbed up the tree with his chubby little hands holding the trunk, and climbed to the second branch of the sweetgum tree with difficulty.

The trunk of this century-old tree is very straight, but its branches are relatively thick. The first branch is relatively short, at a distance of about 1.3 meters from the ground, and the second branch is about two meters from the bottom.

After climbing to the second branch, Qin Xiaobao sat down, raised his head to look at his father who was still climbing up, and said happily, "Daddy, I've climbed up."

"Well, Xiaobao is very powerful." Qin Muzhang nodded. He stood on a big branch of this sweetgum tree, and the knife in his hand slashed at the smaller branches, cutting off them and the leaves.

Chen Qiuxiang glanced at his man and son, and found that Qin Xiaobao was sitting on the branch very obediently, so he felt relieved to pick up the leaves underneath.

These tiny branches fell down with dense leaves. Chen Qiuxiang picked them up and piled them aside for a while before processing.

The liquidambar leaves needed to make three-color rice don't need too much, about half a sack is enough, and Qin Muzhang quickly chopped enough.

Qin Muzhang put away the knife, and when he climbed down, he didn't forget to bring down his son who was sitting on the branch. The father and son jumped down and stood on the ground together.

"Hahaha...it's fun." Qin Xiaobao, who was hugged by Qin Muzhang and jumped off the tree, said happily. Even though he is very sensible and smart, he still likes to play such childish games with his father.

"It's fun, but you can't play too much." Qin Muzhang put down the fat son in his arms and let him play by himself, while he and Chen Qiuxiang handled the sweetgum leaves.

Chen Qiuxiang picked up the liquidambar leaves and brushed them in the water a few times. After shaking off the water drops, he handed it to Qin Muzhang to roll off the leaves.After the leaves were rolled down, Qin Muzhang took a rolling pin and tapped to smash the juice out of the leaves.

After smashing the sweetgum leaves, put them in a bucket, and after smashing all the leaves, pour water to cover the leaves.

These leaves can be soaked for about six or seven days before they can be used to dye glutinous rice and make three-color rice. Now you just need to let it soak.

After finishing the sweetgum leaves, Chen Qiuxiang looked at the sky and prepared to have lunch here.

"Shall we eat hot pot today?" Qin Muzhang said.

After thinking about it, Chen Qiuxiang thought it was good. Anyway, she is too lazy to cook anymore, so hot pot is more convenient.

After Qin Muzhang got his wife's approval, he took out the coal stove, lit the briquettes, took out a pot, added water, covered it, and put the hot pot base in it after a while.

"What kind of hot pot do you eat? Clear soup or spicy? Or tomato pot?" Chen Qiuxiang flipped through his space and asked Qin Muzhang and Qin Xiaobao while flipping through.

"Tomato." Qin Xiaobao said.

Qin Muzhang also nodded and said, "Then eat tomato pot."

Chen Qiuxiang nodded, took out the tomato hot pot base and handed it to Qin Muzhang, and she went to prepare vegetables.

Chen Qiuxiang actually likes to eat vegetables when eating hot pot. She likes to eat cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, lettuce, baby vegetables, small cabbage and Chinese cabbage.

But she doesn't like potatoes and lotus root very much. Maybe others like it. She likes to eat green leafy vegetables, potatoes, lotus root, pumpkin, zucchini, etc. She doesn't like to eat them when eating hot pot.

Chen Qiuxiang gave birth to Chinese cabbage, baby vegetables, and lettuce, and she also gave birth to mung bean sprouts.Although soybean sprouts seem to have higher nutritional value, soybean sprouts are not as tender as mung bean sprouts, they are too crispy and the top is too hard, she doesn't like to eat them.

In addition to giving birth to some vegetables, Chen Qiuxiang also produced a lot of mushrooms.In addition to shiitake mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, she also prepared some morels, chicken fir mushrooms, Coprinus comatus, Pleurotus eryngii, etc.

Of course, meatballs are indispensable. Chen Qiuxiang also prepared a lot of pork balls with mushrooms, beef balls, fish meatballs, fish tofu, tofu puffs, tofu skin, etc.

As for the meat, Chen Qiuxiang prepared pork belly, mutton rolls, fish slices, and chicken rolls, but no beef.

After all, beef was very rare in ancient times, and it was against the law to kill cattle casually, and she was too lazy to bother with beef.I just hope that her father's cattle raising can progress faster, so that she can have free beef in the future.

(End of this chapter)