Transmigrated into the fat wife of the future prime minister

Chapter 38 Jujube Paste Paste

Making jujube paste pastry is actually not complicated. Since there were jujubes at home, Xu Qingmeng decided to make some for the little one to try.

She first washed the red dates, then put them in a pot with water and boiled them.
Let the cooked red dates cool slightly, remove the pits, and then chop them finely. Next, put lard in a pot, add the chopped red dates, and then add white sugar. Stir-fry slowly over low heat. Soon, the sweet date paste filling is ready.
Then she mixed the lard, flour, and water in a bowl and kneaded it into a smooth and elastic dough. She took a small piece of dough; if it could be stretched into a thin, resilient film, it was successful. She then let the dough rest for half an hour.
Next, make the oil-based dough. Knead the flour and lard into a dough, then divide the water-based dough and the oil-based dough evenly into thirty portions. Each portion of the water-based dough should weigh about 46 grams, and each portion of the oil-based dough should weigh about 22 grams.
Take a portion of the water-oil dough, shape it into a small bowl, place a portion of the oil-based dough inside, and gently push it upwards with your thumb and forefinger to form a ball. Place the wrapped dough on a plastic wrap and let it rest for about 15 minutes.

Roll out the rested dough into an oval shape, about the length of a thumb's width, then slowly roll it up. After all the dough is rolled up, let it rest again for half an hour.

Next, turn it 90 degrees and repeat the previous steps, rolling it out into an oval shape again, trying to make it slightly longer. After rolling it up, let it rest for a while.

Next, take a dough ball, gently press it in the middle, and pinch the two ends towards the middle to seal it. Roll the pinched dough ball out again into a round shape, trying to make it thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges.

“Children are disobedient because they are spoiled. A couple of slaps on the bottom will make them behave. Is it really necessary to go through all this trouble? You’re both trying to comfort them and making them snacks.”

Gu Yunyi walked into the kitchen and looked at her busy figure.

Xu Qingmeng glanced at him: "It's a good thing that Yun Sheng and the others are just your younger brothers and sisters. If they were your children, it would be terrible. They might grow up to be unreasonable and brutes who only know how to use violence."

Gu Yunyi looked completely bewildered: ......
The next second, Gu Yunyi stared at Xu Qingmeng's belly and suddenly smiled: "If you have a child, I'm sure you will raise it very well."

Xu Qingmeng felt a bad premonition as Gu Yunyi stared intently at her stomach. Had he noticed? Impossible! She hadn't even felt anything. How could a bookworm who only knew how to study have noticed? She quickly calmed herself down.
It can only be said that because of her change, he is no longer angry about the original owner drugging him? He even wants to be her husband, which was previously subtle, but now he is openly restless?
If that's the case, then men really can't be trusted, and she's even less in the mood to talk to him. "That's hard to say. I've heard that some matriarchs deliberately let their illegitimate children grow up unsupervised, turning them into good-for-nothings. You should really learn some parenting skills."

Gu Yunyi glared at her, then laughed in exasperation, “I haven’t even had a concubine yet, and my wife is already worrying about me. How virtuous and kind you are.”

"You flatter me." Xu Qingmeng said insincerely, then looked at him with a smile. "I had a dream before that you would become a high-ranking official, and I imagine you'll have no shortage of beautiful women in your household. I'm just giving you a heads-up."

When Gu Yunyi heard Xu Qingmeng say that, he really wanted to slap himself. He had brought this on himself!

He had told her not to have any improper thoughts about him, but now, although she is getting nicer to her mother and younger siblings, she seems to have no feelings for him anymore. She has already made plans for the future. With her skills, she can live well even if they divorce.

Gu Yunyi stood there, his heart filled with mixed emotions. It was she who agreed to the divorce that made him agree to let her open the restaurant. Who knew that she would suddenly become a different person, and he would be attracted to her without even realizing it.

Xu Qingmeng looked at Gu Yunyi's appearance and chuckled inwardly, but her face showed a faint smile. "Things in this world are unpredictable. Now that I've thought of it, I should give you a heads-up. If you really have concubines in the future, don't neglect the education of your children because you're spoiling them."

Gu Yunyi, however, was determined to get away with it. He took a few steps closer and his gaze fell on her back. "My wife's words are quite profound. If you give birth to a legitimate son, I will definitely teach him well. What do you say?"

Xu Qingmeng: Shameless! He wouldn't even let me near him before! Now he wants to be my wife and have my child. Sure enough, all men are that shallow!
"What legitimate son? Mengniang is pregnant?"

He Shi had just returned when she vaguely overheard something. She was astonished, then immediately realized she must have misheard. What a foolish question she had asked! How could she not know whether Meng Niang existed or not? She was truly bewitched.

Since their marriage, the two have each lived in their own rooms. Yunyi was ill and not very willing, so they had not consummated their marriage.

Later, Mengniang became a different person, and Yunyi also recovered, but the two still lived in separate rooms. During the day, Mengniang was always with him, and there was almost no time for her to be alone with Yunyi. How could there be anything between them? Where could they go?
Xu Qingmeng looked embarrassed, after all, in He's opinion, the two of them hadn't even shared a room yet.

Gu Yunyi was also a little embarrassed, and Xu Qingmeng quickly waved her hand to explain, "Mother, you misunderstood, nothing like that happened?"

Madam He walked into the kitchen, looked the two of them up and down, and saw Xu Qingmeng's slightly flushed face and Gu Yunyi's somewhat uncomfortable expression, but she didn't say anything.

Xu Qingmeng didn't say anything and continued with her work. She put the prepared jujube paste filling into the rolled-out dough, sealed it with her thumb and forefinger, and then shaped it. Since she didn't have a kiln at home, she could only bake it slowly over a low flame.

Gu Yunyi leaned close to Xu Qingmeng's ear and whispered, "Tell me, is it possible that you were already pregnant when you drugged me that time?"

Upon hearing Gu Yunyi's words, Xu Qingmeng was so startled that she dropped what she was holding and hurriedly said, "What nonsense are you talking about? How could that be? Just once, how could it be..."

Xu Qingmeng suddenly stopped talking, realizing that she had almost let something slip.

She actually knew the plot of the book; after that intimate encounter, she was indeed carrying two little lives in her womb.

Xu Qingmeng forced herself to remain calm and continued, "Don't make wild guesses. How could you possibly get it right on the first try?"

"What's wrong?" Hearing the commotion and seeing the two whispering to each other, Madam He became even more puzzled.

"Mom, it's nothing, I just dropped something."

Xu Qingmeng quickly picked up the things she had dropped, trying to hide her panic and ignore him. However, she was in a state of turmoil. Gu Yunyi's words seemed unintentional, but only she knew that he had actually guessed correctly.

Gu Yunyi was stunned after hearing this. Thinking about what he had just said, he saw Xu Qingmeng's panic. He had just said it casually, but seeing Xu Qingmeng's big reaction, he couldn't help but have some doubts. He felt that she must be hiding something.
But looking back at Xu Qingmeng's behavior since then, he felt that he wasn't that great. He managed to get Xu Qingmeng to win the lottery in one go, but judging from her behavior, he still felt that something was wrong.
Just as Gu Yunyi was about to ask something, he heard Yunmo come in and say,

"Brother, a young master says he's here to see you."

(End of this chapter)