A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

Gu Zhou returned to the house and took out the old cloth stored in the broken box and gave it to Shen Wu.

Shen Wu took the cloth and stroked the surface. It was very similar to the coarse cloth of her time, but much thinner.

"Can you really give it to me?" Shen Wu asked.

Gu Zhou nodded: "Didn't you say you wanted to make shoes? I'll come and help too."

Shen Wu couldn't help laughing and burst out laughing: "Aren't you afraid that I'll ruin it?"

Gu Zhou was afraid before, but he saw how much she had done, so he definitely believed: "Your clothes are made very well, your shoes will definitely not lie."

Speaking of this, Shen Wu was very curious: "Why don't you wear the clothes I made? Don't you like them? Or are they not suitable?"

Gu Zhou shook his head and denied: "No..." He hesitated and waited for a while before he stammering the reason: "I'm afraid it will get dirty and torn."

Shen Wu patted his shoulder helplessly: "I was afraid that you would be like this, so I dyed your hair a dark color. If you don't wear it, you won't be able to wear it in a few years when it grows longer!"

"Then I'll wear it after I take a shower when I have time..."

"Okay! It's better to do it today than to wait for another day. Let's do it today!" Shen Wu put the cloth on the stool he made, got up and went to the kitchen to boil water.

"No, let me do it." Gu Zhou didn't react at first, but after realizing it, he quickly wanted to burn it himself.

Shen Wu did not refuse and asked him to get a bowl and get half a bowl of white flour.

Gu Zhou didn't know what she was going to do, but he did it anyway.

Shen Wu had already lit the fire and put a full pot of water in it, so that Gu Zhou could have a good wash.

"How do we do this?" Gu Zhou stood behind her holding half a bowl of flour.

Shen Wu stood up and took it from him: "Boil the paste and make shoes."

After hearing this, Gu Zhou quickly stopped her: "Using white flour is too luxurious, can't you use whole grain flour?"

Shen Wu shook his head: "I don't know either, but we all use white flour to make the paste, or glutinous rice flour. I haven't tried multi-grain flour and I'm afraid it's not sticky enough and easy to open."

Gu Zhou remembered that his mother used leftover soup to make it when she was still alive, and quickly said, "In the past, mother always used leftover soup to make it."

Shen Wu refused: "I'm afraid not, I haven't tried that method before"

She had two reasons.

First, she can’t.

Second, now that selling buns is profitable, white flour can be readily available, so there is no need to waste it too much.

Gu Zhou didn't want to waste the precious flour on this, and was anxious to explain to her that the leftover soup could also be used to make rice.

Shen Wu explained it to him clearly: "You should have seen your mother making shoes. It is extremely troublesome and time-consuming. Although the method I use may make you feel that it is a waste of food, we have a way to make money now. The money we earn from getting up early every day to sell food is enough to buy a lot of flour. I only use half a bowl of it and make half a bowl of paste, so not much is wasted."

Gu Zhou was not an unreasonable person. Years of poverty made him unwilling to waste even a single grain of food. He felt uncomfortable seeing her do this.

Shen Wu understood his heart. When he was a child, he was hungry and thirsty, and he would feel uncomfortable when he saw others like this.

"If you really feel uncomfortable, how about this? Go and rest for a while and I'll boil some water and call you." Shen Wu's words were not a discussion, but more like a notification.

Gu Zhou turned his head and was silent for a while: "It's okay, I'll help you."

Shen Wu was an experienced person and understood that he needed to go through this process, so he nodded and asked him to come over.

"Use water to mix the flour. Make sure there are no lumps and it's half thin and half dry." Shen Wu stirred the flour with chopsticks while pouring water into it.

When she felt it was about time, she put the bowl of water down and carefully rubbed the dry powder on the wall of the bowl into the water.

"Stir it more like this. There must not be any lumps of dough, otherwise it will clump together when you brush the paste on the cloth later. The cloth will not fit well, and the shoes you wear later will not look good and will hurt your feet." Shen Wu said as she quickly stirred the flour water in the bowl, where there were obviously no lumps of dough. To confirm again, she moved the chopsticks in the bowl to pick up the water to make sure there were really no lumps of dough.

"Are you suffering from a sore throat?" Gu Zhou asked.

"Yes! We need to light a fire, and it needs to be a low fire. If the fire is too big, the bottom will get burnt, and the paste will not only be shapeless but also smell bad." Shen Wu used his feet to scratch out a flat surface in front of the stove to ensure that there was no flammable material.

She handed the bowl to Gu Zhou and asked him to help, and pulled out the small stove from the corner of the kitchen that Aunt He used to make medicine for Gu Zhou.

It was about the same size as the ones she saw used to boil medicine in Chinese medicine clinics in modern times, and it had a medicine boiling pot with a handle on top.

She thought about it and turned back to ask, "Can it be used to make paste?"

Gu Zhou had never tried it before. Looking at the dusty inner wall, he said, "It should work. Why not give it a try?"

After hearing what Shen Wu said, he cleaned the jar and put it back on the small stove, then took out a piece of firewood of similar size from the kitchen and stuffed it into the stove.

"Let me tell you first, I've never tried making paste with this stuff," Shen Wu said as he poured the flour and water into the jar.

"I do not have either"

Gu Zhou's words succeeded and Shen Wu laughed out loud.

"Okay, this is the first time for both of us."

Shen Wu kept stirring with a pair of chopsticks. As time went by, the flour water in the jar gradually became sticky.

"Do you want to try it?" Shen Wu said to Gu Zhou who was standing beside him.

"Okay." Gu Zhou took it and stirred it gently like her. After a while, it showed signs of forming a clumping mass.

“Just transparency is enough”

"Transparent?" Gu Zhou didn't understand what it meant.

"After the flour and water form a ball, it will become different from this and more translucent." Shen Wu didn't know how to explain it. The more he spoke, the more confusing it became, so he simply stopped talking.

"Just wait, you'll know in a moment"

Shen Wu saw that the water in the stove had already boiled, so he quickly took out the firewood and stuck it into the old ashes to put out the fire.

Looking back, Gu Zhou's stirring also became transparent.

"That's it! Alright!" Shen Wu asked him to take the jar down and put it on the ground. He then used two branches to pick up a piece of unburned firewood in the small stove and put it into the ashes.

Shen Wu saw that the water in the stove had already boiled, so he quickly took out the firewood and stuck it into the old ashes to put out the fire.

Looking back, Gu Zhou's stirring also became transparent.

"That's all." Shen Wu asked him to find clean clothes and the bathing supplies he had made earlier, and she went to the kitchen to get some hot water.

"Just wash it in my room. It's all on the ground anyway, so it doesn't matter if the water spills. And you can just hang your hair to dry after washing."

Shen Wu had some experience, so he quickly took the basin to his room and poured half a bucket of hot water into it.

Then I poured some cold water from home into it, testing the temperature again and again.

It's not that she's crazy, it's just that it's already autumn. Although the weather is hot, she thinks the child is not in good health. She's afraid that if she uses river water, the child will get sick or get infected by something. It's better to boil the water. The hot water can be used for rubbing.

After Shen Wu prepared everything for him, he pushed the person who had just come out of the main room in.

"Just stay locked up inside. I won't go in. Just take your time washing and rub as much as you want. It's just that the weather is still a little hot. Don't wash for too long or you'll feel dizzy."

"Okay." This was the second time that Gu Zhou was taken care of by her while taking a bath. Fortunately, he was tanned, so the redness on his face was not noticeable at all.

Shen Wu waved his hands, completely unaware of how much his action had crossed the line: "I'll go make the paste first."