After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

It took them a long time to finally put all the grapes into the jars. There were still a few jars left, and the grapes that had just been hung up to dry today were not enough to fill them. Jiang Xiaohe thought about going up the mountain again after a few days.

I went to look at the sour jujube cake I had made earlier. It had been several days now and the sour jujube paste in the winnowing basket was almost ready. After drying it for two more days, I could take it to the town to sell it next time I went to market.

Thinking about what he said to Zeng Hua at noon, he was about to go to her house, but after thinking it over again, he turned around and took Wang Qiuxia with him.

Arrived at Zhang Quan’s home.

Zeng Hua had been looking forward to it for a long time. When he saw them coming, he quickly said, "I thought you guys weren't coming!"

"How could that be? We came as soon as we finished our work."

Zeng Hua smiled and pointed to a basket of mulberry leaves: "You asked me to come back to pick them. Look, I picked so many."

Jiang Xiaohe nodded: "Second Aunt, go get two buckets of water so we can wash these mulberry leaves."

Zeng Hua quickly moved.

Jiang Xiaohe said to Wang Qiuxia again: "Mom, go prepare some wood ash."

This farmer's family has plenty of wood ash in their stove.

"How much?"

"You can just put some in a basin."

Zhang Daniu looked at her and asked quickly, "Cousin, what should I do?"

"Big girl, go get some hot water and boil it."

Zhang Danniu went there immediately.

After Zeng Hua fetched the water, she and Wang Qiuxia started washing mulberry leaves together. Jiang Xiaohe reminded them to wash them thoroughly.

Seeing that the water in the pot was boiling, Zhang Da Nv found some gauze, put it on the basin, poured the wood ash on the gauze, and then poured the hot water from the pot on the ash, back and forth several times, and then squeezed the gauze tightly to squeeze out all the water in the wood ash.

Set the water aside to cool and settle.

"Girl, wash this gauze, we will need it later."

Zhang Danniu nodded quickly.

The mulberry leaves over there have also been washed.

"What will Xiaohe do next?"

"Second Aunt, please use the mortar to crush all the mulberry leaves."

"Crush it?" Zeng Hua asked uncertainly.

Jiang Xiaohe nodded.

OK, there happened to be a big stone mortar in her backyard. She put all the mulberry leaves in it and crushed them in about a quarter of an hour.

Jiang Xiaohe poured out the crushed mulberry leaves and mulberry leaf juice, while Zeng Hua continued to crush the mulberry leaf juice.

Jiang Xiaohe used the gauze that Zhang Danniu had washed clean to filter the mulberry leaf juice.

Her hand was injured and she had little strength, so she called Wang Qiuxia to squeeze out the mulberry leaf juice. She squeezed out half a basin of mulberry leaf juice. Seeing that the wood ash had almost settled, she poured the settled alkaline water into the mulberry leaf juice.

"Big girl, go to the kitchen and boil some water."

"Good."

He poured most of the mulberry leaf juice into the pot, leaving a large bowl, and asked Zeng Hua, "Does Second Aunt have any bean powder or something like that at home?"

"Yes, yes." After saying that, he immediately went to get it.

Jiang Xiaohe took a look at a jar, which was half full of soybean powder. There was a lot of dust on the jar, and it seemed that it had not been touched for a long time.

Jiang Xiaohe poured some of the water into the remaining bowl of mulberry leaf juice and stirred it evenly. After the pot boiled, she poured a bowl of mulberry leaf juice mixed with bean powder into the pot and started stirring the water in the pot until it boiled. She then scooped it all into a basin and placed it in a cool place.

"Cousin, is this okay? Is this food?"

Jiang Xiaohe nodded: "Wait another hour and you will know!"

Zeng Hua was also a little unconvinced.

Jiang Xiaohe explained: "Second Aunt, what we just made was mulberry leaf tofu, also known as fairy tofu..."

"Then a basin of water can become tofu?"

Wang Qiuxia asked Zeng Hua and Zhang Danniu about their doubts.

When she asked this, Jiang Xiaohe just wondered how to explain this chemical reaction to them? If they didn't understand, they should not confuse themselves. After thinking for a while, she kept it a secret: "You will know it later."

Since they had to wait for an hour, Zeng Hua and Wang Qiuxia took basins and went to the river to wash clothes. They had been busy all morning and still hadn't finished their work!

Jiang Xiaohe went back and brought Zhang Chuan back to her. For the past half month, this kid ate and slept, and ate and slept every day. He has grown a lot and feels heavy even when held in her arms.

Zhang Da Nv was embroidering handkerchiefs at home. They were all brought back from the embroidery shop in the town. She could earn two cents for each handkerchief, but it was tiring for the hands and eyes. However, Jiang Xiaohe found it interesting, so she hugged Zhang Chuan, who had fallen asleep again, and watched for a long time.

Zhang Daniu smiled and asked her, "Has your cousin's wife not embroidered recently?"

Will she?

Jiang Xiaohe searched for it based on her memory and found that the original owner seemed to be quite good at it.

"Oh, you see I work every day, how can I have the time to embroider? Besides, I haven't embroidered for such a long time, my hands are not so good anymore."

Zhang Danniu smiled but said nothing.

Jiang Xiaohe asked her again: "How many strips can you embroider?"

Zhang Danniu shook her head: "I can't embroider for a few days, three days at most, one piece. In a month, it's just the salary of my brother for two days at the quarry." After saying that, she sighed.

"That's better than many people." Jiang Xiaohe comforted her.

"I'll take the child back to sleep first, you go ahead and do your work." After saying that, she left with the child in her arms.

Before Zhang Daniu, who came in carrying a bucket, could say a word to her, he saw her leave again.

Does she hate him?

When Zhang Daniu thought of this, he felt a little disappointed. He didn't hear Zhang Daniu calling him and went back to his room.

"What's wrong with you, brother?" Zhang Danv muttered, then lowered her head to continue embroidering her handkerchief.

Zeng Hua and Wang Qiuxia arrived at the riverside, where it was cooler. There were two other people washing clothes by the river.

After greeting each other, they started chatting.

"There was a lot of noise in Li Taohua's house today. Did you all hear it?" asked Li Cuihong who lived next door to Zeng Hua.

Wang Qiuxia and Zeng Hua both nodded.

Zeng Hua asked while tapping his clothes, "What are you arguing about today?"

Another woman, Wu Qiulan, said, "What's there to argue about? It's just about Li Taohua and Zhang Long."

Then he whispered, "Everyone knows that Li Taohua's mother asked Zhang Long for six taels of silver right away."

Several people nodded.

"Why? Zhang Long still doesn't want to give it?"

"That's right! If I were Zhang Long, I wouldn't give it to you either!" the woman said while rubbing her clothes.

"but……"

Zeng Hua was anxious when he heard this: "But what? Oh, don't keep me in suspense. It makes me anxious."

Wu Qiulan looked around and whispered, "I heard that Li Taohua is pregnant!"

"What?" Several people stopped moving.

Wu Qiulan nodded: "Really, I'm not lying to you, our house is next to Zhang Long's, Zhang Long and his mother were arguing at home, and we heard it clearly..."