Chapter 173:
“Miaomiao’s Father, what’s wrong with you?” Luo Zhi’er patted his back and asked.
“Wife, don’t move, don’t leave me.”
Luo Zhi’er was greatly startled in her heart. How did he know? “I, when did I say I was leaving?”
“.Maybe Husband is overthinking it. Wife, what are you doing?” Li Sanmao hugged her, feeling like she was about to disappear just now.
He felt her still solidly in his arms and then let out a sigh of relief.
“Oh, didn’t the toothbrushes I made last time all explode? I planned to make a new set, including yours and Miaomiao’s!”
“Look!”
Li Sanmao let go of Luo Zhi’er, and she showed him the toothbrush she had just fitted with bristles.
Li Sanmao took it and looked at it carefully. The more he looked, the more uneasy he felt, lacking a sense of security. “Wife, this toothbrush is made really well. What is it made of?”
“You guess!”
“Hmm, it looks like animal hair.”
“Mm, correct. It uses hair from Bill’s tail.”
She apologetically glanced at Bill. Bill’s tail was missing a few tufts of hair.
Li Sanmao looked closely. The bamboo slices on the toothbrush were densely drilled with small holes, with tufts of hair fixed in the small holes. The bamboo slices were also polished very smoothly, extremely exquisite.
He remembered that before he went to the county office prison, she seemed to have made them. At that time, she used willow branches. She said to crush the tip of the willow branch with a stone and use salt to brush teeth and rinse the mouth.
He wouldn’t brush his teeth or wash his feet before allowing her to get into bed to sleep.
Before she came, they just rinsed their mouths with clean water. Some people in the village didn’t even rinse their mouths.
“Wife, how do you know so much?”
Luo Zhi’er didn’t know what was up with this big oaf today. He seemed a bit clingy and nagging. “Does this need knowing? You just think about it and you know!”
“Is that so?”
He remembered that in the first few years after she married him, she didn’t do any of these things.
“Of course. The inside of this willow branch is soft. Crushing it and washing teeth with it is quite comfortable and clean. Salt naturally has a cleaning effect.”
“.Look at the town apothecary. Don’t the doctors sometimes prescribe salt as a medicine? It has effects of inducing vomiting, clearing heat, cooling blood, and detoxifying for treatment?”
Li Sanmao looked at Luo Zhi’er’s clear eyes as she explained lightly, not like she was lying.
He moved his lips.
He really couldn’t bring himself to ask about those words Miaomiao had told him earlier.
Luo Zhi’er saw that he seemed to have something on his mind today, looking wooden, so she called to him: “Husband, you came back just in time. The door to the backyard kitchen was smashed by you. You have to make a new one and install it.”
“Also, my yard is missing a sunshade. I’ll give you another task: design one for me!”
“Hmm? What did you say?”
Li Sanmao came back to his senses.
“Aiya, Father, Mother wants you to help make a sunshade. Miaomiao likes it too. Today Miaomiao will design it, and you make it, okay?”
Miaomiao had already run over pattering, seeing Father holding Mother and not letting go. She was a bit happy about it!
Hee hee, Father and Mother’s feelings are so good! Before, when Grandparents were home, they didn’t even talk.
If they were always this good, would she soon have a little milk bun baby brother?
Li Sanmao hemmed and hawed as he sorted the eels back, put them in the large wooden basin, and drank some honey water with Miaomiao to rest.
Miaomiao bit the end of the pen thoughtfully, took out paper and pen, and began designing the sunshade.
“This should be like an umbrella, and the seat should have a cushion woven from corn leaves.”
He found a cloth measuring tape to measure the length, width, and height of the kitchen door, picked up the axe and saw, and began modifying wooden boards to make the door!
Luo Zhi’er saw them working and put the bunch of flowers Miaomiao picked into a bamboo tube.
Small flying awning, purple radish flowers, and buttercup flowers combined into a bunch, placed on the wooden long table.
She also lit the stove to prepare lunch, found the remaining batter from yesterday’s sweet potato starch making, got out the thin iron basin, and began steaming dough skins!
This pan for cooking dough skins was also designed by her later and made by the blacksmith.
Actually, in the rural area, this sweet potato starch can also be mixed with water and steamed into skins to eat.
One by one, until the batter was ladled out spoon by spoon. The earlier steamed dough skins had cooled, so she cut them with a knife, peeled some garlic, fried some chili oil again, blanched the bean sprouts she bought last time, and put them at the bottom of the bowl.
After busying for about an hour, Luo Zhi’er brought out the prepared cold skin noodles, cold mixed potato slices, spicy radish cubes, and heated up the leftover soy milk congee from breakfast and brought it out together.
“Miaomiao, wash your hands with your father, it’s time to eat!”
“Okay, coming right away, Mother.”
Li Sanmao washed his hands, rubbed them, sat down, looked up and saw butterflies attracted to that bunch of flowers, his mood especially good.
Miaomiao this girl really knows how to do things!
He had smelled the aroma of
Hehe, having a wife is great, finally able to eat, but… looking at the white and tender thing in the bowl in front of him, what kind of food is this?
There were some seasonings on top, with a feeling of vinegar poured soup juice, and a layer of chili oil poured on the very top.
“Wife, what kind of food is this? Why does it smell so fragrant?”
“Father, this is called dough skin. Mother made it for Miaomiao to eat last time! She also sent some to Grandma Zhao, and Grandma Zhao likes it a lot too.”
Miaomiao eagerly answered, picking up her chopsticks and already starting to slurp and eat.
“Is that so, wife? Is there any more dough skin left at home? Later we’ll send some to Old Lady Zhao?”
“Yes, there is, saved some.”
“Hehe! Wife, you’re so thoughtful. You’ve been busy for half a day and must be tired too, hurry and eat, wife.” Luo Zhi’er inexplicably felt her face blush.
“I’ve grown this big, how come I’ve never seen this dough skin, nor eaten it?”
“Hehe, husband, this is a special food I suddenly thought of making when researching baked bread and preparing ingredients. Actually, it was also to avoid wasting raw materials!” Luo Zhi’er explained.
“Actually, this dough skin is also sold in town, husband. You just haven’t noticed. I saw it last time, but theirs doesn’t have the chewiness of mine because it doesn’t have the washed dough water I used. Their dough skin isn’t like mine, in strips, it falls apart as soon as picked up, not sturdy.”
“And the taste isn’t as good as mother’s either!” Miaomiao quickly added!
“You little clever one! You know everything!” Luo Zhi’er touched her little head.
Miaomiao stuck out her tongue.
“Oh, so that’s how it is.” Li Sanmao suddenly realized. Whenever he went to town before, he was always in a hurry to sell off the wild game meat and leave. Mother was afraid he’d spend silver, and if he returned late, she’d nag for half the day!
No time to stroll around!
But, as Granny Xie said, wife has a pair of clever hands.
She was born to make those delicious foods. If only he had silver, he could open a shop for his wife in town.
After finishing the cold skin noodles, Li Sanmao started busying with his work again.
He was thinking in his mind how to get a large sum of silver. By the time he finished making the door, it was already dark!
Luo Zhi’er lit the kerosene lamp for him to illuminate, helped him install the door properly, then went to wash up and sleep.
Miaomiao had already drawn the picture..
A large umbrella-shaped sunshade, with a long table underneath. Since the long table already had long benches to match, she drew two recliners a short distance away, with pillows and back cushions on them.
Flowers and plants were drawn around as decorations.
Stone slabs were laid on the ground for stepping.
No wonder she was her daughter, their ideas were quite similar!
A fence surrounded the outside, with flowers and plants around the front.
The most childlike touch was drawing two square grids, enclosing the goat inside the fence, and Bill wasn’t left out either.
Tomorrow, when he had time, he just needed to implement it in reality as feasible as possible.
