Farmer’s Stepmother’s Skillful Farming

Chapter 53 Sourness

This braised pork meal, how can I put it, lacks seasoning and the taste is still lacking a lot, but it is better than the firewood stove. The pork is fresh, soft and tender, moderately salty, and it tastes so-so.

If I want to stew this meat again next time, I have to buy more seasonings from the shop in the town.

Su Mulan thought about it and ate all the noodles in the bowl.

 After finishing the meal, we steamed the sweet potatoes and started drying a new batch of dried sweet potatoes. After finishing the work, we set off to continue to open up wasteland.

Taking a shovel, sickle, **** and other tools, Su Mulan filled three large bamboo tubes with water. Su Mulan filled one of the bamboo tubes with some sugar. When the third one was filled, Su Mulan hesitated and put the spoon in. Put it down.

Sugar was a relatively expensive thing at this time. For fifteen cents, the Communist Party of Manchuria only bought so much for her. She would use it for other purposes later. As long as adults don't have low blood sugar, they don't need to add too much sugar. Divide the two with sugar and leave them to Bai Lixia and Bai Midou, while you can drink the one without sugar.

 After preparing everything, leaving Bai Zhuye and Bai Shuiliu at home, Su Mulan led Bai Lixia and Bai Midou to work.

 It is hot in the middle of summer. Even though the sky is not particularly sunny due to white clouds floating in the sky at this time, the sweltering heat in these dog days still makes people sweat like rain.

　　After working for a while, you have to take a break and drink some water.

But the two children, Bai Lixia and Bai Midou, were really sensible. Even though their backs were soaked with sweat, they refused to stop. They just bent over and cleaned up the small stones, weeds and so on.

Seeing this, Su Mulan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "You two go and rest for a while. I will go after digging out the roots of this tree."

The two little carrot heads were also very tired. After listening to what Su Mulan said, they nodded, put down the sickle and shovel, and went to rest under the big tung tree next to them, and took a sip of water from the bamboo tube.

"How come this water isn't sweet when you drink it?" Bai Midou looked at the big bamboo tube in his hand in surprise, shook it again, took another sip, and frowned, "it's really not sweet at all."

"Could it be that you have been drinking sweet water and you are used to it, so it doesn't feel sweet anymore?" Bai Lixia asked.

"Probably not, it's really not sweet at all." Bai Mi Dou handed the bamboo tube to Bai Lixia.

Bai Lixia took a sip and smacked her lips, "It's really not sweet at all..."

Looked at the bamboo tube in his hand in surprise, and then laughed, "No wonder it's so sweet. The thing you're drinking is from my mother's bamboo tube. Didn't my mother just say not to let us drink this..."

Bai Lixia was startled for a moment and then stopped talking.

Su Mulan did not let them drink the water from the bamboo tube, and there was no sugar in the water in the bamboo tube.

 That is to say…

Bai Lixia suddenly felt that her nose was a little sore, and she couldn't help but let out runny nose twice.

"What's wrong, second sister?" Bai Midou noticed something strange about Bai Lixia and asked.

"No, it's okay." Bai Lixia quickly turned away and secretly wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeve, "The sweat dripped into my eyes, and it hurts."

“This is the water that Mom wants to drink. Don’t get it by mistake later, and don’t tell Mom that you drank her water, otherwise Mom will think that we are disobedient and she will feel unhappy.”

"Oh." Bai Mi Dou scratched his ears, "But Mom shouldn't be angry..."

 (End of this chapter)