After dressing as a widow

Aunt Ma happily picked up a basket full of sweet potatoes and hawthorns from the cellar, and handed them to Lin Zhen: "The sweet potatoes are still good, they haven't germinated yet, but the hawthorns are so thick, I don't know if they can be used."

Things in the cellar will inevitably lose moisture. The skin of the originally red and plump hawthorn is wrinkled, and it is a circle smaller than when it was just picked.

But no matter how bad it is, it is also a hawthorn!

Lin Zhen, who hasn't eaten candied haws for a long time, drools when he thinks of the sourness of the hawthorn, he waved his hand: "It will definitely work, then Aunt Ma, I'll go first, when it's done, I'll ask Xiaoyao to bring it to you .”

"Okay, I'm waiting for your candied haws and sweet potatoes."

The most important thing in making candied haws is to boil the sugar. After Lin Zhen returned home, he handed over the hawthorns and sweet potatoes to Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Lin to take care of them, and asked them to wash the hawthorns and dig out the core. In order to ensure the appearance, it is best not to mess with the hawthorn It's best to keep it as it is.

The sweet potatoes are peeled, cut into smaller hob pieces, and drained for later use.

The most important thing about these two snacks is the cooking of syrup. There are two types of sugar that the Lin family uses now. One is the brown sugar that Lin Zhen bought and seldom eats. The icing made of white granulated sugar.

However, due to the limitations of today's technology, the color of the icing sugar is still a little red, and it cannot be as distinct as white sugar, but irregular granules smaller than the tip of a little finger.

And the price of such defective sugar is also frighteningly expensive, almost one tael of silver per catty.

The syrup can only be boiled with the sugar that Lin Zhen used for seasoning. He first poured cold oil into the pot, slid the sweet potatoes into it and fried them until they were fully fried. pot.

The sweet smell of sugar disperses in the room with the bursting bubbles. The adults who have passed the age of sugar gluttons can't bear it, and their eyes fall into the pot from time to time.

When the syrup was almost boiled, Lin Zhen asked Mrs. Lin and Ersister Lin to bring the stringed hawthorn balls and sweet potatoes, first rolled the hawthorn balls in the syrup, and then poured the sweet potato pieces into the remaining syrup. Stir and stir and pour into the basin.

Lin Zhen wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve: "Eat the sweet potatoes while they are still hot, they can't be picked up when they are cold, and the candied haws can wait for a while, and the sugar on top will be more crunchy when it is cold."

"By the way, Xiaoyao, bring two bamboo tubes and give some to Aunt Ma and Uncle Ma."

"Okay, third brother." When Lin Xiaoyao heard the words, her feet seemed to be loaded with springs, and she quickly went to the place where things were piled up and took two clean bamboo tubes and handed them to Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen put four bunches of candied gourds in a bamboo tube, and a bamboo tube filled with more than half of candied sweet potatoes, and said to Lin Xiaoyao, "Send it early and come back early, be careful not to drop you, the road is a bit slippery."

"Third brother, don't worry, it will be delivered warmly to Aunt Ma and Aunt Ma." Lin Xiaoyao borrowed the bamboo tube and went out, and her figure quickly disappeared outside the fence.

Lin Zhen looked at Lin Zhuzi, Lin Shitou and the others who could not wait to get closer to the stove, and told them to wash their hands to get the chopsticks: "Let's eat candied sweet potatoes first, and see who can pull the longest candied potatoes!"

The children who couldn't wait for a long time cheered and rushed to wash their hands and get chopsticks, picked up the sweet potato pieces and pulled them up. The warm candy made a slight sound that belonged to food, and then pulled out a long candy.

One centimeter two centimeters three centimeters...

Lin Huaixiang, who is relatively small, stood on tiptoe, and the sugar threads under the sweet potato cubes were still connected, without any sign of breaking.

Looking at Lin Huaixiang's blushing face, Lin Zhen watched the excitement from the side: "Second sister-in-law, quickly hug Huaixiang."

Second Aunt Lin hugged Lin Huaixiang honestly to her chest. He was as big and tall as Brother Lin in the family, and the sugar shreds under Lin Huaixiang's sweet potatoes finally broke.

"Ha ha ha ha."

"Don't tease your second sister-in-law, brat."

There was laughter and laughter in the room, Lin Huaixiang was hugged high by his father, and he, who had always been more introverted, handed sweet potato pieces to his mouth: "Sweet, Dad eats."

Zhao Xiu's temperament is straightforward and stupid. He loves his three children very much, but he rarely talks to them. He only works hard, does his work well, and cooks for them.

Therefore, neither Lin Shitou nor Lin Huaixiang seldom reveal their dependence on him, and they seem to have inherited his reticence and indifference.

Zhao Xiu looked at the piece of sweet potato that Lin Huaixiang brought to his mouth, and lightly bit a small notch on it: "It's so sweet, Huaixiang eats it."

"Hmm!" Lin Huaixiang felt that this piece of sweet potato was so fragrant, it was more fragrant than anything he had eaten before.

He likes father, father, brother, brother, aunt so much, and he hopes to be like this every day.

All the children stood on the ground, only Lin Huaixiang who was being held by Zhao Xiu was the tallest.

Lin Shitou pursed his mouth slightly, looking at his younger brother who was held high by his father, he really wanted to be like his younger brother, but he was an older brother, an older child, so he couldn't do that.

Suddenly, Second Brother Lin hugged him under his shoulders with two big rough hands, and also hugged him high.

Then there are Tiedan, Zhuzi, Xingxiang and Chunxiang.

Regardless of some minor frictions before, the Lin family at this moment makes people feel extremely comfortable.

Lin Zhen couldn't take it anymore after eating two yuan. He held the bamboo teacup beside him to clear the sweet taste in his mouth. He looked at Gu Shuanzi who didn't ask for hugs at all, and suddenly wanted to play tricks.

cough cough.

Putting down the bamboo teacup, Lin Zhen walked behind Gu Shuanzi, picked him up high when he was not paying attention, and put one hand on his waist to prevent him from bending over when he was not paying attention. Put one hand under his buttocks, so that he can use his strength: "My dear son, how are you, are you happy!!!"

Gu Shuanzi, who was picked up suddenly, was stiff, and the sweet potato pieces held by the chopsticks slipped between the chopsticks and almost fell to the ground.

He faced Lin Zhen, looking down at his stepfather because of his posture, the tendon on his forehead was beating faintly.

He is already eight years old, not four or five years old, and he is still hugged like this...

But looking at his stepfather's narrowed eyes with a smile, Gu Shuanzi pressed down the tendons on his forehead one by one, he thought, it's a good thing he doesn't have a wife now, if his wife finds out that he is so old and is hugged by his stepfather... …

"Uncle Lin, I can hold it by myself." Gu Shuanzi felt that his voice was very cold.

Lin Zhenbai had such an expression on his face, looking at the half-eaten sweet potato slices in his hand: "But they can't catch Huaixiang?"

Because I am taller than them.

Gu Shuanzi looked at his stepfather and thought.

Looking at the expression on his stepfather's face, he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of sweet potato, and with his stepfather's honey juice (my little boy is so good) expression, he successfully pulled off the sugar shreds under the sweet potato.

The author has something to say:

at that time.

Gu Shoufu has grown very big, he likes to hold his Jiaojiao face to face, and then ask his Jiaojiao while ××××: "Are you happy?"