[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

Elizabeth took Jane and quickly walked into the guest room. She first made sure that no one was near the door, then closed the door, and mysteriously took out a book to Jane, "Jane, I wrote this, please help me read it. .”

"What?" Jane took the notebook and flipped through it.

"That's right, what I wrote." Elizabeth didn't seem to care, but in fact there was a little pride in her words. She fell on her back on Jane's bed and rolled twice.

"I want you to take a look for me." Elizabeth said confidently.

"Okay." Jane sat on the bed and turned it over. She looked quickly, ten lines at a glance, and soon turned to the bottom.

To be honest, from Jane's point of view, Elizabeth's short essays are too imitative, with long sentences copied mechanically, and the content is relatively empty, but a few of them are not bad... Generally speaking, they are a bit naive.

Jane didn't mention the bad ones, but pointed to the three good ones and said, "I think these three are the best ones. They are about what happened in your life. They are very real, and the technique is also developed." Quite a few."

Elizabeth was very happy, and she turned over and asked Jane which three articles were well written and which ones were well written.But after thinking about it, Elizabeth found that these three articles were not her favorite articles. On the contrary, she thought they were not well written before, because one of the three articles was about the previous May Day, one was about the younger sisters at home, and one was about the younger sisters. It is about the events in the village during the harvest season.

"Do you think I wrote this better?" Elizabeth was a little unconvinced. She took the notebook and flipped through it. Isn't this written well?

"Then what do you think is the most important thing about writing an article?" Jane asked Elizabeth.

Elizabeth opened her mouth, thought about it again, and found that she had never thought about this question.

"Think about it." Jane rolled up her notebook and knocked on Elizabeth's head to make her think carefully.

After a day of resting comfortably with nothing to do, Jane decided to make some ice cream, although it is not the season to eat, but so what?It's nice to have Christmas a little differently.

Mrs. Bennet will naturally not refuse this small request. It does not require many ingredients, but it does require a bucket of ice and snow, and the labor to beat the egg liquid.

Uncharacteristically, Catherine took Lydia out to sweep the snow. They could only collect the top layer of clean snow that hadn't completely turned into ice, otherwise no one would want to eat dessert soaked in dirty snow water... even The bowl is also unappetizing enough.

Egg yolks have to be completely creamy with sugar, which is the most labor-intensive.Under everyone's "suggestions", Jane put in the amount of [-] egg yolks, so May, Elizabeth, and Mary each took a bowl and an egg beater and stirred vigorously.

Jane started to boil the milk when others were about to beat the egg liquid, and added cream to it. It was fine when it was slightly bubbling, and it must not be overcooked.

The most important thing is the heat.

Slowly pour the boiled milk into the egg liquid, not too fast, and stir while pouring, otherwise the egg liquid may become egg drop soup.After the milk and egg liquid are mixed, they have to be boiled again on the fire until the small bubbles appear, and the ice cream is almost ready.

What?is it hot?That's why Catherine and Lydia are going to shovel snow.

Put the ice cream liquid in a bowl and put it in an ice bucket. Now you need to be patient and stir slowly until the ice cream liquid solidifies.

"I'll do it." Catherine volunteered to take the job, she thought it must be very interesting, and maybe she could steal a little bit, hehehe~

"Okay then." Elizabeth patted Catherine's head, it was great, someone took over, and she could finally rest, her arm was so sore.

"Then I'll leave it to you." Mary straightened the big bowl containing the ice cream so it wouldn't spill out.

"Go and warm up when it gets cold." Jane said.Because making snow in a hot room is easy to turn into water, both the ice bucket and Catherine have to be in a room near the door away from the kitchen and fireplace.

Catherine: Only, am I the only one.../(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

What you do on your own initiative, you have to do it on your knees.

Catherine cried and stirred for a while, feeling her hands and feet were cold, and she was holding a big ice bucket.Everyone went to warm up, and she was sitting alone on the porch, so boring (>﹏<.) ~ woo woo woo...

At this time, a head protruded from the corner. Lydia originally wanted to scare Catherine, but she saw Catherine stirring and wiping tears alone.

Lydia felt embarrassed, she stood up and stretched out her hand: "I brought you gloves..."

When Catherine saw Lydia, she quickly wiped her face vigorously and said, "Well, thank you." Being bumped into... In fact, she was also very uncomfortable.

Lydia picked her chin and said, "Well, let me accompany you, we can take turns to do this, that, if you don't want to do it, you don't have to do it, why did you take the initiative to do it just now?"

"No, no, I'm not saying I don't want to do it, I just..." Catherine muttered in a low voice, "I just think it's boring to be alone, and it's cold and dark..."

Lydia said "wait for me." and ran away. After a while, she came back with a stool with a book on it, and then ran to get a candlestick and put it on the ground. Then I ran to bring a high stool to put the candlestick on, and it was considered finished.

"Let me read to you." Lydia sat on the stool and opened the book, "I think Jane must take French." She sighed, can the communication between people be more sincere and less routine? ?Jane, you say you, give a gift as soon as you give it, what else is there to try?

"A long time ago, at the other end of the dark forest." Lydia intermittently read an old French fairy tale book.

This can be said to be the "ancestral" fairy tale book of the Bennet family, and Elizabeth found it out of Mr. Bennet's old book box. Every girl read it countless times when she was learning French.

But reading this book also has advantages. No, Catherine knows where Lydia is reading just by listening, and can help her correct the pronunciation.

"It would be great if she could always be so serious." Mary, who was knitting in the living room next door, said with emotion when she heard Lydia's voice.

"Come on, you can't do without carrots." Elizabeth didn't agree with Jane's use of gifts as rewards. She worried that Lydia would develop the habit of learning without material rewards and no motivation in the future.

The Bennet family is getting ready for Christmas. There is a five-foot-eleven-inch (1.8-meter) Christmas tree in the corner next to the fireplace in the living room, with little golden bells hanging from it. The Bennet sisters made The cute multicolored balls, the paper-cut Santa Claus, the walking stick and socks made of cloth, and the little fairy sprinkled with gold dust brought back by Jane who came late-this little doll is so cute that Lydia begged Jane Make sure to give it to her after Christmas - and of course the yellow star on top of the tree.This star was made by Mr. Bennet himself with a piece of wood in the year Jane was born. Every year before Christmas, he would paint it with yellow paint and put it on the top of the Christmas tree.

There were only five boxes of Christmas presents in the small fence under the Christmas tree. There were only five in previous years, but there were five more this year. These were brought back by Jane.

Everyone is busy today for Christmas Mass.With the efforts of Pastor Old Tom, as long as families with the ability, they will bring some gifts for the poor when they attend the Christmas Eve Mass, some are food, some are old clothes. Old Tom does not require everyone to donate money.

Old blankets were fine, and brown bread was fine, and Old Tom didn't even ask for donations, but for the poor, they were good things.

This is also where Jane thinks that Old Tom is very smart-usually donating money is easy to touch everyone's sensitive nerves, but it doesn't matter if you only donate things.Moreover, Tom will organize well-meaning ladies and ladies to bring the sorted meals and clothes to distribute to the orphans and other poor people in the village on Christmas Day. In exchange for more things to help others.

Of course Mrs. Bennet will not miss the opportunity to show her compassion every year. All it takes is some brown bread and milk, well, some sausage and butter to make a good name. Mrs. Bennet will still count it accounted for.

But this year Jane has a better idea, and with meat and butter anyway, Jane has a new way.Every year, the Bennet family slaughters pigs and chickens during the holidays. Jane asked Mr. Bennet to leave the offal that he didn’t eat before, and then let Mei wash it. He even used some black flour, but it’s not as good as meat. what.

These viscera and other parts of the meat that are not eaten are chopped into a meat paste, and water is added to make a minced meat, and potato powder and a lot of ginger are added to make square meat patties and fried in a pan.

Then wash the old cabbage leaves that I don’t eat at home and cut them into small pieces. Make the black bread into toast size and cut into slices.A piece of bread, a layer of vegetable leaves, a patty, a layer of vegetable leaves, and a piece of bread. If you squeeze it around while it is hot, the edges of the bread will stick together to form a pocket bread.

"Jane, you are so smart." Mrs. Bennet said pleasantly.This method uses offal and old cabbage leaves that the Bennet family does not eat. Although potato powder and ginger are used, how much is it worth?And using fried patties can save a lot more than sending butter directly.Don’t think that the Bennet family doesn’t eat offal because they think it’s fishy, ​​but for poor people who rarely see oil stars in a year, offal is also meat. It was fried.Moreover, it is made into a large pocket bread, which looks full of materials.

Mrs. Bennet immediately decided to make all the bread sent to the church this year. She even planned to bring such pocket bread to Mr. Bennet for lunch next year during the busy farming season. Of course, the ingredients must be completely different.

While the kitchen was in full swing, Elizabeth and Mary were certainly not idle.

Because the little fairy pendant brought back by Jane reminded Elizabeth of a little farm girl she saw last time, maybe only five or six years old, dirty all over, but terribly fond of a rag doll look.

The Bennet sisters also have dolls, which Mr. Bennet bought for Elizabeth and Jane when she was a child. Later Jane's dolls were given to Mary, and now these two dolls belong to Catherine and Lydia.

Elizabeth had studied how rag dolls were made, so she wanted to make a few of them herself, as a Christmas present, and send them out with the bread at Christmas.

Mary agreed with Elizabeth's words very much, so they sat in front of the fireplace and made dolls.

The author has something to say: Catherine: I can't cry for food... I can't help QAQ, crying. jpg

Lydia: Promise!

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