14. Chapter 14

After dinner, the couple went out.

Yang Haiyan: "Husband, can you read?"

Speaking of this, Qin Fang was a little embarrassed: "I was illiterate when I came out of my hometown to serve. In the past few years, I have learned a few words from my comrades who can read in the barracks." Although he was a little lacking in confidence, he was not inferior. But then he said, "Wife, please teach me how to read." To climb up and become a thousand-man leader, literacy is a must. After the words came out, he realized that he actually called her wife, and he was a little shy again.

Yang Haiyan: "Okay."

The couple came to the study.

The waiter: "Hello, I wonder what this brother wants to buy?" Looking at the two people in front of him, the waiter naturally asked Qin Fang. But looking at Qin Fang, the waiter thought again, this brother is so tall, aren't scholars all gentle and polite?

Qin Fang didn't speak, but looked at Yang Haiyan.

Yang Haiyan: "Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Names, Thousand Character Classic, one copy each." When the original owner followed the young lady to study, the teacher used these three books first when teaching.

Waiter: "Okay, please wait."

Yang Haiyan: "Wait a minute, give me another piece of paper, and a pen and ink, cheap ones will do." Just reading, but not writing, the handwriting is not good, and it is not good.

Waiter: "Okay."

Qin Fang did not expect Yang Haiyan to be so thoughtful, and was very moved: "Thank you, daughter-in-law." I didn't expect that from today on, he could also be a scholar.

Yang Haiyan: "You're welcome."

The two came out of the study and went to the vegetable market. Not to mention vegetables and wine, they also bought a lot of meat dishes today, including fish, ribs, pig's trotters, pork belly, and pig's large intestine. The vegetables alone cost 200 coins, plus the money spent on the study, Qin Fang spent all the monthly allowance he brought back yesterday.

Yang Haiyan has been buying meat from this stall, and in the past month, she has become the biggest customer of the meat stall, as long as she contracts fat meat and pig intestines every ten days.

When buying meat, Yang Haiyan asked: "Boss, who in the town has sheep or cattle? I want to buy a bucket of goat milk or cow milk."

The owner of the meat stall was about to answer, and someone next to him said: "Madam, do you want to buy goat milk? I have it at home."

Yang Haiyan looked in the direction of the voice and saw an old woman who was dressed very simply and looked a bit shrewd. Yang Haiyan nodded: "Yes, does your aunt have it?"

The old woman: "Yes, yes, yes, last year my daughter-in-law gave birth to twins, and her milk was not enough, so my son bought her a ewe. Now my grandson has grown up and doesn't drink milk. However, this goat milk is very fishy, ​​and only babies will drink it. No one in our family likes to drink it."

Yang Haiyan felt that this old woman was quite honest. Some people would not say these things in order to do business. Suddenly, she had a better impression of the old woman: "No problem, then can you deliver it later?"

The old woman: "Yes, yes, my home is in the village below, it's close, half an hour is enough for the round trip."

Half an hour is an hour, Yang Haiyan thought: "It's troublesome for you to go back and forth, is it convenient for my husband to go to your house with me to buy it?"

When the old woman heard it, it was inconvenient, saving her the need to go back and forth. "Okay." So they agreed on the time and place to meet.

However, Yang Haiyan was much happier because the goat milk had been settled. Because as long as there was a source, she could buy milk powder on the platform, and if someone asked, she would say that it was ordered from this family. Of course, in order to make it look real, it had to be ordered once in a while.

Afterwards, the two went to the blacksmith shop and took the baking tray that Yang Haiyan had ordered.

When they returned to the family room, they met Yang Dahua, who came out to buy vegetables and set up a stall to sell handkerchiefs and purses. If it were normal, she would set up the stall quite early, but Han Zhen came back yesterday, and the couple had a good time together at night, so Han Zhen made Yang Dahua a little angry, so that she almost couldn't get up today.

Yang Dahua also saw Qin Fang and Yang Haiyan: "Haiyan, you just came back from the market?"

Yang Haiyan: "Yes, we are going to have a wedding banquet tonight, sister Dahua, remember to come and have a drink."

Yang Dahua: "Okay. We will set up the banquet at home tomorrow night, you have to come too."

Yang Haiyan: "Of course, of course."

Yang Dahua: "Then I'll go to the market first."

Yang Haiyan: "Okay."

After chatting with Yang Dahua for a while, they separated.

When they got home, Yang Haiyan washed the clothes she had changed yesterday, while Qin Fang took a wooden bucket to buy goat milk. Before going to buy, Yang Haiyan said, "Husband, you have to pay attention to hygiene when the ewe is milking."

Qin Fang: "I know."

After Yang Haiyan finished washing the clothes and washed the vegetables for a while, Qin Fang came back with a bucket of goat milk. It only took three quarters of an hour (45 minutes) to go back and forth, which shows that Qin Fang's pace is relatively fast.

Qin Fang brought a bucket of goat milk to the kitchen: "You want to drink goat milk? This tastes a bit fishy, ​​and it's said to be not tasty."

Yang Haiyan looked at the bucket of white goat milk and said happily: "Of course it's not tasty to drink like this. Wait until I make it, and you can try it."

Qin Fang: "Okay."

Yang Haiyan: "Husband, please help me knead the dough first. I have prepared the ingredients. After the dough is kneaded, we will use the oven that was just made yesterday to make snacks."

Qin Fang: "Okay, but I don't know how to do this, you have to teach me."

Yang Haiyan: "Well, it's not difficult. My husband is so smart, he will definitely learn it right away."

The couple cooperated well. Qin Fang kneaded the dough and beat the eggs, and Yang Haiyan processed the goat milk.

Goat milk carries bacteria and viruses, so it needs to be boiled three times for disinfection.

Moreover, goat milk is relatively mild. The vitamin E content in goat milk is high, which can prevent the oxidation and decomposition of unsaturated fatty acids in cells in the body, delay skin aging, and increase skin elasticity and luster. Moreover, the epithelial cell growth factors in goat milk have a repairing effect on skin cells.

Therefore, in modern times, goat milk has the reputation of being the king of milk and is easier for the human body to absorb.

However, goat milk has a disadvantage that is difficult to accept, that is, it has a strong smell. However, it is easy to remove this smell. Just add a pinch of jasmine tea when boiling milk. After the milk is boiled, remove the tea leaves and the smell of mutton in the milk will disappear.

So Yang Haiyan bought jasmine tea on the platform, and then put it in her purse to prevent the flowers and leaves of the jasmine tea from spreading. Of course, there are other ways to remove the odor of goat milk, but it is very convenient to use jasmine tea to remove the odor. Moreover, in this world, jasmine tea is more common. If other methods are used to remove the odor, it does not meet the standards of this world. You know, it would be bad if it arouses suspicion.

Boiling the goat milk was very fast. After she finished cooking, she asked Qin to put it in the dough and add the goat milk, egg liquid, sugar, etc. After these processes are completed, the baking pan with the cake is placed in the oven.

Qin Fang: "Is this okay?"

Yang Haiyan: "After you're done, my husband will just watch it." After saying that, she picked up another bowl of goat's milk with sugar and said, "Mr., drink it and see how it tastes."

Qin Fang picked it up and found that there was no smell of mutton in the goat's milk, only a milky aroma. He took a sip and said, "The taste is very special." It tastes good, almost like sugar water, but the milky aroma is really good.

Yang Haiyan: "This is very nourishing to the body, more nourishing than meat. Think about it, when a baby is just born, his body is so fragile, but he can still thrive because the mother's milk is nutritious. And goat milk and Mother’s milk is the same, so it also nourishes the body.”

Qin Fang: "I see, you know so much."

While baking the cake, Yang Haiyan made biscuits and dumplings. The biscuits will be baked in the afternoon, and the dumplings are used to make milk tea.

Because it was the first time to use the earthen oven, Yang Haiyan had to check the condition of the cake from time to time to prevent it from burning. But even so, after the first plate of cake was ready, the edges were still a little burnt.

Having learned the lesson from the first dish, the flames were smaller when baking next time, and she was able to control the time.

At noon, the couple had soup noodles for lunch, and there were rice dumplings to go with them. They also had a treat for dinner, so they ate something simple at noon, cabbage and egg noodles with some lard residue. Qin Fang tasted quite delicious. of. But it tastes delicious, much better than what I ate in my hometown before serving in the army. Seeing that Yang Haiyan ate less, he couldn't help but said, "Eat more."

Yang Haiyan: "I don't eat much. This is just my appetite. If I eat too much, my stomach will bloate and I will feel uncomfortable." She is always seventy percent full, and she really doesn't eat much.

After hearing Yang Haiyan say that eating too much would make her uncomfortable, Qin Fang stopped talking.

After lunch, Qin went to the yard to wash vegetables, while Yang Haiyan continued to bake cakes and biscuits in the kitchen. After the cake is baked and cut into pieces, it is the size of a mung bean cake in a dim sum shop. There are more small biscuits, including round, rectangular, square and triangular. They are printed with small molds and are very fast.

After the cakes and biscuits were ready, Yang Haiyan made soybean cakes, which were the same as pumpkin cakes, except that the filling was soybeans. After they were done, they were fried and golden.

Qin was washing vegetables outside, and his thoughts were all in the kitchen. However, his mind was not on the food, but on the woman who made the food.

When Qin Fang brought the washed vegetables in, Yang Haiyan also made snacks and they were cooling. There were oil paper and small red cloth bags on the table.

Qin Fang: "What is this for?"

Yang Haiyan: "This is a wedding cake. When you get married, you need to prepare wedding candy and wedding cakes. Our family prepares this. I wrap it in oil paper and put it in a little red bag to suit the occasion. What do you think?" Although the little red bag The fabric costs money, but it’s not much because the little red bag is not big. These dozen little red bags only cost fifteen coppers.

Qin Fang: "Very good." She is very good, she is careful and smart.

Yang Haiyan waved to him.

Qin Fang approached and bent slightly.

Yang Haiyan took a soybean cake and put it to his mouth: "My husband, you have worked hard washing vegetables. Eat this reward for you."

When Qin Fang heard this, his eyes were filled with smiles. He opened his mouth and bit into the soybean cake, thinking that it was great that she would kiss him and feed him.