Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 741 Sending the Child Back to Shangjing City

Before I knew it, I had finished half a bowl of rice and drunk a small bowl of vegetable soup, then fell asleep contentedly in Hualei's arms.

After arriving in Xichang, both children were not used to the weather here. Especially in summer, both children suffered from summer heatstroke.

Jinshi's symptoms were loose stools from time to time, irritability, and easy mood swings. Jinnian's symptoms were obvious loss of appetite, sometimes with a low fever and trouble sleeping.

Thinking that Jinnian insisted on studying in the study despite being unwell, Hualei felt distressed again. She stood up, put the sleeping Jinshi on the couch, asked the maid to look after him, and went back to the kitchen.

Jinnian's eating habits are somewhat independent of his own. No matter what he eats, he likes it to have some soup. If he eats rice, it would be best if there is a dish with soup so that he can eat it.

Especially in summer, dishes with soup are even more needed. Just now, when Hualei was making fried rice, she was in a hurry and only made a common vegetable soup, which tasted a bit bland.

Therefore, prepare the flower buds to make a pork broth base and save it. You can add it when making soup in the future. This way the soup will taste better, and Jinnian should like it.

There are a lot of fresh pork shanks, pork fan bones, and a freshly slaughtered chicken in the kitchen. After cleaning all the ingredients, add cold water to the pot, add ginger and wine to remove the fishy smell, and after the water boils, skim off the foam.

Then change the water, put it into the ceramic pot, and start simmering on low heat. After simmering for half an hour, take out all the ingredients and stir-fry them in a frying pan.

When all the moisture is dried up and all the meat is slightly browned, pour it back into the soup pot and simmer over high heat for another quarter of an hour.

In this way, the taste and color of the pork bone soup will come out completely. The pork bone soup is a bit like soy milk. Put it in the cellar and refrigerate it. It can be used for about four or five days.

Every time you make soup, you can add some as the base ingredient. Whether it is vegetable soup or other soup, it tastes very good.

Looking at the thick pork bone soup, Hua Lei asked the cook to check in two days to see if there was any fresh river fish for sale.

If you have it, buy some and make some river fish soup to give Jinnian a different taste. This way he won't get tired of it.

While the broth was boiling, Hua Lei was not idle either. She asked Sister Hehua to chop the fresh pork into meat paste, added green onion, ginger, oil and salt, stirred evenly, and then rolled it into meatballs as big as grapes.

Then roll the meatballs in the water-absorbed glutinous rice, put them in a pot of hot water, and steam them for quarters of an hour. The delicious glutinous rice meatballs are ready.

The meat tastes fresh and the rice is soft and sticky. The two brothers will probably like it. If they buy fish or fresh live shrimp in the future.

You can also use a similar method to make glutinous rice fish balls and polished rice shrimp balls for your children, which are nutritious and delicious. Children have summer fever and don't like to eat, so you can only make some fresh food for them in different ways.

Then, Hualei used the ingredients in the kitchen to make several dishes that Rong Jin and the children liked. Fried pumpkin with salted duck eggs, hot and sour vermicelli with pork broth as the base...

After a busy schedule, the results were good. At dinner time, the father and his two children were very satisfied with the meal. Hualei was also very happy.

After dinner, Hualei decided to use steamed buns to make some healthy drinks for the two brothers. Usually, she sometimes makes milk tea and matcha snacks for the two children.

However, for children, it is not advisable to eat too much milk tea and snacks containing tea. Even if you make them cleanly and hygienically, tea leaves will still affect children's sleep.

Therefore, Hualei is prepared to make a drink that can help digestion and stimulate appetite, suitable for children.

Cut the steamed buns into small slices, put them into an iron pan and fry them until both sides are browned, then break them into small pieces, pour a large pot of boiling water into them, and let them sit for a while.

Then filter out the steamed bread residue, boil the remaining steamed bread water over high heat, add honey and sugar, let it cool after boiling, add some yeast, and seal it for fermentation.

After three days, it is fermented. Filter out the residue again and put it into a clean ceramic jar. When you want to drink it, just scoop a bowl.

The color is brown, the flavor is rich, and the sweet and sour drink is ready to drink. It can relieve greasiness and stimulate the appetite. It is very delicious, especially suitable for children, and can effectively remove the effects of summer heat.

The two brothers really liked it and drank a bowl from time to time. The impact of summer heat was gradually reduced.

In the following days, no matter how busy Hua Lei was, she would go to the kitchen from time to time to check on the ingredients and the meals prepared by the cook for the two children.

As long as Rong Jin and he had time and were working in the government office, they would go back to the house behind at mealtime every day to eat with their two children and talk to them.

That night, Hualei and Rongjin finished dinner with the children. When they lay down on the bed to rest, Rongjin asked Hualei.

"Sister Hua, I want to send Jinnian and Jinshi back to Shangjing City and ask grandparents to help take care of them. Do you think it's okay?"

"Ah..., why? Aren't they living well here?" Hua Lei turned her head and looked at Rong Jin in surprise and asked.

"Jinnian is six years old now. Although he has started to learn here and his teacher is very good, the level is still far behind that of the clan school in the Marquis' Mansion in Shangjing City or the Imperial College in the future.

I want to send Jinnian back to study in the Marquis's clan school for a year or two to lay a good foundation, and then let him take the Imperial College entrance examination." Rong Jin's voice was very soft in the darkness.

"But there's no rush to take the Imperial College entrance exam. After my term here is over, I'll return to the capital. Then Jinnian will be old enough to apply for the Imperial College entrance exam," Hua Lei said.

Rong Jin smiled bitterly and asked, "Sister Hua, do you think that with Jinnian's current study progress and intensity, he will be able to enter the Imperial College in two years?

Originally, I wanted the teacher to teach part of the course, and I would teach part of the course myself. However, the government office was too busy, and as you can see, I really didn't have time to teach Jinnian.

I don't even have time to take him with me for the horseback archery training that takes place every ten days. If this continues, Jinnian will not be able to pass the Imperial College." Rong Jin turned sideways, held Hualei's waist, and spoke softly. After a pause, he continued.

"Think about it, my second uncle's two sons, Rong Qi and Rong Ke, have always been with my second uncle in the local area. Although they have hired a very good teacher, and my second uncle also taught them personally.

However, after they returned to the capital, they could not keep up with the lessons of the Marquis's family school. Later, Rong Qi was admitted to the Imperial College with the Marquis's family's favor.

Because Rong Ke no longer had any quota for imperial favor, he could only study in a government school outside.