Chapter 49 Isn't it easy to make candied haws?
Before she finished speaking, Mrs. Lin walked out of the room quickly and interrupted her in a serious tone:

"Ruoruo, what did your mother teach you? Did your mother teach you to ask your sister-in-law for something when you first met her? Do you still have manners?"

Lin Ruo was interrupted by her mother's sudden shout. She was so scared that her hands trembled. She hurriedly took a few steps back, not daring to get close to Jiang Mengyan.

"Xiaoyan, the child is still young and doesn't understand. Please don't be surprised if she asks you for something."

Mrs. Lin smiled and said, handing the plastic sheet, rack and bamboo pole for picking fruits that she had just taken out of the house to Lin Han.

"It's nothing, Second Aunt, please don't be mean to Ruoruo. I just distributed the things she mentioned to many other children at the entrance of the village, but she didn't squeeze in and didn't get any.

It's not something valuable, just a small bow in the hair, don't scare the child."

As Jiang Mengyan spoke, she took out the remaining hair flowers and held them in her palm, then extended them to Lin Ruo:

"Don't be afraid, Ruoruo. Come and pick what you like. Any amount is fine."

"..."

There was an obvious look of desire in Lin Ruo's eyes, but as his mother was beside him, he did not dare to go forward to take it. He just kept stealing glances at Lin Ersao.

"...Since sister-in-law has said so, just go and take one. You are not allowed to take more than one."

After getting her mother's permission, Lin Ruo stepped forward and picked out a small pink peach blossom hairband from a bunch of colorful ones.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

Lin Ruo thanked her quietly, ran to sit on the doorstep, and kept playing with the new hairband in her hand.

"Children don't understand..."

Mrs. Lin seemed to be very bothered by the fact that her daughter asked for something and kept talking.

"Second Aunt, this is really nothing. If you say so, then if I come to your place to pick red fruits, isn't that asking you for something?"

Seeing Lin Ersao's embarrassment, Jiang Mengyan said with a smile.

"That's different..."

Although she said this, Mrs. Lin could see that Jiang Mengyan really didn't care about it, and her expression softened a little.

After helping to set up the wooden frame and spread the plastic sheeting under the tree, Lin Han handed the bamboo pole to Jiang Mengyan and said with a smile:
"You want to fight?"

"Ok!"

Jiang Mengyan took the bamboo pole and gently hit the branch with the most fruit on the tree.

Without even using much effort, the ripe hawthorns rolled down with a crackling sound and were firmly caught by the plastic sheet that had been laid out in advance.

"Wow!"

Jiang Mengyan, like a little kid, smiled happily as she reached out and scooped up a handful of hawthorns in her palm. She smiled at Lin Han as if showing off, “Look, I picked so many at once!”

"My wife is amazing~"

Lin Han also cooperated and smiled.

"But many of the fruits have holes on them, as if they've been gnawed. Is that because of insects?"

Jiang Mengyan looked carefully at the hawthorn in her hand and asked with some confusion.

"Ruoruo knows this. Ruoruo can tell sister-in-law why!"

Ruoruo, who was sitting next to her, got up, ran to Jiang Mengyan's side, and said softly:
“Because the red fruits have been hanging on the tree for too long, they are already ripe and attract many birds to eat them.

The birds are mean, they don't eat the fruit well, they peck here and there, and the red fruit is full of holes."

“It turned out to be pecked by a bird.”

Jiang Mengyan nodded in sudden realization: "I really didn't know that."

"My second uncle Lin Han and I are usually busy in the orchard. There are not many people eating the red fruits at home, and we don't have much time to take care of them, so many of them are pecked by birds.

I sent a basket to grandma two days ago. I thought you might want to eat these sweet and sour things since you are pregnant, so I made it and sent it to you."

Mrs. Lin smiled a little embarrassedly.

Jiang Mengyan suddenly understood. It turned out that the hawthorns in the fruit bowl in the old house were specially prepared by Mrs. Lin for her.

As he was speaking, the familiar voice of Zhao Qiuhong came from not far outside the courtyard:

"Second brother and sister-in-law, are you free now? The firewood at mom's house is a little damp. Do you have some dry firewood?"

"Yes, yes. I'll take it right away."

Mrs. Lin responded in a hoarse voice, then turned to Jiang Mengyan and said with a smile, "They're preparing lunch over there, I'll go deliver the firewood and help out at the same time.

Xiaoyan, you guys can pick as many red fruits as you want, don’t worry about leaving any for us.”

After saying that, he gathered a bundle of firewood, carried it on his back and trotted towards the old house.

Seeing that Sister Lin was getting farther away, Lin Han spoke:

"Actually, Second Aunt is a very kind person. She is very considerate and always thinks of others. But over the years, because of Ruoruo's medical treatment and skin grafting surgery, she spent a lot of money and owed a lot of debt.

You know the customs in places like the countryside. Although simple, they are also somewhat snobbish.

I've probably been pissed off a lot over the years, so Second Aunt is very sensitive about Ruoruo taking other people's things, and it's not targeting you."

"I know, I don't care."

Jiang Mengyan nodded, glanced at Ruoruo who was not far away, and spoke softly:
"I just feel sorry for the child. Ruoruo is still young, but she is forced to understand these things..."

Jiang Mengyan couldn't eat too many hawthorns by herself, so she stopped after eating a few pounds.

Perhaps because he received the small gift from Jiang Mengyan, Lin Ruo was particularly close to her and even helped to pick the picked hawthorns.

"Sister-in-law, do you really like to eat red fruits? I think they are very sour."

She asked as she picked.

"I like it very much. If you find it sour, you can make it into candied haws and eat it, right?"

Jiang Mengyan asked.

"Candied haws!"

Hearing these three words, Lin Ruo's eyes flickered and then dimmed again:

"Ruoruo likes candied haws. Dad can make them, but he's been too busy lately. He goes out very early every day and comes back very late. He doesn't have time to make them for Ruoruo..."

Seeing Lin Ruo's somewhat depressed look, Jiang Mengyan blinked and looked at Lin Han beside her:

"Lin Han, I suddenly want to eat candied haws!"

My goodness, this topic jump is too obvious.

Lin Han shook his head helplessly.

Can't he see this little trick?
But then again, even if Jiang Mengyan didn't mention it, Lin Ruo had already said that she wanted to eat candied haws.

As her brother, he had to fulfill her little wish no matter what.

"Okay, since both of you want to eat, I'll make some. But we're going to eat soon, so don't eat too much. Put the rest in the refrigerator and eat it when you want, okay?"

"it is good!"

When Lin Ruo heard that there were candied haws to eat, he was so happy that he almost flew up. He didn't care about anything else and just nodded his head vigorously.

I cut off a few extra branches from the hawthorn tree and used a knife to sharpen three or four sticks for threading the hawthorns.

After getting ready, Jiang Mengyan stayed in the yard to wash hawthorns, while Lin Han went into the house to borrow the kitchen of his second sister-in-law's house.

Snacks like candied haws are actually very simple to make. The only ingredients needed are sugar and a little white vinegar.

It mainly depends on the technique and the control of the heat.

When most people make these things, they either easily burn the sugar or they can't hang them up in a straight line.

However, now that Lin Han possesses god-level cooking skills, making this is naturally a piece of cake for him.

(End of this chapter)