nucmednet Chapter 213 Give Heirloom
Chapter 213 Give Heirloom
When they returned to the valley, it was getting dark. Xia Qingyue led Xiao Hei back to the pen and went to the poultry house to chop wild grass and pumpkin, mixed it with some rice bran, and fed it to the chickens, ducks and pigs.
The rabbit, sheep and Xiao Hei just need to eat wild grass.
The small side door of the kitchen was open, and a warm yellow fire was lit inside. Han Zhibai, who was cooking dinner, walked back and forth. He looked tall and straight, like a pine tree on the edge of a cliff that had weathered wind and rain but still stood upright.
Xia Qingyue was carrying an empty, dirty wooden barrel filled with pig food that needed to be washed. She passed by under the eaves and looked up unintentionally. She saw someone busy in the kitchen and smiled sweetly.
For dinner, the two of them had fish with leeks, and chicken and cabbage dumplings.
Heihei and Xiaobai ate the chicken and cabbage filling without any seasoning, and they ate it with relish.
After eating, Han Zhibai went to wash the dishes, and Xia Qingyue took out the three sacks of duck down she brought from the tiankeng.
Unprocessed duck down is very dirty and has a strong smell. Last year, she went through many steps to process the duck down, including steaming it with dried camellia flowers and finally drying it in the sun.
Thinking of camellias, she remembered two things.
One thing was that she wanted to transplant the camellia trees from the tiankeng here. If they were left there unattended, they would probably not survive this winter.
The second thing was that she had lived in the tiankeng for more than two months. As the lard was almost used up, the skin care products she used for washing her face and hands were also used up. For such a long time, she had not taken care of her hands and face, and they were obviously rough from working every day.
She stretched out her hand and looked at it in front of the oil lamp on the dining table. Her hand was several shades darker, especially the back of her ten fingers.
Han Zhibai came over after washing the dishes and saw her distressed expression. He asked with concern, "Qingyue, what's wrong?"
"Do you think I'm dark?" She raised her little face and walked in front of him.
Han Zhibai stared at her palm-sized face carefully and said, "I think she is still the same as before."
"I'm dark, look at my hands again!" She stretched out her little hand again.
"The back of my hand seems to be a little darker. My mother used a powder called Qizibai on her face before. She kept using it and it worked. I can try it tonight.
By the way, I have also seen recipes for facial creams for women’s skin care in several books.”
Xia Qingyue exclaimed: "It turns out that reading more books is useful!
I used to make honey lard cream and camellia cream made with beeswax. By the way, we have a lot of bees at home, so where are the honeycombs used?"
“In the past, we would squeeze out the honey and then throw away the residue.
In the first half of last year, the dregs accidentally fell into the water, and oil floated on the surface of the water. I thought it was the oil produced by bees, so I fried some vegetables with it. The taste was a bit strange, and I didn’t like it, so I just threw it away. ”
"Ah!" What a waste of resources!
She felt so distressed. "The filtered stuff can be used as candle lighting, and it can also be used to make a facial cream that has a solidifying effect, just like cooled lard."
When he heard the word "filter out", Han Zhibai automatically thought of the water filtering method she taught him. He understood the principle at once and said, "That's how it is."
"It's been many months since we last collected the nectar. We can go collect some in a couple of days." His eyes flashed with eagerness.
After this was settled, Han Zhibai stopped Xia Qingyue who was about to go back to her room to find clothes and take a shower, "I have something for you."
"???" She watched him walk into his room.
Soon, he came out holding two stacked wooden boxes, one large and one small. The large one was more than ten inches in size, and the small one was about ten inches.
As he came closer, she could see that the wooden box was purple-red, with flowers, plants and birds carved on its surface. The patterns were vivid and lifelike.
As she breathed in, she smelled a rich, milky aroma, and her eyes widened. "It's sandalwood!"
"The boxes are made of sandalwood." Han Zhibai unfolded the two boxes and placed them on the table, opening them one by one. The items inside the two boxes appeared in front of her one after another.
The big box was filled with silver, mostly large ingots of ten or five taels of silver, with a few small pieces of silver. The box was full.
In the small box were all kinds of jewels, including hairpins, bracelets, rings, etc., red, green, and white. Next to the box was an oil lamp. Under the light, they reflected dazzling and colorful pearls.
"This this?"
When she was shocked, Han Zhibai pointed to the box of silver and said, "This is the money I earned from hunting and collecting herbs in recent years. It is all our family's assets, about one hundred taels.
From now on, I want to hand it over to you, and I will give you the money when I make money in the future."
His slender fingers moved to the jewelry box. He paused for a moment, a trace of sadness flashed across his eyes. “These are my mother’s jewelry. Before she died, she told me to give them all to my wife when I get married.
and this. "
He lowered his eyes to look at the small square sandalwood box, which was bigger than his palm and was held in his other hand.
Xia Qingyue, who had not yet recovered from her surprise, then noticed that he was holding a box in his hand.
Under her gaze, Han Zhibai opened the small box and took out a jade bracelet that was emerald green and about one finger wide.
"This is a family heirloom. My father gave it to my mother as a token of their love. It is only passed down to the eldest daughter-in-law in the family. It was also left by my mother."
As he spoke, he gently held one of Xia Qingyue's hands, slipped the jade bracelet onto her small hand with five fingers together, pushed it upwards, and put it on her fair wrist.
The size is just right, not too tight or too loose.
After putting it on, her skin looks even whiter and more delicate than snow.
The hand wearing the jade bracelet was raised in the air. She looked closely and saw that the jade color was transparent and pure, like a pool of emerald green water with rippling waves. It emitted a delicate and soft halo under the light.
The temperature at night is lower than that during the day. Logically, your hands will feel cold when you wear such jade. However, except for the fact that it is a little cold when you first put it on, what you can feel at this moment is a trickle of warmth.
Whether from the color or texture, it can be seen that this jade bracelet is priceless.
Han Zhibai smiled and said, "I have wanted to give you this bracelet for a long time, but I was afraid that you would think it was too valuable and would not want to accept it. Now is the right time."
Yes, in the past, if she saw such a valuable jade bracelet, she would definitely not accept it, but now, it’s different.
She raised her hand with the jade bracelet on it, looked up at him with a smile, and said seriously, "I will take good care of it and cherish it."
There were two boxes on the table. She thought for a moment, and then she said quickly, "Let's keep the silver and jewelry in their original place. After we get married, we will sleep in that room anyway."
Without waiting for his response, she ran back to the room and said, "I'm going to find some clothes to take a shower."
Han Zhibai, who stayed where he was, gradually reacted and stood there like a piece of wood. His wheat-colored face flushed, his lips slightly pursed, and he smiled happier than if he had picked up a rare treasure.