Wu Lan was both nimble and instinctively an expert in time management.
Before the meal, she had sterilized all the jars by boiling them and kept the residual heat to slowly dry them on a grate.
By the time the meal was over, the jars were dry and sparkling clear.
These were the hexagonal glass jars Song Tan had bought along with vegetables before, not expensive either; buying in bulk, they were two yuan apiece, each with a capacity of five hundred milliliters, which was just about right for holding about a jin of honey.
Perhaps because Qiaoqiao's labor was particularly gratifying this time, the family of four all pitched in: Song Sancheng hoisted the bucket, Wu Lan was underneath propping the strainer, and below the strainer was yet another layer of filtration.
Song Tan was responsible for using clean chopsticks to stir and help the honey filter through more quickly.
And Qiaoqiao squatted at the very bottom, in charge of bottling the honey.