Chapter 14 Confidentiality

Madam Cui held Jiang Zhiluo's hand and said, "I wanted to come to the door to take a look. I don't know if you can come back for lunch."

Jiang Zhiluo felt warm in her heart when she saw the look on Mrs. Cui's face that showed she was worried about her.

Jiang Zhiluo smiled gently and said, "Mom, let's go inside and talk."

"Okay, okay, let's go inside and talk. Let's have lunch first. Lunch is ready. He Jin and I will be waiting for you to come back and eat together."

Jiang Zhiluo was pulled into the house by Old Lady Cui and saw Cui Hejin inside.

He still looked noble and elegant. When he saw them enter the house, he opened the lid of the pot and took out the food inside.

Lunch was cabbage and shredded radish pancakes.

It was very simple and tasted very ordinary. It seemed that there was not much salt in it, the taste was very light, and it was almost all pickled cabbage.

But Jiang Zhiluo knew that this was already one of the better meals they had at home.

Now all I want is to have enough to eat, I can’t worry about anything else.

She found that when eating, both Old Madam Cui and Cui Hejin seemed to have the habit of not talking while eating or sleeping. If she didn't speak, they wouldn't speak either.

Jiang Zhiluo said, "Mom, I went to town and saw that the malt sugar business was doing well, so I bought some glutinous rice and planned to make malt sugar to sell."

Madam Cui paused with her chopsticks, looked at Jiang Zhiluo in shock and said, "Zhiluo, you... you can make malt sugar?"

Mrs. Cui naturally knew that the candy in the town was more popular and many people bought it.

Not to mention children, even families with happy events will buy candies.

But malt sugar is very expensive, a small piece costs one penny.

People in the village only buy some during the Chinese New Year.

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Yes, Mom, I can make malt sugar. Do we have wheat at home?"

Mrs. Cui said in a daze, "Xiaomi has it."

At this moment, when Mrs. Cui looked at Jiang Zhiluo, she felt that she might be hallucinating.

Jiang Zhiluo said, "Well, as long as we have wheat, we can make malt sugar in four or five days."

Although Mrs. Cui was a little bit unconvinced, looking at Jiang Zhiluo's confident and calm expression, she felt that she had a convincing feeling.

Mrs. Cui's hands were shaking slightly. She felt excited when she thought about making money by selling malt sugar at home.

And if you can make malt sugar at home, you don’t have to spend money to buy sugar during the Chinese New Year.

Cui Hejin looked at Jiang Zhiluo deeply, his expression changed, but he said nothing.

After lunch and cleaning up, Mrs. Cui hurriedly took out the wheat.

Jiang Zhiluo prepared a basin and put the wheat in it.

"Mom, soak it for a day first."

"good."

Jiang Zhiluo asked again, "Mom, do we still have beets at home?"

Madam Cui said, "There are more. There's a sack in the cellar."

Every household in the countryside usually digs a cellar under the kang. The cellar is not big, but it is at least two meters deep, which is convenient for storing things.

Jiang Zhiluo's eyes lit up, "Mom, I want to make something with these beets."

When Mrs. Cui saw Jiang Zhiluo's expression, she knew that she must be useful.

Mrs. Cui naturally supported her, "Okay, mother will go get it from the cellar right away."

Just as Mrs. Cui was about to go into the cellar under the kang, Cui Hejin said softly, "Mother, let me do it."

Jiang Zhiluo looked at Cui Hejin's frail appearance and couldn't help but ask, "Can you do it? Or I'll go down. I have the strength."

Cui Hejin was walking forward, but he stopped and turned to look at Jiang Zhiluo. He raised the corners of his narrow eyes slightly and gave her a meaningful look.

This glance was so bright and breathtaking that for some reason Jiang Zhiluo even skipped a beat.

Cui Hejin didn't say anything, but went down to the cellar easily. There were steps inside for easy access.

Soon, he took out the sack of beets.

Seeing these beets, Jiang Zhiluo's face showed a bright smile.

Because she seemed to see brown sugar and money.

Jiang Zhiluo began to wash the beets and then peel them.

Although Mrs. Cui didn't know what Jiang Zhiluo was going to do, she took a stool and sat in the yard to help peel the fruits.

Madam Cui couldn't help but ask, "Zhiluo, do you want to eat this after peeling it?"

Mrs. Cui doesn't like beets very much.

However, there were not many vegetables in winter, so they only grew cabbage, radishes, beets and the like, so they also planted some on the one acre of land and ate some, and that was all.

Jiang Zhiluo said softly, "Mom, I plan to make brown sugar and sell it."

This time, Mrs. Cui was even more shocked. Her eyes widened and she forgot to react.

Red...brown sugar?

Did she hear it right?

Mrs. Cui also knew that her yard was a small fenced yard and had no sound insulation.

She pursed her lips, took the stool and moved closer to Jiang Zhiluo, and whispered, "Zhiluo, can you really make brown sugar?"

"Brown sugar is hard to buy and is expensive. But even though it's expensive, some women in the village drink some during their confinement period. It's good for the body, and some even drink it to ward off cold."

Just thinking about it, you can tell that many people will buy it.

"I also prepared two bags of brown sugar for you. I thought you could bring them to your parents when you return home tomorrow."

Jiang Zhiluo's expression changed. The custom here is to return to one's parents' home after three days.

I do have to go back to my parents' home tomorrow.

Thinking of her parents and her younger brothers and sisters, and how good they were to her, Jiang Zhiluo felt warm in her heart.

"Mom, you can really make brown sugar."

"I don't need to buy brown sugar anymore. I can make it myself. In the south, they use sugarcane to make brown sugar. We don't have sugarcane here, but we can make it with sugar beets."

"But mother, this matter must be kept secret."

"If it's ready, we can buy some beets in the village."

Madam Cui whispered, "Don't worry, I won't tell."

Of course, this secret method of making money cannot be told to others.

Nowadays, if a family has a secret method or a secret recipe, they will keep it hidden.

But just thinking about it made her excited.

Even though their voices were very low, Cui Hejin, who was reciting in the room, still heard them.

Madam Cui said, "We'll see what to do later."

Jiang Zhiluo said, "After peeling these, cut them into pieces. After cutting them into small pieces, steam them."

When Cui Hejin heard this, he put down the pen in his hand, stood up, took the hatchet and went out.

He walked lightly, and Jiang Zhiluo and Old Madam Cui were so engrossed in their work that they didn't notice.

In the evening, when Cui Hejin came back with two bundles of firewood, Mrs. Cui and Jiang Zhiluo had already peeled all the beets and cut them into small pieces.

When Mrs. Cui was preparing to cook, she found that there was not enough firewood.

Just when I was getting anxious, I found that Cui Hejin had chopped the firewood back.

Madam Cui said softly to Jiang Zhiluo, "Zhiluo, although He Jin has a cold and hard personality, he is actually very caring. You will definitely know how good he is as time goes by."

Seeing her son and daughter-in-law being respectful to each other and being cold and indifferent to her, she felt a little anxious.

I can only help with the tracing.

Jiang Zhiluo looked at Cui Hejin's figure, her expression slightly dazed, and she couldn't help but think of him in that ancient life.