"We live day by day and there will always be a way." Tian Tian advised. Farmers are like this. Their families have no ability to resist risks. A small thing can bring the family down, not to mention two thousand yuan, which is not a small matter.
Lin Meiyu looked at Bai Xiaohua and felt sorry for her. When Bai Xiaohua left, Lin Meiyu gave her a few eggs and asked her to go back and cook them for the children. Tian Tian also stuffed a few candies into Bai Xiaohua's pocket. She could only help Bai Xiaohua temporarily, but she couldn't help her for a lifetime. They both needed to be able to make money on their own.
Moreover, Tian Tian really wanted them to pay back the money. In the end, if they couldn't pay it back, they would definitely come to Lin Meiyu for help. After all, she was her biological sister, and Lin Meiyu couldn't just watch them being driven to death by money. She would help pay back some of the money, more or less. Money was not a big deal. The main thing was that her mother would definitely be sad too.
Their family is living a good and stable life now, and Tian Tian doesn't want these things to affect her family.
After Bai Xiaohua returned home, she told this matter to her eldest sister-in-law and her third brother's wife. The three of them discussed it and felt that this job was worth doing. Although it was a bit troublesome to collect the acorns, as they had to soak them constantly and change the water, they were idle at home at the moment and might as well make some money.
The three of them discussed what to do. Acorns were nothing special, they were everywhere in the mountains, and they could just go up the mountain and pick up more. But the worry was where to get the acorns. It would not work at home, and Lin Meishuang would definitely not agree.
But apart from home, they had no other place to go. The three of them were basically married from outside the brigade. Making acorn jelly requires a pot, but they didn't have a pot, so they had no way to make it.
Finally, the three of them discussed for a long time and decided to do it at Bai Xiaohua's home. Bai Xiaohua was from the brigade next to them, and her home was close to them, only about 20 to 30 minutes away. There was a big pot and two big water tanks at home. Even if they went home, there would be someone watching Bai Xiaohua's home. So they asked her younger brothers and sisters to help out first, and when the money was divided, they would give them a share.
After making the decision, Bai Xiaohua took out the eggs that Lin Meiyu had stuffed in her mouth, and boiled them while everyone was cooking. After the eggs were cooked, she hid them in her pockets and gave them to the four children at home.
As for the youngest child in the family who was still drinking milk, Bai Xiaohua gave the egg to her eldest sister-in-law. Now her eldest sister-in-law needed to supplement the nutrition of the child, but the family was poor, so from the birth of the child to now, the eldest sister-in-law had not eaten anything good. Everything she ate was the same as them. She didn't have much milk, and the child was hungry and pale and thin.
When the sister-in-law saw the egg, she was quite touched. In fact, she didn't expect Bai Xiaohua to give her the egg, because everyone wants their children to eat a few more bites, and Bai Xiaohua is no exception.
But it also surprised the sister-in-law that Bai Xiaohua gave her the egg.
There were four eggs left, and Bai Xiaohua gave three to the third son's wife, and kept the remaining one for herself.
After a few people knew how to cook acorns, they started to act the next day. After dinner, they finished all the housework and found an excuse to go up the mountain. There were many acorns on the mountain, but no one would eat them, so they just let them fall to the ground and cover the ground.
The three of them picked up a lot of acorns and went home, then put all the acorns in a big vat in Bai Xiaohua's house and soaked them in water.
It was almost noon when they finished all this. The three of them instructed Bai Xiaohua's two younger brothers and sisters to soak the acorns in water on time and not let them go bad.
Although Bai Xiaohua's younger brother and sister didn't understand what they were doing, they both listened to Bai Xiaohua very much. So they nodded seriously and assured Bai Xiaohua that they would definitely take good care of these acorns.
It would take some time for the acorns to soak in water, and there was no way to do it for the time being, so they were not in a hurry and went up the mountain to pick acorns when they were not working.
After all the acorns were soaked, they smashed the acorn shells and began grinding the acorns with the small graphite used to grind rice flour at home.
Then they started to make it according to the method Tian Tian told them. The method Tian Tian told them was incomplete, so they needed to adjust it again and again in the process. After failing several pots of acorns, they finally made the crystal clear acorn jelly.
They were very surprised to see the acorn jelly which was not in perfect shape. They tasted it one by one and found that there was no strange taste, but the texture was very wonderful, which they had never tasted before. The eyes of those who had been busy for three days were shining.
"Hurry, hurry, let's mix the jelly according to Tian Tian's method!" Bai Xiaohua urged.
They didn't have any seasoning at home, so they just sprinkled some salt, vinegar, and soy sauce on the jelly, and added some chopped green onions. After mixing it, it was very refreshing and they didn't even need to chew it. The icy jelly slid down their esophagus into their stomach.
"It's delicious, sister!" Bai Xiaohua's siblings said excitedly. They had never eaten this kind of thing before.
The three sisters-in-law followed another method Tian Tian suggested, dissolved some saccharin, cut all the jelly into small pieces, sprinkled them into the sugar water, and after rinsing them in well water, ate them with a spoon. It had a different flavor.
"This will definitely sell for money!" The three sisters-in-law were very excited. Originally, they asked Tian Tian how to make it, but they were still unsure in their hearts. Even at the moment it was done, they were very nervous.
But now that they have tasted the acorn jelly, they finally feel at ease, knowing that they can definitely make money from this.
"We have to decide on the price," said the sister-in-law.
It takes a lot of effort to make this thing. It took them two days just to soak the acorns. If they sell it too cheaply, it would be a shame for all the effort they put in. But if they sell it too expensively, they think no one will buy it.
"I think we can sell them separately. For example, the prices of our prepared syrup and mixed jelly can be a little higher. We can also sell the unmixed jelly separately. But we can't order it too cheaply. Tian Tian said that once our price is determined, it cannot be changed. We sell a big bowl of jelly for eight cents, and mixed or syrupy jelly for ten cents. What do you think of this price?" Bai Xiaohua asked.
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