After a slight pause, Cheng Xiaokui suddenly slapped her thigh and said, "We can still make potato chips even without oil! No, I mean we can make potato slices too. We can bake them!"
The roasted potato chips are fragrant and crispy, you'll eat them one after another without saying a word! I guarantee you'll want two after just one slice, and you could easily eat a whole bag in no time!
Anyway, when she eats potato chips at home, a whole bag of potato chips can be gone in no time!
If it weren't for the fear of her gaining weight, I'd let her eat ten packs in a row!
Lin Qiu asked in surprise, "Roast? How do you mean roast? Put it in the oven?"
Cheng Xiaokui said, "We can't roast them in the oven; this isn't roasting sweet potatoes. We need to make an oven and put the potato slices one by one on a big iron plate. Mom, do we have a big iron plate?!"
Lin Qiuru shook her head and said, "I don't have a large iron plate, nor the oven you mentioned. We only have two thin iron plates at home."
Cheng Xiao Kui hurriedly asked, "Where's the iron plate? Let me see."
Lin Qiuru said, "It's placed against the wall in the kitchen!"
Cheng Xiao Kui hurriedly ran to the kitchen to look at the thin iron plate.
The thickness of the thin iron plate is actually the same as that of the large baking pan, except that it is an iron plate without the edge of a baking pan.
But none of that matters, since she was baking potato chips anyway.
She quickly picked up the two iron plates and visually estimated their size.
Lin Qiuru said, "What's the use of this iron plate? We don't have an oven at home."
Cheng Xiao Kui said, "If we don't have an oven, we can build one ourselves. I see there are dozens of mud bricks in the yard!"
These dozens of bricks are just enough to build a kiln. If you cover the bricks with straw and mud, isn't that a kiln?!
She carried bricks from the yard into the kitchen, and soon she had built the basic shape of an oven using bricks and large iron plates.
Rural areas have large spaces, and both the kitchen and the main room are very spacious.
It wouldn't be a problem to build another oven in the kitchen.
This kind of thing must never be placed in the yard, and must never be seen by anyone!
Lin Qiuru watched as Cheng Xiaokui finished building the basic shape of the oven, although she felt that what Cheng Xiaokui was talking about was basically impossible.
But she couldn't help herself and wanted to help Cheng Xiao Kui do what she wanted to do.
She stabbed several straws, and then, taking advantage of the darkness, went to the edge of the field and collected a large basket of yellow soil.
Xiaolongbao and his grandma each carried a willow basket and collected yellow soil together.
Many hands make light work; the three of them, grandfather, grandson, and granddaughter, made two trips and brought back loess that piled up into a small mountain.
Cheng Xiao Kui mixed water, straw, and loess together.
She hadn't watched the videos in the past for nothing; she had seen many content creators make their own ovens.
Relying on her memory, she followed the steps of the content creator, applying mud to the bricks step by step, making sure to leave the crucial air holes.
The four people, spanning three generations, worked until well past midnight before finally seeing what the oven looked like.
Cheng Xiaokui took a handful of firewood and stuffed it into the oven chamber to slowly roast the food over a low flame. The oven would be ready to use tomorrow once it was dried out.
She calculated the time, prepared the potato chips tomorrow, and was able to go to the county town to rescue Si Muyang early the day after tomorrow!
Xiaolongbao tilted her head up and asked Cheng Xiaokui, "How do you know how to roast potato slices? Nobody in the village has ever done it before!"
Cheng Xiao Kui's expression stiffened slightly, but after two seconds, she reached out and touched the top of Xiao Long Bao's head.
She said, "I'm from the capital, after all. Haven't I ever eaten potato chips before?! In the capital, these things aren't called potato chips, they're called potato chips."
Once the potato chips are made, you'll see how delicious they are! Selling potato chips will definitely make you a fortune!
Lin Qiuru said, "But... but we only have half a sack of potatoes. If you sell them all, what will we eat?"
Cheng Xiao Kui said, "Mom, won't we have money after we sell it? What can't we buy to eat? Whatever you want to eat, we'll buy it!"
Lin Qiuru looked at Cheng Xiaokui in surprise. Although she had always felt that Cheng Xiaokui was not a bad person at heart, she was just too eager to return to the capital, which led her to do some extreme things.
After all, when Cheng Xiaokui first arrived in the village, she was very ill that year, and her two children were too young. It was Cheng Xiaokui who brought her food every day and helped her take care of her two children.
Unfortunately, the two children were too young to remember these things. She always remembered Cheng Xiao Kui's kindness and tolerated Cheng Xiao Kui's various absurdities later on.
But Cheng Xiao Kui's positive and ambitious attitude was still beyond her expectations.
She hesitated before saying, "Um... Xiao Kui, if it doesn't sell, you've already tried and that's it... We won't bother with this kind of thing again!"
To be honest, she felt bad for her family's food supply, but what could she do when her son and Cheng Xiao Kui had just divorced...
Seeing that Cheng Xiao Kui didn't cause any trouble this time and signed the divorce agreement, she wanted to use this incident to make amends to Cheng Xiao Kui.
Cheng Xiaokui nodded and said, "Mom, don't worry, I guarantee the potato chips will sell well!"
She was full of confidence, knowing how discerning people's palates would be in the next twenty or thirty years.
If potato chips can capture the taste buds of people 20 or 30 years from now, how could people in this era not become addicted after just one bite?!
Cheng Xiaokui checked her oven again. Now she could only wait for the oven to dry slowly on its own, and she could use it tomorrow morning.
She called the two children and Lin Qiuru back to their room to sleep.
Although her family was so poor that they were practically destitute, Lin Qiuru loved cleanliness. Even though the house was made of mud bricks and the clothes and bedding were full of patches, everything was kept spotless.
Cheng Xiaokui helped the two children wash up; she didn't want Lin Qiuru to worry about such a small thing.
Although the two children were so sleepy they wanted to climb into bed and sleep, Cheng Xiao Kui still pulled them off the bed to wash their faces and feet.
Xiaolongbao looked at Cheng Xiaokui and carefully wiped her face with a towel.
He hesitated before asking, "Why do I feel like you're different from before..."
He had always wanted to ask this question, knowing that Cheng Xiao Kui used to beat and scold them.
Sometimes, if something goes wrong or they haven't eaten enough, they'll kick him and his sister, complaining that they've eaten too much food.
Cheng Xiao Kui asked with a smile, "So, do you like me now, or me before?"
Xiao Long Bao said, "You're doing alright now! I've been regretting all day not helping you steal the soybeans; I'd rather you had eaten yourself to death!"
He carefully observed Cheng Xiao Kui's expression. Cheng Xiao Kui wasn't unhappy at all. She even reached out and ruffled his fluffy hair.
Cheng Xiaokui said, "Thank you for not helping me steal the soybeans, which gave me a chance to turn my life around."
You and your sister are both malnourished, a classic case of nutritional deficiency. When I earn money in the future, I'll buy you lots of delicious food and make up for all the nutrients you're missing!
Cheng Xiao Kui carried the cleaned Xiao Long Bao to the bed and let her crawl into the quilt while she went to rub the mud off Xiao Long Bao's face.
The little dumpling looked up and asked, "Aren't you angry that we don't call you Mom?"
Cheng Xiao Kui shook her head and said, "Don't be angry, you can just call me Xiao Kui! Why are you called Xiao Long Bao? Why is your sister called that?"
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