Su Qingluan nodded. "I plan to seal the pickled flowers and jam together. When needed, I'll take them out and place them in a crystal-clear vessel—a glass or white jade cup would be great. When I pour hot water over them, the flowers will slowly bloom inside the cup."
Of course, Su Qingluan herself did not have a white jade cup. Even the glass cups that Su Qingluan used in her previous life, which were everywhere, were opaque colored glass cups. In this life, they were also rare treasures due to inadequate production technology. In short, although the two utensils that Su Qingluan casually mentioned as examples could make the flowers "bloom" more beautifully, she did not have any of them.
Su Qingluan's family only had one set of white porcelain tea bowls, which she had bought at a porcelain shop in the market. Of course, porcelain from a small county town could be of good quality, but it was definitely not something she could call expensive. Moreover, according to Su Qingluan's consumption style, she would never spend a few hundred taels of silver on a set of glass tea bowls.
The reason why I bought white porcelain without any patterns was to observe the different colors produced by different types of petals when brewed with boiling water at different temperatures.
Su Qingluan also discovered that the petals that had been fully pickled in fruit jam no longer tasted slightly bitter like fresh petals. Instead, they were imbued with the sweetness of the jam and retained the fragrance of the flowers.
"When the time comes, the petals will slowly open in the cup, and you can smell the elegant or rich aroma, and then taste the sweet and sour fruit jam. Few nobles can refuse it, right?" Su Qingluan described her idea, imagining that her fruit jam would be sought after by all the rich and idle people, and it would be best if it could be sold at a sky-high price, so that even the rich would be in short supply.
Only in this way can "Su Ji" fruit jam truly become an "unattainable" luxury rather than an ordinary food - even if the raw material is made from the most inconspicuous wild fruit jam.
Su Qingluan only had a general idea for the jam's design, but no specific plan—strictly speaking, this was Mu Xingzhi's job—so she just spoke freely. Su Qingluan herself felt her ideas were disorganized, but Mu Xingzhi seemed oblivious as he wrote down every one of her requests.
After making a slew of requests, Su Qingluan still had to write a job posting and post it at the village entrance before dawn, otherwise the process would be pushed back another day. Although there was enough time, as the saying goes, it's better to be early than late. A "guest" of the Xie Mansion's level was no longer just a "guest" problem.
Therefore, out of caution, Su Qingluan did not dare to arrange time at the last minute of the deadline, for fear that some unexpected situation would delay the entire construction period.
After Su Qingluan left, Mu Xingzhi handed the paper with her requests to Song Bo: "Come and take a look."
Song Bo took the paper and looked at it for a while, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Although Madam Su is still young, she is a good businessman. If those of us who run the shops are as smart as her, we won't have to worry about it." Of course, the income can still be guaranteed, but when it comes to making money, who would complain about having too much?
Mu Xingzhi fell into deep thought because of Song Bo's words "he is still young".
Ever since he decided to cooperate with Su Qingluan, Mu Xingzhi has never stopped investigating Su Qingluan.
It's not that he's suspicious, it's just that this new "ally" is too abnormal -
On the one hand, her behavior and mannerisms are not exactly the same as those of the adopted daughter of the An Ning Marquis Mansion as rumored, but are very different; on the other hand, judging from reports from informants everywhere, Su Qingluan is indeed the adopted daughter who was previously adopted in the An Ning Marquis Mansion.
Another abnormal thing is that although Su Qingluan claimed that she had a high fever and had forgotten her past, her new knowledge and opinions on certain things were so novel and sharp that they were jaw-dropping; on the other hand, for some things that were common sense, Su Qingluan obviously showed that she knew nothing about them.
Her condition is just like...
Mu Xingzhi used his imagination to run wild, and finally came to the conclusion - it was just like a person who was born with knowledge and suddenly came to a strange world.
"Tsk, what am I thinking about..." Mu Xingzhi sneered, denying his own wild association that suddenly came to his mind.
I'm afraid the man himself doesn't know that his "wild imagination" is in a sense the answer closest to the truth.
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