Su Qingluan's mind was full of twists and turns, but she just couldn't ask.
It's one thing for both parties to know some things, but it's another matter if she brings it up first.
Being the first to point it out means that you lose your patience and are at a disadvantage.
Su Qingluan actually understood that fundamentally, what she relied on were only some skills that transcended the times and were acquired by standing on the shoulders of historical giants, but she was not entirely clear about what the other party's trump card was.
Mu Xingzhi must have some doubts about her identity, but Su Qingluan was not afraid of him checking - at least from the biological and physical levels, unless Mu Xingzhi had X-ray vision and could see through the soul and it was not the original one, he would definitely not be able to provide any definite evidence to prove that she had been "switch".
But Su Qingluan also understood that sometimes, things don’t necessarily require “evidence”.
Suspicion is a poisonous seed; once planted, it breeds suspicion. If Mu Xingzhi developed doubts about her, would he be on guard against her, or even try to eliminate her? After all, she already knew too much about her former self, the "Su Daya of Huaxi Village," that she shouldn't have known.
She was not sure what Mu Xingzhi was planning to do, but she couldn't ask rashly.
Just as Su Qingluan was pretending to be calm but her heart was in turmoil, Mu Xingzhi asked, "Have you decided on the names for the ten trial products for the Xie family this time?"
"Ah?" The topic jumped so much that Su Qingluan was stunned and a little unable to recover.
"I'm saying, what's the name of your new series of jam?" Mu Xingzhi stretched out his slender and white fingers and tapped lightly twice on the armrest of the wheelchair, as if to remind Su Qingluan to come back to her senses and pull her attention back from her trance.
Although Su Qingluan didn't understand why Mu Xingzhi suddenly stopped probing her, she also understood that the fruit jam was more important and pressing, so she pushed those random thoughts out of her mind and switched to Party A mode: "This time, I plan to name the new series 'Falling Flowers'."
"The grass is fresh and the petals are colorful?" Mu Xingzhi asked for confirmation.
Su Qingluan nodded.
This sentence comes from "Peach Blossom Spring" and describes the falling of petals.
"It seems that Qingluan is going to add some flower petals to the jam this time?" Although Mu Xingzhi used a question, his tone was affirmative.
Indeed, his guess was correct. However...
"Also?" Su Qingluan frowned slightly, and then understood: In the last "Four Seasons" series, strictly speaking, jasmine tea and chrysanthemum tea were also "flowers".
"This time is a little different from the last time." Su Qingluan explained, "Although they are both flowers, fresh flowers and dried flowers are different in terms of taste, texture, and color."
Last time, both jasmine tea and chrysanthemum tea were dried flowers, and strictly speaking, they were not "fallen flowers". Fallen flowers specifically refer to petals, while jasmine tea and chrysanthemum tea are made from whole flowers that have been dried.
The added calyx part will naturally blend in the calyx's own unique flavor, interfering with the tender and sweet taste of the petals themselves.
It was when Xu Yuanwei added hawthorn and dried tangerine peel to beef tendon that Su Qingluan remembered that she could also add fruit peels to improve the taste. However, after experiments, she did not come up with a particularly satisfactory ratio. Instead, she tried several flower petals and the results were surprisingly amazing.
The jam is slowly cooked without adding water, and the excess water is removed. It is then ground and crushed into a fine and soft fruit puree using tools such as a millstone, pestle, and mortar. In this way, the fructose that is already rich in it can be concentrated to a considerable level.
Moreover, since wild fruits are extremely sour even after being heated and cooked, a lot of sugar and appropriate salt should be added for seasoning, so that the thick jam can completely pickle the flowers.
It is time to prepare them when the flowers are completely marinated in the jam and the jam has infused the petals with sweet fragrance or fresh and elegant flavor.
Unlike last time when she needed to grind the tea leaves into fine powder and brew it with fruit jam, this time Su Qingluan actually wanted to make a good start, so she had to put a lot of thought into every aspect of "color, fragrance and taste".
As for the "flavor," she'd been tirelessly experimenting with fruit jams. These past few days, she'd been vomiting after drinking half-finished versions of various fruit jams. Even the two little ones in the Su family, who loved these sweet and sour drinks, were getting a bit sick of them. This showed just how reckless Su Qingluan's "experiments" were.
Then the remaining two aspects are the "color" of appearance and the "fragrance" of smell.
In this era, there are already various types of ointments. Su Qingluan had seen them when she was visiting the market before, whether they were floral or fruity, woody, herbal, or other.
However, in this remote small county, the range of choices is limited after all. Fortunately, the type of petals I chose this time are not rare and precious treasures, so there are corresponding ointments or incense sticks.
Whether fumigating or applying, Su Qingluan plans to blend each of the three fruit jams with the fragrance of the corresponding petals.
"It doesn't need to be particularly fragrant, but it should be subtle enough to be noticeable." Su Qingluan seemed to be gesturing back and forth in the air with a box in her hand. "But the fragrance can't be too strong to overshadow the main feature. After all, the jam is the main character."
"What about color?" Mu Xingzhi wrote down Su Qingluan's various requests for details and design ideas for the outer packaging. "I assume Qingluan isn't planning to use the whole flower just to preserve its fragrance, right?"
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