Chapter 50: Make sure you don't get a stomachache
Only during festivals would Su's father and his family buy a chicken to eat. The whole family could eat one chicken as a meal.
The brothers left all the chicken legs for her to eat. Su Wan couldn't finish two because there was too much meat in the chicken legs. She felt bored after eating too much, so she simply gave one to Su Chen.
She didn't give it to Su Yun and Su Yi because she was afraid that the two would start fighting again. Giving it to Jiang Yu was even more inappropriate. She always felt like she was plotting something. Her intention to please was too obvious, which made her feel guilty.
The best way is to give it to Su Chen. He has worked hard as a porter today and it is only right that he should eat.
Only in this way will Fourth Brother stop complaining that she is biased.
Jiang Yu was forced to drink two bowls of oily chicken soup, under the pretext of nourishing his body.
He endured the greasiness and drank it all, giving Su Wan a lot of face, but ended up being so sick that he couldn't sleep at night.
The next morning, Su Wan got up early and began to study how to make shampoo soap. He first boiled the herbs such as soapberry and privet fruit, and filtered the sticky juice several times for later use. Then he ground several spices into powder, added a little goat's milk to try the fragrance, but when he felt it felt strange, he removed the goat's milk and left only the spice powder.
Then heat the almond oil, add these materials and alkaline water in turn and mix well
The color was gray-brown, which was not very nice, so I added a little dry pollen to adjust the color, and it finally turned into brown-red. I only made 35 pieces at first to try if they were useful.
After putting the mold in, I started to make goat milk soap. The prices of one batch of dyed soap and one batch of undyed soap were different. The difference between the two was as much as five cents per piece!
Twenty kilograms of almond oil can produce more than three hundred bars of soap. This product has low cost and high profit. Fortunately, the saponification reaction of oil and wood ash water has not been studied in this dynasty. If anyone knew about it, she would not be able to make money.
It took the brothers and sisters three days to finish making all the soap. As the weather got cooler, the sun became smaller and there were more cloudy days, so the soap had to be air-dried for a few more days to remove the alkalinity.
When I have free time, I have to shell all the remaining corn at home, then go to the village chief's house to push the millstone over, and grind the cornmeal quickly while the weather is still good.
After Jiang Yu's daily hard work, there was not much corn left. The brothers and sisters worked hard for half a day to finish it all.
The third brother found a cart and went to the village chief's house to push the millstone back, and the family began to grind cornmeal.
A few days ago, people in the village heard that a handsome young man had come to the Su family and was a relative of Su Yang.
Many curious women came to see him specially, and they all guessed that he was the future husband that the Su family had found for their daughters, and they came to stay for a while to cultivate feelings.
Jiang Yu didn't want to be seen by too many people, so he simply moved the corn into the house to peel it. In Su Wan's opinion, his eyes could already see normally. When he lowered his eyes, he always seemed to have a sense of world-weariness, but when he looked at people, he seemed to be in high spirits, and even when he looked at dogs, he was affectionate.
No wonder people say that peach blossom eyes are full of affection. It turns out they are right.
His internal breathing is now unstable and his internal injuries have not healed. He can be heard coughing from time to time.
Su Yun and his friends were reluctant to wear their new shoes, as they were waiting to wear them during the Chinese New Year. Since they worked in the countryside every day, they could just wear their old shoes.
Jiang Yu couldn't help with grinding the cornmeal, so he rested in the room and read the old books left by Su Jing. The four brothers and sisters cooperated with each other. The three brothers pushed the millstone, and Su Wan swept the flour with a small broom. For several days, they didn't complain at all, and didn't have the fragility and pretentiousness of a rich girl at all.
Her brothers gradually changed their views of her, knowing that she was not the type to be afraid of hard work and fatigue, so they got along better and better.
After this batch of soaps are given away, production will be stopped this year. Any new thing will no longer be new after a long time as everyone has it. So we might as well keep it mysterious and continue making it after the New Year. We will just make some shampoo soap later to whet their appetite.
It was impossible to grind so much corn at once. After grinding for several days, only a few bags were produced. The rest were tied up in bags and stored in the cellar.
The weather changed in an instant. The sky was covered with dark clouds and there was no sunlight at all. We put all the soap into the house for fear that it would be ruined by the rain at night.
It will be ready to be packed and sold in a few days. It is also the time agreed upon to pick up the clothes for my eldest brother. When I get to the county, I can take the money and buy winter clothes for the other brothers. It won’t be considered partial to one over the other.
When Su Yun had some free time, he started to tinker with his fermented soybeans. He had sealed them in a jar and fermented them for such a long time. When he opened it, he saw a jar full of black sauce.
He also took some cooking spices like star anise and cinnamon and put them into the pot with the sauce. In the end, he got a large jar of thick sauce. It didn't smell smelly at all, and even had a salty fragrance.
After he finished making it, he first pulled Su Wan to see it and asked her to smell it to see if it was the soy sauce she was talking about.
Su Wan really didn't expect that he could make soy sauce in one go based on his simple description. He was indeed gifted in cooking.
"Judging from the smell, it is indeed the soy sauce I was talking about!" Su Wan gave an affirmative answer.
I don’t know what it tastes like when it’s fried.
Su Chen and Su Yi looked at the black sauce with suspicion.
"Lao Si, this can really be added to dishes and fried."
"Fourth brother, this black sauce, will it give me stomach upset if I eat it?"
"Whether it works or not, and whether it tastes good or not, you'll know after trying it tonight. Don't worry, the poison won't kill you. If you have diarrhea, you'll just have to go to the toilet for three days at most!" Su Yun was open-minded. If he failed, he could just continue.
In order to see the effect, Su Yun went to a tofu grinder that day and bought two pieces of water tofu. He fried them and added soy sauce. He had to use less salt because soy sauce is salty.
I also stir-fried some pork belly with fermented black beans. After stir-frying it with soy sauce, the color of the meat was neither black nor red, nor brown. In short, it was hard to describe.
The color of the fried tofu looks good and it looks delicious.
When the brothers and sisters were having dinner that night, Jiang Yu also sat around the table with them. No one picked up their chopsticks when they saw the unusual dish.
Su Yun didn't dare to eat it either. He was afraid of being disappointed after eating it, so he could only look at others with anticipation.
Su Chen and Su Yi swallowed their saliva and struggled internally. After all, having a stomachache was really uncomfortable.
Jiang Yu still looked calm, with no expression of sadness or joy on his face.
In the end, Su Wan picked up his chopsticks first:
"This fried tofu looks delicious, and this meat should go well with rice!"
She also picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it into her mouth without hesitation. After traveling through time, she found that chili peppers had not yet been discovered in this dynasty, and the stir-fried dishes were all watery with clear soup and no soy sauce. It was a bit too bland for her.
Now that I have tasted that long-lost flavor again, I feel my taste buds jumping in an instant.
So happy...
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