"Young Master Gu, don't just watch and do it."
Seeing Gu Mingqian looking at the tools in his hand with a look of disgust and not making a move for a long time, Pei Yao urged him on, somewhat speechless.
Gu Mingqian gritted his teeth and, imitating Pei Yao's movements, began to rub the area with the gauze.
The gel secreted by the Pili Fruit feels sticky and gooey, just like a big snot bubble.
Gu Mingqian suddenly felt black lines sliding down his forehead.
Once a person accepts the idea that the gelatinous texture of ice jelly resembles snot bubbles, then they will really think that this thing is like snot bubbles. Gu Mingqian felt as if he was rubbing snot bubbles with every snot bubble.
He rubbed the jelly while trying to suppress his gagging, and suddenly regretted learning how to make it himself. He should have had Butler Li learn it from him.
Pei Yao turned her head away and glanced speechlessly at the man who looked disgusted. She rolled her eyes and thought to herself, "What a pampered young master. I don't know what's so bad about ice jelly."
Gu Mingqian endured the nausea and completed each step. Finally, he put the filtered ice jelly into the cold well water to freeze for a while, making it easier for it to solidify.
While they were waiting, Pei Yao went to a pottery shop on the street. The wine jars she had bought at home had run out, so she needed to order more from the shop owner in advance.
After Pei Yao left, Lin Shaoqing and Gu Mingqian sat in the cabin, drinking tea and chatting casually.
"How is Aunt's health lately? Father has been thinking about her." Gu Mingqian took a sip of tea and asked Lin Shaoqing.
"It's fine. I heard from my uncle in a letter last time that business in Kyoto has been difficult these past few years."
Gu Mingqian frowned: "Well, a couple of years ago, a small merchant from Yangzhou came to Kyoto. He's been making a name for himself in Kyoto all by himself, and he's been secretly suppressing the Gu family. Father is getting old, and he could barely manage to cope a couple of years ago, but last winter when the snow fell, he was in a hurry to finish his business and he accidentally fell while going out..."
The illness struck like a landslide. Gu Ruhai, the once spirited patriarch of the Gu family, could only move his upper body after collapsing, while his lower body was paralyzed.
The younger generation of collateral relatives who coveted the Gu family's assets began to ridicule and even openly bully the main family members.
Gu Ruhai looked at his two sons. His eldest son from his first wife, Gu Mingqian, was an unreliable playboy.
You might as well rely on a dog than him.
Another one was Gu Renhan, his illegitimate son from a romantic affair in Yangzhou during his youth. Since bringing him back, he had become taciturn and always had a gloomy face...
Gu Ruhai shook his head, caught in a dilemma, and had no choice but to give the power to manage the family to his eldest son, Gu Mingqian.
At least this person still has a smile on their face...
Suddenly, all the hopes of the Gu family rested on the shoulders of Gu Mingqian, who was barely seventeen years old.
The once carefree young master, who spent his days fighting cocks and flirting with dogs, suddenly changed his ways and devoted himself to his family's business.
"Such a big thing happened to the Gu family, but why didn't your uncle mention it in his letter?" Lin Shaoqing's words pulled Gu Mingqian back to reality.
The boy sighed, a rare occurrence for him: "Things happened too fast, so there wasn't enough time."
Gu Ruhai didn't want his sister, who lived far away, to worry. In the main branch of the Gu family, there were only the two of them, siblings. They had relied on each other since childhood to support the Gu family and had a deep bond. Back then, when his sister married far away to Lingnan for love, the one she was most reluctant to part with was Gu Ruhai.
......
Pei Yao ordered six hundred wine jars, but the shop owner didn't have that many at once. He asked Pei Yao if she could wait a couple of days to come and pick them up, and that he would be able to find all the items by then.
Pei Yao nodded, paid the deposit, and agreed that the shopkeeper would deliver it directly to Liangshui Village two days later.
For customers like Pei Yao who buy so much at once, many stores will offer home delivery.
By the time Pei Yao returned to the ship, the ice jelly had already solidified.
Pei Yao used a knife to cut the ice jelly into pieces, then filled three bowls and placed them aside.
Pour on the brown sugar water you just got from your own stall, sprinkle on the crushed peanuts and hawthorn berries sold on the street, and finally garnish with two mint leaves.
"Young Master Gu, Young Master Lin, why don't you both give it a try?"
Both of them had eaten ice jelly before, so when they heard Pei Yao say that, they picked up their bowls and started eating without any hesitation.
As observant as Lin Shaoqing was, when he picked up the bowl, he immediately noticed that the fermented rice wine inside had been replaced with crushed peanuts and hawthorn berries.
Gu Mingqian took a bite. The ice jelly was still icy, cool, and sweet, but it didn't have the lychee flavor. Instead, it had a salty and savory peanut and hawthorn crumb flavor that was sweet and sour.
Strangely, even though the ice jelly was sweet and the crushed peanuts were salty, he thought the taste would be weird. But to his surprise, he found that the ice jelly actually tasted better, with a sweet and sour flavor and a salty aroma.
only.....
"But why doesn't this ice jelly smell like lychee?" Gu Mingqian asked curiously.
Pei Yao replied calmly, "Because there's no lychee wine in it, it doesn't taste like lychee."
Gu Mingqian frowned: "Then why not release it?"
Pei Yao bent her head and tugged at the corner of her mouth, a forced smile: "Because lychee wine is priced separately."
Pei Yao didn't say that the real reason for not adding lychee wine was because the process of making lychee wine easily reminded them of lychee wine.
That's why Pei Yao didn't plan to tell him.
Moreover, it tastes just as good with crushed peanuts, and the flavor is no worse than when you add lychee and fermented rice.
It wasn't that Gu Mingqian didn't want to buy it, but he also felt that the taste of this one with crushed peanuts and hawthorn was no worse than the one with lychee rice wine.
There's no need to waste money buying the recipe for lychee wine.
After teaching Gu Mingqian, Pei Yao also wrote out the tutorial for her, although it wasn't very helpful because the process of making ice jelly was just too simple.
Looking at the paper Pei Yao had written on, Gu Mingqian realized that this ice jelly was actually so simple, and that he had spent fifty taels of silver to buy it.
Gu Mingqian: "......"
I feel like I've been scammed.
Pei Yao also sensed that Gu Mingqian was staring at her with a dark gaze. Her hand unconsciously pressed against the purse at her waist where she had just put fifty taels of silver, and she looked at Gu Mingqian with a wary expression.
"A man's words are hard to follow..." Pei Yao said sarcastically.
Lin Shaoqing couldn't help but laugh when he saw her acting like a little money-grubber.
He glanced at Gu Mingqian with schadenfreude, then kindly comforted Pei Yao: "Don't worry, Miss Pei, Young Master Gu is a man of his word and would never go back on his promise."
After hearing Lin Shaoqing's words, Gu Mingqian snorted with a dark face.
"Young Master Gu, would you like to buy some ice jelly seeds?" Pei Yao asked Gu Mingqian.
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