Several women nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes."
They all felt that this was not difficult.
After the pumpkin cakes were cooked, Xue Huan poured some cooking oil into the pot. She kept the fire in the stove at a moderate level and cooked for about five minutes. Then she carefully threw the pumpkin cakes into the oil pan and fried them until they were puffed and crispy. Then she could take them out.
If you have a frying pan, you can also fry the pumpkin pancakes in oil, which makes it easier to control the heat.
The pumpkin pie just out of the pan is golden, crispy and fragrant.
After it cooled down, Xue Huan tasted one, and everyone else stared at her.
"Mm, it's crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The sweetness of the red bean paste inside is just right, neutralizing the greasiness of the outer layer. It tastes very good. You should try it too."
After tasting it, several people said it was good.
The children smelled the fragrance and couldn't help but run over and peek inside by leaning on the door frame.
Xue Huan brought the fried pumpkin pancakes over and gave one to each of them.
"Be careful it's hot."
However, the group of children didn't care whether the pancake was hot or not. As soon as they got the pancake, they couldn't wait to take a bite.
Xue Huan asked, "Is it delicious?"
"Delicious!" the children answered in unison.
Afterwards, Xue Huan asked Ah Man to carry pumpkin cakes and deliver some to every household in the village.
Because of this little pumpkin pie, the atmosphere in the village became cheerful and lively, and it felt as lively as the New Year.
When it was time for lunch, a group of bandits, oh no, they should be called absentees, came out of the mine tunnel and lined up and walked towards the wooden building in the center of the village. They looked straight ahead and had no expression on their faces along the way.
That wooden building was originally where the boss lived. It was his cave of leisure. The first floor was the meeting hall. Whenever there was something to discuss in the village, the boss would call the other two bosses and several bandit leaders to discuss it.
The boss’s wedding banquet was also held here last night.
From then on, this was where these bandits and migrant workers ate and slept.
Seeing these people passing by, the children who were originally playing subconsciously hid away. However, they were also curious about how those vicious bandits had become so obedient. What exactly did that Mr. Zhao do to them?
Except for a few, most women hated these bandits so much that they wanted to pounce on them, drink their blood, and eat their flesh!
Noticing the emotions of these women, Xue Huan felt that they had to vent their hatred.
She snapped her fingers, and the bandits stopped in unison. Then, she gathered the women together.
"Hate them? Want revenge? Now I'm giving you a chance. They're standing right here, unable to resist. Do whatever you want, but don't kill anyone."
The bandits' eyes became filled with fear. When they thought of what they had done to those women in the past, their legs trembled. Unfortunately, Xue Huan didn't let them speak, so they couldn't even beg for mercy.
At first, the women did not move. When facing the bandits, they still felt afraid involuntarily, but an eight or nine-year-old child rushed forward first and smashed a bandit with the stone in his hand.
The bandit was the Third In Commander, a man who had always loved torturing women. Countless women had died at his hands. The child had witnessed how he tortured and murdered his mother, and his little heart was already filled with hatred.
With him as the lead, the others also took action, rushing forward to punch, kick, bite and scratch the bandits, using all kinds of ways to vent the emotions that had been pent up in their hearts for a long time.
Even those women who had been numb were moved at this moment.
Among them was a woman who was so thin that she looked unrecognizable. She went straight to the third in command, dug her long nails into his eye sockets, and gouged out his eyeballs.
Two lines of blood flowed out of the third in command's eye sockets. The scene was extremely bloody and terrifying. However, the woman was not afraid at all. Instead, she laughed. As she laughed, she suddenly kicked the third in command in the crotch.
Xue Huan saw that the Third In Command's temples were bulging with pain, and veins were bulging on his forehead and neck, but she didn't sympathize with him at all.
The fact that he could attract so much hatred shows how many beastly things he had done before.
After venting their anger, most of the bandits were no longer in human form, and some were even knocked unconscious on the spot, but a few of them were still standing there, with only some blood splashed on their bodies, but they themselves did not suffer any harm.
It can be seen that these people did not do anything bad to those women and children on a daily basis.
Xue Huan gave Ah Man a rejuvenation pill and asked her to dissolve it in water and give a bowl of it to each of the bandits.
After drinking the potion, these people will not die.
The next afternoon, Xuan Xiao and his two companions returned to the village with several carts of supplies.
Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice, flour, grain, cloth, clothing, needles and thread, rouge, powder, books, medicine...all kinds of daily necessities were unloaded from the car and transported to the original warehouse of the village.
Xue Huan had already cleaned up the place in advance, opened two windows, and divided it into two rooms, front and back.
The front room is used as a grocery store, and the back room is used as a receiving area for purchasing wild delicacies, herbs, animal furs, etc.
People in the village can exchange these things for money. If they have money and need something, they can go directly to the grocery store to buy it.
In this way, the currency will circulate throughout the village.
Maybe we can do business with people outside in the future, of course, not business like reselling weapons which is openly prohibited.
When Xuan Xiao and the other two were moving things, the women and children in the village also came to help. Everyone was talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was very relaxed and lively.
The violent outburst yesterday seemed to have allowed them to release all the dull and repressed things in their hearts. Now everyone's mental outlook has undergone a huge change.
They exude a lively energy, which is the hope for life.
The goods were sorted and arranged one by one and placed in a special area. Xue Huan clapped her hands and felt a sense of accomplishment when she looked at the grocery store with a relatively complete range of goods.
Women and children crowded into the shop with great interest, looking here and touching there, and having heated discussions.
Xue Huan asked, "Who knows how to use an abacus?"
Three women raised their hands.
"I'd like to hire someone to look after the shop and do the accounting. There are three of you who can use an abacus, so I'll test you. Whoever can use the abacus the fastest and most accurately will be hired. Everyone else, please leave for now."
The three women who had raised their hands just now were left behind. Each of them had an abacus in front of her, and looked at Xue Huan in front of her nervously and expectantly.
"Okay, here's the question: A foot of cloth costs nineteen cents, and a pound of flour costs five cents. A woman bought three feet of cloth and five pounds of flour. How much did she spend in total?"
Two people hurriedly turned on their abacus, while another person directly gave the answer: "Eight cents and two cents!"
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