Second Uncle also mentioned that when making tofu, there's soy milk and tofu pudding to drink. Thinking about this, Xu Lai couldn't wait to go home.
"Forget about the cost of the plaster powder, consider it a gift from your older brother to your younger sister!"
When Chen Cheng heard Xu Lai ask about the price, he quickly waved his hand at her and said to her with a look of eagerness and a little embarrassment, "As long as you only sell the fruit in your hand to your older brother, I'll be happy!"
It seems that the fruit produced in my own space has become a hot commodity.
Although this middleman was a bit too slick, it would be unreasonable not to sell him the fruit because of the favor of those few pounds of gypsum powder.
Xu Lai didn't dislike Chen Cheng's smoothness; whenever she wanted something, she only needed to contact him and he never disappointed her.
Xu Lai, on the contrary, felt that the man in front of her was a relatively reliable business partner.
It's so rare to find someone you can trust to do business with at this time.
"Look at what Brother Chen is saying, who else would I sell my fruit to if not you? I'll sell it all to you!"
Upon hearing the girl's promise, Chen Cheng's face lit up with an exceptionally bright smile, like a sunflower in full bloom.
"Then I thank you in advance, sister. I'll also help you find the van you wanted!"
After thanking the sincere middleman, Xu Lai hung the bag of plaster powder on the handlebars of the electric tricycle and rode home.
"What? Fruit is actually worth so much these days?"
Upon arriving home, although he was thinking about eating tofu, his immediate priority was to bring his family into the space and pick all the ripe fruit there to sell to Chen Cheng first thing tomorrow morning.
So she told her family about the fruit deal she had just discussed.
When everyone heard that two watermelons could be sold for ten grams of gold, they were all so shocked that their mouths dropped open.
“Things are valued for their scarcity. My business partner told me that currently, in the entire City C, only my family can grow fresh fruit!”
Xu Lai continued to explain.
"That's right. Yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, when Brother Lu was selling ice cream bars in the corridor on the ninth floor, he also mentioned that Lu Ping had said that the high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes grown in our C City's agricultural base were almost ripe and ready for market, reminding us to go to the government supermarket early to snap them up!"
Grandpa Xu took a sip of water and continued, "I'm thinking that the fact that we still need to stake out and rush to buy things means that the supply of grain grown in the agricultural base is clearly far from enough. Right now, we don't even have enough for the normal demand for grain, let alone growing fruit or anything like that. It seems that the fruit in our space has indeed become a rare commodity!"
Xu Lai couldn't help but give his second uncle a thumbs up for his accurate analysis.
Besides selling fruit, Xu Lai also told her family about her plan to buy a van, and they all supported her.
Xu Chao, in particular, stood up happily: "With the van, we can enjoy air conditioning whenever we go out!"
Song Qiu'e was an impatient person. When she heard her daughter say that someone wanted to buy goods early the next morning, she hurriedly urged Xu Lai to take them into the space to pick fruit.
"Okay, let's go to the space to make lunch early and eat before we start working!"
In this sweltering heat, even Grandpa Xiao, who loved to visit others, and his second uncle rarely did so anymore.
The Lu family, who have a good relationship with these two families, have been busy making and selling ice bricks lately, and have had even less time to visit each other.
So they stopped assigning anyone to stay at home, and the family of five turned off the air conditioning and all went inside.
There was physical work to do in the afternoon, so Song Qiu'e finally decided to cook rice.
Grandpa Xu likes to eat rice cooked in an iron pot in the countryside. The rice cooked in the iron pot over a wood fire is not only very fragrant, but also has a delicious crispy rice porridge.
Therefore, Song Qiu'e always used a firewood-fired iron pot to cook rice in the space.
After washing the rice twice in a basin, Song Qiu'e put it into an iron pot with an appropriate amount of water to cook while preparing the dishes for lunch. Xu Chao was in charge of tending the fire.
As soon as Grandpa Xu and Xu Haiguo, two strong men, entered the space, they started picking melons and cantaloupes that could be stored for a long time.
Remembering the ice cream Chen Cheng had given her that morning, Xu Lai decided to use the time before lunch to make some refreshing ice cream to cool everyone down.
She had already taken screenshots and saved the ingredients and steps needed to make ice cream before entering the space.
Fortunately, the materials for making ice cream are almost all available in the storage space.
Cream, whole milk, eggs, granulated sugar, lemon, and salt.
Since she didn't have lemon to remove the fishy smell from the eggs, Xu Lai decided to use white vinegar instead.
First, prepare the ingredients, egg beater, and containers.
The containers needed to be free of oil and water, so Xu Lai took the tools and ingredients to the dining table in the kitchen shed of the space.
Xu Chao, who was tending the fire, was incredibly excited when he heard that his sister was making ice cream.
After he lit the firewood in the stove hole, he ran to the dining table to watch for a while, and then, thinking about the fire in the stove hole, he hurried back to add more firewood.
After Song Qiu'e prepared the dishes to be cooked, she would occasionally help her daughter.
Secondly, crack a few eggs, separate the yolks from the whites, and then put the yolks into an oil-free container.
Next, add an appropriate amount of white sugar to the egg yolks, squeeze in a few drops of white vinegar to remove the fishy smell, and beat with an egg beater until the color lightens, then add an appropriate amount of salt.
Third, pour pure milk into a small saucepan and simmer over low heat until it just starts to bubble. While it's still hot, pour in the egg yolk mixture and stir quickly. The resulting liquid will be a bit thin.
Fourth, heat the mixed milk and egg yolks over low heat, stirring constantly to prevent burning. Heat until it thickens slightly, then let it cool.
Because there were small particles inside when heated, Xu Lai decided to grind it again in the later steps.
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