Chapter 44 Help
Jiang Zhiluo continued to work on the things at hand while talking to Mrs. Cui.
Two people working together can get things done quickly.
Soon, a large pot of glutinous rice malt was filtered into two large basins of glutinous rice malt water.
Mrs. Cui looked at so much glutinous rice malt water and smelled the sweet aroma, feeling very happy.
"Zhiluo, should we light a fire and cook it for a while?"
When making brown sugar before, it was just boiled, and Mrs. Cui guessed that it should be the same.
Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Yes, mother, I will clean the pot first, and then pour the glutinous rice malt water into it to boil."
Mrs. Cui said, "I'll go to the yard to get some firewood."
After cleaning the pot, Jiang Zhiluo poured two large basins of glutinous rice malt water into the pot, and Mrs. Cui began to light the fire and boil.
Jiang Zhiluo stirred the pot with a spoon.
After it was cooked, Jiang Zhiluo scooped it out of the pot and put it in a basin to cool.
"Will it be fine after cooling down?" Mrs. Cui remembered that the malt sugar in the town was not like this.
Jiang Zhiluo shook her head and said, "After it cools down, you still have to keep pulling it."
"But mom, the malt candy I plan to make is different from the ones sold in town. I want to add peanuts, which will make it more fragrant, and the price will be higher than the malt candy sold in town."
Mrs. Cui was a little worried that it wouldn't sell if it was too expensive, but when she thought that Zhiluo's products would definitely be different from others, she was no longer worried.
"Can you add peanuts?"
She bought some malt sugar during the Chinese New Year. I remember it was just very simple sugar and there were no peanuts.
Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Yes, you can add peanuts. Actually, you can also add sesame seeds and soybeans, but if you want to buy sesame seeds and soybeans, you will have to spend extra money."
“Just use peanuts!”
Mrs. Cui knew that soybeans could be used to make tofu, so the price was not low.
Sesame is a rare thing, but precisely because it is rare and not grown locally, it is not cheap.
Because every household needs peanuts to make oil, every household in the village grows some for their own consumption.
It was for this reason that Cui Hejin planted some peanuts in the field last year.
When Mrs. Cui thought of her son peeling peanuts when he came back at noon, the smile on her face grew.
The son finally knew how to cherish his wife.
"Zhiluo, why are these peanuts added to the malt sugar?"
Jiang Zhiluo said, "Fry them first, then crush them into peanut crumbs. The finer the better, or crush them on a rolling pin."
Mrs. Cui nodded and started working with Jiang Zhiluo.
Fried peanuts are quick.
But after a while, the sugar had cooled down.
Jiang Zhiluo started the sugar pulling process.
Seeing Jiang Zhiluo exerting so much strength, Old Madam Cui quickly washed her hands and went to help, "Do you really have to pull so hard?"
Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Well, just keep pulling the sugar until it turns white."
Mrs. Cui helped out and couldn't help but sigh, "It's quite strenuous."
"If He Jin's martial arts skills were still there, pulling this would definitely not be a problem."
Jiang Zhiluo overestimated her own strength and wondered how long it would take to finish the job. She looked around and said, "Mom, is there a clean wooden stake standing there? We can hang on it and use our strength to pull the sugar."
Mrs. Cui thought carefully about the wooden stake, a clean wooden stake. "It seems there isn't one yet. How about going to the mountain and cutting one?"
At this moment, the door of the inner room creaked open and Cui Hejin walked out. She was as elegant and dignified as ever, and even her every move was graceful.
He said in a clear voice: "Let me do it!"
Jiang Zhiluo didn't expect Cui Hejin to come out. "You are not in good health. You should rest more. This requires a lot of strength."
Cui Hejin raised his eyebrows and looked at Jiang Zhiluo meaningfully, with a deep dark light in his eyes.
He said nothing, went to wash his hands, then came over and gently stretched back and forth.
Jiang Zhiluo looked at his hands moving back and forth in surprise, as if he didn't use any strength.
Especially his hands were slender and delicate, like perfect works of art. Even when doing such a thing, it was difficult to conceal his aura as otherworldly as beautiful jade.
Jiang Zhiluo looked at him in surprise, feeling that he was so strong.
Cui Hejin looked at Jiang Zhiluo's surprised eyes and said calmly, "Is this okay?"
He looked at her quietly, and his eyes, which were always as cold and clear as frost and snow, seemed to be filled with the gentle moonlight.
Facing such a look, Jiang Zhiluo felt as if her heart was clenched by something. She blinked and came back to her senses in an instant, "Yeah, okay, that's enough."
"Well, thank you. Just go and rest."
Jiang Zhiluo was afraid of exhausting Cui Hejin. Just now, Old Madam Cui said that Cui Hejin's martial arts had been crippled, and her pulse diagnosis showed that he had suffered severe physical damage.
Cui Hejin said softly: "It's okay!"
Then he reached out and took a small bowl of fried peanuts next to him into the house.
After a while, the sound of crushing peanuts came from the house.
Jiang Zhiluo was a little worried and wanted to go in and try to persuade him, but Old Madam Cui quickly stopped her and said, "He Jin is worried about you. It's okay, he can do this little work. He's a man, he won't be tired."
Feel sorry for her?
Jiang Zhiluo didn’t think so.
Jiang Zhiluo brought the shiny white malt sugar into the house, placed it on the panel, and worked with Cui Hejin.
Old Madam Cui glanced at the two of them secretly, then quickly stepped back and quietly closed the door.
She couldn't disturb the two of them.
Jiang Zhiluo rolled it into a long and thin shape with a rolling pin.
After Cui Hejin crushed the peanuts, he put them on a plate.
Jiang Zhiluo looked at the crushed peanuts in front of her, surprised and delighted, "Wow, how did you do that?"
This is just like using a wall-breaking machine in the technological age.
Jiang Zhiluo was very excited. When she looked at Cui Hejin again, her eyes were sparkling with bright and dazzling light.
At this moment, she seemed not to be looking at Cui Hejin, but at an advanced wall-breaking machine.
Cui Hejin looked at Jiang Zhiluo's happy expression, and his eyebrows moved. The sunlight from outside the window poured in and fell on his body, making him feel as if he was filled with the warmth of early spring.
I don’t know if it was the warmth of the sun, or the softness and warmth in his eyes and brows at this moment.
"If you need to do something like this in the future, I'll do it."
Jiang Zhiluo finally came back to her senses and looked at him carefully and asked, "Are you feeling better?"
Cui Hejin nodded and said, "Yeah, much better."
As if he thought of something, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something.
But at this time, Jiang Zhiluo was already concentrating on rolling the peanut powder into the malt sugar, then rolling and kneading it evenly, and pulling it into long thin strips.
The entire large panel could not hold it, and then Jiang Zhiluo curled up into a circle, occupying the entire panel like a big disc.
Jiang Zhiluo was very happy after she finished cooking, and ran straight to the kitchen to find Mrs. Cui.
But when she saw Mrs. Cui feeding chickens in the yard, she said happily, "Mom, the malt sugar is ready. Come over and have a look and taste it to see how it tastes."
Madam Cui instinctively wanted to stand up, but she quickly came to her senses and said, "Zhiluo, mother is busy feeding the chickens with the filtered glutinous rice malt. Please let Hejin have a taste."
"He's eaten a lot of food, so if he says it's delicious, it must be delicious."
What a joke! Her son is finally willing to take the initiative to get close to his daughter-in-law. She can't ruin this atmosphere.
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