Chapter 63 Captain Sun is here with the police!
After giving instructions on the things to pay attention to, Shen Qing did not stay any longer but returned home.
After all, it still needs five or six hours to ferment. It’s just right to come over after lunch and use the afternoon to cook it.
As soon as she got home, she saw the third and fourth children looking at her with shining eyes.
Shen Qing: ...Needless to say, it must have been the silver that attracted him.
After entering the room and closing the door, Jiang Xiangnan couldn't stop his excitement even though he tried to lower his voice again and again: "Mom! So much money!"
Shen Qing: "Yeah."
"I've never seen so much silver before. How could you trust me and the fourth child to go there alone? What if it gets lost? What if it gets robbed or stolen?"
It's more than twenty taels of silver. If it were him, he would have to bring his entire family with him to feel at ease.
Shen Qing looked at the two men's patched linen clothes and shook his head: "Thieves are the most discerning."
Two young men from poor backgrounds, dressed in rags and looking like they have never seen the world, which one of them would steal and which one would rob?
After all, one person has no money but has more strength. If you are not careful, you don’t know who will suffer greater losses!
Compared to his third brother, Jiang Xiangbei appears to be much calmer. After all, he went in with his mother last time. He knows the selling price of the brushes and how much this batch of brushes is worth.
But even though he knew it, he still couldn't help feeling excited when he actually took over twenty taels of silver!
Last time it was only twelve taels, this time it doubled to twenty-four taels!
Jiang Xiangnan tugged at his patched clothes and said foolishly, "Mom, I'll keep these clothes. I'll wear them whenever I go to the city!"
In the past, when he had no money, he always wanted to wear good clothes and felt ashamed of wearing tattered clothes. But today, he and his fourth brother each had more than ten taels of silver on them, and he didn't feel ashamed at all wearing the same clothes.
Now that he heard his mother say that it was thanks to the clothes that they were not targeted, he immediately felt that as far as the safety of the money was concerned, it was just a pair of tattered clothes, and he didn't mind from the bottom of his heart!
Shen Qing gave his approval.
The third child is smart and the fourth child is steady. She feels at ease when they work together to deliver and sell goods.
After taking the silver, Shen Qing decisively closed the door in the face of Jiang Xiangnan's reluctant gaze!
She knew what the third brother meant. He wanted to have money in his hands. Each of them would have money, but not now.
Shen Qing looked at the heavy twenty-odd pieces of silver. It was not much to buy the items needed for escape, and it was even far from enough, but she felt more at ease than ever before.
With these twenty-four taels, plus the eight taels of silver at home, the savings suddenly exceeded thirty taels. Thirty taels seemed like a hurdle. With these, many things and things for fleeing from famine could be put on the agenda and prepared.
I'm going to the city tomorrow to buy some gauze to make summer clothes.
Gauze is thin and easy to dry, making it perfect for hot and rainy summers.
The most important thing about preparing clothes in advance is to be able to break the broken silver into long and thin silver pieces and sew them on the hem of the clothes - if you are separated and lost by disaster victims on the way to escape, you will not be worried if you have the silver.
There are eleven people in the family, big and small. If we make two sets for each person, and also make two sets for Guan Li and Guan Xiaoshan, it will probably cost three taels of silver.
If you order a big knife again, it will take at least one and a half months to get it, so you have to order it in advance.
The eldest to fourth child in the family, who are in their prime, each has one. In addition, Huo Bing is strong, brave and careful, so she is also given one to protect herself and to deter bad guys.
As for her having a kitchen knife for self-defense, Xiang Zhong, Jiang Shui and Jiang Yu would not dare to attack anyone even if they had the knife. It would be even more dangerous if it was taken away. There were also hoes and shovels at home. When the time comes, they can each get one. Even if they smash around with their eyes closed, it will be more useful for them than a machete.
The knives are not cheap, especially the big ones, which cost one and a half taels each, and five of them cost seven taels and five cents. Fortunately, for custom-made ones, you only need to pay a deposit of one and a half taels of silver, and the balance can be paid when you receive the goods.
After a month and a half, it would be no problem to pay the remaining six taels of silver.
Shen Qing hesitated. Could a team of hundreds of people be supported by just five of his own men armed with swords?
Neither the deterrent effect nor the strength is enough!
The escorts Jiang Yang and Xie Qingshan have knives at home, and the Feng family is good at boxing and kicking, so even if they lack knives and guns, they will definitely have sticks.
The Guan family has no strong labor force. The three members of the family are old, weak and disabled, and they are the ones who need to be protected wherever they go.
There are many young and strong men in the families of Mr. Jiang Sanye and Mr. Wuye. If they are equipped with big swords, the safety of the three people in the Guan family will be greatly improved.
Then order ten more - fifteen taels of silver may seem like a lot now, but you'll find it's worth it when you fight the enemy!
We couldn't buy the donkey and the cow this time. The remaining twenty or so taels of silver would seem like a lot if put elsewhere, but it would be insufficient to buy large animals.
She can only wait until next time, she has other uses for the remaining money.
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Originally, only Mr. Jiang and Shen Qing's families in the village ate three meals a day. Later, Zhao Mingyue's family worked harder making tofu, so they also changed to three meals a day.
Seeing that they were going to start making malt sugar today, Xu Hongmei was afraid that her family would be hungry and affect the progress, so she gritted her teeth and changed it to three meals a day.
After lunch, the three families gathered at Mr. Jiang's house again.
This is because Mr. Jiang’s house not only has a stove, but also two large iron pots that can be used to cook at the same time.
Shen Qing lifted the cloth curtain on the big wooden barrel, looked at the fermentation situation, and filtered out the juice with gauze.
Jiang Dalang immediately and tactfully carried a bucket full of juice to the kitchen, poured it into the big iron pot as Shen Qing instructed, and started to light a fire in the stove.
"After boiling over high heat, turn to medium heat and stir slowly all the time. Once the sauce thickens, reduce the heat to low and continue simmering. Stir quickly at this point, otherwise it will easily stick to the pot. Also, keep the heat as low as possible. It's better to be low than high. Do you understand?"
The young man who was working the fire quickly responded, "Understood!"
It would take three to five hours, so Shen Qing asked Zhou Yan, Jiang Ying, Xu Hongmei, Li Xiulan and others to take turns trying it.
When the water slowly dried up and the color turned yellow-brown and could be hung on the wooden spatula, Shen Qing quickly scooped it out and placed it on a pre-prepared oiled tray.
Jiang Dalang and several strong men quickly pulled, folded, and pulled the yellow-brown maltose block repeatedly while it was still hot, just like pulling noodles;
After dozens of times, the maltose blocks changed from their original yellow-brown color to silver-white.
Jiang Ying, Zhou Yan and others quickly cut the dough into small balls with scissors, put them into the cooked glutinous rice flour prepared in advance and shook them evenly.
At this point, the silver-white sugar balls are made!
Everyone in the kitchen had been staring without blinking, and now their eyes were widened even wider, looking extremely surprised.
Even Mr. Jiang Er and Mr. Jiang Wu, who were standing at the back of the crowd, had satisfied expressions on their faces.
"Oh no! Oh no! Captain Sun is here with the police!"
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