"Pfft!" As soon as the mint water entered her mouth, Jiang Ling's reaction was exactly the same as the children's.
"Why is this so bitter? I added a lot of sugar last night!" Jiang Ling frowned as she looked at the pale green mint water in the bowl and pondered.
"Mom, I told you, this 'spicy grass' is really hard to eat!" Jiang Wenxi said to Jiang Ling with a slightly pained expression after wiping the corner of her mouth.
“Yes, Mother, even if this stuff is really delicious, it can’t grow all over the mountains!” Jiang Suihe added, looking at the distant mountains.
"This..." Jiang Ling, who had just experienced failure, did not know how to explain this to the child. The mint juice she drank in the modern world was always cool and slightly sweet, so why did it become so bitter in her hands?
Jiang Ling began to recall exactly where she had gone wrong.
"Oh, if only I had a cell phone... Oh right! I have a shop! How could I forget about that!" Jiang Ling suddenly remembered that she had a system shop.
She quickly walked into the house, taking advantage of the fact that none of the four children noticed her.
Jiang Ling opened the system store, studied it for a long time, and finally bought a book called "The Complete Guide to Syrup Making". She flipped through a few pages and quickly found the recipe for mint syrup.
After briefly looking at the production process in the book, I immediately understood which step I had gone wrong.
It turns out that if you want mint to not taste bitter, you can't cut it, and you can't boil it in boiling water for too long.
You must wait until the water boils, then turn off the heat and let it simmer in the pot. The simmering time should not be too long, just two or three minutes. The same goes for the sugar; you can't just throw the sugar in like last time. You need to cook it into syrup first and then add it to the water.
After Jiang Ling finished reading, she carefully stuffed the book under the bed.
She took some mint from her basket and began to prepare it, recalling what she had just read.
Soon, Jiang Ling made another bowl of light green mint water.
However, Jiang Ling's opinion was that the mint water was not very successful this time. After the mint was crushed, the mint residue became finer, and some of the mint residue flowed into the bowl through the gaps in the filter.
For Jiang Ling, the taste is the first step; how to purify it is a matter for later.
She carefully placed the bowl in a cool, shady spot, waiting for the mint water to cool down before trying it again.
On the other side, the village chief led a large group of people to the entrance of Dahua Village.
The villagers of Dahua Village were outraged at the sight, especially a dark-skinned, strong man in his thirties who pointed at Lu Dongyuan, the village chief of Lujia Village, and yelled, "You better release Lao Wu and Er Gou right now! Or do you believe I'll beat you up?"
The men Lu Dongyuan brought with him were no pushovers either.
Upon hearing this, Lu Cheng, the village chief's eldest son, immediately stepped forward and shielded Lu Dongyuan behind him, saying to the man, "Let your village chief come see us!"
The man became even angrier upon hearing this, and shouted in a booming voice, "See the village chief? Who do you think you are?"
"What are you doing! What are you doing! What are you making such a racket so early in the morning! He Er could hear your voice from far away!" The village chief of Dahua Village slowly walked out of the village, and he was somewhat surprised to see the scene in front of him.
"Village Chief Lu, our Dahua Village and your Lu Family Village have always kept to ourselves. Your actions of tying us up and binding us will damage the harmony between our two villages!"
He Dake, the village chief of Dahua Village, is a shrewd and cunning old man. His thin, wrinkled face hides a pair of small eyes full of shrewdness.
"Hmph! Hey He Dake, aren't you worried about biting off more than you can chew when you say that?" Lu Dongyuan was genuinely angry this time. He spoke bluntly with a dark face and downturned lips.
"Pah, old man Lu, how dare you talk to our village chief like that, believe it or not..." He Er, who was standing to the side, was already furious. His bull-like eyes were almost staring at the village chief's face. If the village chief hadn't been there, he probably would have already beaten this little old man from out of town!
"He Er! This is none of your business..." Village Chief He glared at He Er beside him, then squinted at the group of Lu Dongyuan's men in front of him and said, "You all seem to be reasonable people. Although He Er has a bad temper, he is a good person. I hope you will forgive him."
"However..." At this point, Village Chief He's smile suddenly vanished, and he looked at Lao Wu and Er Gou with a stern face and cold eyes, saying, "However, it's probably against the rules for the people of your Lu Family Village to tie up the people of our Dahua Village like this, isn't it?"
"Ha, rules? He Da Ke, we caught your villagers red-handed trying to poison our irrigation canal, and you're telling me that's against the rules?" Lu Dongyuan sneered.
"What?" He Dake was secretly shocked when he heard this. Lao Wu and Er Gou were usually a bit of a troublemaker in the village, but he never expected that the two of them would do something so stupid.
But Lao Wu and Er Gou are, after all, people from Dahua Village. Even if they have committed a terrible mistake, they should be punished by people from Dahua Village themselves. It is not up to an outsider to interfere.
Thinking of this, He Dake blinked and said to Village Chief Lu, "Village Chief Lu, you are a reasonable person. Since you say so, you must be very confident. But Lao Wu and Er Gou are from our village after all. It's not right for you to tie them up like this. Besides, that mountain has not been assigned to your Lu Family Village. How can the water source that has been dug out be enjoyed exclusively by your Lu Family Village?"
Lu Dongyuan was so angry at He Dake's shameless behavior that he almost lost his temper. Fortunately, he asked Jiang Ling for her opinion afterward, otherwise he really wouldn't know what to say right now.
"It's true that this mountain area wasn't included in our Lujia Village's development plan, but the discovery of the water source, the digging of the water source, and the construction of the irrigation canal were all done by our own people and labor. How can this not be attributed to our Lujia Village? Besides, if you need water, you can do it yourself! Why resort to such a despicable method of poisoning?"
"Does your Dahua Village want to cause our crops to fail and starve our Lu Family Village to death?" As he spoke, Lu Dongyuan even took out the poison packet that Lao Wu and Er Gou had prepared to use to poison our crops.
Now it was He Dake's turn to be surprised. Everyone said that Lu Dongyuan from Lujia Village was a clumsy and tongue-tied person, but what he saw with his own eyes today was different from what he had heard. However, He Dake did not expect that the two guys would use such a vicious trick, and what's more, they were caught red-handed.
Thinking of this, He Dake glared fiercely at the tied-up Lao Wu and Er Gou, then immediately smiled and said to Village Chief Lu, "Brother, even if you gave me the guts, I wouldn't dare let your village go bankrupt! Brother, look how hot the sun is now, don't let the heat hurt your health. Come on, let's go inside and have a chat, shall we?"
Seeing that He Dake had already conceded, Lu Dongyuan could not continue like this, so he could only nod and follow He Dake to his home and sit down.
"Old Wu and Er Gou already know they were wrong. They're both from our village, so leave them to us!" He Dake said to Lu Dongyuan with a big smile as soon as he sat down.
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