The space doctor girl became the favorite of exiled ministers

Chapter 21 Making Candles

Because Jiang Yunhua brought back a lot of fungus and mushrooms, Mrs. Ye followed Jiang Zhiluo's instructions at noon and made stewed chicken with mushrooms.

Stewed fish soup with fish.

After lunch, the family sat down and talked for a while.

In the middle of the afternoon, Jiang Zhiluo and Cui Hejin went home.

However, Jiang Xiangchuan and Ye Shi also brought a lot of things to Jiang Zhiluo.

There are fish caught by my two younger brothers in the river, and a bowl of stewed chicken with mushrooms.

At noon, my mother specially reserved a large bowl for her to take home for her mother-in-law to eat.

I also brought her some rice cakes, rice cakes made of millet that my mother bought specially.

It is equivalent to rice buns, just like buns, except that the stuffing is millet, and sugar is added inside, so it tastes very sweet and delicious.

Such food is extremely rare in the village.

When she was about to go home, Jiang Zhiluo saw some pine trees on the hillside behind Shanxing Village, and said to Cui Hejin, "I want to go there and see if I can get some grease. Do you want to go home first or come with me?" a trip?"

Jiang Zhiluo originally wanted to let Cui Hejin go home first.

It's just that he accompanied her back home, if he was allowed to go back alone, the people in Donghe Village would probably say some gossip if he went back alone, which would be bad for Mrs. Cui and Cui Hejin.

So Jiang Zhiluo asked aloud.

There are only a few candles left at home, and they light them sparingly every night.

If you buy candles, the price of candles is also expensive, and a candle costs [-] Wen a piece.

Jiang Zhiluo felt that it was getting dark early at night and she couldn't sleep. If she could light candles, it would be convenient for her to do other things.

I can't bear to buy candles, so I might as well make candles myself.

She didn't see any pine trees on the mountain in Donghe Village.

But there are pine trees on the mountain in Shanxing Village, Jiang Zhiluo suddenly thought of turpentine.

She can make candles out of turpentine, which is ugly but works well.

So there is no need to save candles.

Although Cui Hejin was puzzled and didn't know what Jiang Zhiluo was going to do, she still said softly: "Let me go there with you."

Just like that, Cui Hejin accompanied Jiang Zhiluo to the halfway up the mountain.

Jiang Zhiluo found a few pine tree stumps and collected some grease.

Looking at the collected grease, Jiang Zhiluo was very happy, now she can make a lot of candles.

In this way, there is no need to save candles at home, and there is no need to buy candles in a short time.

Cui Hejin looked at the bright smile on Jiang Zhiluo's face with a deep expression, but didn't ask any questions.

Jiang Zhiluo thought Cui Hejin would ask something on the way home, but he didn't ask anything.

From the beginning to the end, he looked cool and indifferent, as if he was not interested in her affairs and didn't want to ask.

The smile on Jiang Zhiluo's face faded, she wanted to explain something, but she didn't say anything after all.

After returning home, Mrs. Cui was very happy to see them back.

Especially when I learned that Jiang Zhiluo's parents brought a lot of rice cakes and a bowl of stewed chicken with mushrooms, I was even more impressed.

Her in-laws are really wonderful.

Mrs. Cui was still thinking about making brown sugar, so she pulled Jiang Zhiluo and asked, "Zhiluo, um, shall we still make brown sugar? I'll put all the firewood in the stove, and just light it up at any time."

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Mother, I need to trouble you to boil those beets, and boil the sugar water out of the beets."

"I'm thinking of cooking this fat so I can make candles."

When Mrs. Cui heard the candle, her expression became excited, and she suspected that she had heard it wrong.

"Wax...candles?"

"Zhiluo, can you make candles?"

Candles are very expensive things, Mrs. Cui will not light candles at night unless she has to.

I can't bear to use it at all.

Because a candle is used up, you have to buy a new candle, which is so expensive that you can buy a lot of food.

So when she suddenly heard Jiang Zhiluo say that she could make candles, she suspected that she had heard it wrong.

When Cui Hejin was fetching water to wash his hands in the yard, he heard Jiang Zhiluo's words, and the movements of his hands also stopped.

He looked sideways at Jiang Zhiluo, with complicated expressions in his eyes.

It turned out that she had gone to get the grease for candles.

But the secret recipe of candles is in the hands of a very small number of businessmen, how can ordinary people know the secret recipe.

Then, thinking of some words of his wife, brothers and sisters, Cui Hejin looked at Jiang Zhiluo with a dark expression.

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Mother, this oil can be used as a candle. We have candles, so we don't have to save so much at night. You can light candles if you want."

"well."

Madam Cui was very excited.

In fact, she wanted to do some embroidery by lighting candles at night.

But thinking of how expensive candles are, Mrs. Cui was reluctant to light them.

If these things can really be used as candles, she can light candles and do embroidery work at night. If she does more embroidery work, she can go to the embroidery shop in the town to sell it, and she can earn a little bit.

Madam Cui was warm and excited.

"Zhiluo, as long as you are busy with your work, mother will cook these beets."

Beets are cut into small pieces, for the convenience of boiling sugar water. "

Jiang Zhiluo built a small pot in the yard, put firewood in it, put a small basin on it, put the oil in it, and started to burn the fire underneath.

After it melted into water, Jiang Zhiluo removed some magazines.

Filtered grease water is easy to use.

Jiang Zhiluo put a few small wooden barrels that she got from her father upright, put a long rope inside, and poured the oil into it.

Once cooled, it can be used as a candle.

Nine small wooden barrels were poured in a row.

Jiang Zhiluo fixed them carefully, thinking that after cooling down, the outer wooden barrel mold could be removed, and the candle would be fine.

Let the things cool down first, while Jiang Zhiluo helped Mrs. Cui look at the pot while stirring with a spoon.

As time passed, when the sugar water in the pot was boiled, you could smell the sweet fragrance of sugar water.

Jiang Zhiluo fanned it gently with her hands, a smile appeared on her face.

It seems to see brown sugar one by one.

Mrs. Cui lit the fire and said excitedly: "Zhiluo, do you smell the sugar water? It's very sweet. It smells so good."

Before, Mrs. Cui was still skeptical, a little dubious.

But now smelling this smell, she believed that this thing could really make sugar.

Mrs. Cui's heart was warm and excited, and she became more active in lighting the fire.

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Well, mother, it smells like sugar water, but it will take a while."

"Okay, we have enough firewood, we can burn it for as long as we want."

Jiang Zhiluo saw that it was almost done, so she went to prepare a big basin, and then got a piece of clean cheesecloth for filtering.

After waiting, Jiang Zhiluo said: "Mother, it's alright, don't burn the fire for now."

"Okay, is that all right?"

Jiang Zhiluo said: "Scoop it out first, and continue to burn the fire later."

Jiang Zhiluo scooped out all the contents of the cauldron with a large mesh spoon.

The beets were netted with cotton cloth, and the sugar water was filtered into the big basin.

Then pour the sugar water into the pot and continue to burn.

(End of this chapter)