The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 42 Making Candy
The kudzu powder has been made, the new house has been built, and there is a hidden place to cover it, and the pomegranate is ready to start making sugar.

She went to the market early yesterday morning to buy the sugar and oranges she needed.

This morning, Pomegranate was busy working in the backyard of her new house.

The reason why it is in the backyard is because their new house has not yet had a fire. According to the rules, they cannot light a fire in the new house. On the contrary, in the backyard yard, there is a door blocking the wall next to the back door, so it cannot be seen from the outside. It's just a fire in the house, so it's not too serious.

She can't afford a big fire, just a small stove is enough.

Worrying about money, the business that my daughter has been busy with for a long time is finally starting to take shape, so she can no longer schedule it. After all, even if the money is not enough, they can still borrow money, but whether the business can be completed will have an impact on them. Big things for the future of the family.

At that moment, seven members of the family gathered around Pomegranate, waiting for Pomegranate to tell them what to do.

Pomegranate had a plan in mind and made arrangements in an orderly manner: "Brother Zhang, eldest sister and mother, you three are responsible for peeling out these two baskets of oranges."

"Eldest brother and second brother, you two are responsible for crushing the kudzu root powder with a rolling pin and rolling it into a fine powder. The finer the better. You have to pass it through this fine sieve. If you can pass it through this fine sieve, the powder is considered the best!"

"Dad and I are responsible for grinding the sugar with a rolling pin, and also grinding it into fine powder. The finer the better!"

As soon as Pomegranate made arrangements, the tasks were clear and in place, and as soon as the words were spoken, the family workshop started to get busy.

For a time, the room in the backyard of the new home was full of busy activities, warm and harmonious.

Among the three tasks, peeling the oranges was the fastest. After carefully rolling out the pomegranate and half a bowl of white sugar powder, all the oranges in the two large baskets were peeled out.

Pomegranate then taught the Song family to put the peeled oranges in clean gauze, squeeze them with a clean wooden pound, squeeze out the orange juice, and filter it with gauze, so that there would be no trace of the orange pulp.

After all the orange juice has been squeezed out, a lot of kudzu powder has been ground, and there is a lot of powdered sugar, the pomegranate is ready to be cooked in a pot.

What she wants to do is QQ candy, which will only be available in future generations.

The required materials are very simple, arrowroot powder, sugar powder, orange juice, pure natural without any additives.

Of course, any fruit juice is acceptable, but in this season, oranges are plentiful and the cheapest. Considering the cost, oranges are naturally the best, and the orange color produced by oranges is also very eye-catching.

For these three raw materials, in addition to the fact that the white sugar powder must not have a grainy feel, the same goes for the kudzu root powder. In addition, the most important thing is the proportion.

Make the first pot of pomegranate first, according to the ratio of arrowroot: powdered sugar: orange juice - 3:1:4.

First, put about six ounces of kudzu powder and 20 ounces of powdered sugar in a bowl, then pour in eight ounces of orange juice, then stir, stir evenly, and scoop it into the mold one by one with a spoon.

Of course, the mold was made by Li Jihe. According to Pomegranate, the carvings all look like small animals. He has good carpentry skills and can carve such small things with his eyes closed.

Then take it to the earthen stove built against the wall in the backyard, put it into the steamer in the pot and steam it for more than a quarter of an hour.

After steaming, take all the molds out of the pot and set them aside to let them cool down naturally. After they cool down, remove them from the molds and you will get transparent candies in the shape of small animals. The pomegranates are made with your hands. I picked one up and pinched it. It was a little soft, but when I let it go, the pinched area would spring back.

It worked!
The pomegranate immediately smiled, but tasted one first. After making sure that its taste met his expectations, he breathed a sigh of relief.

In a blink of an eye, she saw her family members looking at her eagerly, especially Brother Zhang, who looked eager, so she quickly took one and handed it to him, "Try, the candy made by the second sister!"

Then he took one for everyone else. Li Jihe and Mrs. Song were holding a small bunny candy, looking left and right. They were surprised at every glance and couldn't bear to eat it.

Li Rongzhang got a little tiger candy and couldn't put it down. "Second sister, is this really candy? This is so beautiful! I can't even bear to eat it!"

Li Xiangli and the other three also nodded hurriedly.

Pomegranate couldn't help laughing, "We have been working hard for so long to make this first pot of candy. Why don't we try it ourselves first? Try it and see if my candy tastes good? Can you sell it for money?"

After Pomegranate said this, everyone thought, yes, they have to sell the candy for money, why don't they taste it first?
As for whether they can sell it for money, they haven't tasted it yet, but they all thought to themselves that just because of how good-looking the candy is, if they saw it at the market and had a lot of money in their pockets, they would definitely want it for nothing. I bought it without hesitation and tried it!

Several people fed the candy into their mouths almost at the same time, with a hint of caution. They did not dare to exert force after entering the mouth, letting the candy lie on the bed of the tongue, spreading a sweet taste to the base of the tongue.

"You have to chew it! Only by chewing it can you know how good my candy is!" Pomegranate was very amused when she saw that they were reluctant to chew it.

A few people started chewing slowly. After chewing, their eyes widened.

"This candy doesn't stick to your teeth!"

"It's not hard either, it's soft, and it's chewy and chewy!"

"The more you chew it, the sweeter it becomes! It makes people want to eat it again!"

One was about the size of a thumb. When I chewed it, it was gone after a few chews. Several people were giving feedback seriously. Little Li Rongzhang’s little eyes almost fell on the candy in the bowl. He felt deeply that this was wrong and hurriedly forced himself. He looked away and even pinched his own leg meat, muttering in his mouth: "You can't eat it. You have to sell it for money."

Pomegranate couldn't stop laughing, and she was satisfied that she had conquered her family by making this candy. Several people said it was good, so if she sells this candy, it will be good. Not to mention it will be a hot seller, but there will definitely be people buying it, and they won't be left empty-handed. And return.

She reached out and took another candy for each of her family members, but this time everyone waved their hands in unison and refused to eat any more. They all said the same thing, keep the money for selling!

Seeing that he couldn't be persuaded, Pomegranate had no choice but to give up. Then he mixed a new bowl of sugar paste, put it in the mold, and put it into the pot.

The whole day's work finally stopped when all the juice from the two baskets of oranges was used up.

On this day, a total of eight pots were steamed, and each pot got 150 candies, a total of 1,200 candies. They were peeled off, tasted and eaten. Pomegranate and his family were busy packaging them in clean oil paper. There are two kinds, one with twenty grains in it and the other with ten grains in it.

In this way, a total of forty packages of twenty pills and thirty-five packages of ten pills were packaged.

Then there were forty-three loose pomegranates left without packaging, which were brought for the guests to taste.

Even if the appearance of candy is attractive, some people still have to taste it before deciding whether to buy it or not.

After a lot of work, all the candies were packed, and it was time to discuss selling them early tomorrow morning.

"As I said, let's go to different places tomorrow, one to Dafengji, the other to Huangkou Town, and sell at both ends. Even if the business at one end is bad and the other end is good, it won't be a loss. What do you think?"

Although Pomegranate is confident that she will not lose money on this QQ candy, she still has to imagine the worst outcome before successfully selling it. People should not hold their expectations too high, so that they can leave some room for themselves.

(End of this chapter)