Portable Space: Reborn Little Couple

Chapter 19 Country Caramel
The Li family is one of the largest families in Yangliu Village. Unlike the Mo family, the Li family is not only rich, but also prosperous.

In this era and in this rural area, being rich is nothing. The real local snake must have a lot of males in the family.Otherwise, even being rich can't guarantee wealth, like the Mo family is the best example.

"Sister, should we go over and ask for a candy?" Erya wasn't too curious about marriage, dowry, etc. All she cared about was food.

Mo Qianrui looked around and saw many young children running around in the crowd, so she nodded in agreement.It's just that she herself still stood aside to watch the fun, and didn't intend to go in with Erya.There is no way, although it is nothing for a child to ask for a piece of candy, but Mo Qianrui is already ten years old. At this age, he was indeed a half-grown child in his previous life, but he is already considered a young adult here.

Erya got Mo Qianrui's permission, and happily got into the crowd. She played with the youngest daughter of the Li family, Ling Niang, since she was a child, and ran to find Ling Niang as soon as she entered the Li family's yard.Although Lingniang's identity is a little unclear, but the Li family's aunt treats this daughter fairly well on weekdays, at least she has never owed her for food and clothing, so Lingniang's life is better than most of the village. Children are better.Er Ya easily got a few pieces of candy from Ling Niang, and happily ran back to give them to Mo Qianrui.

"Why don't you eat it?" Mo Qianrui looked down at the few pieces of candy wrapped in rough paper in his hand, and at this stall, Er Ya rushed out again.

The sugar is a very common caramel in the countryside. It is cut into squares and is wheat-yellow. It is hard to the touch. It tastes delicious, but for rural children who can’t eat sugar all year round, this caramel is also delicious. up.

Suddenly my heart moved, maybe I can try to make candy?

Caramel is made of grains such as sorghum, rice, wheat or corn as the main raw material, and the process is not too difficult.As for Mo Qianrui, it took a little effort at best.It's just that this caramel is too common and can't be sold for much. Mo Qianrui recalled a little bit, but she knows how to make a lot of sweets and desserts. Maybe selling these things will be easier than barbecue, rice bowls and the like?
Just as she was thinking about it, Er Ya ran back again, and once again stuffed the rough paper bag in her hand to Mo Qianrui, and before Mo Qianrui could speak, she disappeared again.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, who said children are stupid?See Er Ya is not very clever on weekdays, but in order to eat more candy, she has used her brains.It would be unimaginable to put this in the previous life. Even children in orphanages would not be short of food.

Forget it, the plan to make money must be carried out as soon as possible, not for other things, even if it is good to earn some sugar money for Erya.

After the Li family left, Erya had already got three packs of caramel, and each pack contained five or six yuan, which made her very happy.However, Er Ya was not willing to finish eating immediately, but carefully weighed a piece of candy from the rough paper bag and put it in her mouth, reluctant to chew, but slowly enjoying it in her mouth, with a look of happiness on her face.

Mo Qianrui felt very sad, and turned around to think about whether to make some candy right away.The simplest one is of course caramel. Even though the Mo family is poor, there is still a lot of food in the granary.After much deliberation, I decided to make lunch first, and we will discuss the matter of sugar after eating.

Lunch was very simple. Dried rice was poured with countless flavored mushroom sauces, and I made another soup. Erya is not picky about food, and even though Mo Qianrui's cooking is simple, it is better than Aniang's cooking skills. Erya He ate quickly, and looked at Mo Qianrui with bright eyes.

After dinner, Erya was sent to play, while Mo Qianrui started making candy.

But after opening the granary, Mo Qianrui was surprised to find that his own wheat was unhulled, and he was dumbfounded.In my previous life, all the processed wheat was sold on the market, and this one with the hull... what should I do?
After staying in the granary for a while, Mo Qianrui finally gave up.Not to mention that she was not a rural person in her previous life, even if she was, the wheat was husked by a machine, and she had no idea how to hustle the wheat without a machine.

Do we have to wait until Dad comes back at night?But how can this convince Dad?The original owner didn't have the ability to make candy, maybe Dad would think she wasted food.

After thinking about it, she really thought of a good idea.

In fact, when it comes to making sugar alone, the most important thing is maltose, sucrose, or directly mixed with saccharin.As for caramel, most people in this era use food crops such as sorghum and wheat, but there are simpler ways, that is to use sugar cane, or... sweet potatoes!
If sweet potatoes are used to make caramel, the steps are much less, but the amount of sweet potatoes will be considerable.

After a simple calculation, this sweet potato can't be widely planted outside for the time being, so it can only rely on her portable space.A sweet potato seed costs two cents, and it can mature in a day and night. The harvested sweet potato weighs about five or six catties. If you remove the few skins, the net weight of five catties should be no problem.And the caramel made from five catties of sweet potatoes can always be sold for more than ten yuan, right?

Having made up his mind, Mo Qianrui flashed into the portable space, and was about to go to the field to harvest the sweet potatoes planted yesterday, but suddenly stopped.

damn it!She left Tang Yanxiu behind again!
Obviously, during the day yesterday, I was thinking of making a delicious meal to comfort Tang Yanxiu, but Er Ya came to sleep with her last night, and she drank cold water and had a stomachache, and ran all night in the hut, stunned. I completely forgot about looking for Tang Yanxiu in the portable space.

Guiltyly looking around, the original five sweet potato fields in this field have been harvested, replaced by eight flower fields, which are half-opened at the moment, and it seems that the harvest is not far away.Looking back at the small courtyard, there seemed to be something on the stone table.

Quickly running back to the small courtyard, Mo Qianrui found out that on the stone table were antique brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, as well as a ghost drawing talisman.

Feeling the conscience, Tang Yanxiu's handwriting is quite good, and the premise of this good handwriting is the hard pen.In the big environment of the previous life, basically being able to write hard-tipped characters is pretty good. As for brush characters...

Saying it was a ghost painting talisman did not mean to humiliate Tang Yanxiu at all!
Sitting at the stone table, trying to distinguish these characters. Fortunately, although Tang Yanxiu's calligraphy is ugly, there are no missing arms or legs, and each character he writes is very big. Ugly is ugly. To understand what he thinks It's still easy to express.

The general meaning of several large messages can be summed up in one sentence:

If I still can't see you tonight, I'll show you to death!
Cough cough, of course Tang Yanxiu's expression was rather tactful, Mo Qianrui was in pain holding back her laughter, but luckily the last sentence distracted her a little bit.It turned out that in two nights, Tang Yanxiu searched the entire personal space. Apart from the outside, he also discovered the secret of the cabin.The cabin is not for people to live in, but a huge warehouse, and the warehouse is completely fresh.

Note that it is kept fresh rather than frozen, that is to say, whether it is cold or hot, once it is put into the cabin, it will be exactly the same as before when it is taken out again.This is better and more practical than the freezer or incubator in my previous life.

Mo Qianrui hurried to take a look inside the cabin, and found that there were quite a lot of things inside.

There are a few fresh greens, cabbage, some blooming flowers, and a small pile of sweet potatoes.Without moving anything else, Mo Qianrui picked out ten sweet potatoes and walked out of the space. At the same time, he warned himself again that he had to enter the space tonight, even if he was scolded.

These sweet potatoes have been roughly washed by Tang Yanxiu. If you want to roast sweet potatoes, this level is enough.It's just that Mo Qianrui wants to make sweet potato candy, so there must be no sand in it, or else he will wait until the syrup is boiled and his mouth will be full of sand.

Washing sweet potatoes is not an easy task. Mo Qianrui misses the special potato washing machine in her previous life very much. At that time, she didn't think it was a big deal. Now that she has to wash it by hand, she is thinking about it in a panic.

After spending some time washing the sweet potatoes, Mo Qianrui discovered another problem.

If it is left in the previous life, the steps to make sweet potato sugar should be: select sweet potatoes, put them into a potato washing machine, put the washed sweet potatoes into a mill, grind them until they are pulpy, shake the juice dry, and grind them again and again until Make sweet potato starch.

Of course, there is also a simple way, that is to buy sweet potato starch in bags directly.

Tilting her head and thinking for a while, Mo Qianrui resolutely decided to ignore these complicated steps, and directly chopped the washed sweet potatoes, and then boiled them in a pot.The sweet potato caramel made by this method has a limited shelf life and may not be sweet enough.However, it is completely enough to make snacks for Erya.

After spending a long time, the sweet potatoes were finally boiled into a sticky slurry. Mo Qianrui added an appropriate amount of water and managed to make a pot of unqualified syrup.The reason why it is unqualified is because Mo Qianrui feels that the sweetness is definitely not enough, second is that it does not have the transparency of the qualified syrup, and third is that the cohesion is not enough.

"Erya, come here, sister will give you something to eat."

Mo Qianrui tasted it by himself first, and to his surprise, there was no problem of not having enough sweetness.After thinking about it, Mo Qianrui attributed the reason to the sweet potato.Perhaps, the amount of sweet potato starch produced by the space is particularly large.

The little greedy cat Erya quickly ran in, and Mo Qianrui served her a small bowl of sweet potato syrup.Erya took a sip first, and then she narrowed her eyes with a smile: "Sister, it's sweet, sweet!"

Although Erya was greedy, she was very satisfied. She enjoyed the sweet potato syrup and licked the bottom of the bowl with a look of reluctance.

"Sister, this water is so delicious, even better than brown sugar water!"

Mo Qianrui was just about to serve Er Ya some more, when a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.

water?Wait, maybe you don't need to use your brains to solve the problem of insufficient adhesion of syrup. Selling syrup is also a good way.

(End of this chapter)