Portable Space: Reborn Little Couple

Chapter 21
For farmers, the wheat harvest not only represents a good harvest, but also represents fatigue.If the family is strong and labor-intensive, harvesting wheat will only take two or three days of hard work. If it is like the Mo family...

"Sister, isn't the delicious food you cook for me?" Erya stood pitifully by the stove and watched Mo Qianrui busy.

After tempering in the past few days, Mo Qianrui is now very proficient in lighting fires.In the past few days, every household has started to harvest wheat. The Mo family only has two strong laborers, father and mother. As discussed before, Mo Qianrui will take Erya to do work at home, except for feeding chickens and ducks. , The main thing is to light a fire and cook.As for cleaning and the like, there is no need to be too busy. Even the clothes are washed by Auntie early in the morning. The fear is that Mo Qianrui will fall into the river if she is not careful.

Therefore, while others were busy, Mo Qianrui had a lot of free time.Naturally, she loved cooking in her previous life, so she spent all day working in the kitchen.

"Don't make trouble, Erya, you haven't eaten less sugar these two days, take a break."

Mo Qianrui worked hard to adjust the formula. Although she had various syrup formulas in her mind, she had to improve them due to the shortage of actual raw materials.Strictly speaking, this is not an improvement. Mo Qianrui just reduced the raw materials and steps while maintaining the original taste as much as possible.Fortunately, her craftsmanship is excellent, and after several adjustments, she can barely make qualified syrup.

The main raw material of this syrup is still sweet potatoes, there is no way, parents are very busy, and no one is here to help her remove the wheat husks.Moreover, it is best to use fresh food crops for making syrup. If it was last year, the syrup made will look very cloudy, and even the sweetness will drop a lot.

The sweet potatoes are all produced in space, the only disadvantage is that the quantity is too small.After these two days of boiling syrup, there are not many sweet potatoes left.

For now, there are two ways to solve the problem.

First, hurry up to earn money to buy seeds, and then wait for the harvest after a day and night.

Second, let Dad plant sweet potatoes in the dry fields after the wheat harvest. In this case, it will take sixty days and nights to harvest.

After much deliberation, Mo Qianrui still felt that the former method was more appropriate.Aside from that, the Mo family has ten acres of dry land, so it's no problem to persuade Father to use one and a half acres of land for experiments, and let him work hard to plant ten acres at one go... It's not realistic to think about it.

Taking a step back, even if Dad agrees, she doesn't have so many seeds.In fact, she can't afford a penny now.

"Sister, I want to eat, let me have another bite, sister!"

Mo Qianrui was thinking about something in his mind, but was stopped by Erya's fuss.Shaking her head helplessly, Mo Qianrui could only comfort her softly: "Don't worry, sister is going to try a new method this time. If it works, you will have beautiful and delicious sweet potato candies in the future."

Er Ya was a little puzzled, but didn't bother her any further.She guessed that she also understood that if Mo Qianrui was really going to be annoyed, it was her own mouth that was suffering.

Seeing that Erya was no longer noisy, Mo Qianrui looked at the syrup in the pot.This time, Se'er looks much better than before, at least it has begun to appear translucent.Scooped a spoonful with a spoon, then tilted the spoon slightly, this time the syrup was very viscous and slid down extremely slowly.Seeing this, a smile appeared on Mo Qianrui's face.

Although this kind of fineness was still unqualified in the previous life, it is very rare now.

Recalling that when I was in elementary school in my previous life, after school, there would always be one or two sugar stalls at the school gate, selling this kind of sweet potato syrup.However, usually the stall owner sets up a small stove, places a marble or iron chopping board on the stove, scoops a spoonful of syrup and draws various beautiful graphics on the chopping board.

The other is more fun, which is to make a panel similar to a quartz clock, and the digital part is a variety of graphics, toggle the arrow, and the stall owner can make whichever graphics the arrow points to.Those figures are usually the twelve zodiac signs. At that time, Mo Qianrui most hopes to turn the arrow to the dragon in the twelve zodiac signs, because the dragon is the largest and can eat more candies.

Mo Qianrui studied as a chef, and she also learned to draw on cakes in the past. Simple shapes are not difficult for her, but it is a bit difficult for her to draw the twelve signs of the zodiac, but other simple shapes are fine.

Unable to find a suitable chopping board, Mo Qianrui simply turned the lid over and drew sugar paintings on it.She painted the simplest flowers, one around the other, and after a while a spoonful of sugar was used up, leaving seven or eight sugar flowers on the lid of the pot.

Before the syrup cooled down, Mo Qianrui quickly took a chopstick and dipped it in.Ordinarily this should be the first step, and the chopsticks are not very suitable. It would be great if there are sharpened bamboo sticks.Suddenly remembered that when he was skewering chicken last time, there seemed to be a handful of bamboo sticks left over, and Mo Qianrui finally found it in a bamboo basket after a bit of effort.

The number of bamboo sticks was not many, only a few dozen, but it was enough for her to toss about.I went outside to wash the bamboo sticks, and when I came back, the syrup on the lid of the pot had completely cooled.Erya was hopping vigorously by the stove, while Mo Qianrui took a kitchen knife to peel off the sugar painting, and took a closer look at it in his hand.

Leaving aside the unattractive chopsticks and crooked flowers, it's not bad overall.

"Sister! Sister!"

Reluctantly, he gave Erya the sugar painting and chopsticks in his hand, and now Mo Qianrui began to worry about another problem.Originally, she wanted to start a small business to subsidize the family. If she really got into a competition with Tang in the future, would this Erya eat all her teeth?
After sending Erya away, Mo Qianrui made a few more sugar paintings.There are flowers, small fishes, the sun, and smiling faces. Anyway, with her painting level, she can only toss about these little things.Fortunately, if there is no comparison, there will be no disgust. People of this era should not care about these details with her.

I made five sugar paintings in one go, and Mo Qianrui didn't dare to do more. If the sweet potato syrup is sealed in a jar, it can be kept for ten days. If it is all made into sugar paintings, it cannot be preserved for too long. .

Besides, she still has to worry about Er Ya's teeth!

"Big girl, do you still have the candy flower in your sister's hand? I want to eat it!"

As soon as the kitchen was cleaned up, she heard shouts from outside the yard. Before she could get out of the kitchen, a head poked out from the door.Mo Qianrui was taken aback for a moment, and then recognized Li Jialiniang.Ordinarily, this Mei Niang and Li Niang are twin sisters, they look exactly the same, so it should be hard to tell them apart.However, for the twin sisters of the Li family, anyone who has dealt with them several times can tell them apart without any problem.

Meiniang is good at dressing up and always likes to put a blooming flower on her head.Liniang is delicious. If you look closely, her face is more rounded than Meiniang's. Her signature feature is that she always eats with three sentences.

"Yes, but this is what I want to sell in the market." Mo Qianrui originally wanted Liniang to find some brothers to help Dad harvest the wheat, but suddenly remembered that the wheat harvest had just begun, and all the hard work was done. She went to work in the fields, and even Liniang couldn't find anyone.And now she doesn't have many sweet potatoes on hand, and urgently needs money to buy seeds.Anyway, she knows how to eat so much, why not change some money first, and let Liniang find someone after the other family is done with work in a few days.

"Go to the market to sell?" While speaking, Liniang had already moved to the stove, and when she saw the five sugar paintings clearly, her eyes widened.

It's true that Liniang is delicious, but because the Li family is rich, she often went to the market since she was a child.The aunt of the Li family dotes on the children very much, that's all for other things, she is really generous in terms of food.It can be said that within a radius of ten li, there is nothing that Liniang has not eaten.

"This sugar painting is not a few wild fruits on the mountain. It is boiled with grain, which takes a lot of effort and firewood. The most important thing is to spend grain!" In business, sales are very important, Mo Qian Rui did not feel that her words were exaggerated.

Liniang didn't have any doubts about this, the caramel in the countryside was all made of grain, of course Liniang knew this.However, she has never seen such a beautiful caramel, she has not eaten it yet, and she is already drooling.

"Tell me, how do you sell this caramel? Exchange it for something, or just sell it for money?" Liniang was pampered since she was a child, and it's not easy for her not to develop a domineering temperament.However, she has an instinctive desire to eat fresh and beautiful food. The Li family has everything, so she doesn't believe that these candy paintings can't be exchanged.

Mo Qianrui is most short of money now, so he naturally chose the latter.

After a little thought, she quickly set the price: "Two pennies for a candy painting." After a pause, Mo Qianrui added, "Liniang, this is not ordinary caramel, it tastes sweet. If you If you think the price is expensive, you can try one first. If it tastes good, buy it, if it doesn’t taste good, treat it as my treat for you.”

Trying to eat this kind of form has never happened in this era, Liniang was surprised to hear it, and immediately took a candy painting in the shape of a small fish and put it into her mouth.

Sweet potato syrup is sweeter and greasy than the syrup made from sorghum wheat. If there is someone like Dad who dislikes sweetness at the stall, I am afraid that they will not like this taste, but a little girl like Liniang in her teens , but I love all kinds of sweets.She was afraid that the taste would not be sweet enough, or it would be too sweet, but she could still eat it with relish.

"Go, help me take the remaining four sugar paintings to my house, and I'll give you the money."

Liniang has a straightforward temper, she doesn't bother to lie for such a small gain, she only tastes it and decides to buy the rest.

The five sugar paintings total ten Wen, which is considered a lot of money in the Mo family, at least it can buy a lot of salt.But in Liniang's eyes, it was just small money for snacks. Not only did she happily count ten cents to Mo Qianrui, but she also agreed to buy them from Mo Qianrui after the sugar paintings were finished.

After the last barbecue stall, Mo Qianrui finally made money again, and this time it was a sustainable business, which made her very happy.He promised to make more delicious caramel for Liniang next time, but when he turned around, he found that Erya was looking at her with tears in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)