Portable Space: Reborn Little Couple

Chapter 30 The Sugar Stall at the Bazaar

Cooking for a wedding banquet is different from cooking for other people. It's like when Mo Qianrui was cooking for the Li family.But there can be no mistakes in the wedding banquet, otherwise it will be a regret for the couple's life.

In her previous life, Mo Qianrui worked in a restaurant and said that whenever a couple wants to hold a wedding banquet, the chefs are all veterans.To be honest, with Mo Qianrui's qualifications, he is not qualified to be a chef.

Thinking of this, Mo Qianrui felt a little apprehensive. If it was in her previous life, maybe she wouldn't be so embarrassed. After all, she was used to kitchen utensils, and the colleagues around her were also familiar with them.But now, she is just a ten-year-old child, how can the aunt of the Li family be at ease?
However, Auntie Li's words were sincere, and Mo Qianrui was a shameless person.If she threatened and intimidated like Aunt Zhang's, maybe she would stick her neck and argue with others, but Aunt Li has always been nice to her and begged her softly. Mo Qianrui really couldn't refuse, but I can cope.

When I got home, I mentioned this matter to my mother. My mother was shocked, but she didn't object.In her opinion, even if she doesn't have to pay, she should do some work for the neighbors.What's more, the chef gave Mo Qianrui face. In her words, if she could be favored by the most famous aunt of the Li family in the village, Mo Qianrui would have the confidence to marry in the future.

Mo Qianrui was dumbfounded by A Niang, how could being a chef be linked to being married?
Seeing that Mo Qianrui was not enlightened, A Niang read her for a while, and then she mentioned another thing: "Big girl, didn't you say you were going to sell sugar at the market last time? My work is done, and the wheat has been dried, and I see that there is nothing wrong with it, so you can go to the market with your father tomorrow."

Farmers are generally busy during the seasons of sowing, transplanting and wheat harvesting. During these few days, everyone can't wait to turn around.

But during the slack season, you can see idlers squatting in the corner chatting with people everywhere in the village.

Although the affairs of the Mo family are still a bit unfinished, at least the wheat has not been husked and the stalks have not been gathered.However, these things are not in a hurry. Although some of the grain of the Mo family is going to be sold, it is not in time to sell it just after the wheat harvest is over. After all, the grain at this moment cannot be sold at a high price.Anyway, the family is not in a hurry to spend the money, so it will be put on hold for now, and it will be too late to sell it in the spring of next year.

"Okay, then I'll boil some more syrup today, and then I'll make some sugar paintings and sell them in the market. By the way, Auntie, can you tie a straw for me? It's the kind of candied haws that I saw before. Kind of."

Mo Qianrui's cooking skills are good, but other manual skills are completely scum.

"It's simple, anyway, there are straws ready-made."

It's just a candy-painted straw that won't bother A Niang at all.

However, what Mo Qianrui asked for was slightly different from the usual straw poles. She didn't think about carrying sugar paintings all the way to sell them, so she asked A Niang to tie a square straw pole.It is the size of a common household chopping board, but it is quite thick, and it can hold about twenty sticks of sugar painting.

It took all afternoon to boil the syrup. Because of the hot weather, I made it the day before, and I was afraid it would be melted tomorrow, so Mo Qianrui just took a big jar and filled it up, and went to Li's house to borrow it. I bought a pan for pancakes and a long-handled spoon.When the sisters of the Li family learned that Mo Qianrui was going to the market the next day, they also clamored to go together. The aunt of the Li family doted on them, so Tete went to a relative's house and asked the sisters' two sisters-in-law to accompany them They go together.

On the second day, Mo Qianrui was empty-handed, and Father took all the things, called Li's sister Hua and their two cousins, and went to the nearby market together.

This time, it wasn't the Liujiazhuang collection, but another Wangjiaji which was closer.

It only took two quarters of an hour to go from Yangliu Village to Wangjiaji, perhaps because it was already the slack time, and there were at least seven or eight times more people in Wangjiaji than in Liujiazhuang.The crowded market was extremely lively, even though Mo Qianrui and the others came early enough, they hardly found any vacant seats.Fortunately, Mo Qianrui's sugar stall didn't need much space, so he found a stall selling pastries, talked to the stall owner and moved a little space, and then settled down.

Naturally, the Li family sisters came to the market to sell sugar paintings for Mo Qianrui, but Liniang was delicious, so she decided to be Mo Qianrui's opening guest, buy a sugar painting and then go to the market.

Meiniang couldn't hold back Liniang, so she could only wait together.

As for their two sister-in-laws, it doesn't matter, the left and right are here to please them, and they don't care about the time.

Soon, Mo Qianrui's sugar stall was set up, and it didn't take long to paint a sugar painting, the key was that it was a bit troublesome to dry.Fortunately, the place Mo Qianrui chose was in the shade, and the syrup she boiled was extremely viscous, and the pan she borrowed from the Li family was not too small, so she made three sugar paintings in one go and inserted them into the On a square grass pole.

Liniang quickly picked out the sugar painting she liked, and after paying two cents, the group of them left first.

Mo Qianrui didn't stop, and continued to work on the sugar painting.

These days, there are very few snacks for children, even candied haws are extremely rare.A few stalls away, there are country caramel candies, but they are not as good-looking and delicious as Mo Qianrui's candy paintings.

Soon, there were children rushing over. Mo Qianrui was making sugar paintings while carefully looking at the little customers in front of him.

Speaking of which, when A Niang proposed to come to the market yesterday, Er Ya also made a fuss about coming together, but A Niang refused.After all, Mo Qianrui came to the market to sell things, and Father also had to help, so he didn't have time to take care of Erya.On the Li family's side, Mo Qianrui thought that Ling Niang's identity was a bit embarrassing, and it was normal for the Li family's aunt not to let Ling Niang come out.

However, after Mo Qianrui took a closer look at the children gathered in front of her stall, she discovered a pattern.

The youngest children in the market are seven or eight years old, and they are accompanied by teenagers or older adults. It is rare to see children jumping around alone.Although Mo Qianrui was a little suspicious in his heart, it was because the people here didn't have the habit of taking young children out, so he let it go after thinking about it.

Although there are no very young children in the market, sugar paintings are also fatally attractive to children of seven or eight years old. Even those girls who are about the same age as Liniang can't help but buy a bunch.

With more and more people in front of the stall, Mo Qianrui gradually became busy. Of course, the matter of collecting money was handed over to Dad, while she concentrated on drawing sugar paintings.

After drawing several ordinary sugar paintings, Mo Qianrui took out a large bowl of pre-cut fruit pieces from the space while his father was not paying attention.Because Mo Qianrui packed the basket with ingredients and other things, Dad didn't know what she put in it, and Mo Qianrui was also worried that the fruit would be spoiled, so he specially put it in the warehouse of the space.

Although there are only pears and plums, which are not very eye-catching fruit pieces, the fruit skewers made by Mo Qianrui still make people stop and watch.

It's not that Mo Qianrui is reluctant to part with the grapes in the small courtyard, but the number of grapes is running out, and she still thinks that Auntie's body is weak and the glucose juice can supplement some nutrition, so she doesn't take it out.

Ordinary sugar paintings cost two cents a piece, but fruit string candies cost five cents a bunch. Speaking of which, Li Niang helped her set the price, and of course Mo Qianrui himself thought it was quite appropriate.

It's a pity that Mo Qianrui didn't bring many fruit pieces, mainly because there were no fruit trees in Yangliu Village, and these fruits were found by her from the back mountain, and the quantity was not many.So only seven or eight strings were made, and there were no more.

The fruit skewers sold for more than ordinary sugar paintings, and instead of being delighted, Mo Qianrui felt annoyed.Wouldn't it be possible to make more money if we could get more fruits?Maybe I can buy a piece of meat at the market to nourish my mother's body.

"Girl, I'll give you these red bayberries. You can help me make five fruit skewers, and I'll give you the rest."

Mo Qianrui, who was lamenting for the passing money, suddenly saw that Liniang had placed a small bamboo basket of red bayberries at her feet.Isn't this summer a good season to eat red bayberry?She was annoyed that she couldn't eat these delicacies before, but she only thought that Yangliu Village didn't have bayberry, but she didn't think that there might be bayberry planted in other places.

"Why is this so embarrassing? How much do these bayberries cost? I'll pay you!" Mo Qianrui stretched out his hand to weigh the small bamboo basket, and then carefully looked at the appearance of the bayberries, and immediately smiled happily.

"Yangmei costs 25 Wen, and five bunches of fruit skewers cost [-] Wen. I found this for you. You can give me an extra bunch." Don't look at Liniang who only knows how to eat, but she is also a little clever , and immediately counted for Mo Qianrui with his fingers, with a smug look.

Mo Qianrui chuckled, didn't say anything, and immediately started doing it for Liniang.

If it is other fruits, it is first strung on bamboo sticks, and then coated with syrup.This red bayberry can't be strung together, but it can't trouble Mo Qianrui either.

First, take a bamboo stick and wrap a thin layer of syrup. Before it cools down, quickly stick the bayberry on it, and then drizzle the syrup on the bayberry.Although not as round as candied haws, it has a different beauty.

Liniang took it with satisfaction, and almost ate five skewers at the same speed as Mo Qianrui made one skewer.

Mo Qianrui was completely used to her demeanor, but she was very envious of the children next to her.In the minds of these children, being able to eat sugar without any scruples is their ultimate dream.

With Liniang's bamboo basket of bayberry, Mo Qianrui has no worries.As for the cost of twenty Wen, she felt it was totally worth it.

The red bayberry in a small bamboo basket weighs about three catties, and the number is about 150.And Mo Qianrui's fruit skewers are five in a bunch, and these bayberry can be made into thirty skewers.Even if the five strings given to Liniang are excluded, there are still 25 strings.Five cents per string, that is 120 five cents, enough to exchange for a fat old hen.

I just don't know if there are old hens for sale in the market in this hot day.

By the way, Mo Qianrui slapped his head suddenly, regardless of whether there are old hens for sale, since Liniang can buy red bayberries, there should be a lot of fruits in this market.

(End of this chapter)