Yuxiu put the brocade box back in its place, slowly put it together, and her heart settled down a little, remembering what she was doing with candied fruit just now, and turned around and walked back to the yard. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the yard, Shanqing's daughter-in-law has already cut all the orange peels into thin strips and is boiling them in water.

"I'll do this, you go and prepare the syrup." Yuxiu walked over to her and took the chopsticks and a colander.

For this tangerine peel candied fruit to be delicious, boiling is the key. Orange peel should be cooked, but not rotten. So, you have to keep watching the orange peel in the water. It looks a little transparent, so you have to take a colander out, put it in the cold water on the side to soak it, and then take it out and put it on a fine bamboo sieve, and spread the orange peel carefully with your hands, not stacked together. Drain to coat with syrup.

Shanqing's daughter-in-law agreed, and estimated that there were four or five catties of orange peels, so she went into the kitchen and weighed five catties of rock sugar, put it in the pot, put the water that had not been rock sugar, and slowly boiled the water to melt.

When she saw that the rock sugar had melted and there were no more grains, she took the drained orange peel into the kitchen, put it in the syrup, and slowly boiled over low heat.

This boiled orange peel is about experience.

If you boil too much and the water is steamed, the candied fruit will be hard and unpalatable.

If there is too much water, the candied fruit will be rotten and chewy.

Yuxiu watched Shanqing's daughter-in-law boil on the side, and when the water vapor in the syrup was almost boiled, she fished out the tangerine peel and spread it on the bamboo board to dry, which was the finished tangerine peel preserves.

"Lady, if these are done, there must be five or six cans." Shanqing's daughter-in-law has seen so many tangerine peels, which is a lot.

"Even if six cans are not enough to eat, if there are more orange peels, make a few more cans." Yuxiu said with a smile.

"Sister, I'm back!" Yuliang rushed into the courtyard, followed by Yushu, and the sister and brother were almost home.

Yuliang looked at the newly dried orange peel silk in the courtyard, washed his hands on the side, and grabbed a few on the bamboo board to taste, "Sister, it's delicious." ”

"Before it's ready, you're ready to eat." Yuxiu asked Sui Yan to send Yuliang's schoolbag back to the study, took Yuliang's hand, wiped the remaining syrup on his hand, and stared at him to wash his hands again.

Yushu wiped her hands, came over to look at the freshly dried tangerine peel, and complained, "Sister, why don't you wait for me to do it at home?" I can help with shredding. ”

"The Shanqing family cut it with me, I didn't cut much."

"Do you still do it? Again, be sure to choose when I'm at home. ”

"When this batch is ready to be filled with cans, I'll make some more. This year, there is a lot of orange peel, make more tangerine peel candied fruit, cough and lungs. Yuxiu replied, pulled Yushu with one hand, and Yudong with the other hand out of the kitchen yard, to his yard, and asked Shuangxi to get snacks and send them over.

Yushu and Yuliang both felt a little hungry and picked up the snacks and ate them.

Yuxiu watched them eat and asked Yuliang, "What did Mr. teach today?" ”

"Sir still asked me to read the Analects." Tang Hezhang is now staring at Yuliang and reading "The Analects" every day, and Yuliang feels tired of reading it.

"That's a saint's book, you can't memorize it, you have to read it thoroughly."

"Got it, big sister, you have to nag every day. By the way, eldest sister, let me tell you, I heard a message from the Grange today," Yuliang pulled Yuxiu to the side, lowered his voice and said, "I heard that the autumn flood has caused a big flood in the Lanjiang River." ”

Lanjiang flooded?

"Sister, I also heard that I went to be a guest today, and there was a little lady who said that she heard her father also talk about it. Her father was sitting in the museum on the side of Yanshan, and yesterday he asked someone to send a letter to his family, a letter from him. We didn't rain a lot this autumn, why is it so heavy on the Lanjiang River? "Yushu had a good time with a few little ladies, she was cheerful, and she talked a lot.

"My husband also received a letter from home. He also said that if there was really a big flood, he would have to go back to Qingzhou to have a look. ”

Qingzhou is also a state city by the Lanjiang River. If there is a big flood in the upper reaches of the Lanjiang River, Qingzhou, which is in the middle reaches, the water potential is not small.

Tang Hezhang's eldest son is an official in other places, and there are only clansmen in Qingzhou's family. If it is really a big flood, he may not be worried about family affairs and has to go back to deal with it.

However, according to the previous life, the Lanjiang River should not have flooded so quickly.

Yuxiu thought back carefully, in her previous life, first the news of King Cheng's death came out, and then the Lanjiang River sent a big flood. All these things in this world are different.

It is now the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, and the autumn flood has long passed, and the news of the flood at this time is too surprising.

Yuxiu was surprised, and King Teng was also surprised.

Obviously the autumn flood has passed, and the Lanjiang River has broken the embankment inexplicably, he stood on the city tower and watched the water flow down the Yundu city wall, and the water of the moat was full.

In King Teng's mansion, the staff, the prefect of Shuzhong, and several other chief officials were reporting the flood to King Teng and discussing disaster relief.

Originally, these matters should have been reported to the imperial court by the prefect of Shuzhong and discussed with the officials at all levels in Shuzhong. After King Ke Teng arrived in Shuzhong, the military and government of Shuzhong were all under the jurisdiction of King Teng's palace for a few years.

If the official position of the prefect of Shuzhong wants to sit firmly, he has to rely on the Teng Wangfu. Therefore, any affairs in Shu are reported to King Teng first, and then King Teng decides to report to the imperial court.

"Lord Wang, the Lanjiang River has been repaired since the early years of Chenghua, and it has not been repaired since. The section of the embankment that burst this time, I heard that it was in disrepair for a long time, although the autumn flood had passed, but the embankment had been broken during the autumn flood, and now it can't hold on, so it will burst. "The prefect of Shuzhong told me about the breaking of the embankment.

Looking at King Teng's gloomy face, although it was early winter, the cold sweat on his forehead still kept dripping.

The place where the embankment burst this time flooded several large granaries in Shuzhong. Those granaries belong to King Teng's mansion.

Li Shiji looked at the prefect's trembling appearance and suppressed the anger in his heart. These idiots can't be disposed of right now.

"This matter is very important, you should report it to the court immediately. In addition, if Shuzhong is affected by the disaster, you have to ask the imperial court to allocate some money and grain for disaster relief. ”

"Yes, yes, the lower official understands, and the lower official will go back and write an excerpt and report." The prefect of Shuzhong wiped his cold sweat, bent his waist like a shrimp, bent over and went out backwards, and hurriedly went back to write the recital.

Needless to say, King Cheng also had to write an excerpt to ask the court to allocate money and grain. King Teng's granaries were flooded, and several official warehouses of the Shuzhong government were also flooded.

Now that the autumn grain is handed over in various places, it is the time when the granary is full.

It should also be his bad luck, the Lanjiang River flows from west to east, the upper reaches of Yundu, because the terrain is higher, the river channel is spacious and the water flow is stable, and there has never been a breach of the embankment for hundreds of years, so the granary of the Shuzhong government will be built here.

Every time he inspected the embankment during the flood season, he also led people to check all the way down from Yundu, but this time the embankment burst in the big water, and the embankment broke from the upper reaches of Yundu.

Fortunately, the flood season is now over, and the water is still good, if the embankment breaks during the flood season, I am afraid that even the clouds will be flooded.

In the prefect's heart, he was afraid for a while, and then he was glad for a while, and he went back to the mansion to write a fold with a heart.