Chapter 18 31 Rock Sugar Gourd
When I got to the inner house, my courage to be ready to go crazy was gone.
In the bedroom, the bedding on my bed has been replaced with new ones. The maids in the house also left. Xiao Ling was left sitting in front of the dresser, not knowing what she was busy with.
I leaned over to take a look, and it turned out that Xiaoling was eating a dustpan of hawthorn fruit on the dresser. See me leaning over. Xiao Ling picked out the largest one from the dustpan and stuffed it into my mouth. It's sour, and the taste is okay.
Then I said, "Xiaoling! Where did this come from? ”
Xiao Ling stuffed another one into her mouth and replied, "Young master, this hawthorn was sent by the farmer in the village." It tastes good! ”
"It turned out to be sent by the dealer! But Xiaoling! Aren't you afraid of acid when you eat so much? ”
Xiao Ling shook her head, and then continued to eat with a smile.
Looking at Xiaoling eating hawthorn, I suddenly remembered a snack method.
"Xiaoling, young master, I'll make you a delicious snack, do you want to eat it?"
As soon as Xiaoling heard me say the word 'delicious', she immediately jumped up, hugged my arm and said, "Young master, I want to eat." What's delicious? ”
"Hey, hey! You'll know right away, wait for me! After that, I sat down on the bed and patted the mark on my chest, and then went back to the mall, first found a pack of bamboo skewers, and then found rock candy, and then I patted my chest again and went back to the bedroom. Xiao Ling looked at the rock candy in my hand and couldn't help but ask, "Young Master, is this ice?" ”
I took out a piece of rock candy, fed it into Xiao Ling's mouth, and said, "This is rock candy, young master, I'll use this to make you a delicious snack." ”
Xiao Ling had rock candy in her mouth, stared at her beautiful big eyes, winked at me flickeringly, and then cheered: "Young master, is it called rock candy?" It's so delicious, so sweet! ”
I smiled, and then came to the kitchen with a little Ling staring at the rock candy in my hand.
I first found a clean cutting board, then gently applied the layer with oil and set aside, then skewered the hawthorn with a bamboo skewer, and then picked up the wok and began to boil the syrup. After the syrup was ready, I put the skewered hawthorn in the syrup and dip it evenly, then took it out and threw it lightly on the cold cutting board. This way a beautiful piece of sugar will form at the bottom of each hawthorn. Then I moved on to the next one, and after making all the dustpan hawthorn into sugar gourds, I stopped and asked the maids who had gathered to smell the sweetness of the syrup to clean up the pot. Only then did he hand the already cold sugar gourd to Xiao Ling.
Xiao Ling, who had been waiting for a long time, picked up the sugar gourd and sighed: "It's so beautiful!" After that, he bit it gently.
Sure enough, in Xiaoling's heart, delicious is higher than beautiful!
Xiao Ling, who took a bite, immediately smiled, and her eyes were bent. Then Meimei bit down again and said, "Young Master, this one you made is so delicious!" ”
Seeing Xiaoling's happy appearance, I gave a string to the maids in the inner house, so that everyone could eat it.
A lot of praise, so much praise that I am about to float. Dacao asked, "Young Master, what is this called!" You're so good at what a job! It's so delicious! ”
"Hey, hey! This is called a rock sugar gourd, and it was specially made by the young master! What do you think! Master, I can endure it! By the way, I'll send a bunch to the butler, and you can continue to eat! "With that, I'm going to take a bunch and send it to the butler. As a result, when I lowered my head, I found that I had made more than 20 strings of sugar gourds, and I had completely eaten them.
Look at everyone again, there is a string of whole things in your hands. Forehead! You eat so fast, aren't you afraid of sour teeth?
I had no choice but to go to the outer house and get back a dustpan of hawthorn, and then prepare to make it again. At this time, the little pot and spoon in the outer house heard that I had made a new snack, so they pestered me to ask me to teach them how to make them. Teach is teach, anyway, it's very simple.
After I made a small pot and spoon by hand, both of them learned, and the result was that all the hawthorns in the family were made into sugar gourds. Everyone had eaten enough, and they didn't finish eating it even when they were sour.
I had no choice but to ask the housekeeper to find all the children in the village, and then divide them out one person and a few strings. As a result, the children who came home with rock sugar gourds brought more hawthorn the next day.
Looking at so many hawthorns, I was dumbfounded. Yesterday afternoon, the small pot and spoon have been making sugar gourds for an afternoon, and the sour smell of hawthorn has been wafting at home all night, and I even dreamed of circling around hawthorn last night. Today I looked at the more hawthorns sent by the farmers, and I was completely dumbfounded.
The butler came over and covered his teeth and said, "Shhh Young master, this is all a little bit of the hearts of the farmers, anyway, these hawthorns are wild on the nearby hillside. And it's not worth much. Just take it! Hiss~"
When I heard the housekeeper's inhalation, I knew that the housekeeper had eaten too much sugar gourd, and his toothache was sore.
But there are so many hawthorns at home now, and the only happy one is Xiaoling, this girl seems to be not afraid of acid, and until last night, she has been eating hawthorn and playing there. I was afraid that she would hurt her stomach if she ate too much, so this time I forced her to eat only a bunch of sugar gourds and a small handful of hawthorn a day......
I suddenly remembered what the housekeeper said yesterday, for these farmers who think that they can eat enough to have a good year, hawthorn is just a snack for children.
"Hmmm! In this case, let's try to see if I can make a little money from these simple dealers! ”
After I made up my mind, I asked the housekeeper to call people in the village. Let every family come out with a hand.
As a result, the dealers thought that I had asked them to help with something, so they all rushed over immediately, and when I learned the kindness of the dealers from the housekeeper, I was even more moved.
"Huh! I'm a landlord! Why are these people who have been exploited by me so kind! "I was secretly moved in my heart.
After everyone had quieted down, I told everyone about my intention to sell the hawthorn, and when the farmers heard it, they said that it was a small matter. Then only one person remained in each household.
I asked the people to move the kitchenware to the door, and then let the small pot and spoon start to teach everyone how to make sugar gourds, and finally, after letting the people who were interested in try it one by one, this time put the kitchenware outside, and then gave each household a packet of rock candy I brought and a packet of sugar that the housekeeper bought from the West Market years ago. Let them make their own rock sugar gourds at any time. In the end, I asked the skillful male servant Ah Er to tie a straw handle according to what I said, and specially inserted rock sugar gourds. Finally, after calculating the cost, I found that in fact, the cost of every 10 strings of sugar gourds is only 1 penny. After thinking about it, I decided to let the dealers go to Chang'an City to sell, and sold them at a price of 3 yuan for one string and 5 yuan for two strings.
I also specially sent the family's carriage to send these people to Chang'an, and I walked to Chang'an with the straw handle, and I felt tired when I thought about it.
But unexpectedly, in the evening, the farmers who went to the city sold all the sugar gourds, and then came back happily. Then everyone handed the butler a money bag, and waited for the butler to speak, and when I took a money bag and opened it, I found that it was full of copper coins. I wondered, "Why do you give all the money to the housekeeper?" ”
The dealers are babbling that these are for me, they are just here to help, and now I want to ask if they can do some to buy according to today's practice in the future!
After listening to their words, I was stupid, and explained that for a long time, these people refused to accept today's money. It's not that it's just a little work for the dealer, and if they can be allowed to do something to sell it themselves in the future, they are already very content. In the end, after a long time, I accepted the money at the signal of the housekeeper, and I reluctantly collected the share of the sugar gourds sold by the dealers in the future, or the kind of large money of 1 penny per string............ You can't do it if you don't collect it.
In the end, I had no choice but to instruct the housekeeper to set up a running water banquet in front of the house and invite the villagers to eat, even if it was to celebrate the extra income in our village. By the way, let the small pot and spoon, and Cheng Yanjin arrange to come to the two apprentices to practice their hands.
After everyone happily ate and drank, I, as the head of the family, was also poured meat and eight vegetables by the old people in the village.
"Huh! He actually poured me the wine of the head of the family, and he didn't care that I was still a minor! Dizzy, I sat down in the tub and complained while enjoying the massage of the big grass and the grass.
When I woke up in the morning, I found that I don't know when, these maids had crowded into my bed again. Xiaoling occupies my arms. I was lying on the belly of the big grass with the grass pressed under my legs, and two orchids were lying to my left, huddled between me and the wall. Everyone else is huddled to my right. Blankets and quilts were haphazardly covered everyone's bodies, but fortunately, no one was frozen.
"Huh! Why did they all go to my bed again? It's not too crowded! When I woke up, I found that everyone else was still asleep except for Xiaoling in my arms, who also woke up.