Chapter 121: Rock Candy
"By the way, Senior Sister, have you written down my address?" Xiao Ran confirmed again, this was the fifth time he had confirmed.
"Remember, remember, don't worry, as soon as the senior sister turns into a human form, she will come back to guard your village. Senior sister said.
"No, no, now that the village is empty, I like the quietness. "Since the third grandfather left, there are indeed no more people in this village, except for the pastoral dog.
"Well, listen to you. ”
"Oh! yes, remember to send me a mobile phone card when you go back. That way, I'll be able to get in touch with you. Xiao Ran said.
"You little ant, you still want to play with your mobile phone to surf the Internet!"
"You must remember!"
"Yes! My little junior brother! Your smart, smart, beautiful and fair-skinned senior sister has remembered!"
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After explaining everything, Xiao Ran's heart finally settled down. At this moment, it is time to enjoy the leisurely life in the sea buckthorn wasteland. Now, the food of the Sea Buckthorn Insect Clan is very abundant, and it is enough to eat for a season.
"This is the sand sugar we make, this is the brown sugar, by the way, there are sweet potatoes and purple potatoes, and there are persimmon cakes over there. Taking advantage of the fact that there were still a few days left for the senior sister to leave, Xiao Ran introduced his proud works.
"It's quite rich. As she spoke, the senior sister sniffed the persimmon cake.
"It's just that I can't figure out how rock candy is made. ”
"Hee-hee...... I didn't expect you to be able to guess the sand sugar, but you couldn't think of the production method of rock sugar. Making rock candy is a test of skill than sand sugar, but in a much simpler way. It's just that in this weather, I quietly know if it can be done. ”
"Will you do it?"
"That's natural, in terms of food, who can compare to your senior sister. "Senior sister suddenly became heroic like a man.
Although there are still many unharvested sugarcanes in the sugarcane fields, they have not been harvested for too long, resulting in the loss of a lot of water in those sugarcane and a decrease in sweetness.
Therefore, this time to make rock sugar, it is boiled with sand sugar.
Twilight.
Rumble!
The enamel stove burns.
Add pure mountain spring water to the enamel bowl and put in a small half jar of sugar.
In ten minutes, the gurgling and sugar all melted into the water.
"Alright, let's stop the fire!" said the senior sister.
The kerosene lighter stopped burning, and the senior sister asked Xiao Ran to instruct the ants to put three pieces of cyan bamboo that had just been cut by termites into an enamel bowl.
"There are no modern machines, but rock candy can be made in the old way," she explains. Using the principle of temperature difference, the sugar in the sugar water will crystallize in the bamboo chips. The temperature difference between day and night in the southwest is large, and we can just use the temperature at night to crystallize the rock sugar in the sugar water. If you're lucky, rock candy will form on the bamboo chips. ”
"It's pretty simple. Xiao Ran suddenly realized, it turned out that there was such a simple way.
"Hee-hee, yes. Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. ”
Then came a night of waiting.
Because the senior sister is much larger than the ant, Xiao Ran arranged the senior sister in the VIP room of the Cloud Palace. The senior sister entered the VIP room and was very happy.
"It's so nice to be here. She said.
"Of course, this is the Cloud Palace I built. One day, it will be as high as a mountain. Xiao Ran said.
"Last year it became a cicada, this year it became a butterfly, and they all slept outside. I've grown so big, and I've never faced this kind of dark night alone......" Senior Sister suddenly grieved.
"Alright, alright. Although this cloud palace is also a little darker, there is still a group of ant people. Why don't you light a match?"
"I'm not a match. I want to say, finally found you. This time it's okay, I found you the day after I turned into a butterfly, but last time, I incarnated several times before I remembered to call you with a bell...... Those few times, I felt so lonely. The night is so dark, I'm afraid I won't find you......"
"It turns out that you are also difficult. Xiao Ran thought that he was the one who suffered, but it turned out that the senior sister was too.
"There's something scarier than not being able to find you......"
"What?"
"I'm even more afraid, after finding you, you will become a brain-dead worm with no IQ. Senior sister smiled.
"Okay, okay, it's cold here, I'll go get you some feathers." Xiao Ran said.
"Do you have feathers?" the senior sister suddenly became excited.
"The title of the master of roasting pigeon is not called for nothing. ”
After all, Xiao Ran will find the beehive cluster and roast the pigeon to the senior sister one by one, and the senior sister is full of incredulity after listening to it.
"It seems that ant life is not more boring than life. ”
"Yes, apart from having natural enemies, it's not much different from life. It is the same life, the universe in a moment. Xiao Ran said.
"I still have two days to set the time this time, so why don't you take me to do something that I haven't done when I was a human. Senior sister said.
"I'll have to think about it. ”
Next.
Early in the morning, Xiao Ran came to the enamel stove, and he instructed the ants to pull out the bamboo pieces with fishing lines and cranes. Sure enough, rock sugar condensed at one end of the bamboo slices.
Although rock candy is irregular in shape, it is very transparent and has no impurities.
Senior sister actually got up early in the morning, she stepped forward and said, "Luck is not bad, the color of rock candy is very good." Your cranes are really interesting. ”
Then, Xiao Ran instructed the ants to put the bamboo chips into the stone scoop of the juicer.
Bang!
The spoon fell, smashing the crystals off the bamboo chips. After a few licks, the rock sugar on the bamboo slices completely fell, and Xiao Ran stopped the juicer.
The small half jar of rock candy is made in this way.
Although the conversion rate of sand sugar into rock sugar is not 100%, Xiao Ran is excited when he sees this small half jar of rock sugar. This kind of homemade rock candy makes Xiao Ran feel very accomplished.
"Prime Minister," Rattan Pepper said in a whisker as he ate the remaining rock candy on the bamboo slices, "This sugar seems to be purer! ”
When the ants heard this, they shouted together.
"Rock Sugar Mage!"
"Rock Sugar Mage!"
"Rock Sugar Mage!"
"Rock Sugar Mage!"
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The senior sister didn't know how to speak, she saw that all the ants were fanatical, and the tentacles were swinging neatly and rhythmically, with a blank face. So he asked, "What's wrong with them?"
"You just gave me the title of Rock Candy Magician. Xiao Ran smiled.
"Rock Candy Magician, hehe, that's where your title comes from?" said the senior sister.
"Yes, unconsciously, there are so many titles. Humans can apply for patents if they have a new invention, and in the customs of the Zerg, whoever makes a special contribution or has a novel invention will be given a title. ”
"No wonder. Then if you show all the knowledge of human beings in front of the Zerg, then the hard disk of the entire earth will not be able to store your title. Senior sister said.
"No, no, no, then give you the title of rock candy magician. ”
"How can this work, my sister has to let my brother go. ”
"Sister, you're obviously a year younger than me. ”
"But I'm one level older than you, isn't my senior sister a sister?"
"Yes, yes, you're all right. ”
"Where do you get so many words, let's talk about it, what is today's characteristic ant clan activity?".
"This ...... Then go to the fields. ”
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