"Little girl, get up early in the morning and go up to the hut with your pants on. There are people in the thatched house, what should I do, I have to pull on my pants......"

On March 15, another sunny spring Sunday, Gao Yi hummed a song in his mouth, all the way down from the attic to the sundeck.

"Poof!" It was Ah Jin who was smiling.

Ah Jin is opposite the name of Jin Xiangyu's family. At this time, Shanghai Tang called the girls in the hall flowers, and the maids of the girls were naturally called leaves. Ah Jin has a graceful posture and good looks, and is quite famous in the Beili area.

"Hey, Ah Jin, I didn't expect you to understand the official dialect of the north."

"Ah, it depends on the Fuqi people, our girl has a lot of guests in the north! How could I not understand the northern dialect? ”

Ah Jin spoke a Subai imitation of northern dialect, and added a lot of pronunciation in it, which made Gao Yi laugh. But instead of going on on the subject, he went under an iron frame with a canvas bag hanging on the edge of the terrace, picked up a rope from the shelf, and jumped up the rope.

He had recently purchased all of this equipment. Hanging on the iron frame is his own DIY boxing bag, the kind used to transport coal on the ship, which is sturdy and sturdy, and is 1.6 meters long. In the middle of this bag is a canvas bag containing sand, which contains 16 small sandbags of 5 kilograms, with a total weight of 80 kilograms. Between the sandbags and the outer bag, they are filled with shavings, rags, and silk cotton.

The iron frame is not simply resting on the sundeck, but paying someone to build a two-story high telephone pole on the ground, and the iron frame is fixed to this telephone pole like a basketball hoop.

The entire Yaxian Ju has been reduced by Gao Yiyi's monthly price of 150 yuan, which is seven or eight yuan more than a bed alone at two corners and eight cents. However, the money is spent more, and the treatment enjoyed is naturally different, such as the bed board and furniture that the proprietress has been reluctant to throw before, all of which were thrown out this time, which made Gao Yi's breeding room grow again; For example, the proprietress will be responsible for connecting the wires and telephones, so that Yaxianju will immediately enter the era of upstairs and downstairs electric lights and telephones; For example, this telephone pole and the iron frame with sandbags were installed by Gao Yi in the past, but the boss's head shook like a rattle, but now it is not only installed, but the cost is still covered by the boss; For example, the original prepayment of this month's rent at the beginning of the month, he always wanted to change it to the end of the month, but the proprietress disagreed, and this time it was finally discussed-

Otherwise, he should have been swept out of the house this week, because all the cash he had already been put into the dress for the dinner last week. Therefore, when he talked about chartering this time, he simply spread his hands and made it clear to the proprietress that he would either let him roll up the cover and get out, and then the proprietress would bear a blank period of one to two months when the room could not be rented out; Either the payment will be made at the end of the month, and when he gets this month's salary, he will naturally be able to settle the payment.

However, the side effects of this expense are not small, Gao Yi's monthly salary is only 50 yuan, which also has to remove the cost of pear paste candy, the cost of raising bacteria, and more importantly, his social life with new friends in the future will definitely be extremely expensive, and any set of clothes may be the expenditure of hundreds of oceans. Like the Scottish Club he's going to go to today, who knows how much it will cost.

Throttling will not solve the problem, what he needs to do now is open source.

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Ah Jin saw that Gao Yi ignored people, and took care of the skipping rope there "popping, snapping", so he had to flatten his mouth and return to his post.

In front of her was an iron lump with a large belly, a short neck, and a wide mouth, which was burning on a coal fire. There were three tubes sticking out of the big belly of the iron bump, two on the side, one was a severed tube, on which a thick and heavy discus was covered; Although the other one also has a discus on it, it is several times smaller, and there is an extra valve and a wrench under the discus. The tube was bent at the top, and then attached to a horn, and out of the bell it was divided into two tubes, one of which was attached to a yellow machine; The other was attached to a smaller brass bottle, which had a thin tube sticking out of its side, which eventually connected to a glass bottle containing the liquid.

The third tube of the iron bump is at the bottom of the big belly, and the end of this tube is a table.

Ah Jin walked over to look at the watch, and saw that the pointer had not yet reached 4, so he waited aside, looking sideways at Gao Yi Skipping Rope. She didn't even know her own name before, but now she can understand the Arabic numerals that Gao Yi spoke, and she is quite proud in her heart, and she hopes that he can praise her for being as smart as he used to teach her. It's a pity that Gao Yi was jumping the rope intently, and he didn't even glance here.

After a while, I saw Gao Yi stop, first took out two rolls of gauze from his pocket, and wrapped them around his hands. Then he took off what was said to be a bathrobe, and immediately he was naked, leaving only a pair of large pants that covered his knees, and walked to the sandbag and fought.

Ah Jin quickly lowered his head when he saw it, she has seen a lot of shirtless men, everyone in the countryside is hot, who doesn't take off his coat to cool down when he is resting; Even when you arrive in Shanghai, the coolies on the wharf, the drivers pulling carts on the street, and the stone-smashing workers on the roadside are not just free to take off. It's just that I don't know why, when she saw Gao Yi's bare arms, she felt embarrassed that her ears were red and her heart was beating.

"Yikes!" Ah Jin screamed softly, but she just looked at Gao Yi and forgot about the serious thing, and the pointer on the watch had crossed the number 4 and went straight to the number 5.

She hurriedly walked over and took a plate with a copper lattice inside, dividing the sugar into compartments, and put it on a bracket of the brass machine, and tightened the bolts. Then she walked back and looked at the watch, and found that the pointer had not yet reached 5, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly unscrewed the valve under the small discus. The small discus immediately buzzed up and down, and there was a trace of white gas leaking out from the bottom, and it disappeared when the breeze on the sundeck blew.

When the valve opened, the crawling speed of the pointer on the gauge slowed down slightly, but it still walked towards the number 5 with determination. The movement of the small discus became louder and louder, and finally with a "poof", a large cloud of water vapor erupted from the horn in the direction of the back to Ah Jin. At the same time, the click of the brass machine was heard, and the spray head above the sugar tray first sprayed a cloud of mist into the pit of the first sugar on the plate—each of which had a pre-molded depression on it—and then the sugar pan was carried by the bracket below, and moved one square to the side, so that the nozzle was aimed at the pit of the next piece of sugar.

In the process just now, if you look closely at the glass bottle containing the liquid, you should be able to see the liquid level move at the same time as the mechanical sound sounds, which means that a small stream of liquid in the glass bottle has been sucked up, and then carried by the air flow into the pit of the first piece of sugar.

The cradle moved to the left nine times with the sugar tray, then moved down a block with the click of the brass machine, and then moved backwards to the right with the next mechanical sound.

As the water vapor from the bell mouth continues to spew out, even in the open air, the fog gradually obscures the entire machine.

Ah Jin didn't stare in the direction of the bracket, but listened to the sound of the small discus rising and falling.

"Ten, Eleven...... Twenty...... Ninety...... Ninety-eight, ninety-nine......"

When she counted to ninety, she put her hand on the wrench under the small discus. Then when the number ninety-nine had been counted, she took advantage of the fact that the small discus had risen to the highest point and was about to fall, and she quickly pulled the wrench. In an instant, an anvil appeared under the small discus, and with the sound of the small discus falling on the anvil, the whole set of mechanical devices immediately stopped, only the horn mouth was still emitting steam into the air.

In the mist, Ah Jin first reset the bracket holding the sugar tray, and then quickly removed the sugar tray from it and placed it on a shelf with a charcoal basin below. Then she quickly put on a new sugar tray, then walked back to the small discus and pulled the wrench away. So, with a "ding" sound, the small discus is reset, and a new cycle begins.

After going back and forth ten times, Ah Jin took out a long bamboo pole with an iron hook on the front, and groped it in the stove under the iron bump, and hooked an iron ring. Then, with all her might, she pulled the ring outward, and she dragged an iron plate resting on top of the stove, slowly covering the entire hearth.

Next, Ah Jin heated a small pot of syrup on the other stove, then removed the ten plates of sugar cubes from the shelf one by one, poured the syrup one by one, and closed the depression of each piece of sugar.

Eventually, she removed the candy cubes from the plate, broke them, and placed them in a bamboo basket. So far, a batch of pear paste candy with a total amount of 1,000 pieces and a total weight of 20 catties has been made. Ah Jin will earn a big ocean as a result, while Gao Yi's estimated net income is seven yuan.

Ah Jin calculated an account, her master Jin Xiangyu out of the game once, she can produce a hundred catties of pear paste candy, she earns five yuan, and her master's income is only three yuan - the reason why Shanghainese people want to add the word "long three" in front of the hall is because the girls' school books in the hall are out of the game and charge three yuan at a time.

Ah Jin was very satisfied with this kind of income, so when the first batch of twenty catties of pear paste candy was made, she immediately began to prepare for the second batch.

She first put 20 catties of semi-finished pear paste candy into a large pot to heat and stir to make a pot of sugar juice. Then pour it into the copper plate, and then put in the copper lattice to separate. These copper plates have lids with raised parts on the lids, which are just right to form depressions in the sugar solution.

To speed up cooling, these copper pans are equipped with special wooden brackets. Place the copper plate on a wooden bracket and place it in a large wooden basin with cold boiled water, at this time, the copper plate is just half sunk into the water, but it is not completely submerged by the water.

While waiting for the sugar cube to cool, Ah Jin first walked to the back of the iron lump, where there was a low ladder fixed to the floor at his feet. She took a T-shaped tool from the toolbox next to the staircase, then walked up the ladder and twisted the lower end of the T-shaped tool over the hexagonal bulge of the large discus. Soon a bolt was unscrewed from the large discus.

Ah Jin took out a straightened wooden stick from the toolbox, and the wooden stick had a scale on it. She stretched the stick straight through the hole that had been unscrewed off, and when she pulled it out, the wet spot on the stick was the height of the liquid level.

Seeing that the height of the liquid level was not enough, Ah Jin brought a pot of water over and carefully added it from this hole. With each additional point, she inserted the stick and compared it until it met the standard.

After adding water, she tightened the bolts again. Then she took the long bamboo pole with the hook again, hooked the ring on the other end of the iron plate that covered the hearth, and pulled it away with all her might, causing the fire in the hearth to burn again.

At this point, the sugar cubes were almost cooled, and Ah Jin took them out of the basin of cold water one by one and stacked them neatly for the next step.

She let out a long breath and walked over to look at her watch, where the hands were only at 2, which meant she had some time to spare. She subconsciously raised her head and looked at the place where Gao Yi was boxing, where the building was already empty.