Xiao Ru took Xiao Jian to look around on the nearby hills, there are also wild hawthorn trees here, but they are rare, and after looking for so long, they only found a few.

However, a wild hawthorn tree bears at least one or two hundred catties of hawthorn, and it is enough to sell it as a sugar gourd.

Xiaoru climbed the tree and picked about one or two hundred hawthorns and sent them back to Aunt Yang's house with a coat, and then took Xiaojian to the county supply and marketing cooperative, and asked a salesman in a whisper, she didn't have a ticket, could she buy white sugar with more money.

The salesman shook his head: "No, it's useless for you to pay more without a ticket." ”

is as small as pouting, people in the past were too brainless, no wonder they were so poor that they didn't sell it if they paid more!

Xiao Ru was about to leave disappointed, when he heard the salesman whisper: "But I can sell you my extra tickets, do you want three cents a piece?" ”

"That'...... Let's get two pounds. ”

The salesman sold her two packets of a pound of white sugar, which cost nearly two yuan.

Xiaoru took the two packets of sugar back to Aunt Yang's house, and couldn't wait to start making sugar gourds.

Although I had only eaten sugar gourds in my previous life and never made sugar gourds, I can calculate how to do it.

At the very least, wash and drain the hawthorn before wearing it on a bamboo stick.

After washing the hawthorn, by the way, the black Tiba of the hawthorn was cut off with a knife, so that only the agate red hawthorn remained, and it would definitely look good after being coated in sugar.

After doing all this, Xiaoru went to the vicinity of the village and cut a thin bamboo pole and came back.

Aunt Yang's children, Sister Yang Chun, came back from school and asked in surprise: "Sister Xiaoru, what are you doing chopping bamboo?" ”

Xiaoru found a stool and sat down, ready to use a kitchen knife to chop the bamboo into sections: "I'm going to make sugar gourds and sell them." ”

Yang Chun's eyes immediately widened: "Sister Xiaoru, you are so powerful, you can actually make sugar gourds!" ”

"No, I'm going to try it, you have to help your parents work, hurry up, if I succeed, I'll give each of you a bunch of sugar gourds." Xiaoru said as hard as he cut bamboo.

The Yang Chun sisters responded, went back to the hall to put down their schoolbags, picked up farm tools and went to the fields to help their parents.

Because he only planned to make 30 sugar gourds for trial marketing, Xiaoru only split 30 bamboo sticks and did not split, and put the hawthorns prepared in advance on the bamboo sticks, and only wore eight hawthorns of similar size on each bamboo stick.

Komi helped her get dressed.

Thirty hawthorns were quickly put on, and Xiaoru asked Xiaojian to help her light the fire, and she boiled syrup.

Pour some water in the iron pot first, then put in a pound of white sugar, and then keep stirring, if it sticks so that it can't be stirred, add some water into it, I feel that the viscosity is just right, and the white sugar is so hot that it bubbles, Xiao Ru is busy telling Xiao Jian not to add firewood to the stove, and after waiting for six or seven minutes, the syrup is getting more and more viscous, Xiao Ru picked up the hawthorn string and quickly rolled it in the syrup in turn, and inserted it in the bamboo tube to cool.

Place the bamboo tube on a large plate so that the excess syrup dripping from the sugar gourd on the plate is not wasted.

The sugar gourd on a hot day is easy to make but not easy to cool, and the sugar coating on the outside of the sugar gourd must be cooled thoroughly before it is crunchy.

Xiao Jian kept staring at those sugar gourd strings, and Xiao Ru touched his little head: "Good, when it's cold, my sister will give you one." ”

She thought it was very expensive to make sugar gourds, but she didn't expect that a pound of sugar could roll fifteen hawthorn skewers, as small as the method of bubble treatment, and made the other fifteen hawthorn skewers into sweet sugar gourd skewers.

That is to say, two catties of white sugar can be made into 30 sugar gourd strings, hawthorn does not need money, then 30 sugar gourd strings will cost two yuan, one sells for one dime and five, and 30 can be sold for four yuan and five, and the net profit is two yuan and five, which can be done.

Xiao Ru added a little water to the pot and boiled, and the little white sugar that stuck to the bottom of the pot to make a sugar gourd melted into the boiling water to make a bowl of white sugar water, Xiao Ru put the white sugar water in the pot into the bowl and wanted to let it cool before giving it to Xiao Jian to drink, but Xiao Jian couldn't wait, so he had to make a fuss and drink it.

Xiao Ru had no choice but to give him a spoon and let him spoon it and drink it slowly so that it wouldn't burn it, and she began to prepare dinner.

When she went out, Xiaoru warned Xiaojian to stay at home obediently, she went to pick some food and came back, afraid that Xiaojian was too young to watch the door at home alone, Xiaoru deliberately locked the courtyard door from the outside, and then left.

Although I don't know where Aunt Yang's vegetable plot is, I can ask the villagers that there are seven people in the Yang family, including his sister and brother, and they have to fry at least three dishes, such as picking a few eggplants, a few cucumbers and some sharp peppers.

Thinking that cooking by yourself is more oil-intensive, if you use too much oil, Aunt Yang's family will not say anything, but they will definitely be very distressed, so Xiaoru took a crockpot and went to a villager's house to buy two catties of oil back.

In rural earthen stoves, you can cook rice and stir-fry vegetables at the same time, as small as a roasted tiger skin pepper, a garlic eggplant, and a cold cucumber.

Dinner was ready, Aunt Yang's family came back, and when she saw Xiaoru cooking dinner, Aunt Yang said angrily: "You are busy with your own, I can come back to make dinner, I heard Xiaochun say that you want to make sugar gourds to sell, is it done?" ”

Xiaoru took the washing water and put it on the patio and asked Aunt Yang's family to take turns washing their hands and faces: "It's done, and the sugar gourd should be cold after dinner, you can taste the taste, it's because I made the sugar gourd that I have nothing to do to make dinner, my cooking skills are not very good, and I don't know if the dishes are suitable for your appetite, so make do with it." ”

The Yang Chun sisters moved the dining table from the hall to the courtyard to prepare for dinner, and when they heard this, they all smiled and said: "Sister Xiaoru, you can make eels and crucian carp so delicious, and you say that your cooking skills are not good, so won't my mother's cooking become a dog and ignore it?" ”

This made everyone laugh.

Aunt Yang was about to knock on the heads of the Yang Chun sisters with chopsticks: "Dare to say that the food I cooked is ignored by dogs, so why did you eat it?" Have they all grown so big? ”

The Yang Chun sisters ran all over the yard, avoiding Aunt Yang, and said: "That's not that there is no way, if you don't eat, you will starve to death!" ”

Xiaoru looked at Aunt Yang and his daughters, you chased me in the yard and were very envious, this is what a warm home looks like, but unfortunately she didn't.

She looked down at Xiao Jian, who was also full of envy.

Waiting for everyone to sit around the table, Aunt Yang and her husband looked at the few dishes of vegetable oil, and couldn't help exchanging glances, but they didn't say anything.

Yang Xia and Yang Qiu admired the delicious dishes made by Xiaoru while eating, and wanted Xiaoru to be responsible for cooking in the future, but they were scolded by Aunt Yang and his wife: "Why are you ignorant one by one, people are guests who cook for you!" ”

Yang Chun looked at Xiao Ru without saying anything, but he didn't say anything.