Chapter 3 Selling sugar gourds to make the first pot of gold

Picking enough wild vegetables quickly, Mu Chenglin consciously picked up the basket, picked up the wild things, and went home with Shen Yunxi.

Halfway through, Shen Yunxi saw a lot of wild fruit trees, and on the way she just came, she only cared about enjoying the scenery and didn't pay much attention.

She picked one and took a bite.

A piece of white and tender flesh fell from her mouth, oh my god, this is too sour!

At this time, she remembered a very simple snack, sugar gourd.

"Brother Mu, is there a hawthorn tree here?" Shen Yunxi caught up with Mu Chenglin on his short legs and asked.

"Yes, but it's sour, and no one eats it!" Although he didn't know what Shen Yunxi was going to do, Mu Chenglin still answered truthfully.

"No, no, I'm thinking of a way to make money!"

"How to make money? That sour fruit? "Mu Chenglin is very skeptical!

"That's right! Don't look down on others, just that kind of sour fruit, you can make a very delicious snack! ”

The sugar gourd is simple to make and the ingredients are simple, and it is the most popular among children.

It's the most suitable for them now, use sugar gourds to make a little money, and then use this small money to make a lot of money.

"You don't know how to make a fire, you don't know how much water to put in cooking, you don't know how much salt to put in soup, you can make food?" Mu Chenglin still didn't believe her.

Seeing that Mu Chenglin's oil and salt did not enter, Shen Yunxi said again, "Otherwise, let's try to make a few first, and if the food is good, then make it, how about it?" ”

Mu Chenglin pondered for a moment, he was not a conformist person, he was not surprised that a sour fruit could become a way to make money, he just didn't believe that Shen Yunxi could figure it out.

But now he has nothing, and it doesn't hurt to try.

Mu Chenglin took her to turn a corner, and Shen Yunxi saw an endless hawthorn forest.

Because this stuff is so sour, no one eats it, so there are more and more!

At the end of summer, the hawthorn trees bear fruit, but most of them are not yet ripe.

Shen Yunxi picked a few ripe fruits, and then pulled Mu Chenglin away!

When he got home, Mu Chengjin was sweeping the floor, he was sweeping very slowly, doing what he could.

Mu Mu was sewing and mending the clothes that were washed by Shen Yunxi at noon.

Seeing Mu Chenglin and Shen Yunxi coming back, Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin both greeted them.

"The rabbit and the chicken are left to be sold in town tomorrow, and the injured one will be eaten tonight."

Mu Chenglin thought for a while and continued, "I'll make today's dinner!" ”

It's rare to have chickens to eat, and you can't be scolded by Shen Yunxi anymore.

"So what can I do?" Shen Yunxi asked.

"Pick up the wild vegetables, and your poisonous mushrooms!"

Shen Yunxi took the basket, squatted aside to pick wild vegetables, and when everyone didn't pay attention to her, she opened the "Fall in Love with the Kitchen" APP, and kept the mushroom chicken soup and sugar gourd in mind.

Remove and clean the dead leaves of the wild vegetables, cut them into middle sections, wash the mushrooms, tear them into small pieces, and then use boiling water to drain the wild vegetables and mushrooms into the water separately.

By the time she finished doing this, the smell of chicken soup was already wafting from the kitchen.

Shen Yunxi saw that the chicken soup was almost over, and when he was about to put the mushrooms in the chicken soup, he was stopped by Mu Chenglin!

"The salted chicken soup at noon is still there, you try it!" If it's poisonous, then his chickens will go to waste!

"That's too salty!"

"You know salty, I thought you didn't have a sense of taste!"

Shen Yunxi: ......

She resigned herself to pouring a little salted chicken broth, then added more water and poured the mushrooms into it.

Mu Chenglin skimmed some chicken fat, mixed it with some salty chicken soup, and stir-fried the fresh and tender wild vegetables.

When it was time for dinner, Mu Chengjin cleaned up the yard little by little, and Mu Mu and Mu Chenglin were not distressed during the whole process, and let him play freely.

Mu Mu also sewed up all the clothes before dark.

Shen Yunxi laid out all the meals, Mu Chenglin's steamed multigrain rice, pheasant soup, stir-fried tender wild vegetables, and the mushroom soup she made.

The two chicken legs were given to his mother and younger brother by Mu Chenglin respectively.

Two chicken wings, respectively given to himself and Shen Yunxi.

Shen Yunxi felt warm in his heart, although Mu Chenglin always said that he would send himself back to the Shen family, but in the Shen family, no one had ever served the original owner with vegetables, and the food was all picked by others.

There are three dishes on the table, no one eats mushrooms, and they are probably waiting for her to test the poison!

Shen Yunxi smelled it, the fresh fragrance of the mushrooms, and a little bit of the umami of chicken soup, which was mouth-watering, she took out the spoon and prepared to drink the first mouthful of soup!

"Wait!" Mu Mu immediately stopped her, and Mu Chenglin and Mu Chengjin also looked at her.

"Ahem!" Mu Chenglin coughed twice, "I'm kidding you, the fungus is poisonous, don't eat it!" ”

Although Mu Chenglin didn't like Shen Yunxi very much, he didn't watch her being poisoned by the fungus.

"Mother, brother, this fungus is really not poisonous, and it is delicious!" After speaking, Shen Yunxi drank the mushroom soup directly.

Everyone looked at her nervously, her eyes closed, and a look of satisfaction on her face.

Mu Chengjin and Mu Mu glanced at each other, still a little incredulous.

Mu Chenglin understood that Shen Yunxi really knew that this fungus was not poisonous.

She worked so hard to stay and didn't want to go back to the Shen family, which showed that she cherished her life very much, how could she test her life for a bite to eat?

Shen Yunxi picked up another piece of mushroom, and the one he ate was fragrant.

Mu Chenglin also followed behind and tasted a piece of mushroom, which was indeed as fragrant and tender as the legend.

So Mu Chenglin took out two more bowls and filled one bowl each for his mother and younger brother.

Mu Mu ate very elegantly, "Yunxi, how do you know that this mushroom is not poisonous?" ”

Shen Yunxi had already thought about how to explain it, the things she took out in the future would be very strange, and the mother of the original owner was a mysterious figure, anyway, she had already died, and there was nothing to verify.

"That's what my mother taught me when she was alive!" Shen Yunxi said, with a look of nostalgia on his face.

Mu Mu thought that she had reminded Shen Yunxi of something sad, so she didn't ask again.

Mu Chengjin glanced at his sister-in-law and lowered his head to eat, but Mu Chenglin felt a little unbelievable.

The things left by Shen Yunxi's mother were all taken away by the Shen family, besides, when her mother died, she was still young, how could she remember so many things.

It's also to identify mushrooms, and it's good to eat with sour fruits, but no matter what, as long as she doesn't eat white food.

After eating, Shen Yunxi planned to make sugar gourds.

She took out the hawthorn and prepared to remove the seeds and wash them.

Mu Mu saw it, "Yunxi, this fruit is very sour, after a while, there will be a lot of fruit on the mountain that will ripen, and then let Ah Lin pick it for you, this sour fruit is too much to eat." ”

"Mother, this hawthorn is not eaten like this, I want to use it for other food."

"Eat with it?" Mu's mother was surprised, she looked up at her son, and when she saw that her son nodded, she didn't ask again.

Shen Yunxi has always looked at these in his eyes, from Mu's mother's different temperament, Mu Chengjin does not go to private school, but he has always been able to read books at home, etc., Shen Yunxi can feel that this family is not simple.

She proposed to use sour fruits for food, but Mu Chenglin and Mu Mu simply asked, and they didn't stop it again, and this vision is not something that ordinary farmers can have.

In the memory of the original owner, they only came to Aoki Village a year ago, and no one knows where they came from.

As long as they have no ill will towards themselves, the secrets of the APP should be guarded, and some things should not be taken out casually.

"Brother Mu, I need a little sugar."

Mu Chenglin nodded, turned around and went to look for sugar, the sugar of this dynasty is very expensive, and it costs sixty yuan for a catty.

Mu Chenglin directly moved the sugar jar out, "The sugar is here, but you have to save it!" ”

"Brother Mu, can you help me make a fire? Just a small fire! ”

Shen Yunxi tried to remove the seeds, but he didn't succeed after tossing for a long time, anyway, he tried it, so he didn't go to the seed skewers.

Shen Yunxi took a little bit of sugar, added a little bit of water, the sugar melted little by little under the low heat, and the sweetness of sugar floated in the whole kitchen.

Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin stood aside and watched curiously.

Shen Yunxi saw that the sugar had turned into sugar water, and immediately threw the clean hawthorn into it, rolled it quickly, and then put it on a plate.

After the sugar cooled, it was wrapped around the edge of the pot like a silk pull, and Mu Chenglin poured a little boiling water into the pot, which was saccharified in the water, and it was another bowl of sugar water.

"Come on, come on, let's try it!" Shen Yunxi took out the finished hawthorn balls, and the melted sugar had a sweet taste of sugar, wrapped in the red hawthorn, which made people very appetizing when they saw it.

Everyone took one, and when they took a bite, the cooled sugar made a crisp sound, and the sweetness and sourness merged in the mouth, which was an experience that had never been experienced before.

"It tastes good!" Mu Mu couldn't help but admire.

Mu Chengjin was also a little anxious about the rare food, and wanted to eat another one after eating, in the end, he was a child, and he couldn't resist this sweet and sour temptation.

"How do you sell it?" Mu Chenglin asked directly.

"Remove the seeds, skewer them in bunches and coat them with sugar. The raw materials needed are sugar, bamboo sticks, straw sticks, and hawthorn. According to the amount I tried just now, if six hawthorns are skewered, one pound of sugar can make about forty skewers. ”

"A pound of sugar costs sixty yuan, then we will sell one string for three yuan, and two strings for five yuan! In the first two days, you can do some samples, a string of hawthorn balls. ”

Shen Yunxi had already calculated in his heart that letting people accept fresh food was the best way to taste it.

Because you don't need money, you can't buy it if it's not delicious!

"Yes, I'll go pick hawthorns early tomorrow morning, don't make too much on the first day, and the rest of the sugar will be enough."

Shen Yunxi nodded, discussed all this, Mu Chenglin boiled the water, everyone went back to the house to wash, and prepared to sleep.

On the mountain at the end of summer, it was a little cool, Shen Yunxi washed up and hid in the quilt, and re-examined his situation.

Now the dynasty she lives in is called the Xia Kingdom, which is an alternate era.

The Xia Kingdom has only been established for more than ten years, and the current emperor is the second emperor.

Before that, the entire Xia Kingdom had experienced a hundred years of war.

Lives are in ruins, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt!

For her, who owns these four apps, this is an opportunity.

What gave her the most headache was the mess of the Shen family.

Although she was substituted and left the Shen family, the blood relationship could not be broken, and if she earned money in the future, the Shen family would definitely come to her to share the pie.

Gotta find a way to make them unable to take care of themselves!

Since she had to get up early the next day, Shen Yunxi didn't think about it anymore, and she fell asleep quickly.

When he woke up the next day, Mu Chenglin had already made breakfast and went to the mountain to pick the hawthorn.

Mu's mother fetched water for Shen Yunxi to wash up, which made Shen Yunxi very embarrassed, how to say that Mu's mother was also an elder.

seemed to see Shen Yunxi's embarrassment, "You still have a wound on your head, you need to rest more!" ”

It's false to say that she is not moved, people did not go to the Shen family to make a fuss with one hundred and twenty taels of silver, but treated her so well, Shen Yunxi secretly swore that no matter whether her marriage with Mu Chenglin could continue in the future, what Mu Chenglin's attitude towards her, she would repay the Mu family.

Mu Chengjin handed Shen Yunxi a piece of multigrain cake, and Shen Yunxi ate it with warm water.

After eating the cake, Shen Yunxi took the knife and began to show how to seed the hawthorn.

The first time she stabbed down, the knife slipped through the seeds, and the hawthorn did not hold it steadily, and fell to the ground.

The second knife went down and cut off.

On the third slash, she almost cut her hand.

When she was ready to continue, Mu Chenglin couldn't help but speak, "I said you can't do it!" ”

Shen Yunxi was also a little anxious, she just operated according to the display of the picture, why was the hawthorn disobedient when it came to her hands?

"You say I'll do it!" Mu Chenglin snatched the hawthorn and knife in Shen Yunxi's hand.

"Take the hawthorn in your hand like this, then take the knife and make a circle, and then break it open." Shen Yunxi said as he gestured with his hand.

Mu Chenglin cut the hawthorn evenly at once, took out the seeds inside, and Mu Chengjin on the side quickly learned.

Shen Yunxi was a little discouraged, how could her hands not even be as good as a man?

Mu Mu pulled her over, "Yunxi, don't be discouraged, I can't do it!" If you can work harder, let them do more! ”

The brothers removed the seeds very quickly, and Shen Yunxi and Mu Mu were on the side to help with the signing.

Soon all the sugar gourds are skewered, and the next thing is to wrap the sugar.

Mu Chenglin lit a fire, Shen Yunxi boiled sugar, and finally quickly wrapped in sugar.

Today, I made a total of 70 strings of sugar gourds, plus 60 tastings, and soon the straw sticks were full of red skewers, exuding a charming sugar fragrance.

"Let's go, come with me to town!" Mu Chenglin said to Shen Yunxi.

Mu Mu filled the two of them with some water, Mu Chenglin carried yesterday's wild things on his back, carried a straw stick on his shoulder, and set off with Shen Yunxi.

It takes about half an hour to walk from Aoki Village to Lingyang Town, and a quarter of an hour is enough for a long leg like Mu Chenglin, and Shen Yunxi walks on his calf and keeps jumping behind.

"The weather is still relatively hot now, and if the sugar gourd is not sold in time, the sugar will be melted!" Mu Chenglin saw Shen Yunxi panting in the back and urged.

It's not early to come out today, and the donkey cart at the entrance of the village has already left, so now I can only go on foot.

Shen Yunxi also knew this truth, but this body was too weak, and she was already trying very hard to catch up.

Finally arrived at the entrance of the market, Mu Chenglin found a place to put the back basket upside down, Shen Yunxi sat directly on the back basket and gasped, she took out the water prepared by Mu Mu and drank a lot.

In order to restore his vitality, Xia Guo changed the market that only happened half a month before, and divided a market in the center of each town, where the people of the surrounding villages could come here every day to exchange goods, and there was no need to pay the stall tax.

Many people passed by the bazaar, looked at the red sugar gourd, looked at it curiously, some asked the price, heard three copper plates, or had not eaten food, and were unwilling to try.

After waiting for a long time, a bunch of sugar gourds were not sold.