Xu Minghan thought about it seriously, and then said to Lin Shuran: "Mother, should we open a candy shop?" There are very few such shops in the capital, and the price of good caramel is high, there are many rich and noble families who buy it, and there is often a shortage of sugar in the city over the years, if we open a sugar shop, it should be very profitable. ”

Xu Minghan's proposal made Lin Shuran's eyes light up, opening a sugar shop is really a good idea, and she also knows how to turn brown sugar into white sugar, and she knows how to make all kinds of candy, but this raw material is a little troublesome.

So, she expressed her worries to Xu Minghan, but she didn't expect Xu Minghan to smile confidently and said to her: "Mother don't worry about the raw materials, I know where there are merchants in the capital who sell sugar from other places, and I have a way to buy sugar from them!" ”

"In that case, then this shop will be handed over to you to open, and from today onwards, you will be the owner of this new shop!" Lin Shuran smiled and pushed the deed in front of Xu Minghan, since Xu Minghan was born to do business, then he can't bury his talent, let him start exercising from now on, which will also help him revitalize the Ren family in the future.

"Me?" Xu Minghan was surprised and surprised, Lin Shuran nodded at him, and took out five hundred taels of silver to him, saying that these are start-up funds, and he can come to himself at any time if he needs follow-up funds, Xu Minghan hesitated for a moment at first, and asked, "Mother, do you really believe me?" ”

This thing to open a shop can be big or small, Lin Shuran is not afraid that he is young and inexperienced, and he will smash this shop? Their General's Mansion is different from other rich and noble families, the money available at home is actually not abundant, and at the end of the year, Xu Junze will take away a large amount of silver from the family, leaving it for them to spend for a year.

"Naturally, I believe you, otherwise I wouldn't have decided to hand over the new shop to you to open, you just have to do it, I will help you on the side, you don't have to worry about money, we still have some family background!" Lin Shuran said with a very generous smile.

Family? This made Xu Minghan think of Lin Shuran's dowry, these silver for buying shops and opening stores won't be Lin Shuran's dowry silver, right? The money cannot be moved.

"Mother, I still take some silver from the public for temporary use, you can't use your own silver, I will definitely make money to pay back this silver." Xu Minghan also wanted to take this opportunity to test his ability, and he was very confident in himself, and he would never let the money go down the drain.

"This is the silver in the gongzhong!" Lin Shuran said in order to dispel Xu Minghan's concerns, "Don't think about whether you can make money by opening a shop first, just think about this is a very common thing, don't put too much pressure on yourself, and remember that a businessman who has no virtue is no wealth, but you can't lose the foundation of being a person in order to make money in business." ”

In the face of Lin Shuran's advice, Xu Minghan kept it in mind, and then Lin Shuran asked him to go to the shop first, and after separating from Xu Minghan, Lin Shuran came to the back kitchen of the house.

As soon as the servant in the kitchen saw her coming, he asked her if she was thirsty and hungry, or if she wanted something to eat.

"Madam, if you need anything, just let someone tell you, you don't have to run it yourself!" Everyone is carefully protecting Lin Shuran, now that the general Xu Junze is not at home, they all have to take good care of Lin Shuran and the child in her belly, if she has any mistakes, when the general comes back, then they have ten lives and it is not enough to compensate.

Lin Shuran walked to the cupboard where the sugar jar was placed, and reached out to get the sugar jar, and the clever little maid Ping'er immediately handed the sugar jar both hands to her, and said with a very serious face: "Madam, don't do it yourself, tell the slave maid what you need, and the slave will give it to you!" ”

"I'm not a waste, I can do anything!" Lin Shuran opened the sugar jar, which was the most common brown sugar block in this time and space, and the brown sugar used by large households was relatively fine, but in Lin Shuran's opinion, it was still worse than the brown sugar made by the current process, and there was no white sugar and milk candy in this time and space, but there were some sugar cubes with nuts and flowers, but it was more like a small snack, which was very different from the various flavors and bright colors of various sugar cubes she had eaten in modern times.

"Ping'er, you go find me some charcoal, and then find a clean gauze for me, everyone else can go about their own business, just have Ping'er help me!" Lin Shuran asked the cooks not to wander around her, she planned to experiment with turning brown sugar into white sugar first.

Lin Shuran is the master, her orders are only obeyed, and Ping'er quickly found what Lin Shuran needed, and then Lin Shuran asked her to help light the fire, began to boil brown sugar in the pot, and added the charcoal to it, stirring constantly.

Seeing that a good jar of brown sugar was boiled into brown sugar water by Lin Shuran and charcoal was added, everyone just sighed helplessly, thinking about whether Lin Shuran was pregnant, this behavior and habit became different from usual, but seeing a smile on her face, the mother-in-law in charge of buying decided to go out later to buy two more cans of brown sugar, in case Lin Shuran wanted to boil the added brown sugar on a whim!

Now all the staff of the General's Mansion just want to make Lin Shuran happy and comfortable, not to mention boiling brown sugar to play, that is, she wants to dismantle the back kitchen, as long as she is happy, she can do anything.

"Madam, what are you going to do next, you tell the slave maid, the slave maid will do it!" Lingqin was worried that the heat in the pot would hurt Lin Shuran, and after she asked Ping'er to stop the fire, it seemed that the next step was to use gauze to filter the sugar water that had already changed color, the strange thing was that the color of those brown sugar water had become much lighter, but because it was boiling water, Lingqin was also worried that it would burn Lin Shuran.

Lin Shuran didn't insist on doing it himself, so he instructed Lingqin to filter the brown sugar water with charcoal into a bowl with gauze, and after a while, everyone found that the filtered sugar water turned out to be colorless, and they didn't understand what was going on for a while, and they all looked at Lin Shuran in surprise.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Shuran asked Ping'er to set fire to the pot, put the bowl of colorless sugar water on the steamer, and after a period of time, took out the bowl with only a quarter of the sugar water left and let it cool, and when it cooled naturally, there was a crystal white object at the bottom of the bowl, which looked like refined salt from a distance.

"Madame, what is this?" Ping'er looked at the small white particles at the bottom of the bowl like a curious baby and asked, This is made of sugar, it can't be salt, right?!

Lin Shuran dipped a little white granule in his hand and put it on the tip of his tongue, and a smile appeared on his face, but everyone in the kitchen was shocked, it was sugar water and charcoal, can you eat it?

(End of chapter)