Chapter 202 Accidental
If you add grass leaves, you can get a lot of sugar cubes, but compared to the brown sugar that Xia Weiwei had eaten before, this long-stalk grass sugar is indeed softer.
But I found that time was passing quietly, and fatigue could not stop it.
After another batch of grass juice was cooked, Xia Weiwei walked towards the crowd responsible for juicing: "Let's come here first today."
"It's still early." said Adong, who was replaced by someone without thinking too much.
The more work they do, the easier it is. Everyone wants to do it in one go, but dozens of people from the Qing Dynasty collected more than a month of long-stem grass that they could not finish in one breath.
"When that batch of candy is cooked, the sun is probably going to set. I didn't sleep all night last night. Everyone was very tired. It would be better not to hurry up and work today."
After cooking the sugar several times, Adong knew how long it took to cook a pot of sugar.
He glanced at the crowd nearby, and saw that everyone's eyebrows showed fatigue, his mind changed: "I can't cook anymore today, I'll cook it tomorrow."
"I don't know if the grass juice will be broken if it is left like this." Xia Wei frowned: "I think it's better not to be careless. I will peel the grass stamens today, and I will smash it too much tomorrow morning, just squeeze it."
Adong: "·····"
This is really a big problem.
"Save half a bucket and try it."
Xia Weiwei also wanted to know if the grass juice would be broken overnight. Of course, A Dong's proposal was only nodded. With A Dong's arrangement here, she didn't have to waste time here. When A Dong shouted, she turned back to the side of the pot.
At this time, the work of Lan Yu boiling the water to wash the pot has been replaced by Qingmu stone. After constantly adding and cooking, the sweetness of the sugar water in the big pot has become increasingly higher.
In order to prevent the pot of sugar from appearing in the pot, she would add water as long as the moisture was slightly reduced.
"Dad Aoki, stop adding water, Uncle Stone, burn the fire first."
After explaining Aoki, Shi Tou, Xia Weiwei started to supervise back and forth again. When the last ray of sunlight dissipated, Aoki scooped up the last spoonful of syrup.
The amber syrup has a very high transparency, and the hardness and sweetness after cooling are relatively improved. The taste in the mouth is similar to the hard candies I have eaten before. Unfortunately, it is too difficult to cook it.
"Let everyone drink it."
The last batch of washing water was shared by everyone. In order to increase everyone's enthusiasm, Xia Weiwei also asked Lan Yu and others to divide sugar lumps for everyone in each department.
After tasting the candy, everyone was indeed more enthusiastic about cooking candy. On the way back, Pingshan directly expressed his request from his clan members: "Weiwei, everyone thinks it will be faster to cook candy together."
"It doesn't matter if there is lotus roots, it doesn't matter whether the grass stems are stored. Otherwise, let everyone participate together tomorrow?" Lan Yu suggested.
Xia Weiwei felt that it would be good to collect a few more grass stems, which made people divide the troops into two groups. It was obvious that compared to eating a few more bites, everyone thought it would be more interesting to cook syrup.
Looking at Aoki, Xia Wei smiled and said, "Since everyone says that, then do it."
She relaxed and felt tired. When she returned to the tent, she didn't even want to eat.
"My Qingmei, why don't I just chew some lotus roots today?"
Looking at the child's expression, Qingmei felt extremely distressed: "You go and lie down first, and I'll get you the lotus root when you look back."
Xia Weiwei never refuses to do things. Self-educated Qingmei will only smile than she is tired of herself: "I have no more steps."
"You kid!" Qingmei felt both distressed and helpless.
Everyone was very tired, and no one was bothering themselves much about this meal. After eating it simply, they hurriedly transported the forage.
When the tent door creaked and closed, Xia Weiwei rushed to the kang bed in two steps, less than five seconds from lying down to losing consciousness.
"Tsk~"
In the darkness, the sound of twitching teeth was particularly abrupt.
I don’t know what Wen Ya was thinking, but the next morning he didn’t give Xia Weiwei a chance to sleep for a while. After getting up, his hateful feet pushed on Xia Weiwei’s shoulders.
Qingmei has been shouting to wake up during this period. When the familiar thrust came from her shoulders, Xia Weiwei naturally thought it was Qingmei.
"My Qingmei, I'm awake~"
Can people who wake up still keep their eyes closed?
The shoulder was pushed twice.
I opened my eyes and the tent was still dark.
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“Cooking”
“······”
Before Xia Weiwei could react, the Wenbapi who called people before dawn had already opened the door.
The hole opened in the door gave Leng Feng a chance. Xia Wei, who had not crawled out of the quilt, shrank her neck slightly, and secretly thought to be like she hadn't woken up.
"hurry up."
Wen Ya's cold voice came from outside.
Xia Wei grinds her teeth slightly.
Even if Wen Ya is in good spirits, he will never get up in the middle of the night. After a long time of hard work, Xia Weiwei successfully moved herself out of the warm bed.
"Hiss~" It's so cold.
After being stimulated by the cold wind, no sleepiness was gone. At this moment, Xia Weiwei had only one idea.
"You can help hold the grass."
For a long time, whenever he needed to do it, Wen Ya would take the initiative. After saying that, Xia Weiwei ignored her. She touched the darkness and lit the fire first, then added water, and ran back and forth twice to get two pots of meat strips.
The meat strips that had been dry for seven or eight days were already dry and were not easy to cook, but they were very simple to cook. She put the meat strips in cold water into the pot and picked up the older lotus roots.
This lotus root has a lot of fibers and is more starchy. If cooked, it tastes good. If you eat it raw, it must be tender and fresh, otherwise it will easily get tooth-stuck.
When there are no seasonings or dishes to choose from, cooking is really easy. Xia Weiwei habitually picks up the woven straw coat halfway.
When she couldn't touch the grass lumps when she turned her hand back, she looked at the haystack not far away with a faint morning light.
"?"
Where is the person?
When Xia Weiwei opened her mouth and wanted to shout, but the voice was stopped when it rushed out of her throat.
Everyone has been very tired these two days. Let them sleep more if they can!
Wen Ya disappeared, so Xia Weiwei had to go to carry the grass by herself. After two trips, she found it was not convenient, so she directly used a cart. But suddenly she thought that everyone might not get up so early today, so she burned the fire pits of each house one by one.
Influenced by Aoki, each family not only prepared enough water, but also enough lotus roots. When the water boiled and no one was up, she boiled the lotus roots one by one into the pot.
The number of more than 30 families is not enough to cut her, and the whole lotus root does not affect consumption.
"Squeak~"
When the door panel rang not far away, Xia Weiwei was ready to anneal.
"Huh!"
As soon as I opened the door, I saw Grandpa Hunzi's whole row of fires exclaimed.
He has always been the first to start.
"how?"
He was even more surprised after seeing who the back belonged to.
Children are sleepy, and Xia Weiwei is no exception.
It was really uneasy to see her when everyone's tent doors were closed.
Dingdian, Grandpa Kezi ran closer: "What's going on?"
"Wen Ya shouted." Xia Weiwei was actually speechless.
"Well!"
Chapter completed!