The next afternoon, the large water tank I ordered also arrived.
The family mixed the yellow mud water and filled ten large jars. The stove was completely dry. They put the iron pots on the stove and planned to start a big fight.
The newly built shed is in the backyard of the main courtyard. As long as the door to the front yard is closed, no one can come in. The shed is divided into three rooms. The inside is for boiling sugar, the middle is for drying sugar, and the outermost room is the operation room.
Ten large iron pots were opened and the fire was lit. Half a stone of sugar could be poured into each large iron pot.
After the sugar syrup melted, Yang took off the fire. Huo Erhuai scooped the sugar syrup into the tiles, Yang Fu mixed the yellow mud water, and Huo Xi held the wooden mold. As soon as the mold was full, he moved a new mold and put it in.
Connect the sugar syrup to the bottom of the tile.
Yang moved the slightly cooled mold to a shelf in another room.
Seven or eight-story wooden shelves were placed in four rows in the shed, with their bases hammered into the ground to prevent them from shaking. There was ventilation on all sides, and the wooden shelves were taller than Huo Xi.
One mold can hold ten kilograms of sugar syrup. Although it is not heavy, Yang was exhausted from moving it constantly, so she exchanged it with Yang Fu.
It doesn't take much time to scoop out a pot of sugar syrup and pour it into the mold, and it only takes less than half an hour to scoop out ten pots.
Ten pots are five dan. Thousands of candies are less than 90 dan. Huo Xi estimates that the whole family will rush to do the first shower, and they should be finished by dinner time tomorrow.
It's just that there aren't that many molds, and I only made a hundred today. I should be able to get five hundred tomorrow. No matter how much more drying racks are spread out, they won't be able to accommodate them.
Five hundred pieces equals five thousand kilograms of sugar syrup. Then it takes another day to cut off the white sugar formed in the first pass, and then rinse it the second and third times...
It will take at least seven or eight days to turn all these 10,000 kilograms of brown sugar into white sugar.
"Xi'er, what should I put the prepared sugar in?"
"Tomorrow my mother and I will cut the sugar at home, and you and your father will go and get the clay pots we ordered. We will wrap the sugar bricks in oil paper, and then wrap them with a layer of hemp paper. We will put the crushed sugar and granulated sugar in clay pots."
Yang Fu agreed.
The next day, Huo Nian didn't go out to play. He obediently helped at home. He handed a hemp rope to his mother and a piece of oil paper to his sister. He helped move the wrapped candy bricks and ate them while helping. After a few pieces, they were so sweet.
No more food.
"Let's go play." The child was sensible, and Yang felt very happy.
Huo Nian shook his head: "No, my father and uncle are not here. I want to help my mother and sister."
"You're so good." Yang praised him a few words with a doting look on his face.
"Aren't you going to teach Shitou Tietou and the others how to drink water? Have you taught them yet?" Huo Xi teased him.
"I know Iron Tou, but I can't teach him stones no matter how much I do. Everyone knows how to dig a few times, but he still can't float. I drank a lot of water, but I'm so worried." With a sad look on his face, he held his chin and touched it.
Huo Xi sat next to him.
Huo Xi and Yang couldn't help laughing when they saw his look.
Yang then said, "Is Shitou afraid of water because he is young? If he is afraid of water, you have to teach him slowly. You have to make him stop being afraid first."
"He is not afraid of water. He dares to fish in the water with his head down. He can hold his head in the water for longer than Tietou, but he just can't float. Alas."
Yang smiled and comforted him: "Then Nian'er will teach him a few more times. Maybe he will be able to master it after learning a few more times."
"Well, everyone learned it yesterday, but he didn't know how to do it. He even cried. I plan to teach him after it cools down a bit."
"You're so good. With a gentleman as powerful as Zan Nian'er, I can definitely teach him a lesson."
"Well, I will definitely be able to teach him." He nodded with a serious look on his face.
Huo Xi sometimes thinks that it would be nice for Nian'er to live such a simple and happy life. The world is simple, and living a simple life without so many worries may make her happier.
I just can’t let it go. In my dreams, I remember the last look my mother gave her...
If Nian'er couldn't get his identity back, he wouldn't even have the chance to worship his mother in a dignified way.
Huo Xi turned her head and glanced at Nian'er, and saw him standing next to Yang, helping a little while talking to Yang, with a look of admiration on his face.
Huo Xi turned her gaze back, sped up the movements in her hand, and danced the bamboo knife into the air.
Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu came back in the afternoon and helped with cutting and packaging. The family worked all day to finish yesterday's syrup.
After dinner, we continued to work. Ji Laozhuang sent all the remaining 400 molds. We should be able to fill 200 molds tonight. We will fill the remaining 200 molds tomorrow morning and cut them in the afternoon.
Sugar. The first rinse will be completed by tomorrow morning.
It's just that she has to go to the city tomorrow afternoon. The guild will discuss important matters the day after tomorrow.
"Mom, let's find two more people. Our hands will be broken cutting sugar today. My uncle and I will go to the city the day after tomorrow, so you and dad will be very busy."
"It's okay, let's do it slowly. Just give it more time, don't rush it. Our stuff is good, and we can sell it if we put it away for a while."
Seeing that Yang did not agree, Huo Xi had no choice but to give up.
Discussed with Yang Fu at night: "If we still want to do this business in the future, we should buy a few servants with death deeds to use. How busy will our family be? Although Master Mu has handed over all the deeds of Zhuangzi's servants to
I don’t dare to use them in my hands. It’s better for our own people to use them without worry.”
Yang Fu nodded: "Then when I return to Beijing, I will go to the Renya Institute to inquire."
"Well, go to more places and search slowly. Those who are stupid will be fine. Just be loyal."
At night, Gan San sent the news back. Mu Yan was silent for a while, and then he and Li Yikan took hold of the person in their hands.
He told Li Yi: "Please arrange for Bao Xia's family to be sent to the Human Tooth Clinic and give them to her."
"yes."
"Master, the family in Ji Laozhuang can also use it, and the body deed is also in her hands, why doesn't she use it?" Kan Er couldn't understand why he had to spend money to buy people when there were already ready ones available.
"She shouldn't worry about using it. You don't dare to use it. For such a big thing, it's better to use your own people to worry about. I will make arrangements tomorrow." Li Yi said.
On the other side, Shangyong County received Li Shiwu's letter, and Li Shimian also discussed with Ma about giving Huo Xi a gift.
"I didn't expect that this child could build such a family fortune at such a young age."
"If Rou'er was still here, and she was still raised in the back house, there would be no need to plan for her livelihood." It would not be easy to show up and make a living among people. Ma pressed the corner of her eye.
Li Shimian was also very sad.
Seeing that his old wife was sad, he comforted her: "You should be happy. Sister Ning's child is tough-minded and stronger than Rou'er. And she raised Nian'er so well. Didn't Shi Wu say that Nian'er is smart and sensible?
You are obedient again, and your eyes look very much like our Rou'er..."
Ma finally felt better, but Li Shimian's words brought her to tears again.
"Back then, when she was only seven years old, she escaped from Zhuangzi with her little brother in her arms. If she couldn't escape, I wouldn't dare to think about it. My two poor grandchildren, none of their close relatives are around... It really hurts me.
...I don’t know when I will be able to see those two children. My Rou’er can’t even see the two children grow up…”
Thinking of their daughter who died in vain, the couple sat and cried for a long time, and the lights in the room were turned on all night.
There are only two chapters today, more will be added tomorrow