Before the seventh day, Huo Xi couldn't help but enter the kang room.
When I opened up the thick straw, the tops of the basin and bucket were crystallized, like river water frozen with a thick layer of ice.
Huo Xi pressed it with his hand, and it felt firm. He felt happy. He pressed it harder, and it made a squeaky sound. It seemed that the sugar liquid underneath was not frozen solid yet. The sugar liquid had not completely crystallized yet.
Then I lifted up the cotton thread hanging on the branch above the bucket, but it couldn't be lifted up and it was so crystallized that it became porcelain solid.
It took a lot of effort to pull it out, and you can see that there is a thick layer around the cotton thread. The lump of sugar is the largest on the top, and becomes smaller as you go down. It is crystal clear and pleasant to look at.
Looking into the lifted pit, we can still see the sugar liquid under the bucket, which is watery. It seems that we have to wait for another two days.
Break off a piece of rock candy from the cotton string and put it in your mouth.
Well, that's what it tastes like.
The taste of old rock candy. Huo Xi held it in his mouth and chewed it, squinting his eyes and feeling happy in his heart.
"What is this?"
Huo Xi was startled and almost dropped the long string of rock candies in her hand.
Turning around, he saw Master Mu!
"Why are you here?" Instead of waiting in front of the palace, this guy came all the way to Jiangjun Mountain?
Mu Yan ignored it and asked again: "What is this?"
"Try it?" Huo Xi handed him the rock candy on the string.
He glanced at Huo Xi suspiciously.
"It's not poisonous, it's a good thing."
Mu Yan glanced at her, did he mean that?
He looked at the string of ice-like things. It was crystal clear, like frozen ice. He broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth... his eyes lit up.
It doesn’t count if you make sugar as white as snow, but you can also make sugar as white as ice? How did you learn?
"How?" Huo Xi asked him a little proudly, but also a little nervously.
Mu Yan glanced at her, said softly: "It's okay," and cast his eyes on the two basins and buckets on the kang bed.
Huo Xi curled her lips, "What does it mean to be fair? If you say it's good, it will make you choke?"
After knocking off a few pieces of rock sugar and hanging the cotton thread back into the bucket, Mu Yan followed with his eyes, "Boil some sugar liquid and make a kang bed? That's it."
"Why do you want to peek into my secret?" Huo Xi glared at him, "This is my capital to go to sea next year, don't worry about it."
Mu Yan followed her outside. The kang room was very stuffy, and his whole body felt hot after staying there for a long time.
After leaving the house, he distributed rock candy to Huo Erhuai and others who were waiting outside, and ordered Zuo to go in and mop the floor wet.
Zuo and others responded. Yang held a piece of rock candy in her mouth, her eyes brightening astonishingly: "Xi'er, is this the rock candy we made?"
Huo Xi nodded: "We have to wait for two more days. The crystallization is not very good now."
Huo Erhuai and others looked surprised when they ate the rock candy. They had made this ice-like candy. No one in the country had it.
"Xi'er, this candy doesn't hurt your throat when you eat it. It's quite delicious."
Huo Xi nodded: "The rock sugar made in this way can clear away heat and reduce internal heat, moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. It can be soaked in water with chrysanthemums, wolfberry, red dates, etc., or it can be steamed with pears to eat. It can clear the lungs and relieve coughs. You can also make soup.
Dishes, let’s take them out in two days and I’ll teach you to try them one by one.”
"Okay, okay." After hearing that it has so many effects, everyone nodded. This is a good thing.
"Xi'er, is it successful now? Why don't we start cooking it?"
Huo Erhuai felt that it would take seven days to make this thing, which was quite time-consuming. Now according to Xi'er, it should be a success, so he should strike while the iron is hot and make the thing.
Huo Xi nodded: "Okay, let's take Uncle Bao and the others to boil the sugar."
"Hey, dad knows!"
Mu Yan heard from the side that this rock candy can also moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. It has many effects. His eyes flashed and he looked sharply at Ji Laozhuang.
Ji Laozhuang froze.
Avoiding people, he followed Mu Yan to the hiding place: "Young Master." He didn't dare to look at him.
Mu Yan looked at him steadily for a while: "You should know that this matter is important. If even the slightest bit of information is revealed..."
Before he could finish his cold and emotionless words, Ji Laozhuang knelt down with a plop: "Don't worry, young master, my family will keep a tight lip and will not do anything like betraying the master. The people and slaves in the village will also keep an eye on them.
. They will not be allowed to leak the information and betray the master’s family.”
Mu Yan beat him and then let him go.
During the day, Huo Xi was busy teaching everyone how to boil sugar and testing the temperature, and didn't pay much attention to Mu Yan's actions.
I asked Ji Laozhuang. Ji Laozhuang said that he went to see the old Marquis.
Huo Xi didn't realize for a moment. There was an old marquis living nearby? Who was he? He soon came to his senses and found out that he had gone to pay homage to his grandfather at the Mu family's ancestral grave.
He hurriedly put his hands together and made a confession.
Mr. Mu, I will make more candies from now on and have people provide them to you. Please ensure that my career in getting rich goes smoothly and don't let Xiao Xiao run into trouble.
Mu Yan, a noble son of the Hou family, came to Zhuangzi. Yang and Huo Erhuai knew that he was of high status and ordered a sumptuous meal to be prepared.
Huo Xi originally wanted to ask him if he wanted to eat together, but seeing that he stayed behind closed doors, she had no choice but to forget it.
"Whenever the young master is in a bad mood, he will come to see the old man and talk to him at the tomb." Ji Laozhuang explained to Huo Xi.
In the past, the young master still loved the old Marquis, but now the old Marquis and his stepfather are gone, and there is a layer of separation between his stepmother and his biological parents, who cannot get close because of the missing years.
Ji Laozhuang shook his head and sighed.
These old people were all left to the young master by the old marquis. They thought that the title of Marquis of Xiping was to be left to the young master, but who knew that the former emperor handed it over to the young master's biological father...
Huo Xi understood after listening to Ji Laozhuang's explanation.
Suddenly, she felt a little depressed. She also wanted to take Nian'er to the Zhang family's ancestral grave to see and talk to her mother. Mu Yan could come and go freely, but she and Nian'er did not dare to go there.
After dinner, I heard that Mu Yan was still in the village, and Huo Xi didn't care. He was in a bad mood and came to see his old grandfather. This was his village. How could he drive him away?
After eating in the village, I was about to go back to the house when I was suddenly rolled up by a strong force and my feet were lifted off the ground.
He was so frightened that he screamed again and again.
"Shut up."
Huo Xi turned around and saw that it was Mu Yan. She hurriedly swallowed the shock in her mouth and lowered her head to see, Niangle, you really have the skills to fly over walls and fly over walls.
Whoosh, he was on the roof.
When I came back to my senses, I suddenly wanted to do it again, it was quite exciting. I looked at the other person.
Mu Yan thought she was childish and didn't look at her. He lifted her up to the roof and sat down on the ridge, looking far away.
Huo Xi held his shoulders, shook his head and sat down next to him. She didn't dare to let go, but quietly tugged on the hem of his clothes.
He also looked at Zhuangzi.
Tonight is a full moon night, the moonlight is as bright as water, and the nearby yards, trees, and distant crop fields are all faintly visible. Huo Xi finds this feeling very novel.
"What's that over there that you've been staring at?" Huo Xi saw him staring at something, and asked aloud with some curiosity.
I don’t know how everyone copied the names of book friends. I looked at the background of my mobile phone and typed them out one by one on the computer. Some book friends had asterisks in the middle of their names. I don’t know if it was blocked or for some reason, so I could only type them along.
Asterisk.
There is a word limit for a writer's words, so I can't type so many names. I would like to thank you for your recommendation votes, comments, and friends who have been helping to catch bugs. I saw your names in the background. Thank you very much. Love.