The history of struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 11 Making Caramel

Han Qianluo is a person who keeps her word. Since she promised to make caramel, she will not break her promise, and has been thinking about the method of making caramel in her heart.In fact, there are many ways to make caramel, and Han Qianluo knows several of them. As long as they are crops, most of them can be used to make caramel.

After breakfast the next day, Han Shuier went to weave as usual, which was the only thing she did every day.Han Qianluo has fully learned what is meant by "men farming and women weaving" from her second sister. Han Shui'er is the perfect interpretation of this "female weaving". In addition to eating and sleeping every day, and then weaving, it is really unshakable.

Although it was not time to harvest wheat, it was time to plant vegetables, so Han Qingquan went out with a hoe and a bag of seeds after breakfast.As for Han Sanwei, he did not go out to play uncharacteristically, but stayed at home.Han Qianluo knew that he was remembering the caramel he had promised.

Han Qianluo didn't delay any longer and looked for barley in the house.Maltose is maltose, and the most important thing to make maltose is malt, not wheat malt, but barley malt.

Han Qianluo used to like to read books, he would read all kinds of books.The method of making caramel is from the book, and Han Qianluo naturally remembers the food very clearly.Of course, Han Qianluo had experimented at home before, but it was very convenient no matter what he needed in the past, unlike now, he had to make it himself from beginning to end.

Han Qianluo was not very familiar with barley, but fortunately he had the memory of the original owner of the body, so he found barley smoothly.And Han Sanwei followed Han Qianluo step by step, for fear that after the caramel was made, it would be too late to know.Han Qianluo was a little helpless, and said, "Sanwei, it will take several days to make caramel, so go out and play first."

"Sister San, how long will it take?" Han Sanwei asked with some disappointment.

Han Qianluo thought for a while, and the most time-consuming thing was to germinate the barley, which took about five or six days, so he said to Han Sanwei: "It will take another seven or eight days, go out and play." Disappointed, she asked sullenly, "Third Sister, why did it take so long? Didn't the candy you made yesterday get ready in a while?"

Han Qianluo listened to Han Sanwei's complaint, smiled and said, "One is made of sugar cane and the other is made of yellow rice. How can they be the same?"

"That's right." Han Sanwei said with some understanding, and then ran out to play.

Han Qianluo hesitated after finding the barley. Originally, he planned to make some maltose for Han Sanwei, but now Han Qianluo suddenly changed his mind. His family is all ordinary farmers, and he doesn't have any backers. It's too eye-catching to sell sugar. If someone has bad intentions, he will be in trouble.

Han Qianluo felt that he could make caramel first and sell it.The raw materials for making caramel are relatively simple, that is, barley and five grains, which are the cheapest things in this farm.And although caramel is a bit expensive at this time, it is not a rare thing.

After making up his mind, Han Qianluo took a dustpan full of barley out, sifted out all the impurities in it, washed it clean, filled a large wooden basin with warm water, and poured the barley into it to soak.After two or three hours, Han Qianluo fished out the soaked barley and poured it into a basket, waiting for it to germinate.

Han Qianluo put the barley basket in the room where he slept, and then realized that he had nothing to do, so he went to help spin the thread.Han Qianluo just sat down, not kneeling on the mat, but sitting on the stool just made a few days ago, and then heard Li Chunhua's voice from outside: "Qianluo?"

The weaving room is made of mud except for the courtyard wall and the two walls connecting the next room. The other two sides have no walls, only a few pillars with a few mats hanging on them. Then put it down to serve as a wall, and roll it up when the weather is good during the day.

Han Qianluo raised his head, and Li Chunhua was lying on the courtyard wall to greet him: "Chunhua, what's the matter?"

"Qianluo, do you want to dig wild vegetables?"

Han Qianluo stopped the action of spinning, looked up at Li Chunhua and said, "There are no delicious wild vegetables on the mountain." It was only a day later, and the toon sprouts must not have grown yet.As for bracken, after all, that thing has carcinogenic ingredients, Han Qianluo doesn't eat it himself, and doesn't plan to pick it up and sell it.

Thinking of bracken, Han Qianluo thought of that sickly handsome man again, and thought of how many bracken he had bought, he felt a little worried, thinking that he shouldn't sell this kind of wild vegetable to him for such a small profit.

"We won't go to the mountains today, let's go to the fields to search." Li Chunhua said, looking at Han Qianluo expectantly, as if she expected to agree to go with her.

Han Qianluo was a little hesitant, would it be bad for him to go out and play every day like this?Han Shui'er at the side seemed to see her concerns, and said, "Xiao Luo, there is no food at home now, so go out and find some wild vegetables and come back."

Hearing what his second sister said, Han Qianluo didn't have any worries, and happily agreed, and then went out with Li Chunhua to look for wild vegetables with a basket.

Han Qianluo was not very familiar with finding wild vegetables, nor was he very good at it, so he didn't feel embarrassed about it, so he asked very generously, "Where are we going to find wild vegetables today?"

Although Han Qianluo has the memory of the original owner, his memory is always unclear in some very minor details.Han Qianluo couldn't help but wonder if it was because his soul lost some unimportant memories during the fusion process with this body.

"Of course we went to our own field to look for it," Li Chunhua said, and then continued in a disdainful tone, "Those people are extremely stingy, if they see us go to their field to look for wild vegetables, they will definitely scold them. "Han Qianluo knew that those people in Li Chunhua's mouth were referring to other families in the same neighborhood.

"Everyone's life is not good, so we must save a little." Han Qianluo persuaded casually.

"You, you just have a good heart."

The two of them first started to search in the field of Han Qianluo's house. At this time, the field was full of wheat, including wheat and barley. At this time, the wheat was already ripe, and there was a large piece of yellow and orange, which looked very beautiful.

But after looking carefully, Han Qianluo found that the ears of these wheat were not too big, and when you break off a grain and look carefully, they are not very full.Han Qianluo had a clue in his mind. It seemed that even if the wheat was harvested, there would not be much food, but he didn't know what caused such a low yield?

Seeing Han Qianluo standing there, Li Chunhua felt a little curious and asked, "Qianluo, what are you looking at?"

"It's nothing, I just want to see if my wheat is growing well?" Han Qianluo said casually.

"You don't need to look, your family is also the best looking." Li Chunhua said enviously.

This sentence shocked Han Qianluo, as it still grows the best like this, what would the crops look like if they didn't grow well!Han Qianluo wanted to know more news from Li Chunhua, so he pretended to have a sad face and said, "I think other people's crops are better than mine."

"My mother said that among us, your crops grow the best. Brother Qingquan went to the field to weed and loosen the soil." Li Chunhua said, her voice was a little softer than before, and her tone was also a little different.

Han Qianluo had already started looking for wild vegetables, all his attention was focused on the ground, and he didn't notice any difference in Li Chunhua's voice at all.

Spring is the time when wild vegetables grow the most and grow the fastest.After walking a few steps, Han Qianluo saw a plant that was suspected to be a wild vegetable. After a closer look, it was indeed a wild vegetable, and it was shepherd's purse.Han Qianluo quickly dug up the shepherd's purse and put it in the basket.

There are quite a lot of wild vegetables in the field, and within a short time, Han Qianluo found most of the basket of wild vegetables, enough for tonight and tomorrow morning, so Han Qianluo said to Li Chunhua: "Chunhua, how many did you find? "

Li Chunhua looked at the wild vegetables in her basket and said, "I'm almost done too, let's go back."

Han Qianluo and the others had just walked a few steps when they saw four familiar people walking towards them.Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Zhao Qin, Xinghua, Wei Zhen, and Song Mei.Han Qianluo pretended not to see them and planned to walk past them.

"Why do you go wherever we go? It's really haunting." Wei Zhen with a round face said disdainfully, with a look of superiority.

"It seems that we are in front of you, you should follow us." Han Qianluo said calmly.

"You..." Wei Zhen didn't know what to say after saying a single word, and just glared at Han Qianluo angrily.Han Qianluo ignored these people and walked past them calmly.

Li Chunhua said excitedly: "Qianluo, Wei Zhen's appearance just now is really interesting."

"These people, don't pay attention to them in the future, it's meaningless." Han Qianluo said lightly, not pretending, but really felt that it was too boring to care about those people, just some inexplicable emotional disputes, really boring.

Li Chunhua played with Han Qianluo's arm and said intimately, "Then I will listen to you from now on."

When Han Qianluo passed by his own land, he saw his elder brother Han Qingquan growing vegetables in the field.Han Qianluo wanted to help grow vegetables, so he asked Li Chunhua to go back first.

"Brother, let me help you." Han Qianluo said.

"Just throw this seed into the pit." Han Qingquan pointed to the basket on the ground next to him.

Han Qianluo turned his head and saw that the seeds were placed in the basket and wrapped in linen.Could it be that this is some kind of precious seed?Han Qianluo thought.

(End of this chapter)