Chapter 26 Sugar Production
After getting up early the next day, Li Wuxiang continued to teach Xue Baoping how to make winter melon candy. When they got home yesterday, they washed the winter melon, cut it into finger-sized strips, and then soaked it in quicklime water for two hours. When the melon strips harden, take them out, wash them, and soak them in cold water overnight.
This morning, wash the melon strips again and put them in the pot to cook. In the steamy side room, while waiting for the melon sticks soaked in quicklime water yesterday to gradually become transparent, Li Wuxiang said: "Zhao Qi came last night."
Xue Baoping turned around and widened his eyes.
Li Wuxiang sat by the stove, slowly drinking raw eggs beaten into a porcelain bowl and tilted his head: "Like a thief, he jumped on the roof of my house and gave me some drug." , asked something.”
"Then he..."
"As I thought, his master should be Zhao Puppet." Li Wuxiang looked at her face that was flickering in the firelight, drank the egg in one gulp, put the bowl down, and looked at her seriously, "Then I have to tell you something.”
"I beat you up the day before yesterday, took you to town yesterday, and taught you how to make winter melon candy today, all to draw people's attention to us, and also to teach you how to make this candy and sell it to Miss Chen. I wanted to I used you to get closer to her and get some information about Zhao Qi from me, but I didn’t expect him to be more impatient than me. This is a good thing.”
Xue Baoping thought for a while: "Then... we don't have to do this now, right?"
Li Wuxiang sighed: "The key is not here. I want to use you to find out information from the Chen family."
Xue Baoping frowned slightly and thought for a while: "Huh?"
Li Wuxiang stared at her for a while and smiled: "It's okay. It's almost done."
When they were fished out, the melon strips had become translucent, so the water was drained, poured into a large wooden basin, and a thick layer of sugar was added. Xue Baoping gasped in pain when he saw Li Wuxiang pouring almost all the sugar in. He had to say: "We are going to make sugar, so there must be no less."
Then he asked Xue Baoping to wash his hands, slowly mix the sugar, and he scooped some hot water for boiling winter melon to drink.
"Next, I will start to get close to Zhao Qi and try to get some skills from him to solve my problems."
Xue Baoping looked at him worriedly: "Is it going to be dangerous? Otherwise... Li Wuxiang, let's go. Look, now, everyone knows that you are Li Jiye, so if we leave quickly, Also..."
Li Wuxiang shook his head: "I had this plan at first, but after taking a trip to the town, I knew it wouldn't work. When the people in Jinshui Town looked at the people floating down from the upstream town, they didn't seem to take them seriously. People. I thought that people in this world would be very cold, but I never thought that they would be so cold.”
"This shows that wherever we go, we will encounter groups of extremely xenophobic people. In that case, our situation will only be a hundred times more dangerous than now. So we can't leave, at least we have to settle things here. Solve part of it.”
Xue Baoping bit her lip: "Yeah."
"So there is indeed danger." Li Wuxiang washed his hands after drinking the water, walked to the wooden basin and slowly mixed the melon sticks with her, and accidentally touched her fingertips, "I also I don’t fully understand what kind of person Zhao Qi is, but since he came to check me out immediately after hearing about me, it shows that this person is very cautious. He is definitely a smart person, and he may also come to test you. You have to remind yourself that I was the one you fished out of the river.”
"Yeah." "If I fail and the matter is exposed, you have to say that you don't know anything. If someone tortures you, you have to stick to your story and tell yourself that you don't have to hold on for too long, two days That’s good. After two days, others will no longer suspect you of telling lies.”
Xue Baoping bit his lip: "It won't be like this."
Li Wuxiang laughed: "Okay, it won't be like this. Okay, just leave it like this, marinate it for another three days, and then we can continue to the next step, and we will be able to eat winter melon candy soon."
Xue Baoping forced a smile: "Yeah."
Li Wuxiang put his finger into his mouth and sucked it loudly: "But now you can eat finger candy."
Xue Baoping suddenly laughed, imitating his example and sucked his fingers, licking up every bit of sweetness, and then his voice became brighter: "Then... I will sell candies again in a few days. For Chen Xiu? ”
"Yes. The insidious information is also very important. It's best to ask her to become your good friend. That will help me a lot."
Then a smile appeared on Xue Baoping's face, as if a poor girl who had been imprisoned in the backyard of a boudoir was suddenly given a task to explore the green wilderness. She nodded heavily and happily took the ladle to scoop out The hot water in the pot is gone.
When she walked out of the house with the basin, the smile on Li Wuxiang's face suddenly faded.
He did hope that Xue Baoping could become friends with Chen Xiu, but it was not for his own sake. He will always leave Jin Shui, and he probably won't take her with him then. He knows many ways to make people feel close and comfortable to him, but he doesn't like real intimacy. Regardless of his past life or this life, he prefers to be a lone walker in the dark.
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The world outside the Golden Water, the kind of supernatural power that he wanted to pursue that did not exist, was not something Xue Baoping could bear. He felt that the best ending for her would be to live a relatively stable life in Jinshui, sit by the wall of her house and bask in the warm winter sun as she grew old, and then think of the woman he had met as a girl who was trapped in a stove. The fairy in Taiwan.
He sighed, got up and walked to the dirt road outside the house. The water of Jinshui River is still muddy and foaming, but the green grass on both sides of the river has grown a lot, and even the willow tree on the bank in front of the door looks greener. He walked under the willow tree and sat on the big stone that had been smoothed by time, speculating on what Zhao Qi would do next.
When Zhao Puppet was rescued and taken in by the Xue family, it happened at night. Li Wuxiang guessed that this was Zhao Puppet's deliberate action. He sealed himself and more than a hundred children in the Xue family's stove to practice "Tai Yi", so he didn't want others to know. Xue Baoping said that Zhao Puppet did not leave the house during the days when he was recuperating at home, saying that he was afraid of causing trouble to them. This was probably because of this.
Zhao Qi is a cautious person, but after staying in Jinshui for so many days, he probably has no clues about Zhao Puppet... Then what will he do?
Li Wuxiang thought of the Stove King statue in his house when he killed Wang's father and son. The thing seemed to have a spirit, and immediately became ordinary. He didn't know why, but he was sure that there must be gods and other existences in this world. Could Zhao Qi happen to know some methods of questioning gods and ghosts?
However, if he really has such great powers, why did he jump on the roof like a thief and stun himself with illusions last night... I know too little about Zhao Qi, and his current identity is not suitable for wandering around the town to find out. Li Wuxiang raised his hand and pressed his neck, turned his head——
I saw a girl in a white shirt and green skirt walking along the road.
(End of chapter)