90s, The Cannon Fodder Wife of the Paranoid Boss is Reborn

Chapter 23 Roasted chestnuts with sugar

She did all the things that he could not even imagine. Not only did nothing happen, but her elder brother also asked him to coax her. Although she felt a little disappointed because her elder brother knocked on the door and was not looking for him, she still hoped to be able to help.

 Xiao Wei scratched his head and tried to think of a way: "Then I roast sugar cane and roast chestnuts for you to eat?"

Bai Lu knew that sweet potatoes could be roasted, taro could be roasted, and chestnuts could be roasted with sugar. She had never heard of them. Sugar cane and chestnuts could also be roasted. She turned her head with curiosity.

 “Tell me again, what to bake?”

The food Xiao Wei took from the Eight Immortals Table was all put into the makeshift coat pocket that he made by manually lifting the hem. The fruit cakes and sugar cane were piled in a pile. He took out the sugar cane buried underneath, and then took out a handful from his pocket. Dark brown chestnuts about the size of an adult's thumb.

Hand it to Bai Lu, and say again: "Roast sugar cane, roast chestnuts."

Bai Lu stared at a small group of chestnuts in front of her, her eyes sparkling: "Can you make sugar-fried chestnuts?"

 “What is that done?”

Seeing that she was finally interested, Xiao Wei thought hard for a while, but in the end he could only shake his head sincerely.

“I have never heard of roasted chestnuts. Our chestnuts are usually boiled or roasted when picked. They can also be eaten raw when they are freshly harvested.”

Bai Lu suddenly realized.

No wonder, every time she goes out on the street, she either sees a stall selling roasted sweet potatoes, tofu pudding, rice-treasure porridge with sugar water, or rice noodles.

 I have never seen anyone selling roasted chestnuts with sugar.

Because it is located in the subtropical tropics and has unique geographical advantages, G Province has become a fruit kingdom in later generations, and chestnuts are certainly one of its origins.

However, before this, due to the few migrant workers, underdeveloped information, and traffic congestion, even after many years of reform and opening up, the streets were still full of old stalls, and there were no new self-employed households from outside the city to settle in.

 There is no new approach to old things. Even if they are piled up on the hillside, they are like pearls covered with dust, forgotten in the corner.

Roasted chestnuts with sugar have become a popular snack in later generations. There are often long queues in front of shops opened in major developed cities. Unfortunately, the recipe has not been spread here.

 I have missed a great opportunity to make money in this life.

Xiao Wei didn't understand why Bai Lu suddenly looked at the chestnuts in his hand in a daze while he was talking. The look in his eyes that gradually turned like a wolf and a tiger made his hair stand on end.

 Feeling...as if my hands were braised pig's trotters, and she would bite them off in the next second!

“䱱, if you like to eat chestnuts, there are many more on the tree.”…Don’t look at my hands to chew them.

Xiao Wei originally thought that coaxing Bai Lu for his brother would be an easy task, but now it seems very dangerous.

Aware of his gaffe, Bai Lu immediately turned back to a smiling face, "Where are there many trees?"

 Xiao Wei raised his head and raised his chin.

 “On your head.”

There is a thick tree standing next to the vegetable garden, about ten or twenty meters high, with lush branches and deep roots. It is big enough to serve as a sun umbrella for half of the vegetable garden.

Not only are there trees on the edge of the vegetable garden, but also the entire fenced area of ​​the wide vegetable garden is filled with large trees at regular intervals.

Every time Bailu comes, it passes by in a flash. I think it is just an old, ordinary big tree. Occasionally, when I am tired from hoeing, I will sit under the tree and rest for a while.

I never thought that these are all money trees!

 But when she looked up now, she only saw lush green leaves, not even a flower, let alone chestnuts.

 “Where’s the chestnut?”

Bai Lu looked confused.

Xiao Wei was even more confused by her ignorance: "The chestnut trees will only start to bloom next month, and the chestnuts will not mature until after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Of course, there is nothing now."

　Ah this…

Bai Lu forgot that in later generations, high technology has matured, and grafting technology, precocious technology, etc. have become popular.

Many fruit trees have a maturity period all year round. Even if they do not, early maturity periods and dedicated cold chain storage for fruits and vegetables have been developed, so that fresh fruits and vegetables are available all year round.

 But now, here, it is still the 1990s, and all fruit trees grow naturally and bloom and bear fruit naturally.

 There are no scientific research products with results throughout the year.

 Have you just dreamed of getting rich, and now it’s shattered?

Xiao Wei saw Bai Lu's face change from excitement and joy to disappointment and sighing. He felt that the mission was about to fail, so he quickly said: "There are still a lot of chestnuts at home." "How many can there be?" Bai Lu was not interested.

 There is not even a TV set in the whole town, let alone a refrigerator. How can chestnuts be preserved without freezing them?

 If the fruit is preserved using the old method, it is estimated that the pulp will shrink and dry out, and the taste will not be the same when fried.

  Xiao Wei said: “Four sacks.”

 “How big is the sack?” Bai Lu asked.

Out of the corner of his eye, Xiao Wei caught a glimpse of the tall and upright figure in the dark, and he immediately straightened his small body.

 “Bigger than me.”

Bai Lu raised her eyes and looked at the little guy, and the fire that had just extinguished in her eyes suddenly ignited again.

 “Where is it? Take me to see it quickly!”

 The sacks in the 1990s were not small. They were filled with hundreds of kilograms of chestnuts. Even if they were not stored properly, only half of the chestnuts were good, which was still a large amount of money.

 Xiao Wei leads the way.

Bai Lu took the chestnut in his hand and opened it, only to find that the flesh of each fruit was light yellow and obviously intact.

I tried one. It tasted crisp and sweet, almost the same as fresh chestnuts that had just been picked.

 “How was this preserved?”

 The wisdom of our ancestors is so invincible!

Xiao Wei took Bai Lu to the woodshed and pointed to a ventilated corner, "There."

Bai Lu only saw a pile of sand.

  To be precise, it is a very tall and wide pile of sand.

The last time the kitchen leaked, she saw it when she came here to cook, but she didn't take it seriously.

In Xiao Cheng’s memory, the pile of sand already existed when he bought this house. It was probably the leftovers that the previous owner bought and didn’t use up when he built the house.

While Bai Lu was thinking, Xiao Wei had already put the things in his pockets aside and went to dig through the sand pile.

After a while, he dug out a coarse cloth bag as big as himself and dragged it to Bai Mian with his hands and feet.

 “There are three more bags inside.”

The coarse cloth bag filled with chestnuts in front of me is made of the same material as a sack. It is indeed more breathable than plastic bags.

They are also very big, weighing hundreds of pounds.

Bai Lu’s face was full of surprise: “If you put chestnuts in a coarse cloth bag and bury them in the sand, they won’t spoil?”

Xiao Wei felt that she didn't look like a local at all, why didn't she even understand common sense that everyone knew.

But since the task was not completed, I could only answer her question honestly: "When chestnuts are picked from the tree, they must be washed with salt water, soaked, and dried before being buried in the sand. bad."

 “Oh…that’s it.” Bai Lu understood.

Just now I pinched the chestnuts inside through the coarse cloth bag and found that many of them were still hard and solid, and the pine shells had not shrunk.

 You don’t need to look at it to know that it is well preserved!

 “Come on, I’ll make something delicious for you to try!”

 She doesn’t even know how to store chestnuts, so Xiao Wei doesn’t believe she can make anything delicious.

as expected.

Bai Lu was stunned as soon as she arrived in the kitchen.

 Because she didn’t have maltose, only the white sugar she picked up at Li Shuixian’s shop last time.

 (End of this chapter)