Fight the Giants

  Chapter 269 Guilty

  The sugar syrup cools down very quickly.

  Huo Xi just took a shower and tidied up before cooling off. When Yang Fu yelled, she rushed out.

   At first glance, the top layer of the mold is snow-white.

   couldn't help but be overjoyed.

   and Yang Fu brought it into the house. Huo Erhuai and Yang's eyes widened, staring at each other reluctantly.

   Without Huo Xi's hands, the husband and wife dismantled the wooden mold, turned the sugar brick upside down, carefully removed the gauze at the bottom, and turned the sugar brick over on a piece of clean white paper.

   "Sister, what is this?"

  Uh... Isn't this brat asleep?

   Seeing Huo Xi staring at Huo Nian, everyone also looked at him, forgetting this brat in a moment of excitement.

  Huo Nian blinked, looking at this and that: "Mother, what is this?"

   Yang didn't know how to answer him, but only looked at Huo Xi.

   "Hey, go to bed, okay?"

   "No, you all woke me up. I heard you all, you said candy, and you secretly ate candy behind my back!" Everyone secretly ate candy while he was sleeping, without telling him, hum.

  Huo Xi had a headache, and when he saw him pouted a little bit wronged, his heart softened.

"We bought some other candies, but if you promise my sister, I will give you some if you don't tell others. If you tell others that our family has other candies, maybe you won't see your parents, sister and uncle gone."

   "Why can't I see my parents, sister and uncle?"

   "Because no one has it, only our family has it. Then everyone wants it. If everyone comes to grab it, if we can't get it, we will be arrested and forced to want it. Wouldn't you not see us?"

  Huo Nian jumped up: "I won't say it!"

   After speaking, I was a little angry, feeling that everyone didn't believe him, and looked at everyone one by one with pouted lips: "My sister is my sister, I didn't even tell Brother Gong!"

   "Mother knows, mother knows, our Nian'er is the most obedient, how can we talk about it everywhere." Yang Shi couldn't see him sad, so she hugged him in her arms to comfort him.

  Huo Nian tilted his head to look at Huo Xi with a stubborn face.

  Huo Xi had no choice but to coax him in a gentle voice: "Sister knows that Nian'er is a good boy, and Nian'er's tongue is the tightest. We didn't say anything that everyone didn't want to say. Our Nian'er is a good boy."

  Nian'er finally snorted, feeling comfortable.

   Seeing that he was soothed, Huo Xi looked at the sugar brick again.

  The top layer, about one-third, is the most snow white, and then decreases in turn, yellow and white, yellow, brown, and the bottom layer is black slag, with some impurities and sugarcane shavings.

   "Uncle, bring the bamboo knife we ​​made."

  Yang Fu hurriedly looked for the bamboo knife.

Huo Xi instructed him to divide the sugar brick into several small square bricks, then cut off the top white sugar brick with a bamboo knife, cut it into two knuckle-sized white sugar pieces, and rolled a small piece with paper Sugar cubes, crushed to make a powder.

   Pick up a handful and put it in your mouth, roll your tongue, it's sweet without any impurities. I was very pleasantly surprised.

   Feed Huo Nian some, it was so sweet that his eyes lit up.

   Cut a few more pieces of white sugar for everyone to taste, and they all nodded in praise. He took a piece and washed it in the water. Seeing that the color of the water did not change, Yang exclaimed with joy: "It's still white!"

   "Mother, I want to drink."

   Feed him a few sips, Pi Xiaozi laughed after drinking: "It's delicious."

  After Pi Xiaozi drank the sugar water, he looked around for a while, and Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai coaxed him to wash and sleep.

  Leave Yang Fu and Huo Xi to discuss.

   "Xi'er, we have made it! These two methods can work." Yang Fu was very excited. This is a unique business, and it is going to make a lot of money!

  Huo Xi nodded: "Boiling the brown sugar will cause some loss, but this method is convenient. It can get white sugar bricks, and it is also convenient to grind into fine white sugar. If you don't boil the brown sugar, you will get irregular white sugar."

   "Then let's boil the brown sugar."

   "Let's boil most of it." At this time, sugar bricks are still easy to store.

   After speaking, he picked up sugar cubes of other colors and took a closer look: "We have to shower more rounds, and rinse these non-white ones several times, otherwise we will only shower once, then we won't get much white sugar."

  Yang Fu nodded in agreement.

  The two of them were very happy when they produced white sugar. They put the white sugar they got in a porcelain jar, talked for a while, and then fell asleep.

  When the whole family was asleep, Gansan jumped out, dodged into the house, and dodged out again after a while, jumped up a few times, and ran towards the city.

  The next day, when Mu Yan woke up, Li Yi and Kan Er handed him a small package of paper-wrapped things after washing up.

   "Let's take a look, young master, this was sent back by Qiansan last night."

   "Did you come back last night? Why didn't you call me?"

   "It's rare for the young master to have a good night's sleep without being disturbed."

   It didn't seem like a big deal that he didn't wake him up from the first hurdle. But he put Gansan next to the little liar, and Gansan Tete ran back, so he couldn't help being a little curious.

   Taking the thing in Li's hand, he opened the paper: "What is this?" White, in pieces?

   "Master, break a piece and taste it." Kan Er urged him. He and Li Yi tasted it all, and they were so surprised that they didn't sleep well all night.

   Mu Yan looked at them suspiciously: "Can you eat it? Have you two tasted it?"

  Kan Er nodded: "I only gave it to the young master after I tasted it."

  Mu Yan broke off a piece and put it in his mouth. After he took a breath, his eyes widened, and he looked at the thing in his hand suddenly.

   "The young master is surprised, right? Gan San said it was made by Mrs. Huo, and it's called white sugar."

   Mu Yan sat on the chair and looked at the things in his hands in surprise.

  He knew that she would not do useless work, so she made money by exchanging ten thousand catties of flame nitrate for ten thousand catties of sucrose, but not much.

  In addition to the gift she gave, it was actually posted upside down.

  He felt strange, she was thinking of treating Wu Youcai, how could she do such a loss-making business, so she asked Gansan to follow to see what happened, but she didn't expect that she actually made white sugar!

   Unheard and unheard, seen and unseen.

   Mu Yan stared at the white candy in his hand in a daze.

   "Master?"

  Mu Yan came back to his senses, with a cold face, and ordered: "You two send a message to Gansan, asking him to continue to follow her until she gets rid of this batch of sugar."

"yes."

   "Also, send a message to Ji Laozhuang, tell him to keep an eye on Zhuangzi, and the idlers should not approach the main courtyard. Don't talk too much and don't ask too much. If there is any movement from her side, report it quickly."

"yes."

  After leaving the first hurdle and going down, Mu Yan still didn't get up, and took another piece of candy and put it in his mouth, thinking about it.

  This little liar actually made such a thing, didn't he know that he was guilty of the crime? How is she going to get rid of these things? He frowned.

   And when Huo Xi woke up early in the morning, she still felt unreal. Did she really practice white sugar yesterday?

   Busy looking at the white sugar in the jar, and opening the cork, hey, wasn’t it full yesterday?

   Did you remember wrongly? Or did mother take it to coax Huo Nian?

   Screwed on the cork again, but put it back, and didn't pay much attention to it. After staring at the jar for a long time, the smile on his face grew bigger and bigger.

  She refined the sugar. When she has practiced all of them, she will exchange them for money, a lot of money, to buy land and shops!

  Washing up, I saw that she was alone in the house, father and uncle went to the city to pick up things, mother went for a walk in the village, Nian'er, a brat, didn't know where to go early in the morning.

  After eating the breakfast left by my mother, I went out to see Jilaozhuang leading people to build a shed.

   At noon, Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu transported ten large iron pots back, and also brought a message to Huo Xi.

See you tomorrow

  (end of this chapter)