Chapter 154 Gold and Silver Cake

Jia Zhengjin knows nothing about the history and customs of this world!

Even if he drank the basic knowledge potion, he only mastered some basic languages.

So he was both curious and confused about the so-called Lanlan Festival.

He is also very unfamiliar with this exotic plant called the gold and silver tree.

However, seeing that people in this world are so enthusiastic about collecting the leaves of the gold and silver tree, that they can leave all the work in their hands and concentrate on preparing for the festival, he is also somewhat infected. So she was taken by Tina and joined the team of collecting gold and silver tree leaves.

Honeysuckle is a fairly common tree species. The reason why it is called a gold and silver tree does not mean that it looks like gold or silver. The main reason is that the sap of this kind of tree has peculiar characteristics. If the juvenile gold and silver tree is broken, the sap that flows out is silver, while the adult gold and silver tree is broken, and the sap that flows out is golden.

Although the color is similar to gold and silver, the sap is a non-toxic natural drink that can be eaten. It's just that if you just break it off and drink it, it doesn't really taste good.

Tina taught Jia Zhengjin to distinguish which gold and silver trees can be collected at maturity, and which ones need to be allowed to continue to grow in the juvenile stage. Then the husband and wife picked the leaves together, enjoying themselves happily.

By noon, everyone had picked enough leaves. In the area surrounded by the outer city wall, the entire grove of gold and silver trees was stripped bare, leaving only tree trunks and saplings.

The villagers carried bags of gold and silver leaves and returned to the inner city amidst laughter.

Jia Zhengjin picked a lot, followed his wife Tina, brought Palin and Christina, and carried the leaves back to the city together.

After returning, he went directly to the home of his father-in-law Bollint.

Bollinger pulled out his hand-hewn stone millstones and plunged buckets into the water to clean them.

Mother-in-law Landis took everyone to the river to wash the picked leaves.

Jia Zhengjin glanced at the neighbors around him, and they all did the same thing. Almost every household has a stone-hewn millstone. I don’t know when it was made, or did they move it from home?

Washing the disc, washing the leaves, the steps are exactly the same.

Jia Zhengjin wanted to help, but was immediately stopped by Bollinger: "Master Keen, this job is very simple, and you don't need so many people! You just need to watch from the side."

My father-in-law said so,

What else can Jia Zhengjin do? Although I really want to study how this thing is made, I am too embarrassed to snatch it from my father-in-law.

The mother-in-law brought back the favorite leaves with the three girls, and the father-in-law Bollint also assembled the washed millstone, and then took out several clay pots from the room and placed them one after another at the outlet of the millstone.

Jia Zhengjin stood on the side watching curiously, and Palin and Christina were also pushed to his side by Tina, and the three of them stared straight at the millstone.

"It's started!" Bollint shouted happily, reaching out to hold the wooden handle on the millstone.

Mother-in-law Landis immediately took a handful of cleaned honeysuckle leaves and stuffed them into the middle of the millstone.

"Crackling~~" Bollint bent over and turned the millstone vigorously. It can be clearly seen that the gold and silver leaves in the middle of the grinding disc spill out a lot of golden sap under the grinding. The sap flowed down the edge of the millstone to the spout.

Tina had already taken the earthen pot and continued below, happily watching the golden sap continuously pouring into the pot.

"There is so much sap in one leaf?" Jia Zhengjin was a little surprised.

"In the leaves of the gold and silver tree, there are sacs that store sap. When grinding, the sacs in the leaves are broken, and a lot of sap will flow out." Tina looked up and explained with a smile.

"It's amazing!!" Jia Zhengjin and Christina said in unison.

Jia Zhengjin turned his head and glanced at Christina, thinking that it's fine that I'm a foreigner who doesn't know, but you are also from the local school, and it's the same as the first time I met you? But then it occurred to her that Christina was an ascetic priest who only knew about cultivation since she was a child, so she was probably as unfamiliar with everything outside as she was.

Grinding is really easy and quick too. The family of Bolint, Landis, and Tina is enough, and it didn't take long for all the leaves to be ground, enough to fill 5 clay pots.

Jia Zhengjin saw the golden sap in the clay pot, took a wooden spoon to scoop a little into his mouth, but it didn't taste at all.

"Don't worry!" With the help of her parents, Tina placed five cans of sap in front of the door where the sun was the biggest, and then said to Jia Zhengjin with a smile, "Let it dry for a few hours first, and it will become a very good sap." Materials! Now, let's make the seasoning stuffing! Keen, can you take someone to the city to set up the stage for last time?"

"Stage?" Jia Zhengjin thought for a while. What Tina was talking about should be the place where the bard Qiqi performed last time, and it has been empty now.

“Put more bonfires, tables and chairs around the stage, and put the gold and silver cakes together, and then the old people in the village will teach some young people to perform the show that the hero leads the human army to fight against the devil and win. At that time, everyone will be watching the show while eating gold and silver cakes, very happy! Then everyone will dance hand in hand in front of the bonfire, praising the great achievements of the heroes..." Tina held her face and showed a happy look, "Really It's super fun!"

"But I want to see how the gold and silver cakes are made..." Jia Zhengjin was very curious.

"This is very simple!" Tina said, "After the sap of the gold and silver tree is exposed to the sun for a few hours, it will precipitate a golden powdery material, which is isolated from the water. Then pour out the water and let it dry for a while. After drying, these powders will turn into a soft and elastic dough. Then we chop all kinds of meat or vegetables into fine pieces, sprinkle them on the dough, and then bake them into cakes and eat them! Now we have There is a lot of honey, if honey is spread on the cake, the taste must be very attractive..."

"Suck~~" Christina salivated after hearing Tina finish speaking. Immediately after that, he clasped his hands together, closed his eyes and kept chanting the teachings of the God of Light, trying to keep himself from being attracted. But there was no way to stop the saliva from the corner of his mouth.

Jia Zhengjin was speechless. It's really pitiful for Christina to become a penance priest even though she is a foodie by nature! Maybe it was okay before, but once I wake up now, I am afraid it will be difficult to go back!

"Kean, hurry up and prepare the stage! Preparation is very important if you can celebrate happily at night!" Tina said to him with a smile.

Jia Zhengjin really couldn't wait to experience some festivals in this world: "Leave it to me! Get ready right away! We must hold a lively celebration party today!"