Sugar Making

Chapter 26 Sugar Making

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 first washed the winter melon, cut it into finger-sized strips, and then soaked it in quicklime water for two hours. When the strips became hard, they took them out and washed them, and then soaked them in cold water overnight.

This morning, they washed the strips again and put them in the pot to cook. In the steamy wing, while waiting for the strips that were hardened by quicklime water yesterday to gradually become transparent, Li Wuxiang said, "Zhao Qi came last night."

Xue Baoping turned his head and widened his eyes.

Li Wuxiang sat by the stove, slowly drinking the raw egg in the porcelain bowl while tilting his head: "Like a thief, he jumped onto the roof of my house, drugged me, and asked me some questions."

"Then he..."

"Just as I thought, his master should be Zhao Kui." Li Wuxiang looked at her face that was flickering in the firelight, drank the egg in one gulp, put down the bowl, and looked at her seriously, "Then there are some things I have to tell you."

"I beat someone the day before yesterday, took you to the town yesterday, and taught you to make winter melon candy today, all to attract people's attention to us, and also to let you learn to make this candy and sell it to Miss Chen. . I wanted to use you to slowly get close to her and find out some news about Zhao Qi for me. But I didn't expect that he was more impatient than I thought, which is a good thing. "

Xue Baoping thought for a while: "Then... now we don't have to do this, right?"

Li Wuxiang sighed: "The key is not here. I want to use you to find out news from the Chen family for me."

Xue Baoping frowned slightly and thought for a while: "Hmm?"

Li Wuxiang stared at her for a while and smiled: "It's okay. It's almost cooked."

When the melon strips were fished out, they had become translucent, so they were drained and poured into a large wooden basin, and a thick layer of sugar was added. When Xue Baoping saw that Li Wuxiang had poured almost all the white sugar in, he gasped with heartache, so he had to say: "We are going to make sugar, so we can't be less."

Then he asked Xue Baoping to wash his hands, slowly mix the sugar, and scooped some hot water for boiling winter melon to drink.

"Next, I will start to get closer to Zhao Qi and try to get some skills from him to solve my problems."

Xue Baoping looked at him worriedly: "Is it dangerous? Otherwise... Li Wuxiang, let's go. Look, now everyone knows that you are Li Jiye. If we leave quickly, it will be..."

Li Wuxiang shook his head: "I had this plan at first, but after walking around 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 treat them as human beings. I thought that this world... the world's human feelings would be very cold, but I didn't think it would be this cold."

" This means that wherever we go, we will encounter groups of extremely xenophobic people. In that case, our situation will be a hundred times more dangerous than it is now. So we can't leave. At least we have to solve part of the problem here. "

Xue Baoping bit his lip: "Yeah."

"So it is indeed dangerous." Li Wuxiang finished drinking the water and washed his hands. He walked to the wooden basin and slowly mixed the melon strips with her. He accidentally touched her fingertips. "I don't fully understand what kind of person Zhao Qi is, but since he came to check on me immediately after hearing about my affairs, it means that this person is very cautious. Cautious people are definitely smart people, and they may also come to test You, you have to remember that you were the one who fished me out of the river."

"Yes."

"If I fail and the truth is revealed, you have to say that you know nothing. If someone tortures you, you have to stick to your story and tell yourself that you don't have to stick to it for too long, just two days will be enough. After two days, people will no longer suspect that you are lying."

Xue Baoping bit his lip: "It won't be like that."

Li Wuxiang smiled: "Okay, it won't be like that. Okay, just leave it like this, marinate it for another three days, and then we will move on to the next step, and we will be able to eat winter melon candy soon."

Xue Baoping forced a smile: "Yes."

Li Wuxiang put his finger in In his mouth, he sucked and made a sound: "But now you can eat finger candy."

Xue Baoping laughed suddenly, and imitated him to suck his fingers, licking every bit of sweetness, and then his voice became cheerful: "Then...will I sell candy to Chen Xiu again in a few days?"

"Yes. Indirect information is also very important. It would be best if she could become your good friend, which would help me a lot."

So Xue Baoping smiled, as if a poor girl who had been confined in the backyard of the boudoir was suddenly given a task to explore the lush wilderness. She nodded heavily and happily took a ladle to scoop hot water from the pot.

When she walked out of the house with the basin, the smile on Li Wuxiang's face suddenly faded.

He really hoped that Xue Baoping could become friends with Chen Xiu, but not for himself. He would always leave Jinshui, and he probably wouldn't take her with him at that time. He knew a lot of ways to make people feel close to him, but he didn't like real intimacy. Regardless of past and present lives, he prefers to be a lone walker in the dark.

The world outside of Jinshui and the mysterious power that he wants to pursue that does not exist from anywhere are not something Xue Baoping can bear. He thinks that her best ending should be to live a relatively stable life in Jinshui, sit by the wall of her house in the warm winter sun when she is old, and then think of a fairy trapped in the stove that she met when she was a girl.

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.