He was shocked and hurried into the kitchen: "I didn't mean that! I finally got you back, how could I not want you?"
"Then why are you so angry? If you want me to feel at ease, then I am already very at ease now."
"You taught me how to make desserts, and I already have a way out."
Tao Zhu said and looked up at him, pursed his lips and smiled.
He feels more at ease now than ever before.
He could feel that this person liked him passionately.
"……Fine."
Understanding what Tao Zhu meant, Li Qiao also smiled. He reached out and hugged the shoulders of the person in front of him, and kissed his face.
Such a good person, whether it is appearance or personality, stepped on his heart, how could he not like it?
Doing this in broad daylight!
Tao Zhu was stiff for a moment, but he quickly responded. His heart was sore and full of honey, making him just want to get closer to this person.
When the two people separated again, it was already a quarter of an hour later. Their faces were both stained with a faint red. Li Qiao said softly: "How about we go back to the house?"
Tao Zhu struggled for a moment and shook his head: "My elder brother and sister-in-law will come to learn how to make maltose in a while."
Li Qiao: "..."
He forgot about it.
"Okay, let's continue tonight."
"You go and have a rest." Hearing this, Tao Zhu's cheeks felt a little warmer than before.
"No rest, let's make twists together. Shopkeeper Wang asked us to bring as much as we can."
Thinking of the business concluded today, Li Qiao couldn't rest.
Now he is a pauper again, with a husband to support at home and debts to pay off.
Work!
So, by the time Li Liang and Wang Guihua arrived, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu had already fried a big basket of twists.
"Brother, sister-in-law, come and eat mahua." Li Qiao greeted the two of them to drink water and eat something first.
"Don't eat it, it's so expensive! Let's make maltose quickly and reduce the cost." Li Liang waved his hand.
Wang Guihua also shook her head: "Eating one is like eating copper coins. I can't eat it. How to make maltose? Are the tools ready?"
The selling price and cost price of maltose made her unable to sleep well last night.
Li Qiao uses so much maltose in making desserts these days, it’s a big mistake!
The two of them refused to eat, so Li Qiao could only start teaching how to make maltose.
In fact, the preparation of maltose is very simple.
The first step is to wash the wheat, and then start soaking it.
"Is this enough?" Li Liang and Wang Guihua looked at the wheat in the barrel and were a little stunned.
"Yes, soak it like this overnight. Then put it in a humid place and sprinkle water every day to let the wheat germinate."
Li Qiao explained the steps of making maltose in detail.
"Maltose, maltose must be used. In fact, Tao Shu got it right in the first step."
"A pottery tree can be manipulated, right?" Wang Guihua snorted and was no longer nervous.
Then what else is she afraid of?
Hearing Wang Guihua's disdain and confidence in Tao Shu, Li Qiao smiled and nodded: "Yes, Tao Shu figured out this first step by himself."
"Then we will definitely not lose to Tao Shu!"
Li Liang was also full of confidence.
The two of them could do it with their eyes closed, and they could outdo that bad guy Tao Shu!
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Chapter 28 Successfully making maltose and teaching Tao Zhu how to read
The next day, Li Qiao came back from the county town at noon. Li Liang and Wang Guihua came over without lunch to see Li Qiao proceed with the next steps:
Spread the soaked wheat onto three square baskets, then cover the baskets with fine linen cloth. Sprinkle water on the wheat regularly to keep the wheat in a moist state and wait for the wheat to germinate.
Now that the weather is hot, it will take about four or five days for the buds to germinate.
You don’t need to worry too much during this period, just go and do what you have to do.
"Is this just a little bit of work?" Li Liang, an honest man, also thought about it.
Compared with farming, what is this?
His Xiaolan can do this!
Wang Guihua glanced sideways at Li Qiao: "Why didn't you do it earlier? Isn't this a convenient thing?"
If it had been done since the day of the marriage proposal, maltose would have been made by now.
How much money can this save?
"Isn't this about getting married to Brother Zhu? There will be a lot of talk on the day of the wedding, so I'm afraid that others will look at me."
On the day of the wedding, many people came to see the excitement. It was so noisy that Li Qiao was afraid that the recipe would be revealed.
"...Also, it's better to be cautious."
Wang Guihua's tone immediately became much weaker. It was because she was dazzled by the extravagant money and didn't think carefully.
She looked at Li Qiao and said, "You run to the county town every day. You are using up the soles of your shoes. It is not easy for Brother Zhu to make shoes. You can discuss with the shopkeeper and see if you can deliver goods every two days."
They are all fried desserts anyway, so even if the weather is hot, it won’t be a problem to store them for two days.
"Sister-in-law, this is a good suggestion. I'll ask shopkeeper Wang tomorrow." Li Qiao nodded with a smile.
His sister-in-law is indeed hard-spoken and soft-hearted.
After seeing off Li Liang and Wang Guihua, Li Qiao closed the courtyard door and asked Tao Zhu to follow him into the house: "I bought pen, ink, paper and inkstone today. From today on, let's keep track of our daily accounts."
"Just remember it by yourself. I can't read."
Tao Zhu wanted to go into the kitchen and clean the pots and pans.
"It doesn't matter, come on, I'll teach you."
"Teach me how to read?" Tao Zhushui's eyes widened instantly, and he raised his hand and pointed at himself in disbelief.
"This is not a big deal. Let's learn simple things first, learn numbers."
As a person who has received modern education, Li Qiao naturally hopes that his partner can also read, but after all, times are different, and if Brother Ruozhu is not willing to learn, then he will not force it.
"I'll learn!" Tao Zhu happily walked towards Li Qiao, his eyes bright.
His attitude made Li Qiao feel good, and the two held hands and entered the house.
It was difficult to make paper in this era, so paper was very expensive. A knife of rice paper cost one or two silver. Li Qiao was poor at this time, and he was not studying yet, so he bought medium-priced white linen paper and low-priced local paper. toilet paper.
Tao Zhu naturally knew that paper was expensive. When Li Qiao handed him a piece of straw paper, he said, "Why don't I take a small stick and write on the ground first? No matter how cheap the straw paper is, it still costs money."
"No, numbers are easier to learn."
As he spoke, Li Qiao took out the copper plate and placed the numbers one, two, three...ten on the small table: "This is from one to ten, is it simple?"
Tao Zhu: "..."
There was a smile in his eyes, and he tried to learn from the copper plate. Who couldn't learn this?
His eyes swept over the numbers written on the copper plates one by one, and he nodded gently: "Put it right here, don't move it yet."
"That's what I planned too. Come on, let's keep accounts according to these ten numbers."
Li Qiao began to sharpen his ink and slowly wrote down today's expenses and income on the white linen paper.
The original person didn't study hard, and his handwriting was not even average, so he was not afraid of revealing his secrets. He explained while writing: "I haven't held a pen for a long time, and I am not used to it."
Tao Zhu couldn't tell which characters were good and which were bad. Seeing Li Qiao's strokes, each character was straight and consistent in size, so he said, "It's very beautiful."
"You are discerning, and I think it looks good." Brother Zhu praised him, and Li Qiao was happy to acknowledge him, not being modest.
As he spoke, he leaned over and kissed Tao Zhu on the lips: "When I finish memorizing it, I will read it to you."
"……good."
Tao Zhu smiled lightly and moved the bench to be next to him.
Li Qiao lowered his head and kept accounts carefully.
He and Tao Zhu worked together yesterday and made twenty kilograms of dama flowers and twenty kilograms of shakima. Today they were all handed over to shopkeeper Wang, earning a total of four thousand coins.
However, today he bought maltose again to prepare for tomorrow's business, so he spent a lot of money.
After looking at the expenses and income, he pursed his lips. He was indeed taken advantage of.
It’s urgent to make maltose.
He quickly listed today's income and expenses, pointed to the words on the paper, and read them one by one to Tao Zhu.
Tao Zhu looked at it very carefully and memorized it very carefully.
Not everyone has the opportunity to read and write. When he was thirteen years old, during the winter farm slack, his parents said that the town was recruiting workers and asked him to go to the town to find work. He still remembers his first time. When going to town.
After arriving in the town, he felt that the town was very big and there were many shops, but his eyesight turned black.
At that time, he saw a small wooden board hung in front of a shop at the entrance of the town. There were writings on the board, and there were some boys and girls surrounding the shop. He thought it was the cloth shop that was recruiting people to do needlework, so he went up to ask the shop owner. Is the store hiring?
