"The production of starch is similar. Take mung beans as an example. After grinding into a slurry, it is dissolved in water. It is first filtered, and then the filtered starch water is precipitated. After three days, the clean water on the surface is poured out, and then the sediment is processed. Let it dry. The powder you get after that is starch.”
In the backyard, Lin Wanjie explained to Qiangwei how to make starch.
Qiangwei listened very carefully and took notes with a pen.
Qiangwei's handwriting is clean and elegant, which is somewhat inconsistent with her identity as a cook.
"Your calligraphy is pretty good." Lin Wanjie sincerely praised her, "It's not like ordinary girls can write. I guess she has been in primary school."
Lin Wanjie met many rich women in Xiao Mansion. Even if they were maids, they would learn calligraphy since childhood.
So when I saw Qiangwei's handwriting, I could tell at a glance that she was practicing from below.
Not knowing what she thought of, Qiangwei became depressed and continued writing without saying a word.
Lin Wanjie did not ask further questions and continued: "There are many uses for starch. You can explore the specific uses by yourself. The guests have already arrived, so I'm going to get busy."
"Eh?"
Qiangwei still wanted to ask, but Lin Wanjie had already gone to the kitchen.
Looking at Lin Wanjie's back, Qiangwei's embroidered eyebrows were in a line. Although she was a little cook, she thought she was pretty good-looking, and the guests she met at the inn would pester her endlessly.
This big man has an average appearance and is quite arrogant. He doesn't even look at a beautiful woman in front of him. Could it be that he is blind?
Qiangwei thought, but soon discovered that this big guy was quick with his hands and feet, and had a good eye. He was serving and cooking at the same time, and he was busy without any fuss. He was on the stove in an orderly manner on the first day, and everything was under control.
Today, the shopkeeper was the only one who was very unusual. He was watching Lin Wanjie coming in and out passing out dishes, but he didn't know how to help.
"Xiao Qi! What are you doing?" Qiangwei couldn't stand it anymore. She came to Xu Xiaoqi with a plate of food and handed it to him, "Look how busy Brother Lin is? He doesn't know how to help! "
Xu Xiaoqi was quite honest in front of the lady, and walked out angrily carrying the dishes.
At this time, Lin Wanjie fried another dish.
"Brother Lin, you don't need to pass the food around, just ask Xiao Qi to do it."
"It doesn't matter, it won't delay anything."
Just kidding, Lin Wanjie waited for the dishes to be passed around and hid behind to observe the guests coming and going in the post house. How could he stay in the kitchen all the time?
At the counter, Xu Xiaoqi passed on the dishes and went to the shopkeeper and lowered his voice and said, "Shopkeeper, there is something wrong with the new cook."
Li Ziren fiddled with the abacus seriously, without raising his head, and seemed not to care much. He responded, "Huh? What's wrong?"
"There must be something wrong with that kid. He looks like a bear and has an evil aura. He is not a good person. Are you sure about his identity?"
"It just looks a little more sinister, and it won't come out often in the kitchen. As long as it doesn't scare the guests, it'll be fine."
"Shopkeeper, I don't think he looks like a cook. He..."
"Okay, okay, if you are really so free, just clean the outside of the store."
Early in the morning, I only had to serve the guests who stayed last night, and I was busy quickly.
Xu Xiaoqi returned to the backyard with a depressed look. When he saw Lin Wanjie sitting alone outside the kitchen in a daze, he felt unhappy.
Thinking again about the way this guy stared at me just now, he was no different from a bandit, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
"Since neither the shopkeeper nor the lady believes it, let me show your true colors."
Xu Xiaoqi had a plan, walked up to Lin Wanjie, put her hands on her hips, blocking her sight.
"what?"
"Stop pretending! You are not a cook at all. I can tell the murderous aura in you as soon as I smell it. No matter what your purpose is, please leave. Don't wait until the government comes to arrest you!"
Lin Wanjie didn't want to talk to him at first, but when he saw the boy's eyes burning brightly and his heart fearful, yet more determined, he became curious.
"Tell me, how did you smell it?"
"Hmph, I was imprisoned in Qingshan Village for two years and dealt with the most vicious gangsters of the Jiangnan generation all day long. The aura on your body is exactly the same as theirs!"
When Lin Wanjie heard this, he narrowed his eyes and looked Xu Xiaoqi up and down: "So, you are also a bandit?"
"Shit!" Xu Xiaoqi quickly retorted, "I couldn't help myself. They caught me and I had to help them."
"work?"
Lin Wanjie noticed that the boy had broken a little finger.
Xu Xiaoqi noticed Lin Wanjie's gaze and inadvertently put his hands behind his back.
Lin Wanjie was about to ask what this boy could do in Qingshan Village when he saw Qiangwei coming over.
Xu Xiaoqi also noticed the young lady, and suddenly scolded Lin Wanjie fiercely: "You have no eyesight at all, there are no guests, and you don't know how to chop firewood?"
"Xiao Qi, how many times have I told you? You are not allowed to use Brother Lin."
Lin Wanjie stood up and smiled naively: "It's okay, I have a lot of strength."
Not long after, Lin Wanjie raised his ax and started chopping firewood.
These things are often done in the Xiao family, and Lin Wanjie handles them very well.
After a while, Li Ziren took the ledger to the backyard and saw Lin Wanjie chopping firewood, neatly and quickly, so he nodded.
"This big man is really strong."
Qiangwei was lost in thought when her father appeared behind her and made a sound, which startled her.
"father……"
"How long has this big man been chopping wood?"
"It's been an hour."
Li Ziren looked at the new firewood piled in the woodshed and was a little surprised: "The firewood this big man chopped in an hour is enough for us to produce in ten days."
"Yeah." Qiangwei nodded.
In the past, Qiangwei and Xu Xiaoqi alternated the job of chopping firewood. Earlier, the helpers in the post house could not keep up with one-tenth of Lin Wanjie's.
Therefore, the father and daughter have a lot of feelings.
"Dad is old and has no strength for a long time. He has never done such menial and tiring work in his life. On the contrary, it has hurt you, my daughter, and you often do men's things."
"Dad, it's okay. It's enough that we can still be safe."
"Shopkeeper, is there anything else?" Lin Wanjie threw his axe, turned around and shouted, wiped his sweat, and took a few breaths.
"There is mountain spring water nearby. When you have time, go and get some mountain spring water and bring it back." Li Ziren ordered.
Lin Wanjie didn't say anything, and immediately looked for the pick and bucket.
Li Ziren added, "Hey, I'm asking you to go when you have time, not now. Sit down and rest for a while."
"It's okay, I'm not tired."
Lin Wanjie's innocent and silly look was always reassuring. He smiled at the father and daughter, took the pick, hung the bucket on it, and left.
"Oh, there needs to be a strong man in this family..." Li Ziren sighed quietly, "Otherwise, we would have to hire someone to do all the hard work. How could there be so many people to hire us?"
Qiangwei turned her head and glanced at her father, feeling a little strange. Did her father mean something by what she said?
"father?"
"Observe for a few days to see what this big man's character is like. I think he is more reliable than those literati in the past. My daughter, you are not young anymore. It's time to find someone to marry."
