Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 222 You Can't Accuse Me

Xia Chan was planning to make some candied hawthorns. She had been planning to do it before, but Xiao Yunfan's arrival interrupted her plan. But she planned to make a little bit today to try it. If the taste was okay, she would wait until Xiao Yunfan left and process it all, leaving some for herself and selling the rest on the black market.

The end of the year is approaching, and the demand for New Year's goods is still quite high.

Besides, candied haws are only available in winter, so it is not inappropriate for her to take out hawthorns at this time.

Xia Chan had been feeling unwell for the past two days, so she naturally couldn't use cold water to wash the hawthorns. Although the temperature in the kitchen was not low and the water in the water tank was not particularly icy, it was still cold after all. She filled half a basin with cold water, then added a little hot water into it, mixing the water to about 30 degrees Celsius, and then poured the hawthorns that needed to be washed into it.

Just as I was about to sit down and wash the hawthorns, someone suddenly grabbed my arm.

Xia Chan looked up suspiciously, and it was Xiao Yunfan.

"Comrade Xiao Yunfan, is there anything wrong?" Xia Chan asked in confusion.

Xiao Yunfan pulled Xia Chan aside and asked, "What do we need to do now?"

"Wash the hawthorns one by one." Xia Chan said embarrassedly.

Xiao Yunfan rolled up his sleeves, sat on the chair, and started washing the hawthorns with his big hands. He soon finished washing half a basin of hawthorns and scooped them into a small dustpan. He turned his head and looked at Xia Chan, "What are we going to do next?"

"Wipe off the moisture one by one with a cloth, then use chopsticks to poke out the seeds inside, and you're done." Xia Chan felt that her bed sheets were most likely washed by Xiao Yunfan, because he had just pulled her away, and he must have known that she was not feeling well.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help blushing. Her bed sheets were actually washed by an outsider.

Xiao Yunfan placed the wooden basin on the table and stood beside it to continue processing. Xia Chan hesitated for a moment before asking, "Comrade Xiao Yunfan, can I ask you a question?"

"Is it about Yuan Bingchao?" Xiao Yunfan turned his head to look at Xia Chan.

Xia Chan was slightly surprised. She had never expected that Xiao Yunfan could understand people's hearts so well. Then she nodded and asked, "How is Yuan Bingchao now?"

"He was sent to another place and won't be back for a year or two." Xiao Yunfan said.

"Is there any danger?" Xia Chan asked worriedly. If it was because of her that Yuan Bingchao was in danger, she would feel bad. Her only purpose was not to be disturbed by Yuan Bingchao again!

"You're worried about him?" Xiao Yunfan raised his eyebrows. "If you're worried about him, why don't you accept him? He has a good job and looks pretty good. He should be a good marriage partner, right?"

"I don't like him, why should I accept him? Just because he is good at his job, do I have to accept him if he pursues me? Is that what you men all think in your minds, that whoever you like must be with you? The other party cannot make any decision?" Xia Chan said hurriedly.

Besides, is that what Yuan Bingchao did when pursuing someone? To pursue someone, you have to pay something. What about him? Just writing a few worthless letters, he wants to have a partner, and then a wife?
Anyway, Xia Chan didn't see his sincerity. Even if he was really sincere, even if Mrs. Yuan didn't have those calculations, Xia Chan would not accept him, because Xia Chan didn't like him.

"No, I don't think so. Comrade Xia Chan, you can't wrongly accuse me." Xiao Yunfan said hurriedly. He didn't think so. He would only make the person he liked become his own through his own efforts.

I will never try to influence others in a persistent way.

Xiao Yunfan quickly changed the subject, "It's just a normal job transfer, and it's not a mission. There's no danger. You don't have to worry, and don't think too much. It has nothing to do with you, and he's not the only one going there."

"That's good." Since there won't be any danger, Xia Chan doesn't have to worry.

After Xiao Yunfan had processed all the hawthorns, Xia Chan poured sugar and water into the pot, then started a fire and cooked it slowly over low heat. After the sugar and water boiled, he poured in the starch, stirring quickly, then poured in some white vinegar and continued stirring.

Stirring all the time is also a very tiring task. Xiao Yunfan took the shovel from Xia Chan's hand and said while stirring, "Let me do it! Remember to remind me what to do next."

When the syrup in the pot was almost boiled, Xia Chan turned off the fire. When the temperature dropped a little, he poured the processed hawthorns in and asked Xiao Yunfan to continue stir-frying the hawthorns until they were covered with icing sugar. Then he took out the icing sugar hawthorns and put them in a bowl. After they cooled down, they could be packaged.

The red hawthorn was covered with white icing, which looked very tempting. Xia Chan reached out and took a icing hawthorn and put it in her mouth. It tasted sour and sweet and really delicious. She didn't expect that it would be successful the first time. It seemed that she had another way to make money.

"Comrade Xiao Yunfan, you try one too." Xia Chan took a candied hawthorn and handed it over. She thought Xiao Yunfan would reach out to take it, but unexpectedly Xiao Yunfan lowered his head and took it directly with his mouth. His lips even touched Xia Chan's fingers. Xia Chan quickly retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted.

Xiao Yunfan looked at Xia Chan's shocked expression and said hurriedly, "I was stirring all the time just now, and my hands are so sore that I can hardly lift them. I'm sorry, I..."

"How does it taste?" Xia Chan naturally knew that stirring the syrup quickly was a very tiring task, so she didn't pursue this trivial matter any further, but asked him about the candied hawthorn.

"It's delicious." Xiao Yunfan nodded with a smile.

"Then when you leave, I will pack a few pounds for Comrade Xiao to take away." Today's sugar-frosted hawthorns were almost all made by Xiao Yunfan, so it was reasonable to pack more for him.

"Xia Chan, you can just call me Xiao Yunfan without adding the word comrade. Besides, as old friends who have been exchanging letters for two years, I think we don't need to call each other comrades anymore." Xiao Yunfan suggested.

He was always called "Comrade Xiao Yunfan", which made him feel that the distance between them was a world of difference.

Xia Chan nodded and went into the house carrying the candied hawthorns. Xia Chan's brothers were not at home now, and it was not convenient for Xiao Yunfan to be alone with Xia Chan at the table on the kang, so he did not go in. Instead, he planned to prepare lunch. He also knew where the staple food and ingredients were.

Moreover, when he was busy with post-disaster reconstruction, he also borrowed Xia Chan's kitchen to cook lunch for a period of time. He knew her kitchen very well.

After Xia Chan and other sugar-frosted hawthorns have cooled down, they take out greaseproof paper bags and start packing them. This is the first time they’ve been made, so they’re being shared among everyone and not being sold, so just filling up one greaseproof paper bag is enough, and there’s no need to weigh them.