Happy peasant girls in space

Chapter 14

Mai Duoduo has asked Mai Dalang, Liu Guihua, and the wheat field to cut sugarcane in the wasteland for the past few days, and today they finally accumulated enough to make about one ton.

She plans to squeeze the sugarcane juice to make brown sugar flakes. In modern times, in the county where Mai Duoduo graduated from college and practiced, many farmers squeezed their own sugarcane to make brown sugar flakes by hand.

The brown sugar slices are much sweeter than red sugar.

Mai Duoduo's sweet career of being the "First Secretary" begins here!There is no machinery for squeezing sugarcane juice, so it can only be squeezed manually.

Liu Guihua cleaned the stone mill, Mai Dalang and his son cleaned the sugar cane and cut them into small pieces. Mai Duoduo tied the upper part of the stone mill with a rope, and then passed the rope through the branches of the pear tree above his head to make a natural pulley.

When the whole family was very busy, Mrs. Su brought Mai Taoer and sisters to the door.Mai Duoduo patted his forehead, oh my god, why did he forget to close the front yard door.

"Sister-in-law, Duo'er, didn't there be a lot of cloth for the dowry a few days ago, let's make two dresses for the two Tao'er and Chun'er."

When Mrs. Su came in and saw the mess in the yard, the family cut the grass to feed the pigs, so she twitched the corner of her mouth and said in a low voice: "A group of crazy people, they have nothing to do when they are full."

Mai Duoduo didn't bother to pay attention to her, and when she saw the Mai Taoer sisters sneaking into her room, she said loudly: "What are the two cousins ​​doing? You can't just go in the sister's room casually."

Mai Taoer stopped in her tracks, turned around and said to Mai Duoduo: "Sister Duo, grandma said that your betrothal gift should be shared with our sisters, let me choose the one I like and take it myself."

Liu Guihua angrily threw away the rag in her hand, put her waist in and cursed: "Damn, come here every three days to find scum, Mrs. Su, you want to fight, don't you?"

Liu Guihua's straight temper finally broke out, and Shu walked up to Su Shi angrily. Su Shi was afraid and started a fight. She was no match for Liu Guihua.

So the mother and daughter ran away, probably running back to find Wang's umbrella.

"Father, let's close the front yard door, and the brown sugar making business must not be leaked out." Mai Duoduo said to Mai Dalang.

"Mother, if you treat grandma like this from now on, grandma won't dare to take advantage of our house." Mai Di ran to Liu Guihua.

Liu Guihua rolled her eyes at Mai Dalang, and said to Mai Dalang, "Grandma is Mother's elder, Mother cannot afford to offend."

Seeing that things were almost ready, Mai Duoduo shouted to everyone: "Let's not worry about those worrying things now, the door has been closed, and we can start our sweet business."

Liu Guihua laughed loudly: "Duo'er, why did you talk about sweetness, if it wasn't for the official to coax the concubine."

Alas, Mai Duoduo is speechless, it's terrible to be uneducated.

Next, the sugarcane juice is squeezed, and the whole family works together: Mai Dalang and Mai Tian are responsible for pulling the rope hanging under the pear tree, Liu Guihua and Mai Di continue to cut the sugar cane into small pieces with knives, and Mai Duoduo is responsible for placing the chopped sugar cane On the stone mill, the squeezed sugarcane juice flows into the basin from the small holes in the stone mill.

The family just talked and laughed and divided the labor and cooperated. During this period, Mrs. Wang came to knock on the door twice, yelling and cursing, but it was useless.

Because Mai Dalang pretended not to hear, the other four also thought: just don't open the door to see how you are?
It took more than half a day to finally squeeze this ton of sugarcane into juice.

Mai Di looked at the seven or eight pots of sugarcane juice in the yard and was very hungry. The sugarcane juice was sweet and delicious, but Mai Duoduo didn't let him drink more.

After lunch, Mai Duoduo began to boil sugar. He poured the sugarcane juice into the pot and simmered it over low heat, stirring constantly. The water evaporated slowly, and the juice became thicker and thicker. When the stirring became impossible, the fire was extinguished later.

Pour the unformed brown sugar on a flat grate pan and spread it out evenly. After half an hour, the brown sugar is cooled and solidified, and it is ready to be cut into slices with a kitchen knife.

Seeing the freshly baked brown sugar chips, the whole family was very excited, this is a big treasure.

Ordinary farmers are reluctant to buy a lot, because sugar is much more expensive than pork, but that sugar is maltose, which is not as sweet as this sucrose.

Mai Duoduo thought elatedly: Planting sugar cane to extract sugar, the sweet business is about to start here!

(End of this chapter)