Little wealth

Chapter 181 Fondant Walnuts

When the pot of syrup on his side was ready, the three people outside also smashed out a basket of walnuts.

Set aside a part for frying, and put the rest in the oven to bake on low heat.The sesame seeds should also be sautéed until fragrant, put aside for later use, and then Josh is ready to start frying their walnuts, "Ah Yan, lower the heat...yes, that's about it."

Chen Yan took less firewood from the stove, and the fire in the stove became smaller.

How to fry fondant walnuts? In fact, it is walnuts fried with sugar. The two main materials used here are sugar and walnut kernels.

Josh remembered seeing someone selling fondant walnuts on the side of the road on the way back from school when he was a child. At that time, fondant walnuts cost only ten cents a piece, and there were a handful of them.On the way back from school, many people went to buy a portion. On the way home, friends in small groups bought a portion of fondant walnuts and ate them all the way home. The taste was so delicious.

But at that time, he didn't have pocket money in his pocket, and it would be nice to have a meal.

So every time he saw other people taking money out of their pockets and selling snacks on the side of the road, he would stand behind and watch enviously, but he himself had no intention or thought of going to buy it at all.Perhaps in the minds of these people, they have never had the concept of spending money on snacks since they were young.

Until now, when Josh thinks back to his childhood, he spent most of his time envious of others. He envied others for having parents, envied others for having a family, and envied the happiness on other people’s faces when they talked about their parents and family. He never had those things. Pass.But what can be done?It is an indisputable fact that he has no parents, no home, and grew up in an orphanage.

Of course, this doesn't mean that he will be miserable when he grows up in the orphanage. Compared with some people who are terminally ill but cannot be cured, at least he is still living well in this world, isn't he?His parents didn't strangle him to death in infancy just because they didn't want him, they just sent him to the gate of the orphanage and left him a way out.

Like some children in the orphanage, he once fantasized that one day his parents would go there to pick them up, but many of them were disappointed. Only a very small number of them would be found by their parents. Since they chose to abandon them at the beginning , that is, we don’t want them, even if they are taken back by their parents later, they may not be able to live happily.In this comparison, there is actually nothing wrong with them growing up in the orphanage. There are also many brothers and sisters around them, and the dean is their mother.

Until one time when he went back after graduating from school, and passed the intersection of the elementary school, he remembered the old lady who sold fondant walnuts at the intersection. More than ten years passed in a blink of an eye. The old lady who sold fondant walnuts He is no longer there, maybe he went to enjoy the blessings with his children and grandchildren, or he has already passed away.

It’s just that the fondant walnuts that he couldn’t eat in childhood have always been in his heart. Later, he tried to fry them himself, but the taste was not bad. At that time, he even gave them to his colleagues to eat. Let's try his fried fondant walnuts, everyone says it's delicious.

But today he is frying it for his children and his family, and this intention has become a little different.

To turn sugared walnuts, you need to fry the walnuts first, put the walnuts in a dry pan, and fry them slowly over a low heat until the surface is slightly browned.

After the walnuts are fried and served, wash the pot with water. This is to clean the bottom of the pot where the walnuts were fried just now, otherwise the candied walnuts that are fried in a while will be black.

After cleaning the pot again, wait for the water in the pot to dry, put the sugar in it, put in a little water, and fry the white sugar sand slowly over low heat.Then pour all the fried walnuts in, so that the walnuts are evenly coated with sugar sand, and then the fried walnuts can be served.

"Yes, yes." As soon as the fondant walnuts in the pot were fried, their son hugged his leg and shouted for it.

"Where did this thigh-hugging cub come from?" Josh couldn't do anything about this thigh-hugging pendant. He couldn't throw it away, and he couldn't give it away. He could only pull up the cub who hugged his legs and wanted to eat it. , "You wash your hands first and I'll give you food."

"Wash up."

Fortunately, in front of the temptation to eat, the little boy is very cooperative in washing his hands.

It should be said that every time you hear that you can wash your hands, you can eat, and there is never a time when their little cub doesn't cooperate.

"Ah Yan, come out too, let's try this fried walnut first." Josh held the child in one hand, and held the fondant walnut he just fried in the other, and called Chen Yan and his mother over to eat.

Most of the outside yard was covered by the sun, so they could only bring their food back to the main room to eat. They put the table at the door, and he put the basin on it.

"Take it yourself, try it and see how it goes." Whenever there was something delicious, Josh would feed it to their cubs first.The freshly roasted walnuts were still a little hot, so I pinched a piece and blew it before feeding it to the cub who was waiting to be fed.

Seeing their little boy's eyes widen when he ate something delicious, his mouth opened into a circle, and his face was full of expressions, which made him laugh uncontrollably, and asked : "Is it delicious?"

At this time, Zhao A'mu and Chen Yan both tasted a piece.

Unlike the walnuts they ate raw just now, the fried walnuts taste even better. The outside is covered with sugar sand, which is sweet, and the walnut kernels inside are crunchy. It is really delicious!Zhao Amu nodded and said, "It's delicious, it's delicious!"

Chen Yan's answer was to reach for the second piece, put it in his mouth, and smack it, it's so delicious!

"Well, it's okay, not bad." Josh also tasted a piece himself, and thought it was okay. In fact, he had already tasted it when he was frying just now, but it hadn't been coated with sugar sand at that time. The one with sugar sand will taste better.

After their little cub ate the first piece, he stretched out two little paws, took a piece with one little paw, and stuffed it into his mouth all at once.He hurriedly stopped the boy, and compared a finger with the boy, "You can't take so much at once, you can only take one piece at a time, and you can only eat three pieces a day."

"We still have sesame walnut candy in a while. After the candy is ready, let's pack some and send it to Xiao Nuomi, okay?"

"Brother!" Upon hearing his name, Zhao Xiaonian called out his brother loudly, "Give it to me, brother."

"Yes, we want to give to my younger brother and your uncle Bai. You can't eat it all at once. Let's save some. And your father and uncle haven't come back yet, so we have to save some for them all, okay?" Seeing Xiao Nuomi's son's expression of willingness to give the whole world to his younger brother, Josh told himself in his heart not to be jealous. In the future, his son will be raised by someone else, but now he can feel it in advance.

This time the little baby didn't hesitate at all, and responded crisply: "Okay!"

"Then let's make a deal like this." Sure enough, the answer he guessed was exactly the same, and he said that he was not jealous at all!

Josh sternly moved away a large bowl of fried walnuts, and his eyes fell on the last uneaten piece of walnut in the boy's hand, and told him, "You have already taken three pieces of walnuts today. You can’t eat this piece, can you? Let’s make sesame walnut candy later, and when the candy is ready, I’ll give you another piece of candy.” Let’s go, Leopard, Du, Jia, Steam, Li, Ban, Stop, Wai ,pass.

The little baby counted on his fingers, one, two... three?Another piece?Why does it seem to be missing?

Sure enough, our Zhao Xiaonian did not learn arithmetic for so long with his father in vain, one piece was less, he fingered three fingers, and demanded angrily, "Three yuan! One piece, less!" Three yuan is so much!One piece is too little!

Yo, I also know that one piece is missing!Josh was even surprised that his son's arithmetic progressed so quickly, and he would not be able to teach it at ordinary times, but now he knows that he is less than one yuan without teaching it!

But it's impossible for the little boy to want three candies in one go.Perhaps the experience of the little boy is still young, and he doesn't know that there is a thing called "bargaining" in the world.

"Two yuan, I can only give you two yuan. Originally, you were still young and your teeth were still growing, so you could only eat one piece of candy a day, but I will make an exception and give you one more piece of candy today. But if you eat two pieces of candy today Can you accept this condition?" Josh continued to dig a hole for his son, that is, move tomorrow's portion to today to eat, and tomorrow there will be no sugar to eat.

Xiao Wa'er frowned, clasped her two little fingers, and agreed when she heard that there would be one more piece than before, "...Okay."

Zhao Amu looked at the way the little grandson was bargaining with his daughter-in-law, and couldn't help laughing in his heart. The little grandson knew that one piece was less than three yuan, and three yuan was acceptable without two yuan, but he completely forgot that it was Naminger's. To exchange a share for today's share, after today's meal is finished, there will be no tomorrow.

He was very curious about what would happen to his grandchildren without candy tomorrow.

So at this moment, Zhao Amu didn't make a sound to help the grandson, but just watched with a smile on his daughter-in-law's plot against the grandson.

Only the honest Chen Yan blinked his eyes, isn't it still a piece a day?Could it be that he miscalculated?

"Let's just talk about it like this, but remember. You and Ah Mo and the others play here for a while, and I will make our candies." After telling his son the number of candies, Josh squeezed happily Put two pieces of walnuts into his mouth, let him and Chen Yan eat two more pieces and put the rest away, and he is ready to make their sesame walnut candy.

Before leaving, he did not forget to tell this elder who loves his grandson Ruming, "Em, don't give it to Nian Nian secretly. This food is hot, and if you eat too much, you will easily get angry. If it is serious, it will cause throat inflammation, cold and cough. Don't eat too much at once, grab a piece to satisfy your hunger, and drink more water after a while."

"Ah... oh, good." Zhao Amu didn't expect his daughter-in-law to guess what he was thinking in an instant. He was watching his little grandson finish eating the last piece of walnut with a pitiful look on his face. He was thinking Waiting for the daughter-in-law to go away, I will give the grandson another two yuan.

But when he heard his daughter-in-law said that she would cough if she ate too much, he quickly dismissed the idea.

Seeing his mother like this, Josh nodded in satisfaction and went outside.

Seeing the little grandson looking at the table, Zhao Amu couldn't bear to continue eating this food in front of the grandson, so she asked Brother Chen to put it in the cabinet and coaxed the little grandson, "We won't eat it either. Already, save it for tomorrow."

The little baby could only watch helplessly as the delicious food was taken away, his appearance was so pitiful that he couldn't tell.

***

On this day, Mr. Xu got the [-] threshing machines he ordered, and also got a picture of making a threshing machine from Mr. Fu.This made Master Xu raise his eyebrows and asked, "Where did Master Fu come from?"

"Master Zhao gave it by himself. Didn't you want to send the threshing machine to the emperor? Please ask Mr. Xu to send the blueprints by the way. I won't send it separately." Mr. Fu also took out a letter from his pocket and gave it to the emperor. Hand over the letter to Mr. Xu, "You guys send the letter quickly. I still have a notebook here. I wonder if Mr. Xu can help deliver it by the way?"

As a county magistrate, he had to go through layers of papers, and had to go through the hands of his superiors before being sent to the emperor, but the way to get to Mr. Xu was different, and it could be sent directly to the emperor.Although he himself can ask the Fu family to deliver it for him, or he can directly deliver it to the emperor.However, ever since he became a county magistrate, he has always kept in mind his duty as a small county magistrate. Unless there is something special, he will go to the emperor through a special channel, but so far this kind of thing has not happened. Pass.

Today is just to trouble Mr. Xu, who is here with him, to send a letter to the emperor, and to send him a note by the way, but it is just the effort of Mr. Xu?

In fact, they all know that as long as they find a carpenter to disassemble such a threshing machine, they can roughly know how to make it.But that Master Zhao might have given them the blueprints, which is pretty good.

At this point, Master Fu has a good impression of Master Zhao.

Since Mr. Fu gave the blueprint, Mr. Xu didn't need to go to the carpenter to dismantle it and draw the blueprint again. He took the blueprint and put it in his arms together with the letter from Mr. Fu, "Okay, I will ask someone to send it to the emperor for Mr. Fu."

Mr. Xu didn't ask Mr. Fu what was written in the booklet. He guessed that it was nothing more than what happened in Anyang County recently, and if it was narrowed down a bit, it was related to that small village.

So in the letter sent to Kyoto with the threshing machine, a drawing of the threshing machine was also attached.

Seeing that Yan Shangshu went to Sihe Village with great interest every day, Mr. Xu never stopped him, just because he was afraid that something might happen to Mr. Yan on the way, so he would send a subordinate to follow him to protect him.As for what Mr. Yan did at the little carpenter's house every day, he learned from the subordinates who came back.

Also about the fact that the little carpenter's husband looks very similar to their queen, Mr. Xu even sent his subordinates to investigate, and soon learned from some people in the small village that he was the same as the queen. A matter related to Mr. Carpenter.This made Mr. Xu frowned, but it was just a brother who had a face similar to their queen's. It didn't seem strange that there were two unrelated people who looked alike in the world.

Therefore, this matter was directly ignored by Mr. Xu, and he did not mention it in the letter to Kyoto.