Chapter 84

84. Chapter 84: Electric Egg Beater

Chunmiao nodded shyly: "Thank you, Auntie Qiulian. Mom's body is a bit better."

Qiulian Niang chatted with Chunmiao for a few words before entering the kitchen. Seeing that Jiang Wei had already started working, she couldn't help but say: "Now people in the village are blindly spreading that you have made a lot of money and are cooperating with Yuelai Restaurant in town... Why don't you go out and explain?"

"Explain what?" Jiang Wei looked up from her busy schedule and asked puzzledly: "I originally have a cooperative relationship with Yuelai Restaurant."

Moreover, it wasn't just them; there were also several restaurants, tea houses, and wine shops in the neighboring towns.

Qiulian Niang was helpless. She stepped forward to start the pot and pour in water, saying: "I'm just afraid you'll be targeted by people all day long..."

Going out to explain a little could also avoid those old women having nothing to do and spreading rumors under the big locust tree in the village every day.

"You are right." Jiang Wei nodded, then added: "Qiulian, help me find a few more trustworthy people to help tomorrow. My manpower here is still not enough."

"Ah?" Qiulian Niang froze for a moment. She didn't react that one second she was talking about being afraid of being targeted, and the next second she wanted to hire people to work. Wasn't this clearly showing that your family had made a lot of money?

Jiang Xiaoxiao came in from outside carrying a bundle of firewood and said: "Auntie Qiulian, my family's snow cakes and ice cream can only make money in these one or two months. Once the weather cools down in a while, no one will eat them. Shopkeeper Zhou also wants to take advantage of this time to make more money. You help find more people to help; it will only be for half a month."

Finding people to help was definitely necessary; otherwise, the five thousand snow cakes and ten thousand ice creams ordered by Jiang Yu, just relying on the few of them working day and night, wouldn't be finished.

Qiulian Niang stirred the glutinous rice flour in the pot with a long wooden spoon. Thinking about it, it was true. Although this ice cream and snow cake were delicious, they were only suitable for eating when it was hot. Once autumn came and the weather cooled down, this business would definitely be hard to do. They had to take advantage of the hot weather now to make more money.

"Fine, then I will find a few people to help tomorrow morning." As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the little tiger raised by Jiang Xiaoxiao follow in, wagging its tail, with a few pieces of firewood in its mouth.

"Aowu~"

The little tiger put the firewood in its mouth in front of the stove and rubbed against Jiang Xiaoxiao's trouser legs as if asking for a reward.

Qiulian Niang couldn't help but laugh: "Xiaoxiao, this tiger cub is quite spiritual. It even knows how to help you work."

When it first came yesterday, she was quite afraid of this tiger cub, but seeing it so fond of sticking to Jiang Xiaoxiao, circling around her all day, and ignoring anyone else, she gradually didn't feel it was scary anymore, but rather quite cute.

"Mom, I'll go see if the stove Chunmiao built outside is ready." Jiang Xiaoxiao touched the little tiger's head and let it go back to the room to stay, so as not to scare the sisters Chunmiao outside.

Now Qiulian Niang wasn't afraid of it, but the sisters Chunmiao were young and would still fear creatures like tigers.

Jiang Xiaoxiao arrived in the courtyard, and the simple stove built with stones and mud was already taking shape. This was a task arranged by Jiang Wei.

The two stoves in the kitchen were definitely not enough, and people would be hired to help later, so Jiang Wei let the sisters Chunmiao go to the back of the courtyard to pick up some stones to build a stove.

Building a stove was simple; children in the village could all do it. Chunmiao was afraid the stove built of stones wouldn't be solid, so she took a dustpan to the backyard to dig up some mud, poured some water to mix it into thin mud, and carefully pasted it on the stone stove. Although this wasn't as good as the brick stove in the kitchen, it was also very durable for burning.

"Xiaoxiao, I've built the stove. Is there anything else to do?" Chunmiao stood up and asked.

Jiang Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said: "Sister Chunya, you help me beat the eggs. Sister Chunmiao, you go to the kitchen and let Mom teach you how to boil snow cakes."

"I-I have to boil them too?" Chunmiao froze, a bit unable to believe it. This was the snow cake that everyone in the village said was very, very expensive. Did she have to make it too?

This-this isn't good...

But in the end, she still entered the kitchen.

Because in this family, besides boiling snow cakes and ice cream, there was no other work to do. She couldn't be idle and do nothing.

As soon as she entered the kitchen, Jiang Wei beckoned her over, pointed to the glutinous rice flour, sugar, and a jar of milk on the stove, and told her one by one the boiling steps and precautions for the snow cakes.

Chunmiao listened very carefully and remembered them in her heart. Especially when she heard Jiang Wei say that if it wasn't stirred evenly, it would burn the pot, she became even more focused, secretly warning herself that she absolutely must not burn the pot; otherwise, this pot of snow cake would be ruined.

Jiang Wei moved a bag of glutinous rice flour to the table in the courtyard and let Chunmiao boil it on the stove outside.

There was shade in the courtyard and a cool breeze blowing, so it was more comfortable to burn the stove and boil snow cakes outside.

Chunya held two large porcelain bowls, carrying a basket of eggs, and was also working in the courtyard. Besides separating the egg whites and egg yolks into two bowls, she also had to help her sister watch the fire.

Jiang Xiaoxiao watched the fire of the two stoves in the kitchen and incidentally whipped the cream.

Because Qiulian Niang was there, she could only use chopsticks to whip it. Her hands were sore from whipping, and she only whipped out a small half-bowl of cream.

Jiang Wei simply chased her back to the room and took out several electric egg beaters from the space.

Seeing these electric egg beaters, Jiang Xiaoxiao's heart suddenly moved.

These electric egg beaters were all small household mixers specially for whipping cream, which could be used after charging. She clearly remembered that two of them had run out of power a few days ago...

How did her mother charge these electric egg beaters?

Associating it with her mother's mysterious appearance today, could it be that her method of making a large amount of ice cubes...

Just as Jiang Xiaoxiao was thinking, Jiang Wei brought the egg whites separated by Chunya into the room to her, saying: "You are responsible for whipping the cream in the room; don't go out."

Having said that, she looked at the little tiger, who saw Jiang Xiaoxiao enter the room and clung to her feet, and said: "You come with me to the kitchen to watch the fire."

"Aowu~"

Hearing that it had to be separated from Jiang Xiaoxiao, the little tiger rolled on the ground in extreme reluctance.

But it didn't dare not listen to Jiang Wei's words. It rubbed against Jiang Xiaoxiao's trouser legs a few times and followed Jiang Wei out.

It entered the kitchen and sat straight in front of the stove, picking up a piece of firewood in its mouth and throwing it into the stove.

Qiulian Niang watched from the side and clicked her tongue in wonder.

Jiang Wei glanced at it and added: "Throw less in; don't make the fire too big."

"Aowu~" the tiger cub responded.

Several people were busy until the afternoon without resting. However, with the help of the sisters Chunmiao, today's progress was much faster than yesterday.

Before dark, all the ice cream and snow cakes for today were finished.

Standing in front of the stove all day, the fire in the stove was always burning, hot and steamy, especially in a closed room like the kitchen. Both Qiulian Niang and Jiang Wei were sweating from the heat.

Qiulian Niang moved several small stools to the courtyard to blow the cool breeze and invited Jiang Wei to the courtyard to blow the cool breeze and rest for a while.