Without money, there were fewer problems now.
“Yes.” Xue Yan also thought so.
With the adults around, Xue Yan and Jiang Yue didn’t have a chance to carry anything. Anyway, things like the glutinous rice were in Xue Yifu’s hands, and he was the one who held them.
After leaving the rice shop, they all walked to the place where Tian parked the ox cart.
Li Hehua held Jiang Yue’s hand and looked at the things Xue Yifu was carrying. She then asked, “Jiang Yue, how many pieces of caramels can you make with these?”
“We don’t need that much wheat and cornmeal,” Jiang Yue said. “We need to use all the glutinous rice. We can probably make a little more than five hundred grams of caramels.”
The starch content in the glutinous rice was between 75 to 80 percent. No matter how well she controlled the conditions here, it was impossible to convert all the starch into malt sugar.
Converting all of them was an ideal situation, which could not be achieved here.
“A little more than five hundred grams?! “Li Hehua and Xue Yifu were both shocked. “That many? During the new year, someone gave Grandpa a small pack of malt candy. It was not much, but I heard that she said that it cost her twenty coins.”
Jiang Yue wanted to say that she had spent almost a hundred coins on the malt candy…
It wasn’t much. Buying the ingredients and making it herself only had a minor difference. She had nothing to do anyway, so she would save as much as she could. But if she made a large number of caramels, it would be more cost-effective.
The people who came with Tian in the morning also knew that he would go back early today and were already waiting at the ox cart. When Jiang Yue and the others arrived, the ox cart finally left.
When the sun was still high up in the sky, Jiang Yue and the others were about to return to Locust Village.
“Yifu? Sifu?” Suddenly, Li Hehua pointed at the back of a young man wearing coarse clothes, who was walking on the side of the road with a cloth bag on his back and an earthen jar in his hand.
“It’s Sifu!” Xue Yifu was pleasantly surprised. “Sifu, Sifu!” He immediately shouted happily.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were basking in the sun, and the ox cart was swaying. In addition, Li Hehua and Xue Yifu were looking after them, so they were more or less relaxed and a little sleepy. When they suddenly heard Li Hehua’s voice, they looked at the roadside in front of the ox cart, and it was indeed their fourth brother.
Their fourth brother was walking, so he wasn’t as fast as the ox. The ox cart had already arrived next to their fourth brother within the blink of an eye.
Xue Sifu acted as usual, he didn’t even have to turn around to look, but he already had a smile on his face. When he saw Li Hehua and Xue Yifu, his smile immediately widened, “Yifu! Oh and the kids!”
Seeing that Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were also on the ox cart, he was even happier, “Come down and walk back with me. We’re almost at the village entrance, you can’t sit for long.”
Xue Yan and Jiang Yue got off the ox cart.
Xue Yifu and Li Hehua also hurriedly got off the ox cart.
“Sifu, if you’re coming back, why didn’t you take the ox cart?”Tian chuckled.
Xue Sifu naturally couldn’t bear to part with that one coin, so he walked back, but he wouldn’t say that. Instead, he smiled and said, “I didn’t know that you’d be returning to the town this early! Don’t you usually take two hour from now to return?”
“Something came up at home, so I came back earlier,” Tian said with a smile.
“Then, you should go back quickly. We’ll just walk back. We’ve reached.” Xue Yifu took out four coins and handed them to Tian as he laughed.