278 Thicker
She even found two bamboo poles, washed them clean, and then set them up in the yard.
She then ordered the long, clean chopsticks to be placed at the side.
Even without Jiang Yue’s reminder, Xue Sifu had already brought over the rice flour and flour that he had bought yesterday.
He also brought the rice noodles that he didn’t finish making the malt candy last time.
Jiang Yue stood in the middle and looked around. When she saw that everything was ready, she added water to the big pot and said, “Can… you boil this water for me?”
“Of course, I can,” Li Hehua quickly went to the stove to start the fire.
After adding a pot of water to the pot, Jiang Yue asked him to cover the pot.
Then, she walked to a wooden basin and said to Liu Guixia, “Please pour the rice noodles in.”
Adding the flour, it was only about six kilograms. Liu Guixia quickly poured the rice flour into the wooden basin.
Xue Sifu stared at it without blinking, as if he would miss something if he blinked. Jiang Yue was doing this for him to try. He had to perfect it in one go for her.
“Add water and make it into rice milk.” Jiang Yue said. “You can’t add too much. It won’t work if it’s too diluted. You have to make it a little thicker. Otherwise, you won’t be able to make rice noodles later.”
“Okay.” Liu Guixia responded while her hands kept moving. She was also very careful when she worked, afraid that she would not do it well.
“Add some flour. We’re adding it to make sure everything sticks and to prevent the dough from cutting too early. There’s no need to add so much. We’ll just add a small amount this time. In the future, if it’s rice flour that���s ground from morning rice, there’s no need to add normal flour.” He didn’t know if this rice flour was early rice or ripped rice. He only nodded along, not breaking his concentration.
“Okay.”
“You must mix it well.”
“Okay.”
Seeing this, Xue Sifu also helped to stir the rice. With two people stirring in the same direction, it was much faster. Soon, the rice was mixed evenly. It was thick and suitable for making rice noodles.
Jiang Yue was afraid that the rice noodles would be uncooked, so she stirred them for a while just in case.
“Jiang Yue, the water is boiling,” Li Hehua said at this time.
“Alright,” Jiang Yue replied. She wasn’t in a hurry to open the lid, but instead, she asked Xue Sifu and Liu Guixia to put the stirred rice milk together in the pot on the stove.
She then asked him to place another basin on the side and filled it with half a basin of cold water.
Then, she asked Xue Sifu and Liu Guixia to each take a pair of long chopsticks and said, “When it’s done, I will tell you to fish out the cooked rice in the pot when I see that it’s done. You will quickly fish out the noodles and put them in this big pot of water. There’s cold water in this basin. Not only can it prevent the rice noodles from sticking together and becoming loose, but it can also make them chewy. My mother did that last time and it worked.”
“Good, good.” Xue Sifu and Liu Guixia both agreed and concentrated on the boiling water.
Only then did Jiang Yue find a small stool and place it beside the stove. Then, she stood on the small stool. She was not that tall, so she had to do it this way to make it easier to operate.
Then, she lifted the lid of the pot and saw the boiling water inside.
Then, she took a wooden ladle with small holes at the bottom with one hand and placed it on the water in the big pot, but some distance away from the water. Her other hand was holding a clean ladle that had been prepared earlier. She scooped up a small ladle of rice milk and placed it into the wooden ladle.
She didn’t use a wooden ladle to scoop the rice directly because there were holes at the bottom of the wooden ladle, which would leak out. She did not want to stain the white rice milk all over the stove.
Even without Jiang Yue’s reminder, everyone could feel that this was the most crucial part.
He saw Yu Hongyan standing at the side, holding her breath.