Chapter 692: Cultural Gathering
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Pei’s residence was now being looked after by two senior servants of the Pei family.
During breakfast, Liu Guixia thought about Pei Fufu and Pei Dongyu going to the Imperial Capital and could not help but sigh. “I don’t know when Sanfu will be able to come back. I can’t let that girl wait too long. It’s better to marry her as soon as possible.”
“It’s hard to say when he’ll come back. There’s no war now. Sooner or later, he’ll come back for a vacation. Don’t worry about it. Hurry up and eat. After you eat, you still have to wash the sweet potato starch. Erfu found quite a number of people last night to help. Those people will be here soon.” Xue Dafu said as he gulped down the porridge.
Xue Yan said, “Father, the sun has already come out. The weather today is good. You, Mother, and Erfu should go to the workshop to make rice noodles again. This job of washing the sweet potato starch can be done by Jiang Yue and me. Wasn’t the job of washing the potato starch previously also done by the both of us anyways?
“That’s fine too,” Xue Dafu said. “It just so happens that I haven’t made rice noodles in the past two days. I’m feeling quite uneasy knowing this. I’m afraid that there will be a few bad days in a row and we’ll end up using all our stock.
There’s no harm in having more stock. It’s not like we can’t sell them at the end of the day.”
Xue Erfu and Liu Guixia had the same thought, so they agreed.
Therefore, after breakfast, Xue Dafu, Liu Guixia, and Xue Erfu went to the workshop to make rice noodles. Jiang Yue and Xue Yan came to their old house and brought many people that Xue Erfu had found to wash sweet potato starch for the family.
This was similar to washing potato starch. The skin was peeled off, cut into pieces, and mashed in a stone mortar before being washed again and again.
Finally, the water that was washed out was placed aside to settle.
The dregs that were washed out could be stir-fried for humans to eat, or directly added to pig feed for pigs to eat. However, there was so much that it would definitely not be finished in a day. Therefore, they were made into the shape of round steamed buns, dried, and stored. In the future, they would take a few out every time and add them to pig feed to cook and feed to pigs.
In short, he couldn’t waste it.
After the sweet potato starch was washed and dried, Jiang Yue left two small bags to the side. She usually ate them at home from time to time, and the other ones were made into rice noodles. The threads leaked out and became sweet potato vermicelli.
However, the sweet potato vermicelli was not white, but slightly brown.
It also looked almost dark green.
Anyway, the color was darker than usual.
After drying, making sour and spicy sweet potato vermicelli felt very different from making normal rice noodles. If they were to replace the rice noodles and be added to the bun as the filling, it would feel very different.
Xue Sifu was very happy, but because the quantity was limited, other than the sweet potato vermicelli he left at home, he brought the rest to the shop in town.
Instead of selling the dried sweet potato vermicelli, he would take out some every day and make them into stuffed buns to sell.
Originally, there were several types of breakfast in the shop, but the rice noodle buns were the best seller. Now, there was another sweet potato vermicelli bun to sell.
Unknowingly, it was already the 16th of October, which was the day of the cultural gathering held by Shengming Academy.
Because the last time they went to the Pei residence for lunch with crummy clothes, Liu Guixia, Li Hehua, and Yu Hongyan quickly made two sets of better clothes for Xue Yan and Jiang Yue.
Today, Xue Yan and Jiang Yue were going to the academy to participate in the cultural gathering. There were more people there. Liu Guixia naturally made the two children wear better clothes.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan had no choice but to wear it.
Jiang Yues top and skirt were both red. When she wore them, it made her fair and clean face look even fairer. In addition, Li Hehua had tied a red hair tie for her. She looked beautiful and looked even more delicate than before..