Chapter 154: Gold and Silver Cakes
Jia Zhengjin doesn't know anything about the history and customs of this world!
Even if you drink the Elementary Knowledge Potion, you have only mastered some of the most basic languages.
So for the so-called Lanlan Festival, he was both curious and confused.
And he is also very unfamiliar with this otherworldly plant called the Golden Silver Tree.
However, seeing that people in this world are so keen to collect the leaves of the gold and silver trees, and can leave all the work in their hands and concentrate on preparing for the festival, he is also a little infected. So Tina took her to join the team of collecting the leaves of the gold and silver trees.
The honeysuckle tree is a fairly common tree species. The reason why it is called a gold and silver tree does not mean that it looks like gold or silver. The main reason is that the sap of this tree is peculiar, and when the juvenile honeysuckle tree is broken, the sap that flows out is silver, and when the adult honeysuckle tree is broken, the sap that flows out is golden.
Although similar in colour to gold and silver, the sap is an edible and non-toxic natural drink. It's just that if you just break it and drink it, it doesn't taste good.
Tina taught Jia Zhengjin to distinguish which gold and silver trees were mature enough to collect and which ones needed to be allowed to grow in their infancy. Then the husband and wife picked the leaves together and had a good time.
By noon, everyone had had gathered enough leaves. In the field enclosed by the outer walls, the entire grove of gold and silver trees was bare, and only the trunks and seedlings remained.
The villagers carried bags of gold and silver leaves and returned to the inner city in laughter.
Jia Zhengjin picked a lot, followed his wife Tina, took Perrin and Christina, and carried the leaves back to the city together.
After returning, I went directly to my father-in-law, Ballint's house.
Brilliant brought out a hand-hewn stone grinding disc and dived buckets of water to wash it.
Her mother-in-law, Landis, took everyone to the river to wash the leaves they had picked.
Jia Zhengjin glanced at the neighbors around him, and they all did the same thing. Almost every household has a grinding disc hewn out of stone, and I don't know when they got it, or did they move it from their home themselves?
Wash the grinding disc and wash the leaves, the steps are exactly the same.
Jia Zhengjin wanted to help, but was immediately stopped by Brilliant Stone: "Master Kean, this job is very simple, you don't need so many people! ”
My father-in-law has said so, what else can Jia Zhengjin do? Although I really want to study how I got this thing, I am also embarrassed to snatch the things in my father-in-law's hand.
The mother-in-law brought back the leaves of the tree with the three girls, and the father-in-law, Brilliant also assembled the washed grinding discs, and then took out several clay pots from the room and placed them in the spouts of the grinding discs.
Jia Zhengjin stood on the side and watched curiously, and Perrin and Christina were also pushed to his side by Tina, and the three of them stared directly at the grinding plate.
"It's on!" Brilliant cried out cheerfully, reaching for the wooden handle on the grinding plate.
Mother-in-law, Landis, immediately took a handful of cleaned gold and silver leaves and stuffed them into the middle of the mill.
"Crunch crunch~~" Brilliant bent over and turned the grinding disc vigorously. It can be clearly seen that the gold and silver leaves in the middle of the mill are overflowing with a large amount of golden sap under the grinding. The sap flows down the edge of the millstone to the outlet.
Tina had already taken the clay pot underneath and watched happily as the golden sap continued to flow into the pot.
"One leaf and so much sap?" Jia Zhengjin was a little surprised.
"In the leaves of the gold and silver tree, there are sacs that store the sap of the tree. When grinding, the sacs in the leaves break up, and a large amount of sap comes out. Tina looked up and explained with a smile.
"It's amazing!!" Jia Zhengjin and Christina said in unison.
Jia Zhengjin turned his head to look at Christina, and said in his heart that I don't know about it as an earthling, but you are also a local, and it is the same as the first time I saw it?
Grinding is really simple, and it's also fast. The family of three of Brilliant and Rantis and Tina were enough, and it didn't take long to grind all the leaves and fill five clay pots.
Jia Zhengjin saw that the clay pot was full of golden sap, took a wooden spoon and scooped a little into his mouth, but there was no taste at all.
"Don't worry!" With the help of her parents, Tina put five cans of tree sap in front of the door to the position where the sun is at its highest, and then said to Jia Zhengjin with a smile, "Let it dry for a few hours first, and it can become a very good ingredient! Now, let's go make seasoning fillings! Keane, can you take someone to the city to set up the stage last time?"
"Stage?" Jia Zhengjin thought for a moment, what Tina said should have been the place where the bard Qiqi performed before, but now it has been empty.
"Put more bonfires, tables and chairs around the stage, and everyone put together the gold and silver cakes that have been made, and then the village elders will teach some young people to perform a show where heroes lead human armies to fight against the demon king and win. Then everyone danced hand in hand in front of the bonfire, praising the hero's great achievements...... "Tina held her face and showed a happy look, "It's really super happy!"
"But I want to see how the gold and silver cakes are made...... Jia Zhengjin was very curious.
"It's easy!" said Tina, "and after a few hours of sun-dried sap, the sap of the honeysuckle tree will precipitate a golden powdery material that is isolated from the water. When the time comes, the water is discarded and slightly dried, and the powder will turn into a soft and elastic dough. Then we chop all kinds of meat or vegetables into minced pieces, sprinkle them on top of the dough, and bake them into cakes and eat them! Now we have a lot of honey in the city, and if you spread honey on the cakes, it will taste very attractive......
"Suck it~~" Just listening to Tina's words, Christina drooled. Immediately afterwards, he folded his hands and closed his eyes and kept reciting the teachings of the God of Light, trying not to be attracted to himself. But the saliva at the corners of his mouth couldn't be stopped.
Jia Zhengjin was speechless, Christina was obviously a foodie by nature but wanted to be an ascetic priest, it was really pitiful! It may have been okay before, but now once she awakens, I'm afraid it will be difficult to go back!
"Keane, go get ready for the stage, it's important to have a good time celebrating in the evening!" Tina said to him with a smile.
Jia Zhengjin really can't wait to experience the festival of this world: "Leave it to me! Go and prepare immediately! We must have a lively celebration party today!"