"Superstition is...just..." Just don't believe in science?

But her own and Meng Shaode's journey through time travel was neither scientific nor scientific:

"Ahem, cough, cough, mother-in-law didn't say anything, mother-in-law didn't say anything..."

"Mom, why do you feel weird?" Ah Jiu tilted her neck and looked at Ah Niang.

"No, no, no, I'm just worried... worried about not having enough food to eat, and I'm too embarrassed to ask your sister-in-law for some money. You think this... this is so embarrassing."

Cai Lihua’s topic was particularly far-fetched.

"Why not? Today I earned fifty taels of silver notes and two copper coins." Ah Jiu smiled:

"If it doesn't work out, I'll go to the Inspection Department tomorrow to find Xiao Yanyan, and I'll ask him to take me to Heba Village to get some food. There's always a way to solve it."

"Yes, yes, my daughter is absolutely right. Oh, that's not right. Do you know where the Inspection Department is? Nanming City is so big."

Cai Lihua felt that she had successfully diverted her daughter's thoughts, but she was relieved and worried again.

"I know, the Inspection Department is at the Granary Reservoir." Ah Jiu had already noticed it.

"Okay, I'll let Tongzi accompany you tomorrow."

"What are you doing?" Ah Jiu asked quickly.

Cai Lihua looked at the oil lamp and sighed: "To be honest, your father is not here, and my mother feels empty. She plans to make some maltose and food to send to her tomorrow. Anyway, aren't those children afraid of your father?

Children all like to eat sweets and are always so afraid. There is no other way. Mom, go and coax those children."

Ah Jiu understood that A Niang was helping Dad win people's hearts.

"Then have you haired your hair, mother?" Ah Jiu was thinking about rolling up her sleeves and using her spiritual spring water to make her hair grow faster.

"Well, I've used the water you gave me in the evening."

"That's good. By the way, mother, this spiritual spring water will sprout wheat malt in half an hour." Ah Jiu reminded, don't look back and don't talk about malt when you get up early the next day. The wheat is probably ripe.

"Yes, I remember it was very fast. You go to bed quickly, mother will do it right now."

Cai Lihua quickly rolled up her sleeves and went out to the kitchen in the west room.

It didn't matter. The wheat seedlings had grown, so she quickly fished them out and washed them. Here, she had to use a stone mortar to squeeze out the juice, then filtered it through gauze and put it in a pot to simmer over low heat.

In the early morning, as soon as the fish belly whitened out on the horizon, Ah Jiu was woken up by a strong smell of caramel.

Before he woke up from his sleepy eyes, he entered the kitchen and looked at the back of the figure who was bending over to stir the syrup in the pot:

"Mom, you're done."

"Just the tip of your nose." Cai Lihua's face looked tired as if she hadn't slept all night, but her eyes lit up when she saw her daughter.

"What does it taste like? It's so sweet?"

The bucket stretched out in the yard and found it following the smell.

Even Liu Cai'er came out in a daze: "Mom, what delicious food did you cook?"

Several people entered the kitchen, surrounded Cai Lihua, and asked directly: "Is it so fragrant?"

"Yeah, yeah!" Tongzi Ajiu Liu Cai'er nodded vigorously.

"This is maltose. It will be rolled with fried flour later. It will be very sweet. However, those with bad teeth cannot eat it casually. It will cause tooth decay if it sticks to them."

Cai Lihua was very happy, thinking that since she was so fragrant when she was boiling, wouldn't she be able to earn some money by setting up a stall?

"I have very good teeth." Tongzi patted his chest and stretched his hand into the pot. Cai Lihua slapped him open:

"The temperature of this syrup is so high, it will burn you so hard you won't even be able to use your fingers to count the money."

The bucket rubbed its hands and stretched its head to look: "When can we eat it, auntie?"

"It'll be fine in a moment, go away, go away, I'm going to take the blame."

Several people were suddenly separated for several steps, and Ah Jiu's eyes gleamed.

Only the smile on Liu Cai'er's face gradually disappeared, and she stared at the once cowardly mother-in-law.

Watching her pour the hot syrup onto the flour-covered table, rolling it until it was hot and blowing on it, she thought of her mother.

"Mom, hold the earlobe when you perm it. The earlobe is the place with the lowest temperature on the human body."

"Oh, that's it!"

Cai Lihua imitated, instantly amusing several people.

No matter how you look at it, he looks like a child who has done something wrong and is punished by pinching his earlobe and kneeling down.

At dawn, Ah Jiu wrapped a greased paper bag and stuffed it into her arms while eating: "Mom, I'm going out."

Ah Jiu went straight to the Inspection Department. When he arrived, a platoon of cavalry was heading out.

Ah Jiu was dazzled by what he saw. Those galloping cavalry passed by him. If his eyesight could not keep up, it would be difficult to find Tuoba Yan who was wearing the same clothes.

"Jiu'er?"
Chapter completed!