277 Holes
The next morning, Jiang Yue woke up and Li Hehua tied her hair up again. Even though she did not have a mirror, Jiang Yue knew that she had been dressed up beautifully and looked extremely likable.
After washing up, Jiang Yue asked Li Hehua, “Do you have any extra water scoops at home?”
“Yes, how many do you want? I’ll go get them for you.”
“Just one is enough.”
“Alright,” she said.
When Li Hehua brought a water ladle to Jiang Yue, Xue Yan also came over. She looked at the water ladle in her hand and asked, “What do you want a water ladle for?”
“I want to make a few even holes under the water ladle.” Jiang Yue said.
“Actually, when I say that it can be made into rice strips, I don’t mean that it’ll be made into fine strips like flour. Instead, I’m adding water to the rice flour and make it into rice milk.
“Then, I put the rice milk into this water ladle, and the rice milk will flow out from this small hole. When it flows into the boiling water in the pot and is cooked, it will become strips. the smaller the hole, the thinner the noodle.
“However, this is a gourd ladle, and there’s still some time left. It might crack when there are too many holes, and I don’t know if I can succeed.”
“We can ask Yifu for a wooden ladle,” Xue Yan said.
“That’s right, I remember that there was a wooden ladle at home. It was made by Yifu. Wait a moment, I’ll go ask my mother. She definitely knows where it is.”
A wooden ladle was much sturdier than this. With some small holes at the bottom, it wouldn’t crack and could be used for a long time. Since Sifu was going to start this business, he needed a sturdy ladle with holes. Therefore, Jiang Yue didn’t stop Xue Yan and let him go to Liu Guixia.
There was a wooden ladle at home, but Liu Guixia didn’t want to use it because there were many gourds that were cut in half. She had put it away long ago. When she heard that Xue Yan wanted the wooden ladle to make rice noodles, Liu Guixia immediately took it out and gave it to him.
Xue Yan was not in a hurry to clean it, so he gave it to Jiang Yue first.
They could thoroughly clean it after making the holes at the bottom.
If there was no one else at home, Jiang Yue would have done it herself. However, it was still early and there were many people at home. Therefore, Jiang Yue entrusted the task of making small holes at the bottom of the wooden ladle to Xue Yifu.
Naturally, Xue Yifu said yes and busily got to work creating holes.
When Liu Guixia and the others finished making breakfast, the holes in the wooden ladle were also done. Xue Yan took the ladle, washed it clean, and put it aside for later use.
After that, they started to eat breakfast.
They were eating cornbread again, and each of them had an egg this time.
After breakfast, Xue Yan went to herd the cow again after he was sure that it didn’t matter whether he was there or not. Jiang Yue naturally stayed at home and taught Xue Sifu how to make rice noodles.
Xue Dafu and the others went to the fields again, but they were afraid that Xue Sifu would need help with anything, so they left Liu Guixia and Li Hehua, who usually cooked, at home to see if they could help with anything.
Yu Hongyan’s stomach had gotten even bigger, so no one allowed her to do anything. They didn’t even let her sit at the stove and light the fire.
However, Yu Hongyan was also curious about the rice noodle, so she followed to the side and watched.
Xue Yifu was still focused on making his things under another shed. He was actually quite curious, but he wanted to create the workshop faster.
Knowing that they had to use a pot, Li Hehua quickly washed the two pots clean after breakfast. It didn’t matter which pot Jiang Yue wanted to use.
The wooden ladle with a hole at the bottom was ready. Jiang Yue asked for two more wooden basins and another ladle, which was much smaller than the wooden ladle.