342 Guilty
“Tendons? They kind of do.” Liu Guixia and the others laughed. “What are you going to do next?”
Jiang Yue couldn’t directly say that she was going to make liangpi, so she said, “I haven’t thought about it yet, I have to think about it.”
Li Hehua was afraid that Jiang Yue would be anxious, so she immediately whispered, “Jiang Yue, don’t be anxious. There’s no hurry. You can slowly ponder over it. It’s fine if you can’t figure it out.”
“That’s right, that’s right. Take it slow. We still have the cold rice noodles. It’s really okay if you can’t figure it out now.” Liu Guixia and Yu Hongyan agreed.
“Okay.” Jiang Yue agreed.
The next step was to wait for the water to settle down.
When they were washing the dough, Xue Yan and Jiang Yue were quite busy, but now they had to wait, so they could relax. They just sat there and didn’t say anything, letting Liu Guixia and the others watch. They really thought that they were thinking about what to do next, which made them feel distressed.
Their two precious children were so young, but they were already worried about their family’s livelihood.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan felt a little guilty after seeing how Liu Guixia and the others were acting.
After lunch, Xue Dafu and the others went up the mountain to work on the workshop. Li Hehua washed the dishes and the two pots that had been used for lunch. There were so many people, and one pot couldn’t cook that much. Thus, Li Hehua used two pots and planned to continue cooking rice noodles in the afternoon.
At this moment, Jiang Yue, who had nothing to do, looked at the water and saw that it had been separated into layers. The top was water and the bottom was white liquid, which was earlier than she had expected.
“Can Xue Yan and I use the small pot?” Jiang Yue said.
Usually, Li Hehua and the other girls would use a big pot or a small pot to make the rice noodles at the same time. Today, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were thinking about a new type of noodles. No matter how new it was, they would definitely need a pot to cook it. They had already guessed that Jiang Yue and Xue Yan might need a pot today. Before Li Hehua could answer, Liu Guixia, who was by the stove, had already nodded with a smile, indicating that it was okay to give them the pot.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan made some preparations before using the small pot.
He poured away the water on top, leaving only the thick white flour paste below.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan even filtered the white flour paste to make it finer.
They also prepared a large plate with a clean round and a flat bottom. Since they did not have a steamer, they could only use this as a replacement.
If there were steaming plates, which were light, they could be placed on top of the water in the pot. However, all they had were normal plates, which were heavy and would sink if they were put directly in the water.
Fortunately, there was a steamer at home, which was usually used to steam the cornbread.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan also brought a clean steamer over and placed it on the small pot, which had been filled with water.
He steamed the first batch. After the noodles were cooked, he put them aside. After that, he started to make liangpi.
In order to increase the chewiness and transparency of the liangpi, Jiang Yue added some salt to the filtered white flour paste. Xue Yan immediately stirred it evenly with a spoon.
After that, Jiang Yue brushed a layer of oil on the bottom of the big plate, so that the liangpi could be easily peeled off.
“Alright, you can pour it now.” Jiang Yue said.
“Okay.” Xue Yan nodded and poured some white flour paste into the big plate.
He didn’t need to pour a lot, he poured just enough to cover the bottom of the big plate with a thin layer.
The white flour paste was very thick, and when it was poured at the bottom of the plate, it gathered together and could not cover the bottom of the plate. Jiang Yue picked up the big plate and shook it slowly to let the white flour paste flow to all parts of the bottom of the plate, then put it into the steamer.