I trade in both worlds

"Why don't you buy ready-made ones online? It's cheaper online." Xu Ziqing asked puzzledly.

"I searched this morning and found that those materials are not made of iron. We can't use them there."

"Hey, there's no iron ones?" Xu Ziqing asked in confusion, "I remember cake shops all use iron ones. Let me check."

As she spoke, she picked up her new phone and started searching for commercial cake molds. Xu Xu also came over to take a look.

"Yes, look." Xu Ziqing opened the mold page and handed it to her: "It says here that the material is iron. You can see that there are big and small ones."

"How about buying two and bringing them back to see?" Xu Xu said hesitantly.

"Just buy one and try it out, there's no need to buy two," Xu Ziqing suggested.

"Then buy this small cake mold, a small one. My cousin has built a small oven at home, so you can try it first. If it works well, I'll ask him to build one at my house so that you can use it yourself."

As he spoke, Xu Xu picked up his phone and searched for the store that Xu Ziqing was looking for, and directly placed an order to buy a 96-hole mold.

Xu Ziqing saw her placing an order and asked in confusion, "Why did you buy such a small one?"

Xu Xu said shyly: "I saw those small cakes are very cute."

After that, he asked again: "How many days does it usually take to receive the express delivery?"

"Come here, let me teach you how to check the logistics information." Xu Ziqing leaned over and opened her order information: "Look, you can see the order information here. The bicycle and molds were both bought from Jingjing. Generally, I can receive them the next day, and at the latest the third day."

Then he clicked on the bicycle order: "Look, this is the logistics information. This is a map. You can see where your items are. Here is the estimated delivery time. This shows that the bicycle is expected to be delivered tomorrow."

Xu Xu opened the map and saw a car standing still in a line. Xu Xu looked at Xu Ziqing in confusion.

Xu Ziqing pointed at the phone and said, "This means that the things you bought are transported by land, by truck. The gray route represents where the truck has been. The things you bought are shipped from here, and the delivery address is here."

Xu Xu nodded as if she understood, she only knew that the bicycle had not arrived yet.

After buying what he wanted, Xu Xu turned on the video and looked for new Chinese Hanfu, hoping to find some inspiration and modify a few styles to suit Dayun Dynasty.

The next day, Xu Xu spent half a day making clothes. After receiving the bicycle in the afternoon, he and Xu Ziqing assembled it for the whole afternoon.

After receiving the mold, Xu Xu did not stop for a moment and brought several children to Xu Jizong's house.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "There is silver, there is silver."

Hearing the shout, Second Aunt Xu came out from the kitchen: "Xu Xu, You Yin is setting up the oven in the backyard. Is there something urgent you want to talk to him about?"

Xu Xu raised the mold in his hand and said, "I have a mold made here. Give it to me and try it first."

"The mold is ready?" Aunt Xu came over happily: "Let me see."

Xu Xu handed over the mold in her hand. Aunt Xu turned the mold over and over and asked in confusion, "Why is it so small?"

Xu Xu smiled and said, "There are big ones and small ones. Make the small one first, and I'll take it and try it out."

Second Aunt Xu nodded: "Small ones are also good. Rich people like to eat one at a time. It's also better if they are made delicately."

"I thought so too." Xu Xu would never admit that he bought it just to try it out because it was small and cute.

Second Aunt Xu took the mold and pulled Xu Xu to the kitchen: "Come on, come on, come on, let's go and try it."

As soon as I entered the kitchen, Aunt Xu turned around and said, "I left your recipe in the room. I'll get it out first. Read it to me and I'll make it."

"No need to get it." Xu Xu pulled her: "I remember how to do it."

"Just remember it." Aunt Xu looked at Xu Xu: "What should I do now?"

"Steamed flour..." Xu Xu repeated the steps of how to make low-gluten flour.

As Aunt Xu listened, she put a layer of cloth on the steamer with a stern face, then scooped a pound of flour and spread it on the steamer. She used chopsticks to poke a few holes in the flour to allow air to circulate, covered it with the steamer cloth, and steamed it over low heat for a quarter of an hour.

After opening the lid, the flour had already clumped together. Aunt Xu crushed the clumped flour with a rolling pin, and finally sifted it repeatedly with a sieve, crushed the large grains of flour again, and then continued to sift, and what came out was low-gluten flour.

Aunt Xu took out a basket of eggs from the cupboard and prepared to beat the egg whites, while Xu Xu found a soup bowl and took some wood ash to the well to wash them.

Second Aunt Xu asked in confusion: "Xu Xu, this bowl has been washed clean, you just need to rinse it with water, no need to wash it again."

Xu Xu was washing the bowl and said without looking back: "Second Aunt, the bowl for beating egg whites must not have any oil, otherwise it won't be able to be beaten out. I'll wash it more to make sure we can beat it out in one go."

"There is such a saying. Okay, then go ahead and wash it." Aunt Xu silently kept this request firmly in her heart.

Xu Xu was silent for a while as he watched Second Aunt Xu scoop out the egg yolks with a spoon and put them into the dough bowl, and then use two chopsticks to beat the egg whites.

After thinking about it, Xu Xu took a long bamboo strip from the yard. Aunt Xu split it into four strips and then broke it in half, making exactly eight strips. They then bent them with fire and finally tied them up with hemp ropes. A 1-wire egg beater was made.

Aunt Xu took the egg whisk and started beating. She stirred for a long time and felt her hands were almost broken. Only then did some white foam appear on the egg whites in the bowl.

She shook her hands, looked at Xu Xu suspiciously and asked, "Can this really make you feel like cotton?"

"Is it OK?" Xu Xu replied uncertainly, and then thought carefully about the video he had seen before, and confirmed again: "Of course it can be done. I'll try it. We can take turns. It's too tiring for one person to fight."

Xu Xu took the egg beater and started beating until his arms became sore and weak, and the egg whites in the bowl had turned into white foam.

Aunt Xu leaned over to take a look and said in amazement, "Wow, egg whites can really be beaten to feel like cotton."

Xu Xu looked at the egg whites in the bowl carefully and felt that the foam was a bit like the fish-eye foam mentioned in the video, so he poured in one third of the prepared sugar.

"Aunt, please beat it for a while. My hands are not strong enough." Xu Xu handed the egg beater to Aunt Xu.

"I'll do it. You take a rest first." Aunt Xu started to take over.

I kept going back and forth like this, and I don't know how long it took, but I finally made a small tip.

Both of them sat slumped at the stove, shaking their hands, not wanting to move or even talk.

After a short rest, Second Aunt Xu stood up first: "Come on, finish the last step, and we'll wait to eat the egg cake."