Crispy little husband

On the night of Shangyuan Festival, Su Xin and the others made a scene of thieves three times when they were in Huadeng Street, and they were stopped every time without making a big fuss. To be honest, it somewhat affected the fun experience.

However, Su Xin thinks it is very good to comment on the lanterns on both sides of the river alone. If he is not blind or misremembered, there should be hundreds of different kinds of these lanterns. There are all kinds of large and small, and some are exquisite and beautiful. , some are silly but reveal a little bit of cuteness, some are magnificent, and with the lighting inside, anyone can only sigh a word of ingenuity.

The next day, Su Xin rushed to Tang's house early in the morning, and heard from Aunt Chun that Tang Dong had gone out, not only him, but Yuan San, Liangzi, and Dahai were all with him.

Su Xin raised his eyebrows when he thought about the question he suddenly asked his little uncle last night, guessing where they were going.

"Let's go out as soon as they go out. Let's continue making candy. Maybe Tang Ji will reopen tomorrow. We need to prepare more candy." Su Xin's task is related to making candy, and he doesn't care about anything else.

In fact, Su Xin really didn't care about those things. With the evidence found by Tang Dong and Su Gaoping, when they brought Zeng Guang and others to the court, the case would be resolved soon.

Just after the Shangyuan Festival, the Xu family and Zeng Guang hadn't reacted yet, and they hadn't had time to discuss or implement any plans. Tang Dong preempted them early in the morning and took them outside the county government to beat drums and complain .

Some people may not be able to go to court once in their lives. Seeing the stern-faced magistrate, their legs softened and their hearts felt guilty. They confessed before Tang Dong presented all the evidence.

People like Zeng Guang who had never seen the world admitted what they had done, but the Xu family was not so easy to deal with, but Tang Dong also had a way, and he took out a whole plate of ingots with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

After making a breakthrough, Liangzi's skill in making golden candy has advanced by leaps and bounds. She didn't need to lower her requirements, and soon she really made ingots that looked like real gold. Like a gold ingot.

When he saw Yuan Bao Tang, Master Xu Ji blurted out a question: "What does Shopkeeper Tang want to do, it's hard to be in court. Shopkeeper Tang wants to use these gold to buy people!"

The officials and masters in the court all looked at the plate of gold ingots with straight eyes, and the eyes of the common people standing outside the court watching the excitement were also stared blankly. Most of the people present probably have never seen so much gold in their lives. .

Under the sun, Tang Dong walked around holding the plate, the light reflected by the gold dazzled everyone, and they couldn't help talking.

The magistrate also couldn't understand what Dong Dong was doing. He was just about to ask, when Tang Dong handed the golden candy on the plate to the onlookers standing outside.

At the same time, one and a half adults who followed Tang Dong also took out a plate of gold and distributed it to the two official servants who were in court.

This was clearly intended to disturb the court, the face of the magistrate sank suddenly, how could he tolerate Tang Dong doing such a thing, but before his golden hall tree was photographed, the ordinary people who grabbed the "gold" outside had a strange look on their faces yelling "It's sugar!"

Tang Dong kept the last ingot candy on his plate. He walked up to the magistrate and stood still with the plate, and said respectfully: "Master magistrate, this thing is not gold, but an ingot made from my exclusive secret recipe of Tang Ji." sugar!"

The magistrate ordered the officer next to him to present the plate that Tang Dong was holding. The moment he held the ingot, the magistrate knew that this thing could not be gold because it was too light.

Without personally trying to see if it was sugar, the Zhixian looked at the officials below him. With the approval of the magistrate, the officials put the Yuanbao Tang in their mouths. The sweetness tasted on their tongues told them that it was really sugar. Order lemon sour sugar, sweet and sour, tastes pretty good.

One of the officials liked to eat sweets. After tasting the taste of Yuanbao candy, he put a corner of the candy in his mouth and bit it hard. It is golden yellow, which shows that ingot sugar is not made into the shape of ingots and then coated with a layer of gold on the surface.

Director Tang looked at the astonished look of Xu Ji's head on the opposite side, and replaced it with him asking the other party: "Master Xu, before you asked someone to tell someone that my Tang Ji's candy is the secret recipe of your Xu family, so let me ask, this ingot candy Is it also the ancestral secret recipe of your Xu family?"

"You looked at this candy and blurted out that it was gold, so you didn't know there was such a candy at all. What else can you say?"

Tang Dong's speech was very fast, but sonorous and powerful, enough for everyone inside and outside the court to hear clearly, and immediately stunned Xu Ji's question.

Zitang and the others can still show the candy that they have found someone to make more like Zitang. Tang Jixin brought out this ingot candy, which looks almost exactly the same as gold. Where can he find the same or similar candy? take it out?

But at this time, if he just admitted that he found someone to frame Tang Ji, then Xu Ji's reputation would be ruined.

"Xu Ji, what else do you want to appeal?" The magistrate also looked at Xu Ji's head, at this time the magistrate already believed in Tang Ji in his heart.

As early as when Tang Ji first started selling candies, the county magistrate had eaten candies. He thought the candies tasted good, so he bought some and sent them back to his family. Some of them were still kept at home, so he never knew about them. Tang Ji was actually sealed up after the Chinese New Year.

The head of the Xu family refused to admit it: "My lord, although this ingot candy is not an ancestral formula of my Xu family, it is very likely to be an ancestral formula of another family. As for the candy, it really belongs to my Xu family. Also please be aware of it, my lord."

He dared to do this, but he was sure that Tang Dong and the others would not be able to bring out other candies, but Tang Dong did not satisfy him, so he brought out a few more plates, with jujube-flavored wedding candies and orange candies on them. .

The jujube-flavored wedding candy is wrapped in a thin layer of glutinous rice paper. Through the almost transparent glutinous rice paper, you can see that the sugar inside is like a translucent red date, and even the dark core of the date in the middle is very realistic. .

The orange candy is not wrapped in glutinous rice paper, it looks like a petal of orange, with small sugar particles on the orange petals, shining in the sun, it is more index finger than real oranges Big move, want to have a taste.

When making orange candy, Su Xin also used cooked starch at the beginning to prevent the sugar from sticking together, but after making the finished product, she found that the orange candy made in this way looked gray.

The red dates are darker in color, with a thin layer of cooked starch on the outside, which is not conspicuous, but the orange candy is bright in color, with an extra layer of cooked starch and glutinous rice paper, Su Xin always feels that it doesn't look like that.

After trying several methods, he was still not satisfied, so he finally thought of using granulated sugar to try.

But the granules of sugar are not small. If the whole tangerine sugar is covered with granulated sugar, it will make the tangerine sugar lose its shape. So Su Xin asked someone to grind the sugar into finer powdered sugar, and mixed the powdered sugar with granulated sugar Comes as an anti-stick method.

The crystal clear sugar particles are scattered on the surface of the orange sugar, making the bright orange sugar more eye-catching, as if someone gathered all the light on this plate of oranges, and when eating, the presence of sugar has a certain effect. It is a kind of grainy, which is a completely different flavor from red date jellybeans.

Tang Dong generously distributed these candies to people inside and outside the court again. The size of jujube wedding candy and orange candy can be directly put into the mouth. Even the magistrate tasted one each. He thought the taste was good, and even thought of it when eating The old mother and wife at home will definitely like the red date wedding candy, and the orange candy will be liked by the little girl.

"Shopkeeper Xu, are you going to say that this candy is also a secret recipe handed down from someone's family? I, Mr. Tang, is so capable that I can take so many secret recipes from my family that have never been made at the same time?" Tang Dong looked at it with a half-smile. Looking at Xu Ji's head, "Is there someone who has a new food, and in Xu's opinion, it is the secret recipe of other people's family?"

The head of Xu Ji took two steps back because he lost his footing. He lost completely. He never expected that the person Dong Dong hired to make candy was so powerful that he would lose money in just ten days. Made three kinds of sugar that never appeared.

He didn't try these candies, but because of the different shapes, he thought that red date jelly candies and orange candies were not the same kind of candies.

As it is now, no matter what he says, today he was completely defeated. He misjudged Tang Ji's ability, and instead of getting any benefits, he made a mess of himself.

The result of the case was decided very quickly, Tang Ji's seal was removed that day, and the county magistrate ordered Xu Ji to apologize and compensate Tang Ji 20 taels of silver.

Zeng Guang and the others were the ones who delivered the news. Like Xu Ji, they apologized and lost money, but Tang Dong didn’t want the money. He asked Zeng Guang and others to take care of themselves. Sealed.

The masters and officials who received Xu Ji's benefits also did not escape punishment. Since they did not have time to do more excessive things, the county magistrate only asked them to hand over the bribe money, and then fined them three months' monthly salary.

This battle of Tang Ji became famous in Chong'an County, and ingot candy, which is very similar to gold, has become the most discussed thing in everyone's mouth recently.

What's annoying is that after Tang Ji reopened, they only put the ingots on the counter for people to see, and they didn't sell them, saying that they were worried that someone would use the ingots to deceive people.

Even if Yuanbao candy is not sold, jujube jelly candy and orange candy are still highly sought after. The running business leader Lao Xing who transported [-] catties of candy two days ago is here again. One hundred catties of word candy, four hundred catties of jujube jelly candy and four hundred catties of orange candy, not because he didn't want to order more, but because he didn't bring enough deposit.

When he first saw Yuanbao Tang, Lao Xing was astonished. He tried very hard to persuade Tang Dong to sell him some Yuanbao Tang.

Seeing that he bought more than 1000 catties and several kinds of candies in one go, Tang Dong asked Liangzi to make him a box of ingot candies for him, but it was impossible to buy.