The system’s implication was that Yu Shu didn’t need to be so nervous. Letting Yan Jin discover that eating white sugar cakes with two extra pounds of sugar mixed in was practically the same as poison wouldn’t be a big deal. Yan Jin wouldn’t be hit so hard that she’d become depressed and gloomy.

Only Yu Shu and the live stream viewers could hear what the system said, Yan Jin was completely unaware.

But Yu Shu still sincerely responded to the system in his mind: It’s the first time Yan Jin brought something back for me, it’s enough as long as she sees me happily accepting it. At most, Yan Jin will just misunderstand that I eat alone, rather than that she did something wrong with good intentions.

Since Yu Shu insisted, Yan Jin also gave up on the idea of trying a piece.

It’s just that when Yan Jin turned around, about to lay out the things she just bought for experiments, Yu Shu called out to her, “Forget it, I’ll let you have a taste.”

Yan Jin was just thinking that Yu Shu was going to break off a piece for her to try when she saw Yu Shu carefully using chopsticks to pick up a tiny bit of white sugar cake foam.

[Yu Shu is so thoughtful. Just this little bit is enough for Yan Jin to taste the flavor without discovering that the sugar is too cloying.] [Although, Yu Shu using chopsticks to pick up cake foam, we know he means well. But Yan Jin doesn’t know ah.] [Seconded. In Yan Jin’s eyes, it’s just the stingy Yu Shu allocating a fingernail-sized portion from his own rations. I think she probably won’t want to try what white sugar cake tastes like anymore.]

Sure enough, after a moment of silence, Yan Jin spoke, “I suddenly don’t really want to try it anymore.”

Although Yan Jin really wanted to try the flavor of the white sugar cake that moved Yu Shu to the point of almost crying, seeing Yu Shu’s stingy and food-hoarding appearance, she dismissed this thought.

Yu Shu had only thought of this compromise method that wouldn’t let Yan Jin discover anything amiss because he felt Yan Jin’s gaze just now was too pitiful. “You really don’t want to try it?”

“I actually don’t want to try it.” Seeing Yu Shu giving her a way out, Yan Jin also went along with it and said seriously, “It’s because your attitude was so good, I felt that if I didn’t try it, I’d be letting you down.”

Yu Shu forced out a smile, “Then I’ll have to thank Sister for not holding a grudge.”

“I have never looked down on you.” Yan Jin glanced at Yu Shu and said seriously, “That’s just your feeling, it has nothing to do with me.”

Yu Shu felt that he shouldn’t have softened his heart just now and should have let Yan Jin watch him eat with wide eyes without being able to get a single bite.

Perhaps it was because this white sugar cake was hard to come by. When the white sugar cake foam truly melted on Yan Jin’s tongue, she, who usually didn’t like eating sweet things, felt that it tasted quite good and became even more determined to make white sugar.

Before, in Yongkou Village, after Yan Jin learned that white sugar was expensive and brown sugar was cheap, she remembered the method of making white sugar from “The Exploitation of the Works of Nature” and decided to give it a try.

If the experiment succeeded, Yan Jin planned to sell the method of making white sugar to the county magistrate of Yongning County and conveniently register their household at the same time.

After all, the system was only responsible for transporting them, not for registering their household. So right now, Yan Jin and Yu Shu were still two undocumented residents.

If it weren’t for the fact that the temperament of the two didn’t seem like people who would commit adultery or break the law, the middleman wouldn’t have sold the house to them.

The history of An Kingdom was different from Yan Jin’s homeland. Yan Jin had gone around outside but didn’t find the earthenware mentioned in “The Exploitation of the Works of Nature” for making sugar.

The earthenware is a type of pottery used for making granulated sugar, utilizing the weight of the sugar paste itself to separate the molasses and obtain granulated sugar. ①

Fortunately, Yan Jin still remembered that “The Exploitation of the Works of Nature” had a description of what the earthenware looked like, so she went to have one made.

Then Yan Jin noticed that the store had a small, conical jar that was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, somewhat similar to the earthenware, so she bought it first to make do.

Because the bottom of that small jar was sealed, Yan Jin had the shopkeeper knock a small hole at the bottom.

The shopkeeper originally wasn’t willing to do it. “It’s a perfectly good jar. If a hole is knocked at the bottom, the jar will become unusable.”

Yan Jin: “Knock it well and I’ll pay you.”

The shopkeeper immediately patted his chest. “I’ve had decades of experience in this craft, I guarantee you’ll be satisfied.”