Capítulo 170: Later...

And whether it was wheat, glutinous rice, flour, or cornmeal, they were all grains.

Thus, the four of them went to the rice shop on the next street.

The people here did not know the theory behind the production of malt sugar. They only knew how to do it. However, Jiang Yue knew that after the wheat germinated, it would produce a type of malt enzyme. This enzyme could decompose the starch in glutinous rice into malt sugar.

Therefore, they needed to buy wheat to germinate the candy.

They also had to buy glutinous rice.

However, because this was the South, most of the crops were rice and not wheat. The wheat had to be transported from the North, so wheat and flour were quite expensive here.

In the North, one could buy half a kilogram of wheat for ten coins, and in the South, it was about fifteen coins.

The flour was made from wheat, so it was even more expensive. In any case, it was more expensive than rice powder.