With nothing to do, Lin Xu washed the pumpkin seeds he had just dug out.
After cleaning them, he fetched the salt used for making salt-baked pumpkin in the morning. He didn't start immediately, but first added some aged tangerine peel and other spices to the pot.
After frying them until fragrant, he fished them out from the salt and added the pumpkin seeds.
The reason for doing this is because if the spices stay in the pot, they might get burnt, so he used a slotted spoon to filter them out once fragrant — can't afford to be careless.
If the spices burn in the salt, it's not just the spices lost, but also the whole pot of salt and the painstakingly cleaned pumpkin seeds.
After finishing this, he took the fried pumpkin seeds outside to dry.
Then he squatted in front of the oven, carefully watching the sweet potato chips being roasted inside.
He remembered that when he first put them in, the sweet potato chips were white, but now, they've turned into a slightly burnt yellow.
