In the spacious and bright classroom of the kindergarten class (2).
A group of kindergarten children were divided into three groups by Cai Jingxian, ten in each group, gathered around a "giant dining table" formed by small tables pieced together. On each group's table was a large tray, with strings of enticing hawthorns neatly arranged, ready to be transformed.
Cai Jingxian, Zheng Yujia, and Wu Meijuan, the three teachers, wearing various aprons like guardians, stood beside a large iron pot, attentively assisting the children with the spatula, jointly concocting the essential syrup for making candied hawthorns.
As the heat increased...
The sugar in the pot slowly melted, gradually boiling, with the golden syrup shining even brighter under the warm light, emitting a tantalizing sweet aroma.
Cai Jingxian, full of smiles, said to the eagerly awaiting children around her, "Look, the color of the syrup is getting deeper, and the fragrance is getting stronger!"
