PS: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival~~

"What's the matter?" Before Li Zhengming could finish, he asked Aunt Mihua, who had a straightforward personality, to interrupt directly, "Now, this girl Liu Er can make Qi Zu'er smoke less cigarette bags." This cigarette pouch and pot smoke too much, in the end, it is not good for the body, isn't it? Go back, when the seventh ancestor really loses the cigarette pouch and pot, we will let Liu Yatou come over and persuade our old man. You say yes, Mi'er and her father? ”

"Huh?" Li Zhengji was stunned for a moment, although he didn't take his wife's words seriously, but he didn't object, "Uh-huh." ”

You must know that among the elders of Li Jiatun, the seventh uncle and ancestor smoked the cigarette bag and pot the most, followed by the fourth uncle Li Pinghai in the fourth room, and his father Li Pingxi ranked third. As for the orthographic generation, the most fierce one is Li Zhengshu, the lobby brother of Lizheng. Whether it is the seventh uncle or his father, they are all decades of old smokers, and not smoking a cigarette bag and pot for a day is equivalent to their old life, if they can quit, they will be called alive.

Li Zhengming urinated with Li Zhengji, not to mention his fate, he also grew up wearing a pair of pants. Seeing Li Zhengji's reaction like this at this time, he knew what his good brother was thinking. In this regard, Li Zhengming is not good to say anything more. There's no way, who made the two brothers surprisingly similar in some aspects, they are all half a catty, the so-called eldest brother don't laugh at the second brother.

Because the first time they made the vermicelli, there were not many sweet potatoes prepared, and at most they were only about ten catties, Li Zhengming and Li Zhengji brothers brushed these sweet potatoes in a few clicks, and all of them were ground into a slurry with a stone mill according to the requirements. At this time, Li Junran and Cuihua, who were responsible for selecting mung beans on the side, also selected about ten catties of mung beans, with the help of Aunt Mihua. Then pour it all into the freshly boiled boiling water and soak it slowly.

Because I decided to make some mung bean vermicelli temporarily, I didn't completely soak these mung beans in advance, so that if you want to grind them into a pulp, you have to soak them overnight, obviously you can't make mung bean vermicelli today. Fortunately, there are still sweet potatoes to be busy.

Li Zhengming and Li Zhengji, two brothers, one added water to the slurry, and the other kept stirring, not forgetting to filter while stirring.

"Liu'er, if this slurry is not added with the sour berries, it will have to settle for at least six hours." Li Zhengming had done this work in a small four-room workshop before, and he was a little rusty in the first few times when he started again. After that, there is a fairly qualified journeyman.

Li Junran originally wanted to secretly take out the "additives" she had bought from the manor shop before. A kind of powdery crystals that can quickly stratify the slurry, dilute it with water and pour it into the slurry water, and it will take only five or six minutes at most to completely stratify the slurry in that large vat. Who would have thought. There is even something called sour berries on the side of the Apocalypse. A similar effect can be achieved. Of course, the effect is slightly worse. But even so, it is enough for Li Junran to sigh at the magic of nature.

According to the normal production process, the sweet potatoes must be filtered after grinding into a pulp. Then stir well with water in a ratio of 1:2 and let it stand for at least 6 hours, or 12 hours. After the slurry water is completely layered, pour out the upper layer of slurry water, and then add the same amount of water according to the ratio of one to one, stir it fully again, filter it twice with a fine sieve, and continue to precipitate for six hours. After precipitation, remove the upper layer of water, put it in a cloth bag to drip dry the water, cut it into small pieces and dry it into dry starch before making vermicelli.

It took more than a dozen hours to make it so troublesome, and it only turned into dry starch. The discovery of sour berries has undoubtedly greatly shortened the production time. As for the last step of drying, the wet block can be dried with the help of the heat of the boiler and completely turned into dry starch.

Cuihua relied on her strength to be greater than Li Junran, and let Cuihua wrap up the work of squeezing the sour berry juice. Li Junran got a super easy job of pouring sour berry juice into the large half of the slurry. However, taking advantage of the gap that no one was paying attention to, the so-called sour berry juice still asked Li Junran to replace the stealing beam with an additive produced by the manor. Since there are better, wouldn't it be a waste if you don't use them?

After adding additives, the half tank of slurry was quickly divided into two layers. Wait until you add water again and stir well, then add "sour berry juice" to layer again, and only half an hour has passed. With the help of the heat of the stove fire, it only took an hour and a half to turn all the semi-dry wet lumps into dry starch. This efficiency is really not low.

After that, the most crucial process is to turn the dry starch into vermicelli or vermicelli.

Li Zhengming didn't wait for Li Junran to say more, so he skillfully melted the dried starch that had been dried into a paste with warm water of about 50 degrees, and then rinsed and stirred with boiling water with Li Zhengji until the paste was all translucent and uniform.

The core technology mastered by Li Pinghai, the fourth room of the Li family, is also in this piece. Li Zhengming has been in the fourth room for many years, although he knows that he needs to add a kind of thing in the production process, but what exactly to add and how much to add, Li Zhengming does not know. Because every time Li Pinghai always avoided everyone and personally added that thing to it. Later, the task of adding things fell into the hands of Li Zhengguo, and then Li Zhengtai, and even Li Zhengan, who had hardly worked in a small workshop, also knew......

Only......

"Liu'er...... Isn't it time to add something to it? Li Zhengming probably remembered the days in the fourth room, as most of the jar turned into powder, his face also changed slightly.

"So dad, you really know how to make that vermicelli and vermicelli. No wonder...... You don't want Liu'er to do this to make money. "Where would Li Junran not see that his bun father is uncomfortable at this moment.

"You girl, don't say that your father knows how to do it, in fact, your Uncle Zhengji, and most of the people in this tun, as long as they have been to your fourth grandfather's small workshop to help, they know how to do it." Aunt Mi Hua knew from her little girl Cuihua that Li Junran had a recipe for how to make vermicelli and vermicelli because she had a recipe for making vermicelli and vermicelli, and she planned to take the people of Quan Tunzi to make fans and vermicelli together to make money, so she came to Seventh Uncle Zu with the mentality of watching a good show. At this time, seeing Li Junran say this, he took the opportunity to transfer some Li Junran who didn't know. But in the whole Lijiatun, it has long been a secret thing to say.

"Ah...... "Isn't the formula really worthless these days?" Li Junran was stunned for a moment.

"The point is, it's your fourth grandfather, who hid that thing in it when he was making a face." Aunt Mihua broke through the most critical mystery in it, "I said Liu girl, do you really know what to add here?" How much to add? ”

"I know, isn't it alum, I also know how much Liu'er will add. 0.5, a hundred catties of flour can only add half a catty of alum at most. Li Junran said unhurriedly.

The Seventh Uncle Ancestor, who was whispering, and Li Zheng and Li Zhengshu quickly glanced at each other, and read a trace of surprise from each other's eyes without surprise. Of the people present, perhaps only Cuihua fully believed what Li Junran said. As for the others. There was a little doubt in my heart.

Aunt Mihua, who quickly came back from her surprise, was happy all of a sudden, and said again and again: "Good girl, you really know Liu'er." ”

"Aunt Mihua, don't you think that Liu'er was joking and deceiving you before?" Li Junran was not very happy. Is it true that what people say is so uncredible?

If this is really true, it is no wonder that several of the people present were more or less skeptical. You must know that Li Pinghai in the fourth room got the recipe from Li Feng's family. It's been more than 20 years, to say the least. For so many years. Li Pinghai tried every possible way to hide what originally belonged to Li Feng's family. It's not that no one has ever hit this recipe in the middle. It's a pity that it hasn't worked out so far. Who would have thought that the way of heaven is clear, and there is really that certain number in this darkness. No, don't you let Li Junran, the granddaughter of Li Feng's family, know the recipe.

Now after making sure that Li Junran really knows the recipe. Even Li Zheng and Li Zhengshu had a little more schadenfreude in their hearts. Of course, Li Zhengshu's face will not leak a little bit at all

"Actually...... Although the alum can increase the transparency of the vermicelli and the vermicelli, and make the vermicelli smoother, but after all, that thing has a sour taste and is poisonous, so you can't eat more. Therefore, every time you add this powder, you must not exceed it, and you can only add half a catty to a hundred catties at most. ”

"Girl Liu, you, you're that thing...... Poisonous? Li Zhengshu looked at Li Junran with wide eyes.

"Well, it's okay to eat less. After all, alum is also a medicine, because it has antibacterial and astringent effects, so it can treat sores. Li Junran had mentioned before that she was studying medicine with Dr. Xu of Baohetang, but unfortunately Li Zhengming didn't take this matter too seriously.

"Liu'er, then we still make that vermicelli and have fans?" Cuihua considers the problem much simpler, and the reason why she is willing to contribute is for the two words "food". Now that she knows from Li Junran that the slippery and delicious vermicelli and the vermicelli have poisonous alum in it, Cuihua began to drum in her heart, and she will be able to eat the vermicelli and vermicelli she likes to eat very much in the future, right?

"Why not? But let's just not add that alum. Li Junran grinned, took out a small clay pot from the small bamboo basket placed aside, and put the small clay pot in front of everyone, "Let's add this." ”

Aunt Mi Hua grabbed a handful curiously, and found that the contents of the small clay pot were really similar to the flour at first glance, so she asked curiously: "Miss Liu'er, what is this?" I look like wheat flour. ”

"This is a powder made from ground konjac with some salt. Add three catties of konjac powder and one pound of refined salt to one hundred catties of flour. Li Junran didn't tell the truth, after all, the flour improver produced by the manor shop is really difficult to explain. Fortunately, that konjac powder with salt does have the effect of replacing alum, and the most important point is that there is also konjac on the side of the Apocalypse. It's just that konjac, that is, konjac itself, is also poisonous and cannot be eaten raw, so if you want to eat it, you have to cook it for more than an hour and a half, and cook it thoroughly.

"Konjac? Is it the konjac that makes your mouth numb when you eat it? ”

"Yes. It's that konjac. Boil the konjac for two hours, then cut it into slices after it is fully cooked, then dry and grind it into a fine powder, and finally add the refined salt that is also ground into a fine powder, and mix evenly. ”

"Good boy, so troublesome?" Aunt Mi Hua didn't expect that the added thing would be much more troublesome than she expected, so she couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.

"It's very troublesome, I just don't know what the noodles taste like." Li Zhengshu is obviously more concerned about the taste of the final processed vermicelli.

If it can be similar to the alum that is said to be poisonous, I believe it will be troublesome. The big guys are still willing to give it a try. Li Zhengshu secretly calculated in his heart. This 100 catties of flour is only three catties of konjac powder plus one catty of refined salt at most, but this 100 catties of sweet potatoes can almost produce fifteen or sixteen catties of dry starch.

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow and the yield is also very high, and the best kind of red sweet potatoes on the market are three copper plates per catty. But if it is processed into dry vermicelli, a pound of vermicelli can sell at least fifty or sixty copper plates, and it is the worst quality. If it is the best kind, it is not a problem to sell a pound of 180 copper plates.

Li Zhengshu has been sitting in the position of Li Zheng for almost 20 years. To say that you are not impressed is to be deceitful. But Li Zhengshu wants the villagers of Lijiatun to live a good life. I thought that the fourth room of the Li family had opened a workshop for the processing of vermicelli noodles, and in addition to making a lot of money and eating big fish and meat, I could leave some fish soup and minced meat to distribute to the clansmen in the same village. Who would have thought ...... His selfish fourth uncle only treated the Li family as hard labor. It's just that there is no way to get four rooms in Tunli. It's only strange that this recipe is Li Feng's dowry.

"Don't you know what it tastes like after a while?" Watch as the hazel powder rolls into the boiling hot water like running water, quickly condensing into chopstick-thick vermicelli. Aunt Mihua's face was filled with a happy smile.

"The first pot is almost ready." Li Zhengji, who was approaching the boiling water stove, turned his head and interjected.

"Willow girl. Why don't you hurry up and go home and call your mother and ask Hui Niang to fry that ant on the tree for us? ”

"Hey." Li Junran was also happy, Li Xu's dishes were very delicious, especially after Li Junran's ordering. This level of cooking has been significantly taken to the next level.

The ant went up the tree a few days ago. That is, it didn't take long for the vermicelli to stir-fry the minced meat. I was attracted to Aunt Mihua, who happened to come to the second room and was ready to bring her little girl Cuihua home. As a result, Cuihua naturally couldn't bring it home, and even Aunt Mihua was cheeky and stayed, and even called Uncle Zhengji's Mihua and his son Xiaomu to the second room for lunch together. Afterwards because of this. Li Cui's also made fun of Aunt Mihua. On the contrary, Aunt Mihua not only didn't feel embarrassed, but generously admitted that her cooking skills were indeed inferior to Li Xu's, and even planned to come to the second room every once in a while to visit a teacher (beating teeth sacrifice) or something.

It can be seen that if you are a foodie or something, it can definitely be inherited......

Although the seventh uncle's ancestral house is a little far from the second room, it doesn't take much time to walk back and forth. When Li Junran and Cuihua returned to the second room hand in hand, and invited Li Cui's and Li Xu's back to the seventh uncle's ancestor's house, it was just in time for the first pot of vermicelli to be baked smoothly. Li Zhengming and Li Zhengji are working together to carefully wrap the completely cooled and loose vermicelli into small bundles, and then thread them into bamboo poles, ready to take them to the leeward and sunny backyard to dry in a while.

Although Li Xu has realized that his little girl is a little lazy on weekdays, once she makes up her mind to do something, she is still quite straightforward, and she will act when she says it. It's just that Li Xu didn't expect Li Junran's movements to be so fast this time, and he left home for less than two hours, why was the vermicelli almost processed?

"You girl." Although Li Xu wanted to scold his little girl, he couldn't help Li Junran, so he had to scold angrily. Then he put on his apron very neatly and walked straight to Aunt Mihua.

"Girl Liu, do you know about the fourth room?" Li Cuishi saw that although the kitchen was filled with clouds and fog, everyone was busy in an orderly manner, and he didn't see anything to do with her for a while, so he didn't stay in the kitchen longer, but took the opportunity to pull Li Junran aside.

"Grandma, do you want to say that the fourth grandfather's family has a small workshop that is also making vermicelli and vermicelli?" Li Junran nodded, "Aunt Mihua has already told Liu'er. The fourth grandfather's family has a small workshop to make the vermicelli and vermicelli, is it possible that others are not allowed to do it? Besides, the recipe used by Liu Er is different from that of the fourth grandfather's. ”

What if it's exactly the same? This processing recipe can't be regarded as the Li family's four-room, and even tracing its source, saying that it is the Yang family's ancestral recipe can't be counted.

"Different?" Li Cui's was also worried, and he didn't want to have more to do with the family in the fourth room, not to mention that Li Feng's family was also involved here. In Li Cui's view, no matter what, Li Feng's is his son's mother after all. Now listen to what Li Junran said. The stone in Li Cui's heart can finally be put down a little.

"Yes, second aunt. Fang Cai Liu'er girl has said that the fans and vermicelli made by the fourth uncle are all alum. As for us, according to the recipe of Liu Er girl, konjac powder and refined salt are used, but the two are different. And that alum is poisonous, so you can't use it more, let alone eat more. Li Zhengshu's words undoubtedly made Li Cui's family feel more at ease.

"Second aunt, before you came, I discussed it with the Seventh Ancestor. I also listened to the opinion of the willow girl by the way. This recipe for processing vermicelli and vermicelli is considered to be bought from the clan and Liu Yatou. Looking back, Liu Yatou asked your father to accompany you to the ancestral hall of the clan to receive silver. ”

"Uncle Li Zheng, you can't ask for this silver Liu'er." Li Junran didn't think that he would be able to get the silver. Hurriedly waved his hand and refused. "Liu Er knows. If it weren't for Uncle Li Zheng and the elders of the clan, Liu Er would not have been able to leave Chengfu and return to Lijiatun so early. Uncle Li Zheng, this recipe should be used as Liu Er to repay Li Jiatun for a life-saving kindness. Good no good? ”

Although Li Junran doesn't really want to admit it, there are some things that can't be ignored just because no one tells the truth for the time being. The reason why she was able to get the deed of sale from Cheng Zhang's in advance and so easily was also thanks to Li Xu's taking Li Jiatun Lizheng and the old clan's joint letter of guarantee. Although Cheng Zhang's didn't have any good intentions and took a fake deed of sale to fool Li Xu's family, on the bright side, he still gave a little thin noodles.

Li Zhengshu's eyes flickered obviously, and then he smiled: "Otherwise, although this silver is not much, it is still counted on Liu Yatou's head." Looking back, this silver should be donated by Liu Yatou to repair the Li family ancestral hall. Seventh Old Ancestor, Second Aunt, Mingzi, do you think this is good? ”

Although the third grandfather, the fifth grandfather, and several other Li family elders were not there at this time, Li Zhengshu, who was Li Zheng, still told Li Cui's family what he had discussed with the seventh uncle and ancestor before. That's roughly what happened: Li Junran donated the recipe of how to process vermicelli and vermicelli to Li Jiatun, and as long as the Li family is willing to learn, they can go to Lizheng's house or go to Aunt Wufang Mihua, and learn it.

As for the vermicelli and vermicelli made by the family, they are also responsible for recycling according to their quality. Sweet potato vermicelli is of high quality and has 60 copper plates per catty, 45 copper plates of ordinary quality are 1 catty, and 20 copper plates are scattered and 1 catty. As for mung bean vermicelli, the price is slightly higher, the best quality is eighty copper plates a catty, the ordinary quality fifty copper plates are a catty, and the scattered twenty-five copper plates are a catty.

To be fair, this price is slightly lower than the market price. And anyone who is willing to learn how to make vermicelli and vermicelli must sign a so-called confidential cooperation contract in advance, and the recipe shall not be leaked within five years, and the most important point is that the processed vermicelli and vermicelli shall not be sold privately. The idea was made directly by Li Zhengshu after Li Junran hinted.

Because the seventh uncle's ancestral family had a Li Ji grocery store in the town, the sales work was handed over to Li Zhengyuan. For this reason, for every pound of vermicelli or vermicelli sold in the clan, Li Zhengyuan will be paid an additional rebate of ten copper plates and as little as one copper plate. When signing a confidential cooperation contract, the clan will also clearly inform the clan that the difference in the price of the money earned from selling vermicelli and vermicelli will be "taken from the clan and used for the clan". In layman's terms, it is used to repair the Li family ancestral hall. Of course, if there is still a surplus of silver at that time, it will be used to buy Zongtian, or to build roads and bridges. If you don't buy New Year's pigs during the New Year, when the time comes, if there are Li family members who participate in the processing of vermicelli noodles, they will work more and share more points according to the household.

Originally, according to the custom, it was evenly distributed by households. Li Junran did not agree with this, and the experience of the previous life of big pot rice is enough to show that egalitarianism is not feasible, and only by distributing more work according to work can we fully mobilize people's enthusiasm. The property of the side can still be according to the original rules, how it was originally and is still like this. But only the processing and sales of vermicelli, if you are more egalitarian, I am afraid that when the time comes, let alone the pigs, even the repair of the Li family ancestral hall may not be able to make enough money.

If you want to say that this ginger is still old and spicy, although the seventh uncle didn't say much, but in terms of how to distribute the difference in the last money, Li Junran hinted at it slightly, and he understood, and even said what Li Junran wanted to express quite cooperatively. Even in the rebates to help sell, he also took the initiative to reduce some, and pressed the final price to a pound of broken copper plates, three ordinary copper plates, and five high-quality copper plates.

It is said that they pity the hearts of parents all over the world. Whether it was relying on his oldest and highest rank before, playing like a laipi to turn Li Zhengming into the eldest grandson who had passed out under his name, or now taking the initiative to give profits to the clan, everything the Seventh Uncle Ancestor did was for Li Zhengyuan, the only grandson. The Seventh Uncle Ancestor has planned so much, just because he is worried that he is old, and one day there will be a case, and both the clan and Li Zhengming will be able to bless their only and underage grandson Li Zhengyuan in the past.

I remember that in the "Filial Piety Trial Fu" by Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, there was a saying that "the kindness of parents, how can the clouds be repaid, kindness is like rivers and seas, and filial piety is like a trickle of dust".

For some reason, Li Junran was homesick again, and remembered his father Li and mother Li in his previous life.

"Liu'er." Cuihua, who was helping Aunt Mi Hua dry the vermicelli, was still chattering, but when she saw that Li Junran didn't respond for a long time, she turned her head, but unexpectedly found that Li Junran was not quite right. (To be continued......)