Chapter 191: Starch
Since they returned to the village, Li Xin and the others planned to stay in the village for a few days, so they didn't go back to the town at night.
I made Zhu Yong go back and forth to the village a few times, bought a lot of things, and came back to decorate the room. Li Xin allocated a few points to Caiyun, Caixia and Ling Feifei's master and servant, and it didn't take too much time for Zhu Yong to buy all the things back, and everyone worked together, and it didn't take too much time to clean up the room.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, Li Xin took Wenbo and Wenhao to the village chief's house. Caiyun and Caixia wanted to follow her, but it was better not to see so many villagers today. The people in the village are relatively simple, even if they live a good life, there is no family that uses maids and servants.
If there is a servant in the family, everyone in the village naturally knows about it, but it is a very necessary person. For example, Zhu Yong, there is indeed a lack of a coachman at home, which is necessary, and naturally no one will say anything.
However, Caiyun and Caixia are different, so it's better not to take them around.
Besides, it's just a walk around the village, and there's really nothing to serve. It's better to stay at home and help Lian Zhou work in the kitchen.
Soon I arrived at the village chief's house, and when I entered the village chief's house, there were already many villagers in the courtyard. Not only the people of Osmanthus Village, but also the people from the surrounding villages also came. It seems that the village chief informed it yesterday, and the word was quickly spread. These people are really early to get up! I got up and came over after breakfast, these people, some of them are a few villages away, but I didn't expect to have already arrived!
It seems that everyone is really concerned about making vermicelli!
"Miss Li and the two sons are here!" Li Xin took Wen Bo and Wen Hao into the door, and many people came up and greeted each other with a smile.
"Hello everyone, don't be so polite." Li Xin smiled. As long as she came to say hello, she also nodded her head. Ever since she gave the sweet potato vines, her popularity has suddenly improved, and almost everywhere she goes, someone will greet her. In fact, the people in the family used to be not popular, but they lived too remotely, and they didn't have a lot of contact with the villagers, so they gradually became unfamiliar.
And the younger ones, since their parents died, have had less contact with people.
Moreover, the Li family has no relatives except for relatives in the village, and there are no relatives to leave, so they are naturally not familiar with the people in the surrounding villages. And in the village, although there are relatives, there is not much difference between having and not having them. In the past, the popularity was not good, but it was really understandable.
Nowadays, nature is slowly getting better. It's a welcome change! Life at home is getting better, and the relationship with the people around me is slowly improving. The days are always full of hope, and the future will naturally be better.
"Sister Xin, Wenbo, Wenhao, you are here!" When the village chief and his wife saw Li Xin's sister and brother coming, they also hurriedly greeted him. Li Wenxiu, the second daughter of the village chief's family, hurriedly went to bring out some food, and hurriedly poured water for everyone. Although the village chief is only a person from such a small village, he has always been thoughtful on weekdays.
Whoever comes to the house is naturally greeted warmly, and it feels very good.
Li Xin is not verbose, and the next thing is to hand over to everyone how to make sweet potato vermicelli.
At first, it was natural to choose sweet potatoes, and the village chief first beckoned everyone to help carry two baskets of sweet potatoes to the yard. To make sweet potatoes with zuò vermicelli, you should choose sweet potatoes with smooth surface, no pests and diseases, no green heads, and moderate size. After choosing, it is the cleaning process, carefully clean the sweet potatoes, and peel off the two ends and the surface roots.
After that, the sweet potatoes are cut out, and there is no machine, so you can only use manual labor. Simply cut it, then put it in a stone bowl to mash it, and then grind it into a slurry. Naturally, the finer the grinding, the better, which can improve the powder yield.
This is followed by filtration and exposure to starch. The aim is to achieve the separation of slag and starch. Generally, 2-5 feet of hanging slurry cloth is used as a filter bag for filtration, and a total of two filtration times. The first time the slurry is thinner, and the second time is thicker. The filtrate is then sent to a sedimentation tank (the residue can be used as feed). After two days of standing in the pool, the supernatant in the pool is released. Add 1/3 of the original amount of water to stir, then filter again. This time the filtrate enters a small pool and is allowed to settle on a static basis. When the water in the pool is no longer turbid, that is, after all the water is clear, drain the supernatant. Remove the oil powder on the surface of the starch sediment layer, take out the lower layer of starch and hang it into a powder (i.e., flour ball), and move it to the drying field for exposure. When half of the water in the powder is evaporated, the powder is cut into several parts and exposed to the sun. The drying field is located in a leeward and sunny place to prevent dust pollution.
Naturally, the time of day cannot be made from sweet potato starch. Li Xin is to hand over the steps to everyone, and then explain it carefully. In fact, everyone's comprehension ability is very high, after all, all kinds of guys in the countryside, who here will not know! So, she explained it, and everyone almost knew it.
Next, let everyone go home and make zuò sweet potato starch, first make the flour zuò, and then teach everyone to make vermicelli.
After the explanation is clear, let everyone disperse first, if there is anything unclear, ask her again. Of course, not all the people who grow sweet potatoes came, and those who didn't come naturally let those who knew it teach, and then there was almost nothing to do with Li Xin.
When the sweet potato starch is ready, gather everyone together and teach everyone how to make zuò vermicelli.
"Sister, are the noodles delicious?" Walking on the way home, Wen Hao asked.
"It's delicious! I'll know when it's done. Although our family can't make zuò vermicelli, there are so many sweet potatoes in the village that we can definitely make a lot of zuò vermicelli, so we can just buy some and eat them when the time comes. Li Xin rubbed Wen Hao's head, "Is Wen Hao gluttonous?" ”
"No, I just asked out of curiosity." Wen Hao said with a look of disdain.
"Do you really want to eat it? Then we'll eat it and let you watch it. Li Xin said with a smile.
"No, if it's really delicious, I'm going to eat it. Let's hope it's delicious! However, you haven't eaten it yet, eldest sister, how do you know it's delicious? Wen Hao looked at Li Xin a little strangely. Speaking of which, the eldest sister seems to have changed a lot since she woke up from that head injury. It's amazing to get so many new seeds, and the things that grow from those seeds are delicious!
It seems that all of a sudden, the eldest sister will have a lot of things, and the life in the family has become better and better. The old people in the village will always say that if you don't die in a catastrophe, you will have a blessing, I don't know if the eldest sister is also counted!
"I haven't eaten it either! These things were taught to me by the foreigners who gave me the seeds! The foreigner said it was delicious, and I thought it would be delicious! After all, he was right about so many things, and he didn't lie to me. So, the vermicelli should be delicious. Actually, Li Xin really didn't know how to explain it.
Although he made up a foreigner, now only all the things that cannot be explained are pushed on the foreigner. However, the children in the family are very smart, and she also knows that they may not really believe it. After all, these things are the accumulation of her previous life for so many years, and it is impossible for a foreigner to talk to her casually, and she will know everything!
Even genius can't do it. There is also the matter of kung fu, although she is teaching Wen Hao, if she thinks about making it up, Wen Hao may not doubt it. Kung fu is never something that can be learned overnight.
However, whether they were suspicious or not, as long as there was no clear questioning, she would not tell the truth. Perhaps, many years later, when they have grown up, if you ask her again, she may tell them all of them. It's just that now, naturally, it's not the time.
"Let's hope it's delicious!" Wen Hao didn't say anything. Wenbo glanced at Li Xin thoughtfully, and quickly looked away.
"Alright, let's go back!" Li Xin smiled and walked all the way home.
"By the way, eldest sister, there must be a lot of people who grow sweet potatoes today, do we still want to plant them at home? If they were all planted, wouldn't they be able to sell? Although it can be made into vermicelli, you can't eat it if you have too many vermicelli, so you naturally want to sell it. The output is too large, and I am afraid that it will not be able to sell for any money. Wenbo suddenly discussed with Li Xin about planting sweet potatoes.
"Since others like to plant, let others plant first! This year, I didn't think about adding more varieties of sweet potatoes. If you like to eat at home, just plant a little, just enough to eat, you don't need to plant too much. I think about it, this year is still a large area of corn planting. If you want it in the Fragrance Pavilion, sell some tender ones, and if you don't want to play with them, keep them for seeds. Corn is also a good thing, so if the time is right, let everyone plant it too. ”
"It turns out that the eldest sister has already had an idea!"
"In the past two years, although we have planted corn, we have never been able to sell it, and almost all of them have been left for seed. Naturally, I should also plant some and sell them, I don't think I have a lot of money. Moreover, when the corn spreads in the future, it will not be worth much, so it is better to hurry up and earn some money. Li Xin smiled. Speaking of which, she didn't make much money from sweet potatoes! Although the sweet potato vines are seeds, she gives them away for free and does not charge any money.
It seems that the seeds in the future still have to be paid, otherwise the family will not plant them for nothing, and there will be no money. Although a good thing should be done, then sell it cheaper, not too expensive. If it's always delivered for free, I'm afraid that the family will be poor. Seeds also need to be planted, and they need to be used in the fields, and they need to be managed by people, which still requires a lot of costs. R1152