The fastest way to get to know this huge mountain forest is to find the people in these villages or the people who know the most about the mountains and forests, and inquire about the specific situation one by one.

In the end, according to what they described, mobilizing as many people as possible ran to the side.

In addition to the mountains and forests, they also have to rent the villagers' fields, which also needs your help.

In Zhaojia Village alone, even if all the villagers' land is rented, it is only a few thousand acres, far from the amount required by the Xue family.

But when Zheng Linchu gave the amount of silver, he had almost counted all the sweet potato vine seedlings.

They did the math roughly.

In addition to the thousands of acres of mountains and forests, at least 30,000 or 40,000 acres of land from the villagers have to be planted to plant these vine seedlings.

But the premise is that the time is in time, otherwise even if you rent more fields, it will be in vain.

Although in the current situation, it is somewhat unrealistic to use all the vine seedlings.

However, the preparations that should be made must be done in advance, otherwise it is not that they do not have the ability, but simply that they are not careful, after all, they have already given enough money.

When Jiang Qianyue and the others were running around the villages, the people staying at home pondered the tools, drawings, and instruction manuals that Zheng Linchu had brought.

After reading the instruction manual, they realized that there are quite a few finished products that can be made from this sweet potato.

Of course, the easiest thing is to make shredded sweet potatoes, and this shredded sweet potato is also one of the main needs of the Zheng family.

To make shredded sweet potatoes, you need to use the sweet potato planers brought by Zheng Linchu.

The sweet potato was about three feet long and shaped like a long plank, with a slightly narrower tail, a wider middle, and the narrowest head.

The middle piece is hollowed out, and a rectangular copper sheet is installed, which is convex and concave, and rows of evenly sized inclined round holes are pierced.

Studying these tools, the best thing is naturally Xue Yuhe, who has a handiwork.

I saw Xue Yuhe sitting in the yard studying the sweet potato planer, and Xue Longjing and Xue Xuanjing, the two little sisters, were reading the instruction manual on the side and studying how to use it.

And others are washing sweet potatoes for washing sweet potatoes, washing wooden pots for washing wooden basins.

The family has a large population, and the washing is naturally fast.

More than a dozen people will soon be able to wash out several baskets of sweet potatoes.

Once everything is ready, you can use the sweet potato planing to shave the shredded sweet potato.

I only heard Xue Yuhe say quietly to Xue Xuan, "Xiao Qi, Xiao Jiu, how are you two looking?" ”

Xue Xuanjing replied, "Dad, it's almost." ”

"So how do you use it?"

I heard Xue Xuanjing say with a straight face, "First of all, let's find a place that can withstand the planer." ”

The two sisters looked around, and saw Xue Longjing pointing to the wall to Xue Yuhe, "Second uncle, just put it next to the wall, put the bottom end of the planer against the foot of the wall, then we won't slide away when we use it." ”

After that, everyone came to the wall, and Xue Yuhe put one end of the planer against the foot of the wall as she said, and found a good place for the stool in his hand to sit down.

"Daddy, hold this end and sit on the stool, but your stool is too low, you have to find a taller one..."

Under the guidance of the two, everyone found a stool of the right height for Xue Yuhe.

Later, I saw Xue Yuhe sitting on a high stool, holding one end of the sweet potato planer in his hand, and the other end against the foot of the wall, and a large basin was placed under the copper sheet.

With the other hand, he took a large sweet potato, held the head of the sweet potato, pressed it a few inches above the copper sheet, and then pressed it forward, and when it was pushed onto the copper sheet, it was obvious that it had encountered some resistance.

When the sweet potato was pushed through the copper sheets, dozens of shredded sweet potatoes were added to the wooden basin.

Xue Yuhe came here so many times, and he roughly knew how to use it.

But Xue Xuanjing can still tell a lot of details, such as not picking up the sweet potato after pushing it through the copper sheet, but continuing to gently press it and pull it back, so that the action can be coherent and convenient for the next push.

And the speed of this push and pull should also be fast, only fast can be planed fast, and the resistance encountered on the copper sheet is also small, and it is easier to grater.

When pushing and pulling, you should also pay attention to the posture of grasping sweet potatoes with your palms, as the small holes in the copper sheet are extremely sharp, and a piece of meat will be scraped away if you are not careful.

Grater is actually relatively simple, and after Xue Yuhe used it for a period of time under the guidance of the two, he was able to use sweet potato planer skillfully.

After the sweet potato shreds are planed, they have to be pulled out and spread out to dry, and the water in them is dried, which is the finished product of the sweet potato shreds.

As long as the water is dry enough and stored carefully, this shredded sweet potato can be like grain, and it will be no problem to store it for a few years.

Of course, since it is food, it is also new.

And the use of this shredded sweet potato is also simple, when cooking rice or porridge, grab a handful of shredded sweet potatoes into it and cook it together, it can be eaten as food, and the rice porridge will be dyed with sweetness, which is more delicious than pure rice porridge.

Even as long as you can eat it, it is no problem to eat it directly with water.

Related to shredded sweet potatoes is sweet potato noodles.

As long as the shredded sweet potatoes that have been dried are ground into powder in a stone mill, it is sweet potato noodles.

It is eaten in the same way as flour and the like, and it has a little sweeter.

After shaving a few baskets of shredded sweet potatoes, everyone will study the next variety.

That's sweet potato flour.

This thing is much more complicated than shredded sweet potatoes, and its production process is quite cumbersome.

And to make it, the tools needed are also enormous.

Fortunately, most of these tools are available in the Xue family or ordinary people's homes.

There are only two kinds of tools that need to be customized.

The first tool that comes in handy is, of course, the sweet potato grinding board.

The grinding board is similar to the washboard, but it is larger, and there are dozens of rungs on the board surface, which make up for the serrations.

Xue Xuanjing and the two acted as guides again.

"Dad, you have to put the grinding plate on the wooden barrel or water tank, you take a sweet potato in each hand, press it on the board and grind it back and forth, the book says that the milled powder will flow down the gap in the board to the wooden barrel below..."

Xue Yuhe naturally did so.

Then everyone saw that the two sweet potatoes in Xue Yuhe's hand became smaller and smaller as he rubbed back and forth, and there was more sweet potato paste on the wooden barrel below.

After seeing how to use it, several other people also brought other grinding plates to grind sweet potato pulp together.

Once the paste has been ground enough, the next step is to proceed, which is pulp washing.

It just so happens that they have the tools for washing the pulp at home.

The people who came to the Zheng family to compile this guidebook also knew a lot about the situation of their people.

Therefore, as long as ordinary people have the tools at home, they will not deliberately make them, but give priority to the use of existing ones.

After that, the tools needed were the tools that the people used to threshh the threshing.

For example, threshing buckets and grain ladders.

Add a large sheet of gauze, a smaller barrel and a wooden basin, plus common tools such as a water ladle.