Chapter 165: Stir-fried melon seeds
The sunflowers they smashed were harvested by the hunting team from the mountains on the first day.
After two days of drying, the water content of the sunflower seeds will be reduced, and the volume will be reduced, and it is easy to loosen and fall off on the flower plate, and it can be threshed with a few taps with that small tool.
But this water content is only relative, in fact, there is still a lot of water in the seeds that have been removed, and they cannot be piled up in a pile for the time being, and they have to be spread out and dried to prevent heat and deterioration.
Although melon seeds are easier to handle than pecans, there are actually many doorways in the middle.
Of course, with Zheng Linchu's 'encyclopedia', these doorways are no longer difficult for the Xue family.
What everyone doesn't know is that these people are not all the main forces for threshing sunflower seeds today.
By this time it was already dark, and many of the people who had been working here had already returned.
It's just that there are still one or two hundred people left who are still rushing to do more work, wanting to earn even one or two more copper plates.
Xue Langjing only learned when communicating with her family in the evening that there were five or six hundred people who came to thresh sunflower seeds today.
The batch of sunflowers received on the first day basically began to thresh when it was sun, and it was only half a day's work, and this batch of sunflowers had been almost removed, leaving only a few two thousand catties, and these two hundred people could soon be taken off.
In this way, the sunflowers picked by more than 140 of them in a day are enough for these villagers to peel them for half a day, and the speed is quite fast!
Thanks to the seemingly inconspicuous little tool given by Lin Chu, how could it be processed so quickly, which really saved her a lot of labor costs.
It is said that there are only more than 1,000 people in the entire Zhaojia Village, and half of them have come to work.
It can also be seen how lacking they usually are.
Not only here, but there are also many people planting fruit trees for their family in the fruit forest, and there are more than 100 people there, plus dozens of villagers who participated in the sunflower harvesting together.
It is conceivable how many villagers their Xue family has benefited.
When everyone talked about it, no one didn't have a trace of pride on their faces, especially the Tang family.
You don't have to guess to know how many flattering words the villagers have heard to her during the day.
Xue Langjing herself didn't expect that this batch of sunflower seeds would attract so many people.
This is naturally a good thing for her, and the more people who come, the better.
The more people there are, the more people have benefited from her, and the wider the range of people's affections.
In the next few days, whenever they came back with sunflowers, they could see the same scene as the first few days, and the courtyard of the Xue family was full of villagers threshing sunflower seeds.
Of course, during the time they couldn't see, there were still many people helping to dry sunflower trays and seeds, some helping to pick up the first batch of sunflowers they sent down from the foot of the mountain, and even disposing of the discarded flower trays that had been threshed.
In short, the number of sunflowers is too much, and the Xue family can't handle any kind of work, so they have to hire villagers to help deal with it.
And this salary is basically a daily settlement.
For example, the person who threshes sunflowers collects money according to efficiency, and the more sunflower seeds are removed, the more copper plates are given.
After the sunflower seeds are taken off, they are taken to the Xue family to be weighed, and the copper plate is paid directly according to the amount, and there is no need to keep too many extra accounts after that, which also saves a lot of effort for Mr. Xue Linjing.
For the villagers, there is no need to keep accounts, and it is most practical to take money directly after finishing the work, after all, not everyone can afford to read like the Xue family, they don't know a single big word, and sometimes it is really troublesome to calculate the accounts, especially the accumulation of day by day, how can it be more convenient to take money directly.
And come empty-handed every day, just bring a pot bucket with sunflower seeds or something, after the end of the day, take your own guys, take the copper plate back, the account is refreshing and refreshing, and the copper plate is also the most reassuring to get directly to your hands.
Most people can't stay here all day, especially some women, they have to go back to make lunch, so what should they do with the things around them when they leave?
Isn't the most convenient thing to do is to take the detached sunflower seeds and weigh them directly, and go back without burden.
Some families who are working here directly send a woman back to cook, and send it over to others to eat after it is done, which also saves them a lot of time, and can take out a few catties of sunflower seeds, and it is also good to have an extra copper plate.
Now there are more people who come to the Xue family to work, many people come early, and the sunflowers that the Xue family has dried in a day are not enough for everyone to thresh.
If you want to do more work, don't you have to rob it?
In such a situation, some people simply bring dry food directly, and when lunch time comes, dry food is a pot of water to solve the problem of eating.
After eating in the morning, lunch is solved with dry food, and in the evening, when all the work is done, I will go back to make dinner, and those who are quick can earn more than ten dollars a day.
Speaking of this sunflower field, it took the hunting team a total of seven days to pick all the sunflowers.
On the last day, when I picked the second trip, there was basically not much left, and each person was only enough for half a load, and the rest of the time was spent planting melon seeds.
These sunflower seeds are the seeds that have been processed and brought over at home.
Well, it is said to be planting melon seeds, but it is not very serious, that is, sprinkling sunflower seeds on the ground.
Sprinkle all the fields that are left with sunflower seeds, and you will be able to harvest some of them next season.
It's free land anyway, and it's so fertile that it's a shame it's empty.
Anyway, just sowing sunflower seeds, one person is only three or four acres, the speed is very fast, and it will not be delayed for too long.
Even if it is really not done in the future, there will not be much sunflower seeds wasted, and they will still be able to sprinkle this thing by the Xue family.
I think that at the beginning, such a large field of sunflowers was also planted naturally from the seeds of the previous season, and it was impossible for anyone to bury them in the soil at that time.
They are all planted naturally, and it makes no sense that the seeds they sown will not bear fruit, they are just sparse, and they can have some harvest.
Think about how much energy and silver she spent cultivating a thousand acres of mountainous land, and the fertility that came out in the end was not as good as these five hundred acres.
If such fertile land is not used, it will be damned.
After planting the melon seeds, this sunflower field will not be left alone, just wait for the next season to come and harvest the fruits.
Then the group went back with the last of the loot.
At this point, the melon seeds are finished.
The first batch of sunflower seeds at home has been dried and bagged for storage, and you can start to fry melon seeds.
As for how to fry it, of course, you still have to get the recipe from Zheng Linchu, and what flavor you want to fry depends on her needs.
This melon seed is much more popular than pecans, and even Zheng Linchu disdained to ask the Xue family to keep it secret, obviously not a very important thing, and he didn't send someone over to teach them how to fry it.
Although people don't ask for secrecy, it is impossible for the Xue family to really spread this recipe everywhere.
I only taught the people who were invited to help fry the melon seeds, and I taught them what they needed to know, and asked them to sign a confidentiality agreement.
After the melon seeds are fried, they will be transported to the town.
However, now it is no longer a daily delivery of one car, but several cars at a time, and the Zheng family directly sends a car to pull it away, which also saves them the time of their own delivery.