All the work of each family was completed, and Widow Xie and the eldest brother and sister officially returned to work.

In the past few days when the two of them were harvesting sweet potatoes and drying sweet potatoes, Ji Yu had already finished drying the spices that should be dried, and then sorted them in batches and piled them up in the two wings on the left side of the backyard.

In addition, three earthen stoves were built in the first room of the wing room on the right, and three large iron pots, as well as spoons, shovels, wooden basins, and things such as grinding troughs and stone pounds and stone mortars.

Don't look at the things piecemeal and inconspicuous, but they went to her nearly four taels.

Coupled with the wages paid out in early September, Ji Yu's original small treasury now has fifteen taels left, and as for the fifty taels of golden partner franchise fees, it is the start-up and reserve funds of the workshop, and it is not planned to be used for the time being.

So Ji Yu recently started working overtime to copy the book again.

Originally, I wanted to call the homeless man to copy it together, so that he could pay off his debts with labor, and he would not be unwilling.

It's just that after all, he still thinks too optimistically, although his right hand can move normally, but it has not yet reached the level of freedom of movement, even if he can hold chopsticks, holding a pen is a different feeling.

Ji Yu asked him to try to write, and it took him almost a quarter of an hour to barely write a line, and a layer of fine sweat broke out on his forehead, so you can imagine how hard it was.

The effect presented is not so satisfactory, the glyphs are rigid and uneven, in Ji Yu's opinion, it is impossible to pass Boss Fang's level.

The homeless man himself was obviously not satisfied, but insisted that Ji Yu leave the sample book and pen, ink and paper.

Ji Yu refused.

"Big brother, I'm about to run a deficit now, you know? If you don't want to make money, it won't be long before Dabao and I have to drink the northwest wind, and you have to eat soil with you. The current problem is not only to open source, but also to throttle. One of the most important things to save money is not to waste, especially not to waste expensive things such as paper and ink. You have the heart to help, I understand it, but don't mess with me, wait until your hands are good to talk about it. ”

However, no matter how bitter Ji Yu is, the homeless man only has one sentence: "I won't waste it, and you won't drink the wind." ”

Empty white teeth can't convince Ji Yu.

"If you say no, you won't, when you say it yourself."

Then he went to smoke the book, and the homeless man reached out and pressed it.

The two were so close that they were almost face to face.

One is motionless like a mountain, the other is staring.

In the end of the competition, Ji Yu was the first to let go.

Ji Yu walked away with a stomach full of anger, and every time she went back to deliver food, she would stare at it attentively, but she found that those things were originally what they were and what they had always been.

The homeless man just stepped up the exercise of his wrists.

One day when he went to the earthen house, Xiao Ding ran to the grass sprouts in the yard to play, Ji Yu accidentally found that there were traces on the ground, and because of the light rain at night, the ground was wet and soft, and the traces were very clear.

Only then did Ji Yu know that the homeless man had always practiced calligraphy in addition to his daily training. Using the branches as pens and the ground as paper, she didn't waste a penny.

She was a little ashamed for a moment.

In fact, it's just some pen and ink, the homeless will use it, and if it is wasted, it will be wasted, and it is not a bad thing to want to be better and strive to be better.

Ji Yu never mentioned this aspect again.

She has a lot of things to be busy during the day, spices to be dried and collected, and she has to go to the two fields to help, so she doesn't have much time to copy books, so she can only light the lamp at night and copy for a while.

Even so, by mid-September, two copies had been copied.

The homeless man never moved, and Ji Yu didn't urge.

"Xiaoyu, how is this ...... It's like a stove? ”

Looking at the side room where the stove was built, Ji Xuelan was a little puzzled, she also thought that after the spices were dried, they only needed to be crushed with a grinding trough or mashed with a stone mortar.

Ji Mingfang said, "It must be more than that simple, otherwise the subdivision will not be so particular." ”

Ji Yu praised, "That's right, this third stage of concocting is the most laborious-"

There are nearly 100 kinds of spices, each with its own unique personality from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine.

The taste is different and the effect is different, so its use cannot be arbitrary, but has to be processed. Just like the "processing" in traditional Chinese medicine, the same is true for the "processing" of spices.

Unprocessed spices, regardless of whether they are of good quality or not, are "raw" fragrances, and if they are used directly, they may not be effective.

Only according to its characteristics and characteristics, with corresponding treatment, can it give full play to its efficacy and eliminate possible toxic side effects.

"There are many ways to prepare traditional spices, such as repairing, steaming, boiling, stir-frying, broiling, baking, baking, flying, etc.

Trimming, the purpose of which is to purify the spices, or to cut and crush them. This is the most common treatment method, using the method of picking, picking, kneading, scraping, sifting, cutting, pounding, grinding, and frustration to remove impurities and excess water, as well as deteriorated parts and other non-medicinal ingredients, so that its size and specifications meet the requirements.

Steaming, as the name suggests, is the use of water vapor or water insulation heating to treat the incense materials, this method can not only make the incense materials from raw to cooked, but also separate the incense materials. The heat and frequency of steaming should be accurate.

The main purpose of cooking is to adjust the medicinal properties and remove odors.

Stir-frying is better understood, or stir-fried or stir-fried, stir-fried to make yellow, fried to make coke, etc......

As for Shuifei, the crushed incense materials are ground with water, and then the liquid slurry is allowed to stand and precipitate, and the sediment is dried and ground for later use. This method can prevent the loss of powder flying when the incense material is grinded, and can separate the water-soluble components of the incense material, making the incense more delicate. ”

Half a day in the morning was basically spent in Ji Yu's explanation.

Widow Xie and Ji Xuelan were dizzy when they heard it, even Ji Mingfang had some difficulty remembering.

Ji Yu knew that this was not something that could be integrated in a moment, so she first sorted out the theoretical knowledge for them, and showed them in person in the afternoon, and finally let them do it themselves.

At first, no one willed, thinking that this thing was expensive, so don't get into trouble.

Ji Yu repeatedly emphasized that these were some defective products that were selected to practice, and the three of them tried it with fear.

Linking theory with practice has always been the only way to acquire knowledge and skills.

In less than two days, the basic preparation methods were almost all learned. There are only a few that are particularly difficult and not too easy to deal with.

But don't blame them, whoever they are, it will take time.

Widow Xie and the eldest sister and brother thought that after learning these well, the biggest threshold would pass.

As it turned out, it was still too naïve.

"The spices themselves have some peculiar smells and bitter tastes, so in order to prevent the taste of the spices themselves from affecting the dishes themselves, they must be pretreated before use——"

Due to the different basic flavors of various spices and the different dissolution characteristics of the aromatic substances, the corresponding processing methods are also very different.

Specifically, there are two types of treatments: "aromatic treatment" and "bitter treatment".

Regardless of which one of them, soaking is the most important treatment.

"Aromatic spices contain less peculiar smells and bitter tastes, and most of them can be removed by soaking them in water. However, the temperature and time of soaking are different for different spices. ”

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Chapter 288: Deficit