The sisters-in-law who followed behind the captain saw Xia Li's enthusiastic smile, and their faces were a little red with excitement.

A sister-in-law who looked a little thin and was dressed in patched gray cloth looked at Xia Li with shiny eyes, and said in an eager voice: "Xia Zhiqing! We'll learn from you! ”

The other sister-in-law next to her also nodded frantically, her dark, skinny hand tightly grasping the trouser line, her face full of expectations for the future, and her eyes looked at Xia Li with burning eyes.

"That's right! Xia Zhiqing, if you want us to do anything, just say it! If there's something we don't do well, you can scold it.

We have absolutely no complaints! ”

The rest of the sisters-in-law also nodded in agreement.

Xia Li has been in the team for so long, and has been in a strange circle of trying to find a way to be lazy, trying to get his parents, dealing with spies, and being arrested for interrogation.

Truth be told, there is no good one.

In the past, she didn't really realize how poor the First Brigade of the South Island was, but now she really sees this "poverty" in her eyes.

They were all skinny, their hair was dry, but they were tanned, and their clothes were patched on top of each other.

Although her parents had a hard time after being devolved, she could be raised with good food and drink, although she was haggard, her physical condition was much better than these people.

At least not skinny.

Xia Li felt a little pressured against their burning gaze.

It was in the last days, when the dying people saw the straw with eager and somewhat frightened eyes.

They saw her as a lifesaver for themselves.

Xia Li didn't say much, only nodded to these people.

"Let's bring some sugar cane first, including a machete, graphite, and a big iron pot."

The captain was willing to teach people when he saw Xia Li so happy, and he was not like those masters who knew how to teach, and refused to teach because they had skills in their hands, so he was naturally happy.

Immediately a big smile was raised, and every crisscrossing fold on the face looked amiable.

"That's okay, Xiao Xia, uncle, I'll let someone bring you everything."

In a short time, the four strong laborers of the village moved the huge stone mill at the entrance of the village.

No matter how heavy that thing is, these people don't complain at all.

Xia Li twitched the corners of his mouth when he saw the huge stone mill.

She had expected the captain to bring a small one and let her demonstrate it, and then she could let them go after teaching these people.

After all, it's really not difficult to boil sugar.

As a result, the captain brought over the stone mill in the village that grinded wheat for the entire brigade, and wouldn't it take a lot of effort to move away in the future?

Knowing this, she took a few sisters-in-law to the entrance of the village.

The movement here was too big, and everyone in the village was particularly concerned about the construction of the sugar factory, and after a while, a large circle of people gathered outside Xia Li's courtyard.

One by one, they all craned their necks to look at the situation inside, full of anticipation, and whispered in small voices.

"Do you think our sugar cane can really be made into sugar? Isn't sugar all small grains or strips? It doesn't look like sugar cane, and there is no sugar cane in it. ”

"I've heard that other people's sugar factories use sugar cane to make sugar, although I don't know exactly how to make sugar, but it's right that sugar should be made from sugar cane."

"What is there to doubt about this?

Since Xia Zhiqing came to our team, what did he want to make not make?

I don't know if others can make candy, anyway, Xia Zhiqing said that he would, and he would definitely be able to make it! ”

……

The members of the team stood at the door of Xia Li's house and whispered, looking a little excited.

According to the captain, if the sugar factory is really built, their income at the end of the year will definitely be several times greater.

Those of them who are farmers face the loess with their backs to the sky every day, and they can't earn a few dollars a year.

How could they not be thrilled by the sudden fact that there was a money entry that made it possible for them not to starve?

The educated youths who gathered around looked in Xia Li's direction, and their faces were not very good-looking.

Ma Xiaofang asked Li Liqun in a low voice, "Do you say that Xia Li can really make sugar?"

It's all children from the city, and they don't teach it in school, but she knows everything, so why don't I believe it? ”

Especially when Xia Li was touted by all the team members, it made them, the educated youths who didn't know anything, even more embarrassed.

Now there are children in the brigade running to the gate of their educated youth home, throwing stones at them, rolling their eyelids and taunting them.

Li Liqun's face was not very good-looking.

He went to the countryside earlier than others, and has always been in the leading position in the entire educated youth academy.

But since Xia Li came, this harmonious environment has been completely broken.

Since Xia Li didn't listen to his command, everyone else didn't respect him as much as before.

"Who knows if she'll be able to make it? This woman is very evil, anyway, even if she does it, there is no good thing about our Zhiqing Academy. ”

He hoped that Xia Li would not do it, and then the mud-legged people in the team would not compare them with them every day and step on the people of the Zhiqing Academy to death.

Xia Li didn't know what they were thinking, and since the stone mill had been moved, she didn't talk nonsense anymore.

He instructed several sisters-in-law to peel the sugarcane, then cut the sugarcane into small pieces and put them in the stone mill to grind the sugarcane blocks into a pulp.

Yellow syrup water flowed out of the stone mill, and the members of the brigade were very energetic.

Xia Li commanded the people to put the cauldron that was taken from the canteen of the production brigade.

"Put water in the pot, make a basin out of the water, and pour the cane water filtered with gauze into the basin."

She turned her head to look at one of the women with a large spatula in her hand, her eyes fixed on the pot.

"Sister-in-law He, when the sugarcane juice is almost boiled for a while, you can use a shovel to stir it all the time, don't let it stick to the pot."

Hearing this, Sister-in-law He looked at Xia Li and nodded heavily, and solemnly promised: "Xia Zhiqing, don't worry, I absolutely guarantee to complete the task!" ”

The syrup on the cauldron began to boil, the color became darker and darker, gradually changing from earthy yellow to dark brown, and the liquid became more and more viscous, and it had changed from a silky liquid to a mushy paste.

Xia Li looked at the state of the syrup in the pot and nodded, looked up and said to the others: "It's almost, just pour out these syrups and put them in the container." ”

When everyone in the team heard this, their hearts suddenly raised their throats, and they dragged each other's sleeves or arms one by one, and their bodies trembled slightly with tension.

His eyes were glued to the brown syrup poured into the container from the cauldron, his heart pounding, and he could even faintly hear the buzzing in his ears.