Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 35 Salt Making (1)

"We'll just wait and see. If your rice fields can grow fish by then, I'll follow suit next year." Qin Maosheng said.

"Maosheng, if you follow Zhang like this, don't you worry about your father beating you?" Qin Muyang asked with a smile.

"If I grow like Zhang now, my father may beat me. But when Zhang's rice is planted and the fish are raised, then I will learn from Zhang, and my father will not beat me It is." Qin Maosheng said proudly.

"It's true, when Ah Zhang really makes achievements, everyone must follow suit, and if you follow suit, your father will definitely not beat you up."

Everyone was chatting and laughing. About three acres of fields were planted in one morning. At noon, Qin Muyu went home early to cook, and then invited the people who came to help to eat together.

In fact, Qin Muyu didn't do anything delicious, but there were still a lot of sambars that Chen Qiuxiang hunted back from the mountains last time, so Qin Muyu made soup.

He didn't do any complicated dishes. Qin Muyu just stewed the sambar bones into soup, and waited for everyone to come back to eat the pot at the bottom of the venison pot.

Who made Qin Muyu's cooking skills not so good?Moreover, it is quite troublesome to prepare meals for more than 20 people and nearly 30 people. It is better to let everyone eat the bottom of the pot.

There are a lot of sweet potato leaves in the field, and the choy sum planted by Chen Qiuxiang is also growing well, and then there are leeks, Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts and other vegetables, which are enough for everyone to eat.

Anyway, green vegetables, sweet potato leaves, bean sprouts, etc. are not so rare, so Chen Qiuxiang and the others didn't feel bad at all when they brought them out, and they didn't feel bad at all when they entertained more than twenty people.

The others didn't think anything was wrong. They were originally embarrassed to come to their house for dinner, but they went to help out to repay Qin Songtao's family for their generous prescription of insecticide, and partly to repay their family's willingness to exchange sweet potato vines for others. other races.

In the end, I went to help transplant rice seedlings, and got a lunch hosted by Qin Songtao's family. They were very embarrassed.But after seeing that besides bone soup, they basically ate vegetables, they were not so embarrassed anymore.

Although vegetables are also relatively rare, and people don't want to eat whatever vegetables they want, but compared to meat, vegetables are not so expensive.

Everyone had a very good lunch, and in the afternoon they worked harder when planting rice seedlings, and almost six acres of land were planted in a whole day.

On the second day, several people who helped transplant rice seedlings in Chen Qiuxiang’s paddy field were replaced. Because the people who transplanted rice seedlings on the first day had backaches and backaches the next day, especially their thighs, so a few people did not come and changed homes. Others come over.

The reason why Chen Qiuxiang and his family didn't feel so uncomfortable was because they were in good physical condition, and they had massaged with the medicinal wine that Chen Qiuxiang brought out, so although they were a little uncomfortable, they were not serious.

Chen Qiuxiang's eight-acre paddy field, because there are many people who came to help, even if everyone is not skilled in transplanting rice seedlings, they can be planted within two days.

When Chen Qiuxiang and Wang Mingya checked the rooting situation of the seedlings, they used the wood-type ability to help them take root, and by the way, they cultivated these seedlings a little to make them grow better.

Now that the paddy fields have been planted, Chen Qiuxiang and his family can finally rest. To be honest, they are really tired from being busy planting rice seedlings these days.

Although Chen Qiuxiang and Qin Muzhang have the same physical fitness as in their previous lives because of their supernatural powers, it is quite tiring to plant rice like this.

In ancient times, they could only transplant rice by hand. As for the rice transplanter, that is impossible.Because there is neither so much iron and other metals, nor diesel and gasoline, I don't know where to start if I want to make a rice transplanter.

Fortunately, the population of their family is not large, but there are many people in the clan, and there are not a few people who come to help when planting rice seedlings in their family, otherwise, the three of them don't know when the rice planting will be.

Even if Chen Qiuxiang and Wang Mingya wanted to use the wood-type ability to cheat, how could they use the wood-type ability to make eight acres of paddy fields full of rice overnight in public?Conditions do not allow ah.

The people who came to help transplant the seedlings brought home a small handful of sweet potato vines, and Chen Qiuxiang’s family’s sweet potato vines grew again. She had nothing to thank these people, so she gave them the sweet potato vines, so that They took it home and planted it at home.

It took several days for Chen Qiuxiang and her family to transplant rice seedlings, but the insecticide workshop in the village did not stop.Qinjiazhuang has a large population, without Chen Qiuxiang's family and the [-] or so people who came to help, there is actually not much difference, so the workshop is working as usual.

In the past few days, other people in the Qin family village either went to the mountains to collect herbs, or started making potions in the workshop according to the instructions of the patriarch and the others.

Under Qin Muzhang’s suggestion, the work of the insecticide potion workshop has been turned into an assembly line. There are several steps from sorting medicinal materials, cleaning medicinal materials, cutting medicinal materials, crushing or pounding medicinal materials, adding water to mix, and finally synthesizing potions, etc., and then let different people doing different steps of work.

In this way, the work efficiency of the workshop has indeed improved a lot, and a lot of insecticidal potions have been made in just a few days.

After the insecticidal potion is made, it is stored in a large pottery jar in the workshop, which was made by Qin Muzhang.He got about ten large pottery jars and put them on the side of the workshop, so that everyone could store the insecticidal potions after they were made.

The container for the medicine is a bamboo tube, and each bamboo tube is almost the same, and the medicine in each bamboo tube can be used to cover an acre of land, and the price is the same as what Chen Qiuxiang exchanged with Wang Xiaoying before, that is, a catty of soybeans for a tube of medicine.

Of course, you can also use other beans instead of soybeans. Red beans, pigeon peas, and mung beans are all acceptable, but the prices are different and fluctuate.

It is also possible to buy it with copper plates, which is the price of five Wen.A catty of soybeans is five cents, so the price of a tube of insecticide is the price of a catty of soybeans.

However, most of the potions produced by the insecticide potion workshop these days are exchanged for people in Qinjiazhuang, and they all use a catty of soybeans for the potion. After they experimented and found that the potion was really useful, they used it Bought more.

The returned soybeans, Qin Zhongyuan, are all stored in the clan's warehouse. Anyway, the soybeans are dried and stored, and they won't go bad in a while, so he plans to save them and wait until they have more. Soy sauce and tofu.

Qin Zhongyuan remembered what Chen Qiuxiang said before, soy sauce can be used for many dishes, and soybeans can be made into yuba, dried tofu, bean curd, fermented bean curd, etc. in addition to tofu.

However, if you want to make soy sauce and fermented bean curd, you need salt.

"Salt, actually it's not too rare here." Qin Muyu looked at Qin Zhongyuan with a smile and said, "Our Qinjiazhuang is closer to the sea. I remember that an aunt of your family, the village chief, married into a fishing village, right?"

"If you want salt, it's easier to rely on the sea." Qin Muyu smiled and told Qin Zhongyuan about the sun-dried salt, especially in his memory about the fishing village where Qin Zhongyuan's sister married, which fits the sun-dried salt. condition.

(End of this chapter)