Villager of Daming

Chapter 1103 The better the tool, the harder it is to use

At around ten o'clock, the team arrived at Daliang Village.

The villagers seemed very nervous. The adults locked the children in the house and were not allowed to come out.

Hu Xiaojiang, the librarian, changed his clothes to a clean place and came forward, waiting nearby to answer questions at any time.

The others watched curiously while working. The guards who came in advance told them what to do and continued working.

The two brothers said hello and moved down the things and money they had pushed back. The cloth was bought by several families, and the rest of the money belonged to the villagers who asked them to help sell gourd strips, and they had to share one share of the salt.

"Where are the children? Call them all out and give them good food to eat. We don't want to eat the children. It's not like bandits are coming."

The fifth child, Zhu Ting, was shouting like a bandit.

The adults in the village had no choice but to call the child out. The timid child hid behind others, tilted his head and poked out one eye.

"Come here and have some popcorn sticks. Eat whatever you want, but don't eat too much. If you eat too much, you'll have trouble getting to the latrine."

We also know a kind of one with a rotating foot. When the foot moves, the gourd is rotated, and the other hand is not tired.

Ling'er stood in front of a gourd-peeling equipment, nodded, and asked Hu Xiaojiang, Hu Li Chang: "Are you tired from peeling too much?"

"I asked you if you are tired after peeling too much gourd. Why are you blinking?"

It’s not suitable for you. The more labor-saving something is, the more complex the structure is. If it’s broken, you can’t repair it. "

We have seen another kind, there is no tray below, the gourd is hung directly on the top, and then the top is turned.

Zhu Rui, who was giving food to the children, could still take care of this.

The maids and eunuchs went from house to house to collect eggs. They wanted all the chickens, ducks and geese, so they could be scrambled with egg sauce.

The number of adults in the village is obviously small. No need to ask, they are watering the fields! After a while the sun rises and they will come back.

"It's okay to be tired. Look at this thing. You stick a small wooden stick on the gourd. When it rotates, the rotary knife of the other hand sticks to the gourd, and the gourd strips are cut out.

Zhu Ru asked people to bring popcorn sticks and began to distribute them.

In fact, it can be made better. No one needs to take care of it. Just put the gourd on it and cut it into strips directly.

There are rows of wooden shelves in the village. There are large poles on the shelves, and the cut gourd strips are hung on them to dry.

Other villagers, especially the older ones, looked at the position of the stools. They were all in the shade. There was also a rotating tray with green gourds on it, and they were busy peeling gourd strips.

Gourd strips are indeed worthless. People grow them as tools and eat them as vegetables during the current season. There are few people who specialize in making dried gourd strips and selling them.

"Tired! How can I not be tired? Is there any good thing that can't be done without getting tired?" Hu Lizhang replied helplessly.

The team set up a shed, someone brought out flour and a dough mixer to knead the dough, and built a clay stove to set up a large pot. Today we can only eat noodles.

Zhu Ming spoke up at this time. The revolving gourd bars in Xiaqiu Village are pedal-operated, not mechanical ones. The demand is small. Just peel some and you can eat them. There is no need to buy ready-made ones.

Hu Lichang: "..."

"I'll make a few sets first." Wang Yiqian understood after hearing what Zhu Xi said, and asked someone to make a pedal-operated gourd strip cutting equipment.

He then modified a mechanical gourd peeling machine, which needs to be debugged. It will automatically peel the gourd and start peeling it when the gourd is put in. The people in Daliang Village should see it.

The principle is very simple. Xiaqiu Village has various fruit peeling machines, including yam. The spring-loaded blades are attached and the skin of a yam is peeled in just a dozen seconds to avoid contact allergies. "Let's make dumplings! Filled with gourds, eggs and shrimp skins. Buy gourds from the villagers and treat them to some instead of noodles."

Zhu Di considered coming over to make dumplings for the villagers. The villagers did not have good equipment and the noodles were all whole wheat. The flour in the team was white!

"Listen to Your Highness." The village chief agreed. You can eat whatever you want, no matter what.

Everyone in the team knows how to make dumplings, including the four princes. I don’t know if the local officials know how to make dumplings, but I guess not!

Prepare to stop the dough cutting machine, start adjusting the parts, and press the dough to make dumpling wrappers, which should be round.

The dumpling wrappers produced in this way are not good. They lay the noodles together and then press them with a cylinder to form a pile of dumpling wrappers.

Take the scraps back and mix them again, and continue laying and pressing.

The dumpling skin rolled out by a normal rolling pin is in the middle and gradually becomes thinner around it, and the thickness is the same when pressed out.

Another group of people took the gourd, peeled off the outer skin first, cut it into four halves, took out the flesh, put it into a grater and grated it, adding some salt.

Crack the collected eggs into a large bucket, insert the egg beater, and the eggs will be stirred. After a while, they will be fried in the oil pan.

The villagers in Daliang Village were dumbfounded. What are these? Some make their own dough, some grate their own dough, and don’t use chopsticks to beat eggs?
Seeing some villagers staring at the egg beater, Zhu Fan said, "Can I make a simple egg beater with bamboo?"

"Don't do it!" Ling'er denied: "I don't beat eggs every day. I make one bamboo and leave it there. It will become dusty, dry and scummy. When I beat the eggs and then take it out, my hands will get pricked easily when I wash it. , broken into the egg liquid when beating the eggs.”

Ling'er starts from reality. People don't beat eggs every day. Xiaqiu Village uses steel wire because eggs need to be processed every day, including steaming cakes, frying soft twists, stir-frying, stuffing...

People generally eat boiled eggs, which saves fuel. Frying eggs consumes fuel, and steaming egg custard is troublesome.

The biggest advantage of boiled eggs is that they are easy to carry. You can eat them whenever you want. People who go out can carry two boiled eggs for emergency use.

"Oh!" Zhu Fan thinks it makes sense. If you don't want to do it, just don't do it!
While cooking here, the craftsmen set aside their own hands to modify the wheelbarrows and prepared one for each household. They divided the size among themselves.

Because it is next to two rivers, Daliang Village has a lot of cultivated land and a large population. It is a large village with 120 households.

The villages on the other side of the river were given the same treatment. Even though they belonged to Zhuozhou, in Zhu Di's eyes, Zhuozhou also belonged to him, just like Datong Mansion was taken care of by Zhu Fan.

The economic development of Beiping Prefecture will inevitably drive the surrounding areas and require resources and manpower from other places.

The imperial court said that the prince was not allowed to use administrative means to other surrounding areas and was not allowed to leave the fiefdom, so economic means were used.

Like Juliang Village on the other side of the Zhuozhou River, as long as Fangshan County works hard to collect gourd strips, the village that competes with Daliang Village in naming will definitely work hard to grow gourds.

They were also the ones who planted the seeds at the beginning, and there were many marriages between the two villages across a river.

Gourds are easy to grow. Unlike fruit trees, which take several years to bear fruit, gourds are annual climbing herbaceous plants. You just need to build a shelf for them, like cucumbers, or more precisely, like grapes.

"Sister Ling'er, are the gourd bars easy to sell?" Xu Yihua looked at Zhu Di and asked for help.

Ling'er also glanced at Zhu Di, then smiled and said to Xu Yihua: "It's best to eat now. The cooking methods for making dried gourds are restricted, and ordinary people are not willing to eat dried gourds at home.

That is to say, it cannot be popularized in ordinary families, but we can make it become a dish in restaurants and restaurants.

Or educate people on how to eat dried gourd strips. In fact, gourd slices are also acceptable, but the strips are easy to dry, and the slices require a large drying area.

Pharmacies are willing to use tablets, and people are willing to use strips for their own consumption. The storage environment is different. "

(End of this chapter)