Villager of Daming

Chapter 1167 Life is wonderful and people return

The local people don't care about the coming and going of Jurchens. They are used to the bustling and deserted trading places.

Now I have work to do, money to make, and at the same time, I am building my own home. This work is very comfortable.

The children became happy. It rained before and they needed to study. Since they couldn't get out, they were locked in big houses and studied together.

Today is the hottest day of the year, a day off. They went home and took out the wheat to see if it was wet. If it was wet, they would dry it in the sun. The others would line up to be ground into flour.

When the team is not here, everyone can only use grinding and pounding to turn the wheat into flour, or directly steam the wheat rice. The wheat rice is not mixed with flour and wild vegetables and steamed in a pot, it is steamed directly. grain.

The taste of this wheat grain is far inferior to that of rice. It tastes a bit sour and has a bad texture when swallowed. Lazy people do this, and diligent people still have to get out flour even by pounding it.

As soon as the team arrived, there was a flour mill that could grind wheat into flour in various proportions.

The common people are very practical. They ask for grinding 100% of the rice once, until it reaches 60 powder. After grinding, it can be packaged separately, and they can be mixed together when they go back to eat.

Unless you want to eat white flour, usually white flour is used to make dumplings, otherwise steamed steamed buns or something else will be mixed with it. In the end, there will be a lot of white flour left. Steamed vegetable steamed buns are the favorite of the people.

She washed the pig's trotters and braised them separately, without putting them together with other things. She braised the pig's large intestine without killing the pig vegetables, and naturally stuffed the small intestine with red sausage, which she had to wait a day to eat.

She knew that the people were grinding flour and husking rice, but they did not polish the rice. The polished rice lost a fragrance and the germ was not polished off.

The chief is responsible for the affairs here, and the others are just responsible. This is the power given by Zhu Yuanzhang, to the masters.

The waterwheel must be built solidly to carry water to high places and flow down ditches to replenish water for the paddy fields at all times. "

"Leave a few sets of equipment! Including those who grind rice. We will encourage everyone to grow more rice in the future so that we can eat it and the people themselves can have a change of taste.

It's a pity that rice is not grown along the river. We plan to set up some paddy fields and dig the aqueducts next to them.

This germ is so fragrant! The steamed rice is eaten directly without vegetables, just like the steamed buns made from wheat grown at the same latitude in Shandong, and is eaten as a snack.

Even for pancakes, poor flour must be mixed with vegetables and baked without oil. This consumes too much fuel.

She threw something: "Let's make tofu! Let the people exchange beans for them. According to the rules, one pound of beans is exchanged for two pounds of tofu. The more we process at one time, the greater the proportion of tofu we make."

Ling'er was busy packing her things to marinate it. If it wasn't marinated, she wouldn't be able to eat it at night. It would take a long time to marinate it, otherwise it wouldn't taste good.

Others are not suitable to manage the Dingliao Guards, even Liu Sheng. He is only so capable, so he can just hold on.

Of course, children are willing to mix this kind of rice with sugar or soy sauce, and they can eat a lot at one time. However, when they grow up, they can no longer mix it with sugar, and it will make them tired of looking at it.

The purpose of grinding the germ is for easy preservation, because when rice becomes moldy, it starts with the germ. People eat rice and it is impossible to preserve it for such a long time. Just grind a little at a time, just a few dozen kilograms. Most rice growers will sell the rice in the husk. , transported to Yingtian Mansion, loved to eat in Xiaqiu Village and Huangcheng.

But adults are very capable. Serve a bowl of rice, pour in half a bottle of Erguotou, and then just push it into your mouth. It tastes disgusting and makes you want to vomit. How did you eat it?

Now that we have harvested some soybeans, the people will grind tofu and sell it themselves. The yield of tofu is low, with one pound of beans yielding two pounds and two ounces of tofu.

When someone buys tofu, they weigh it a little more. They usually use a scale to weigh it. If someone buys a pound, it will be exactly one pound when they cut it. When they take it home, they weigh it again to ensure that the weight is lost and there is no water lost. Therefore, Give more and weigh it when you go home, it's just right.

Xiaqiu Village has equipment to grind soybeans very finely so that more of the tofu protein can be dissolved into the water, leaving behind the bean dregs. If you make one pound of tofu, you can get two and a half pounds of tofu. If you use another technique, you can get four pounds of tofu. The tofu will be more watery and tender.

Now two and a half kilograms are enough, and the leftover bean dregs can be eaten and mixed with other things to make vegetarian meatballs.

The main reason is that people want to eat dried tofu, dried bean curd, yuba, and tofu skin. If you make it directly, you have to pay for it and cooperate with the people. The people don't suffer. They sell the tofu themselves, and the profit is something they can eat.

So the children had something new to do. After grinding the flour, they took it home, found the bag for the soybeans, poured the beans into a basin, put a utensil next to it, and started picking out the beans.

Pick out the ones that are bitten by insects, called rabbit mouths, and pick out the ones with petals. These beans cannot germinate, so they can be exchanged for tofu. You can also exchange them for dried tofu. You can exchange them for whatever you want. Follow the instructions. Different proportions.

"Didn't you say rest! Why do we have to practice calligraphy?"

While others were working, the princes sat in the shade and practiced calligraphy. They had to practice their calligraphy so that they could give an explanation to their father.

The fifth child, Zhu Ru, wanted to take a rest, or watch something marinated or make tofu. Even if he was soaking beans at the moment, he wanted to observe it, as long as he didn't practice calligraphy.

"If your Highness doesn't want to practice calligraphy, you can pick up the carving knife..."

The government official next to him was easy to talk to, so he wanted to do something else.

"You use a carving knife to carve characters, right? What's the difference? How long have you been practicing this calligraphy? It looks so good!"

Zhu Tie was even more reluctant to carve words. If the carving was wrong, he would need to correct it slowly. If he couldn't change it, he would continue carving, and he would always make mistakes.

The person who watched them practice calligraphy was not Li Chang. Li Chang's calligraphy was not very good. He had no good calligraphy practice before, and he could not find a famous teacher to teach him.

Later, Hanhan arrived and asked him to teach him. He was old and had less time to practice calligraphy, so he couldn't teach the princes at all.

Zhu Wentian's skill can be taught, but it cannot be taught. Fortunately, there are dedicated officials in the palace who are good at calligraphy.

The common people began to send beans over, which needed to be soaked for a long time before grinding. When the weather was hot, the beans were soaked for about eight hours, and normally they were soaked for twelve hours, depending on the specific situation.

Two-petal beans and rabbit-mouth beans are easier to soak because they expand quickly and take less time.

The team doesn't need good beans, and they can't bear to part with them. Those that can sprout bean sprouts, wouldn't it be better to eat them?

People keep track of how many beans they take, and give each other a piece of paper. There is also an account here, and they write their address and name to avoid the piece of paper being lost and having to check the accounts.

Many children put down their beans, put away the notes, and left swallowing their saliva. They love to eat tofu, and even if they don't dip it in anything, it's still delicious when they take a big bite.

……

"Some people have come back. Some Jurchens have come back. They left when it rained. There are more than 20 people. They came back carrying people on their backs or carrying people. Some of them walked on their own and fell down..."

While everyone was busy, someone came over to talk about important things. Some of the Jurchens who had left before came back, and they seemed to be in bad condition.

"Why are you going back? Aren't you scared anymore?" Ma Fei, the magistrate of Gaizhou County, was in charge of watching the fire. After hearing the situation, Ma Fei raised his head and asked in surprise.

(End of this chapter)