Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 254

After a few days, Xiuyao urged Qin Dafu to build a few more sheds, which were built on the side of the farm, and then built five stoves, arranged in a question mark shape, allowing them to exchange firepower, and bought another There are ten pots, and five pots are equipped with other equipment.Among them, the pot at the beginning is the largest, and it decreases successively downwards, and the last pot is a small pot.

In addition, she asked her father to go to the tile kiln to order a few tile slides, which are inverted cones with a thick top and a narrow bottom, with holes in the bottom, and she will use them whenever the time comes.

Xiuyao had told them long ago that they were going to boil sugar, and Qin Dafu and the others were also very excited, because selling sugar is a profitable job after all.

In the blink of an eye, it entered October, and the Qin family and the Liu family started to get busy again. The mill of the Liu family continued to be busy, and the vermicelli business started again. It was the biogas digester that had temporarily failed for so long and hadn’t produced gas, or only had very little gas. .Xiuyao was not discouraged, and asked her grandpa to keep stirring every day, and then every few days, she would use a teapot to connect it to the tube to test whether there was any gas.She warned everyone that they must never go there to ignite the fire directly. They must use a container to fill the gas, and then try to ignite it. If it is flammable, there is gas, which means that the biogas digester is working normally.

On the Qin family's side, the weaving workshop is still operating normally.At home, the farm is also normal, Xiuyao started to make sugar again, and asked many people to help.Because it hasn't officially started yet, it's just a trial at home, just like everyone helping each other in normal times, there is no need to pay wages.

The beets have been taken back a long time ago, and they have been cut and trimmed, and piles are stacked in the shed.

Qin Dafu and Qin Ergui pushed out a stack, and asked a few women to clean and wipe the shredded silk.Then another person boiled half a pot of water, put the shredded beets into the pot and boiled the water until the beets were all rotten, and then copied them out with a big strainer and put them on a big piece of fur, and hung them on the wooden frame that had been made long ago. , and then the big iron pot squeezed all the water out of the beet dregs, which still flowed into the pot.

Then continue to burn the fire, and keep the liquid in the pot boiling until the liquid in the pot is simmering, stirring while burning, until yellow bubbles appear.Xiuyao picked it up with a long chopstick, and seeing that it was starting to draw, she said, "Auntie, lighten the fire."

The woman who was making the fire took out a few firewood and reduced the firepower in the stove pit. Xiuyao asked Qin Dafu and the others to continue stirring until the water was almost dry, and then continue to cook on a low fire.It turned into a viscous liquid, and when the bottom of the pot was almost mushy, Xiuyao hurriedly asked Qin Dafu and others to scoop out the syrup and put it in a large glaze basin.

Over there, she asked Liu Shi and others to cut some preserved peaches, preserved apricots, raisins, walnut kernels, fried peanuts, almonds, melon seeds and other small foods.Here, she taught Qin Ergui to use a small spoon to scoop sugar, and then press a piece of food into it. When it cools down, it will be different fructose.

The finished sugar was hung on a table, and some small bowls of sugar and lollipops were also made, all of which were taken care of by Mrs. Liu.

The first pot is ready, this is just Xiuyao's test product, it feels almost like she asked people to continue cooking the second pot.

This time she still asked people to cook beets, but this time she added something that others did not know, that is milk of lime, of course she would not tell others what it was.Continue to boil the soup under the pot, then filter the dregs, and then continue to boil. This time, you need to constantly skim off the froth, pour the froth on a large colander, and drain the clear soup for later use.When it was overcooked, the sugar water was tumbling, as if it was about to come out, Xiuyao added some vegetable oil in it to prevent it from tumbling too much.Keep simmering and skimming off the froth, and when it’s about the same time, scoop out the clear soup in the pot for later use, squeeze and filter the dregs at the bottom again, and use the clear soup for later use.

Then put all the clear soup into another pot to heat and cook. Xiuyao kept watching, waiting for the sugar to be well drawn, picked out a little bit and twisted it, and then scooped it into the next pot to continue cooking, and so on, all the time. At the last small pot, there is only a small pot of syrup left in the original big pot.

After repeated boiling in this way, Xiuyao asked people to store all the syrup in spare cauldrons.

For several days in a row, Xiuyao asked her father to lead people to boil the beets at home into syrup, and carried out processes such as precipitation of lime water, all of which were stored in the cauldron.

I was busy working today, suddenly Gu Ning and Feng Haoran came, and Feng Haoran shouted as soon as he entered the door: "Mother Liu, what are you doing at home, why are you so sweet?"

Mrs. Liu hurriedly went to receive them, and after greeting each other, invited them into the house, but the two refused. Instead, they asked the young man to wait outside, and they went in to have a look.

The two of them didn't want to disturb others, so they just looked around, and Feng Haoran said in surprise, "You guys are boiling sugar."

Gu Ning was also a little surprised. It is said that the sugar on the market is not expensive at all. Those caramel and black sugar are very cheap. White sugar is very expensive, but ordinary people would not buy it.He didn't quite understand why Xiuyao's family made candy, so he asked Xiuyao, "Is this for sale?"

Xiuyao was dizzy from work, her small face was still stained with soot, her eyes were bright, she smiled and said, "Yes, we have to find a way to make white sugar, white sugar is easy to sell."

Feng Haoran exaggeratedly said, "Yaoyao, did you go to the sugar shop to steal your teacher?"

Xiuyao shook her head, "Not really."

"Then how do you know? It is said that the method of making white sugar is a secret recipe." Feng Haoran was very curious.

"I came here in a dream." It was said that it was a secret recipe, so of course she couldn't spread it out casually, she actually didn't want to explain too much, so she smiled, and just treated it as a secret recipe and didn't just say it casually.

Seeing that she didn't confess to him, Feng Haoran groaned, and his handsome face wrinkled into a ball, "Yaoyao, good Yaoyao, you can't be so stingy, and I don't know how to open a sugar factory, so just tell me."

Gu Ning made a sound to rescue: "Hao Ran, it's useless if you understand it, don't ask, this is someone's secret recipe."

"I promise to keep the secret." Feng Haoran still did not give up.

Xiuyao smiled and said, "I'll tell you later when I make money."

Gu Ning glanced at her and said: "If you can make white sugar, you can deliver it to the wharf. Selling it to the west is the most profitable, and the rest can be sold in the country."

Xiuyao thought, this is better, I didn't expect to do export business here, "Thank you, brother Gu Ning." She ran to put some fructose in a bowl, and brought it out, "Let's go, let's go outside to talk, The smell here is too choking." And it was also hot and uncomfortable.

Several people returned to the room, Xiuyao made tea for them, and gave them preserved fruits and candied dates preserved by her own home, and everyone talked.

During the conversation, Xiuyao knew that they came to check the river, and to be precise, Feng Haoran accompanied Gu Ning.

Feng Haoran smiled and said: "This winter, they will be married again, and they will continue to build the canal. Gu Ning has already helped them draw the road map of the canal, and they will go from Taoyuan Village when the time comes."

Xiuyao said happily: "Really? If so, Brother Gu Ning, you are the savior of our Taoyuan villages. We don't have to worry about running out of water anymore." The whole province was severely drought, and the Yellow River bottomed out. That is the exception.

Gu Ning smiled slightly, "This is not my credit, it was agreed upon by everyone."

"Pull it down, without the canal map you gave them, where would they agree to go?" Feng Haoran hit the nail on the head.

This time they went to Zhou's house for business, and they didn't leave any food. Before Gu Ning left, Guan Xiuyao's house asked for a few catties of corn seeds.Because it was originally intended for popularization and not for a certain family's profit, Xiuyao generously gave more.

She also gave him some of her experience in growing corn that she summed up later, all in a book.

Gu Ning looked at the beautiful lower script on it, although it was not written in calligraphy, it was quite beautiful, and couldn't help but praise her a few words.

It made Xiuyao blush, even saying that she was just fooling around.

Gu Ning is very happy with her generosity. Ever since she knew how to make wheat chips and handed them over to the bamboo craftsman, he thought she was a very generous and generous person.

After thanking him, he took the car with Feng Haoran to leave, while Xiuyao and Liu continued to help cook the soup.

After finishing the first process, there is no need for so many people. Xiuyao asked her mother to share some of the candies she made with the helpers, and each person shared a few catties. Everyone was naturally very happy, and they all said that this year is Chinese New Year. No need to buy sugar.

In addition, I prepared some, and asked Qin Xian to take it to Mr. Qin, and asked Qin Ye to take some to the weaving house, some to my grandfather's house, and some to Mr. Ren.Although other people have them, what they make at home is after all a thought.

Gu Ning and Feng Haoran just talked about digging canals, and people came here to ask the villagers to send their husbands. The Qin family has already separated, so each family has to contribute labor. Qin Ergui must go, Qin Sanshun doesn’t want to go, but also There was no way, as for Xiuyao's family, she had already discussed with her parents that the family needed someone, so she decided to buy it with money.If you have money and don’t enjoy it, don’t eat or drink, don’t hire helpers, don’t spend money to take off the labor force, and still work hard all day, isn’t it stupid to make money?

Qin Dafu paid the money to Lizheng, so Qin Dafu and Qin Ye didn't have to work hard, Zhou Lizheng had to feel a little bit emotional, and the villagers also had whatever they wanted to say.The Qin family used to be so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat, but now they are doing well, they are rich all of a sudden, and they can even spend money to buy a husband.

Everyone also started researching the reason why the Qin family became rich. In the end, it all boiled down to the separation of the family!

Now it is the slack season, not only Taoyuan Village, but even the surrounding villages are heating up!

Of course, these Xiuyao don't know, she is so busy that she is dizzy.

Now she asked her father and elder brother to help study the yellow mud water-drenched tile decolorization technology. At first, she thought that as long as it was yellow mud, it would be fine, so she followed the method recorded.

However, after many experiments, she found that some yellow mud was useless and had to be picked. Finally, she dug some yellow mud from Fenghuang Mountain, and finally the experiment was successful.

She first soaked the yellow mud in water, then filtered it with gauze to remove all the sand and other things, and used the most delicate muddy water for later use.

Boil the syrup again, and then pour it into the crock pot. The crock pot is placed on top of the crock pot. The crock pot is also painted with tung paint on both sides. The lower hole of the crock pot is plugged with wheat straw. After the syrup is poured in, it starts to condense. live.Then remove the wheat straw, pour the filtered yellow mud water into the syrup, and then seal the upper opening of the tile with the yellow mud to make it airtight.

The pigment of the syrup was dissolved by the yellow mud water, and slowly dripped into the tank from the small hole under the tile, and the tile was placed on the wooden frame above the tank for about ten days.

The syrup has been completely decomposed and thoroughly layered. There is a thick layer of hoarfrost on the top layer of the tile, which is white white granulated sugar. Below it is some yellowish-white brown sugar, and the bottom layer is brown brown sugar.

As for the sugar in the big vat, there is blackened brown sugar on the top, and mud and brown sugar at the bottom. Although it is not edible, it is the best fertilizer.At that time, it will be piled up and fermented, which can be used as base fertilizer for crops. Xiuyao asked her father to save it in the composting place for later use.

After more than a month of busy work, Xiuyao, Qin Dafu and others made all the syrup at home into snow-white sugar, which is the best sugar on the market.In addition, Xiuyao also made some rock sugar during this period, that is, boil the white sugar with water, then add a certain proportion of soy milk to clarify the sediment, skim off the froth and filter out the dregs, put the clear soup into the pot and continue to boil until the heat is about the same When it was time to pour it into the tile vat, some thin lines had already hung into the vat.Finally, put the vat indoors and let it cool down naturally. Rock sugar began to crystallize on the line, and the crystallization was basically completed in about ten days.At this time, there will be rock sugar of various sizes, the large ones can weigh more than ten catties, and the small ones can also have small particles.

Separate the rock sugar from the mother liquor. The rock sugar should be exposed to the sun or baked in the house. The remaining mother liquor can be used to make rock sugar and will not be wasted.

Xiuyao made a total of [-] catties of white sugar and [-] catties of rock sugar, and the beets at home were basically used up.

Xiuyao originally wanted to experiment this year. If she succeeds, she will officially open a sugar factory, and her own family does not know how to grow beets, so she will naturally cooperate with other people's families.

How many beets she ordered with them, and how much she paid for them, they cut them up, and she paid for them.Wait for the money to be sold before proceeding to the final checkout.

If the export goes well, her sugar workshop will benefit the villagers more than vermicelli and weaving workshops, allowing them to live a good life.After all, these farmers are best at growing vegetables.

In a blink of an eye, it was already very cold, and it was almost impossible to reach out. After a heavy snowfall, Xiuyao's house could basically be cat winter.Now that life is better, there is no need to raise grass, and the coal and charcoal in the house can't be used up. In addition to the stove and fire cage, there are also kangs and earth dragons. The house is warm, and I don't even need to wear cotton jackets.

Mrs. Zhang originally wanted to go to her daughter's house to live with her mother-in-law's money for a few days because she was separated, and she felt at ease, but she was frozen back after only one day.As soon as he got home, he ran to Xiuyao's house, and refused to go home when he went. He lived there, ate and drank, and called it to accompany Liu's boredom.

And Mrs. Liu is not so free, she has been busy making children's clothes, shoes and socks for Xiuqin, making several burdens for spring, summer, autumn and winter and still refuses to stop.Mrs. Zhang looked distressed and felt that she was wasting, "You are a married girl, and you still spend so much money."

Mrs. Liu wanted to leave it with Daye's wife, but Xu Erni hadn't moved yet, and she was also anxious, but naturally she wouldn't show it.

Mrs. Zhang murmured: "Dayeniang, do you think that Erni will not be able to have children?"

Liu said: "Mother, you worry too much. You see Daye's daughter-in-law has a big butt, why can't she bear children? I think she is very fertile."

Mrs. Zhang muttered, "His third lady said she couldn't have a baby."

Mrs. Liu didn't hear clearly, and asked her what she said, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said: "It's nothing, I just heard some gossip from others, and it's our family who live a good life, they are jealous."

Now Liu’s family is living a good life, Zhang’s is not left behind, she doesn’t have to worry about eating and drinking, and she still has pocket money all day long—what Liu’s gave is enough for her, and she doesn’t have much to save for Qin Sanshun, she is happy in her childhood very.It's just that I've heard a lot of gossip recently, all about the possibility that Qin Ye's daughter-in-law may not be able to bear children. This was heard by the third daughter-in-law, who said that the elder aunt sent a letter back saying that Xu Erni could not bear children, otherwise they would not be able to bear children. Marry a cripple.

Of course, the Qin family's life is better now, they have money, and it's no big deal if their hands are disabled.But when I was relying on my strength before, if this was the case, it would not be guaranteed.

But she knew Liu's temperament, and now she didn't dare to say it directly, for fear that Liu would not welcome her, and she would not get so many benefits in the future.

(End of this chapter)