Chapter 82 The semen female partner chooses to farm (32)
"This is not all the ways to eat it." Xu Yin said to them, "There is a way to make it comparable to rice."
Everyone immediately looked at her with burning eyes, eager to know what kind of food could be as good as rice.
It's better to hit the sun the next day.
After lunch, Xu Yin took advantage of the good weather and took the women of the village to grind the potatoes into juice with a big roller. After settling, they dried in the sun and made a pot of potato powder.
The staple food that night was potato noodles, and the main dish was fish in sour soup.
Put a handful of potato flour into the fish in sour soup, and the potato flour absorbs the soup, and the taste is simply amazing.
Everyone said it was delicious, indeed comparable to rice.
Xu Yin had not eaten potato powder for a long time. She accidentally ate too much fish in sour soup with potato powder, and she ate it in the village for a long time before falling asleep.
She got up late the next day, and when she woke up, she found Yan Kejin half lying on the ground, half leaning against her, dozing off next to her.
"Why is the prince here?"
She thought about it carefully. She seemed to have told him in advance when she came to Zhuangzi this time, right?
"The princess is happy in Zhuangzi and doesn't miss Shu. The king is all alone in the palace. He can't eat or sleep well. Tell me, how can you compensate me?"
Look at this resentful tone.
Xu Yin smiled and kissed his chin: "Actually, if you don't come today, I plan to make some fresh food for you."
"Is it the potato starch that makes the people below so excited that they don't even bother to salute and chatter endlessly when they see me?"
Xu Yin chuckled: "It's a good year this year and everyone is happy. Please forgive them this time."
Yan Kejin snorted, played with her black and smooth hair, and stayed by her side, refusing to get up.
"Get up. The sun is shining through the window. It's not good for the maids to see you."
Xu Yin coaxed in a slow voice.
"Have you had breakfast? Get up and I'll make something delicious for you. How about we go for a walk together after dinner? It's getting cooler now, why don't we go up to the mountains for a picnic? Bring a basket of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and have simmered and roasted sweet potatoes for lunch.
Potato……"
Only by agreeing to a few unequal treaties did people get coaxed.
Xu Yin wiped her sweat.
It is really more difficult to coax a man to take him seriously than to coax a child. In the small world, it was much easier to coax a nephew. Just give him a big white rabbit and it will be done. If he can't do it, just add a few more.
After staying in Zhuangzi for several days, Xu Yin really felt a little happy and reluctant to miss Shu.
In terms of comfort, the farm is indeed not as magnificent as the palace, but it has its own fireworks.
At noon, he went to the fields to see the harvest; at noon, he tinkered with different foods, including potatoes and sweet potatoes, and gave him a try in turn.
In the afternoon we took a nap together, drank a cup of fire-reducing and dry-reducing tea brewed with wild chrysanthemums and Luo Han Guo, walked to the river, fished and netted crabs.
Xu Yin took the opportunity to propose the symbiotic breeding method of rice flower fish and rice flower crab.
I have discussed with Yan Kejin to try raising a few acres of paddy fields on both sides of the river next year, which are the most convenient for irrigation.
Yan Kejin naturally followed her, and money couldn't buy her happiness.
What's more, none of the ideas the princess has come up with so far are easy to use.
Uncle Wang weighed the golden beans. In previous years, the low-yielding beans were less than two shi. This year, after using the new retting method, the yield per mu increased to four shi.
I just don’t quite understand why the princess asked them to grow these fodder beans? To feed the horses of the royal guards? That wouldn’t be enough.
When Xu Yin heard that the soybeans were dried, she pulled Yan Kejin over to the drying area to have a look.
"Yes, the beans are golden and round. They are indeed first-class beans."
Next, she will make soy sauce.
The soy sauce recipe that can be exchanged for 3,000 energy points has long been lying in the system warehouse.
"Uncle Wang, in the future, the palace will purchase corn beans for a long time. The price is temporarily set at five cents per catty, or you can exchange them for grain. At that time, I will have someone build a purchasing station at the entrance of Zhuangzi. You can arrange the corn beans that come in.
The people were transported to Xu Mansion."
Even if the waterwheel drawings were taken, they would not produce the effect she wanted.
However, the soy sauce recipe needs to be kept secret, because it is necessary to help the Nanman people escape poverty and become rich, so for the time being, we do not plan to open it to crowded farms.
Anyway, the Xu Mansion was big enough, with ancient wells in the front and back yards, so I thought of trying it in the Xu Mansion first, but decided to choose another place to build the workshop.
Yan Kejin was speechless when she heard what she said. She waved her hand and asked the guard to go to North Street to find a street-facing shop with two courtyards to make soy sauce for the princess.
The Xu Mansion was given to her as a wedding gift, just like her natal family, so why should all the messy things be put there?
Xu Yin: "..."
The Xu Mansion is so spacious, so how could it be so messy to occupy a small courtyard to brew soy sauce? Don’t eat it after she has the ability to brew it!
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Xu Yin read the soy sauce recipe before and found that the brewing process of soy sauce is not complicated, but it is time-consuming and takes half a year.
Based on this calculation, the most critical fermentation period happened to be in winter. In Fucheng's winter, although it didn't snow, the temperature was not very high, so I asked Yan Kejin to borrow a few craftsmen and put a fire kang in the fermentation room.
The temperature is not high enough for a fire.
This compartment is busy. Chenjiazhuang, at the foot of Weishan Mountain, sent strong laborers to push carts and delivered twelve stones of beans.
Several strong men came, all with happy faces.
This year, their village has had a bumper harvest of food. The yields of sweet potatoes in the mountains, rice in the paddy fields, and interplanted corn have all exceeded the highest peak in previous years.
This does not include fodder beans interplanted with corn and sugarcane production during the growing season.
In short, their village can have a good year this year.
"This is a letter written by the patriarch. Please read it to the princess."
The leading strong man presented a letter.
Xu Yin read ten lines at a glance, smiled happily, and said to the few people who came:
"It's been a hard journey. Let me take you to rest first. I'll have someone accompany you around the city tomorrow. Once you're here, we'll have a few more days to play and go back."
The strong men had no nerve to live and eat in the palace, and even if they had ten courages, they would not dare to do so, not to mention that they had to rush back to plant winter wheat.
The winter wheat seeds were also provided by the princess. They should plant them as soon as possible and cook them carefully, hoping to have a good start next spring and make the princess look good. Therefore, they said that the family was still waiting for them and they would have to rush back early tomorrow morning.
When Xu Yin saw that they were determined to do this, she stopped trying to persuade them and settled the purchase price of the beans for them at five cents per catty, twelve stones for six taels of silver.
In addition, they also gave her dozens of kilograms of red beans and a bunch of dried pheasants.
Xu Yin knew that they would not accept the money she gave them, so she simply returned the same value of cloth and seasonings.
When the people in Chenjiazhuang heard that the beans were worth five cents per catty, they far exceeded their expectations.
You must know that these twelve-stone grain beans were harvested by interplanting with corn, so almost no land was used.
Really talking about investment, it's just a packet of seeds and the occasional application of some fertilizer, apart from weeding.
And these, even if fodder beans are not interplanted, the corn fields still need to be carefully tended.
Therefore, these six taels of silver are just like picking up for free.