In the blink of an eye, it was afternoon. The beans had been cooked for a long time and had been simmering for a long time. When I opened the lid of the pot, I saw that the soybeans had turned red and could be crushed as if they were noodles.
"That's it!"
Pan Pan took out an object with a long handle and a square head. This tool has a special name: pestle!
As the name suggests, it is used for making miso.
She took this thing and crushed the soybeans hard until they turned into a paste.
Then knead a ball, beat it repeatedly, and stuff it into a 30 cm long and 20 cm wide mold. The soybean paste turns into rectangular sauce blocks.
Soon it was evening again, night fell, and the lights came on in the farmyard.
The heat in the kitchen seemed to have not dissipated, and a hard-working little fat girl was working hard, all by herself, from beginning to end. She finally had the sauce ready, and she had time to sit down.
"Phew... I'm so exhausted!"
Pan Pan's tiredness was visible to the naked eye and said: "These sauce pieces need to be dried in the sun or in the shade. Anyway, they are separated from the water and allowed to ferment. After fermentation, a layer of white hair will appear. It will take about 2 months before the sauce can be made.
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"So you want to follow me for 2 months?"
"Of course, the whole process is on display! There are a lot of living things in the middle. You must be diligent when making miso, otherwise the quality will not be good and maggots will easily develop."
"maggot?"
"It's just maggots!"
Pan Pan makes a worm-like squirm.
"..."
The room was quiet for a while, but if you were doing the later stage, there would be crows flying by.
This kind of video focuses on the restoration of ancient methods. Of course, it cannot be a pure ancient method, that's what it means.
Use less or no machinery, manual operation, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, coupled with landscapes and farmhouses, empty shots... Wow, that is the quiet time and the dream of the countryside.
All UP owners of this type, including Li Ziqi, shoot like this.
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The other end.
Uncle Li's workbench is relatively simple, consisting of a small bench, a long bench, and a set of traditional carpenter's tools.
Xu Meng put a football next to her. She was visiting the class in person today. There was nothing she could do about it. Yao Yuan showed so much importance, so naturally she had to show some attitude.
I saw Uncle Li first draw a picture on paper, calculate the dimensions, then take out the wood, first saw it into small squares, and then saw it into pentagons and hexagons.
The grids on football are pentagons and hexagons.
Xu Meng is from the Northeast and has no interest in making miso. She just stood here and stared. She didn’t know anything about carpentry, but she just thought it was amazing. After the wood blocks were made, they were processed and polished. No nails were used, and the emphasis was on mortise and tenon joints.
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This is faster than Pan Pan's, and the splicing process will be over in a short while.
"Wait a minute!"
Xu Meng signaled for a pause in filming and said, "I'll give it a try!"
She came over in a hurry, picked up two wooden blocks, aligned them and put them together, and they really succeeded. She took a few more pieces and continued to put them together, and in a short time she completed a semicircle.
“Isn’t this just Lego?”
“What is Lego?”
"Foreign building blocks."
"Oh...how about having me?" Uncle Li was rather disdainful.
"In terms of craftsmanship, I'm definitely not as good as you. But they are industrially produced, with more than 1,000 shapes in total, and can sell tens of billions of building blocks every year."
"Ten billions?"
The old man smashed his mouth and stopped talking.
Xu Meng tried it out and re-photographed it. Uncle Li put it together piece by piece, and finally assembled it into a complete football. It was the same size and had a black and white grid. The surface was smooth and round, without any roughness of wood.
With a flick of his hand, it started to spin on the table.
"Absolutely awesome!"
“This craftsmanship is amazing!”
Xu Meng picked it up and weighed it. Except that it felt a little hard, the rest was just like a real football.
"What's the use of good craftsmanship, if it can't sell tens of billions a year!"
"What you are saying sounds a bit like when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered the capital. Let's pursue them slowly. Chinese toys are not bad at all. They will definitely be able to go overseas in the future."
Xu Meng didn't know the future and just followed Yao Yuan's tone.
But it is not wrong. In later generations, Chinese toys did go overseas. Not only toys, but also ghost coins went overseas. They were called "ancestor money" by foreigners.
Domestic merchants struck while the iron was hot and created a US version of the ghost coin, with Kennedy printed on it, eh.
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Uncle Li left after taking the photo, while Pan Pan was still struggling to break the sauce.
Xu Meng was very generous and stayed with me until the end.
At about 8 o'clock in the evening, a group of people had a dinner, which was all farm food. They killed a chicken, stewed chicken with potatoes, and fried toon with eggs. This is called one chicken and two.
"Sister, why did Commander Yao take these videos?"
Pan Pan was so tired that he took big mouthfuls of rice.
"Because our Commander Yao has always had a dream of going to sea. I remember when I was with him, he would say one sentence: Earning money from your own people is not a skill, but making money from foreigners is.
After all these years, he has not changed his original intention."
"Then if we post on YouTube, we will get a share just like wheat grains?"
"Yes! This will also increase your income, and you will earn a lot of money from now on! When people mention Pan Pan, a big internet celebrity in China, they may not think it's a big deal. But when people mention Pan Pan, a big internet celebrity in the United States, oh!"
"Oh, don't make fun of me..."
The most rare thing about Pan Pan is that even though he is rich, he is not arrogant and takes his career seriously.
She has made plans. Next year when Uncle Zheng Xiusheng retires, he will also settle in Maili. She will be regarded as his disciple. After a few years of filming, she will open a restaurant and study her favorite dishes.
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The speed was faster than Yao Yuan expected.
In less than a month, all ten videos were completed.
First, the music category. I edited a collection of highlights from "The Voice of China". In fact, music is the best way to communicate and is the most respectable, but no one does it in China - "Family with Children" is even played in nightclubs in the UK.
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Next, in the film and television category, I created a commentary on "Dallas Buyers Club", which is purely in English. There will also be commentary on Chinese movies in the future.
These two are easy, and the massive copyrights of 99 Group can be used as much as you like.
For the food and folklore category, one is Pan Pan, which is in a down-to-earth style; the other is in a petty-bourgeois style, with light music, cats, and exquisite cuisine.
The handicraft category is Uncle Li.
Chinese people in foreign countries and foreigners in China have ready-made grains of wheat.
Strange Tales of Hunting and Big White Legs are also available, but they have a special issue for foreign countries. For example, Strange Tales talks about whether mummy powder can really aphrodisiac?
Only the children category is brand new, I found a cute 4-year-old boy doll.
Yao Yuantong read it through and felt that Pan Pan and Uncle Li were easy to explode, and the rest needed time to accumulate. It's not that the content is not good, but it takes many episodes to show the charm of this genre.
By the way, he really wanted to find Li Ziqi, but unfortunately it was too early and Li Ziqi hadn't played video yet, so he didn't know where he was.
Yao Yuan asked someone to upload the video and contacted Susan at the same time.
Susan also watched it again and thought the quality was good. Following YouTube's practice, she made a regular recommendation to these new UP owners to see how the effect was.