Shi Shan and the leaders of several tribes looked at the rebuilt wooden house and gave Yao Xiaoqing a thumbs up with satisfaction.
"Qing Wu is still very capable, but we can't come up with such a solution!"
Yao Xiaoqing's face turned a little red, "You are too busy, I just like to think about it when I have nothing to do!" What she did not say was that if you came from tens of millions of years later, you would also be successful, maybe better than me.
Even more powerful.
Yao Hu glanced at Yao Xiaoqing proudly and said to Shi Shan: "Brother Shi Shan, hurry up and build a wooden house before it snows, cut down the firewood and prepare for the winter."
"Chief Yaohu, Cuiyu of Wuxian left with his people and never came back. Can we build a wooden house at their place?" asked a later leader of a small tribe.
Yao Hu nodded, "You can build the wooden house there after they leave."
Shan Yang nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it would be best to drive away the black bear's daughter. That woman looks as bad as the black bear."
The other leaders agreed with Shanyang's statement.
Everyone chatted for a while and then went back.
Yao Xiaoqing thought of the leader's words and looked at Yao Hu, "Father, do you think the Giant Bear Tribe will go to Shenmu Mountain?"
Yao Hu thought for a while and said, "It's possible. After this period of work is over, let someone go into the mountain to have a look."
"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded, thought about it and said, "The oil pressing room is ready. Let's squeeze out the sucrose first and then start pressing the oil."
Yao Hu laughed after hearing this, "The sugar cane is sweet and everyone likes to eat it. One stick today and one tomorrow. I think it won't take long before it's gone."
Yao Xiaoqing thinks so. Although we have harvested a lot of sugar cane this year, we can’t handle the large number of people!
The father and daughter returned to the tribe and went straight to the oil press. They saw that Jiang Li and his men had already installed the battering rams.
Yao Xiaoqing walked over and said with a smile: "Jiang Li, let's squeeze out the sucrose first, and then start pressing the oil."
Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "Have someone bring the sugar cane over. The millstone and stove are ready."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, and went back with a dozen women to drag the sugar cane to the ditch and wash it with straw handles. The water in the ditch was freezing cold, and soon it turned as red as a red radish.
Everyone peeled the cleaned sugar cane and chopped it into small pieces.
"Ayu, collect these sugarcane peels and send some to Yun Amu in the canteen, and send the rest to the livestock house to feed Uncle Chun to the cows."
Ayu asked in confusion: "Xiaoqing, why are you giving the sugarcane skins to Yun Amu?" She thinks it is right to feed the sugarcane skins to cows, but can they be used as food in the canteen?
Yao Xiaoqing raised his head, "Send it to the canteen and let Yun Amujia smoke bacon and fish in pine branches. The smoked food will have a sweet aroma!"
"Oh! I understand." Ayu put the sugarcane peels into a basket, picked them up in the canteen and gave them to Yun Amu.
Yao Xiaoqing led others to chop the sugarcane into short sections and grind it into a millstone. The sugarcane juice flowed into the wooden barrel along the millstone. Then he put the sugarcane residue into a sack and hydraulically squeezed out the remaining sugarcane juice.
After all the sugarcane juice is hydraulically squeezed out, filter the sugarcane juice in the bucket with gauze to remove the residue. Pour the sugarcane juice into the pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Simmer slowly over low heat. Stir the sugarcane juice in the pot to let the water out.
It slowly evaporates, causing the sugar concentration to gradually increase.
Stir continuously during the cooking process to prevent the sugar liquid from sticking to the pot. Only a little flame can be left in the stove, and it can neither be extinguished nor ignited.
Stirring is a tiring job. If you keep stirring for a while, your hands will soon become stiff and numb.
Everyone took turns stirring, and after a long period of stirring and waiting, the syrup finally became stronger and turned into a thick reddish-brown paste. Yao Xiaoqing scooped out the syrup and put it into the prepared mold to cool.
Yao Xiaoqing asked someone to boil the second pot of syrup a little longer, and the color of the syrup turned dark brown. After this pot of syrup was finished, the first pot of syrup had also cooled down.
She led someone to pour the solidified brown sugar bricks out of the mold, and the reddish-brown brown sugar bricks were made.
Yao Xiaoqing picked up a piece of crumbs and put it into his mouth, and tasted the unique caramel-like taste of brown sugar again.
She put a piece in Shan Amu's mouth and said, "Amu, taste it to see if it's sweet."
The sweet candy melted in his mouth, and Shan Amu nodded with a smile, "Sweet, sweet!"
Hua tasted a piece and asked strangely: "Xiao Qing, sugar cane is white, why does the boiled sugar look like this? Is there any white sugar?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Yes, when all the sugar is boiled and the last pot of syrup is made, we will make white sugar."
After they entered, Jiang Li looked at her curiously, "Qing Wu, can you make sugar?"
"I have seen how to make white sugar on the Internet before. Let's try it and see if it works." Yao Xiaoqing said.
Jiang Li nodded, "Okay, whatever you need to prepare, I'll prepare it."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "No need to prepare. I made charcoal. Add water to the syrup and put it into the charcoal to boil. Then filter it with gauze. After boiling and letting it stand, you can get white sugar."
Jiang Li nodded after hearing this, "Okay, let's boil the syrup first."
A group of people worked for several days to boil all the syrup, and the last few pots of syrup were all turned into white sugar.
After lunch, everyone in the Yaoshan tribe drank brown sugar and ginger tea.
Yao Xiaoqing said to the women: "In the future, if it is inconvenient for everyone, when you have a stomachache, you can soak it in brown sugar and drink it. Children must not eat sugar before going to bed, as their teeth will be damaged. When Eminem is cooking braised food, you can also drink it."
Add brown sugar and white sugar for flavor.”
Ashuo and the others smiled and nodded, "I understand."
Yun Amu held the bamboo cup with a smile, "It will warm you up after drinking it, and it will feel good in your stomach."
Shan'am smiled and nodded, "Yeah! Let's grow some sugar cane next year."
Yao Xiaoqing stood up and said with a smile: "When the brown sugar and white sugar are all ready, let's start pressing the oil."
Jiang Li also stood up, "We need a few strong men to help."
Muba and Leopard stood up and said, "Let's go help."
"Okay, let's go to the oil press." Everyone went to the oil press together.
Everyone pours the rapeseed into the wind mill, and after the air is clean, pour it into the pot and stir-fry until it is brown, shovel it into the basket, pour it on the bamboo mat and spread it out to cool.
Jiang Li took Muba and a few others to use stone mills to grind the rapeseed into powder and put it into the steamer. They steamed it until the pot was steaming, the oil pressing mill was filled with mist, and the rapeseed in the steamer gave off a burst of oily aroma.
After checking several times and feeling that the steaming was done, Jiang Li asked them to pour the rapeseed powder in the steamer onto the bamboo mat, shovel the rapeseed powder into the straw basket with a shovel, and quickly wrap it up. Put the straw basket into grids.
Put it into the iron ring of the grid and make it into a pancake.
Then stuff the oil cakes one by one into the pressing chamber and arrange them neatly. After loading, insert wooden blocks on one side of the oil cakes.