Chapter 83 As a fine female matchmaker 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 looked at her with burning eyes, eager to know what food can be compared to rice.

  The next day is not as good as hitting the sun.

   After lunch, Xu Yin took advantage of the sunny day and brought the women in the village to grind the potatoes into juice with a large mill, dried them after precipitation, and made a pot of potato flour.

  The staple food that night was potato flour, and the main dish was fish in sour soup.

  Put a handful of potato powder in the fish in sour soup, the potato powder soaked in the soup, the taste is absolutely amazing.

  Everyone said it was delicious, and it was indeed comparable to rice.

  Xu Yin hasn’t eaten potato flour for a long time. Fish in sour soup is paired with potato flour. She accidentally ate too much. She spent a long time eating in Zhuangzi at night before falling asleep.

  Woke up late the next day, and woke up to find Yan Kejin half-lying and half-reclining beside her, dozing off.

   "Why is the prince here?"

  She thought about it carefully, this time she came to Zhuangzi, it seems that she told him in advance, right?

   "The concubine is so happy in Zhuangzi that she doesn't think about Shu, and the king is alone in the mansion. He can't eat or sleep well. Tell me, how can I compensate the king?"

  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 powder that makes the people so excited that the king doesn't care to salute and chatter endlessly?"

  Xu Yin sneered: "This year is a good year, and everyone is happy. Forgive them this time."

  Yan Kejin snorted and snorted, playing with her black and smooth hair, leaning against her and refusing to get up.

   "Get up, the sun is shining through the window, it's not good to be seen by the maids."

  Xu Yin coaxed in a slow voice.

"Have you had breakfast yet? Get up and I'll make something delicious for you. How about going for a walk together after eating? It's getting colder today, why don't we go to the mountains for a picnic? Bring a basket of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and eat stewed sweet potatoes and roasted potatoes at noon." Potato…"

  Allow a few unequal treaties to coax people up.

  Xu Yin wiped off her sweat.

   Coaxing a man is really more difficult than coaxing a child. Coaxing a nephew in the last small world is much easier than this. You can get it done with a big white rabbit, or a few more if you can’t.

  Staying in the Zhuangzi for a few days, Xu Yin really couldn't think of leaving.

  In terms of comfort, the farm is indeed not as magnificent as the palace, but it has its fireworks.

  Go to the field at noon to see the harvest scene; at noon, cook up different foods, and give him a turn to try anything that potatoes and sweet potatoes can do.

  Cuddled for a nap in the afternoon, drank a cup of tea brewed from wild chrysanthemum and mangosteen for reducing heat and dryness, went for a walk by the river, and fished and netted crabs.

  Xu Yin took the opportunity to propose the symbiotic breeding method of rice flower fish and rice flower crab.

   Discussed with Yan Kejin how many acres of paddy fields on both sides of the river that would be most convenient for irrigation next year, and tried raising them.

  Yan Kejin naturally let her go, money can't buy her happiness.

   What's more, so far, none of the ideas put forward by the princess is not easy to use.

  Uncle Wang weighed the golden-brown hay beans. In previous years, the low-yield hay 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 did the concubine ask them to grow such fodder and beans? Feed the horses of the palace guards? That won't take so much.

  Xu Yin heard that the soybeans were ready to dry, so she dragged Yan Kejin over to the drying yard to watch.

   "Not bad, golden and round, they are really first-class beans."

   Next, she will make soy sauce.

  The soy sauce formula for 3000 energy points exchange has long been lying in the system warehouse.

"Uncle Wang, in the future, the palace will buy fodder beans for a long time, and the price will be temporarily set at five cents a catty, or you can exchange them for grain. At that time, I will ask someone to build a purchasing station at the gate of Zhuangzi. You can arrange for the fodder beans you collect People transported to Xufu."

  Even if the blueprint of the waterwheel is taken away, it will not be able to achieve the effect she wants.

  But the soy sauce recipe needs to be kept secret, because it depends on this to lead the people of the Nanman out of poverty, so I don’t plan to open it in a crowded farm for the time being.

  Anyway, Xu Mansion is big enough, and there are ancient wells in the front and back yards, so I thought to try it in Xu Mansion first, and then choose another place to build a workshop.

  Yan Kejin was quite speechless when she heard what she said, so he waved his hand and asked the guards to go to North Street to search for a shop facing the street with two courtyards for making soy sauce for the princess.

  Xu's mansion is for her to marry, just like her mother's house, why don't you put all the mess there.

  Xu Yin: "..."

  Xu's mansion is so empty, how could it be such a mess to occupy a small courtyard to brew soy sauce? If you have the ability, don't eat it after she brews it!

  …

  Xu Yin read the soy sauce recipe before, and found that the brewing process of soy sauce is not complicated, but it takes time, and it takes half a year.

  Based on this calculation, the most critical fermentation period in the middle happens to be in winter. Although there is no snow in Fucheng in winter, the temperature is not too high, so I asked Yan Kejin to borrow a few craftsmen and set up a kang in the fermentation room.

  The temperature is not enough for the hot kang.

   This room was busy, and Chenjiazhuang at the foot of the strange mountain sent a strong labor force to push a cart to deliver twelve stone hay beans.

  The few strong men who came here were all happy.

  This year, their village has had a bumper harvest of grain. The yield per mu of sweet potatoes in the mountains, rice in the paddy fields, and interplanted corn all exceeded the peaks of previous years.

  This does not include the fodder beans interplanted with corn and the sugarcane yield during the growth period.

  In short, their village will 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 the ten lines at a glance, smiled comfortably, and said to the few people who came:

   "It's been a hard journey, let Mammy take you to rest first, and I'll let someone accompany you around the city tomorrow, so you can play for a few more days and go back when you come."

  The brawny men don’t have the nerve to live and eat in the palace, and they don’t dare to be presumptuous if they lend them ten courage, not to mention they have to rush back to plant winter wheat.

  Winter wheat seeds are also provided by the princess. Plant them as soon as possible and take good care of them, so that next spring will have a good start and give the princess a face. Therefore, it is said that the family is still waiting for them, and they have to go back early in the morning.

  Xu Yin saw that they insisted on this, so she stopped persuading them, and paid them the purchase price of Mo Shidou at five cents a catty, and twelve stones yielded six taels of silver.

   In addition, they also gave her dozens of catties of red beans and a bunch of dried pheasants.

  Xu Yin knew that they would not accept money from them, so she simply returned cloth and seasonings of equal value.

  When the people in Chenjiazhuang heard this, they found that fodder and beans were worth five cents a catty, which greatly exceeded their expectations.

  You must know that these twelve stone moss beans are harvested interplanted with corn, and almost no land is spent.

   Really want to talk about input, that is, a bag of seeds and occasional fertilization, except for weeding.

   And these, even if there is no interplanting of fodder beans, the corn field must be carefully tended.

   Therefore, these six taels of silver are almost the same as picking up for nothing.

  (end of this chapter)