Chapter 83: A female mate 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 suddenly looked at her with burning eyes, eager to know what 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, it was indeed as good as rice.

Xu Yin has not eaten potato powder for a long time. She accidentally ate too much fish in sour soup with potato powder. She ate it in Zhuangzi for a long time before falling asleep.

 I got up late the next day, and when I woke up, I found Yan Kejin half lying on the ground, half leaning on the ground, 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 alone in the palace. He can't eat well 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 to make the people below so excited that they don’t even bother to salute and chatter endlessly about the potato starch when they see me?”

Xu Yin chuckled: "This year is a good year, 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. How about we go up to the mountains for a picnic? Bring a basket of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and eat simmered sweet potatoes and roasted sweet potatoes for lunch. Potato…"

　　A few unequal treaties were allowed to coax people together.

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. If you give him a white rabbit, he will do it. If not, just a few more.

 After staying in Zhuangzi for several days, Xu Yin really felt a little happy rather than thinking about Shu.

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

 Go to the fields at noon to see the harvest scene; at noon, try out different foods, including potatoes and sweet potatoes, and give him a try in turn.

  Let's take a nap together in the afternoon. After getting up, we drink a cup of tea brewed with wild chrysanthemum and Luo Han Guo to reduce fire and relieve dryness. We then walk to the river to catch fish and net crabs.

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

Try to discuss with Yan Kejin on both sides of the river and the most convenient irrigation next year.

Yan Kejin naturally followed her, and money could not 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 understand why the princess asked them to grow these beans. Feed the horses of the royal guards? It won't take so much.

Xu Yin heard that the soybeans were dried, so she pulled Yan Kejin over to the drying area to have a look.

“Not bad, the beans are golden and round, they are indeed first-grade beans.”

 Next, she will make soy sauce. The soy sauce recipe, which 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. Transport people 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, I do not plan to open it to a crowded farm.

Anyway, the Xu Mansion is big enough, with ancient wells in the front and back yards, so I thought of trying it in the Xu Mansion first, but ended up choosing 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. How could she put all the mess there?

 Xu Yin: “…”

 Xu Mansion is so spacious, so why does occupying a small courtyard and brewing soy sauce become such a mess? If you have the guts, 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 is time-consuming and takes half a year.

Through this calculation, the most critical fermentation period happens to be in winter. In Fucheng's winter, although it doesn't snow, the temperature is 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 warm enough for a fire.

The carriage is busy here. Chenjiazhuang at the foot of Weishan Mountain sent strong laborers to push carts and delivered twelve stones of beans.

 The few strong men who came came, all with happy faces.

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

This does not include the production of fodder beans interplanted with corn and the production of sugarcane 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:

“You’ve had a hard journey along the way, so let me take you to rest first. I’ll have someone accompany you around the city tomorrow. Once you’re here, you’ll have a few more days to play and go back.”

 

The winter wheat seeds were also provided by the princess. They should plant them as soon as possible and cook them carefully, so as 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.

Seeing that they were determined to do this, Xu Yin stopped persuading 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 should know that these twelve stones of beans were interplanted with corn, so almost no land was used.

 In terms of inputs, it’s just a packet of seeds and the occasional application of some fertilizer, except for weeding.

 And these, even if fodder beans are not interplanted, the corn fields still need to be carefully tended.

 Hence, these six taels of silver are just like picking up for free.

 (End of this chapter)