But Li Dao thinks this is a big deal. Now that Li Dazhong is back, it's up to him to dig the river. He doesn't want to eat sweet potatoes either!
When the harvest was not good a few years ago, there were sweet potatoes at home every day. He was injured from eating them, and since then he has never wanted to eat sweet potatoes.
Now he has to take the lead. No, he has to save himself.
He excused himself to go to the toilet, avoided Zhuang Fengshou, and ran to Li Qiao's house.
He wanted to borrow money from Li Qiao, but he did not want to do corvee service.
Moreover, isn't Li Qiao studying sweet potatoes? Why have there been no results for so many days? Did Li Qiao do something bad on purpose?
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I wanted to write a long chapter to finish the vermicelli, but I ended up feeling very sleepy today QAQ.
Send a little red envelope to the treasures, I will finish writing this plot tomorrow!
Chapter 61 Li Qiao has little plot, and the whole village makes money together in the sweet potato workshop.
Li Dao trotted to Li Qiao's house and saw that Tao Zhu, Li Ping, Li Dashan and Li Chuntao were all in the yard, but Li Qiao was nowhere to be seen, so he asked directly with a dark face: "Where is Li Qiao? !”
"Isn't he studying sweet potatoes? Now my third uncle is about to be killed by sweet potatoes. Why hasn't he achieved any results yet?!"
"Is he hiding it on purpose so that the villagers don't want to make money with sweet potatoes?"
Tao Zhu: "?"
Li Ping, Li Dashan, Li Chuntao: "..."
There were also several villagers who came with Li Dao, and their heads were full of questions at this moment.
The villagers were recently afraid that Tao Shu's family would come to Li Qiao's house to cause trouble, and they were very concerned about Li Qiao's family. At this time, Li Dao ran all the way to Li Qiao's house, and several villagers who saw him followed.
Wang Liang said with a dark face: "Li Dao, why are you so hysterical in broad daylight?! Are you crazy about trying to tease Li Qiao? You can say such things?"
"That's right! You must have been so anxious if you didn't take advantage of Li Qiao. You dare to say such nonsense. If you are sick, you should treat it yourself. Don't go crazy and affect Li Qiao's study."
"Yes, those are as big as a mountain of sweet potatoes. How could Li Qiao think of a good solution all at once?"
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Several villagers scolded Li Dao one after another.
Li Dao scratched his neck and yelled back one by one.
One thing is right, he did not take advantage of Li Qiao, so he was anxious. There was an opportunity now, how could he miss it.
He moved out of Li Dazhong and said that the reason why Li Dazhong was sent back was because of Li Qiao. If Li Qiao had figured out how to make money from sweet potatoes earlier, what happened today would not have happened.
Li Ping was angry at Li Dao's words. She knew what was going on. She immediately went to Li Dao's house and asked Zhuang Fengshou to find someone to take Li Dao back.
In the midst of the chaos, Li Qiao came out of the house.
"Stop arguing. Brother Dazhong can't eat sweet potatoes. I'm going to visit brother Dazhong when I have time. But before visiting, let's take a look at the noodles I made from sweet potatoes. Even if the third uncle doesn't come today, I also plan to use this powder for cooking."
Li Qiao said, motioning Li Chuntao to go to the kitchen and take out the sweet potato starch he had prepared.
He has made a lot of delicious things from sweet potatoes these days, but no matter how he makes them, they are all desserts in the end.
Guessing that it was almost time, he finally made an annoyed look and said that wheat can be used to make wheat starch, so sweet potatoes should also be used to make sweet potato starch.
So, Li Chuntao and Li Dashan worked together to make some sweet potato starch a few days ago, and they dried it and put it into clay pots yesterday.
Even if Li Dao didn't come to cause trouble, he still planned to use sweet potato starch to cook today.
Since Li Dao is here to make trouble, let's cook a few more dishes today without any delay.
Li Chuntao quickly came out with a small clay pot, opened it, and took a spoon to scoop out a spoonful of sweet potato starch.
The sweet potato starch was in the form of small granules. It was smooth when pinched with your hands. Both the villagers and Li Dao looked at it in confusion.
The flour-like thing in front of you is made from sweet potatoes?
"Can this steamed buns be steamed?" Wang Liang asked.
If you can steam steamed buns, it can be regarded as finding a way out for sweet potatoes, which are more productive than wheat.
"I don't know about this yet. How about using it as flour and frying it in oil to see what you can make."
Li Qiao said.
"Yeah!"
Both the villagers and Li Ping are looking forward to it.
Even Li Dao closed his mouth and just stared at Li Qiao.
He just didn't want to dig the river today, so he came to look for trouble. Now Li Qiao really came up with something he had never seen before. He hoped that Li Qiao could succeed. In this case, his sweet potatoes could be sold for money. He There is no need to dig a river.
In order to treat his old woman's illness, his family really couldn't afford the five hundred coins!
There is a small kitchen next to the shed, which Li Chuntao uses for cooking on weekdays, so several villagers squeezed into the small kitchen.
Li Chuntao followed Li Qiao's instructions, melted the sweet potato starch with water, put lard in the pot, and when the oil was hot, poured the starch water into the pot and fried it.
"Wow, the color changed! The white turned to brown!"
"smell good!"
"Can this really be fried in flour?"
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People looked at the sweet potato stew in the pot and marveled.
Li Chuntao's recipe is called sweet potato stew. This kind of stew and sweet potato jelly are not the same thing. Sweet potato jelly only needs water, but this one needs to be fried in oil.
But precisely because of the oil, if it is cooked well, it will taste better than meat.
Li Chuntao followed Li Qiao's instructions, took out the stew and cut it into pieces, then poured it back into the pot and stir-fried with garlic and chili.
Soon, the rich fragrance filled the entire small kitchen, and several villagers took deep breaths one after another.
They usually put so much oil in cooking, but the food at Li Qiao's house is so good!
The fried stew was ready and smelled fragrant and spicy. Several villagers, including Li Dao, were about to taste it with chopsticks when Zhuang Fengshou came with two villagers.
Li Dao said he was going to the toilet, but no one was seen for a while. Li Dazhong was sure that he was coming to Li Qiao's house, so Zhuang Fengshou came out of Li Dazhong's house and went straight to Li Qiao's house.
Meeting two men on the road, Zhuang Fengshou called them and asked them to help arrest them.
As soon as Li Dao saw Zhuang Fengsheng, he quickly shouted: "Village chief, Li Qiao made delicious sweet potato flour. Come and try it. He really made new tricks on sweet potatoes!"
"...It will come back, but you have to go to the construction site today, otherwise if the yamen officer blames you, you will be whipped."
Zhuang Fengshou said with a serious face.
When Li Dao heard this, his face suddenly collapsed: "Village chief, let me sell you a few hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes, so that I don't have to dig the river. Smell this fragrance, the price of sweet potatoes will definitely increase in the future! Now I pay two If I sell it to you for pennies per catty, you are definitely taking advantage."
"Are you really going to sell me sweet potatoes?" Zhuang Fengshou asked.
"Sell, sell, sell. As long as you give me cash, you can go to my house to fetch sweet potatoes now."
Li Dao nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Okay. But you still have to follow me, and you have to pay in person."
"Okay, that's no problem."
Li Dao was so happy to see that the village had a good harvest. He picked up a bowl of sweet potato stew and walked towards the door: "Village chief, let's go home."
Hey, as long as he is not allowed to dig rivers and eat sweet potatoes, everything will be fine.
After all, it was Li Qiao's third uncle. He took away half of the sweet potato stew at once, but no one stopped him.
Li Qiao walked over and talked to Zhuang Fengshou about sweet potato starch. Zhuang Fengshou nodded: "I'll come over tomorrow to discuss it in detail. Now I have to go to the river again."
So, Zhuang Fengshou left quickly.
But a few villagers did not leave.
Li Qiao asked Li Chuntao to make another pot of stew for everyone to taste.
He bluntly said that this was just a preliminary attempt. Since the sweet potato starch can be fried, there must be other ways to make it. He will experiment more in the next few days to come up with more ways to eat it.
The villagers tasted the delicious stew and left with faces full of satisfaction and expectation. The sweet potatoes they planted were really going to turn into small amounts of money.
Li Qiao is awesome!
Li Qiao, together with Tao Zhu and Li Chuntao, studied various ways to eat sweet potato starch.
There is a habit of drinking noodle soup here in Pingcheng. The preparation of this noodle soup is very simple. Just add flour and water, use chopsticks to make a dough. After the water in the pot boils, add water to the dough and break it up, and then pour it into the pot.
In this way, a pot of simple and delicious noodle soup is ready.
Now Li Qiao asked Tao Zhu to make the same noodle soup with sweet potato starch. Of course, there are slight differences in the operation and it cannot really turn into dough.
So, he made sweet potato jelly.
There are subtle differences in taste between sweet potato jelly and sweet potato stew, but they both taste great whether fried or cold.
Next, Li Qiao used the method of making noodles, adding water to sweet potato starch to form a dough.
But this time, he didn't let Li Chuntao take the rolling pin.
Because he had asked Zhuang Wu to buy him a manual noodle machine before.
This kind of noodle machine is very simple. It just drills some small holes in the bottom of a bamboo tube, stuffs the dough into the holes, and then uses a wooden board matching the bamboo tube to squeeze the dough hard, and the noodles are drilled along the small holes in the bottom. come out.
Each noodle is ready.
The first time Li Qiao saw Tao Zhu rolling noodles, he wanted to make such a gadget.
But he didn't have time at the time, and the noodles made by this method were not strong enough, so he didn't take action.
But now that he was making sweet potato vermicelli, he needed this tool, so he went to Zhuang Wu and asked Zhuang Wu to make one for him.
At this time, I used this small tool to make sweet potato vermicelli and succeeded in just one time.
The prepared sweet potato vermicelli was uniform in thickness. After tasting it, it was smooth and springy. Li Qiao immediately asked Li Chuntao and Tao Zhu to start working together at the same time, one making ants climbing up the tree and the other making hot and sour noodles.
