"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 immediately 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, indeed as good as rice.
Xu Yin also hadn't eaten potato noodles for a long time. She accidentally ate too much fish in sour soup with potato noodles, and she ate it in the village for a long time before falling asleep.
She got up late the next day, and when she woke up, she found Yan Kejin half lying on the ground, half leaning against her, 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 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 you some fresh food and send it to you."
"Is it the potato starch that makes the people below so excited that they don't even bother to salute and chatter endlessly when they see me?"
Xu Yin chuckled: "It's a good year this year and 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……"
Only after allowing a few unequal treaties did he coax people up.
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 than this. Just give him a white rabbit and it will be done. If not, just a few more.
After staying in Zhuangzi for several days, Xu Yin was really happy and reluctant to miss Shu.
In terms of comfort, the farm is indeed not as magnificent as the palace, but it has its fireworks.
At noon, he went to the fields to see the harvest scene; at noon, he experimented with different foods, including potatoes and sweet potatoes, and gave him a try in turn.
In the afternoon we took a nap together, drank a cup of fire-reducing and dry-reducing tea brewed with wild chrysanthemums and Luo Han Guo, walked to 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.
He and Yan Kejin discussed raising a few acres of paddy fields on both sides of the river next year, where irrigation is most convenient, and try raising them.
Yan Kejin naturally followed her, and money couldn't buy her happiness.
What's more, so far, none of the ideas the princess has come up with 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 quite understand why the princess asked them to grow these beans? Feed the horses of the royal guards? It won't take so much.
When Xu Yin heard that the soybeans were dried, she pulled Yan Kejin over to the drying area to have a look.
"Yes, they are golden and round. They are indeed first-class beans."
Next, she will make soy sauce.
The soy sauce recipe that 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.
But 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 don’t plan to open it to a crowded farm.
Anyway, the Xu Mansion was 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: "..."
The Xu Mansion is so spacious, why would 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!
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Xu Yin had read the soy sauce recipe before and found that the soy sauce brewing process was not complicated, but it was time-consuming and took half a year.
Based on this calculation, the most critical fermentation period happened to be in winter. In Fucheng's winter, although it didn't snow, the temperature was 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 high enough for a fire.
This compartment is busy. From Chenjiazhuang at the foot of Weishan Mountain, strong laborers are sent to push carts to deliver twelve stones of beans.
Several strong men came, all with happy faces.
This year, their village has had a bumper harvest. The yields of sweet potatoes from the mountains, rice from the paddy fields, and interplanted corn have all exceeded the highest peak in 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 clan leader. 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:
"It's been a hard journey. Let me take you to rest first. I'll have someone accompany you around the city tomorrow. Once you're here, you can play for a few more days and go back."
The strong men couldn't afford to live and eat in the palace, and even if they had ten courages, they wouldn't dare to do so, not to mention they had to rush back to plant winter wheat.
The winter wheat seeds were also provided by the princess. They should plant them as soon as possible and cook them carefully, hoping 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.
When Xu Yin saw that they were determined to do this, she stopped trying to persuade 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 must know that these twelve stones of beans were interplanted with corn, so almost no land was used.
Really talking about investment, it's just a packet of seeds and the occasional application of fertilizer, except for weeding.
And these, even if fodder beans are not interplanted, the corn fields still need to be carefully tended.
Therefore, these six taels of silver are just like picking up for free.
