Liang Chuan counted the days, and Shi Ji should be ready. Now that everything is ready, he can almost start making candy. Yesterday He Baozheng also gave Liang Chuan a suggestion. The management of land cannot be left to the people in the village and let him do things according to his conscience. Effective jurisdiction can only be implemented, otherwise the academy will not be able to operate sooner or later. I need to ask Zheng Ruo for advice on this. linger.
This girl hasn't been seen for two or three days. Could it be that her feet were damaged by walking too much in the past few days.
Liang Chuan walked to Xinghua and brought back the two prepared stone pots and several large iron pots. The master mason complained that it was a bit difficult to make money from Liang Chuan's business. The stone chisel, which looks like a large millstone, had to be chiseled with protruding teeth like gears. It would only take a few months to slowly build it. However, it had to be finished within a few days. The master and apprentice took turns working on the stone chisel and it took them two tired days before they were able to finish it and successfully handed the thing to Liang Chuan.
Liang Chuan carefully touched the two stone bamboo poles and found that they fit together perfectly. He smiled happily and said to the master that he had worked hard and that he had given him a penny of the wages he deserved.
The master blacksmith also made the iron pot. The master kept asking Liang Chuan what such a big iron pot was used for, and if anyone else needed it, he would just make a few more. Liang Chuan smiled mysteriously and kept silent. This was a business secret, how could he tell it everywhere.
The iron pots were made by the master blacksmith with hammers. A large pot that Liang Chuan thought was as dark as ink turned out to be as bright as a mirror. Liang Chuan couldn't believe it when he looked at it.
"Master, why is your pot so bright?"
"Aren't they all so bright? Is there any hand-made iron pot that is not so bright?" The master knew at a glance that Liang Chuan was not the boss, otherwise he would never have seen a new pot. He smiled and continued: "You need to boil the pot first when you get back. Do you know how to boil it?"
Liang Chuan shook his head. He only had a rough idea of the sugar making process, and there was no way he could compare with a professional sugar making engineer.
"After you buy it, wash it with water, then put it on the stove with low heat to dry the water. Then take a piece of fat pork and gently smear it on the wall of the pot, letting the lard soak into the iron pot. Repeat three to four times. , just let it sit for an hour after it’s ready.”
How did Liang Chuan know that an iron pot has so many skills: "Why do you do this?"
"Of course it is an iron-protected pot. Do you understand this is called boiling? The older the pot, the more fragrant the food will be. A boiled pot will not stick to the bottom. It is also very easy to wash when you wash it. Don't you understand this?"
"Thank you, Master, I've learned a lesson!" Liang Chuan's face turned slightly red. He was usually only responsible for eating, so how could he learn these skills? However, after hearing what the master said, he found that people were professional in this, and they were all farmers. The valuable experience extracted from life over the past century naturally has its own truth.
The big guy Liang Chuan couldn't move these by himself, so he called a carriage and gave the driver some extra money before the master reluctantly helped Liang Chuan pull the stones. The two big stone gears were really heavy. Together with the two pressing basins on the base of the stone gears, they were placed on the carriage body. The driver slapped the horse's butt hard, and the horse slowly got up and walked much slower than usual.
The carriage rumbled towards Fengshan, and Liang Chuan asked the driver to take the way to Zheng's house. This Zheng Ruoying was never seen when she really needed her, and hung around every day when she didn't want to see her. How annoying!
The door of Zheng's house was closed tightly, and there were about ten people standing at the door, looking nervous, sighing or whispering to each other from time to time. Liang Chuan looked at it from a distance, wondering if something had happened to the Zheng family? The door was closed in broad daylight, and there were people blocking the door. .
Liang Chuan's carriage approached, and the dozen or so people at the door greeted Liang Chuan first: "My boss, my boss!"
Liang Chuan took a closer look and saw that it was actually Fan Dian Yuanma and his group of sugarcane farmers who had escaped from northern Shaanxi. No wonder they greeted him.
"Old Fan, what are you doing? What's going on with the Zheng family today? The door is closed in broad daylight. Is there something wrong?"
Liang Chuan saw that they looked wrong, like ants on a hot pot, and Zheng Ruoying couldn't be seen in the past few days, so he was a little worried.
"The eldest lady is under house arrest by the master!" Fan Dianyuan sighed and said helplessly.
Fan Dianyuan and the others told Liang Chuan the whole story. After Zheng Ruoying purchased grain-making equipment from Liang Chuan, when she returned home, a servant came to complain to Zheng Yiqian, saying that she saw the young lady having sex with a married man in Fengshan.
Zheng Yiqian was originally disgraced because his daughter, the eldest daughter, did not leave the government, but when he heard that the dignified young lady was actually hanging out with a married man, he became even more angry, and he banned Zheng Ruoying without any explanation.
Zheng Ruoying argued that she went shopping to make sucrose. Why did Zheng Yiqian care so much? Now that the sugar cane is ripe, where is the shadow of sucrose? It was obvious that he was being treated like a fool year after year.
He would have known who had the idea to grow sugar cane, or was it not the mud-legged farmer from Fengshan who had a family and still kept pestering his daughter. What did he think of his pet peeve? He clearly had diarrhea on their Zheng family’s ancestral grave!
Fan Dianyuan and the others also knew that the sugar cane was now ripe. When they broke off a piece of sugar cane and bit off the skin, the taste inside was really sweet. It was sweet from the mouth to the heart. It was sweeter than local honey.
Where have they ever tasted such delicious food in northern Shaanxi? Ma Dan and the others ate it once and thought about it every day. Lao Ma said it was from Liang Chuandong's family, so Ma Dan stopped thinking about sugar cane.
They saw that these sugar canes were almost grown and would start to age if left in the ground. They felt so distressed that the eldest lady would go and care about them from time to time. As a result, she was not here when she was asked to make a decision, and the door to Zheng's house did not open when she arrived. I met a servant who came out to buy groceries and take out some garbage, and after secretly asking around, I found out that the eldest lady had been grounded by the master.
"What should I do, my boss? If the eldest lady is not here, we will listen to you." A dozen honest farmers looked at Liang Chuan longingly and said.
Mr. Zheng simply doesn’t believe Zheng Ruoying’s words because he can’t see any cane sugar now. Sugar cane can no longer be put in the fields now. He needs to make his own decision and take care of this matter, so as to rescue Zheng Ruoying from home. .
To put it bluntly, rural people only have two things to look at in people, either they are wealthy or they are powerful. However, they do not have both of them at the moment. At most, they only have a few investment plans and only a few angel investors!
Zheng Yiqian must have been driven to panic by this daughter. He used to be carefree, but this time he used a big move. He was probably afraid that if the rice was cooked, it would be too late to cry. Now that they are all banned, it is estimated that someone will be tied up in a sedan chair later and married to anyone without seeing this. .
Then Zheng Ruoying was miserable.
"It's useless for you to wait at the door. Let's do this. From today on, you will listen to my arrangements. Now everyone goes back and harvests the sugar cane in the field one by one. Remember, when you chop off the head, don't chop off too much. , but the sugarcane leaves must be cleaned. As for the cart, buy an ox cart, so that it will be easier for you to transport it."
Liang Chuan gave them money. They were waiting for Zheng Ruoying to make up his mind. Now that Zheng Ruoying is not here, it would be correct to listen to Liang Chuan's words. Zheng Ruoying will be really angry when the sugar cane is rotting in the ground.
The Zheng family's sugar cane field finally began to be harvested. For a while, the children rushed to tell each other. They were happier than during the Chinese New Year, if not for any other reason than that they could finally taste the sweetness of sugar cane.
Fan Dianyuan went home and took farm tools, including a small hatchet for each person. Liang Chuan followed them. Because the sugar cane could not be uprooted, he wanted to instruct Fan Dianyuan and the others. If the sugar cane roots were well preserved, these sugar cane roots could still grow into sugar cane, and the life span was not short. Some could It grows for two to three years, and the longer ones can grow for another four to five years.
When cutting sugarcane, you usually cut the sugarcane on a flat soil. The most you can dig into the soil is an inch. You should leave about ten centimeters of the cane root at the base. You should be careful not to make too big a break when cutting the sugarcane, otherwise it will affect the growth of the sugarcane.
If ratoon sugarcane is planted well, you can save a lot of money in the coming year, because you can buy a lot less sugarcane seedlings, and the sugarcane roots themselves are already well developed, with early and rapid growth, early tillering, early jointing, and high and stable yields.
After the sugar cane is harvested, the sugarcane leaves should be cleaned in time. There is no need to burn or throw them away. Use cattle to plow both sides of the sugarcane stalks to loosen the soil and facilitate germination. These sugarcane leaves can be returned to the field and buried in the sugarcane field. The sugarcane leaves will rot. Finally, it can be a high-quality fertilizer.
If the ratoon fails to develop, they will continue to replenish the seedlings next year, that is, plant new sugarcane seedlings. Fan Dianyuan and the others all understand this, so Liang Chuan did not say more.
After explaining all this, Liang Chuan went home to assemble the candy twists. The weight of the sugar knot is very large. Although this combination is simple, it is not easy. Without Liang Chuan's magical power, few people can combine it.
All it takes is a pulley block, but no one understands this kind of physics.
Fan Dianyuan and the others began to harvest sugar cane.
The sugar cane field became a place for children to party. Fan Dianyuan and the others cut down a piece of sugar cane and removed the sugar cane. There would be residual sugar cane in the sugar cane. The children were so happy to taste this small piece of sugar cane. The wild animals in the mountains Fruits have to wait until spring. Where can I find edible fruits now? The only ones that can satisfy my craving are these sugar canes. The adults stopped them from destroying the ripe sugar cane, so now they can be satisfied with the unwanted sugar cane.
The sugarcane heads were dried and can be used as firewood, and most of the sugarcane leaves were naturally returned to the fields. The villagers in the three villages watched the sugarcane fields that had been growing for a year finally start to work again. They were also curious about so many sugarcane fields. What exactly is sugar cane used for? Is it meant to be eaten? There is so much that even if everyone’s teeth are broken, they won’t be able to finish it all.
They are all smart. If they can make money by growing sugar cane, they will follow suit next year. This matter was instigated by Saburo. Saburo is a smart man who is rare to see in a century. There is absolutely nothing wrong with following him.
