Reborn in the red years, I am farming in space

Chapter 29 Starch is also food
There are two bamboo houses in the main room and a bamboo shed in the half-stove room.

The golden straw roof faintly reveals a low-key and slightly luxurious temperament.

The straw is neatly repaired, and the dripping eaves are neatly spread out. The craftsmanship of the craftsmen can be seen in the simplicity.

The 50-square-meter courtyard dam has been tidied up and cleaned by everyone.

Yishuier's brand new bamboo fence gives people a natural blend into the surrounding environment, but implicitly retains a sense of independence.

Sitting under the eaves, Luo Xuan looked at his brand new home, feeling mixed feelings in his heart, and couldn't tell what kind of feeling it was.

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Looking at his new home in this life, Luo Xuan had the most intuitive cognition in his heart: as long as he pays enough wages, it will be good for others to do the work well!
Look at the rammed earth courtyard dam.

The level of the ground, the compactness of the soil, and the neatness of the drainage ditches are almost as good as that of the cement drying field in the grain station!

This high-quality courtyard dam was naturally made by Uncle Zhang from the quarry, who brought a group of strong men to help Luo Xuan level it.

Luo Tiezhu didn't come.

But Luo Xuan can vaguely feel that Luo Tiezhu's heart seems to be here
Today the masons came to help with the work. Luo Xuan originally planned to treat them to a light meal, but Uncle Zhang sternly refused.

These craftsmen eat a lot, and Uncle Zhang knows best.

If they are allowed to eat openly, they can eat up a month's worth of fine grains in one meal!
What Uncle Zhang meant was: everyone is from the village, and they didn't come here specially to help Luo Xuan with work, but they used their spare time after work to help Luo Xuan level the courtyard dam.

Everyone is just doing it with little effort, there is nothing worth worrying about.

Others don't want to pay, but Luo Xuan has to show something.

In order to express his gratitude, Luo Xuan had no choice but to go to Dai Hongmei's consignment store and buy six boxes of "Chungeng" cigarettes at one time.

A box of spring plowing cigarettes costs 8 cents, which is almost enough to pay for a strong labor force and the value of a day's work.

Then, under Dai Hongmei's guidance, Luo Xuan gritted his teeth and bought a box of "Hongmei brand" cigarettes that cost 3 cents and 6 cents.

One pack of cheap cigarettes per person.

As for the expensive cigarettes, Luo Xuan, the owner, unwrapped them and handed them to everyone one by one.

The most expensive cigarettes in the entire consignment store are "Emerald" cigarettes, which cost 3 cents and 7 cents a pack.

Hongmei cigarettes are the second most expensive.

Under Dai Hongmei's suggestion, Luo Xuan took a step back and bought the second most expensive "Hongmei" cigarettes.

According to Dai Hongmei, "Hongmei brand" cigarettes are the first choice for community members in the village if they want to entrust someone to do errands.

Holding the cigarette, Luo Xuan couldn't help feeling a little suspicious: Is it because you are also called Dai Hongmei, so you unconsciously prefer the word "Hongmei"?

"Look at what?"

Seeing Luo Xuan looking at her suspiciously, Dai Hongmei glanced at her mother in the distance, then yelled at Luo Xuan with almond eyes, "It's fine if you don't buy it, it will make me feel like I'll hurt you!"

Luo Xuan smiled, took the cigarette and quickly slipped away.

A person like Dai Hongmei encountered a big change when she first became a wife, and now she has become a young widow inexplicably.

Her current temperament is between that of a young daughter-in-law and that of a big girl. She can act like the wives in the production team and dare to say anything.

After a while, she will become extremely shy like a big girl in her boudoir.

This Dai Hongmei's attitude towards her is really unpredictable and unpredictable, anyway, it is definitely not something that Luo Xuan can provoke.

But even if he can't afford to offend him, he still has to have the cheek to get close to him.
For a while, Luo Xuan was consciously getting closer to Dai Hongmei.

Not for any other reason, but because Luo Xuan fell in love with her...

The "consignment store" at her home.

On weekdays, there is nothing surprising about this small consignment store.But in difficult times, this small shop will have a lot of room to operate.

Luo Xuan is not sure now, whether he can get involved in the "consignment store" in the future.

But planning ahead is never wrong.Even if it doesn't work out in the end, Luo Xuan won't lose anything.

Regardless of whether it has dates or not, Luo Xuan is ready to take a shot first.

After buying the cigarettes, Luo Xuan went home and distributed the cigarettes to the helping craftsmen, then sat under the eaves and asked the production team leader Peng Zhikun in a low voice, "Third Cousin, where did the dumb guy get the vermicelli?"

The county where Luo Xuan lives does not have the habit of growing potatoes.

Therefore, rural people in this area need sweet potato or corn to make vermicelli.

The cost of corn is high, and the vermicelli factories of the supply and marketing cooperatives generally use corn to make corn starch instead of making vermicelli.

The vermicelli that Luo Xuan bought from Dumb today is made of sweet potato flour.

"I don't know, the dumb thing is very strange, who can guess him!"

Peng Zhikun smoked the "Red Plum" cigarette Luo Xuan handed him, greedily took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled the smoke bit by bit.

"Mute's family is well-off, and he is Captain Liao's uncle and brother. He is hardworking and has a few skills."

Peng Zhikun said in a low voice: "His water is very deep. No one in the brigade can guess what precious things he has in his hands."

Mute often sells food outside, and everyone knows the source of his food, which is not surprising.

But he was also selling vermicelli, which made Luo Xuan puzzled.

In late autumn, when the sweet potatoes are harvested in abundance, the production team will also take out some sweet potatoes.

Then organize manpower and material resources to make some sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato vermicelli and the like.

Dried sweet potatoes can be used as "battle food".

The sweet potato vermicelli is distributed to everyone as a welfare for the members of the production team.

Vermicelli is shelf-stable.

When commune members are short of food, it can be used as food to satisfy their hunger.

Luo Xuan was very interested in the vermicelli that the mute had on hand.

So I chased after Peng Zhikun and asked, "Third Cousin, Dumb got the same amount of vermicelli as everyone else at the end of the year. Now that the sweet potatoes haven't come out yet, how did he get his vermicelli?"

Peng Zhikun really didn't pay attention to this matter before.

Seeing Luo Xuan chasing him to ask now, he could only lower his head and think for a while, then slowly shook his head, "I don't know the specific situation. Maybe he has a lot of food, so he can sell some vermicelli at home? "

There is no technical content in making vermicelli.

The vermicelli on the mute's hand may indeed be made by himself at home.

If you want to make vermicelli, you need to grind the sweet potato into a pulp, then wrap it in gauze, and keep adding water to filter it.

Then put the filtered, starch-rich water in the tank, stir it, and settle it several times to get out the water starch.

Next, add a little bit of alum to the starch, then put it into the colander, and beat the starch with a wooden hammer to make it flow out of the hole of the colander.

And under the colander is a large iron pot with boiling water.

After the starch filament enters the boiling water, it will coagulate and become transparent, and its toughness will increase at the same time.

After heating the vermicelli, let the cold water cool down again. By this time, the vermicelli will be shaped.

Next, hang the gouache on a bamboo pole to dry, and the vermicelli is completely finished.

Most of the people in the production team know this craft.

As for the dumb to secretly dry the vermicelli, this is not difficult to do.

Because the dumb family has a vicious dog.This dog is very fierce, basically no one dares to provoke that dog.

If he needs to dry the vermicelli, he just needs to close the courtyard door and let the dog out.

As long as the dog was not tied up, most people would not dare to go into his yard to look for him, but would call dumb through the dirt fence, or throw clods and stones into it.

As the old saying goes, ten deaf and nine dumb.

Although the mute is not really deaf, but his hearing is also very limited.

When people yelled that he should not, they would throw clods and stones into his yard to remind the mute that someone was coming for him.

Therefore, if the mute occasionally closed the door to get vermicelli secretly, he could still do it.

Making vermicelli is easy.

But where does his starch come from?
(End of this chapter)