He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

Time passed quickly, and it was the beginning of autumn in a blink of an eye. After two rains, the temperature gradually cooled down. When it was almost Mid-Autumn Festival, the temperature dropped sharply, and Lu Yan and Lu Sheng both took out their thick clothes and put them on.

It is also the autumn harvest time, and farmers are rushing to harvest. The temperature drop in Liaoyang always comes unexpectedly, and you never know when it will suddenly freeze the crops to death in the fields, which means a year's hard work is in vain.

Lu Yan went to the fields to check the harvest. The harvest from the field that Chen Ping planted for her was dismal. Most of the crops on the acres of land died, and those that survived only yielded a few dozen kilograms. However, Lu Yan was already very satisfied. She didn't rely on this harvest to make a living. These seeds were cold-resistant, and the harvest next year would definitely be better.

Other crops, including rice, were hung on the flat ground to dry after being harvested. Lu Yan didn't need to worry about this. Dozens of wounded soldiers finished the work for her in less than an hour. Taking advantage of the sunny weather in the past few days, every household spread out the ground to dry the grain. The weather in autumn was unpredictable. It might rain one day. If it rained, the grain would not be harvested and all the work would be in vain.

Lu Yan had her own things to do, and her attention was all on the sweet stalks. The sorghum seeds she took this time were all from sweet stalks, and she took them back with the stalks. After threshing the grains, Lu Yan took all the stalks away.

Compared with common edible sorghum, the stems of sweet sorghum are juicy and high in sugar content. It is also known as "little sugarcane". Many children like to eat it directly like sugarcane.

The process of extracting sugar from sweet stalks is not much different from that from sugarcane, because it does not contain betaine, a substance that causes astringency, so it is much easier to extract sugar from sweet stalks than from beets.

Unlike beets, the sugar stalks do not need to be continuously collected for extract. They can be directly washed, chopped and squeezed into juice. At this time, the sugar juice is turbid and full of impurities. Quicklime is added to absorb the impurities and let them settle. After the impurities are settled, they are filtered with activated carbon, leaving clear brown sugar juice. The following steps are the same as boiling caramel with filtered beet syrup. Put it into a pot and boil it to concentrate it, and finally it becomes a thick syrup like honey.

To make the syrup crystallize, you need to add seed crystals. Lu Yan doesn't have this stuff, so she is content with just concentrating it to the caramel part. She will ask the caravan to go to the sugarcane factory in the south to get some, as she also wants to make a candy bar.

In order to improve efficiency, Lu Yan talked and demonstrated with a few people and made a manual stuffing machine. The five blades inside rotated together, and the handle outside pulled the shaft with a rope. Each pull would make the five blades rotate several circles, and after a few times, the cut sweet potato sticks were ground into powder.

Lu Sheng exclaimed in amazement: "This thing is great. It can be used for other things besides stirring sweet potatoes."

Lu Yan nodded: "This one is a bit big, use a small blade to make two small ones, which can be used to mix stuffing, squeeze fruit juice, and knead dough."

It is not enough to just crush the beans, you also have to squeeze out the juice, this time you can just use a grinding disc, the same process as using beans to grind soy milk. The remaining residue is directly fed to livestock.

Lu Sheng was completely convinced when he saw the brown sugar syrup that was finally made. After coming to Liaoyang, Lu Yan was like a little god, busy and tinkering for a day and she could come up with something good.

Lu Sheng didn't know that Lu Yan had a lot of things in her mind. She wanted to rub glass with her hands, and even rub the generator with her hands. But that was all for later.

This time, the sweet stalks weighed more than 100 kilograms, enough for them to squeeze sugar for a while. After teaching Lu Sheng and Xiao Tu how to squeeze sugar from the sweet stalks, Lu Yan went back to the field to watch them dry the grain.

There is a house built specifically for Lu Yan. Lu Yan has been living here for the past few days. Lu Yan keeps a close eye on the grain every day until it is completely stored in the warehouse.

The weather changed very quickly. One day, it was sunny in the morning, but suddenly it became cloudy at noon. Lu Yan was so scared that she quickly asked people to collect the grain. She had many people on her side, and in less than half an hour, they collected the grain that was drying in the sun and brought it into the house. After collecting it, they also went to help the surrounding farmers.

When the clouds were almost collected, a strong wind blew in, and the sky quickly darkened. People quickly hid back in their houses. The dark clouds pressed down, and the heavy atmosphere made people's breathing tense.

Lu Yan stood in the room with the windows and door tightly closed. She couldn't see what was happening outside. She could only see that the room was getting dark quickly. She felt even more regretful that there was no glass. She made up her mind to make some glass when she stopped working in winter.

The howling wind blew for a while, and finally stopped. Then Lu Yan heard a crackling sound, and was slightly surprised. She thought it would rain heavily, but this sound did not sound like raindrops.

Lu Yan could no longer sit still, she opened the door and looked outside.

It was indeed raining hard, but mixed in with the rain were hailstones of varying sizes, some as big as fingers, and some as big as ping-pong balls. Countless icicles fell from the sky, hitting the ground and crushing the wildly growing weeds.

Not far away, there came the sound of frightened sheep bleating. Fortunately, the sheepfold was built with a roof to prevent them from getting frozen by rain or snow, so the rain could not hit them. However, they were still frightened, and they huddled together while crying.

Lu Yan was stunned by what was happening in front of her. She stared with eyes wide open and was speechless. This sudden hailstorm caught her off guard and also brought a sharp drop in temperature in Liaozhou. It was only mid-August, but the cold air was blowing in her face. Lu Yan shivered and thought: Is winter in Liaoyang coming so soon?