Make a fortune by farming: The sweetheart of the first assistant family

After agreeing to work together to make money, Huo Yunchao began to instruct Chen and others to make bone glue and bone powder. The process was not complicated, but it was very labor-intensive.

Fortunately, there are many Huo family members and they are all very diligent, so it is not difficult to handle these labor-intensive tasks.

Huo Yunchao took advantage of watching the fire to regain his strength, and went to the open space outside his home to circle an area for making stone pounding. The bone meal needed to be pounded, and ordinary tools alone were time-consuming, laborious, and wasted too much, which was not conducive to long-term production.

The method of making bone meal is to directly put the mixed bones into a pot and add water to boil them, or mix one part quicklime and two parts plant ash with water, and then use the clear liquid to boil the mixed bones.

While boiling in the pot, remove the fat and gum removed from the bones. Clean the animal bones and smash them into small pieces. In order to remove the fat on the bones, boil the broken bones in a hot pot for 3-8 hours. Remove them. Drain, dry, and grind into powder.

The production of bone meal takes a long time and the process is complicated, and it cannot be done in one night.

Therefore, Huo Yunchao mainly makes bone glue this time: "Second brother, if the bone glue is boiled well, our ink blocks can be made better. If the ink blocks are made well, we can sell them at a high price."

He did not plan to make the four famous inks. The main reason was that it took a long time. The cycle of making a good piece of ink from making to shaping and then using it is as long as three years. For some special materials, it takes up to five years.

Huo Yunchao just wants to make quick money, and he doesn't have that much time to mess around, so what he wants to do is not pursue high quality, but aims at affordable prices.

Bone glue is a traditional food ingredient. It is a glue extracted from animal bones. It has viscosity and consistency, so it is widely used in making

In pastries, soups and sauces.

Huo Yunchao's purpose of making bone glue is to use it as an adhesive for ink blocks so that the ink blocks can be shaped.

The production of bone glue is time-consuming and labor-intensive. First, boil the pig bones with a clear solution of one part quicklime and two parts plant ash. Boil until the glue dissolves. After every few hours of cooking, take out the glue, add water and boil again, repeating 5 times. After 6 times, all the glue liquid is heated centrally, evaporated to remove water, concentrated, cooled to form jelly, cut into thin slices, and dried.

Huo Yunchao planned to run three shifts, with a different person checking the fire and getting glue every two hours.

The key point of boiling bone glue is to get the glue.

After listening to Huo Yunchao's precautions for boiling glue, Huo Yunhai volunteered: "Brother, I go to bed early and wake up early. When the rooster crows, he calls me to get up and watch the fire to get glue!"

Huo Yunchao smiled and said, "Okay."

Huo Yunze shook his head secretly. He didn't believe that Huo Yunhai, a little piggy who slept day and night, could be woken up by someone.

Mrs. Chen shouted from the backyard: "Chao'er, your father said he would kill the old hens tonight and asked you how to stew them to make them fragrant."

Huo Yunchao replied: "Wash the dried mushrooms, stew them with the old hen, and add some ginger and salt. By the way, stepmother, do you have any red dates? If you put in the red dates, the stewed chicken with red dates can make up for the loss of having a child. Especially good for women.”

"There are some!"

Chen's messenger called Huo Yunhai: "Haier, go to the patriarch's house and ask for some red dates!"

"The smell of pig mutton is so strong!"

Huo Yunzhao opened the wooden lid and was almost put away by the smell of pigs. He waved his hands and tried to fan the smell away, but he never thought that the more he fanned, the more it would smell.

Pigs in ancient times were not castrated, so the meat tasted good

It inevitably has a smell, and its taste is far inferior to that of modern feed pigs.

Huo Yunze saw this and smiled and said: "Brother, is there any way in the book to make pigs smell less stinky?"

Huo Yunzhao was not ambiguous at all, and gave an answer that made Huo Yunze tighten his pants: "Don't tell me, the book actually teaches how to remove the odor of pigs, and that is to castrate pigs!"

"Ah?" Huo Yunze was stunned. Seeing Huo Yunchao smiling, he hurriedly asked: "Brother, are you joking with me on purpose?"

Huo Yunchao suppressed a smile and taught Huo Yunze the skills of raising pigs seriously: "No, no, no, what I said is true. After the piglet is castrated, its smell is gone, its size grows quickly, and its meat increases by one pound a day. . The book says that fish meal made from fish is used to feed pigs. The method of making fish meal is similar to that of bone meal. Clean the miscellaneous fish, steam it in a pot, press it to remove the water, and finally dry it to a certain extent before crushing it. "

After listening to this, Huo Yunze looked shocked. He pointed at the pig bones in the pot and asked, "Brother, does pig feed have to use fish meal? Is it okay to use bone meal?"

"If you ask me that, I don't know. There aren't many formulas in the book. I just remember a feed formula of fish meal + fermented grass (green sugar) + stone powder."

"Brother, what is fermented grass? Is it retting like you said before?"

"Absolutely. The fermented grass has a sour aroma that pigs like. It can stimulate the appetite of animals such as pigs and cows, allowing them to eat more and grow faster."

The two brothers were chatting while working. Today is the most harmonious day for brothers who have been together for more than ten years.

Huo Tianxiang passes by the kitchen from time to time

At the door, he saw his two biological sons talking head to head, no matter how much they looked at each other, they loved each other.

Mrs. Chen noticed Huo Tianxiang's reaction and felt mixed emotions in her heart, including sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. In the end, "sweet" took over.

In her miserable life, a flower of hope bloomed.

"The glue is out, the glue is out, the glue is out!"

Huo Yunhai went to the patriarch's house to beg for some red dates and came back. He was responsible for the fire to cook the bone glue. He was the first to notice the glue coming out and was extremely excited.

Huo Yunchao gave a step-by-step instruction, carefully took out the glue, poured it into the wooden basin that had been placed beforehand, and patted Huo Yunhai on the shoulder: "Third brother, this is the first time for glue to come out! There are still five more glue to come out. .”

Huo Yunhai said excitedly: "Brother, I calculated the time, and when the rooster crows, it will be the fourth time the glue comes out. Then you ask me to get up and get the glue."

Huo Yunchao had no intention of exploiting child labor, but he said, "Okay, I'm afraid you'll be too deep in sleep and I won't be able to wake you up."

Huo Yunhai looked unconvinced: "Brother, as long as you call me, I will definitely wake up!"

Huo Yunze was eating melon and watching a show, listening to the childish conversation between his eldest brother and his younger brother. He didn't find it funny, only warm.

The eldest brother who used to have his eyes high above his head is no longer aloof. He puts aside his arrogance as a scholar and returns to the world, hand in hand with his close relatives.

The eldest brother changed so much because he had a beloved girl.

Thinking like this, Huo Yunze couldn't help but fantasize: Will I meet a girl as good as my sister-in-law in the future?

If I'm lucky enough to meet her, can I help that girl live a good life with no worries about food and clothing like my elder brother did?

Huo Tianxiang entered the kitchen and explained: "Chao'er,

The chicken is almost done. Go to Xu's house and invite Butcher Xu and Ning Niang over for dinner. "

"Okay!"

Huo Yun came to the door of Xu's house in a familiar way, pushed the door open, and saw Butcher Xu's face was very ugly: "Dad Xu, what happened?"

Butcher Xu clenched his fists loudly, as if he was squeezing Lu Ba's head: "Chao'er, Lu Ba, that bastard, was sent back to the village with all his tail by Zhou."

After hearing such irritating news, Huo Yunchao added another stroke to Young Master Zhou's little black account: "Sure enough, it was the person named Zhou who was responsible!"