On the application of plant zombies in the world of Naruto

Seeing the familiar team of people going to the clan leader's house again, the Uchiha said a few words about increasing the workload.

I was full of anticipation for the plants that the big treasure would summon this time.

Even Mrs. Mikiko has been there, so it must be another delicious meal.

The cherry blossoms in the clan’s territory are in full bloom, layer upon layer, like clouds.

The courtyard of the patriarch's mansion was filled with things, including corn pitchers and targets, as well as stone mills and oil presses.

(The corn processing line can be set up now, bushi)

Uchiha Hirohiko first cut the corn kernels collected by Izuna into layers of 5 cm thickness.

The cut corn pieces were dried over a low fire using Tajima's Fire Release, and finally crushed by Madara using a millstone.

The first and second layers produce particles of different sizes. If they can continue to grind, they should be able to be ground finer.

But on the third floor, closest to the bottom, things started to go wrong.

Even after drying, the ground material is still a sticky mass.

Boyan touched it and motioned Mikiko to come forward and observe.

"Let's see if it is..."

Mikiko picked up a small handful, twisted it in the palm of her hand, felt the smoothness, and sniffed it gently.

"I think it is."

"Master, what is it?"

Kyojuro stood on tiptoe and wanted to see what was in Mrs. Mikiko's palm, but he was not tall enough.

Boyan simply took a whole corn kernel that had not been cut into pieces and gestured with his hands.

"From here to here, you can grind it into powder, but from here down, you can grind it into oil!"

Oil!!

Everyone who heard this opened their eyes wide in surprise. Madara excitedly hugged Kyojuro and lifted him up high.

“It can be used as a staple food and can also be used to extract oil!”

"Kyojuro, what you summoned is amazing!!!"

"Kyojuro!"

"Kyojuro!!"

Several Uchiha in the yard actually started to circle around Uchiha Madara who was holding Kyojuro in the middle, shouting Kyojuro's name as they circled.

After a strange ritual, several of the older Uchiha returned to work.

Kyojuro was put back on the ground, feeling dizzy, and leaned against Izuna's uncle's thigh.

Eh?

What just happened?

……

"Since a corn kernel can have two uses, we need to study how to perfectly separate these two parts with completely different functions so as to maximize their functional applications."

This is called exploitation.

Uchiha Hirohiko simply took up his knife and cut the corn kernel in half lengthwise to make it easier to observe its internal structure.

"This part... looks like a bud?"

He squinted his eyes to identify it for a while, and suddenly found something surprising.

Can this corn kernel be planted directly?

How much did they eat just now! ! !

What a waste!

What a waste of natural resources!!!

Kyojuro pulled the corner of his master's clothes, who was holding his head in regret, and asked curiously,

"Master, why is there a sprout? Isn't this a seed?"

Uchiha Hirohiko instantly came back to his senses and began to teach his little apprentice.

"The seed contains the young stage of the sprout, right here. Do you see this little pointy tip? It will slowly break through the seed and gradually grow into a young sprout."

"The seeds with this bud will be heavier than the seeds without this bud. We can also select them according to weight when we select seeds."

As he was talking, he fell into an excited working state again.

"No, it's already April. Give me a batch first so I can try planting them!"

……

The Sixth Elder left in a hurry, holding a basket of corn kernels.

The people in the yard who were called over by him were left looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Patriarch, look..."

"Ah, let's continue studying how to eat it."

Tajima came back to his senses and continued to arrange his work.

"Izuna, you divide it according to what the Sixth Elder did before, and leave the bottom layer to Koichi. Madara, you help Madam Mikiko, and Koichi, see how you can get the oil out of the sticky corn paste."

……

In order to facilitate her research on how to eat corn, Uchiha Mikiko simply let her children and husband go, and let them go to other people's homes to eat. She took her second apprentice to move to the clan leader's house to stay temporarily.

(Ajin: Kyojuro, my mom doesn’t want me anymore o(╥﹏╥)o)

This is also thanks to the fact that when the clan leader's mansion was first built, several Japanese-style rooms were reserved for clan members who came to report secretly to live in.

Mrs. Mikiko's eldest apprentice is the one who opened a tempura shop in the capital. Recently, she was invited to Tachibana's home to provide meals for Tachibana's daughter's coming-of-age ceremony.

Currently, the only one left in the clan who can help her is her second disciple Uchiha Ling.

By the way, Uchiha Ling is the newly married wife of the third elder’s eldest son, Uchiha Huofeng.

In short, several people in the patriarch's mansion (excluding Kyojuro and Izuna who were still growing) ate corn for a week.

After experiments, Mrs. Mikiko came to a conclusion.

Corn is omnipotent.

It can be used as a meal, as noodles, as a dish, as porridge, and even as a dessert.

It can be eaten directly cooked, coarsely ground corn grits can be eaten, and finely ground cornmeal can also be eaten, and each has its own flavor.

In a short period of time, Mikiko only figured out a few common ways to eat it.

After coarsely grinding off the outermost layer of the seed coat, the corn grits are washed and cooked into porridge. Just add a little bit of sugar and it will be sticky and sweet.

You can also add various beans in it, and you will feel full after eating one bowl.

Cornmeal that is ground finely can be used directly as a substitute for flour, either for steaming or baking.

Steamed buns made of corn flour are more filling than those made of wheat flour. Although the taste is slightly worse than the refined flour steamed buns eaten by the nobles, it is much better than the coarse flour steamed buns.

Mikiko also made steamed cakes with corn flour. After being steamed, the sweetness of the corn was brought out, and with a little bit of chopped red dates, it was loved by all the sweet lovers in the Uchiha family.

Not only that, cornmeal can also be made into noodles, which have a different taste from noodles made from wheat flour, being smooth and chewy.

It just takes some time to cook.

(Corn noodles are corn noodles, and the soup commonly eaten by people in Northeast China is soup. These two are different.)

The previous ways of eating corn all used corn that had been dried and then ground. In addition to this, Mikiko also tried directly crushing the corn kernels without drying them.

Corn itself is very sticky. She seasons the wet material after crushing it directly, takes about a fist amount, spreads it on the leaves and steams it in a pot. It becomes a delicious snack.

It tastes glutinous and a little sticky.

It couldn’t be more delicious if dipped in powdered sugar!

It can be called golden rice cake.

Uchiha Ling had a sudden idea and used sifted cornmeal to prepare the tempura batter.

Although the batter produced by deep-frying cannot be as thin as that produced by wheat flour, it is surprisingly suitable for making fried pork chops.

The combination of the harder batter and the juicy meat inside is more suitable for workers who like to enjoy chewing a full mouthful of food.

Poor laborers can better appreciate the sweetness of corn.

Uchiha Mikiko readily admitted her weakness.

"There are so many possibilities after processing corn. It can not only replace wheat, but also rice. My manpower is limited, so I have to mobilize the whole tribe to develop a recipe together."

Being able to make the Uchiha admit defeat is an achievement that only the Son of the World can achieve.

Corn, did it.

Maybe the world just likes gold?

……

On the other hand, corn oil has also made initial progress.

Haoyi processed the part containing the corn germ a second time. He first removed the thin golden seed coat on the outermost layer of the corn kernel, and then dug out the germ part separately.

Because there were too few germs, he was afraid that something might go wrong if he used fire jutsu to dry them directly. After all, he was now missing an arm, and his ability to perform ninjutsu was more or less affected.

He used the fire escape heating formation he had at home to slowly dry the germ bit by bit.

After spending an entire night waiting for the germ to be basically dry, he tried to extract oil using a small oil press he made himself.

But the first squeeze was almost the same as the one ground with a stone mill before, except that it had less water. It was still solid corn residue, and there was no trace of oil at all.

He put the corn residue discharged from the outlet back into the inlet and squeezed it twice again.

It was not until the third time that he saw liquid oil flowing out drop by drop.

“So slow…”

Although the filtered corn oil is light in color and has a fragrant taste,

"A little... No, it's very troublesome."

The oil yield of a single corn kernel is too low and time-consuming. If it weren't for the fact that the output speed of corn kernels is almost the same as that of peas, and several baskets can be harvested in a day, corn oil extraction would clearly be a losing business.

It just so happened that Uchiha Mikiko had temporarily completed the first stage of exploring the uses of corn, so Koichi simply sent all the small bottles of corn oil he had squeezed to her house.

Professional people do professional things.

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It was May, and the thing Kyojuro had been waiting for finally happened! !

The cherry tree I planted earlier has borne fruit!!!

The Uchiha in charge of the care discovered it and informed the Sixth Elder and Kyojuro.

Kyojuro hurriedly stopped his master who wanted to pick some fruit to taste, and climbed up the tree himself.

He first carefully asked everyone around him to stay away, then picked a cherry and threw it on the ground.

quiet--

There was no explosion.

The big Uchiha who was looking after the cherry tree was confused.

"Kyojuro, what's wrong with you?"

Was it because your hands were shaking that you couldn’t hold the fruit?

He took a few steps forward, trying to take the child down from the tree.

Kyojuro shouted loudly,

"Uncle! I'm fine! Let me see if this fruit is edible! You guys can come over now!"

What he has always been worried about is that the cherry tree grown by the [Cherry Bomb] will suddenly explode during the growth process, or that the fruit it bears will also explode like the [Cherry Bomb].

Now it seems that it is just an ordinary cherry tree and ordinary cherries.

No, it's not too ordinary either, because the fruit is much bigger than the fruit of the cherry trees we usually see.

The elder Uchiha approached the cherry tree, raised his hands and lifted Kyojuro down from the tree.

"Be careful. If you need to confirm whether it is edible, you don't need to climb up a tree to try it. In the process, our ninja bird has already eaten it."

"They like to eat it very much. I think this fruit must be very sweet."

"Thank you uncle!"

Uchiha Hirohiko's expression became serious. "Why can the ninja bird eat this kind of fruit? Didn't Kyojuro say that no one is allowed to touch these two trees?"

"What if the ninja bird flies away somewhere else with the seeds?"

The great Uchiha realized his negligence and immediately bowed his head to admit his mistake.

"Sorry, I thought it was too simple."

The Sixth Elder hummed calmly and looked down at his young disciple.

"Kyojuro, uncle did something wrong and needs to be punished. You can think of a punishment."

Kyojuro didn't think it was wrong to just let a few birds eat the cherries, but he also understood his master's intention.

There is no order without rules. When he had clearly stated that no one was allowed to touch the fruit, the bird still ate it. This was the guard's dereliction of duty.

This time, they were lucky. The fruit on the tree was edible. What if it could really explode? The touch of the ninja bird caused a cherry to explode, which in turn caused a chain reaction. Not only would the two trees be blown to ashes, but even the tribesmen who were guarding nearby would inevitably be affected.

The master said this to teach him how to control his subordinates.

He said seriously with a stern face,

"Uncle, you have failed in your duty. As punishment, please pick all the ripe fruits from the two trees."

"Yes!"

……

The fruit of the cherry tree is like a small heart, plump and round, with a dark red skin and light pink flesh. The juice overflows when you take a bite.

"So sweet!"

Just one piece is enough to convince everyone who eats it.

"Such a big fruit has such a small core. This fruit must be here to repay a favor!"

“So sweet, so sweet, so sweet!”

“It’s completely different from the small, bitter seeds that the cherry blossom trees produce.

"The flowers are the same as the cherry blossom trees, so why are the fruits completely different?"

"Too few! Why are there only two trees?"

"Hey! Don't throw the cores away! Save them for further planting!"

The Uchiha people who had been busy in this open space for two years enjoyed the gift of nature to the fullest.

Uchiha Hirohiko washed a full plate and ate slowly with Kyojuro.

"Kyojuro, can you tell me now? Why have you been so afraid of being touched by those two trees? Ever since they were seeds."

Kyojuro replied, "Because they exploded when I summoned them just now."

Hirohiko smiled gently, "Really? Kyojuro wants to protect everyone."

"So do you still want to plant it?"

Kyojuro asked, "Does the clan need it?"

Hirohiko stroked Kyojuro's hair and said, "Don't think too much. Kyojuro just needs to do what you want to do."

Kyojuro said, "I think so! Because everyone is happy when they eat the fruit!"

"Okay, let's plant it!"

"Kyojuro, give this fruit a name. Didn't you tell me what it was called before? What was it?"

"cherry!"

"The cherry tree bears juicy, sweet fruits like peaches. Cherries are a good name."