Kyojuro, the life of a Hokage since the age of one

Seeing the familiar staff going to the clan leader's house again, the Uchihas muttered a few words about increasing the workload,

I am full of expectations for the plants summoned by Big Baby this time.

Even Mrs. Mikiko has gone there, it should be another kind of delicious food.

The cherry blossoms in the clan land are in bloom, layer upon layer, like clouds.

The courtyard of the patriarch's house is full of things, including not only corn pitchers and targets, but also stone mills and oil presses.

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

Uchiha Hirohiko first cut the corn kernels collected by Izuna into 5 cm thickness, layer by layer.

The cut corn chunks were dried under low heat by Tajima using fire escape, and finally crushed by Madara using a stone mill.

The first and second layers are ground into particles of different sizes. If you can continue grinding, you should be able to grind them even 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 mess.

Boyan touched it with his hand and motioned for Mikiko to come forward and observe.

"Look, is it..."

Mikiko picked up a small handful, put it in the palm of her hand and twisted it. After feeling the smoothness, she smelled it gently.

"I think so."

"Master, what is it?"

Anjuro stood on tiptoe 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 hand.

"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 sentence widened their eyes in surprise. Madara simply hugged Anjurou and lifted him up high in excitement.

"It can be used as a staple food, and it can also be used to extract oil!"

"What you summoned, Anjuro, is amazing!!!"

"Anjuro!"

"Anjuro!!"

Several Uchiha in the courtyard actually started to circle around Uchiha Madara, who was holding Anjuro in the middle, shouting Anjuro's name while spinning.

After performing strange rituals, several large Uchihas returned to work.

Anjuro, who was placed back on the ground, rested his head on Uncle Izuna's thigh in a daze.

Eh?

What just happened?

…

"Since a corn kernel can have two uses, we have to figure out how to perfectly separate these two parts with completely different functions, so as to maximize the functional application."

This is called taking advantage.

Uchiha Boyan simply picked up a knife and cut the corn kernels in half lengthwise to facilitate observation of its internal structure.

"This part... seems to be a bud?"

He squinted for a while and suddenly discovered 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! ! !

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

"Master, why are there buds? Isn't this a seed?"

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

"The seed contains the bud when it is young, right here. Do you see this little point? It will slowly break open the seed and gradually grow into a bud."

"Seeds with this bud will be heavier than seeds without this bud. When we usually screen seeds, we can also screen based on weight."

As he talked, he fell into an excited working state again,

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

…

The sixth elder walked away in a hurry holding a basket of corn kernels.

The people he found all over the yard looked at each other in confusion.

"Clan leader, look..."

"Ah, let's continue to study how to eat."

Tajima came to his senses and continued to arrange work,

"Izuna, you cut it as the sixth elder did before, leaving the bottom layer for Koichi. Madara, you give Mrs. Mikiko a hand. Koichi, see how you can get the oil out of the sticky corn paste."

…

In order to make it easier to study how to eat corn, Mikiko Uchiha simply released her children and husband and let them go to other people's houses to eat. She took her second apprentice and moved to the patriarch's house temporarily.

(Akin: Xingjulang, it seems my mother doesn’t want me anymore o(╥﹏╥)o)

It was also thanks to the fact that when the clan's mansion was originally built, several Japanese-style rooms were reserved for clan members who came to report secretly.

Mrs. Mikiko's eldest apprentice is the one who went to the capital to open a tempura shop. Recently, she was invited to Tachibana's home to provide meals for Tachibana's daughter's wedding ceremony.

Currently, the only person 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 Kaede.

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

After experiments, Mrs. Mikiko came to a conclusion.

Corn is versatile.

It can be used as rice, noodles, vegetables, porridge, and even desserts.

You can eat it directly by cooking it, you can eat the coarsely ground corn crumbs, and you can eat the finely ground cornmeal. Each of them even has its own flavor.

In a short period of time, Mikiko only figured out a few conventional eating methods.

Roughly grind off the outermost seed coat of the corn, wash it and cook it into porridge. You only need to add a little sugar to make it glutinous and sweet.

You can also add various types of beans to it, and it will be very filling in just one bowl.

Finely ground cornmeal can be used directly as a substitute for flour, or it can be steamed or baked.

Steamed buns made from cornmeal are more satiating than steamed buns made from wheat flour. Although the taste is worse than the refined flour steamed buns eaten by the nobles, it is more than half a star better than the rough flour steamed buns.

Mikiko also made steamed cakes from the cornmeal. After steaming, the sweetness of the corn was brought out, and with a little bit of chopped red dates, it was deeply loved by all the Uchiha sweethearts.

Not only that, cornmeal can also be made into noodles, which have a different texture from noodles made from wheat flour, and are smooth and elastic.

It just takes some time to cook.

(Corn noodles are corn noodles, and the soup commonly eaten by Northeasterners is Tangzi. These two are different.)

The previous ways to eat it all used the product of corn being dried and then ground. In addition, Mikiko also tried crushing corn kernels directly without drying.

Corn itself is very glutinous. After seasoning the directly crushed wet ingredients, she took about a fistful of corn, spread it on vegetable leaves and steamed it in a pot. It was a delicious snack.

It tastes glutinous and slightly sticky to the teeth.

It couldn't be better if dipped in powdered sugar!

It can be called a golden rice cake.

Rei Uchiha had a sudden idea and used sifted cornmeal to make tempura batter.

Although the fried batter is not as light and thin as wheat flour, it is surprisingly suitable for making fried pork chops.

The combination of the hard coating and the juicy meat steak makes it more suitable for workers who like to enjoy chewing a mouthful of food.

Poor workers can better appreciate the sweetness of corn.

Mikiko Uchiha admitted her weakness straightforwardly,

"There are so many possibilities after corn processing. It can not only replace wheat, but also rice. I have limited manpower, and I have to mobilize the whole family to develop recipes."

Being able to make Uchiha admit defeat is an achievement that only a child of the world can achieve.

Corn, did it.

Maybe the world just likes gold?

…

On the other side, corn oil has also made preliminary progress.

Haoyi performed a secondary treatment on the part containing the corn germ. First, he removed the thin outer golden seed coat of the corn kernel, and then dug out the germ part separately.

Because there were too few germs, he was afraid that something would happen if he dried it directly with Fire Release. After all, he was missing an arm, and his ability to perform ninjutsu would be somewhat affected.

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

After spending one night, after the germ was basically dry, he tried to extract oil with a small oil press he made.

But what was squeezed out for the first time was similar to what was ground with a stone mill before, except that the water content was less, but it was still solid corn residue, and there was no trace of oil at all.

He put the corn residue discharged from the discharge port into the feed port and squeezed it twice.

It wasn't until the third time that he saw the liquid oil flowing out drop by drop.

"So slow..."

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

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

The oil yield rate of a single corn kernel is too low, and it is time-consuming. If it were not for the fact that the output speed of corn kernels is about the same as that of peas, several baskets can be harvested in one day. Extracting corn oil is obviously a loss-making business.

It happened that Uchiha Mikiko had temporarily ended the first stage of exploring how to use corn, so Koichi simply sent all the small bottle of corn oil he squeezed out to her home.

Professional people do professional things.

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Time has entered May, and something Anjuro has been looking forward to finally happened! !

The cherry tree I planted earlier is bearing fruit! ! !

Uchiha, who was in charge of the care, found out and informed the Sixth Elder and Anjuro.

Xingjulang hurriedly stopped the master who wanted to pick a fruit to try with his own hands, and climbed up the tree in twos and twos.

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

quiet--

There was no explosion.

Dai Uchiha, who was looking after the cherry tree, was confused.

"Xingjuro, what's wrong with you?"

Was it because my hands were shaking that I couldn't hold the fruit?

He took a few steps forward and wanted to take the child down from the tree.

Anjuro shouted loudly,

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

What he has been worried about is that the cherry tree grown by [Cherry Bomb] will suddenly explode as it grows, or the fruit it produces will explode like [Cherry Bomb].

Now it seems that they should be ordinary cherry trees and ordinary cherries.

No, it's not very ordinary, because this fruit is much larger than the fruit of the cherry blossom tree that you usually see.

The big Uchiha approached the cherry tree and raised his hand to lift Anjuro down from the tree.

"Pay attention to safety. You need to confirm whether you can eat it. You don't have to climb a tree to try it. During the fruiting process, our ninja bird has already eaten it."

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

"Thank you uncle!"

Uchiha Hirohiko looked serious, "Why can the ninja bird eat this kind of fruit? Didn't Anjuro say that no one is allowed to touch these two trees?"

"What if the ninja bird flew somewhere else with the seeds?"

Ochiha realized his negligence and immediately bowed his head to admit his mistake.

"Sorry, I thought it was too simple."

The Sixth Elder gave a faint hum and looked down at his young apprentice.

"Xingjuro, my uncle has done something wrong and needs to be punished. Please think of the content of the punishment."

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

There are no rules, and when he has clearly said that no one should touch him, the fruit is still eaten by birds. This is the dereliction of duty of the guard.

This time I was lucky and the fruit on the tree was edible. What if it really could explode? The touch of the Ninja 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 nearby clan members who were guarding them would inevitably be affected.

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

With a sullen face, he said seriously,

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

"yes!"

…

The fruit produced by the cherry tree is like a small heart, full and round, with red and black skin, light red flesh, and juice overflows when you take a bite.

"So sweet!"

It only takes one, and everyone who eats it will be impressed.

"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 nothing like the small, bitter seeds produced by the cherry blossom tree.

"Obviously the flowers blooming are the same as the cherry blossom trees, but the fruits they bear are completely different."

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

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

The Uchihas who have been busy in this open space for two years enjoy the gifts of nature.

Uchiha Hirohiko washed a full plate and ate slowly with Anjurou beside him.

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

Anjuro replied, "Because they exploded when I summoned them."

Boyan smiled gently, "That's right, Xingjuro wants to protect everyone."

"Then do you still want to plant it?"

Xingjulang asked, "Does the clan need it?"

Boyan touched Xingjulang's hair, "Don't think so much, Xingjulang just needs to do what he wants to do."

Xingjulang said, "I think! Because everyone is very happy when eating the fruit!"

"Okay, then let's plant it!"

"Xingjuro, please give this fruit a name. Did you say it before? What is it called?"

"cherry!"

"The cherry blossom tree bears juicy and sweet fruit like peaches, cherries, a good name."