Dressed as the head of the lazy village

This stone mill was originally used in the village to grind rice noodles, and occasionally to grind soybean milk and some tofu.Because it is not a necessity, Miaozhu Prefecture does not grow wheat, which is incomparable to those stone mills in the north that grind flour.

However, because of the hot weather in Miaozhuzhou, soy milk and tofu can't be stored for a long time, so they are always eaten fresh and ground, and the stone mill is much smaller.

The portion size of southern dishes is small, which may be due to the habit of not being able to store leftovers in hot weather.Wang Dawei was numbly thinking wildly while pushing the millstone.

Rolling a mill is not an easy job, Wang Dawei has never done it before, and he couldn't master the skills for a while, it was extremely difficult and he couldn't move an inch.

At this time, the villagers finally woke up. Seeing Wang Dawei bring home the common stone mill in the village, they couldn't help being curious: "What is the village chief doing?"

Seeing that Wang Dawei was squeezing sugarcane juice, with a bright mind and a flexible mind, he thought of the past glory of Tiangan'er Village: It was Wang Dawei's ancestors who learned the skill of drying stone honey that made their village rich for so many years. , set down so many properties.

Is the village chief going to lead them to regain their glory?The villagers were excited.

But drying stone honey is not a difficult task. Later, it was gradually learned by other villages. If there are too many people to dry it, it will not be able to sell for a high price.Besides, sweets are not as good as salt. They are not necessities but luxuries. The demand is not large, and there was even a situation of oversupply at one time.

Wang Dawei's father was not the kind of person who had a very flexible mind and a good mouth. Gradually, Tiangan'er Village, the first village to make stone honey, could not compete with those latecomers in the market.

Now that more than ten years have passed, how can it be so easy to squeeze into the stone honey market again?Haven't you seen that Wujiazhuang doesn't have Shi Mi's idea now?Not worth it!

Thinking about it this way, the laziness in the bones of those villagers broke out again: "If the village chief has dried the stone honey and distributed it to our family, we haven't eaten sweets for a long time. This stone mill is a big guy's stone mill. You They have all been pushed home, so they can’t be used in vain.”

It should be taken advantage of. Although it is becoming more and more difficult to take advantage of the Wang family, it is necessary to create conditions to take advantage of it!

Wang Dawei glanced at the person who spoke: "When I remember things, our village doesn't make stone honey much anymore, and I don't know if it can be done according to the recipe. Uncle Li should follow my father to do it, why don't you give me some pointers?" I?"

Let's start with grinding and pointing.

The man turned his head and walked away.Compared with Shi Mi, who doesn't know if he will be successful, and has no shadow yet, it makes him more comfortable not to work.

Live in the moment, you know?

The others also rushed away, fearing that Wang Dawei would catch them and "point out".

Song Xie also heard the movement at the door, and when he came out of the room, he forgot the unhappiness with Wang Dawei last night: "What are you doing..."

The Song family has a lot of donkeys, so they don't need people to grind the mill.It was quite fresh for Song Xie to see people pushing the mill at first glance.

Wang Dawei wiped the sweat from his forehead.He has spiritual springs to recuperate his body, so he is not too tired, but the weather in the south is still quite hot, and the sun is slowly rising now: "Squeeze some sugarcane juice, and see if you can make brown sugar."

Song Xie:? ? ?

"You mean stone honey, right?" In this era, sugarcane juice was dried to make stone honey, similar to the method of drying salt, and the product was sugar, sweet.But brown sugar is not easy to make...

Wang Dawei shook his head: "Our village has a prescription for stone honey. The price of stone honey is far worse than that of brown sugar, and its medicinal value is also different from that of brown sugar."

Because the manufacturing technology of stone honey is not complicated, and Miaozhu Prefecture is rich in sugarcane, the price is comparable to maltose, and even because the taste is not as fragrant as maltose, you can buy it for a few tens of pennies per catty.It is incomparable with the brown sugar that has been fired at sky-high prices.

Song Xie felt that Wang Dawei was dreaming.I saw an expensive item from outside two days ago, and I wanted to make it myself when I got home. Is it not a dream?If Da Xingchao could make brown sugar by himself, would he still have to travel all the way to Tianzhu to buy horses?

But he was still a little curious about how Wang Dawei planned to make sugar.So I found a small stool and sat in the shade of a tree not far away to watch.

Brother Cheng came to cook in the middle, and he was very surprised to see Wang Dawei grinding the mill.He has been in this village for so long, and he has never seen anyone do such a heavy job!

"The village chief is planning to grind rice noodles?" Cheng Ge'er leaned his head and took a look, but was even more surprised when he saw that the stone mill was not grinding rice, but sugar cane cut into small pieces.

His hometown is norther than Miaozhu Prefecture, and no one grows sugar cane there. This is the first time he saw how to squeeze sugar cane into juice: "Why don't I come."

Wang Dawei had never pushed a mill before, so he didn't know how to use it skillfully, so he got twice the result with half the effort, not as fast as his elder brother.Brother Cheng couldn't stand it anymore.

"No need." Wang Dawei quickly waved him away and refused.He is a man with much stronger physical strength than brother, how can he let brother work for him?What's more, this is not the necessary housework that hourly workers should do. "If you are not busy, help me cut that sugarcane into such small pieces."

Isn't this a matter of holding hands?Brother Cheng had no choice but to give some pointers on how to grind the mill, carried the sugarcane into the kitchen, and chopped it up while chopping vegetables.Wang Dawei's kitchen knife was sharpened not long ago, and it is very sharp, even cutting sugarcane is effortless.

When Brother Cheng came, it was inconvenient for Song Xie to watch the show and eat melons, so he kept his mouth shut and played the fool conscientiously, just occasionally watching Wang Dawei and Brother Cheng just do the work, and his eyes were a little sour sour.

So he leaned beside Wang Dawei to help him pass the bucket, skimming off the impurities and froth on the squeezed sugarcane juice. Wang Dawei glanced at him and didn't say anything.

Brother Cheng, on the other hand, was very surprised: "Silly brother, you look much better now, you know how to help with the work. It's only been a day since you bought this medicine, so it works?"

Song Xie's hand froze the froth.

Gu Shi was even more satisfied, and praised Song Xie again and again: "My cub is really a good boy, now he knows how to help the family, if he gets better, he will be so sensible!"

The old mother's gratification was all over her face.

The real baby is working Dawei: ...

After breakfast, it took another half a day to squeeze the two sugar canes into juice near noon. Wang Dawei was so tired that he squatted under the shade of a tree and secretly drank a bowl of Lingquan to recover.

This is because Brother Cheng gave him a few pointers later, otherwise it would have been an extra half an hour.

Two sugarcanes weighed 27 to [-] catties, and finally eleven catties of sugarcane juice came out.This is still the result of the guy not taking advantage of things.Not to mention the replacement of a modern juicer, even the ancient special juicer left in the village can squeeze out two catties more.

Wang Dawei took a spoonful and tasted it. The taste was no different from modern sugarcane juice, even sweeter.It's just that it's not filtered, and it's still mixed with impurities, including some sugarcane fibers.

After standing still for two hours, after the fibers had settled, Wang Dawei took another bucket and scooped out the cleared sugarcane juice.

In this way, the weight of sugarcane juice is reduced by half a catty.Wang Dawei looked at the residue left in the bucket, thinking that if he succeeded, he could buy some gauze to filter it in the future.

I just don’t know if there was gauze in ancient times...

Fortunately, these bagasses are not all useless.Lazy Han Village has to farm its own land in October. There is not even a chicken in the village, so there is much less manure.The bagasse can also be used as fertilizer to fertilize the fields.

Wang Dawei diluted some sugarcane juice with Lingquan and gave it to Gu Shi and Song Xie as a drink, both of them liked it very much.This pure natural freshly squeezed juice is very popular even in modern times.

However, these sugarcane juices are used to boil brown sugar to make money. Wang Dawei is very precious. When refugees came to deliver firewood in the afternoon, Wang Dawei refused to take it out for them to try. He just left them to drink the spiritual spring.

But in the evening when Brother Cheng came to cook, Wang Dawei filled a bowl of sugarcane juice and took it home.

Brother Cheng was flattered.Sugarcane in Miaozhuzhou is not expensive, but sugarcane juice is not easy to squeeze, and it is considered a rare commodity. Wang Dawei generously gave him a bowl.

He could also tell that Wang Dawei was planning to use sugarcane juice to make something, perhaps to make stone honey in the air, his old business in Tiangan'er Village?

"How about, why don't I stay and help?" Brother Cheng looked at the four bundles of firewood on the ground.He knew that although Wang Dawei was good at cooking, he was not very good at lighting fires, and the Gu family helped to light the fires when cooking on weekdays.

"No, no, I can handle it. You've been tired all day." Wang Dawei refused him.Brother Cheng has also opened a vegetable field in the back mountain these days. Although he does not have a household registration and cannot sign a land deed for the time being, Wang Dawei has agreed with him that this land will be counted as his dowry, and it will be re-registered when he gets married in the future.

During the day, he has to tend the land and come to the Wang family to help servants, Cheng Ge'er's life is not idle.

Besides, Wang Dawei is an ordinary farmer, it's better not to let outsiders know about making brown sugar out of thin air, even the Gu family was coaxed to sleep by Wang Dawei.

After Cheng Ge'er left, Gu Shi also went into the house to rest, Song Xie didn't have to pretend to be stupid anymore, he could talk: "You really feel sorry for Cheng Ge'er."

Wang Dawei didn't think much about it: "He's a little brother, it's not good to ask him to do this heavy work." After all, he only paid the monthly fee for part-time workers.

Song Xie looked at the firewood in his arms: Then you don't know how to feel sorry for me? ?