Chapter 231 Slicing and Drying

When Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan first suggested that everyone grow sweet potatoes, they considered that this crop has a high yield and is not easily eaten by locusts.

But its disadvantage of being difficult to preserve is also obvious.

Those that were split in half when dug, as well as those that were already damaged, were the most likely to rot. Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan planned to slice them and dry them, then grind them into sweet potato flour, or find a factory to make them into sweet potato powder.

It's a good idea, but given the current external environment, they can hardly go out, let alone find a factory or something.

What's more, there are not many factories that can still produce normally now.

However, they still decided to dry the sweet potato chips at home first. After all, the temperature and sunlight are still very strong. After the locust plague and virus are over, they will look for a factory.

So, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan washed the rotten sweet potatoes early in the morning and then cut off the bad parts.

After processing the half-cut, bumpy, or worm-eyed sweet potatoes, Bi Qiaoan took a knife and cut them into slices.

Shen Yanming went to the balcony to collect the corn that had been drying previously, then spread a large piece of clean plastic sheet on the ground, and then placed the cut sweet potatoes on it one by one.

This is a delicate job because they have to be arranged neatly to save space, while at the same time preventing the sweet potato chips from stacking on top of each other.

Therefore, Shen Yanming's speed in arranging the sweet potato slices is not as fast as Bi Qiaoan's speed in cutting them.

After the balcony is full, I will put them in the bedroom. Anyway, the corn cobs have been dried in the sun for quite some time, so now I will put them in a room and just make sure to turn them over from time to time.

Besides the ground, you can also put the sweet potato chips on cabinets and tables. In short, you can put them wherever there is space. If there is really no space, there is still Zhang Heping's house next door.

After slicing and drying all the not-so-good sweet potatoes in his garden, Shen Yanming put all the good ones from his own fields into the space, so he wouldn't have to worry about them going bad.

As for Zhang Heping and Ji Kangyong, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan originally planned to leave it to them to deal with, but thinking that the two were away from home all day, they could only sigh and decide to do it themselves.

So, the two of them carried the sweet potato boxes directly to the next door and started processing the sweet potatoes in Zhang Heping's house.

This time, not only were the sweet potatoes of bad quality, but the two of them took it upon themselves to slice all of their sweet potatoes and dry them in the sun.

Because the two men only planted half an acre of sweet potatoes at the beginning. Although it was not much, they had no space and could not eat so many fresh sweet potatoes.

Rather than letting it go bad, it is better to make it into sweet potato vermicelli, which can be stored for a few years without having to worry about it going bad.

In the future, if they want to eat boiled or baked sweet potatoes, they can just ask me for them.

Anyway, the food at home was well-stocked, and one acre of land was enough for the two of them to eat.

In this way, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were busy for another hour or two before they dried the sweet potato chips.

When the two left, they looked back and saw that there was almost no place to stand in Zhang Heping's house. All they could see was white sweet potato chips.

However, I still left a few aisles because I have to turn them over every day.

As for the potatoes from the half acre of land, Shen Yanming collected half of them and put them in the space, waiting to give them to Zhang Heping after he came back.

The remaining half was sent directly to Ji Kangyong's home.

After returning home, Bi Qiaoan slumped on the sofa and asked Shen Yanming: "I posted so many sweet potato chips today, did you take a video?"

"Yes, how could I not know your little thoughts?" Shen Yanming took out his mobile phone with a smile and opened the video for Bi Qiaoan to watch.

Bi Qiaoan nodded as he watched, "It's a good shot, but it's too long, so it needs to be edited."

So a few minutes later, Cha Cha Li posted another video on Weibo.

It was at this time that Bi Qiaoan discovered that many netizens had left her messages.

They said they were very grateful for her reminder, otherwise they might have just piled the corn and left it there.

After all, these people have never done farm work, so it is normal for them to have such blind spots in knowledge. Bi Qiaoan hopes that this short video can also help them.

After turning off the phone, Bi Qiaoan's stomach suddenly growled. The two men then realized that they had worked for several hours without eating or drinking.

Shen Yanming didn't dare to let Bi Qiaoan cook, so he quickly took out a few buns and a bowl of pork rib soup from the space and pushed them in front of Bi Qiaoan, "Eat something and fill your stomach."

Bi Qiaoan looked at Shen Yanming in confusion: "Aren't you hungry?"

In fact, he was quite hungry, but after bending over and lying on the ground for several hours, he felt a little uncomfortable, so he decided to eat slowly.

Seeing Shen Yanming shaking his head, Bi Qiaoan didn't care anymore. He got up, went to the bathroom, washed his hands, and started eating.

Seeing Bi Qiaoan enjoying her meal, Shen Yanming smiled and turned on the TV. They hadn't watched the news for the past two or three days, so they didn't want to miss any important news.

But this news is so shocking that you won’t know until you read it.

It turned out that the locust swarm was approaching the central part of Qinghua Country. At this rate, it would only take five or six hours.

Logically speaking, they shouldn't be flying that fast. Could it be that the crops in the south were harvested early and they have nothing to eat, so they fly north at full speed?

But this is too horrible. It only took two or three days for it to fly here.

Moreover, according to statistics, only 80% of the farmland in central cities has been harvested, and 20% of the grain is still left in the fields.

It is definitely not possible to rely entirely on mechanical harvesting now. All localities can do is mobilize everyone, regardless of gender, age or status, to harvest as much grain as possible.

In order to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, some places even introduced policies that as long as you participate in the harvest, half of the grain collected can be given to you.

You have to know that in today's food shortage, this is a huge bait. Many people go out of their homes and join the harvest team just to get a bite of food.

Although Bi Qiaoan was eating, she still noticed the movement on TV.

She swallowed the bun in her mouth and asked, "Haven't you tried to kill these locusts? Can't you use airplane spraying pesticides?"

Shen Yanming picked up his phone and checked it before saying, "I tried it, but it didn't work. Just like mosquitoes, the previous medicines were too weak to kill them and almost didn't work."

"I guess the energy rain has enhanced their resistance to drugs. I really don't know when this will end."

Shen Yanming smiled and said, "Don't worry, when everyone has planted Silver Heart Hundred Leaf Grass, this wave of disaster will be over."

Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were discussing killing the locusts here, and the same was happening in Dijing.

"It's just one after another, there's never a moment of peace."

A certain boss looked at the images sent by the satellite and sighed: "It's only the second year and it's so fierce. I really don't know what to do in the future!"