Chapter 189 New Winery

"Hey!" Jiang You jumped off the carriage and stretched lazily.

"Boss You~!" Lolita, who had been waiting outside the village, pushed aside the group of knights blocking the way and ran towards Jiang You: "We have been waiting for you for a long time~"

It hadn't been long since Jiangyou last came here, but the Witch Forest had completely changed.

After opening a noodle factory here, Jiangyou opened a sweet potato noodle factory.

Sweet potatoes were still shipped from Dresden's territory.

As long as the climate and soil are suitable, the yield of this crop will be quite large. With the help of a little bit of the Hafu tribe's unique planting magic, it will be no problem to achieve off-season planting throughout the year.

Of course, Holly was not very willing to use planting magic before. After all, casting magic consumes a lot of energy, so he usually tries to save as much as possible.

Until he ate a bowl of chicken soup and sweet potato noodles, he couldn't stop eating it.

Jiang You: "The plan is correct."

As the saying goes, to win a man's heart you must first win his stomach. To make a botanist work hard on farming, you must make him like the dishes made from the crops he grows.

Once you understand one principle, you will understand everything.

To make sweet potato flour, you must first grind the sweet potatoes into a slurry and filter out the flour and residue.

The residue can be used as fertilizer or cooked and fed to pigs, so there is no waste at all.

The filtered slurry will precipitate snow-white starch after being left for several hours. You just need to pour out the clear water on the top and dry the starch on the bottom to get sweet potato starch.

By this point, the locals all know how to make it. After all, this method of extracting starch is also applicable to all crops that can extract starch, such as corn and sweet potatoes.

The next step is to use sweet potato starch to mix a nearly white, viscous non-Newtonian fluid, put it into a special small pot with holes at the bottom, and then continuously hit it with a hammer to make the non-Newtonian fluid sweet potato flour dough fall through the holes in the small pot into the large pot of boiling water, and long vermicelli can be cooked.

These vermicelli noodles are shaped by cold water, fished out and dried in the sun, and then they can be packaged and sold. They are sold to each household’s kitchen for cooking and finally turned into delicious soup noodles and enter the stomachs of customers.

Another way to make it is like steaming cold skin. Pour the sweet potato starch paste into a plate, leaving a thin layer. After it cools down, cut it into strips to get rectangular strips of sweet potato skin.

The rice noodles are wider and can absorb soup more easily and become sticky faster. They are not as chewy as the thin and long cylindrical rice noodles, but they are more suitable for making the dish of chicken soup and sweet potato rice noodles.

Sweet potato noodles are not available every day. After one batch of sweet potatoes is used up, you have to wait for the next batch of sweet potatoes to arrive before you can make them. However, in addition to various wheats, the Witch Forest is also rich in sweet potatoes. People can still use the same method to make sweet potato vermicelli with a similar taste.

Although both are made from similar starches, there are distinct differences between ground potato vermicelli and sweet potato vermicelli. Ground potato vermicelli requires a colander with larger holes. It is whiter, more opaque, and has a smoother texture. When broken, the vermicelli breaks more smoothly and is less likely to become mushy or burn.

The villagers soon split into two camps: some liked sweet potato vermicelli, while others preferred potato vermicelli. There were often arguments about which vermicelli was tastier.

Jiangyou watched them making a fuss and thought that if the rice yield was not high, she would have to make rice noodles as well.

This time she came to the Witch Forest with the intention of continuing to cooperate with the witches and opening a winery to brew white wine with sorghum and yellow wine with millet.

The witches are good at brewing beer and they already have sufficient experience. In addition, there are a lot of millet and sorghum grown in the Witch Forest, so building a factory is a simple matter of getting twice the result with half the effort and there are many benefits.

Jiang You only needs to teach them how to distill white wine.

Jiangyou had previously spent most of her cash on various sauce factories, putting the winery project on hold. After all, among the many seasonings she used and sold, cooking wine, which was used to remove fishy smells, didn't appear as often as other seasonings, so a small-scale production was generally sufficient.

But things are different now. Thanks to the gift from the Evil Eye Moon, Jiangyou now has a bulging wallet and can open any factory he wants.

However, even if you have a lot of money, it has to be spent wisely. It takes time and effort to research where to open a business for the best convenience and cost-effectiveness. Witch Forest was the winner in every way.

After people started eating the magic crayfish and raising them, fish dishes became the main dish of the Witch's Forest Brewing Workshop branch. The branch consumed alcohol at a much higher rate than Takuyu's.

The rice wine brewed and the white wine distilled in the Witch Forest can be directly taken to branches for use and sales, saving a lot of shipping costs.

The factory site was still the one that Lolisa helped find, and after discussion and unanimous agreement among the witches in charge, it was rented to Jiangyou at a low price of ten silver coins per month.

The people of the Witch Forest primarily farm and brew wine. Many people come every year, but there's only so much land. Continuously clearing land in the mountains and forests will lead to soil erosion and landslides. The witches in charge don't want to see the ecology destroyed, but they can't let too many refugees idle in the village.

The busy farming season came and went, and when it was busy, people were terribly busy, but when it was slow, a large number of people had nothing to do. When these young men had some free time, they would drink and cause trouble, adding a lot of trouble to the village.

Jiangyou set up many factories here, employed many idle strong laborers, and reduced the burden on the witches in charge. Their complexions have improved a lot recently.

Besides, these people are paid for working in the factory.

In previous years, the Witch Forest was self-sufficient, with its only income coming from selling alcohol. People had a cafeteria and didn't have to worry about food, so they saved the money they earned since they had no place to spend it.

But once the Brewing Workshop branch opened, people had something to spend their money on. Although the partnership with the cafeteria had made ingredients cheaper and the selling price much lower, people couldn't afford to eat three meals a day, and their daily expenses always exceeded their earnings, so naturally, money became tight.

Who would want to eat delicious dishes and then go back to eat free cafeteria food?

People were initially worried about not having enough money, but when Boss You opened his factory, it instantly solved many people's urgent needs. Now, more and more factories are opening, and almost every household has one or two members working for Boss You.

However, in this way, the Witch Forest, a lawless area, is about to become Boss You's "territory".

After all, which salaried worker would have the confidence to go against the boss who pays him?

In particular, this boss is their breadwinner, bringing them countless delicacies and seasonings, and truly controls people's stomachs.

——In the Witch's Forest, only the cafeteria and the brewery branch sell food, which can be said to be a true monopoly industry.

The witches in charge vaguely felt the changes in the Witch Forest, but did not say anything about it. They were still very polite to Jiang You, even more attentive, and would take the initiative to lower the price.