After two months, the crops in the space were finally cleared away. During this time, she almost went blind from harvesting cotton. Looking at the cotton plants that were so full, she realized that she could have squandered her life for the past ten years by doing whatever she wanted. She decided not to plant any more cotton and instead plant sweet potatoes and potatoes instead. These were easy to grow, and she could harvest them whenever she wanted or not.

It's already early August. July to September is the hottest time of the year. My parents come over to stay for a couple of days whenever they have free time. It's so hot that we have to turn on the fan every day, but it's still hot.

The main problem is that as soon as you turn on the fan at home, a lot of people come over to cool off. Although my house isn't filled with all the things Liu Yun bought before, there are still quite a few.

Although Liu Yun didn't stock up on goods every two days like before, she still delivered some every week. Everyone came over to use the fan, so it was crowded and noisy, and the electricity bill was also a considerable expense. At this rate, the monthly salary of an average worker wouldn't be enough to cover the cost of running the fan.

Liu Yun's courtyard doesn't have this problem. With all the doors open, there's no need to turn on the fan at all. So these days, Yu's mother picks up the triplets from daycare after breakfast and comes to the courtyard to help out. Sometimes, when she can't manage here, she just stays here.

It's corn harvest time now, and Liu Yun has stored a lot of corn cobs in the cellar. When her mother has nothing to do, she closes the gate to the yard and lets the triplets play by themselves while she rubs the corn cobs and then grinds them into cornmeal.

The finely ground cornmeal is used to steam corn buns, while the coarser cornmeal is used to cook corn rice or corn porridge with rice. Liu Yun loves to eat all of these.

Seeing that there was free labor available, Liu Yun worked even harder on Sundays, bringing home as much grain as she could. No one suspected anything, since it was harvest time and various crops were being harvested one after another.

Even the old-fashioned Mr. Yu didn't say anything. After all, at this time, who wouldn't buy something on the black market? With the meager rations, they would have starved to death long ago. Everyone knew about going to the black market, and no one exposed it. Besides, Liu Yun hadn't even gone to the black market; she had only gone to the countryside to collect some supplies.

Liu Yun's family all thought she was harvesting grain in the countryside because she often went there. It can only be said that Liu Yun's public image is still very well established.

No one suspected anything. After all, Yu's parents and Yu Qian assumed she was someone she knew from her previous trips to the market and that she frequently bought things from there. This was perfectly normal, since although Liu Yun brought back a lot of things, they were all agricultural products from the countryside. The others knew that her parents were from the countryside and that she had relatives there, so those things were perfectly normal. Therefore, it was a perfect misunderstanding.

However, Liu Yun did indeed collect grains in the countryside, such as rice, sweet potato flour, various grain flours, and mixed grain noodles. She even collected homespun cloth, buying whatever she liked.

In September, Yu Qian went on another business trip. It was sweet potato harvesting season, and coincidentally, the sweet potatoes in Liu Yun's online space were ready to be dug up, so Liu Yun started bringing sweet potatoes home every day.

Looking at the sweet potatoes in the cellar, Yu's mother had an idea.

"Liu Yun, you can't possibly eat all these sweet potatoes. You can make sweet potato starch blocks!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Yun's ears lit up. "Mom, you can make this? I wanted to buy some before, but I only managed to get a small amount. They don't make much; they usually keep it for themselves and don't sell it."

"Only 20 to 30 jin of sweet potatoes can be produced from 100 jin of sweet potatoes. Of course, that's a small amount. After all, sweet potatoes can be a staple food, but once they're made into sweet potato starch blocks, they can only be used as a dish or a snack. Do you want to make some?"

"Okay, are these sweet potatoes enough? If not, I'll go buy some more." Liu Yun hadn't expected that her mother would know how to make sweet potato starch blocks, which were actually just sweet potato starch.

"You already have five or six hundred pounds in your cellar! How much more are you planning to make?" Mother Yu rolled her eyes.

"Let's do these for now! What do you need me to do?"

"Let's do it tomorrow when your dad is off work! Tonight we'll pick out the sweet potatoes first, and then your dad can go to the river to wash them clean."

"Okay." After they finished cooking, the two picked up sweet potatoes, collecting nearly two hundred pounds.

After his father returned home and finished eating, he picked up the sweet potatoes and went to the river to wash them.

The next morning, the three of them started slicing, shredding, and mincing.

In the countryside, it wouldn't be necessary to go through all this trouble; almost every household has a special shredding machine. But they don't have one, so this is the only way they can manage.

Place the chopped sweet potatoes into a large water vat, add water, and repeatedly rub and stir until the water becomes completely cloudy. Then filter out the sweet potato residue, filtering several times to ensure there are no remaining residues. Finally, cover the water vat with a lid.

Because the sweet potatoes that Yu's father washed yesterday were very clean, and the skins were even peeled off, these sweet potato residues can be used to scrape off dried sweet potatoes.

Steam the sweet potato pulp until soft, then mash it, add sesame seeds, spread it on a cloth and smooth it with a scraper. After drying, it can be stir-fried with sand and stones, resulting in a fragrant and crispy treat that evokes many people's childhood memories.

After letting the water sit overnight, pour out the water from the tank. The sediment at the bottom is sweet potato starch. Because the sweet potatoes are washed very clean, there is no need to rinse and let them sit repeatedly; one night is enough.

After pouring out the turbid water, what remains at the bottom of the vat is pure white sweet potato starch. This is not edible yet and needs to be dried. To prevent it from being blown away by the wind while drying, it is necessary to shovel it in pieces rather than breaking it up.

Two hundred pounds of sweet potatoes yielded less than fifty pounds of sweet potato starch, which Liu Yun actually thought was quite a good deal.

"Mom, what can I make with this? I only know that I can fry it into pancakes, chop it up, and make soup with red beans, or fry it into potato pancakes with potatoes. Are there any other ways to eat it?"

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