Chapter 28: Dividing Cassava
After cleaning the table, Ye Caiping took a shower and went to bed.
Open the space again before going to bed.
She tried to trade and upgrade again, but it still didn't work.
Ye Caiping used the manual detection function and it actually worked.
After a busy day, she calmed down.
The space should not be useless, but if I want to upgrade it, I may need an opportunity.
Ye Caiping let out a long sigh and decided to just go with the flow!
If there is destiny, the opportunity will naturally appear. Even if she can't find an opportunity, as long as the manual detection function is intact, she will make a profit.
The next morning, the men went out to work.
Mrs. Du and Mrs. Wei took gold and silver flowers to the river to wash clothes.
Ye Caiping and her daughter cleaned the stone mill at the kitchen door.
"What is this for?" Old Mrs. Ye watched curiously.
"Grind the big stuff."
After Ye Caiping finished speaking, she asked Jin'er and her sister to take out bags of spices from the room.
Old Lady Ye looked through the books and was stunned: "So many medicinal herbs? Bought yesterday? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
"No, this is for making seasoning. Last night I said I wanted to start a small business and I would need these things."
Old Mrs. Ye looked puzzled. Why did medicine need to be used to make food? She didn't recognize any of these medicines.
She didn't say much and helped Ye Caiping with the work.
Ye Caiping grinds white pepper first.
After two quarters of an hour, a jar was ground out.
The remaining ingredients were mixed together and ground together. Because the quantity was large, she took over the job with Jin'er and her sister and Old Lady Ye.
Before noon, all the spices were ground.
Ye Caiping divided the aniseed powder into two cans and locked them in the room.
Ye Jin'er asked, "Mom, when are we going to set up the stall?"
"Four days later, at least after the Double Ninth Festival! By then we will have finished our housework."
Ye Jin'er nodded with a smile, a hopeful look on her face.
Since leaving the Li family, my mother has become more mature and reliable. No matter what her mother says or does, she and her sister will believe and support her.
Lunch was made by Old Mrs. Ye.
There is still half a basin of oil residue left from last night. Old Mrs. Ye only scooped out a bowl of food, chopped it into small pieces, and fried it with cabbage. Her staple food was rice porridge and cassava.
Although the meal was not as rich as last night, with the smell of oil and white rice porridge, everyone in the Ye family still looked happy while eating.
After dinner, Ye Lizheng came over and said, "Cai Ping, today is already the seventh day. Can we get the cassava in the river ashore?"
"Well, let's go ashore early tomorrow morning! Also, the village head uncle has had the village peel the remaining 100 kilograms of fresh cassava and cut it into small pieces about 5 inches long. Let's soak them in the river!"
"Okay!"
Ye Lizheng went back and convened another villagers' meeting.
When the village heard the news that cassava was going ashore, there was excitement.
The next morning, all the villagers gathered at the river.
Under Ye Lizheng's command, the men pulled up baskets of cassava that had soaked in the river.
Ye Caiping took this opportunity to use the system for testing. After seven days of soaking, the toxins were indeed removed!
Then, the villagers pushed the cassava to the entrance of the Ye family’s ancestral hall on a cart.
Because the Ye family's ancestral hall is the largest, the entrance is paved with bluestone slabs.
The villagers poured all the cassava onto the floor and took out two large scales used in the village to weigh grain.
Looking at so much cassava, the villagers started talking excitedly.
Ye Lizheng said, "Let's air these cassavas and weigh them when most of the water is gone. Let's take this opportunity to learn from Caiping another way to process cassava."
Ye Caiping said: "There are two ways to eat cassava, dried and eaten fresh. Everyone has learned how to dry it, which is to slice it and soak it in water for seven days. After the cassava is distributed, everyone will take it home and dry it. When you want to eat it, just soak it and steam it."
"Another way is to eat it fresh. Dig out the cassava, cut it into small pieces, soak it for a day and a night, and rinse it with water several times when cooking."
As she spoke, she took the fresh cassava that Ye Lizheng had soaked yesterday, and led the aunts to set up a stove on the spot, teaching everyone the method of boiling water three times and pouring water three times.
The cooked cassava is cut into small pieces for everyone to taste.
"After being busy for so long, I finally got to eat it, and it was so delicious."
“Better than brown rice!”
Those who got a small piece ate it with great satisfaction, while those who didn’t got any were scratching their heads in anxiety.
Ye Caiping looked at their excited faces and said loudly:
"I'll tell you a few more things to note. First, fresh cassava can only be kept for about half a month, so it must be eaten as soon as possible after being dug out. Second, slicing, soaking in water for seven days, and then drying is the safest way to eat it, and the chance of poisoning is lower."
"Third, we have already taught you the method. But I have to say this first. From now on, if any step is wrong, or if anyone is lazy and tries to save trouble and gets poisoned, it will not be our fault."
The villagers were startled, then nodded: "Of course."
The water on the cassava on the ground had almost been drained away, and Ye Li was asking everyone to put the cassava back into the basket and then weigh it.
Ye Lizheng said: "After calculation, each of us can get 32 kilograms. Children under 12 years old can get half of that, 16 kilograms!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the villagers cheered and jumped for joy, and could not help counting how many people there were in their families and how many kilograms of cassava they could get.
"Everyone, line up. Adults should go to Bajin to register, and children under 12 should go to Daquan. Erquan, Sanquan, Zhuzi and Tieniu, you are responsible for getting on the scale."
The villagers were noisy and were about to line up when a deep voice rang out:
"Li Zheng, before we get in line, can I tell you something?"
Ye Caiping looked over and saw a man in his thirties with an untidy beard. Ye Caiping had some impression of him, but couldn't remember his name for the moment.
"What's the matter? Decai, tell me." Ye Lizheng said.
Liu Decai stepped forward, followed by a dozen men and women.
He said: "We will soon distribute the cassava, but there are some things we need to clarify."
"Ye Daquan's family had already dug a lot of cassava before this. That day we all saw them carrying baskets of cassava home!"
A woman behind him said, "It looks like it weighs over a thousand pounds!"
Liu Decai continued, "Those cassava originally belonged to everyone, but they dug so much in advance. The village head just said that each person should get 32 kilograms. The last time they dug, each person in their family probably got more than 60 kilograms on average!"
"We won't bother about these. But now we have to share the cassava. Tell me, should they get a share?"
After these words were spoken, all the villagers looked at each other in bewilderment.
Some had never thought about this question before, while some had thought about it a long time ago and had been somewhat bothered by it to begin with. Now that Liu Decai had taken the lead, they began to grumble:
"There are fourteen people in Daquan's family. So, they have to take away more than three hundred kilograms."
"They have already dug up over a thousand kilograms of food, and now they want to divide it up..."
"If they hadn't told us how to remove the toxins, we wouldn't have been able to get even a pound. It doesn't matter if they divide it up!"
“I also think they should get another share.”
"But they dug up thousands of kilograms of it in advance... We didn't let them take it out, but if we divide it again..."
Ye Lizheng's chest heaved with anger.
Old Mrs. Ye looked unhappy, and Ye Daquan and the others were about to curse. It's not a thousand pounds, it's just over 800 pounds!
Ye Caiping sneered.
At this time, Old Man Ye looked at her inquiringly. Ye Caiping nodded, and then Old Man Ye stepped forward with a dark face:
"Everyone, after we decided to share the method with everyone, our family never thought about taking an extra half tael! We are all from the same village. Cai Ping said that we can't eat alone, we have to tell everyone!"
"After we told everyone, we were afraid that everyone would run out of cassava, so all the male members of our family went up the mountain to dig together. Caiping even personally taught everyone how to cut and soak cassava. She was busy all the time, all for the village."
"Listen! Listen!" Ye Lizheng stepped forward and scolded the villagers, "Besides, the things on the mountain don't belong to anyone. They are ownerless! Telling us how to remove the poison is a favor, and not telling us is a duty."
"I told you the method without hiding anything. You guys actually want to bite back. Are you still human?"
"Even if the whole family divides another portion, on average, we will only get one or two taels less. Will we starve to death if we eat one less bite? Not to mention that they didn't intend to take more in the first place!"
The villagers were ashamed, especially those who questioned it.
yes! The things on the mountain originally had no owner. People were so generous, but they still found fault with them. They are so inhumane.
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