Su Qingluan thought, since I couldn’t sleep, I might as well get up and work.
It was obvious that more than one person was unable to sleep because of the noise. Many people heard the noise and saw that it was Su Qingluan who got up. They felt embarrassed to continue sleeping and woke up the people around them who were still sleeping.
Su Qingluan looked at everyone's obviously sleepy expressions and felt a little guilty. "I'm very sorry, but I have to prepare all the goods within seven days. Otherwise, if I upset them, I won't make any money, but I will lose everything."
In fact, this batch of jam only needs to be prepared within ten days, but Su Qingluan calculated the current progress and felt that it would be safer to prepare it a little in advance.
Just as she had originally planned that the entire jam preparation process could be completed in three to five days at most, it now seems that she had completely failed to take into account the factors of mutual coordination and restraint among the entire team. Moreover, judging from yesterday's situation, when the number of people reaches a certain level, the number of uncontrollable accidents will increase.
For example, those fruits that were "killed" because of the fight between the two groups. Su Qingluan felt sad when she recalled the amount.
It’s not that I feel sorry for anything else, but they will inevitably waste raw materials and extend their working hours.
As the "employee," she had to pay these people a day's wages for every day they worked. Although the original intention was to provide the villagers with more supplies for the winter, the Xie family's demands could not be reduced in the slightest.
Everyone got up, and Su Qingluan began to assign tasks. She led a few people to prepare breakfast for everyone and some more portable food, such as burritos and other easy-to-carry food, so that everyone would not go hungry at noon.
As for the rest of the people, Su Qingluan asked them to put the fruit jam that had been boiled to a thick consistency into the millstone that had been washed and dried yesterday, and grind it over and over again.
The millstone was quite heavy and required three people to support it and work together in a clockwise direction. In addition, Su Qingluan bought two sets of millstones as a precaution.
These two sets of grinding wheels are not cheap, and they are the best grinding specifications of the time. However, because of their good grinding performance, the grinding wheels are large and heavy. Three people are responsible for grinding, while one controls the addition of jam and the other controls the discharge of jam.
If someone is really exhausted, the person who controls the entrance or exit of the jam will have to take over.
The remaining few people went to the second floor to make the beds that everyone had slept in. To avoid suspicion, the men's bunk beds were made by men, and similarly, the women's bunk beds were made by a woman.
Su Qingluan was cutting vegetables into shreds at a rapid speed while looking at the grinder whose face was flushed from straining to pull the millstone.
In fact, she had considered buying a donkey to grind the mill, because donkeys are more hardworking and do not require extra wages, so the cost-effectiveness would be higher than manual labor.
However, considering that her knowledge of donkeys was limited to the animal world and crosstalk performances in her previous life, Su Qingluan decisively gave up this idea.
After all, the uncontrollable factors of animals are many times higher than those of humans, not to mention that the price of a donkey is not as cheap as she imagined.
Most importantly, she hired more people to provide more workstations and to pay more people more reasonably. But if human labor—and more than one human position—is replaced by animals, even if the work efficiency is higher, what is the point?
She wasn't working to pay the animal, and on the contrary, she might make donkey meat burgers to feed her neighbors.
Su Qingli watched the people grinding the mills sweating profusely due to the heavy physical labor in the chilly autumn wind all morning, and couldn't help but sigh. If it were in his previous life, these jobs would only take a dozen minutes with a food processor. Why would it take so many people so much time to grind over and over again?
However, it is obvious that if you pursue a delicate and uniform taste, simply grinding it once with a crude stone grinding wheel will obviously not reach the level of a blender. Su Qingluan can only ask them to grind it at least three times to increase the crushing rate.
Fortunately, after last night's processing, the four casseroles, which originally contained half a pot of raw fruits, had their volume reduced by almost half after being cooked, which greatly reduced the workload.
So when Su Qingluan's breakfast was ready, the three rounds of grinding had already been completed.
Su Qingluan had mentally prepared herself that even with repeated grinding, this jam would definitely not be as smooth and even as the one made with a food processor. But to her surprise, the jam after repeated grinding was even better than she had expected!
Moreover, unlike the last time when the jam was orange-yellow, this time, due to the different fruits chosen, while the raw fruits were bright red, the cooked jam in front of us was a crimson red comparable to rubies.
This red color is a bit similar to wine red, but it can be seen to be slightly transparent in the autumn morning sunlight. Su Qingluan also discovered that the fruit this time should obviously contain pectin, because as the temperature of the jam cools down, it becomes a jelly state. Su Qingluan feels that this kind of jam is a winner, at least visually.
However, this does not mean that the making of the jam is over. Su Qingluan has not yet added the seasonings and flower petals with various flavors, so it is still quite far from being "completed".
But at least these fruit jams have been cooked at high temperatures, and compared to those raw fruits, their shelf life and ease of storage will be significantly improved.
Su Qingluan didn't have to worry too much about the preservation of these jams, but she looked at the amount of jam left after it was fully cooked, and then converted the amount of jam needed for each jar. She found that if she spread it out evenly, it would only be enough for twenty-five or six jars, and no more would be enough.
In addition to the minimum production requirement of ten cans of each flavor, Su Qingluan also planned to reserve at least two or three cans of each flavor as backup to prevent accidental bumps.
In other words, these jams were only enough to make two flavors at most. The other flavor would require picking at least half of yesterday's amount again.
And today's task is more than just picking fruits.
Su Qingluan looked around and picked out four people, two men and two women, who were agile enough to run for long periods of time and had considerable strength. "You will follow me around town today and run errands. The extra person will replace me in the logistics team. Those who are good at hunting in the wild will be given priority. Yunniang, I'll leave the fruit picking to you."
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