When Pang Xiong and his friends had nothing to do, they would come to help Qin Suyun with the last two acres of grain and vegetables in the greenhouse at home. Therefore, the two acres of land were harvested very quickly. It took less than five days to harvest the eggplants, cabbages, etc. planted in the greenhouse.
The corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes that were harvested can be stored for a relatively long time after drying out some of the moisture, but the vegetables at home such as eggplant, cabbage, Chinese cabbage and spinach cannot be kept for too long.
Qin Suyun gave some of the vegetables grown in the greenhouse to Pang Xiong and others as rewards, and also took out some from the potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes at home.
Nowadays, helping others with work is all for the purpose of revenge, so Pang Xiong and his friends didn't think it was wrong. However, when they got these vegetables and food, they were reluctant to accept them. To them, Qin Suyun was their boss's girlfriend and future sister-in-law.
How can I collect things while helping my sister-in-law with work?
But under Qin Suyun's insistence, Pang Xiong and his companions had no choice but to accept the grain and vegetables.
Pang Xiong used the vegetables given by Qin Suyun to exchange for some soy sauce, vinegar and salt from others. They had been living in Qin's house these days, and many of the things they used were those that Qin Suyun originally placed in the kitchen, especially the seasonings, so Pang Xiong and his friends felt a little embarrassed.
It’s okay on ordinary days, as everyone has enough oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, but in today’s environment, these things are still quite precious.
Even though they try to reduce their expenses on a daily basis, they still consume a lot.
Qin Suyun didn't have much to think about what Pang Xiong and the others did. She had a lot of supplies stored up, and these seasonings and other things could not be used up in a lifetime just by the consumption of the few people in the family.
However, since the other party wanted to provide some subsidies or something, she had no objection.
Qin Suyun exchanged some of the vegetables at home that were not durable with others, but she still had a lot left.
These mutated vegetables and grains don't taste good, but people are willing to keep them because they can be preserved for a long time. However, many people sell or give away these vegetables at a low price, so the price is very low.
After Qin Suyun exchanged some vegetables with others, she felt that it was really troublesome. She thought about drying the vegetables at home directly into dried vegetables. It would be even better if the potatoes and sweet potatoes could be turned into dried potato powder and dried sweet potato powder.
If you have a dryer at home, it is not difficult to make dried vegetables. However, the production of sweet potato flour and potato flour is slightly more complicated than the process of making dried vegetables.
But after Qin Suyun and Lu Liqing discussed it, everyone thought this was a good idea.
It rains every day now, the air is humid, and the temperature is just right. Even if Qin Suyun lets the potatoes and sweet potatoes dry a little, they will sprout soon and cannot be kept for a long time. It is better to make them directly into potato flour and sweet potato flour. When you want to eat them later, you just need to soak them and you can cook a full bowl.
Qin Suyun planned to use the potato flour and sweet potato flour she made as everyone's daily wages, so everyone quickly got busy.
It rains every day now, and the seedlings in the fields have just been planted. There is really too little for everyone to do. They can only go to the fields twice a day to tend to the seedlings, press down stones, insert fixed branches, etc., and stay at home to rest for the rest of the time. This is how they spend their time resting. It would be better to help others and earn some food.
Mother and Father Qiu worked much harder than Lu Liqing and the others. They lived in someone else's house, and their daily food was provided by their son-in-law, which really made Mother and Father Qiu feel a little embarrassed. Although everyone knew each other well and Cui Wen was going to marry his daughter soon, the couple and their daughter had hands and feet, and they did not follow Cui Wen here to eat the child for the rest of her life.
While it was raining outside, Qin Suyun carried out baskets of sweet potatoes and potatoes that she had dug out from home and placed them in the rain to let the rain that never stopped day and night wash away the dirt on the sweet potatoes and potatoes. The cement floor in Qin Suyun's yard, which had been damaged by weeds and shrubs, was re-pasted with cement during the days when the diligent He Zhennan and others were weeding in the village.
Now the potatoes and sweet potatoes are spread on the cement floor and left to be washed by the rain. After about two or three hours, the skins of the potatoes and sweet potatoes will be washed clean. Then they can be washed with clean water, peeled, cut into pieces, and thrown into the grinder.
Qin Suyun bought the stainless steel grinder intending to use it to make tofu, but now she is using it to process potatoes and sweet potatoes before the tofu is even made.
This pulping machine is relatively large, and it is very simple and quick to use it to make sweet potato and potato cubes. The pulp and residue are automatically separated, which saves Qin Suyun and others a lot of effort.
However, the subsequent production of sweet potato flour and potato flour is more troublesome. Without professional sweet potato flour and potato flour making machines, Qin Suyun and others can only use the simplest manual method to make these sweet potato flour and potato flour.
The sweet potato pulp and potato pulp are precipitated, and then sweet potato flour is made, which is then dried to make sweet potato flour. If it weren't for the gasoline generator at home, Qin Suyun really wouldn't dare to make all the potatoes and sweet potatoes at home into sweet potato flour in such rainy weather.
Everyone at home was busy as a top. Every time Qiu Jiayue came down from upstairs and saw her parents busying around with the landlord she disliked, she always felt a little weird...
I was thinking that this was a nasty landlord and I didn't want to see her at all.
But then she thought about how she lay in bed every day, doing nothing, sleeping during the day and at night, and she was almost exhausted, while her parents were busy downstairs. Last night, Qiu Jiayue touched her mother's fingertips, and found that the skin on her fingertips was white because she was often soaked in water and in contact with these wet things. She felt very sorry for it.
So, with such a tangled mood, about three days later, Qiu Jiayue followed her parents to the first floor to work with everyone.
Qin Suyun was a little surprised at first, but soon she stopped going to see Qiu Jiayue. Whether she came or not, she had already discussed it with Qiu's father and mother.
The sweet potatoes at home were about 1200 kilograms each, which could yield 100 kilograms of dry sweet potato flour. The flour yield of potatoes was similar to that of sweet potatoes. Therefore, for every 100 kilograms of sweet potato flour produced, Qin Suyun would give 15 kilograms to the other party.
Although 15 kilograms may not seem like a lot, Qin Suyun is actually very generous. She is responsible for everything from planting to harvesting these potatoes and sweet potatoes. These potatoes and sweet potatoes were originally hers, and she also provided all the machines and oil and electricity in the house. The other party only provided the labor, and it was actually very cost-effective for her to get so much.
These potato flours and sweet potato flours taste much better than eating sweet potatoes and potatoes directly. Although you can still taste some astringency in them, they are hundreds of times better than those unprocessed raw materials.
If you cook these potato flour and sweet potato flour in a rich and sour and spicy broth, you can hardly taste the astringency in them.
The combination of the chewy, smooth texture and aroma of pure sweet potato noodles and the rich, sour and spicy broth that stimulates the taste buds makes almost everyone sweat.
But dried vegetables don't have such luck. After being dried in the dryer at home, they are still not much different from the original mutated vegetables when soaked in water. The taste is still the same, but extremely bad. If it weren't for the purpose of supplementing vitamins and fiber, I'm afraid few people would be willing to eat such food.
Father Qiu was inspired by the potato flour and sweet potato flour from Qin Suyun's family, so he discussed with Qin Suyun about further expanding the potato flour and sweet potato flour business.
He used the potato flour and sweet potato flour in his hands to exchange for fresh potatoes and sweet potatoes from others, and then used these potatoes and sweet potatoes to make potato flour and sweet potato flour again. He used one-third of these potato flour and sweet potato flour as the money to rent Qin Suyun's equipment and fuel, and then he continued to work with Qiu's mother Lu Liqing and others.
When Dongzi, He Zhennan and others are not going to the mountains to catch wild game every day, they will also help at home.
Qin Suyun didn't have any big objections to this. She had saved a lot of gasoline at home. Although grinding and drying consumed some electricity, the potato flour and sweet potato flour were enough to be used as compensation. The gasoline at home was originally intended for Qin Suyun to use for driving when she went out.
But nowadays, it is not easy to drive on the roads, let alone ride a bicycle.
The roads around are all bumpy, with shrubs, weeds and vines growing out of the originally compact asphalt and concrete roads. From time to time, the center of the highway is occupied by some towering trees. The trees and flowers that were originally planted on the road to beautify the environment and prevent soil erosion and landslides have all become roadblocks.
Unless you drive a tank, you really don't have the chance to drive this kind of car on the road again.
It was because Qin Suyun also figured this out that she was willing to exchange the gasoline at home for potato flour and sweet potato flour.
otherwise……
Qin Suyun would probably rather let all the potatoes and sweet potatoes in her home rot in the cellar than waste the gasoline.
After all, Qin Suyun could still grow potatoes and sweet potatoes if she lost them, but if the gasoline was gone, she couldn't find another place to make it grow again. Even if the jade pendant on her neck was upgraded, it wouldn't have such an effect.
However, Qin Suyun still had some thoughts about the amount of gasoline used, and she did not intend to reveal the total amount of gasoline in her home.
It has been raining day and night these days, and the solar generator at home has not been able to store much electricity for Qin Suyun. Qin Suyun calculated carefully and planned to wait for the other party to do business for ten days or so before telling the other party that there was not much gasoline at home.
However, unexpectedly, after only one week of running the sweet potato flour and potato flour business, Mr. Qiu stopped the business.
Only then did Qin Suyun discover that the three members of the Qiu family had actually taken advantage of this period of time to find a new place to live.
It turned out that when Qiu's father was harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes these days, he had become familiar with many families in the village. In addition, with the food, Qiu's father felt more confident. So he took the sweet potato flour and potato flour and went out to find someone to rent two rooms, one for Qiu's mother and Qiu Jiayue, and one for Qiu's father and Cui Wen.
When they learned about this, both Qin Suyun and Pang Xiong were slightly surprised.
Qin Suyun thought that after the incident with sweet potato flour and potato flour, Qiu Jiayue no longer wanted to move out of her house.
However, I didn't expect that the other party had even found a house and had been hiding it from everyone.
"Cui Wen, I said you were leaving, why didn't you tell me in advance? How could it be so sudden?!" Dongzi's face looked a little ugly. He and He Zhennan, Cui Wen and Pang Xiong were all friends who had been through life and death together. In the past, they had the best relationship in the army. Now that his brothers were leaving, he didn't even say a word. Isn't this a bit too much?
Cui Wen scratched his head with a wry smile, glanced at the three members of the Qiu family, then at his brother, who looked unhappy, before he sighed deeply and said, "Don't be angry. When we get back and settle down over there, I'll treat you to dry-pot rabbit meat! I'll personally apologize to you then!"
Cui Wen felt bitter in his heart. In fact, he only found out this morning that the three members of the Qiu family were moving.
Neither Mr. and Mrs. Qiu nor Qiu Jiayue had any strict requirements for him to move with them, but as a man, he couldn't let the three members of the Qiu family live alone without any protection.
As a soldier, he has some ability to protect himself. No matter what, he is much better than the three members of the Qiu family who are powerless.
What's more, Qiu Jiayue is his fiancée...
But Cui Wen couldn't say this in public, in front of everyone else. He had to save his dignity and give face to Qiu's father. It was too embarrassing to say such a thing. He couldn't tell others that his father-in-law was wary of him. So, I only found out this morning, right?
"Forget it, what's there to apologize for? You just have to be careful when you go out... But we all live in the same village, Wanxi Village is not that big, and the fields we have reclaimed are in the same area. We have many opportunities to meet every day, so you don't have to take it too seriously." Pang Xiong seemed to have seen through something, patted his brother's shoulder, and comforted him.
"Okay, since we live close to each other anyway, we can get together again when we have the chance... Boss, I'll be leaving first." Cui Wen nodded at Pang Xiong, said hello to his boss, then took the suitcase from Qiu's mother, Qiu Jiayue, and carried his own things and left the Qin family.
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Qin Suyun did not feel much about the departure of Cui Wen and the three members of the Qiu family, but Lu Liqing was a little reluctant to see Qiu's mother leave.
Although Qiu Jiayue and Lu Liqing had argued, her mother was a good person, and Lu Liqing also felt that she was an elder. Therefore, after the incident, Lu Liqing no longer took it to heart. Every night when she rested in the bedroom, Lu Liqing would chat with her mother for a while.
Dongzi and He Zhennan were all men, and Lu Liqing, a middle-aged woman, didn't really enjoy chatting with these young men. Even with her own son, they had little to talk about. On weekdays, the person she could talk to the most was Qiu's mother.
Now that Qiu's mother has left, Lu Liqing has fewer people to chat with, so she often chats with Qin Suyun at home every day, talking about what happens every day. As a result, her relationship with Qin Suyun has become better.
Dongzi and Pang Xiong were a little more cautious and didn't notice anything.
Qin Suyun did discover this, but she had no intention of speaking out. After all, not everyone is willing to spend every day with cats and dogs like her, and not want to go out and find friends.
Qin Suyun felt a little sad about this, so when chatting, she would often ask Lu Liqing to interact with other people of the same age in the village.
Lu Liqing is a warm-hearted person. After spending a long time in the village and getting familiar with other people, she has made a few more friends in the village to chat and do farm work with. Sometimes when she has nothing to do, Lu Liqing will go to Qiu's mother's house to sit down.
The three members of the Qiu family and Cui Wen rented a house in a house named Dai at the east end of the village. There were not many people living in the house, but there were not too few either. The Dai family originally had more than a dozen people, big and small. However, the two brothers of the Dai family took their wives to work outside the house to earn living expenses and tuition for their children. Unexpectedly, they never came back after the earthquake.
As a result, the Dai family was left with only an elderly couple and five young children. The oldest of these five children was only 14 years old. Their living burden was heavy.
The Dai family had no other relatives in Wanxi Village, so not many people went to stay with them, and those who did would give them food. Originally, the bedrooms of the two Dai brothers were not rented out, as the old man and the old woman planned to leave the last memories of their father to their five grandchildren.
However, life was too difficult, and the old man and woman wanted to give their five grandchildren some delicious food. Coincidentally, Mr. Qiu was quite generous, so after a few talks, the other party agreed to let the three members of the Qiu family and Cui Wen live in their home.
However, after Qiu Jiayue left the Qin family, her life was not much happier than that of the Qin family.
Qin Suyun's house had electricity, so although she couldn't watch TV, she could still charge her phone and read novels. Qiu Jiayue's phone had run out of battery before she came, but it was the latest and most expensive model, and she hadn't used it for a few days, so she felt reluctant to just throw it away.
Therefore, Qiu Jiayue always carried it with her as a reminder. After arriving at Qin Suyun's house, Qiu Jiayue began to play mobile games and read novels.
But the Dai family...
But there was nothing.
Even every time Cui Wen came back from hunting wild rabbits and pheasants and ate the meat, the children of the Dai family would look at their house with longing eyes. Those children usually crawled around in the mountains, and their bodies were covered in black and dirty. This made Qiu Jiayue, who was used to a clean life, extremely uncomfortable.
After her mother distributed the cooked meat to the other family's children, the other family's children would come here on time every time when cooking.
The three children from the other two families living next to the Dai family followed suit and came over.
In the first few days, Qiu Jiayue could still bear it, but as time went on, Qiu Jiayue could no longer bear it.
Food is plentiful now, although not as scarce as it was during the snowstorms. However, not every family can afford to eat meat every day. It's okay once or twice, but if it happens every time, and Qiu Jiayue has to give most of the food away before it's even served, she explodes.
One day, after Qiu's mother finished cooking, Qiu Jiayue brought all the food directly into her room and locked the door. But not long after, the sound of little hands knocking on the door was heard outside.
Although Mother Qiu had a good temper, she was a little unhappy that eight children came to her house to eat meat. She didn't refuse them these days because she couldn't save face.
Now that her daughter had brought the food into her room, Mother Qiu didn't intend to tolerate it any longer, so she didn't open the door.
However, just when the three members of the Qiu family and Cui Wenyi thought that the eight children would leave after meeting them and would not come again, a middle-aged woman's sharp cursing voice was heard outside, and her tone was full of disdain and resentment towards the three members of the Qiu family.
"Hey, some families eat meat every day, so what if they let a few kids have a taste? Do you think having two mouthfuls of sparrow meat is a big deal?! You even closed the door for a meal, do you really think other people have never seen anything good? Bah! Only people like your family who have never seen the world and are blind would put two mouthfuls of meat in their eyes! You even refused to let the kids have a taste, you are really cruel! Don't you think that this meat was caught in the back mountain of our Wanxi Village! In the past, it was all collective! Stealing collective things and keeping them privately should be thrown into the pig cage!"
It turned out that after seeing Qiu Jiayue bring the prepared food directly into her room without even looking at them, the five children of the Dai family left directly without following them to the Qiu family's door. However, the two children of the other two families were obviously not so sensible. Not only did they knock on the door, but when they found that the door could not be opened, they went home and complained to the adults!
Among these two families, one was originally from the village, and the other was an immigrant from Yunhai City.
The ones who directly cursed the Qiu family this time were the family that originally came from Yunhai City!
The other family's wife had a hot temper and was merciless when she scolded people. Qiu's father and mother looked grim, and Qiu Jiayue's face was as red as the bottom of a pot, her lips tightly pursed, and she was furious.
All four people at the table put down their chopsticks.
Cui Wen frowned, stood up suddenly, pulled out the chair beside him, and opened the door with a bang.
The door slammed loudly, startling the middle-aged woman who was cursing outside. However, when she saw that a young man came out of the door, she was no longer afraid. Instead, she puffed out her chest and said smugly, "What?! You, a man, still want to hit a woman?! I'm telling you, if you dare to hit me, I will directly help you spread the word throughout the village! I heard that the rules of Wanxi Village don't allow men to take women away casually!"
Cui Wen glanced at the middle-aged woman, without saying much, and walked past her.
Just when the middle-aged woman thought that the young man in front of her had surrendered and was feeling smug, she saw him rush directly into their house and pull out a dagger from his leg.
The cold knife only appeared for a moment, and the middle-aged woman immediately saw the knife in Cui Wen's hand.
With a scream, he suddenly ignored everything and rushed straight into his room!
Is this guy a fucking lunatic?! I just yelled at him a few times, and he's trying to kill my whole family!
Seeing the man rushing towards her house with such a fierce attitude, and thinking about the two children left in her house and her frail man, the fat woman shuddered and shouted, "What are you doing? What are you doing? Are you going to kill someone?! Someone, someone is going to kill someone!"
The three members of the Qiu family in the room were also startled. They quickly put down their bowls and chopsticks and rushed into the middle-aged woman's room.
Fortunately, Cui Wen did not really intend to take action. He just punched the thin man, then waved the knife at him and warned him that he would never allow his children to come to the Qiu family at will again. Then he took back his dagger.
Only after the middle-aged woman and the thin man nodded in assurance did Cui Wen let them go.
Knowing that Cui Wen was not someone to be trifled with, neither the Dai family nor the children from the other two families came to ask for food again. Every time they saw them appear, there was a hint of vigilance in their eyes.
Qiu Jiayue felt that life in this environment was really not easy. Being neighbors with such people would be worse than living in the Qin family in the first place...
But now, Qiu Jiayue really didn't have the face to go back. She just wanted to wait until the rain stopped for a while and they built their own house before leaving here...
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