Let's get right to it.
After telling Ji Ying, Song Xia instructed Fang Zheng and the others to stop collecting sweet potatoes and start collecting mung beans instead.
About five pounds of mung beans yield one pound of vermicelli.
However, mung beans do not have the same yield as sweet potatoes.
The price is considerably higher.
It generally costs six coins per pound.
Some are even more expensive.
Song Xia instructed Fang Zheng and his men to buy up everything sold in the various shops, and then to collect more goods from the villages.
She also asked Ji Ying to send someone to help collect it.
The first batch of mung beans has arrived.
Song Xia didn't have the workshop workers make it for the time being. Firstly, she planned to make it herself and then teach them, and secondly, there were still quite a few sweet potatoes left in the workshop that hadn't been made into noodles yet.
Twenty catties of mung beans were weighed and poured into a vat.
Song Xia went to the kitchen and brought out two buckets of water, one bucket of cold water and one bucket of hot water.
Use a 1:2 ratio of cold water to hot water.
Song Xia poured some in, then quickly stirred it with the prepared wooden stick to break down the waxy coating on the mung bean skins. The temperature is very important in making this.
They don't have thermometers here, but Song Xia Space Supermarket has one in its backyard.
Take it out.
Song Xia took a temperature and found it was above 35 degrees Celsius, so she sat down and waited.
Wait until the temperature drops to 35 degrees Celsius.
Song Xia covered it and placed it in a corner to rest.
It needs to stand for a long time.
It will take a full four hours.
Song Xia started letting the mung beans sit in the morning. She calculated the time and didn't check on them until dark. When she saw that the mung beans had sat for a while, she quickly scooped them out to drain the water.
At this moment, Fang Xiu and the others came over.
Song Chun asked, "Second Sister, is there anything we can do for you?"
"Wash the mung beans."
Song Xia assigned the task of washing the mung beans to them.
She went to the side and poured herself a bowl of water to drink.
While washing the mung beans, Song Qiu asked Song Xia, "Second Sister, what do we do after washing the mung beans?"
Upon hearing this...
Song Xia replied, "After washing them clean, pour them back into the jar. Remember to clean the jar thoroughly before doing so. After pouring the mung beans into the jar, add clean water, then stir them evenly with a stick. Let them sit for half a day until the mung beans swell up, then drain and rinse them. Next, grind the mung beans with a stone mill, squeeze out the impurities, and let them settle in a clean place. The rest is similar to making sweet potato noodles, so I won't go into details. Just make mung bean noodles the same way you make sweet potato noodles..."
The sweet potato noodles they make are all brownish in color.
Mung bean vermicelli is white when it is made.
Place them on a wooden rack to dry.
Crystal clear and snow-white, with excellent elasticity.
Song Laosi and the others were all amazed.
Upon seeing the mung bean vermicelli, Ji Ying looked incredulous: "Song Xia, is this really made from mung beans? I thought it would be green."
Song Xia smiled and said, "It's normal for you to think that way, but it is white."
Mung beans are more expensive than sweet potatoes.
Song Xia sold it to Ji Ying for 100 coins per catty, and Ji Ying had no objection at all.
He believed that this type of noodle would sell better than sweet potato noodles.
With the sweet potato flour from before.
Song Lao Er and his friends found making this mung bean vermicelli not difficult at all. After they finished making it, they were all incredulous. They couldn't believe that it turned out to be white.
Seeing how successful Song Xia's family business was, and how they even came up with mung bean vermicelli, Song Youdi was incredibly envious and jealous.
Suddenly an idea popped into her head.
After Song Lao Er returned.
Song Youdi pulled him aside to talk: "Dad, I have something to tell you. What do you, Mom, and eldest sister do in the workshop? Do you know how sweet potato noodles and mung bean noodles are made?"
Why are you asking these questions?
Song Lao Er frowned unhappily.
Song Youdi said, "Father, don't worry about why I'm asking these questions. Just answer my question first."
Song Lao Er answered her.
“When making sweet potato noodles, your mother and your eldest sister usually peeled and rubbed the sweet potatoes, while I, besides carrying the sweet potatoes, also filtered the juice. I heard that making mung bean noodles is similar. Everyone has different responsibilities, so how would I know the specifics of how it's done?”
so.
Song Youdi narrowed his eyes and said, "Dad, if we poach the people from the other processes, can't we also make sweet potato noodles and mung bean noodles to sell?"
If they sell it for a lower price than theirs, it will definitely sell better.
At that time.
Didn't Ji Hao and the others start to treat their family differently?
Song Lao Er glared at him.
“What are you thinking! We’ve all signed the documents. As long as there are no major health problems and nothing unusual happens, we’re not allowed to leave this workshop for five years. During this time, no one is allowed to tell anyone, or we’ll be held responsible and reported to the authorities.”
"Also, don't you know how painful it is for Song Xia to hit someone?"
“She knows more people than we do, I wouldn’t dare.”
Song Youdi originally thought her father would agree, but she didn't expect him to be so cowardly. So she went to find Song Laosan, but he, like Song Laoer, had no intention of going it alone.
They didn't have any, let alone the rest of the village.
After all, doing business always involves risks and requires a significant amount of capital.
Compared to making it yourself and selling it yourself.
They would rather take the wages and work for Song Xia and the others.
The next day.
Someone then told Song Xia about what Song Youdi had done.
Before Song Xia could say anything...
Song Lao Er took the initiative to approach her and said that they would marry off Song Youdi in a few days.
But unexpectedly.
Song Youdi ran away secretly after only two days.
She had been away for a few days, intending to collaborate with Ji Ying. However, when she arrived at Shengyuan Casino, she saw him chatting and laughing with Song Xia, and the idea that had just begun to surface immediately subsided.
Not long after, she approached the young owner of another gambling den.
Isn't it said that competitors are enemies?
She didn't believe that he and Ji Ying could be friends.
As it turns out.
She was right.
However, she couldn't explain the specific methods for making sweet potato noodles and mung bean noodles, so the other person had to find another way.
Song Xia had long been wary of Song Youdi.
therefore.
After she ran away, Song Xia found Ji Ying and asked him to secretly send people to keep an eye on her in town.
Therefore, Ji Ying knows where Song Youdi is now.
I guessed what she was planning to do.
Ji Ying told Song Xia.
Song Xia didn't instruct him to take action against the young master of the other gambling den, but only to arrange for some people to lie in ambush throughout their village. She believed they would make a move soon.
As expected.
The young owner of another gambling den sent men to attack some villagers in Peach Blossom Village at night, intending to use their family members to blackmail them into revealing the recipes for sweet potato noodles and mung bean noodles.
With the help of Ji Ying's men, those people were surrounded as soon as they made a move, and then the villagers were all called up to arrest them.
As soon as it got light.
They took these people to the yamen (government office).
When Yan Jinling arrived at the yamen to work, he saw Song Xia and his men escorting a group of people to their yamen.
What's going on?
Yan Jinling stepped forward and asked Song Xia, "Miss Song Xia, what's going on here?"
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