Chapter 84 Niuniu is missing
Sugarcane produces a particularly large amount of sugar. Fifteen pounds of sugarcane can produce one pound of brown sugar. The production process is simple and does not require complicated equipment.
Lu Zhifeng cut a large bundle in one breath, weighing about 100 pounds. According to the ratio, it can be used to make 10 pounds of brown sugar. Even if it is filtered and purified into white sugar, it will still be 7 or 8 pounds.
When Jiang Chengwu was young, he also planted sugarcane and made sugar for everyone to eat as a snack. Seeing this bundle of sugarcane, he smiled and asked, "Is this all the wild sugarcane?"
These sugarcanes are a variety of green sugarcane, thin and long. They don’t look very sweet, but when you tear them open and take a bite, you’ll find they are quite sugary.
Lu Zhifeng smiled brightly, "Also, still more, I can probably cut a few more bundles."
Eat sugar sparingly, there is enough sugar for everyone for a year.
Jiang Chengwu immediately said, "We'll go with you. While the weather is good, we'll harvest them all."
Jiang Si also wanted to go, but Shen Baoying said, "Just let your father and your grandfather go."
Anyway, the island is not big, so if there is any danger, just shout. Jiang Si nodded and stayed.
Qin Shen also stayed to help them and do the physical work.
To make white sugar, sugarcane needs to be squeezed into sugarcane juice. In ancient times, millstones were used. There is a large juicer in Jiang Si's space for this purpose.
She took it out from the space, and Shen Baoying in the kitchen was shocked, “You just conjured it up casually, what if Xiao Shen found out?”
Jiang Si coughed lightly and said, "Don't be afraid, just say you found it in the warehouse."
Shen Baoying suddenly realized and started using the juicer with peace of mind.
Eating sugarcane raw and drinking sugarcane juice are two completely different feelings. Niu Niu likes drinking sugarcane juice, while Jiang Si prefers the pleasure of biting sugarcane bite by bite.
Two large buckets of sugarcane juice need to be boiled in a pot.
As soon as Shen Baoying picked up the wooden ladle, Qin Shen asked, "Are you going to pour it into the pot?"
Shen Baoying nodded, and Qin Shen easily picked up the sugarcane juice in the wooden barrel and poured it into the pot.
The strong waist made Shen Baoying's eyes light up and blurted out: "Good waist!"
Jiang Si chuckled, causing Qin Shen to look at her several times.
Jiang Si covered his mouth and lowered his head guiltily. It was indeed a good waist...well.
As the syrup was being boiled, bubbles of impurities gradually floated up. Shen Baoying said to Niuniu, "This foam really affects the taste of the sugar. We can skim it off with a wooden spoon."
Niu Niu nodded obediently and took it seriously, because Lu Zhifeng told her that these were survival skills that must be mastered in the end times.
The water in the pot continues to evaporate until it becomes thick.
Shen Baoyingcai dipped some brown sugar into cold water and said, "Look, after immersing it in cold water, the brown sugar immediately solidifies into lumps. You can then take it out of the pot and put it in a bowl."
Niuniu looked at the slightly dark brown sugar and asked doubtfully, “Auntie Shen, don’t we make white sugar?”
Shen Baoying smiled and said, “If you want to learn how to make white sugar, wait until your dad and the others come back and your aunt will teach you.”
While all the brown sugar was being scooped up and cooled, Jiang Linhai and his team came back. In order to have sugarcane to eat in the future, Jiang Linhai and his team specially picked some better sugarcane to save for seeds.
Seeing the brown sugar cooling in the pot, everyone praised it. Shen Baoying led everyone to work again, and it was not until dark that all the sugarcane was processed into brown sugar.
It could have been faster, but the kitchen didn't have a pot that big.
The first batch of brown sugar has cooled completely.
Shen Baoying used the cooled brown sugar to teach Niuniu how to make white sugar. In fact, the process is very simple and only requires some activated carbon.
Niuniu looked puzzled: "Use charcoal?"
"Well, this is based on the extraction of brown sugar. If we extract white sugar directly, it will be a little more complicated."
"But it's late today, let's just learn this first."
Niuniu's face was full of admiration, "Aunt Chen, you know so much."
Shen Baoying laughed, "I was just messing around at home with nothing to do."
Add water to brown sugar, light it on fire to melt it, then add activated carbon in an appropriate proportion, filter out the turbid liquid with gauze while it is still hot, and you will get a colorless liquid.
Then transfer it to a steamer, steam out a quarter of the solution, take it out and let it cool naturally, and you will get white sugar.
Although the process is simple, it takes a long time and requires patience.
It was not until the next morning that everyone saw that the crystal clear white sugar had been successfully solidified.
Chen Baoying used fresh white sugar to make sweet and sour fish. Lu Zhifeng took out the trap he had set yesterday and caught two rabbits and mice today. Chen Baoying skinned them and made pineapple sweet and sour pork.
Winter is coming soon. Although the sun is still shining on the island, the temperature has dropped a lot.
It will be very cold on the ship during the winter, and maintaining the temperature in the cabin will consume even greater amounts of fuel.
After finding a water source on the island, everyone thought about building a small house for the winter before winter came.
Burning a kang like in Northeast China is both warm and saves materials.
Jiang Linhai is a construction contractor, and he is best at repairing houses. He can tell how to repair the house after just a few glances at the drawings drawn by Jiang Si, and he also knows how to make materials on the island.
Jiang Linhai said to Jiang Si, "It's too much work for such a small group of us to mine the stones on the island. There are a lot of discarded bricks and stones in the small fishing village that can be used. We can just pick them up and use them."
There are building materials in Jiang Si's space, but not many. If he has to move out of the temporary residence built on the island, he will have no use for them in the future.
Jiang Si agreed with Jiang Linhai's suggestion and took everyone back to the small fishing village to pick up bricks and stones with a wheelbarrow.
After several trucks of bricks and stones were delivered to the yacht, a dozen people suddenly appeared in the small fishing village.
Qin Shen smelled a familiar scent from five of these dozen people. They were the ones who had tried to rob their yacht before.
Jiang Si quickly asked everyone to get on the yacht.
As soon as the yacht started, the dozen or so people chased to the shore, and five of them were holding guns and shouting at Jiang Si and the others: "Get off the boat! Get off the boat quickly!"
How could Jiang Si get off the boat? Instead, he drove the boat away very fast.
The people on the shore were furious and shot at them without hesitation.
Jiang Linhai frowned and asked Jiang Si: "Can we fight back?"
Jiang Si shook his head: "Forget it, to avoid trouble."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Zhifeng suddenly rushed up to them and asked anxiously: "Have you seen Niuniu? Niuniu is gone!"
"Niuniu is missing? Wasn't she on the boat just now?" Shen Baoying said in shock.
Lu Zhifeng said angrily, "I searched the entire ship but couldn't find her. Did she get off the ship and not come back?"
Shen Baoying was responsible for taking care of Niuniu. Since Niuniu was missing, she felt a great sense of responsibility. She immediately thought, "Niuniu said she found a sugarcane field. Could she have gone to cut sugarcane?"
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