Visiting Qingping Mountain? Being a guest or a hostage?
Guo Tong took a step back in fear. "No, no need to be polite. Forget about being my guest!"
Kang Yueran also realized that what he said was ambiguous, "Uh... Thank you, Master Guo!"
Kang Yueran stayed at home for one night and returned to the village early in the morning.
She handed the title deed to Mao Jian and let him handle the matter with full authority.
It's almost June now, and planting sweet potatoes is already two months later than normal. This year's sweet potato harvest will definitely be lower, but planting is better than not planting at all.
Kaoshan Village has also experienced floods. After the floods, all the topsoil on the land that is most suitable for farming will be washed away, exposing the cold soil underneath that is not suitable for farming. Bacteria will also be left behind, which will greatly reduce crop yields. It will take three or four years to recover.
There are also ways to improve cold soil. First, plow the land deeply to make it soft, sprinkle lime powder and plow it deeply again, then sprinkle wood ash and plow it deeply again to kill the bacteria in the soil. Then dry it in the sun for two days before plowing.
Kang Yueran went to see the sandy field. The sandy field was closer to Changming County and was not affected by the flood, but the heavy rain also caused damage to the sandy field.
Anyway, there are many victims of the disaster and it is easy to find manpower. Kang Yueran asked Mao Jian to hire more people and plow all the fields deep three times so that the sweet potatoes can be planted as quickly as possible.
She bought sweet potato seedlings directly from the space, and before planting them, she soaked them in spiritual spring water.
Mao Jian didn't know about sweet potatoes, but he knew Kang Yueran attached great importance to these seedlings. He not only hired disaster victims, but also some villagers, and in just eight days, all the sweet potato seedlings were planted.
After the sweet potatoes were planted, Mao Jian returned to Kaoshan Village and started building a house again.
Xu Jiushi has been very busy recently. Many corpses on Mount Paektu have begun to rot. Rotten corpses are most likely to cause plague. Xu Jiushi decided to burn all the corpses on the spot.
He also handled matters within the village well. He ordered everyone not to drink raw water and assigned several cooks to boil water day and night. He had also studied medicine with Xu Chang since childhood, so he was very attentive to epidemic prevention.
After hearing this, Kang Yueran praised Xu Jiushi highly.
Everyone else was busy, so Kang Yueran felt embarrassed to sit idle. She called three cooks and Niu Dayan's wife Liu Xiaocao, and asked Liu Xiaocao to find seven skilled women from the back mountain to cook together in her yard.
The cook, Meihua, knew how to make tofu, so Kang Yueran asked her to make it once and teach the others. After the soy milk boiled, Kang Yueran taught Meihua to scoop out a few pieces of oil skin and hang them in the yard to dry in the sun.
The cook named Li Li can make snacks. Kang Yueran asked her to do it and taught them how to make shaqi ma.
The method of making Shaqima is very simple. Add water, eggs and old dough to flour. After fermentation, it becomes dough, cut into short and thin strips, fry until golden brown, and put it into a ceramic bowl.
Pour water into the pot, add maltose, stir evenly after heating, pour into a ceramic bowl, mix with fried noodles and sesame seeds, finally pour into a mold and compact it, cut into small pieces after cooling.
It was the first time for everyone to see something like this. After tasting it, they all applauded and asked Kang Yueran what it was called.
Shaqima doesn't fit the naming style of this era. Kang Yueran thought for a moment and said, "The fried dough looks like gold, so let's call it Golden Cake."
Li Li had two dimples when she smiled. "What a good name!"
"In addition to the golden cake, I also soaked mung beans and red beans last night. We can make mung bean cakes, red bean cakes, and egg yolk cakes."
The methods of making these three kinds of cakes are similar.
Li Li asked, "I know how to make red bean cakes and mung bean cakes, but how do you make egg yolk cakes? Should I use cooked or raw egg yolks?"
Kang Yueran smiled and said, "It's raw, but it's salted egg yolk. I'll teach you how to make salted egg yolk first."
Mix flour and salt evenly to make salt flour. Take a square mold, pour half of the salt flour into it and spread it flat. Place one end of the egg on the salt flour to make a hole. Repeat this process until all the holes are made on the mold.
Crack all 30 eggs into a ceramic bowl. Use a spoon or your hands to scoop out the egg yolks one by one and place them in the hollows. Then carefully cover the egg yolks with the remaining half of the salt and flour.
The remaining egg whites can be fried or used to make other pastries.
After two days, take out the egg yolk and it will become hard. Wash off the salt and flour on the surface and it will be the egg yolk for making snacks.
Kang Yueran was talking while Li Li was doing it, and the others were watching and learning.
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