Chapter 915 Changes in
Shanghe Village After half a month of construction, Shanghe Village has begun to see results.
The windmill in the village has finally been built. With this mill, the local eating habits can be changed. The oil press with a waterwheel by the river has also been built, but no one comes here to press oil yet. The new immigrants have not yet harvested peanuts and soybeans, and the local villagers who have soybeans stored at home are not used to eating soybean oil for the time being.
Shan Peng found a stable source of clay, which is a small pond formed naturally outside the village. With this stable supply of clay, he built a ceramic kiln in his own yard. It is best to use white kaolin to burn porcelain, which is more convenient for glazing and painting on the surface, but it is not necessary to be particularly particular about making some earthenware ceramics and burning a few pots, bowls, etc.
Recently, Shan Peng's family has a good business. He asked the village carpenter Lu Jianan to build him a foot-operated embryo-pulling machine. As long as you step on the pedal back and forth with your feet, the round operating table on the embryo-pulling machine can rotate, making it convenient for the potter to shape the clay on it.
Shan Peng's family currently has two types of pottery that are the best. One is the jars of various sizes for pickling kimchi, and the other is the basin for kneading noodles.
The local villagers didn't need this before, but now there is a mill, and the immigrants from the Han tribe have learned how to cook in a big pot and eat pancakes on the side of the pot. Therefore, the basin for kneading noodles has become popular and has become an indispensable daily necessity for every household.
As soon as corn cakes appeared in Shanghe Village, they were well received by the local people. The villagers who were used to drinking corn porridge had this satisfying feeling of fullness for the first time. The key is that it can resist hunger, and the taste of the pancakes can also be accepted by the public, so it spread quickly in the village.
In the past, drinking porridge was purely forced, and eating boiled corn directly was because they were used to it since childhood. Otherwise, a person who eats fine grains every day would definitely have acid reflux and vomit acid water if he gnawed a few corns.
But compared with dry food, porridge is not enough to satisfy your hunger. I felt really full and couldn't drink it anymore. But after peeing twice, what was left in my stomach?
Dry food is different. Although it is still corn, it is not easy to digest when it is made into cakes and stuffed into the stomach. It is naturally more resistant to hunger if it is digested slowly. You don't feel tired after working for a whole morning. You can even make more cakes and carry them with you. If you go out to chop wood or get tired from farm work, you can take out a cake and eat it to replenish your energy.
They didn't even dare to think about this before. The dry food of the people on Zhudao Island might be a few dried corn cobs with them. When they were hungry, they would light a bonfire and sit down to roast corn cobs. They couldn't carry much and they didn't satisfy their hunger.
In order to make the local people cooperate with the Han tribe to register as equals, all of them were given benefits. As long as they were willing to register and accept the management of the government, they were given a big iron pot. Now this iron pot is useful.
The most popular food in the village now is fish stewed in an iron pot, and corn cakes are placed on the edge of the pot.
The people in Shanghe Village are very good at fishing. Whether they use a bamboo pole to cut a harpoon to pierce the fish or use a bamboo basket to make a trap to catch fish, it is very effective. I don’t know if there are too many fish in this era or what. At present, before the rabbits in the village grow up, the fish in the river have temporarily become the main source of meat on the villagers’ table.
Similarly, because of the appearance of corn cakes, Xie Li’s tofu has finally been sold in the village.
Soybeans are not even considered supplementary food, but only a kind of coarse grain. In the past, the people of Zhudao planted soybeans because they have the ability to fertilize the land and can increase corn production by rotating with corn, and secondly, they eat it as a meal.
After all, eating corn every day is not a big deal. It is also very good to drink two bowls of bean porridge occasionally to change the taste. The local people have not even studied the simple way of eating beans, and the application methods of soybeans are extremely poor.
But now it is different. The appearance of Xie Li has turned the inconspicuous soybeans into a variety of delicious foods. In the past, because they drank porridge every day, it was a bit out of place with the eating habits of the Han tribe, so the people were not very interested.
Now they also started to eat pancakes. After eating dry food, they also learned how to cook and stew meat. They also hoped to have a bowl of soup after eating pancakes. In addition, the villagers were good at fishing. Xie Li, as the most knowledgeable chef among the ten immigrants, took the opportunity to launch the fish head tofu soup.
There is no need for too many ingredients. Just stew the tofu and fish together and sprinkle some salt. The deliciousness of the fish and the fragrance of the tofu can be perfectly displayed.
Eating fish and tofu, eating with pancakes, and filling the seams with a bowl of fish soup after eating, everyone will give a thumbs up and say "It's beautiful, very beautiful".
Also because of the three meals of dry food a day, Xie Li's tofu brain was also sold. In order to promote his own tofu brain, Xie Li specifically contacted Tianqiao and asked when the county would have sugar for sale?
Similar news gradually gathered on Tiezhen's desk. He didn't look at it much. He directly made a list of things that immigrants from all over the country needed, and then sent it to Takumi County to ask if there was any way to get it. They would pay for it.
Of course, Takumi County has no problem with this situation, and they are even happy about it. They may not be able to satisfy other needs, but they must have sugar.
Because the Tang tribe and their Takumi County both grow a lot of sweet sorghum, and every harvest season is a crushing season. The two places produce a lot of sugar, but the local people have limited consumption capacity for sugar. If it weren't for the fact that sugar has almost no shelf life and can be stored indefinitely, I'm afraid Takumi County would have gone crazy.
Now that there is a new dumping site, Takumi County sent two ships of brown sugar without saying a word, telling them that they can store it and sell it slowly. In fact, Dashu doesn't even care about such a small matter. He still has many big things to do. For a small matter like selling sugar, at most he would listen to his subordinates' reports, then nod and say "I know", that's all.
After Xie Li got enough sugar, his tofu pudding became popular. The pancakes were delicious and filling, but relatively dry. A bowl of brown sugar water tofu pudding was a great snack.
In addition, there were almost no sweets to enjoy in the village, so this brown sugar tofu pudding even became a snack dessert that adults and children in the village loved very much.
Many people also complained that this brown sugar tofu pudding was much more delicious than the white tofu they were treated to that day.
The emergence of various new things allowed the villagers to have more exchanges with the ten new immigrants, just like Guan Tao's youngest daughter, who was only twelve years old now, but because she wanted to learn the breeding technology of the Han tribe, she often ran to the immigrants' homes. Naturally, she inevitably saw and heard a lot of new things from the immigrants' homes. Seeing
his daughter shyly running out, Guan Tao smiled and shook his head, and also got off the bamboo house and followed behind. As a result, he found that the child had indeed gone to the Ren brothers' house again, lying outside the Ren family's rabbit pen and watching, while Ren Zuo was chatting with his daughter, and no one knew what they were talking about.
The Ren family got a total of ten big rabbits, four of which were male and six were female. Usually, the males and females were raised separately to prevent the male rabbits from going into heat and killing the newly born rabbits.
After these rabbits settled down in the new place, they quickly reproduced the first generation. Five of the six female rabbits were pregnant, and finally a total of 34 rabbits were born. The situation was similar in the other immigrant families.
The local villagers saw it with their eyes and were happy in their hearts. They really didn't expect that these rabbits could give birth so fertile. If more than 30 rabbits grew up and gave birth in this way, wouldn't they give birth to 1,800 rabbits at once? ! Good guy
, it seems that what the people of the Han tribe said, that as long as you raise rabbits, you will never lack meat in the future, seems to be true.
"Brother Ren Zuo, can this snow rabbit give birth to a litter in two months?" Guan Tao's daughter Guan Qing asked curiously.
"That's right, so when the rabbits grow up, you have to eat them quickly. If you don't eat them in time, there will be too many rabbits running around.
But it doesn't matter if you can't eat them. We are popular with sausages over there. Rabbits have a lot of intestines. When the time comes, we can directly pack the rabbit meat with the intestines and smoke it into bacon, which can be stored for two more years." Ren Zuo introduced the situation.
Guan Qing laughed after hearing this, and couldn't help but envy, "It's really good over there in the Han tribe. You live in beautiful houses, grow delicious food, and have endless meat. Life over there is so comfortable."
"Hehe, it's nothing. When our rice is planted and the livestock are raised, we can still live a good life. By then, we can save some money, build a new tile house, and make a big yard." Ren Zuo said with anticipation of future life.
Guan Qing blushed slightly after hearing this. She asked tentatively, "Brother Ren Zuo, when you get your ID card, will you marry a woman from here?"
Ren Zuo nodded seriously and said, "When I get this ID card, I guess the household registration on it will be changed to here. Of course I will marry a woman from here. Besides, I don't know anyone from other places."
Guan Qing blushed even more after hearing this. However, Ren Zuo didn't think that Guan Qing was hinting at him. This straight guy thought the girl was just chatting with him.
At this time, Guan Tao also appeared and walked into the gate of Ren's house. Ren Zong was making a sickle in the blacksmith shop in the yard. This sickle will be used to harvest rice in the future. Although it has not been planted yet, it must be prepared in advance. When the harvest comes, at least one family must prepare two or three sickles. There is a big shortage of sickles in the village.
Seeing Guan Tao coming in, Ren Zong did not stop what he was doing, but looked up at him, his hands still working, and he greeted him, "It turns out that it is Brother Guan who is here. Come and sit down. There is sugar water on the table in the yard. Pour it yourself and drink it. Don't be polite."
"Okay, okay, you go ahead and do your work. I won't be polite with you." Guan Tao responded, and then he moved a small stool to sit next to the table, took a tea bowl and poured a cup of sugar water to drink.
Guan Qing, who was chatting with Ren Zuo in the yard, also saw her father coming over. She said shyly, "Dad, why are you here?" Guan Qing thought her father was really here to arrange a marriage for her.
"What's the matter? You are allowed to come, but Dad is not allowed to come over to visit? Ren Zuo, I heard from my daughter that you have an album that is the same as the photo on the ID card. Can I take a look?" Guan Tao poked his daughter's forehead and said.
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