Chapter 32 Fine Powder
Five days later, Wei Jing's new house was officially completed, and Zhang Yufang and Wei Jing moved in.
Before leaving, Zhang Yufang gave Lin Wu three taels of silver and officially bought their land.
Originally, Lin Wu refused to accept it, but Zhang Yufang said that their family was rich now and brothers should settle accounts clearly, so the money had to be given.
In the end, Lin Wu accepted it.
As Wei Jing and Zhang Yufang moved out, Lin Wu's family started to get busy.
The sweet potatoes in the field are ripe.
The half acre of land of Lin Qian's family was watered with cold spring water. It took Lin Wu's family of four, plus Zhang Yufang and Wei Jing, a whole day to dig it out.
The yield of this half acre of sweet potatoes is actually more than that of a whole acre of others.
"Dawu, whose seeds did you plant when you were sowing seeds before? Why was the yield so high?" Lin Changcan asked in amazement as he looked at the sweet potatoes in the yard.
Lin Wu perfunctorily mentioned a newly opened store.
Lin Changcan said, "Then you must remember to buy seeds from them next time you want to sow seeds."
"good."
After digging up half an acre of sweet potatoes, it was Lin Changcan's turn to dig up his three acres of land. Several people stayed in the field for several days before digging them all out.
Even Meng Yi went down to the fields to help.
But he must have been a rich young man in the past, and he made a lot of jokes in the fields.
Looking at so many sweet potatoes, Zhao Xiu's hands suddenly started to itch. She privately discussed with Lin Wu, "Da Wu, there are so many sweet potatoes here. Why don't we make some sweet potato flour to eat? Don't you love it the most?"
When Lin Wu heard this, he immediately nodded.
Lin Qian's grandfather is a craftsman who makes fine rice noodle wrappers. He is quite famous in his hometown. People from ten miles around go to their village to buy them.
He did what he said. The next day, Lin Wu called on the whole family to start making fine noodles and rice paper.
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Why making such a fuss?" Zhang Yufang brought Wei Jing over for a visit and asked in confusion when she saw the mess in the yard.
Zhao Xiu said, "I need to make something delicious. I'm in need of help. You two can come and help me."
Zhang Yufang and Wei Jing immediately rolled up their sleeves and came over.
The dug sweet potatoes must be cleaned and free of dirt and other debris.
It was the first time, so it was difficult to wash too many. We washed about a hundred and then stopped.
"Next, chop these sweet potatoes into pieces and let a few children help grind them into pulp," Zhao Xiu instructed.
Several people immediately took up their duties and started working.
Lin Wu and Lin Changcan filtered the sweet potato pulp through a layer of fine gauze to remove the sweet potato residue.
The sweet potato residue after filtering cannot be thrown away. Pour it into the grinding wheel and continue grinding to produce some pulp.
The work after that is simple, just wait for the sweet potato pulp to settle.
Then add water, and then pour in clean water to continue sedimentation. After doing this several times, it will be done. Then dry the starch in the sun.
After waiting for two days, the starch will be dried.
"I didn't expect that sweet potatoes could become like this. It's really strange." Lin Changcan said, looking at the starch that looked like white flour.
Zhao Xiu smiled and said, "We can make the fine powder today. Dad, you can try it then."
Lin Changcan nodded with a smile.
At this time, Lin Wu was holding the flour machine he had made, which was actually just a long colander with many holes in it.
Then add starch to thicken the sauce, add old flour, and then add dry starch and flour to knead into dough.
Boil a pot of hot water, put the noodles into the noodle maker and crush them hard, and long thin noodles will fall into the hot water.
At this time, Zhao Xiu took a wooden stick, hung the fine powder in the middle, and then put it on the pot to cook the fine powder. After that, he rinsed it with cold water, and the fine powder was ready.
Zhao Xiu immediately copied one out and let everyone taste it.
"Not bad, delicious." Lin Changcan couldn't help but nodded in praise.
Zhang Yufang and Wei Jing took a bite and thought it was delicious too.
Meng Yi also came over and took a bite. "This thing tastes really good. I've never eaten anything so delicious before. It will definitely be a big hit if I sell it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the room suddenly fell silent. He took another bite, looked up and saw everyone staring at him. He asked, "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Lin Qian said, "I think what my master said is quite right. How about we make fine noodles and sell them?"
Everyone discussed it and agreed immediately.
Zhao Xiu said, "Then I'll prepare all the remaining ones and then take them out to dry in the sun for a day. Once they're dry, they can be kept for more than a year without going bad."
"Okay, after it's dried, we'll take it to restaurants to sell. If they're willing to buy it, we'll produce it in large quantities." Lin Wu thought for a while and said.
This is a good idea. Start by selling it in big restaurants. Once it becomes famous, you can sell it yourself or do wholesale. This is a good way to make money.
Lin Qian said: "When the time comes, we can also buy sweet potatoes from the village and ask them for help, then we can make the whole village rich.
As long as we master the method of making starch, it will be fine."
A few people discussed it for a while, and then started to work.
The next day, Lin Wu and Zhao Xiu took Lin Qian and Meng Yi to the town.
They were there to sell fine powder, while Meng Yi and Lin Qian were there for free medical consultation.
These days, due to the busy farming season, Lin Qian and Meng Yi had no time to come and see the patients. Now that they had time, Meng Yi brought Lin Qian here.
It was still at the entrance of Renhe Hall, but this time only Meng Yi was there.
After watching from morning to night, the four of them returned home together.
"Dad, how did the talk go?" Lin Qian asked on the ox cart.
Lin Wu smiled proudly and said, "Does your father need to ask for help? Your mother showed off her cooking skills with fine flour. The owner of the Yingbin Building asked for 100 kilograms of fine flour. The price is 100 coins per kilogram. The delivery will be in 15 days.
"That means, ten taels of silver for fifteen days? A good deal!" Lin Qian said.
Zhao Xiu said: "In the next few days, our whole family will be busy."
After calculating the workload, it is obviously not easy.
One hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes can produce almost twenty kilograms of starch, which is a huge workload!
After fifteen days of hard work, the group of people produced a hundred kilograms of fine powder. After delivering the goods, Lin Wu and his team were exhausted.
Lin Changcan even suffered from his old cold legs problem.
"Let's ask someone to come. If we do it alone, we will be exhausted sooner or later." Lin Shuo said, with blisters on his hands.
Lin Wu also nodded: "How about this, we just filter the starch, and let others do the rest of the work."
A few days after the new dishes of Yingbinlou were launched, Lin Wu went to several other restaurants to promote fine noodles.
Afterwards, he brought back an order of 1,000 kilograms.
Now, the whole family started to get busy, harvesting sweet potatoes and hiring workers.
Fortunately, these orders required a deposit, otherwise they would not have the money to purchase the sweet potatoes.
Lin Changcan's family now has a spacious backyard, which is specially used for making fine flour.
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