After the autumn harvest, Yunyan had nothing to do and planned to make sweet potato flour herself.
Seeing that there was not much firewood left, he went to Aunt Wang's house in the village and bought 100 dan of firewood. The villagers took the firewood to the county town and sold it for 1 cent per dan, while if they bought it from the same village, it would be 8 cents per dan.
One hundred loads of firewood was enough to keep her burning for the entire winter. Aunt Wang happily accepted the money and asked her son to deliver the firewood to Yunyan's home.
Yunyan drew a picture of a funnel and peeler for making sweet potato flour, and planned to take it to the blacksmith shop in the county town to have them made.
As soon as the blacksmith saw Yunyan's drawings, he quickly printed them out. At this time, the blacksmith made a request to Yunyan.
"Girl, your peeler is really convenient. I want to buy your design and make a large number of them. Would you be willing to do that?"
Yun Yan thought that the peeler itself didn't require much technical skills, so there would be no loss in giving it to him.
"Brother, don't even mention buying the design. Just make me ten peelers and two funnels, and I'll give you the peeler blueprints."
The blacksmith agreed and arranged to pick up the items at 2 p.m. Yunyan took advantage of the free time to wander around the county town.
I went to the department store and bought two pounds of egg cakes, one pound of glutinous rice noodles and half a pound of White Rabbit milk candy.
After having lunch at the state-owned restaurant, Yun Yan went to the black market and saw some chickens and wild boar meat for sale. She bought two chickens and five pounds of wild boar meat.
After leaving the black market, Yun Yan saw that it was almost time, so she rode her bicycle to the blacksmith shop, picked up the things and returned to the Red Flag Brigade.
The next morning, I took out some instant noodles from the space and ate them. After eating, I took out fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes, washed them, and started peeling them.
Then they started to rub the mud, filter, settle and dry it. It took seven days to make the finished sweet potato flour, which was then hung on bamboo poles to dry.
The sweet potato flour was ready, and Yun Yan finally remembered Chen Zhaodi, the villain who reported her. After the autumn harvest, she wouldn't have to carry manure anymore. After so many days, she shouldn't smell so bad, right?
When they arrived at the educated youth center, the other educated youth were chatting in the living room, only Chen Zhaodi and Li Shuwan were in the room. Ever since Chen Zhaodi reported Yunyan, no one at the educated youth center paid any attention to her except Li Shuwan. After all, everyone was afraid that she would report them one day.
Yun Yan shouted Chen Zhaodi's name loudly in the yard, but she chose to pretend to be dead and did not come out. After shouting a few times, Yun Yan became angry.
"Chen Zhaodi, if you come out by yourself, I might show mercy. But if you wait for me to go in and find you, I won't give you any face." Yun Yan said loudly.
Chen Zhaodi in the room was trembling with fear. She thought that after such a long time, Yun Yan would not come to settle the score with her again.
After listening to Yun Yan's warning, Chen Zhaodi hesitated for a long time and finally chose to go out.
"I'm sorry, Yun Zhiqing. I shouldn't have been misled into reporting you. Please forgive me this time. I won't dare to do it again." As soon as Chen Zhaodi came out, she immediately apologized to Yun Yan with a very sincere attitude.
"You reported me and nearly got me arrested by the Red Guards, and you think you're done with it just by apologizing? You're really ugly, but you have beautiful dreams."
The other educated youth had already run out when they heard the noise, and now they couldn't help laughing when they heard what Yun Yan said.
"Then what exactly do you want me to do to forgive me?"
Chen Zhaodi has not had a good time recently. She has to carry manure every day and has fallen out with Li Shuwan. She used to be able to rely on cooking for Zhou Yuanchao and others in exchange for some food, but since her report on Yun Yan was exposed, Zhou Yuanchao and others have been living with the old educated youth.
"I give you two choices. The first is to let me slap you ten times, and the second is to slap yourself twenty times." Yun Yan said coldly.
This is a relatively reasonable method I came up with. After all, I can't beat her to a level 10 disability like I did to Xu Baozhu.
Chen Zhaodi thought for a while and said, "I'll do it myself."
After saying that, he started to hit his face hard, and from the sound, there was no moisture at all.
Soon, the twenty slaps were over. Yun Yan walked up to her and said, "Chen Zhaodi, I hope you remember this lesson. I won't be so soft-hearted next time. You should know what happened to Xu Baozhu."
Thinking of Xu Baozhu being beaten beyond recognition, Chen Zhaodi was frightened: "Don't worry, Yun Zhiqing, I will definitely not target you again in the future."
After the matter was settled, Yun Yan was about to leave the educated youth center, but just as she was about to leave, someone suddenly called her.
"Yun Yan, wait a moment." Qian Qian called her.
Turning around and seeing it was her, Yun Yan didn't want to pay any attention to her. Qian Qian saw Yun Yan stopped and immediately chased after her.
"Yun Yan, I'm here to apologize to you. After I came back, I thought a lot and went through a lot, and I finally realized my mistake."
"Yun Yan, please forgive me, okay? I really know I was wrong." Qian Qian apologized to her while crying.
After this period of time, Qian Qian realized that she had lost a friend who truly cared about her.
"Qian Qian, I accept your apology, but we can never be friends again." After saying that, Yun Yan left.
Watching her back as she walked further and further away, Qian Qian burst into tears. She knew that she would never be able to be friends with Yun Yan again.
The weather was getting colder. One day, Yunyan was stewing chicken soup at home when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and saw that it was Aunt Zhang.
"Aunt Zhang, what brings you here?"
"Yun Zhiqing, I'd like to borrow your sewing machine to mend my son Shitou's clothes. Is that okay?" Aunt Zhang felt a little embarrassed.
"What's wrong with that? Come in, the sewing machine is in my bedroom. I'll take you in."
"Okay, thank you, Yun Zhiqing." Aunt Zhang said happily.
After Yun Yan brought Aunt Zhang to the bedroom, she went to the kitchen, added some firewood to the chicken soup, and went to check on the sweet potato vermicelli that was drying in the sun.
After five or six days of drying, they were basically dry. Yun Yan planned to put all the sweet potato vermicelli away and put them back into the space after Aunt Zhang left.
Aunt Zhang had also finished mending the clothes. She walked outside and saw Yunyan packing up her things. She immediately put down her clothes and went over to help.
"Yun Zhiqing, what are you doing? Why are you hanging it on a bamboo pole?" Aunt Zhang was a little curious.
"Sweet potato vermicelli, haven't you seen it before, Auntie?" Yun Yan felt strange.
"Sweet potato vermicelli? Made from sweet potatoes, we've never seen this before."
After collecting the sweet potato vermicelli, Aunt Zhang left. After closing the door, Yun Yan stared at the sweet potato vermicelli on the table in a daze.
I clearly remember that in later generations, Southern Province was a province that loved noodles, so how come no one knows about sweet potato noodles now?
Since people in Southern Province don’t know about sweet potato flour yet, can I suggest to the team leader that they set up a sweet potato flour workshop? This will not only generate income for the Red Flag Brigade, but also improve the team’s living standards.
Yun Yan decided to go to the team leader in person tomorrow with the dried sweet potato vermicelli.
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