Everyone was excitedly waiting to visit the vermicelli factory.
Li Lanzhen led them to the vermicelli factory in a horse-drawn carriage.
A wooden bridge has been built across the wide river here.
The wooden bridge is entirely constructed using mortise and tenon joints, resembling a crescent moon spanning the river.
Since they arrived here, Li Lanzhen has built three wooden beams across the river leading to Xishan in their residential area as a temporary bridge.
When she got back, she found a lot of bridge design drawings in the space.
He took all the blueprints and threw them at Li Erhan and his son Li Xishui, telling them to study them.
Li Lanzhen believes that everyone has their own expertise and that we should not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.
Sure enough, this is how a bridge was built!
She knew that before this bridge was completed, Li Erhan, Li Xishui, and Li Guangyang, the three of them, had made countless bridge models.
One after another, they were scrapped; they were tested again, and then scrapped again…
Hard work pays off!
And so, a successful wooden bridge was built across this great river!
When the bridge was completed, Li Lanzhen took out a thousand-shot firecracker and set it off for a while, adding a festive atmosphere to the valley.
The carriage stopped on this side of the wooden bridge, and everyone got off and strolled onto the bridge.
Although they had crossed this bridge many times before, they were still very excited this time, looking around and touching everything.
Or bend down and look at the rushing river under the bridge.
Every time I finish watching it, I can't help but praise Li Erhan and his two grandsons as skilled craftsmen!
They first arrived at the living quarters of the vermicelli factory.
I saw a piece of wood with the words "living area" carved on it.
Everyone knew that this front yard must have been where the workers lived and ate.
Every corner was cleaned very thoroughly.
People followed Li Lanzhen through the living area and pushed open the wooden door leading to the back.
Then I saw a sign standing at the entrance that read "Production Area".
Li Zhen first led them into the changing room.
As soon as people see these three characters, they know that this must be a place to change clothes.
They had also heard that Li Lanzhen was very strict about the personal hygiene of the people working there.
"We are in the food business, so we must pay attention to hygiene. We need to pay attention not only to personal hygiene, but also to environmental hygiene."
These words have already been circulating in Peach Blossom Spring.
"Everyone, take a look. Take a set of clothes, pants, and a hat from the wooden shelf, and tuck all your hair into the hat."
"Come out when you're ready, then we'll go on the tour together."
After saying that, Li Lanzhen came out. Since they were all a group of grown men, she couldn't stay any longer.
Li Lanzhen has a small office here, which is divided into an inner and an outer room.
The inner room is a rest room. There is a wooden bed, a table, and a chair, all made by Li Erhan according to Li Lanzhen's requirements.
The outer room is slightly larger, with a table and a round-backed chair against the wall, and a bookshelf against the wall as well.
Upon entering her office, Li Lanzhen quickly changed into her work clothes.
He quickly tucked his hair into his hat, tidied himself up, and came out.
I saw people dressed in identical gray work clothes standing in the yard.
They were intrigued and curious about the clothes, touching and tugging at them, and turning around to look at each other.
"Okay, let's go! Let's go inside and see how the big sweet potato is turned into strands of vermicelli."
After they entered the production area, they split off along the middle road, with "factory buildings" on both sides, as Li Lanzhen had described.
They thought about it for a moment; as the name suggests, it's a place for work.
There are signs hanging on the doors of the rooms near the factory entrance.
They went into the "cleaning workshop" first.
The house was very large, and along both sides of the house, there were rows of large wooden crates, each a meter high.
There is a fist-sized hole on the other side of the wooden box.
A wooden plug was inserted outside the hole, with a small round wooden ball attached to the plug.
If you want to open it, grab the small wooden ball and pull it out; the water in the wooden box will gush out and flow into a nearby ditch, which leads to a large river.
At this moment, the workers are washing sweet potatoes and potatoes. They are holding brushes made of reeds and constantly scrubbing the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the wooden boxes.
Soon the water became murky, so the workers went over and opened the wooden stopper, and the sewage, mixed with mud and sand, flowed out.
Then they inserted the cork, started filling it with water, and continued on their way.
This process was repeated several times until the sweet potatoes and potatoes were thoroughly cleaned.
The washed sweet potatoes and potatoes were all packed into baskets and then transported to the adjacent "crushing and juicing workshop".
They followed them inside and saw a room of the same size containing more than a dozen shredders.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes are cut into chunks, thrown into the mixture, and then come out as crumbs and juice.
Workers are transporting the residue to a juicer next to them for pressing.
Both the grinder and juicer are manual and made entirely of wood.
But it works very well; all the juice that has been extracted flows into a water trough carved from wood.
The water tank leads to another production workshop, the "sedimentation and powder extraction workshop".
After the water flows here through the trough, it is all poured into a large wooden barrel about one and a half meters long.
Buckets, neatly arranged.
Workers poured buckets of clean water into it and stirred it vigorously.
"Look, everyone, after these buckets of water have settled, clear away the water on top, and the bottom layer will be sweet potato starch and potato starch."
Li Lanzhen introduced herself to everyone.
"Butler Xie, go and bring over a basin of settled sweet potato starch so everyone can see it."
Seeing everyone's curious expressions, she instructed Xie Li, who was standing beside her, to speak.
The thank-you gift was a wooden basin filled with white powder.
Li Lanzhen saw how eager they were to try.
“You can reach out and touch it; it’s wet powder now.”
"Wow, this powder is so fine! It feels even finer than wheat flour!"
"That's right, no wonder the rice noodles are so smooth."
They all touched the sweet potato flour and felt it, which satisfied their curiosity.
Li Lanzhen then invited everyone to visit the "vermicelli production workshop".
Upon hearing this, everyone quickly followed her out.
This is the place they most want to see.
The vermicelli workshop had significantly more people than the other workshops.
They worked in pairs, each guarding a large iron pot and a large wooden barrel.
There was water in both the iron pot and the wooden bucket, but the water in the iron pot was constantly boiling.
The water in the wooden bucket was actually ice cold.
There was a wooden stand on the big iron pot, and on the stand was a wooden basin-like thing, except that the bottom of this wooden basin was full of holes.
Oh, they know that, it's a colander!
Two people put the lumps of sweet potato starch or potato starch into a strainer, then put a round lid on the wooden strainer and squeeze it hard.
The sweet potato noodles were then added to the boiling water in strands.
Another person was stirring something with a pair of wooden chopsticks, each about half a meter long and as thick as a man's finger.
Soon after, the cooked vermicelli was scooped out with a willow sieve and poured into a bucket of cold water next to it.
Then we'll continue with the previous part...
After the vermicelli cooled, it was scooped into baskets and then carried out by another group of people to dry on wooden poles outside.
They followed Li Lanzhen to the wooden poles outside where vermicelli was being dried.
It was spectacular; rows and rows of wooden poles were covered with long, crystal-clear rice noodles.
A group of people kept exclaiming, "Ah!" and "Oh, is that so?"
"Alright, everyone, after watching this once, you should know how sweet potatoes and potatoes are turned into smooth and chewy vermicelli, right?"
The freshly cooked vermicelli is dried here in a day and a night. Then, by removing this wooden pole, you can easily and neatly take down all the vermicelli that are hanging on it.
Then, the noodles are bundled together with cattail reeds, piled inside a large pineapple, and sent to the warehouse; that completes the process.
"Clap clap clap".
Su Beisheng clapped vigorously.
Everyone joined in the applause.
They were all beaming with excitement.
This is unique to their Great Li Dynasty!
Such delicious food was actually produced in their paradise and then sent out to the kitchens of thousands of households.
They felt proud and honored!
They looked at Li Lanzhen as if she were a treasure!
At that moment, they remembered the old village chief's words.
"Lanzhen, you are truly our lucky star!"
"Alright, let's go. Come with me to the canteen at the vermicelli factory. I'll be having lunch here today."
Su Beisheng and Pang Pangzi walked at the very back.
Although Su Peisheng was young and a eunuch.
However, Fatty Pang still kept a very humble attitude.
“Eunuch Su, please check if there are any omissions in my records?”
Sometimes I'm so focused on watching and listening that I might misremember or miss some parts.
Su Beisheng did not refuse and took the stack of papers he had written, reading them page by page.
As you watch, tell him what should be in each place.
Fatty Pang listened attentively.
As the two walked and talked, they fell far behind each other.
When Li Lanzhen turned to talk to them, she saw this scene.
I couldn't help but chuckle to myself; these two were definitely communicating, and they were recording the process.
He was in a hurry, but he couldn't talk and walk at the same time; what if he fell or bumped into something? That would be a real problem, so he shouted.
You two, hurry up and go to the cafeteria. There are tables there; sit down and you can read and write at the same time.
They both looked up and smiled.
He put away the paper in his hand and quickly chased after them.
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