"This river is really big. What is the name of this river, Captain?" Wen Xiao asked.
"This is Anhe, who has always been protecting the safety of the people here.
Li Jianguo pointed at the mountain again and asked: "What do you feel when you see this mountain?"
"It is endless and overlapping." Wenwen interjected.
The other two nodded, and the description was incisive. The mountains in Lijiawan are not a cluster of mountains, but they are definitely overlapping.
Li Jianguo nodded, as if he were educated: "This mountain is called 'Thousand Layer Shadows'."
"The names of the rivers and mountains in Lijiawan are all well chosen." Wenwen praised.
Li Jianguo laughed heartily: "From now on, this will also be your Lijiawan. Your household registration has been completed."
For educated youth who went to the countryside, their household registration had to be moved with them, and they would be settled wherever they went to the countryside.
"Thank you for your hard work, Captain." Yu Xunting thanked him.
Li Jianguo waved his hand and said, "When will you put up your shed? The application was approved yesterday."
"Let's start tomorrow. Once we get it done early, I'll ask the captain to call us." Yu Xunting said.
Wenwen thought that the speed of the work was very fast, and the captain was just afraid that she would change her mind.
"Captain, are there any carpenters in the village? I want to make some stools and tables." Without tables and chairs, we have to squat to eat.
"Yes, let him come to you tomorrow."
The arrival of these educated youth has enriched the lives of the villagers. If it is always like this, it doesn’t matter if more come, Li Jianguo thought.
"How are wages generally calculated in the village?" Yu Xunting asked.
"Will you provide meals?" Li Jianguo asked.
Wenwen shook her head, thinking that her family had no food left, so how could she provide meals?
"The food cost is usually 60 cents a day," said Li Jianguo.
Yu Xunting and Wenwen looked at each other.
Wenwen said to Li Jianguo, "Captain, we won't provide meals, but we'll give you one yuan a day, but you have to make faster progress."
When Li Jianguo heard this, he naturally agreed. He originally thought that he would have to give 80 cents at most, but now Wen Zhiqing gave one dollar, and with an extra 20 cents, he could buy half a pound of rice.
Now meat costs eighty cents per pound, and you can buy more than a pound of meat after working for one day.
Li Jianguo smiled and asked, "How many people do you plan to call?"
"We don't understand, Captain, you can make the arrangements." Yu Xunting said.
Once the matter was settled, everyone went about their own business.
the next day
The villagers who came to work arrived just as the sky was getting light. There were five of them in total, and each of them brought tools and materials.
Yu Xunting and Wenxiao both came out to greet the villagers who came to work.
The carpenter also came, and Wenwen told him to make a table, eight stools, two kang cabinets, two kang tables, and a kitchen cabinet.
Pay after the work is done, and the sooner the better.
This time Wenwen stayed at home to look after the house, while the three men went up the mountain to chop firewood.
Wen Xiao grabbed another handful of rice. Wen Wen felt distressed when she saw that there was not much rice left, but she endured it in order to eat the pheasant. She was reluctant to lose the rice and fail to catch the pheasant.
But this time the rice was gone forever. The pheasant ate the rice and ran away.
Wen Xiao was a little discouraged because he didn't catch the pheasant, so Yu Xunting comforted him: "When everything is done, I will teach you how to dig traps. Maybe you can even catch a wild boar."
"Really, thank you cousin. Let's speed up and chop more firewood today." Wen Xiao became happy again, as if he saw the wild boar waving to him.
Yu Xunting was a little speechless. He called Wen Xiao "Fourth Brother", but he called him "Cousin". It was confusing.
"Cousin, hurry up. We need to chop a few more loads of firewood today."
Yu Xunting shook his head and quickened his pace with Xiao Huimin.
Time flies and a week has passed.
The shed in the yard was built, and the collapsed wall was also repaired. The shed occupied the west wall, and a room was separated to serve as a cowshed.
I'll go pick up Yu Baitian to stay with us in the afternoon, and of course Niu will come with us.
Yu Xunting and Wen Xiao went to the river to bring back the soaked cassava.
Wenwen looked at the two large bags of cassava and was wondering how to crush the cassava. The finer the crushing, the more flour would be produced.
Wenwen told a few people about the matter.
Yu Baitian heard this and said, "It's okay to grind it with a stone mill, but the pieces have to be very small."
Wenwen heard this and thought, yes, although it is a bit troublesome, there is no other way. There are no machines now and we can only do it manually.
They got to work right away. Several people carried the cassava to the village's big stone mill. There was a big stone mill shared by all villagers in Lijiawan.
It is easier to get things done when there are more people, and the division of labor is clear. Yu Xunting pushes the mill, Xiao Huimin cuts cassava, and Old Man Yu is responsible for scooping the cut cassava into the millstone mouth; they also need to add some water from time to time, Wenwen is responsible for continuing to add the cassava flour water, Wenxiao helps wherever he needs to rest, and Lanlan is responsible for having fun.
It took more than two hours to grind all the cassava.
Back at the educated youth camp, Wenwen was busy washing out the cassava flour.
Pour the washed cassava flour into the boiling pot, add a little salt to the pot, stir the cassava flour in the pot constantly, it will be ready in a while, put it in an aluminum pot and let it cool.
Then Wenwen cut some bacon, took out a jar of pickles, and waited for the tapioca starch to cool down before putting it in the pot.
It is too cold in winter and the cassava flour will cool down in a short time. Pour it out and cut it into medium-sized cubes. Heat oil in a pan and stir-fry the bacon and pickles. Add some soy sauce to adjust the color. Finally, pour the cassava flour into the pan and stir-fry before serving.
Wenwen put the fried cassava flour into lunch boxes.
After being busy for most of the day, I can finally eat.
Wenwen took a bite and, yes, it was exactly that flavor, even better than she remembered. It just lacked a bit of chili, otherwise it would have been perfect.
Wenwen saw that they were all looking at her: "Eat quickly, it's delicious."
Wen Xiao took a bite carefully, his eyes shining: "It's so delicious." It was so delicious that he had to eat it first even if it was poisonous.
So everyone buried their heads in their food.
After the meal, everyone was still excitedly discussing the delicious tapioca flour.
"Cassava flour can also be made into vermicelli and dried, just like noodles, which is convenient to eat anytime. It can also be made into desserts, there are many kinds, I will make them for you to try later." Wenwen really made a lot of food with cassava flour in her previous life.
"So are we just going to soak the rest in water?" Yu Xunting asked.
"No, just wash it like I did just now, wait for the starch to sink to the bottom, pour out the water and dry it in the sun, then dissolve it in water when you want to eat it." Wenwen explained.
"I'll make cassava flour tomorrow morning. Go and call the team leader to come and eat. After eating, see what arrangements he has." Wenwen said to Yu Xunting.
"Wenwen turned poisonous plants into cassava flour that can fill people's stomachs. This has saved countless lives! Do you know what this represents?" This is a great achievement, but it must be used well. Yu Baitian looked at his grandson.
Yu Xunting knew what his grandfather meant and nodded.
Wenwen knew that cassava flour would save many people. Not only in our country, but all over the world, cassava flour was a god-like existence, solving the global problem of people starving to death due to lack of food.
Cassava has a high yield and can be dug every year as long as it is not completely dug out, without wasting manpower.
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