The Cannon Fodder of Fast Time Travel, She Chooses To Farm

  Chapter 74 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (23)

  Yan Kejin raised his eyebrows when his subordinates reported the words and deeds of those exiles.

  The princess sent melons once, and there are such unexpected gains?

  Those exiles, he has reviewed their lives, and many of them have talents and ambitions, and counselors are competent enough.

   Can be exiled for three thousand miles, lingering on, losing confidence in life, but now a piece of melon has aroused his fighting spirit.

   It seems that the princess must be rewarded well.

  In that room, Xu Yin asked someone to bring back a basket of melons from the palace, distributed some to the servants in the mansion as welfare, and stored the rest in the cellar to eat slowly.

  She also asked Uncle Wang to cut two for the tenant farmers to try. There were not many, and the total was only half an acre of land. If it is delicious, keep the seeds and grow more next year.

  Uncle Wang responded one by one.

  The seeds brought by the princess are not available locally. They are not that stupid, greedy for a bite, and eat the seeds of high-yield and high-quality products.

  After all the melons and fruits were harvested, Wang Bo came to seek Xu Yin's opinion on what to plant next.

   "Don't worry, it will take time to plow and fertilize the fields. During this period, I will think about it, and I will send someone to tell you what to plant."

  Even if she grows another season of melons, she doesn't plan to grow all kinds of melons like before. Watermelons and melons are good, so you can keep them. In addition, ask Yan Kejin to see what kind of melon he likes to eat.

  However, before Yan Kejin could choose his favorite melon and fruit, Chenjiazhuang at the foot of the strange mountain was led by the son of the patriarch, pushing a cart of sugar cane.

  After the spring plowing was over, they formed a team and went into the mountains to search for sugarcane with the sugarcane map left by the nobleman.

  The miasma is heavy in the mountains, and they dare not stay in it for a long time. Every time they go, they take the time to go into the deep forest when the miasma is at its weakest, and exit as soon as the miasma begins to spread.

   Fortunately, the nobleman left them a few boxes of mosquito repellent incense (mosquito coils), and lit a torch again, nothing happened.

   It's just that the sweet potatoes planted on the hillside and foot of the mountain by the nobleman have grown very well, but the sugar cane has never been found.

  All they can repay is a handful of strength, but now they can't even find a crop, which makes them a little discouraged.

   On this day, after finishing the farm work all morning, we organized a team to go up the mountain as usual.

  It felt like it was going to rain, and the miasma in the mountains was heavier than usual. For safety reasons, the group of people did not go deep, but searched carefully along the valley that was searched two months ago, and picked up some fungi by the way.

  Suddenly, someone shouted: "Look at that! Is that what the nobleman is looking for?"

  The son of the patriarch raised his eyes and saw that it wasn't true. Against the cliff of the valley, a cluster of green and yellow plants stood proudly, five meters high from root to head.

  Because there are weeds and shrubs as tall as a person growing near it, if you don't look carefully, you may think it is bamboo.

  It grows towards the sun, and there is a gurgling clear spring nearby. When you cut it off, you can see that the flesh is white. When you taste it again, it is sweet and juicy. It must be the sugarcane that the nobleman said.

  The son of the patriarch finished the story of the discovery of the sugarcane in detail, and he was annoyed: "If you can be more careful, you should have discovered it two months ago, so why wait until now to send it to the nobleman."

  Xu Yin shook her head with a smile: "Two months ago, it might have been young, covered by shrubs and weeds. It's normal that it's hard to find."

  She didn't expect that the sugarcane at this time turned out to be green and yellow, and the plant height was five meters. At first glance, it really looked like bamboo, which was somewhat different from what she painted.

   No wonder the people sent out by the prince have not found sugar cane so far. It seems that they have been misled into thinking by her.

   With sugarcane, the experimental field has new planting content.

  The son of the patriarch brought a cart full of sugar cane.

  With real objects for comparison, it will be much faster to find.

  In addition to the clump in the valley, before going down the mountain, they found a few more clumps from other places.

  Xu Yin's original words were to ask them to find them and try to look at them by themselves, and pull them over as many as they had planted, and she would accept them all.

  But the patriarch thought about it and asked his son to send him over first.

  One day, I came to bring some newly acquired mountain products in spring to the nobleman, and thanked her for the grain seeds and seasonings she left at that time, and helped them through the difficult days of insufficiency.

  Secondly, I want the nobleman to see if what I found is the sugar cane she wanted. In case you find the wrong one, it will be white if you plant it.

  Xu Yin readily accepted the cart of sugarcane and gave the patriarch's son ten ingots of silver.

   Of course, a cart of sugar cane is not so expensive, and it also includes the discovery award.

  The son of the patriarch refused to accept anything at first, so Xu Yin said it was a deposit for the next batch of sugarcane, so that they could plant it at ease, and it didn't matter if they mobilized more races, she would accept as much as they planted.

  The son of the patriarch accepted it gratefully.

  The mountain goods sent by Xu Yin did not give money, but returned a corresponding gift.

  I know what Chenjiazhuang lacks the most, besides food, it is cloth and seasoning.

  She asked Mammy to lead the people to Chunlan to collect money, and then called a carriage to take them back.

  After the patriarch's son and his party left, Xu Yin began to process the sugar cane.

  The seedlings were kept at the head, and two sugarcane stems without insect eyes were picked. They were peeled, cut into small pieces, and distributed to everyone to taste.

   "How does it taste?" Xu Yin asked with a smile.

  Chunlan: "Sweet as honey!"

  Xia Zhu: "It's better than honey! It's sweet but not greasy, and it doesn't stick to your teeth."

  Qiu Shuang: "I didn't expect this thing to look bad, but it tastes so good!"

  Dong Xue: "It's delicious! It's so delicious! I really want to have a bite every day."

  Nurse held her loose teeth and wrinkled her old face: "Oh, hello! It's just a bit of a waste of teeth. People with bad teeth may not have this blessing."

  Xu Yin laughed out loud.

   Seeing the maids holding a piece of sugarcane each, eating happily, Xu Yin smiled, not saying that the purpose of sugarcane is not just to hold a piece of sugarcane to eat.

   Wait until the brown sugar and white sugar are produced, and then give them a big surprise.

  Xu Yin asked people to peel all the sugar cane from the cart, and cut off the heads and roots.

  Keep the head and plant it in the experimental field later.

  The roots are dried and used as firewood.

  The sugarcane husks are stored first, and then sent to the farm for composting together with the bagasse.

   Cut the sugarcane meat into small pieces and squeeze the juice with a stone mill.

   Squeeze out the juice, filter it with gauze, and cook it on a stove.

  It needs to be simmered for several hours on a low fire, and the water should be slowly evaporated by stirring constantly in the middle.

  As the concentration of sugar increases, the color of the syrup becomes darker and darker, until there is a slight smell of caramel, indicating that it is ready.

  Xu Yin asked people to immediately remove the fire and pour it into the mold to cool down. After solidification, the chunky brown sugar is the ancient brown sugar brick.

  The ready-made mold is used by the imperial chef to make pastries and snacks. The mouth of the mold is a bit big, so it’s okay to borrow it temporarily.

  However, Xu Yin thought that if she opened a workshop to make sugar in the future, and the sugar produced would be sold to all parts of the Nanban and even the Central Plains, such a large model would not be suitable.

   Fortunately, there is a carpenter in the mansion, usually there is not so much carpentry work, so let the old carpenter bring a few nimble boys to carve the mold together, and there will be rewards after the work is done.

  (end of this chapter)