Chapter 471： Sweet Potato Vermicelli

Imperial study room

Three sealed black jars were neatly placed on the bookcase.

Emperor Yuwen Yuwen Longyan looked at the three jars in confusion.

Secretly, "Could it be that these three jars are wine? Is it the red wine Jiang Aiqing said?"

Thinking about it, he wanted to open one of the jars.

Eunuch Zhang, who was standing beside him, was so frightened that he hurriedly shouted in horror, "Your Majesty, can't you?"

Who knows what will be in this black jar, but no poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, poisonous scorpions, or the poisons it contains. In short, no one can afford such consequences.

After Eunuch Zhang exclaimed, the emperor's hand did not stop and continued to unpack.

Eunuch Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, let the old slave dismantle it?"

As he spoke, he stretched his hand forward, making a gesture to grab the jar in the emperor's hand and stop the emperor's movements.

But the emperor seemed very relieved about what was in the black jar, he said, "Eunuch Zhang, don't worry, I will be fine."

As soon as his words were spoken, the sealed black jar was taken apart.

The emperor took a look inside, it was a yellowish-brown liquid, and then sniffed it with his nose, but what he smelled was not the smell of wine, but a refreshing fragrance, which he had never smelled before.

The emperor was even more puzzled.

Red wine, red wine, as the name suggests, is red wine; wine, wine, no matter what kind of wine, should have a wine smell.

But the things in the jar do not occupy either.

He looked at Eunuch Zhang and said, "Eunuch Zhang, come and smell it, is there any smell of alcohol? Why can't I smell alcohol? Could it be that there is something wrong with my nose?"

After listening to Eunuch Zhang, he leaned in carefully, shrank his nose, sniffed the smell of the contents of the jar, and then said, "Go back to your majesty, the old slave only smelled a cool fragrance in the jar, and did not smell a trace of wine. gas."

After that, he looked at the altar again, and asked with the same doubts, "Your Majesty, what exactly is in this altar?"

The emperor shook his head, immediately thought of something, and then found a letter from the desk.

He couldn't wait to open the letter.

After reading the letter, the emperor's eyes suddenly lit up, and his expression was very vivid. Then, with excitement and excitement, he said to Eunuch Zhang, "Eunuch Zhang, take this jar to the imperial kitchen and let the imperial chef use this thing. Cook and eat, I'm going to eat the dishes made by this thing tonight!"

As soon as the emperor finished speaking, Eunuch Zhang was extremely surprised.

His face was full of panic and he said, "No, Your Majesty! Who knows what is in this jar, this thing is cooking, what if..." What if you are poisoned to death?

The emperor took the letter and looked at it again, and said, "Eunuch Zhang, don't worry, this is cooking oil! You can eat it for cooking."

Eunuch Zhang was taken aback, "Oil?" What kind of oil? Is it lard? But lard is used for cooking every day?

The emperor didn't explain, but said, "Eunuch Zhang, what are you doing, you don't carry your things to the imperial kitchen!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Eunuch Zhang respectfully and fearfully carried a black jar of oil into the imperial kitchen's house.

As for whether this oil will eat dead people, the people in the imperial kitchen will determine it.

After Eunuch Zhang went down, the emperor took the letter and said quietly, "Peanut oil? Then Lin Yuelan is indeed a very smart woman."

No one had ever thought of peanuts to make oil, but she was able to, and even made an oil press.

The emperor was very puzzled, "Lin Yuelan, who are you? Why do you seem to know everything?"

The emperor let Lin Yuelan go to develop, because this country is still very backward compared to other countries. Many people are not clothed and hungry. Every year, there are countless people who freeze to death and starve to death.

Therefore, he desperately wants to change the status quo, to make the people rich, the country strong, and the country strong and the people rich to dominate the world. This is the ambition of every emperor.

He does the same.

Although he is in his sixties, his ambition to rule the world has never stopped.

Therefore, after seeing Jiang Zhennan's military talents, he will focus on cultivating him, and because of Jiang Zhennan's character, he will let him trust Jiang Zhennan.

Of course, those in positions of authority will have doubts, especially Yuwen Longyan, who has fully entered the old age, and is even more suspicious.

If Lin Yuelan was her peasant daughter and developed her own agriculture, he would not object to her marrying Jiang Zhennan, but if Lin Yuelan could threaten him a little, then he would never be merciful.

Only now, he needs a capable person like Lin Yuelan.

Eunuch Zhang heard that the black jar was oil, and when he took it into the imperial kitchen, he immediately asked the imperial chef to see what the oil was made of?

The royal chef was more careful. Listening to Eunuch Zhang's words, the sage said that this thing was oil, and he had to use oil for cooking, so he immediately asked someone to lead a dog over.

I mixed a big piece of meat with this oil and let the dog eat it.

After about a quarter of an hour, the dog was still alive and well and in better spirits, and looking at the dog's tongue, sniff, and nose movements, he knew that it was still looking for something just now.

The royal chef said, "Eunuch Zhang, it seems that this oil is not poisonous!"

Dogs are more sensitive than humans to poison.

If it is really poisonous, after the dog eats it, it will not look for it again.

Eunuch Zhang asked, "Chef Liu, are you sure? Your Majesty said this is oil and can be used for cooking. Can you spot what kind of oil it is?"

The royal chef took a closer look, took a sniff, shook his head and said, "Eunuch Zhang, I don't know what kind of oil this is. But the sage said that this thing can be used for cooking, and I believe your majesty knows it well."

Otherwise, if you don't even want to check the food, you will send it to the imperial pantry, and you can't justify it.

Therefore, it can only be said that His Majesty is clear about the origin of this thing, and it is very clear who sent this thing over, and it will not be manipulated in the middle.

Eunuch Zhang heard what the royal chef said, and immediately reacted, but he was still not at ease and said, "Even so, we have to be careful. If something happens to your majesty, all of us must fall to the ground!"

Chef Liu Yu thought about it and said, "Eunuch Zhang, I can save it."

Zhang Gong said, "Well, that Zajia will retire!"

"Eunuch Zhang, please!" The royal chef said respectfully.

After Eunuch Zhang retired, the royal chef ordered a **** and said, "Leave this dog down and observe it carefully. If there is anything wrong, report it immediately!"

"Yes!"

I haven't eaten lunch yet, and it's still several hours before dinner. Taking advantage of this time, I can take a good look at this so-called oily thing.

There is no need for the emperor to worry about how to do the imperial dining room.

Looking at the letter, he suddenly had the urge to go to Taoyuan Village to take a look.

It's just that, after all, he is the emperor, and he can't export at will. Therefore, he must carefully consider and arrange the matter of going to Taoyuan Village.

...

Lin Yuelan and Jiang Zhennan didn't care how the emperor reacted to the peanut oil.

Anyway, this peanut oil passed through his secret guards, and they didn't care whether to eat it or not.

However, what I didn't expect was that just because of the three jars of peanut oil, His Majesty the emperor had plans to go to Taoyuan Village.

Because the oil press was made successfully, and the oil was successfully squeezed out.

Therefore, Lin Yuelan immediately asked his subordinates to handle the remaining peanuts.

The oil that was squeezed out, Lin Yuelan asked special personnel to quickly deliver it to various restaurants and managers of major industries.

For her subordinates, especially her right-hand man, she never hesitated to share good things with them.

Then, she asked the people in the wood workshop to make a few more oil presses!

Just an oil press, when the peanut harvest season is over, it will be too busy to use.

In cooperation with Liu Yichen, as long as Liu Yichen receives enough peanuts, he can cooperate at any time, both parties benefit.

As for Liu Yichen's arrangement, and how the squeezed peanut oil was sold, Lin Yuelan would not ask at all.

After the oil press was finished, Lin Yuelan wanted to create a machine for making vermicelli.

Rice noodles, sweet potato noodles, potato noodles, etc. When thinking of all kinds of noodles, Lin Yuelan suddenly misses them very much and wants to eat them even more.

It was just by chance that she saw the design and manufacturing process of the horizontal wedge oil press, which can be used as a vermicelli machine, but she had never seen it before.

If you just make vermicelli by hand, it's easy.

For example, sweet potato flour is mainly made by mashing the sweet potatoes, then adding water, filtering, and filtering the sweet potato residues, leaving turbid water. When the turbid liquid settles down, it becomes sweet potato starch.

Pour out the water, then use a fine gauze to pack the starch, hang it up and drop the water, and when it feels that there is no water at all, open the gauze, mash the starch inside and take it out in the sun.

After the starch is completely dried, you can make a paste.

The so-called paste is sweet potato flour mixed with a certain proportion of water, usually a pound of starch mixed with 2.5 to 3 pounds of cold water, and placed in a basin.

Put the pot into the pot and boil, stirring constantly, until the maturity reaches 80% or 90%.

After it is made into a paste, it is put into the dry starch, which can be mixed with 20 kg of starch noodles.

Finally, there are leaks.

The so-called loose silk is the thickened starch noodles that turn into vermicelli.

Before leaking, you must also see if the dough is suitable.

If the leaked vermicelli is not thick or thin, it is appropriate to continue.

If the bar is too fast or too slow, dry or wet powder must be added.

There is also a colander to prepare a colander, 48 holes, two pots and two cold water tanks.

When the wire is leaking, the paste should be stirred quickly, and warm water should be added while stirring, and the water temperature should be 50 degrees.

When the starch ball is removed from your hand, grab a ball and let it fall down naturally.

When the wire is leaking, prepare a pot of boiling water, and the wire will leak only when the water in the pot is boiling.

When the silk strips emerge from the bottom of the pot, they can be taken out of the pot, and then go through a cold water tank to cool down, and thread them into bundles on the wooden stick by hand. .

Finally, it's drying. Take the vermicelli to dry in the leeward sun.

Lin Yuelan will know that these traditional ways of making sweet potato vermicelli are entirely due to a capable grandmother.

For Lin Yuelan, her grandmother is almost omnipotent.

Just because she wanted to eat sweet potato vermicelli once when she was a child, her grandmother made very authentic and pure red vermicelli for her to eat.

Her grandmother was worried that the sweet potato noodles sold outside were not clean, so she was willing to do it herself for the sake of her precious granddaughter.

Lin Yuelan remembered that since her grandmother made sweet potato vermicelli, she became obsessed with eating vermicelli, whether it was for meals or cooking, every meal had to have vermicelli.

Making vermicelli made by hand is really simple and simple, but the complexity is that this thing is too time-consuming and labor-intensive.

If she just made it for herself, there is no doubt that Lin Yuelan would choose to make it manually.

However, if you want to sell to the outside world, it is only labor, and you can't be busy at all.

Therefore, Lin Yuelan thought to herself, to see if she could make a machine for making vermicelli.

"Ah..." In the room, two people, one big and one small, were doing the same thing, leaning their chins on the table, their eyes confused, and sighing at the same time.

Jiang Zhennan looked at the two of them, his eyes faintly showing a gentle and greasy light, and then he smiled and said, "Okay, you two don't sigh here. If you can't think of it for a while, don't think about it, Let's go out and play!"

Jiang Zhennan's so-called play is actually going to Daaoshan.

After listening to Xiaolu, her eyes lit up, and she immediately agreed with joy, "Okay, okay, sister, let's go to the big game. I haven't seen Xiaobai for a long time, and I don't know how it's doing?"

After Xiaolu became a human being, according to Lin Yuelan's request, Xiaolu didn't call her master, but called her sister directly.

Lin Yuelan looked at the excited little green, nodded and replied, "Alright then. Let's go to Daaoshan to play!"

To others, Da'an Mountain is an unfathomably dangerous and deep mountain, but to Lin Yuelan and Xiaolu, it is a paradise.

Because when they get there, they don't have to hide themselves at all, they can play whatever they want.

What Xiaolu loves most is to play with the animals and plants in the deep mountains, jumping happily, and outsiders will not know.

After the three of them decided, they quickly set off for Da'an Mountain.

When he arrived at Daao Mountain, Lin Yuelan let Xiaolu play freely.

Lin Yuelan and Jiang Zhennan just smiled and watched Xiaolu jump up and down, as if they were a very happy and peaceful family of three.

Jiang Zhennan looked at Xiaolu who was extremely happy, and said to Lin Yuelan with a smile, "Your Majesty said that Xiaolu is my son. The three of us come out like a family of three!"

Lin Yuelan blushed, and said with some coquettish anger, "Xiaolu is a son, so I am your daughter? Is it possible that you want to marry your daughter?"

Jiang Zhennan laughed and said, "If Yue'er is willing, why not?"

Lin Yuelan smiled angrily, "Jiang Zhennan, you think so beautifully!"

For a tender grass at her age, marrying an old cow like Jiang Zhennan has already taken advantage of Jiang Zhennan, and she even wants to take her father's share, which is beautiful.

Jiang Zhennan smiled again and said, "I prefer to be Yue'er's husband instead of Yue'er's father!"

"Hmph, what a beautiful idea!" Lin Yuelan said again with a sullen look, and ran away.

Jiang Zhennan immediately chased after him and said, "Yue'er, how can this be considered beautiful? You and I are already fiancées who have met their parents. If you don't marry me, who are you going to marry?"

"Hmph, a beauty like me can marry anyone as long as I want!"

"Hmph, except for Jiang Zhennan, I see who dares to marry you! Whoever marries me will abolish anyone!"

"You are really domineering!"

"Hey, you can't be domineering!"

The two played in the forest for a while, and when they were tired, they cuddled next to a small stream in the forest.

Looking at the clear bottom of the creek and listening to the sound of clear running water, the two felt very peaceful inside.

Neither of the two made a sound, enjoying this quiet moment.

I don't know how long it took, Xiaolu came over.

"Sister, brother-in-law!"

Hearing this voice was a bit wrong, the two immediately looked over, but saw his panicked expression.

Lin Yuelan immediately asked, "Little Green, what's wrong?"

According to Xiaolu's instinct, he rarely has such a panicked expression. I couldn't help but groan in my heart, and I had a bad premonition.

But all of a sudden he smiled and shook his head again, and said, "Nothing! I just want to tease you guys!"

Lin Yuelan immediately smiled and said, "Well, you little green, you have become a human, and you have become bad! You have also learned to scare your sister!"

Saying that, he stretched out his hand and gestured to hit Little Green.

Xiaolu immediately ran behind Jiang Zhennan, stuck out his head and said, "Sister, you can't hit me, you can't hit me!"

Lin Yuelan immediately laughed and scolded, "Hmph, who said I couldn't hit you!"

After speaking, the man also ran to Jiang Zhennan and wanted to go south, but Jiang Zhennan seemed to be protecting Xiaolu, so he turned around immediately, and Lin Yuelan fluttered.

"Okay, Jiang Zhennan, you even joined Xiaolu to bully me!"

"No, no, Xiaolu's hands are too strong, I can't fight, Yue'er, you have to believe me!"

"I do not believe it."

A game of eagles catching chickens, played in the deep mountains and forests.