Poor family mother and son

Chapter 647
In fact, just like delivering food to the army, less than half of the food that can be delivered is because they have to eat themselves.

In order to save food, the food delivery team stayed on the mountain for a longer period of time. They basically shouted a piece of beef or mutton that was dried like a log, which was slowly softened by saliva. As long as there was a taste in the mouth, they could cheat Lie to your stomach and insist on shipping more food to each base.

From having enough to eat to saving money, no one complains.

Chu Qing invested heavily in jade mining, not only food, but even the "Yuye Qiongjiang" wine was supplied.

Even though it is already April, the mountain is still very cold. The miners live in tents. They need to dig a nest first, and then put the tents on it.

It's better during the day, but at night, the temperature drops to the level of three or nine days. Even if you wear a thick cotton jacket, you will be stiff with cold.

Everyone had to squeeze in a tent with dozens or dozens of people to keep each other warm. It was the worst night, and the boys had to take a sip of strong wine to warm their bodies before they could fall asleep.

In a difficult environment, it is necessary to unite and help each other to tide over the difficulties together. Xiaobao's helpers really blended together in this severe living environment.

This year is destined to be another year of running around. Before leaving Voss, Chu Qing handed over the skills of making milk powder to Huang Zhong and Master Lu.

These two old men resolutely refused to go back with Chu Qing, they thought that their help was more needed here, and there was another reason - milk powder and milk flakes were delicious.

The milk powder is also made in the most primitive way. Boil the milk in a large pan with a shallow mouth, boil it slowly over a low heat, and stir it while boiling until it is as thick as a thin dough, and then spread it on the bottom of the pan that has been washed and dried. , waiting to dry.

The prairie is very windy, and it will dry out in a short time. It can be ground into powder when it is crushed.

You can't use a deep pot on high heat, otherwise it will become butter.

When grinding, put the powdered sugar in together, so that the milk powder produced is fragrant and sweet, without the fishy smell of fresh milk.

Except for the waste firewood, there is nothing wrong with it.

Milk flakes are derived from this-sweet milk powder and milk are mixed into a hard ball, rolled on a rolling pin, and then cut into small cubes. Unfortunately, there is no mold.

There is also condensed milk-five parts of fresh milk and one part of powdered sugar, still simmering and stirring slowly on a low heat, turn off the heat and let it cool when it becomes thick.

In May, Chu Qing had to go back to Daxuan, and Xiao Bao stayed to supervise the work.

Chu Qing took a small part of the prepared milk powder, milk flakes and condensed milk, which were for the emperor, and the rest were given to the jade mining team.

At the beginning of July, when the first batch of jade from the jade mining team was transported to the transit warehouse, Ge Jingtai, who came to watch the excitement, was stunned.

A cobbled road appeared in front of the transit warehouse, and there were stalls beside the road, selling milk powder, bean sprouts, garlic sprouts and green vegetables.

There is also a raised box, I don't know what is inside, and many herdsmen are watching.

In front of the warehouse, many people took out the rough jade stones soaked in water from the pit of the "planting people", and carefully peeled the ore from the ore with a chisel; there are also many large stones that have been "windowed" , so that Wubuliuqiu's stone exposed a palm-sized jade face.

Is this posted? !

Ge Jingtai really came this time to watch the excitement.

Hearing that there was a mudslide at Chuqing's mine a few days ago, and it was a very serious mudslide, the fourth prince sent him out to have fun: "Go and see how many of those scrapers were crushed to death? Hahaha, Jade is so easy to get?"

These days, the fourth prince is going to die of anger. First, before the beginning of spring, Chu Qing's people dug three feet to get a lot of jade.

However, with the arrival of spring, the ice and snow melted and the river water thawed, and the jade in the deep layer could be picked up directly, and there were more in the deep layer; in early summer, a large number of stones were carried down by the flood, filling the river beach again, and new jade was washed down again.

The fourth prince's mining area is relatively good after all, even if it is not good for Chu Qing, it is only relatively speaking.

What's good?That is, the river beaches for picking jade are all downstream. Before the flood comes every morning, jade can be picked up when the flood of the previous day recedes; in summer, when the flood comes late, jade can be picked at noon every day; in autumn, jade can be picked all day long.

Originally, where the water flow changed from rapid to slow, it was conducive to the accumulation of jade, but Chu Qing and they dug the ground three feet downstream, and the water flowed to the lower place.

Not to mention the jade in the river, the mudslides on the mountain, even if a group of people don't die, probably all work will stop, right?
But what's going on now?Why are these jades so old?They are all big pieces, look, the stone skin is actually extremely fine white jade!

How could there be such fine white jade in that mountain?how is this possible? !
How is it impossible, nothing is impossible.

Speaking of which, after Chu Qing left, Xiaobao went up to the mountain in person, and only got these white jades.

Not long after Chu Qing left, Yujing Mountain ushered in the first heavy rainfall, which caused a mudslide, which blocked Xiaomu's material transportation team at the foot of the mountain, and trapped people on the mountain unable to come down.

Disasters such as waterlogging, landslides, landslides and other disasters caused by mudslides cannot be solved overnight.

Even if the people on the mountain are not in danger, they are still facing a situation of food shortage.

They are all Xiaobao's helpers and students, and he, the leader, must be responsible.

But the two old people didn't know. They only thought that the people in the disaster area came out to work. How could they let Xiaobao go through life and death for them?

Regardless of the dissuasion of Master Lu and Huang Zhong, Xiaobao insisted on going to rescue himself.

Xiaobao organized a death squad and personally led the team to carry food and go up the mountain to find people.

Fortunately, none of these young people were fools, especially the youths of the Salt Gang with super survivability played a role in self-help. None of them died, only some of them were slightly injured.

Xiaobao's arrival played a great soothing role, and the food they carried up the mountain also kept them going for many days, until the road down the mountain was cleared and the food transport team caught up.

It was during this time that Xiaobao found a white and shiny area on the mountain that had been washed away by the heavy rain and collapsed. They dug holes near this area and placed gunpowder.

This was a painful process, because the rocks on the mountain were extremely hard, and the blast hole could only be drilled with a hammer. Five people could only dig less than three feet deep in a day. Xiaobao went to the battle himself, and almost cried himself out.

During the stone flow, the rocks around the jade layer were blown loose, exposing a large area of ​​high-quality white jade.

They used to expand the excavation at the place where the fourth prince originally mined, and what they got was only ordinary-quality white jade, with many cracks and cotton; but this time the jade layer exposed by the mudslide was of excellent quality!
What a blessing in disguise!

The helpers came to the conclusion in private: the cowhide is not for bragging, Yujing Mountain is not for piles, and Thor is going to show off his power.

Drilling picks and hammers were chiseled together, and the gunpowder exploded so loudly that not only the large pieces of jade were chiseled off, but also several caves where the miners could hide from the rain were blasted.

(End of this chapter)