Nongmen Blessed Wife: The elder sister-in-law has space for farming

Chapter 41 Borrowing Sweet Potatoes

Just thinking about this, Gu Yunxian walked in quickly outside the door, and when he saw Yin Ziying, he immediately said pleasantly: "Sister-in-law, have you noticed that those chickens, ducks and geese really seem to have grown up!"

Yin Ziying raised her eyebrows pretending not to notice: "Oh? Really? I even fed them water this morning. I think they're about the same. Have they grown up?"

Gu Yunxian nodded affirmatively: "Grow up, sister-in-law, they have really grown up, do you think our family..."

Before he finished speaking, Yin Ziying stretched out her index finger to hiss her lips, and said with a smile: "You can't talk nonsense about these words."

Gu Yunxian also reacted, he nodded: "Yes, sister-in-law, you are right."

At this moment, he only had surprises in his heart, why did he want to stop Yin Ziying from buying chickens, ducks and geese yesterday?
After everyone finished their breakfast, Yin Ziying stopped Gu Yunxian who wanted to go to Uncle Gu's house to borrow sweet potatoes with her, and signaled them to go to the mountain to get something first, and then went to Uncle Gu's house by herself.

She came here today to borrow sweet potatoes, and she thought about trying to make things like sweet potato starch.

Inside the room, Mrs. Yu was drying the clothes she had just washed, when she heard a knock on the door, she came out to greet her: "Hey, here we come, here we come."

When she opened the door and saw Yin Ziying outside, she froze for a moment, then smiled: "Ziying, are you here?"

Yin Ziying smiled and said, "Well, Auntie, I'm here. I'm here to borrow something."

"Borrow something? Borrow something? Ziying, if you need anything at home, just tell me, don't be polite to your aunt."

Yin Ziying said: "Auntie, I'm doing something recently, so I need some sweet potatoes, we went to town yesterday, but I don't remember buying them.

I'm thinking of borrowing some sweet potatoes from you today, and then buying them back to you when we go to the town to sell vegetables in two days, do you think it's okay? "

Yu was taken aback for a moment, then came to her senses and said, "Ziying, did you go to the town to sell vegetables yesterday? How is it? How much do you sell your vegetables for a catty? Is it a penny? Or how much?"

Hearing her ask about this, Yin Ziying didn't hide it, but said: "The shopkeeper said that our food tastes very good, and he can give us two cents a catty. But then I was soft-hearted and talked to him a little bit There is a way, so he gave us five cents a catty."

"What? Five cents a catty?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Mrs. Yu raised her voice and shouted, "Five Wen a catty!"

Five cents is not a small amount. You must know that one penny is equal to one egg, and five cents is five eggs.

This isn't meat, it's just vegetables. These vegetables can be sold for five cents a catty?

Her stuttering words were a little unclear: "Ziying, what you said, this, is it true? Is it really five cents a catty?"

Yin Ziying nodded: "Well, it's five cents a catty, but I made this on purpose."

"Ziying, how did you get the shopkeeper to agree to buy your things for five cents a catty?"

Yin Ziying explained the methods she said, and then said:
"Actually, these are all my nonsense, but the shopkeeper's estimate seems to be quite useful, so he promised to raise the price for me, but it was only this time. I don't know if I can give this price next time. price."

Hearing that it was Yin Ziying who made the shopkeeper abruptly raise the price by three pennies based on her own idea, Yu was shocked, she nodded and smiled happily:

"Okay, okay, this is a good thing! By the way, Ziying, what did you want to borrow when you came here just now? Borrow sweet potatoes, right? Okay, auntie will go get it for you right now, how much do you want?"

Yin Ziying took the pannier from her back and handed it to Yu Shi, saying, "Auntie, I may have borrowed a lot this time, I want to fill this pannier, and I will buy it for you when I get it back." That's it."

"You don't want to pay back what you say, kid. Let's talk about the life of your own family first. Your uncle and I can breathe a sigh of relief when you are living like this now."

As she spoke, she reached out to take the basket, and then patted Yin Ziying's hand: "Ziying, then you wait here, and my aunt will get you sweet potatoes right away."

As she said that, she hurriedly turned her head and walked inside.

Yin Ziying followed behind and said, "Auntie, then I'll go get it with you, it's really embarrassing to stand here."

"Yes, it should be like this. Every time your child comes back, he stands at the door and doesn't even drink a cup of tea from the aunt's house." Yu Shi blamed.

Yin Ziying shook her head and smiled: "What's the matter, Auntie, I didn't think that your house is so close to mine. We are all from our own family. Why do we drink a cup of tea when we come here? Isn't this a guest? Why should we both See you so far?"

Seeing what she said, Yu's face was even more happy: "Your child can really talk. Now, we are really relieved."

At this moment, she was very thankful that her man had given money back then, and had taken such a nephew and daughter-in-law for the second room.

With such a capable and sensible nephew and daughter-in-law, the life of the nephews and nieces in the second room would not be too difficult, otherwise they would always have to worry.

Yin Ziying walked back to her house after borrowing a basket full of sweet potatoes from Uncle Gu's house.

She first cleaned the sweet potatoes in the big wooden basin at home, and during the cleaning, she also took the opportunity to add some sweet potatoes produced in the space.

She did this mainly to see if the flour yield would be higher if sweet potatoes produced in the space were added.

Sweet potato starch and sweet potato vermicelli are very common things in modern times, not to mention that she used to be an up owner as an amateur, so she is quite familiar with this set of processes.

After the sweet potatoes are washed, it is normal to use a machine to grind them into a paste, but in this ancient time, there were no modern machines, so they can only be ground with the most traditional stone mills.

The stone mill was so heavy that Yin Ziying couldn't move it by herself.

Therefore, she decided to use a tool to grate all these sweet potatoes into shreds first, and then wait until Gu Yunxian and the others came back to grate the sweet potatoes again.

Otherwise, she was really worried that the ancient stone mill could not completely grind the sweet potatoes into fine pieces.

In modern times, when it is machine-made, the sweet potato pulp is all very fine and dense paste. In this ancient stone mill, it may be thicker.

This morning, Yin Ziying was sitting on the porch of her house and was rubbing the sweet potatoes one by one with the kitchen utensils for grating.

Whenever she felt tired or sleepy, she drank a little water from the spiritual spring in the space, and immediately regained her vitality.

This also made her sigh, if this is the case, even if she can't do anything in the future, it is feasible to sneak out and pretend to be a miracle doctor.

After all, after she drank this spiritual spring water, her whole body would be in good health, and she didn't know if it could cure some diseases.

(End of this chapter)