Ji Cha originally planned to buy a bean grinder only for making tofu at home. The quantity and scale were not large, so he bought a total of three machines. Originally, I was planning to use one of the two machines first, but now that I am making beans on a large scale, I realized that the three machines will be enough to start working together.
Not long after dawn the next morning, Ji Cha got up first to check the beans soaked last night, and then rushed to the recruiting place after breakfast at home. There were already recruiting soldiers and early-rising citizens preparing to arrange today A work plan for the day.
Ji Cha went over to say hello, and the recruiting soldier handed him a small book, "There are three quotas for you, and you will be reimbursed for the wages you have recruited."
This is much more generous than Ji Cha expected, he nodded, "Okay, when the time comes, I'll contact you and ship it over, so I can make it in time for the noon meal."
Ji Cha stood in front of the people with a small book and examined them carefully. Although it was not easy to choose a person, he already had a suitable candidate in his heart.
The young woman who built the wall with him yesterday was also there, the child on her back was still asleep, her head tilted to one side, her face pale. There was an elderly woman of about sixty, and an elderly man of about the same age.
The three of them were a little dazed when Ji Cha called them out of the team. The soldiers on the side stood up and walked in front of them, "Give him your name and ID number," he pointed at Ji Cha, "follow him in a while. "
Although they didn't know what they were going to do, the three of them walked up to Ji Cha immediately after hearing the words, and looked at him cautiously. The young woman recognized Ji Cha yesterday, so she dared to talk to him, "Where are we going?"
Ji Cha wrote down their identity information in the notebook, lowered his head and said, "Go to work, the work on my side is lighter, and I can rest when I'm not busy, and the wages are the same as those outside of them. .”
With doubts in their hearts, the three of them walked to the factory door together with Ji Cha. This is not the first time they have seen this building, and they were wondering who could live in it, but they were all surprised after being brought into the house by Ji Cha, "Is this where you live?"
I don't blame them for their reaction, after all, Ji Cha looked mediocre and nothing special.
"Well," Ji Cha casually brought this topic up, and he led the three of them into the factory where the machines were already roaring, and assigned them tasks, "Today you are mainly here to help make tofu, and my grandma will tell you."
The young woman's name is Sun Xiaofang. She is a native of S City. She originally ran a small supermarket with her husband in the city, and lived a peaceful and beautiful life. Who would have thought that the end of the world would strike almost overnight, and their peaceful life would be overturned. Chaos struck, and her husband was also infected during the fight against the zombies. She couldn't keep the things in the small supermarket by herself, so she could only protect the child and follow the army to the outskirts of the city.
Sun Xiaofang's child is less than one year old, and it is the time when he will cry and make trouble. Now I live in a small farmhouse assigned by the army. Not only do I have to work hard for rations every day, but I also can’t sleep at night with fear, not only afraid of zombies, but also afraid of other people.
If Ji Cha hadn't given her the canned food yesterday, she probably wouldn't have the strength to work today.
The three people who came to serve Ji tea are all in urgent need of a job to make ends meet, and they lack physical strength. As soon as they entered the factory and learned about the work, the three of them immediately understood why Ji Cha asked them to come over, and all the gratitude in their hearts could only be transferred to work.
However, no matter how much work in the factory, it is not as tiring as the work outside.
After the bean dregs are ready, they are put into the iron pot on the earthen stove to cook in turn. After filtering, the bean dregs are piled up in several large buckets. The bean curds are poured into the molds that have been prepared for compaction. It was time to rest, and the three of them didn't dare to rest for the rest of the time. The work here is already much simpler and lighter than moving bricks outside, and I am afraid that they will not be allowed to come here tomorrow.
The child on Sun Xiaofang's back woke up twice, the first time she was held aside by Sun Xiaofang and fed, and then slowly fell asleep again, but it was not so easy to coax when she woke up the second time. She kept crying and kicking her feet, her face flushed red.
Sun Xiaofang had no choice but raised her hand and slapped the child's buttocks twice, "Cry, let you cry again!"
Grandma saw her and quickly grabbed her, "Hey, what does such a big child know? Why did you beat him? Didn't you feel bad when you broke it?" She took the child in her hands and turned to the door and shouted, "Qinqin, When you come out, take this child in and coax him!"
Zhang Qinqin is a preschool teacher and is very experienced in this. She hugged the child and said to Sun Xiaofang who was full of worry, "Don't worry about it. I'll put him to sleep and bring him over when you leave at night."
Sun Xiaofang nodded gratefully, "I'm sorry to trouble you."
They made tofu, while Ji Cha and Wang Qinxue were developing other vacant land. It is a good thing to be able to cooperate with the military to use all the land outside, but it is still necessary to develop it step by step.
The potatoes and sweet potatoes planted in early September have grown quite a lot of seedlings, and they are green and full of vitality. The weather in S City in early October was not very cold, so it was just right to wait until November to keep warm in the greenhouse.
The remaining land season tea preparations are planted with fast-maturing and common plants before the season of planting staple food. Not only can they open up the army, but they can also open up the market in the S city base.
Now everyone is still exhausted, but it will not take long for the base wall to be completed. After the base is formally formed, the interior will continue to be orderly and re-socialized. Many industries that have lost their functions will return to their original positions sooner or later. Although primitive, it is also one of the driving forces of operation.
Ji Cha has worked on a farm before, and he knows that with effective management, it is a completely achievable goal for everyone to eat fresh food.
As time goes by, the water in the tofu is gradually squeezed out, and the tofu is formed piece by piece. The seasoned tofu tea to be sent to the army was not cut, but was only placed on a car with wooden planks, and about 100 catties at a time was transported to a small contact point of the army by small tricycles, where they were transported away by themselves.
Slabs of fresh tofu exude a hot temperature, white and tender, and very eye-catching. The people working around are all staring at Ji Cha, but they are afraid of the soldiers with guns beside him and dare not go forward.
Three carts of tofu were sent out in the morning, and less than three hundred catties were cooked for lunch in the army. Fresh tofu is sprinkled with chili and braised in soy sauce, without any other meaty taste, and it doesn't matter if you put it in white rice.
It's just that there are so many people in the army, three hundred catties is enough for one person and two people in the afternoon. The people in the cooking team don't know how many catties are ordered by the above and Ji Cha, and they are annoyed by other soldiers asking, so they just ride a bike to inquire. Fang came to ask Ji Cha.
"According to the plan in the afternoon, we will pay 700 catties, and the day after tomorrow there will be 300 catties of bean sprouts that can be put into the pot."
The fire leader stretched his neck to look at the production scene in full swing behind Ji Cha, and then heard the number reported by Ji Cha, and waved his hands quickly, "No, no, you make too little, two thousand catties of tofu a day, and less talk about bean sprouts every day." It takes a thousand catties, otherwise if you eat some, you will come to me, who should I go to?"
Ji Cha was secretly happy. If he followed this method, he would not have to worry about the feed for the livestock at all just because of the profit from the beans every day.
However, the process still needs to be followed. Ji Cha can't be the master, and neither can the firefighters.
"I came here according to the instructions above. It's not impossible to make the quantity you said, but I don't have the materials."
The fire leader thought for a while, "Wait, I'll go back and make a report, and I have to finish this matter tonight!" He walked two steps and turned back, "By the way, the green vegetables are also from you, right?"
Ji Cha nodded, and saw the fire leader saying, "Success, just wait, it's not difficult."
The leaders above also haven’t eaten fresh dishes for several days. They have already pried their mouths open because of tofu and vegetables. The leader above clapped his hands and settled the matter.
Change one thousand catties of tofu to two thousand catties per day, and first change three hundred catties of bean sprouts to one thousand catties per day. The tofu was told one day in advance how much to make, and the bean sprouts were told four days in advance. The ingredients were all from the army, and the number of additional helpers sent to Ji Cha changed from three to six.
The three of Sun Xiaofang were busy until after four o'clock in the afternoon, and finally finished all the tofu and delivered it to the factory gate.
It happened that people from the army also came to deliver the beans for the next day, and Ji Cha asked them to bring the tofu back by the way. The three of Sun Xiaofang helped unload a large cart of beans and moved them into the half-open warehouse left by Ji Cha on the side of the factory building, filling it half full.
"Did you eat tofu today?" Ji Cha chatted with the soldier who reconciled the account, "How does it taste?"
The soldier came back and forth with him twice, and he also smiled, "After eating, I just took a bite. Damn, I got it by snatching it, but it tastes good."
"Of course," Ji Cha said, "I made it by hand without any chemical ingredients. It's not like the tofu they sell in the supermarket has a strange smell. There are 400 catties more tofu in the afternoon than at noon. You might be able to go there sooner. Take an extra tablespoon."
"Hey, okay," the soldier said with a smile, "you are amazing, you can make such things," he said, and took out a small book from his pocket. This is the "salary slip" made by the army. Those who came to receive the food distributed every day, "here, take this, Zhao Tiankuo asked me to bring it to you, today you can open three tickets for the authority in your hand, and six tickets tomorrow, I have said hello to the food distributor over there Yes, you can pick it up in a while."
Ji Cha looked down and saw that there was a small note on the salary slip, indicating where the salary came from. His notebook says "Tofu Factory".
As soon as the soldiers left, he turned around and saw the three of Sun Xiaofang standing behind him. The few of them are actually a little cramped, and they only rest at four o'clock, and the whole day's work today is not very tiring. Will the salary slip be only two bites of food
If this is the case, they might as well move bricks tomorrow.
Ji Cha took out a pen from his bosom, leaned the salary book against the wall, wrote down the names of the three people on three pieces of paper, and ticked 100% in the column of completion without hesitation, and finally signed it. Only then did he tear off his own name and hand it to them.
"Come here a little earlier tomorrow than today. Don't go to the recruiting place. Come here and someone will open the door for you. If you come, just do what you did today. I have to go to the recruiting place to recruit some people."
I didn't expect the work to be easy, not to mention, even the salary slips are more generous than those outside! The three of them are frail and old. They didn't get 100% completion when they moved the bricks yesterday, but they didn't expect to be able to receive the highest salary from Ji Cha today. Hearing that he wanted them to come over tomorrow, he couldn't help being even more delighted.
Before they left, Ji Cha gave each of them a small bag of bean dregs. Fresh okara not only has high nutritional value, but also tastes good if cooked properly.
The army also has an agreement with Ji Cha on the disposal of bean dregs. Ji Cha can keep three tenths of the bean dregs and use them as he likes. The rest of the bean dregs army was taken back and processed into bean dregs cakes and the like, which was also a good dry food.
Three-tenths of the bean dregs in a thousand catties of tofu is enough for two meals for Jicha's ten pigs, not to mention the two thousand catties of tofu in the next day, mixed with other feeds, the ten pigs in the family can't finish it.
The food intake of chickens is very limited compared to that of pigs, and there is still a lot of bean dregs left after the season tea is full. It's a pity that rabbits don't eat bean dregs, so he has to get feed for them.
When it comes to poultry and livestock, I have to mention that two hens started laying eggs two days ago. Ji Cha hadn't carefully observed whether the hen had mated with the rooster, but he was still planning to incubate the first eggs.
He had already prepared the small hatchery, and he would transfer the hens into it as soon as they started brooding.
The other is the rabbit. Last time the female rabbit came into heat early, and the male rabbit had no symptoms. These days, the male rabbit has finally begun to show sexual maturity. Because Ji Cha feeds more carefully, I hope the rabbits can give birth to more.
This is all fresh meat!