The sun is setting.
Xingnong didn't stay in the mountain for long and soon went down to the workshop.
The workshop was already filled with baskets and baskets of soybeans, wheat and other things.
The large jars and pots were also delivered, and the villagers were cleaning them.
Gu, Shen Ruoxi, and Xing Qing also came to help.
In the past month, only Gu and Shen Ruoxi were at home. There were so many things to take care of at home, and Gu didn't dare to leave Shen Ruoxi alone at home, so she took her with her when she went to the fields.
The villagers of Taohua Village would not laugh at Shen Ruoxi. Everyone knew that she could not stand the stimulation, so they just called her gently and talked to Gu, without forcing her to say a few more words to themselves. Gradually, Shen Ruoxi was not so afraid to go out.
Now I can still work with so many people.
As soon as Xing Nong entered the workshop, she saw Zhao Yong carrying a load of water and asked Shen Ruoxi to pour it back into the jar. She pointed it out calmly.
Although he kept his head down and didn't dare to look at people, this was already a big improvement.
However, we still have to find all the antidote herbs as soon as possible to detoxify the snake venom.
The village chief's wife saw Xing Nong finally appear and hurriedly said, "Xing Nong, are all the things ready? Tell us what we are going to do now? What are we going to do tomorrow?"
Now all the tools and ingredients are ready, just waiting for Xingnong to teach us how to make soy sauce.
Xing Nong said to the village head's wife, "Soak the soybeans overnight, and you can steam them tomorrow morning."
"Okay! Did you hear that? Get to work! Get to work! Soak the soybeans!"
Everyone quickly got busy, some fetching water, some pouring the soybeans into wooden barrels.
You can just use well water to soak soybeans. When cooking soybeans and dipping the soy sauce embryo, Xingnong plans to use spring water, stream water, and well water separately to try which one produces better soy sauce.
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The next day, Xingnong woke up early and went to the workshop to teach everyone how to steam and cook soybeans.
The soybeans that have been soaked overnight have fully absorbed the water and become plump.
Xingnong signaled everyone to scoop the soybeans into a clean basket, drain the water, then pour them into a wooden steaming barrel and steam them in a large iron pot.
It takes about two or three hours of steaming, until the soybeans are cooked and break into pieces when squeezed.
Soon, a row of twenty stoves were firing.
Xingnong went to take a look at the firewood. There was firewood piled up in the whole room, enough for this cooking, but firewood would be needed for everything else that came next, so more firewood had to be prepared.
Now the villagers in their own village are too busy to go up the mountain to chop firewood, so they can only ask people from other villages for help.
She found Village Chief Gu and said, "Village Chief, we need to arrange for someone to buy some firewood. It would be best if a batch of dry firewood is delivered at a fixed time."
The village chief heard this and said, "I know that people in our village don't have time to go up the mountain to chop firewood now. I think we should ask people from other villages for help. It's very simple. We just need to spread the word and there will be many villagers in the surrounding villages who are willing to send firewood here to earn some money. Besides that, we can also go to some wood factories to collect some waste wood."
In fact, people in the neighboring village now know that two large workshops have been opened in their village, and they have come to him one after another to express their desire to work in the workshops.
Xingnong thought that if he bought firewood, it would probably cause many people to go up the mountain to cut trees. It would be fine if it took a short time, but it would not work if it took a long time.
Although the firewood chopped by a small workshop will not damage the ecology, protecting trees and the environment still has to start with ourselves, from the beginning.
When spring comes, she will get some saplings and hire people to plant the trees, planting as many trees as she cut down.
Xing Nong expressed his thoughts.
Songbai and Village Chief Gu were surprised when they heard this: "No? There are so many trees on the mountain, we can't cut them all down."
Xing Nong: "It's better to take precautions. The firewood that we chop up from the mountain for our workshop is certainly enough, but when hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of workshops are built in the future, it won't be enough."
Village Chief Gu was wondering where so many families could afford to open workshops!
Xingnong knew that the modern world was unimaginable to people of this dynasty.
She had to explain again the dangers of indiscriminate logging. The village chief heard that in serious cases it could even cause landslides and soil erosion.
"If you only cut down trees without planting them, even the biggest mountain will eventually be cut down, right?"
The village chief thought that when the mountain roads were opened, the dug hills would often cause landslides during heavy rains. If someone passed by, it would be a very serious matter. He immediately said, "Plant! We must plant!"
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Xingnong was very busy in the following days. The brewing of soy sauce cannot be completed in one day. After steaming, it needs to be cooled, added with soy sauce koji, coated with powder, cultured with bacteria, added with salt water, dried in the sun, and repeatedly turned over... and so on.
There are three types of sun-dried sauce, namely, three months, six months, and one year. Xingnong plans to make a few batches of those that need to be sun-dried for three months first, and then some that need to be sun-dried for half a year and one year.
After the sauce is dried, it needs to be soaked in the sauce embryo. The sauce embryo needs to be repeatedly poured in. Finally, it needs to be filtered, boiled, and packed into jars.
Next^_^ After the soy sauce is arranged, it is the turn of chili sauce, bean paste, and soybean sauce.
As for the snack workshop, the fresh fruits purchased should be used while they are still fresh to make candies of various fruit flavors, so as to make some candy money before the New Year. Due to the lack of manpower and raw materials, Xingnong planned to make candies first, and then slowly add more varieties of other snacks later.
Under Xingnong's arrangement, the villagers of Taohua Village began to work in an orderly manner. Everyone was so busy every day that they were so tired that they fell asleep as soon as they got home.
But no one complained or felt tired. Instead, they felt content and their lives were fulfilling.
No matter how tired I am, my body is tired but my heart is happy, so after waking up and getting enough rest, the next day will be another day full of energy and enthusiasm!
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Just when Xingnong was busy in the workshop every day.
The witness invited by Chu Tianyu to seek justice for Shen Mingzhu also arrived in the capital.
There were several witnesses in total, including the manager of the Futai official kiln workshop in Futai County, two students from Bailu Academy, Zhang Wenzhong and Shen Zhiyuan, the village chief of Meihua Village, and the manager of the Futai County Magistrate.
In the Golden Palace, these people knelt on the ground and trembled as they told the story of what they knew.
After the second prince waited for them to finish testifying, he presented a copy of the "Ten Thousand People" testimony and the testimony of a hundred students: "Father, this is the signed testimony of the villagers of Taohua Village and several nearby villages. So many people testified for Shen Mingzhu, which is enough to prove that it was definitely Miss Shen Xingnong who took the credit for saving the oil lamp!"
Eunuch Lao immediately took the two testimonies and presented them to the emperor.
The emperor opened it and took a look, then looked at Chu Tiankuo with a serious face: "What did the prince say?"
"Your Majesty, please allow me to interrogate these people."
The emperor nodded.
Chu Tiankuo said to the people kneeling on the ground: "Regarding the matter of Miss Chen Xingnong snatching the credit for the oil-saving lamp, the Jinying Guard has already sent people to investigate. Now when I ask you questions, you must tell the truth, otherwise you will be deceiving the emperor!"
After Chu Tiankuo finished speaking, he glanced at Shen Mingzhu indifferently.
Shen Mingzhu lowered her head and noticed from the corner of her eye that Chu Tiankuo was looking at her, and her heart tightened.
But with so many people testifying for him, and even if they really found out that it was Chen Xingnong who asked someone to make the fuel-saving lamp first, what would it matter
Chen Xingnong had never been to school and knew nothing. There wasn't even an oil lamp at home. How did she come up with the idea of an energy-saving lamp
She could say that she was the one who mentioned this fuel-saving lamp in front of her.
She has been able to read and write since she was young, and has read a lot of books. She is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Compared with Chu Tiankuo, who has read all the books and whose family is so poor that they can't even afford an oil lamp, who will the emperor believe
Besides, there are so many villagers and students can testify for themselves!
She can definitely take back the credit for saving the fuel!
Several people kneeling on the ground said:
"I dare not!"
"Students don't dare!"
Chu Tianyu sneered, thinking that just bringing out the Jinying Guards would be enough
He had already asked them this question, and they didn't dare to lie!
The fact is that Chu Tiankuo, together with Ren Zilin, helped Chen Xingnong get the credit for saving the oil lamp. He also used this as an excuse to attract his father's attention again and pave the way for himself to return to the capital!
Chu Tiankuo came to the manager of the Futai County official kiln, looked at him coldly, and said to the maid, "Give them a piece of paper, and you should think about it carefully, and then write down when this girl will come to you with the drawings to make oil-saving lamps."
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