Two main bamboo houses and half kitchen bamboo shed.

The golden straw roof faintly reveals a low-key yet slightly luxurious temperament.

The straw straw is neatly repaired, and the dripping eaves are spread out. The delicate work of the craftsmen can be seen in the simplicity.

The 50-square-meter courtyard was neatly tidied and cleaned by everyone.

A brand new bamboo fence gives people a natural integration into the surrounding environment, but still retains a sense of independence.

Luo Xuan sat under the eaves, looking at his brand new home, with mixed feelings in his heart, and he couldn't tell what he was feeling.

It’s just.

Looking at his new home in this life, Luo Xuan had the most intuitive understanding in his heart: As long as he pays enough wages, the work will be done well!

Look at the rammed earth courtyard dam.

The ground is smooth, the soil is compacted, and the drainage ditches are dug neatly. They are almost as good as the cement drying yard in the grain station!

This high-quality courtyard dam was naturally built by Uncle Zhang from the quarry, who came with a group of strong men to help Luo Xuan level it.

Luo Tiezhu didn't come.

But Luo Xuan could vaguely feel that Luo Tiezhu's heart seemed to be here...

Today the masons came to help with the work. Luo Xuan originally planned to treat them to a casual meal, but Uncle Zhang sternly refused.

Uncle Zhang knows very well how much these craftsmen eat.

If they were allowed to eat openly, they could eat up a month's supply of refined grains in one meal!

What Uncle Zhang means is: We are all fellow villagers, and we did not come here specifically to help Luo Xuan with work, but used our free time after work to help Luo Xuan level the courtyard dam.

It’s just a simple effort for everyone, there’s nothing worth fussing about.

Others don’t want compensation, but Luo Xuan can’t help but express his feelings.

In order to express his gratitude, Luo Xuan had no choice but to go to Dai Hongmei's agency store and buy back 6 boxes of "Chun Geng Brand" cigarettes at one time.

A box of Spring Plowing cigarettes costs 8 cents, which is almost enough to support a strong labor force in one day's worth of work points.

Then, under Dai Hongmei's guidance, Luo Xuan gritted his teeth and bought a box of "Hongmei brand" cigarettes for 30.6 cents.

One pack of cheap cigarettes is given to each person.

As for the expensive cigarettes, the owner will open them and hand them out to everyone one by one.

The most expensive cigarettes in the entire agency store are "Jade Brand" cigarettes, which cost 30.7 cents a pack.

Hongmei cigarettes are the second most expensive.

At Dai Hongmei's suggestion, Luo Xuan took a step back and bought the second most expensive "Hongmei" cigarette.

According to Dai Hongmei: If village members want to ask someone to do something, "Hongmei" cigarettes are their first choice.

Luo Xuan held the cigarette and couldn't help but wonder: Is it because you are also called Dai Hongmei, so unconsciously, you prefer the word "Hongmei"?

"What are you looking at?"

Dai Hongmei saw Luo Xuan looking at her with confusion, glanced at her mother in the distance, then glared at Luo Xuan with almond-shaped eyes and shouted in a low voice: "Forget it if you don't buy it, it will make it seem like I will hurt you!"<

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Luo Xuan smiled, took the cigarette and ran away.

A person like Dai Hongmei encountered a big change when she first became a woman. Now she has become a young widow inexplicably.

Her current temperament is somewhere between that of a young daughter-in-law and a grown-up girl. She can act like the women in the production team and dare to say anything.

After a while, she will become extremely shy like a young girl waiting to be married.

Dai Hongmei's attitude towards her was unpredictable, and it was definitely not something Luo Xuan could offend.

But even if I can't afford to provoke him, I still have to shamelessly get involved...

Luo Xuan has been consciously getting closer to Dai Hongmei for a while now.

Not for anything else, just because Luo Xuan fell in love with her...

The "consignment store" in her home.

On weekdays, there is nothing surprising about this small consignment store. But in difficult times in the future, this small store will have a lot of room for operation.

Luo Xuan is not sure now whether he will be able to get involved in the "consignment store" in the future.

But planning in advance will never go wrong. Even if it fails in the end, Luo Xuan will not lose anything.

Regardless of whether it has dates or not, Luo Xuan is ready to take a shot first.

After buying the cigarettes, Luo Xuan went home and distributed them to the craftsmen who were helping. Then he sat under the eaves and asked the production team leader Peng Zhikun in a low voice, "Third cousin, where did the mute get his vermicelli?"

The county and city where Luo Xuan is located do not have the habit of growing potatoes.

Therefore, when rural people in this area make vermicelli, they need to use red potatoes or corn.

The cost of corn is high. Vermicelli factories in supply and marketing cooperatives usually use corn to make corn starch instead of making vermicelli.

The vermicelli Luo Xuan bought from Mute today is made of sweet potato flour.

"I don't know, the mute does very strange things, who can guess him!"

Peng Zhikun smoked the "Hongmei" cigarette handed to him by Luo Xuan, took a deep breath greedily, and then slowly exhaled the smoke bit by bit.

"Mute has a good family background and is Captain Liao's uncle. He is also diligent and has several skills at his disposal."

Peng Zhikun whispered: "His water is very deep. No one in the team can guess what other precious things he has in his hands."

Mute often sells food out, and everyone knows the source of his food. This is not surprising.

But he was also selling vermicelli, which left Luo Xuan puzzled.

In late autumn, when the sweet potatoes are harvested, the production team will also take out some of the sweet potatoes.

Then organize manpower and material resources to make part of the sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato vermicelli and the like.

Dried sweet potatoes can be used as "war preparation food".

The sweet potato vermicelli is distributed to everyone as a benefit to the production team members.

Vermicelli is shelf-stable.

When members are short of food, they can use it as food to satisfy their hunger.

Luo Xuan was very interested in the vermicelli that the mute had on hand.

So I chased Peng Zhikun and asked: "Third cousin, the mute got the same amount of vermicelli as everyone else at the end of the year. The sweet potatoes haven't come out yet, how did he get his vermicelli?"

Peng Zhikun really never paid attention to this matter before.

Seeing Luo Xuan chasing after him now, he had no choice but to lower his head and think for a moment, then slowly shook his head, "I don't understand the specific situation. Maybe he has a lot of food on hand and makes some vermicelli at home to sell?

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There is no technical content in making vermicelli.

It is indeed possible that the vermicelli on hand by the mute was made by himself at home.

To make vermicelli, you need to grind the sweet potatoes into pulp first, then wrap them in gauze, add water and filter them continuously.

Then put the filtered, starch-rich water in a tank, stir, and settle several times to get out the watery starch.

Next, add a little alum to the starch, then put it into a colander, and use a wooden hammer to continuously hit the starch to make it flow out from the holes in the colander.

Under the colander is a large iron pot with boiling water.

After the starch filaments enter boiling water, they will coagulate and become transparent, and their toughness will also increase.

The heated vermicelli is then cooled by running cold water through it. By this time, the vermicelli will be formed.

Next, hang the gouache on the bamboo pole to dry, and the vermicelli is completely finished.

Most people in the production team know this craft.

As for the mute who wants to dry the vermicelli secretly, this is not difficult to do.

Because the mute’s family has a vicious dog. This dog is very ferocious, and basically no one dares to provoke that dog.

If he needs to dry the vermicelli, he only needs to close the courtyard door and let the dog out.

As long as the dog is not tied up, most people will not dare to enter the courtyard of his house to look for him. Instead, they will yell at the mute through the mud wall, or throw clods of dirt and stones inside.

As the old saying goes, nine out of ten are deaf.

Although this mute is not truly deaf, his hearing is very limited.

When people shouted that they should not respond to him, they would often throw clods and stones into his yard to remind the mute that someone was looking for him.

Therefore, if the mute occasionally makes vermicelli secretly behind closed doors, he can really do it.

Making vermicelli is easy.
Chapter completed!