The county magistrate went back satisfied, and Jiang Shaoning stayed at Shi's house for dinner.
As he expected, besides eating the sweet potatoes raw and boiled, there are many other ways to make them, especially the shredded sweet potatoes, which opened his eyes.
I think this dish would be worthy of being served at his Fu'an restaurant.
The Shi family didn't hide it, let alone sell the recipe for money, but directly gave the recipe to Jiang Shaoning.
It was not until very late that Jiang Shaoning staggered onto his carriage with the help of his servant.
Sitting on the carriage, pointing at Shi Yao Qian and said.
"Your family is very good. If you have any new things in the future, you can bring them to the restaurant. Your family will never suffer any loss."
Jiang Shaoning opened his slightly drunken eyes and patted his heart in assurance.
After saying that, the servant lowered the curtain and drove the carriage back to the county town.
Shi Yao Qian smiled and watched the carriage go away, and no shadow could be seen. Then he turned around and entered the yard. After closing the door, he let out a heavy breath.
It's been a whole day, and dealing with the county magistrate and Jiang Shaoning is more tiring than doing a whole day's work.
"Dad, we still have a lot of sweet potatoes in Uncle Cai's field! I think our family needs to dig a cellar, otherwise we won't be able to dig out the sweet potatoes and pile them in the yard."
After all, in addition to eating these sweet potatoes on a daily basis, you also need to save seeds and plant them again next year!
"Okay, I will tell you Uncle Cai when the time comes to find a place to dig a larger cellar in our backyard. Then, the ice cubes you made can also be placed in it. However, you can put it in this afternoon.
What do you want your mother to do with that sweet potato?"
As soon as the county magistrate left this afternoon and he accompanied Jiang Shaoning, his daughter called his wife and Granny Shen aside, muttering something unknown.
Anyway, it was my wife and Mrs. Shen who used brushes to grate more sweet potatoes, which was more than half a basket.
Now those shredded sweet potatoes are all soaked in the basin, and there is still a lot of water in the basin.
Shi's father looked at the gray basin of water and was completely confused. What was his daughter doing?
Hearing Shi's father ask this, Shi Jiang remembered that the sweet potato noodles were still waiting for her!
I looked at the time and saw that it was getting dark and at least six or seven hours had passed.
So, Shi Jiang took out another basin, and then slowly poured the water floating on it into another basin.
When the layer of water was poured out, the sweet potato flour that had condensed into a large mass in the basin was revealed.
Moreover, when I first looked at the water, I felt it was extremely dirty, but now the large piece of sweet potato flour at the bottom of the basin is still a little brown, but if you look closely, you can see that it is still white.
Shi Jiang knew that if he wanted snow-white sweet potato flour, he would have to filter more water.
However, this will inevitably lead to waste.
If it's not white enough, it's not white enough. Anyway, after cooking the Chinese cabbage and meat in a hot pot, add the vermicelli made with sweet potato flour. Such a small handful of vermicelli can fill your stomach until it's full.
Add a little dried chili pepper in, and eat the vermicelli into your stomach. It will be warm and make people not feel the cold in winter.
The most important thing is that after drying this kind of vermicelli, there will be no problem even if it is transported to the south.
Sure enough, within a few days, Jiang Shaoning sent someone to inform Shi's father that a businessman here was here.
If the Shi family has anything that can be sold to a merchant, just go to his restaurant and find the shopkeeper.
Shi's father, Shi's mother and Shi Jiang looked at each other and finally let them wait.
I took out some of the vermicelli made during this period, as well as the hibiscus sauce made during this year, and asked Shi's father to take it to Fu'an Restaurant.
The hibiscus sauce given to businessmen has not been diluted.
In this way, they can be stored for a long time, so the prices are also different.
Wait for the vermicelli to be boiled in water, then mix it with the diluted hibiscus sauce, and eat it in one bite. The businessman immediately decided to buy it.
There is still a lot of it, but luckily Shijia has prepared enough. As for the vermicelli, we need to make more.
However, they who are running business are not only collecting these things from the Shi family, their most important thing is to go outside the customs to collect fur.
It takes a month to come and go, which is enough time for the Jiang family to make the amount of vermicelli needed by the caravan.
After the county magistrate reported the sweet potatoes, the entire court was shocked.
However, before the county magistrate submitted the sweet potatoes, Shi's father had already taken some of the sweet potatoes grown at Uncle Cai's house and sent some to Prince Jing.
Prince Jing naturally knew about Shi Yao Qian.
At first, he didn't care much about Shi Yao Qian. After all, he was the emperor's man no matter what.
However, since the Shi family was exiled to Bianguan, Shi Yao Qian did not believe that Shi Yao Qian had no complaints against the emperor.
When he received the sweet potatoes sent by Yao Qian, as well as a pamphlet about the yield of the sweet potatoes, how to grow them, and recipes for eating them, Prince Jing almost jumped out of his chair.
This is really a nap, someone needs a special pillow!
However, Prince Jing couldn't help but speculate on conspiracy, after all, he was not familiar with Shi Yao Qian either!
Why would he give himself such a big gift?
Initially, Prince Jing had doubts about whether the sweet potatoes could yield a thousand kilograms per mu, but when the news came that the An County magistrate had presented the sweet potatoes to the emperor, he knew that Shi Yao Qian was afraid that sending this over was just a matter of smooth sailing.
After all, their family is still in Jingzhou, under his jurisdiction!
After figuring this out, Prince Jing immediately sent people down to start cultivating seedlings according to the method in the pamphlet sent by Yao Qian.
Prince Jing has secretly begun to raise seedlings, while the imperial court is still arguing over the authenticity of this matter.
The emperor's joy at the beginning gradually turned into doubts. In the end, he could only take the sweet potatoes sent and let the Ministry of Revenue send old farmers to plant them.
However, the Ministry of Revenue and the old farmers did not pay attention to Shi Yaoqian's planting book.
After all, after learning from the magistrate of An County that the person who wrote the planting booklet was Shi Yaoqian, the former Chief of the Palace of the Prince of Qin, the person responsible for planting these sweet potatoes threw Shi Yaoqian's booklet aside.
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They simply did not believe that Shi Yao Qian, who had a long history, could be as experienced as an old farmer who had been farming for a lifetime.
The results can be imagined. The court took care of them carefully, fertilized, and removed weeds. The sweet potatoes they planted grew thick vines, which looked green and lush. Everyone was very happy, and they felt more and more that they had done the right thing.
Not wrong at all.
Time passed by and it was summer again. The sweet potatoes and vines planted by the imperial court covered the entire land.
Each vine was as thick as an adult's finger. The Minister of Tobe led his men and watched the old farmer dig these vines.
However, the sweet potatoes planted were as big as two fists of an adult man, but the sweet potatoes dug out at the roots of the vine were only about the size of a child's fist, and only two or three kittens.