Chapter 333: When one party is in trouble, all parties support
Cassava is a perennial plant with no obvious maturity period. The maturity period in production refers to the period of the year when the yield and starch content of the root tuber reaches its optimum.
Generally, spring-planted cassava can be harvested from November of the current year to January of the following year. The roots of cassava contain a lot of starch, so cassava cannot be stored and will deteriorate and rot three to seven days after harvesting.
So Song Xi did not let people harvest all the cassava, but harvested part of it and taught everyone how to make cassava starch. Since there was no cassava grinder, and the breaking machine in the supermarket could not be used, so he
The washed and cut into small pieces of cassava are manually ground into cassava pulp using stone mills.
Then filter the residue out of the cassava pulp with gauze, then put the cassava pulp in the bucket and let it settle overnight. The next day, pour out the water above, wash the wet cassava powder at the bottom and settle it again. Wait until it settles.
After that, pour out the water, then dig out the wet cassava powder underneath, place it on a dustpan lined with clean gauze to dry, grind it into fine powder after drying and store it.
The flour extraction rate of cassava is not high. The first time I made cassava starch, I used a full 100 kilograms of cassava to get less than 20 kilograms of cassava starch. This ratio is really bad. It is better to just cook it and eat it.
If cooked and eaten directly, one hundred pounds of cassava should be enough for a family to eat for several days, right?
But if you want to preserve cassava for a long time, you still have to use this method, because fresh cassava cannot be preserved for a long time, especially in this era, there are no good preservation methods and technologies.
Cassava is a crop that is easy to grow and has high yield. In addition, there is spiritual spring water here in Song Xi, so the yield of cassava is about to exceed the limit. The yield per mu exceeds 10,000 kilograms. Ping An Village has planted ten acres, that is,
The total output is said to be around 100,000 jins.
In Ping'an Village, some children moved out to live alone when they turned sixteen, so there are almost 310 households in Ping'an Village now. If one household has 100 kilograms, it will require more than 30,000 kilograms.
Qian Weimin arranged for people to dig out more than three acres of land and give one hundred kilograms to each household. The rest was slowly used to make cassava starch. When there was nothing to eat, cassava starch was a life-saving food.
Qian Weimin's idea is good, but God is not good. Qian Weimin went to the commune to hold a meeting. In the autumn, some villages suffered from locust plagues due to the overflow of locusts. Crop yields plummeted. Only 30% of the grain was harvested, and people could not eat it.
If it's not enough, naturally you won't be able to pay the public food.
The captain of the commune, please ask the captains of the production teams to help the villages affected by the locust plague to tide over the difficulties.
Qian Weimin remembered that after the locusts appeared, Song Xi immediately arranged for students to use their extracurricular time to catch locusts. At that time, he didn't know why Song Xi did this. He only thought that Song Xi was using a different method to pay the students. After all,
Pingan Village Primary School relies on those two mountains and three acres of sandy land to make a lot of money.
Only now did he realize that Song Xi was preventing the locust disaster. Why was Song Xi so powerful? She was indeed the lucky star of Ping An Village.
These days, everyone's output is not high. People in their own village can only make ends meet, but now they have to get some food from their mouths to support others. The captains of each brigade frowned because they didn't know what to do when they went back.
Let me tell you this.
Qian Weimin also knew that showing off could easily arouse jealousy, so he did not say anything immediately. Instead, he waited until everyone left with sad faces before he came to the commune leader and lowered his voice and said, "President, our Ping'an Village happens to be planting seeds this year."
We have several acres of cassava and the yield is pretty good. We can bring out 5,000 kilograms of cassava to help everyone."
"Cassava is a crop that contains a small amount of toxins. Try not to eat it raw, let alone eat it raw in large quantities, otherwise it will cause poisoning. However, before eating, you can peel off the inner and outer skin of cassava, peel it clean, cut it into sections crosswise, and put it in a bucket
Soak it in water, add as much water as possible, and change the water every four hours. After soaking for 48 hours, you can cook it. Or you can put it in a basket and put it in the river for soaking, that is also possible."
"The soaked cassava can be boiled in sugar water, stir-fried or steamed."
After hearing what Qian Weimin said, the president of the commune opened his eyes in surprise, but still raised his eyebrows in confusion, "Isn't cassava something from the south? Why did it come to us?"
Qian Weimin explained, "Actually, cassava is widely distributed. There are cassava in many places in the country. We happened to have some wild ones on the mountain. The teacher in our village discovered them and dug them up for research.
Cultivate it, and then more and more it will develop into this.”
The leader of the commune nodded thoughtfully, and then said, "Don't you have a tractor in your village? Then please ask Captain Qian to arrange for someone to deliver the cassava as soon as possible, so that I can distribute it to everyone as soon as possible."
"Also, since you have such talents in your village, train them well and don't suppress others out of fear of affecting your own status. Otherwise, it will not only be a loss for your Ping An Village, but also a loss for our entire commune."
The leader said seriously.
Because there was once a person who was afraid of being overtaken by the villagers under his command, so he suppressed the villagers in various ways. In the end, the villagers reported the unfair treatment to their superiors, otherwise he might even lose his life.
What leaders hate most are people who use power to oppress others.
"Yes." Qian Weimin nodded seriously. He had never thought about suppressing Song Xi, and he was not afraid that Song Xi's abilities were better than his own. He even wanted to train Song Xi to be the captain of the production team, but he could tell
, Song Xi doesn't want to come in front of others. She would rather give advice behind her back than face so many troubles in front of her.
"By the way, go back and write down the complete instructions on how to eat cassava, so that people who don't know how to eat it will be poisoned," the commune leader ordered.
After Qian Weimin returned, he immediately went to Ping'an Village Primary School to talk to Song Xi about the matter. Song Xi supported Qian Weimin's approach. Natural disasters and man-made disasters are unavoidable. When one party is in trouble, all parties support it, and everyone unites as one.
Only in this way can we successfully overcome the difficulties.
"By the way, Song Xi, there is already a lot of vermicompost and Songta Village. When are you going to come over and deal with it?" Qian Weimin no longer regards Song Xi as his junior, but
Treat him like a clan elder.
Song Xi nodded, "I'll take a few students there on the weekend."
She plans to hand over the small fertilizer-making workshop to her students when the time comes. She doesn't want to wear multiple hats because she doesn't have the skills to do it all!
"But isn't the weekend your rest time?" Qian Weimin felt quite embarrassed that it took up her only rest day of the week.