Reincarnate as a poor widow and bravely fight against the worst scumbag father and evil mother-in-la

As soon as Jiang Yuwei opened her eyes in the morning, she didn't even bother to make breakfast. She went straight to Aunt Zhou's house. When she ran into Tiezhu and Ning Wu who were about to go out, she immediately stopped them:

"Where are you two going? We are going to start making paper today. Can you go to the courtyard to work?"

Tiezhu nodded when he heard Jiang Yuwei say this:

"Nothing much. I was thinking that since I'm just sitting around doing nothing at home, I might as well go weed the fields. Since there's work to do in the yard, let's go and do it."

Jiang Yuwei nodded and took the two of them to the pond to collect the soaked bark. She then taught them to throw the soaked bark into a row of stoves built outside the paper mill in the backyard, pour an appropriate amount of wood ash on it, and let Tiezhu and Ningwu be in charge of watching the pots and burning the fire. The fire had to be burned for eight consecutive hours without being turned off, and the pot had to be allowed to dry out in order to degumming the fibers well and make the bark fibers softer.

Jiang Yuwei watched the two of them light the fire and said with a smile:

"After the bark is cooked, it should be taken out and rinsed with running water to remove impurities on the bark before pulping. The strength and technique should be paid attention to. It should not be beaten too coarsely or too finely. It is best to beat it into a paste, then add appropriate amount of water to spread the bark, chop it into pieces, and then put it into a large stone mortar to crush it."

After hearing this cumbersome process, Tiezhu frowned and scratched his head:

"Sister Yuwei, I'm afraid I can't remember it. If I don't understand something, I'll ask you, okay?"

Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:

"Of course you can't remember it in one go. Practice makes perfect. You two need to practice more. If our paper mill recruits new people in the future, you two will be responsible for teaching them. So you two must study hard and practice well. In the future, you will be the master chefs of our paper mill!"

After hearing what Jiang Yuwei said, Tiezhu and Ningwu smiled at each other and said:

"How can someone like us become a master chef?"

Jiang Yuwei nodded very seriously and said:

"Of course, as long as you are capable and willing to learn, you will definitely become a master chef!"

Ning Wu smiled and nodded:

"Okay, we'll all listen to Sister Yuwei from now on. I was wondering why Sister Yuwei had so many pots and mortars in the yard at first. It turns out they were used to make paper!"

Jiang Yuwei nodded and looked at the ten-pot stove in the backyard, as well as the four large stone mortars, and continued:

"After you have crushed all the bark, you can take it out and dry it. I will teach you the rest of the steps after it is dried. I am afraid you will not be able to remember if I explain too much at once."

Jiang Yuwei taught seriously, and Tiezhu and Ning Wu also learned seriously. Jiang Yuwei saw that they were willing to learn, so after making money from selling this batch of paper, she planned to hire them as long-term workers at home. In the future, the paper mill could also hire a few more people to increase production.

Seeing that the two had learned almost enough, Jiang Yuwei went to the front yard to cook. Most of the workers in the backyard had left today, leaving only a few people to do the finishing work. Jiang Yuwei thought that if the paper mill was established in the future, it would not look good if the poultry raised in the backyard always ran around, so she asked these people to build a fence between the poultry area in her backyard and the paper mill to keep the poultry in.

Jiang Yuwei thought that she could make some stewed meat with beans and some cold cucumber salad for lunch. It happened that there was some lean meat at home mixed with water chestnuts dug by the pond this morning, which could be used to make some four-happiness meatballs. A pot of steamed rice would be enough to eat.

Jiang Yuwei was busy cooking when she saw Ning Wan coming back from outside with a backpack on her back. The chickens and ducks raised at home were all grown very fast thanks to Ning Wan's help in taking care of them. The poultry that she fed by cutting grass in the mountains every day were growing very fast. Jiang Yuwei was very pleased to see that the chickens and ducks that she had bought before had grown up and would soon be able to lay eggs.

He hurriedly called Ning Wan over, wiped the sweat off her forehead, picked out a large four-happiness meatball from the pot, put it in a bowl, handed it to Ning Wan, and said with a smile:

"Wan'er, thank you for your hard work. You have taken good care of our chickens and ducks these days. These are the four-happiness meatballs that mother just made. Come and have some!"

Ning Wan took the bowl with a smile and said:

"Thank you, mother!"

After saying that, he skipped over to the eaves with the bowl in his arms, sat on a small stool, and started eating with satisfaction.

Now all that's missing is a few more pigs in the shed in the backyard. If they are raised in the spring, they can be slaughtered during the Chinese New Year. Thinking of this, Jiang Yuwei made up her mind to buy a few piglets to raise next time she goes to the market. Anyway, the crops in her space grow fast, so she can plant more corn, dry it, grind it into powder, and use it to raise poultry.

Jiang Yuwei brought the prepared food to the table and went to the backyard to call everyone to come and eat. Ning Wu and Tiezhu couldn't leave the pot alone, so Jiang Yuwei put some of the food in a bowl and asked them to eat in the backyard.

The villagers in charge of the work left after lunch today. Now the backyard has been repaired. Jiang Yuwei had invited the villagers to have a hot pot meal when the backyard was repaired before. She didn't plan to disturb the villagers this time and would focus on running her paper mill first.

Jiang Yuwei thought about it and went to the backyard. Seeing Ning Wu and Tie Zhu still looking at the pot, she reminded them:

"You must keep an eye on the heat of each pot. Papermaking is not easy. The previous steps took nearly a month to get to this stage. You must be careful and turn the pot more often to avoid burning the pot and ruining the whole work."

After hearing this, the two nodded repeatedly, and Tiezhu smiled and said:

"Okay, Sister Yuwei, don't worry. You're tired after a day's work. Go to the front yard and have a rest. My brother and I will be watching over you here!"

Jiang Yuwei smiled and nodded, then put away the dishes and took them to the front yard, where they were washed out together with the dishes left over from lunch. She then tidied up the yard. In the future, there would not be so many workers doing work at home, so she could remove the dining tables in the house and return the benches borrowed from the neighbors.

Jiang Yuwei thought that she had borrowed the bench for so many days, and it would be bad to send it away empty-handed, so she planned to grind the soybeans that she had soaked in the morning into tofu, and then send a piece of it to each household to express her gratitude. So Jiang Yuwei shouted in the yard:

"Huaizhi, come out quickly and make tofu with me."

After Jiang Yuwei finished speaking, she filled a basin with water and brushed the millstone, then brushed the pot. Ning Wan saw that they were going to make tofu, so she hurried out to help. Ning Huaizhi still helped to pour the beans, while Jiang Yuwei was responsible for turning the millstone, and soon all the soaked beans were ground.

As soon as the beans were ground, Ning Wan started clamoring for soy milk. Jiang Yuwei had no choice but to ask Ning Huaizhi to squeeze out some of the bean dregs first, pour them into the pot for Ning Wan, and let Ning Wan light the fire and cook it herself.

Jiang Yuwei continued to work with Ning Huaizhi to squeeze out the bean dregs. After finishing everything, Jiang Yuwei lit another stove and started to boil soy milk. Who would have thought that just as the soy milk started boiling, Tiezhu ran to the front yard in a panic and shouted:

"Sister Yuwei, something bad has happened. Go to the backyard and take a look. My brother..."