After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

"It's a vermicelli workshop, run at home. Can it be sold? I don't know if it's easy to make."

"My father and his family are probably too busy to handle everything, so I'll be in charge of the workshop."

"Qing Ya is really capable, do a good job. If you need any help, come to me. But I still need to discuss the rental with the villagers, so you can come back tomorrow." After all, the meeting room belongs to the village.

Ye Qing agreed to come early tomorrow morning and went back to prepare to wash the sweet potatoes.

After arriving home, Ye Qing took out the money he had saved and asked Boss Ye to help him order a large stone mill.

The last time the Sun family bought the stone mill for making tofu, it was from Chen the stonemason's house. When Boss Ye arrived, there happened to be a finished product, so he gave the silver directly and took it home.

There was nothing to do at home these two days, so the whole family helped to wash the sweet potatoes. After washing, the sweet potatoes were cut into small pieces and ground with a stone mill.

Ye Qing asked his second uncle to help him make five large wooden barrels and put the ground sweet potatoes into cloth bags.

Then wash the sweet potato residue repeatedly in a wooden barrel, and finally let the filtered water sit for a while.

Pour out the water in the bucket and the remaining white substance is starch.

Ye Qing kept the starch from the first bucket, dried it, and distributed it to several families for cooking.

The other buckets are dried, crushed, and stirred into a thick paste with water.

Take out the big iron pot at home for frying lobster in the summer, light the fire to boil water, and use a special colander to put vermicelli into the pot.

These were all done under the direction of Ye Qing and with the help of Boss Ye. With her small body, she couldn't even lift the leaky bucket.

After the vermicelli is shaped, it is taken out and hung on a pole to dry.

I first made vermicelli from 100 kilograms of red-heart sweet potatoes and 100 kilograms of white-heart sweet potatoes at home. After they were dry, I weighed them and compared which one had a higher flour yield.

While waiting for the clothes to dry, Ye Qing went to clean the rented house. The village agreed to rent it to her for 100 wen a month, but she had to take good care of the house.

One hundred coins a month, Ye Qing felt that he had gotten a great deal. The ground was paved with stone slabs, and there were several houses. This environment was clean and hygienic for making sweet potato noodles.

Ye Lao Da and Ye Da Lang helped to move the tools over, especially a few large barrels.

I also made a few racks for drying vermicelli and bought a chopper to cut the vermicelli.

After waiting for two days for the vermicelli to dry, the whole family gathered together to watch Boss Ye weigh the portions.

One hundred kilograms of red-heart sweet potatoes can produce about 14 kilograms of vermicelli, and one hundred kilograms of white-heart sweet potatoes can produce more than 16 kilograms of vermicelli.

"Qingya, you really made it. Bai Xin's product produces more powder." Ye Dalang was very excited. He personally participated in making this.

Zhou looked at her daughter proudly. Qingya was indeed a baby sent by the immortals. She was so smart that she could do it after listening to it once.

Old man Ye looked at his children and grandchildren with a smile on his face. Since Ye Qing was born, the family has become better and better.

Only then did Boss Ye gain confidence in opening a workshop and believed that his daughter could make money.

"Qingya, who are you going to find to work? Do you want me to stay at home to help you?" Ye Dalang looked at his sister.

"Brother, I don't need your help. This is a small business. I'm not sure if it can be successful. If it doesn't work, you can make money by selling charcoal, and it won't affect the family."

"Qingya, who are you going to ask for help?" Boss Ye was worried about his daughter.

"How about Brother Ye Xuan? He can't do much in the mountains. I don't know if he is willing to follow me."

The Ye Xuan that Ye Qing mentioned is a cousin of his from the same family. He has had problems with his legs since he was a child. It is not noticeable when he is standing, but when he walks, you can tell that his legs are not the same length.

It’s okay to work in the fields normally, but going up and down the mountain is inconvenient and it’s easy to fall.

Boss Ye thought about it and felt it was a good fit. He had watched Ye Xuan grow up. Last year, he fell down the mountain and got bruised and battered. He was taken down the mountain and lay in bed for a month before recovering.

"How much are you going to pay him?"

"I'm just starting out and I don't know if I can make any money, so I can only pay you two hundred coins a month. I'll raise your wages when I start making money in the future." The more Ye Qing spoke, the less confident he became. After all, he could earn more by burning charcoal.

Boss Ye frowned when he heard this, it was indeed a bit too little.

Old Man Ye looked at the two men and realized that they were getting into a dead end.

"You are comparing this to burning charcoal. He can't go up the mountain, so he can't make this much money anyway. He can't even make this much money in a month if he goes to the city to find a job. Boss, go ask him and let him make the decision himself."

Old Man Ye wanted to give Ye Xuan a chance to make money. He was also at the age to get married and had several children at home, so he might not be able to come up with much money.

Boss Ye turned around and said, "I'll go ask Qingya when she starts working."

"Tomorrow, we need to find three more people, one to wash the sweet potatoes, one to cut them, and one to use the stone mill."

Li reminded, "Aunt Hehua from your third grandfather's house is capable of this job. It's not a very tiring job. She has nothing to do at home."

"Aunt Lotus, don't you have to go up the mountain?"

"This year, all the workers in the mountains are men, so we don't need so many people to sell charcoal. And since we start early this year, we can work slowly." Boss Ye went to the head of the village to ask about this year's arrangements.

Boss Ye took his daughter to look for people, and soon four people were found. All the people they asked were willing.

Now the one who washes the sweet potatoes is Aunt Lotus, the one who cuts the sweet potatoes into pieces is Aunt Chunhua, and the one who uses the stone mill and washes the sweet potato pulp is Aunt Lanhua.

Although Ye Xuan is younger, his three aunts are old enough to be his grandmothers, and outsiders can't say anything if they work together.

In the evening, I cut some dried vermicelli and stewed it with the tofu that Sun Dazhu sent.

I also made a stewed radish with a lot of vermicelli in it. After stewing for a while, the white vermicelli became soft and looked crystal clear, smooth and slender.

When the food was cooked and served on plates, everyone couldn't wait to pick up a piece of food with chopsticks and chew it carefully.

Ye Qing chewed it slowly, and felt that it was silky and soft, yet chewy.

"Qingya is delicious, no different from the ones bought." Ye Chenjing started expressing his opinion as soon as he swallowed the vermicelli in his mouth.

Ye Dalang had food in his mouth and didn't say anything, but his nodding gesture showed that he was satisfied.

Ye Qing was full of confidence and felt that his life as a landlord was not far away.

On the day of starting work, several aunts and Ye Xuan came. Ye Dalang helped to set off firecrackers, and Ye Qing's small workshop officially started operation.

Ye Qing assigned tasks to several people and everyone started to get busy.

The four people washed the sweet potatoes first. The sweet potatoes were sent by Boss Ye. Ye Qing was doing business on his own and gave them to Boss Ye according to the purchase price.

Seeing that things were getting on track here, Ye Dalang left for the mountain. The charcoal making in the village also started today.

The aunts were all honest and decent people. They did not rely on their seniority to interfere in the work arranged by Ye Qing.

Ye Xuan is not a talkative person. Although it is not very convenient to walk, it doesn't matter if he walks slowly on flat ground.

He always rushed to do the heavy and tiring work in the workshop.

On the first day of work, everyone worked very hard. The atmosphere in the workshop was also very good, and we got the work done while chatting.