You are my golden finger

The preliminary preparations for the construction of the clan school were completed within two days, and the bricklayers hired were still those led by Master Lu.

When Master Lu arrived and saw the clan leader, he burst into laughter, because they could already foresee the good food that the clan school would have during this period of time.

The clan leader knew that Lin Xijin wanted to build a greenhouse, and was afraid that the servants would not be able to do it, so he left five experienced workers to help her with the work.

Thinking that Uncle Mu Xiong should be busy enough, I decided not to refuse.

The work of digging the ponds was carried out simultaneously. Once the sewers that fed water from the rivers to the ponds were blocked, no water would flow into the ponds. Then the waterways of several ponds were cleared and drained, and there was not much water left in the ponds.

Some half-grown children simply went down to scoop water, touching snails and catching fish, and had a lot of fun.

There were quite a lot of people who came to dig out the silt from the pond. The silt was dumped into the small bushes nearby. The process was lively and progressed quickly.

Because a lot of stones had been transported in the previous two days, the people who were responsible for building ditches during road construction automatically took on the work of building the pond foundation.

So some people were digging the pond silt, some were transporting the silt; some were transporting stones, some were laying stones; plus the laughter of half-grown children, they formed a picture of rural folk music.

Lin Xijin felt warm in her heart and decided to take good care of the painting. She went back to deliver flour and tea to the clan leader's house and asked the aunts to continue steaming buns and making tea.

Master Lu still brought the original team of craftsmen to help repair the ancestral hall and build the clan school.

Uncle Mu Xiong led the workers to dig the foundation of the clan school, and several villagers from other families also came to help. Master Lu led several craftsmen to repair the ancestral hall.

Lin Xijin directed everyone to cut bamboo and wood and build a greenhouse, and within a few days, the initial shape of the greenhouse had taken shape.

The tarpaulin ordered by the county was also delivered. Lin Xijin asked the men to move it into the warehouse first. When the men left, he put in more than ten pieces of white tarpaulin with good light transmittance.

On the day when the greenhouse was set up and covered with tarpaulin, Xingwen and Xingcheng, who had just returned home from martial arts practice, talked about this with the clan leader. The clan leader could not resist his curiosity and stopped guarding by the ancestral hall and excitedly rushed to Lin Xijin's house.

"Jin girl, what are you doing with this shed?"

"Uncle, I'm here to grow vegetables and fruits."

“Can you grow it in the middle of winter?”

"Of course, when the time comes, the tarpaulin can be used to block the wind and snow, and you can also use fire to increase the temperature. You can grow a lot of things, and you can sell them for a lot of money!"

The clan leader was excited when he heard this. While looking at the greenhouse, he asked Lin Xijin: "Jin girl, how much does it cost to build a greenhouse? Can the uncle build one too?"

"Master, you can go up to the mountains to cut bamboo and wood, but it will cost some money for labor and buying tarpaulin, maybe seven or eight taels of silver. If you want to build it, I'll ask the county to send tarpaulin over. When you grow vegetables, you can sell them to restaurants in the town and the county, or you can sell them yourself."

"Okay. I'll discuss it with your uncle Dafu and the others tonight. If they agree to build it, I'll get back to you tomorrow."

Lin Xijin thought that the clan leader's family would probably be able to make it. But most of the other villagers couldn't afford to build a greenhouse. They couldn't help them with everything, because people are greedy, and they must not be allowed to develop the habit of getting something for nothing, so as not to destroy the simple village customs.

However, the warm kang, wine making, medicine making and greenhouse heating all require a lot of fuel. We can buy their firewood and grass, or ask some people to help plant and pick vegetables. The villagers can ask for money or directly for food, so that most people can have a better winter.

Seeing that the fermented rice wine was ready, Lin Xijin asked the housekeeper and Li Yue to buy two sets of distillation equipment, and took out antique rice wine distillation equipment from the space to replace some parts. After the two sets of equipment were perfectly combined, Lin Xijin organized the staff of the winemaking workshop to start distilling sorghum wine.

First put the fermented rice wine into a large pot, cover it with a round lid with a round hole, the hole is connected to a bamboo tube, the bamboo tube is connected to the earthen jar above, a cooling pot filled with cold water is placed on the earthen jar, and a small round hole is opened at the back of the earthen jar, connected to a small bamboo tube, and a wine jar is placed under the small bamboo tube.

When everything is ready, you can start the fire. Under the heating of the fire, the wine vapor evaporates, and after encountering the water in the cooling pot, it turns into wine and flows into the wine tank, and you get low-alcohol sorghum wine.

In order to obtain sorghum liquor with higher purity and better taste, the low-alcohol liquor obtained from the first distillation must be purified by a second distillation. The head and tail of the liquor must also be packaged separately and sold at different prices later.

After two days of distillation, the first batch of sorghum wine finally came out of the oven. Lin Xijin asked the servants to put the wine into the wine jars, seal them, and move them to the cellar for storage and fermentation. These wines usually taste better after being stored in the cellar for more than three years. But Lin Xijin couldn't wait that long, so he decided to use the method of replacing the original with the wine from the space, and started selling it before the New Year.

After making these plans, Lin Xijin looked at the jars of distiller's grains with worry. Originally, he could feed the grains to pigs, so the grains would have a place to go. However, Lin Xijin couldn't stand the stench of pig manure and urine, and didn't want his own piece of pure land to stink and have the air polluted.

I think it is better to let the villagers raise their own animals separately, and when they need fertilizer at home, they can buy the fermented fertilizer from the villagers, so that the villagers can have an income.

He found the clan leader and told him his idea, and the clan leader immediately called several elders to discuss it together.

"My dear uncles, here's what Jin'er is thinking. My family will provide piglets and distiller's grains, and we will also be responsible for selling them. We can also purchase pig manure. Families willing to raise pigs will provide green fodder and labor. When the pigs are grown, after deducting the cost of the piglets, we will split the profits 50-50. Do you think this is feasible?"

"Jin girl, you are doing a great service to the clan! But you are giving away too much of the profits. You take 70% of the profits, and giving 30% to everyone is enough." Uncle Five had just finished speaking when several elders echoed him.

Lin Xijin didn't care about this small profit and still insisted on a 50-50 split.

The clan leader and several elders signed up to raise pigs, and they identified more than ten reliable candidate families with the conditions to raise pigs. At Lin Xijin's suggestion, Uncle Mu Xiong and Aunt San's families were also included. Aunt San's family did not have a pigpen, but Lin Xijin decided to help her build one.

Each family raises three pigs, a total of twenty families, these families are divided into two groups, every other day to Lin Xijin's house to collect distiller's grains, green feed prepared by themselves. Pig manure is first fermented and piled up, can be used by themselves, or sold to Lin Xijin.

Lin Xijin also emphasized that pig farmers must deal with pig manure and urine properly and not pollute the environment. If anyone fails to do so, their pig-raising qualifications will be revoked.

The clan leader and elders went to find the pig-raising families, while Lin Xijin sent the housekeeper and two coachmen to take Jianan and Uncle Dashun to the town and county to purchase piglets.