Xu Chunying agreed, and Li Jiandang worked much faster.

Only two days had passed before news broke.

The commune has agreed. The brigade cadres have also helped to promote it in the village, so that everyone who wants to exchange sweet potato flour can go to her house.

Aunt Li Si got the recipe from Zhang Xiuhua and tried it when she got home. With her big mouth, she soon spread the recipe to the whole village.

Some people were curious about whether sweet potatoes tasted good, so they tried making some.

What’s more, vermicelli can be made into stew and it is especially delicious.

But they also have to admit that this thing is delicious, but it is really not easy to make.

Aunt Li Si's palms were all broken from rubbing, but she only rubbed 30 kilograms of powder, and the resulting powder was only more than 3 kilograms.

If you have this much time, you might as well go to the mountains to collect firewood.

When they heard that Zhang Xiuhua could make sweet potato flour, some people wanted to bring their sweet potatoes to exchange for some, and then go home to make vermicelli to see if it was really that delicious.

Fortunately, these people didn't ask for much, and Zhang Xiuhua had already done some in advance, otherwise she would not be able to deal with the villagers' curiosity.

After tasting vermicelli and finding it was indeed as delicious as Aunt Li Si said, some villagers actually tried to make it themselves. But after just one try, they quickly gave up.

This is too much trouble. Zhang Xiuhua didn't earn the money from these two kilograms of sweet potatoes in vain. It was just physical labor.

After receiving the sweet potatoes from the villagers, Zhang Xiuhua continued to work without stopping as it had not yet snowed.

She is also a lazy person. Before harvesting the sweet potatoes, she would ask the villagers to wash them, dig out all the insect holes, peel off the skin, and then weigh them by kilogram.

This will speed her up.

It was just that she couldn't handle so much at once. Even though she had a blender, it was a home-use version that could only blend one or two sweet potatoes at a time. This was undoubtedly much slower.

So she naturally woke up late in the morning.

Fortunately, the children were also considerate. After a few of them got up, they cooked the meal. After they finished eating, they put the remaining food in the pot. The two younger ones got up and went to the kitchen to get food themselves.

As for Zhuzhu? Yaoyao now knows how to make milk powder. When Zhuzhu is hungry, she will make a bottle for her.

To be honest, she also wants to drink this milk powder, it smells so good.

Zhang Xiuhua gets up at nine in the morning, and after eating, she pours out the sweet potato water, dries the sweet potatoes, washes the sweet potato flour, and repeats the washing three times. Then she distributes the obtained sweet potato flour to the villagers.

That day she packed the sweet potato flour and gave it to Aunt Li Si, but she did not leave in a hurry. Instead, she asked her whether Li Jianguo had sent her money.

Zhang Xiuhua was slightly startled. "No. I have been busy with sweet potatoes recently and have not left the village. Auntie should know."

"Your family asks the children to go up the mountain to help you collect firewood every day. You also give them candy. Where do you get so many candy tickets?"

Zhang Xiuhua saw that she was trying to get information, and she probably thought she was going to tell the villagers about it, so she said, "I saw an old woman who was so pitiful before, and I couldn't bear to see her, so I exchanged sugar coupons with her. I was busy with sweet potatoes and had no time to collect firewood, so I had to resort to this last resort. Do the villagers have any opinions about me? Then I won't let the children help next time?"

Aunt Li Si waved her hands, "No! They don't mind. The kids are idle anyway, so it's good for them to pick up some firewood." She hurriedly asked about the sugar coupons, obviously wanting to pick up some bargains as well.

This time, Zhang Xiuhua did not get what she wanted. She slapped her thigh and complained, "Don't mention it. I got cheated. I felt sorry for him, but he took advantage of me. I had just started, so I didn't know the price of sugar tickets. I spent 20 cents to buy a pound. I lost a lot."

Aunt Li Si looked at her in surprise. White sugar was only 70 cents. She actually spent 20 cents on the sugar ticket. Is this too expensive? You know, sugar tickets are not in short supply in the city. You can get 2 taels for every pound. No family would eat sugar as a staple food these days. Most people can save it.

Aunt Li Si comforted her and said, "Be more careful next time. Those city people only try to cheat us country folk."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded.

As she watched Aunt Li Si leave, she felt an unknown emotion in her heart. Life in the village is good, but you have to be careful. If you are not careful, you will be tricked by others.

So from that day on, Zhang Xiuhua no longer asked the children in the village to help her find firewood.

Soon the villagers counted the number and began to distribute the firewood.

Zhang Xiuhua was given a lot of corn stalks and soybean stalks. These can only be used for cooking. They cannot be used to heat the kang, as they are too fragile.

In mid-October, the weather turned cold and even froze at night.

Zhang Xiuhua stopped her sweet potato business and started storing winter vegetables.

She pulled out all the vegetables in the garden and put them into the space to keep them fresh.

After finishing all these, she began to learn how to pickle vegetables from other families.

Every household here pickles things differently. Some pickle cucumber strips, some pickle pickled cabbage, some pickle sauerkraut, some pickle broilers, and some pickle eggplants.

It was the first time that Zhang Xiuhua encountered so many strange things.

But every household can pickle sauerkraut, the cabbage here grows well. The temperature difference between day and night is large, and the pickled sauerkraut is refreshing and goes well with rice.

After Zhang Xiuhua and the other children came back, they asked Youcai and Jidong to wash the vegetables, and Baolin to boil water.

She was responsible for cleaning the big jar and pickling a full jar of cabbage.

Youcai looked at the pot of kimchi and asked Zhang Xiuhua eagerly, "Aunt Zhang, can we freeze some pears and persimmons?"

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned, "How can I freeze this?"

“Just put the pears outside to freeze, and then save them for eating when the weather gets cold. They’re delicious.” Youcai was afraid that she wouldn’t believe him, so he sniffed.

Zhang Xiuhua touched her chin. There was not enough supplies at the moment, and there would definitely be no fruits in winter. She could exchange some with others and then store them.

"Do you know anyone who has pears and persimmons?"

Youcai saw that she had listened carefully and said happily, "I know. Erhu's family has it. There is a pear tree in front of his house, but he has never picked any pears from it. Every year the villagers would exchange pears with his family."

Most people would not plant pear trees in front of their houses because pear blossoms are white, which is unlucky. But Erhu's father was sick all year round and his mother didn't earn many work points, so they didn't avoid these things.

Zhang Xiuhua asked the price, which turned out to be not expensive, so she took some sweet potatoes to exchange.

By the way, I also exchanged a bunch of persimmons. These were bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, and there were black spots on the skin.

She went out with half a bag of sweet potatoes, and soon came back with a small bag of pears and persimmons.

She didn't know how to make frozen persimmons and pears, so she gave it to Youcai to handle. He patted his chest and promised that he would freeze them solidly.

The method of freezing pears and persimmons is very simple. When the weather gets cold, put the persimmons and pears outside to freeze, and then bring them back to thaw. Do this two or three times, and the pears will turn black. They will not go bad if they are kept for a long time. When it gets really cold, these two fruits can satisfy the cravings of children.

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