There are still many laborers in their 40s and 50s in the village. Following Liu Juan's suggestion, Shen Xuening invited five people to help make bean paste.

Before brewing bean paste, you need to wash the jars, pots, and vats, and prepare the raw materials for making bean paste.

The cleaning work was left to the workers, and Shen Xuening went to prepare the raw materials: broad beans, chili peppers, salt, sweet wine, peppercorns, ginger, garlic, and rapeseed oil.

I have harvested a lot of broad beans. I will use them first and then harvest them when I have free time. You can also buy them online.

Use peppers from your own garden. If they are not enough, buy them at the market or online. At the same time, expand the planting of peppers. The peppers you grow yourself need time to grow.

You can buy as much salt as you want at the market.

Make your own sweet wine at home using glutinous rice. It only takes a few days to make.

Go to the market to buy peppercorns. We don’t grow any at home. Shen Xue Ning will plant them later. There are so many mountains, it would be useless to leave them empty.

I use my own ginger and garlic, and water them with spiritual spring water. They are more fragrant than the ones you buy. Of course, I also want to expand the planting area.

As for rapeseed oil, Shen Xue Ning planned to collect it. Her family had a lot of rapeseed, but if she did this business, there would not be enough rapeseed oil.

However, everyone will keep the rapeseed for their own oil extraction and may not sell it. Shen Xuening will try to raise the price to see if he can get some money. Next year, he will plant a certain amount of rapeseed and let the villagers plant it together, so there should be no shortage of rapeseed oil.

After making the plan, Shen Xue Ning began to prepare.

Soak the broad beans in water overnight and peel the shells. Five workers are assigned to peel the shells. After peeling, the broad beans will be moldy. This period of time is just right for preparing other raw materials.

Shen Xuening saw that it was troublesome for people to peel bean curd, so she bought a bean curd peeling machine, which greatly improved her efficiency.

After the bean curd is peeled, it is used to make moldy bean curd immediately.

There is a special room for making moldy bean curd. Just follow the previous method of making moldy bean curd and complete the steps.

After all the other raw materials were prepared, Shen Xue Ning drove a pickup truck to a nearby village to collect rapeseed.

Let’s go to my grandma’s village first. She said many people in the village grow rapeseed, so we might get some.

Shen Xue Ning couldn't find the way, but Shen Baohong was there. Shen Baohong knew the way, so he drove, and the two of them went to grandma's village together.

Walking slowly and driving quickly, Shen Xuening and Shen Baohong arrived at grandma's village in just over ten minutes.

After getting off the car, Shen Baohong greeted the villagers: "Uncle, do you know me? Shen Baohong, from Zhongyang Group 3?"

Yang Sheng laughed and said, "I know you. When I saw you before, you were only seventeen or eighteen years old. Now you have grown up."

Shen Baohong felt that this was a bit awkward, but it didn't seem wrong, so he didn't care: "Where are you going? Do you have rapeseed at home? We will buy it for five yuan per pound."

"Are you here to harvest rapeseed?" Yang Sheng looked at Shen Baohong and then at Shen Xue Ning.

Shen Baohong said: "Yes, if you have any, please sell some to us."

Yang Sheng waved his hand: "It's not that I don't want to sell it, but my own family may not even have enough to eat, so how can I sell it?"

Shen Xue Ning came over and said, "Uncle, which families do you think will sell them? Can you point us in the right direction?"

Yang Sheng thought for a moment and said, "There are a few places that might sell them. I'll take you there."

Shen Xue Ning said: "Thank you very much."

Led by Yang Sheng, the two came to a villager's home. After asking, the family was willing to sell 50 kilograms, mainly because there were a lot of rapeseeds and they could not finish eating them in one year, so they could plant them again next year.

After buying fifty kilograms, Shen Xue Ning breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the trip was not in vain.

They were lucky and received rapeseed from three more families. A total of four families sold rapeseed to them and they received 180 kilograms.

Shen Xue Ning thought, if there was really no other way, she could just buy rapeseed online, collect it now, and see how the situation goes.

The two went to the next village...

After a day of harvesting and visiting more than ten villages, the two men collected 500 kilograms of rapeseed. They only filled the pickup truck with a small part of it, and then went home.

When I got home, it was almost dark.

Liu Juan hurried out of the house and said, "Ningning, Baohong, how is the harvest going?"

Shen Xue Ning shook her head: "We only harvested 500 kilograms. Everyone kept the rapeseed for themselves and didn't want to sell it."

Liu Juan said: "Everyone needs to eat oil. If we don't keep the rapeseed, we have to spend money to buy it, so we are not willing to sell it."

Shen Xue Ning said: "I understand. I plan to buy some rapeseed from the Internet and then press the oil myself. It should be the same."

Liu Juan said: "I don't really understand these, just you decide."

Shen Xue Ning said: "I'll see to it." She chose a store, talked to the owner, and negotiated the price to 3.5 yuan per catty for 1,000 catties of rapeseed.

Under normal circumstances, rapeseed costs four yuan per pound.

The store delivered the goods to her the next day.

Shen Xuening didn't care about the rapeseed on the Internet for the time being, as it would take a few days for the goods to arrive. The next day, she took the rapeseed to the oil mill and squeezed out some rapeseed oil. After a few days, the moldy bean paste would be ready, so she made some bean paste.

At night, Shen Xue Ning cultivated a lot of Artemisia annua plants, which she spread on several mountains.

A large amount of Artemisia annua is needed to make fermented bean paste, and the Artemisia annua around the village has almost been picked up.

After sowing the seeds, on the next night, Shen Xue Ning poured spiritual spring water on the small plants of Artemisia annua growing in remote locations to promote their growth as a first response to the emergency.

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During the days that Shen Xue Ning was busy, the foundation of the house was dug and laid, and they were ready to start building the walls.

They don't have hollow bricks here, only ordinary bricks. They build double layers on the exterior walls and single layers on the interior walls, and the walls they build are very strong.

At the same time, carpenters also have to come in to work, mainly dealing with door frames and windows.

It's very lively with people coming and going.

Every day there are villagers coming to watch the fun. Some elderly people, who have nothing to do in the winter, will come to help out and then stay at home for dinner. The place is very popular.

Some relatives who rarely visited each other also came to Shen Xue Ning's house after hearing about the house renovation, to help, talk, and ease the relationship.

It is true that even a rich man living in remote mountains has distant relatives!

Shen Xue Ning looked at the framework and decided to go to work at the bean paste factory.

The fermented bean curd is ready, and you can start making bean curd paste.

First, process the peppers. The main flavor of bean paste is the sauce, so choose bright red peppers. They are not spicy at all, but the color looks particularly good.

First, cut the peppers in half, remove the stems and the seeds in the middle, then wash them with water, hang them up in the sun to dry out the moisture, and then use a machine to make them into glutinous rice cake peppers...

The process of making bean paste is the same as before, but the workers are doing it for the first time and need Shen Xue Ning's hands-on guidance.

Although the workers didn't know much, they were very obedient. They did whatever Shen Xuening told them to do, and the progress was quite smooth.

After the bean paste is mixed, the next step is to dry the paste. Once it has a fragrant aroma, you can put it in a jar.

Their bean paste is clean and not only fragrant, but it will not go bad if kept in a cool place for several years.

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