Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

If there is any disadvantage in making sugar from beets, it is that the sweetness of beets is still much lower than that of sugarcane, and the sugar made from them may not be that sweet, but the system did not reward her with sugarcane seeds, so she could only choose to use beets to make sugar as a second choice.

Fortunately, there are enough beets to make enough sugar, and they continue to plant them. Once the sugar plant is built, Guangming Village will no longer lack sugar.

Since Shi Anan planned to make sugar, she acted very quickly.

The next day she asked the village chief to find a few women who were skillful and clean to help her make sugar.

The first step in making sugar from beets is to wash the beets clean. Shi Anan directed several aunts to wash the beets.

"After washing the beets, cut them into thin slices or strips, about this thick." Shi Anan said as she demonstrated to others.

Several women cut the beets according to Shi Anan's request.

"Then pour it into a pot and heat it up to make beet juice, then filter the impurities out of the beet juice."

They put the beets in a pot and boiled them until soft. Then she filtered out the residue through cheesecloth to get a thick syrup.

The next most important step is to boil the sugar. Several large pots are fired at the same time. Shi Anan pours the syrup into the pot and boils it slowly over low heat.

As time goes by, the syrup gradually thickens and changes color from light to dark. Finally, when the syrup turns caramel color, the sugar is ready.

In fact, this kind of sugar is edible and tastes very good. After all, it is all handmade and the purity is very high. But Shi Anan did not forget that she wanted to try making white sugar.

With the ancient technology, it is not easy to turn sugar into white sugar. She lacks many advanced filtering instruments and does not have so many chemical products, so the only method she can use is the yellow mud water sugar sprinkling method.

However, you need to use yellow mud water to pour sugar, and you have to wait for the sugar to cool down and solidify into sugar blocks.

So she didn't officially start making sugar until the next day. The women from Guangming Village who came to help were a little confused:

"You tell me, Miss Shi, you've already made this candy, why do you still have to bother with white sugar? Although this candy is not white, I think it tastes better than the candy we bought before!"

"Miss Shi must have her reasons for doing this, so we just listen to her."

Soon, Shi Anan came over, and the first thing she did was to ask everyone: "Are the gauze, funnel, and mud water I need ready?"

"Everything is ready, Miss Shi. Can the sugar be eaten after being poured with yellow mud water? Don't waste such good candy." One of the women who was helping asked worriedly while placing the props according to Shi Anan's instructions.

"Don't worry, pouring yellow mud water on the sugar is a process of further removing impurities from the sugar. The sugar produced in this way will be purer and will not be wasted." Shi Anan explained.

Shi Anan waited for the woman to prepare the jar and funnel, and then had someone put the sugar that had been made yesterday into blocks on the funnel. Then he poured yellow mud water on it from above. The black residue flowed from the funnel to the bottom, leaving white frost in the funnel. This was the earliest white sugar.

Everyone else stared at this incredible scene with their eyes wide open. Their eyes really turned pale?!

After the yellow mud water was poured out, the funnel was covered with white frost, which had a granular texture like sand.

Shi Anan had someone scrape off the white sugar and filter it once more with gauze to remove any black residue that might remain. Finally, all the white sugar was dried in the sun so that it could be well preserved.

Shi Anan even pinched a little with her hands and put it in her mouth to taste it. Hmm, the candy she made herself is really good.

Although the sugar made in this way is still far inferior to the pure white sugar made by modern mechanical technology, the quality was beyond her expectations, and she was very satisfied with the result.

When the others saw the sugar, they couldn't help but reach out to take some to taste it: "Hmm! It feels sweeter! And there's no bitterness at all."

"This is amazing. Miss Shi, you are really knowledgeable. This is the first time I have seen candy that is as white as snow."

Shi Anan smiled slightly, and then said to them: "Now you have some experience in the process of making white sugar. Next, I plan to open a sugar factory. If you are interested, you can go to work in the sugar factory."

"We definitely do!"

None of the women present refused. Compared with other factories, sugar making was both clean and enjoyable.

The most important thing is that they all know that working in a factory has benefits. If they work in a sugar factory, their future benefits may be these sugars, and they can save a lot of money.

After completing the sugar production, Shi Anan went to explain the site selection of the sugar factory to the construction team, striving to get the sugar factory on track as soon as possible and put the white sugar produced by themselves on the market.

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Guangming Village was developing gradually and in a positive direction, and the spies from Dahe Village who had followed them to Guangming Village before also returned to Dahe Village.

The situation in Dahe Village was not very good at this time.

It took the spy almost a month to follow Shi Anan and the others to Guangming Village. Even though he had sped up when he came back, it still took more than a month for him to reach Dahe Village.

Over the past month, the food crisis in Dahe Village has become more serious.

Even though they had worked hard to clear a few acres of land, they did not have enough good quality seeds to grow food, and the few remaining seeds could not even feed so many people.

Now Yang Wenchuan has begun to ask the villagers who are responsible for cooking to reduce the amount of grain used and add more wild vegetables.

The food, which was already bland and without oil, now tasted like vegetable bath water. How could it fill my stomach?

Some older parents deliberately forgo food in order to feed their children, but in the end they themselves die of starvation.

Although Yang Wenchuan has been working hard to plan for the villagers, it is too difficult for them to develop the village on their own.

At this time, a group of more than a dozen young and middle-aged people from Dahe Village went out to look for food as usual, but the land ravaged by the heavenly fire was lucky enough to occasionally grow some wild vegetables. They didn't even see an animal, and they didn't know whether they had all hidden themselves or died.

"Brother Jiawang, we couldn't find anything else to eat, these are the only ones we have." One of the teenage boys walked up to the leader of the group with a basket in his hand, looking frustrated.

A villager named Jiawang looked into the basket and saw some wilted purslane, not a lot of it.

Jiawang looked at the dishes and sighed: "Take them back first. It's better to have some than nothing."

Maybe for modern people these wild vegetables are green and pollution-free, and they taste good whether they are fried or eaten cold. But in ancient times when supplies were scarce, people could only mix wild vegetables with staple foods and cook them into wild vegetable porridge or boil them in water, which was no different from eating grass.

The villagers' stomachs have been lacking in oil and water for a long time, so their faces turn green when they see wild vegetables.