I was the best old lady in ancient times

Chapter 27 Making Money
With the sugar cane forest in hand, and the pulping truck from Wang Dashan just arrived, Ning Pengpeng felt that everything was ready.

Call the sons and daughters-in-law to come back after cutting the sugar cane, and let them cut the sugar cane in two parts of the land before they are done.

Ning Pengpeng asked the second and third children to remove the heads and tails of the sugar cane first, and then cleaned them, then put the sugar cane into the pulping cart, drove the cattle and started to circle, and saw the sugar cane water was squeezed out.

The bagasse that has been rolled once is put in again and rolled repeatedly until the juice becomes less and then discarded.

Let Lao Si light the fire again, pour the squeezed juice into the tank, and wait until the water splashes are in the shape of fine beads, just like boiled paste. Only then did it come out.

At this time, the color of the syrup is still black and yellow, wait for it to condense into a massecuite, and then put the tile made by the fourth child on the tank.

The shape of the tile is wide at the top and pointed at the bottom. First, block the small hole at the bottom of the tile, and then pour the massecuite in. After the massecuite solidifies, remove the stuff stuffed in the small hole, Ning Pengpeng Then pour the mixed yellow mud water from the top.

In this way, the black syrup will drip into the tank, and what remains on the top five inches of the tile is the freshly baked white sugar.

Seeing the white sugar in Waliuli, Ning Pengpeng wanted to shed tears!

However, at the end, pouring the massecuite into the tile, and pouring the solidified massecuite with yellow muddy water, Ning Pengpeng did it behind everyone's back.

This is also the reason why Ning Pengpeng divided the thatched shed in the back into two, and then surrounded it with straw curtains.

The matter of white sugar must not be spread now.

A catty of sugar requires about seven or eight catties of sugar cane, and these two fractions of land can produce nearly one hundred catties of sugar.

And this nearly one hundred catties of white sugar is enough for the amount of sugar needed to make snacks at home.

However, if the sugarcane in the field is not cut down in time, it may also rot in the field.

Therefore, every two days, Ning Pengpeng would let his sons cut sugar cane and come back to make sugar.

The rest of the time, it is used to squeeze the juice and transport it to the town together with the pastry to sell.

She wrapped all the white sugar she made in oiled paper and locked it in the box where she originally put her clothes.

During the two free days, Ning Pengpeng, in addition to squeezing sugarcane water by himself and selling it, paid a penny for every ten catties of sugarcane, saying that he squeezed sugarcane water for those in the village who bought sugarcane fields.

It has to be said that the image of Mrs. Ning being stingy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

When others learned that Mrs. Ning's family charged a penny for the hard work of squeezing the sugar cane water, they suddenly felt that it was not so strange that she said to tell the method of squeezing the sugar cane for free!

After all, Ning Pengpeng did tell everyone how to make a pulp truck!
But when I thought about it, it would cost a lot of money to make this pulping cart, plus I had to buy a cow to go home, just to drink a sip of sweet water, so much money?
Not a fool, who would do it?

Just when those people felt that they were being cheated, Ning Pengpeng came out again and said that he was willing to provide sugarcane water every other day, and charged one penny for ten catties of sugarcane each time.

At first, some people were upset, thinking that Mrs. Ning was blackmailing people.

He even felt that Lizheng was also involved in it, fooling everyone into buying that sugarcane field just for this moment.

At that time, Ning Youzhi was also full of anger. He didn't expect to squeeze a bowl of sugarcane water to be so cumbersome, and he was a little annoyed.

It was Ning Pengpeng who found him and asked him to chop up his family's sugar cane and send it to Ning's house.

Then the juice was squeezed and filtered several times, and then the third child took Li Zheng's eldest son Yongjin to the town to sell the cakes and the juice.

In just a few hours, the pastries and sugarcane water were sold out.

Ning Yongjin was sitting in the bullock cart that Ning Youshou was driving, dumbfoundedly holding the money earned from the sugar cane water he sold early this morning, and he was in a dazed state.

It wasn't until Ning Youzhi asked him how he was doing in his own yard that Ning Yongjin poured the money bag in his hand onto the table.

With a clatter, hundreds of Wen copper coins rolled down on the table, and some even rolled from the table to the ground.

Seeing this, Ning Youzhi stood up abruptly, looking at the money in front of him in disbelief.

"Is this the money sold for the sugar cane water squeezed today?"

"Yeah, Dad, why do those people seem to want no money, and they pay a penny for a bowl, and they all rush to buy it?"

Ning Yongjin only feels that he is still dreaming, otherwise, how could money be earned so easily!

"Haha, my aunt is right. These sugarcane groves are a free cornucopia! We only spent [-] Wen per acre of land, but the sugarcane we squeezed in the morning is only a few cents.

With just a few fractions of sugar cane, the money earned is almost worth an acre of land!
If all the sugarcane in the sugarcane fields that I bought were cut down, squeezed into juice and sold, how much money would I earn? "

Originally, after listening to old lady Ning's words, the daughter-in-law who complained about buying so many waste lands also looked at each other in blank dismay. Unexpectedly, old lady Ning really has such abilities?
After hearing the news that Li Zheng's family made money by squeezing sugarcane water, other people who bought sugarcane fields also flocked to Ning's family.

A penny for juicing is nothing more than a bowl of sugarcane water!

Those who don't want to give money, just take a bowl of sugarcane water instead, and Ning Pengpeng has no objection.

In this way, even if all her own sugar cane is made into white sugar, she still has sugar cane from other people's fields for her to use!
"Msister, I heard that the cakes sold by the third child, as well as the sugarcane water, are very popular in the town."

The news that Ning Laosan sold pastries in the town to earn money naturally reached the ears of Ning Laosan and Liu Shi.

Because the third child bought up all the dozen catties of brown sugar in the store before!

For this reason, the father-in-law was surprised, but the brown sugar had to go to the state capital to get in.

It is really unnecessary to travel such a long distance just for the same brown sugar.

Therefore, Boss Ning thought that after the third child could not buy brown sugar, naturally the cakes would not be able to be made!

Although he is envious of the money earned by the third child during this period, he is not jealous.

"He obviously hasn't come to our house to buy brown sugar for a long time, how can he still make that pastry? Could it be related to that sugarcane water?"

Boss Ning also looked puzzled, but he quickly realized that the third child brought people from the village to the town to sell some sugarcane water, a penny a bowl, which was sweeter than brown sugar.

In this town, many people can't afford brown sugar, but they can still buy a bowl of sugarcane sweet water for such a penny.

Anyone who has bought sugarcane water knows that this sugarcane water is much sweeter than brown sugar water!

I also want to know, brown sugar is already expensive to death, who is so generous, adding more brown sugar to a bowl of water?

Only this sugarcane is sweet in itself, and the juice squeezed out is naturally very sweet!
The news that the sugarcane water sold in An Town was sweeter than brown sugar water soon spread to other towns.

(End of this chapter)