The couple hoeed one at a time and picked up six baskets before they stopped temporarily and planned to go to eat. The two little ones were also very good at pulling out two rows of radishes, and their little faces turned red from playing.

I was extremely serious about eating today. I cooked a whole bowl of porridge quickly without anyone urging me. As soon as I finished eating, I immediately slid down and ran to the nearby field to pull radishes.

Ye Yaodong finished hoeing all the sweet potatoes before going up to the old house. When he went there, he saw the house was in full swing. Several women in the family were washing sweet potatoes. His father was stuffing sweet potatoes into the opening on the top of the grinder nearby. People were standing around.

Many neighbors were watching.

He rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to help, "Why didn't you tell me yesterday that we were going to make sweet potato starch? Go and call my elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law over to help."

"No, we're very busy, so we don't have much. We'll do half of it and leave the other half for drying."

When Father Ye saw him reaching out to help, he gave him the job of chopping. He took the mashed sweet potatoes aside, added water, and stirred them with a stick.

Ye Mu also freed up her hands to prepare the filter screen and filter rack, and put them up on top of the large water tank used to hold the filtered water.

Then Father Ye poured a few ladles of the mixed sweet potato pulp into the filter. Mother Ye fiddled with the filter rack to let the pulp inside filter into the large tank, and squeezed out the remaining residue with her hands.

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The filtered water will take about 12 hours to settle, and then the next day, drain the water, add water, and then soak and settle.

Repeat three or four times to rinse out the impurities inside, then take out the sediment and dry it in the sun to become sweet potato flour.

Sweet potatoes with red hearts do not yield as much flour as sweet potatoes with white hearts, but they are delicious.

The process is a bit laborious, but it is authentic farm-made sweet potato flour, and it is also very convenient to make vermicelli.

Ye Yaodong was busy working in full swing, but the women washing sweet potato starch beside him couldn't stop praising him.

"I didn't expect that A Dong would change as soon as he said..."

"Who says otherwise? In the past few months, I have grown up all of a sudden, become more capable, bought a big boat, and caught so many good goods..."

"Suddenly, I became diligent, helped my family with work, and became successful. They all said that they would become the first ten thousand-yuan household in our village. Lixiang almost woke up laughing in her dreams..."

"I used to be scolded every day, three times a day, but suddenly I got better. How did you become enlightened?"

As they talked, they asked the person involved without saying anything, "Ah Dong, why did you suddenly become enlightened?"

"It suddenly happened. This is not just helping the family a little bit. I feel like going to sea is quite interesting."

"It's also interesting...we seasiders have no choice but to go to sea to make a living..."

Another good-hearted woman asked: "I heard that you are going to become a household worth ten thousand yuan, is it true?"

"Nonsense, I'm still only 9,900 yuan away from being a household with 10,000 yuan." He wiped the sweat from his forehead. These women really didn't notice.

"You are joking, how is it possible? It doesn't matter if you tell us..."

"Aunt Chunhua, why don't you lend me nine thousand yuan and let me be published in a newspaper and become famous across the country?"

"Scared...are you kidding me..."

"You are already kidding me, why don't I tell you a few words?"

"Slippery..."

Mother Ye smiled and said: "It's all just rumors. I've only heard that a pig-raising household has a household worth ten thousand yuan, but I've never heard of a village that fished and raised a household worth ten thousand yuan..."

Ye Yaodong poured the remaining half of the basket of washed sweet potatoes into the top opening of the grinder, then patted his butt and walked away. These women are so eloquent that they can't see out of sight.

There should be another chapter added, so I’ll read it tomorrow.
Chapter completed!