GBP Chapter 116 This is going to make a fortune!
Chapter 116 This is going to make a fortune!
And this is because chloroplasts cannot transport large molecules like starch. The starch formed by photosynthesis is synthesized in chloroplasts and then converted into glucose before it can be transported out of the chloroplasts.
Part of it stays in the cell and is stored as starch granules, while the other part is transported to the sieve tubes and transported to various parts of the plant body. The excess is then separated out.
Shen Erya believed in her sister's mentality and really pinched a little and put it in her mouth. Suddenly her eyes widened: "It's really sweet."
Shen Youyou smiled without saying anything. She was in a good mood, not for anything else, but just because there was a lot of white frost on the pine trees after more than two years of drought.
Wang Taohua, Shen Daya, the two sisters of the Guo family, Cui Ya, Xing Ya, and all the people, including the four bodyguards, Er Hu, Er Zhuang, San Zhuang, and Si Zhuang, all reached out their hands and tried the pine candy.
After eating, their expressions were very uniform. They all widened their eyes in disbelief. Some girls had never eaten candy before. It was not an exaggeration at all.
If you ask the people in Shenjia Village, you will find that many of them have never eaten candy. At most, they pick some wild fruits in the autumn, and take some that look good to the town to sell.
"Yo yo, it's really sweet, it's sweet!"
“With all this white frosting, are we going to get rich?”
"Yeah, why didn't I think of this? If we collect all these icing sugars and sell them when we get to the city, wouldn't we be able to get a lot of money?"
"Yo yo, you are so smart, you know everything, we are going to be rich!"
Suddenly there was a lot of chattering. The brothers were fine, because they knew Yoyo was a girl. They were watching from outside with excitement.
But the aunts and sisters were all very excited, surrounding Shen Youyou, talking to each other.
Suddenly Shen Youyou felt like countless birds were singing joyful songs around her. She waved her hands quickly to calm the girls down.
"Time is short and the mission is urgent. I told you before that this thing only exists for a short time. It is not easy to get it back from such a large forest.
It's freezing cold, and it might snow someday. Then the pine needle candies will melt and be gone.
Let's go! Sisters, it's up to us to collect as much as we can, and collect the intact pine cones as well."
Then he turned to look at the four elder brothers and said, "Brothers, go up the tree and use your machete to cut down the pine branches with white crystals. It won't be wasted because the pine needles can be made into pine needle tea.
I can also make delicious sparkling water. I'll make it for you. It's better than drinking alcohol!"
When Shen Youyou fooled around, her brothers and sisters worked very hard and she couldn't stop smiling.
After salt and palm oil, natural white sugar was found, and there is still a lot of it on the needles of pine trees.
Did you see how excited the older sisters were? Those who knew how to climb trees all climbed them. In fact, there were few girls who grew up in the village who couldn’t climb trees.
In the past, people always said that young ladies in ancient times were reserved and never showed their teeth when they smiled. In fact, they were referring to those young ladies, girls from farm families, who could climb trees to pick wild fruits, take out bird eggs, and go into the water to catch fish and loaches when they were young. What could they not do?
As for embroidery, her reading and writing skills may not be as good as those rich girls, but her ability to survive in the mountains is top-notch.
As Shen Youyou estimated, these edible things in the mountains were discovered by farmers' children in China five thousand years ago, haha!
Shen Youyou was not idle either. She ignored the pine cones and climbed up the tree directly. She stepped on the tree and picked up all the crystals she could.
As for those that are far away and out of reach, she would simply pull out her one-meter-long sword and chop them off.
This thing is hard to come by, so collect them all first!
She was having a lot of fun, but she was stunned when she saw Erhu's operation.
Erhu held the tree trunk with one hand and used the other hand to quickly pull out the pine candy as if he was practicing the shadowless claw.
Those that cannot be picked off cannot be wasted. He just stuffs the stuck pine needles into his mouth, looking very enjoyable.
Shen Youyou couldn't help but remind him: "Brother Erhu, be careful when you eat. You like to eat candy, and bugs also like to eat candy. Sometimes there will be bugs."
Erhu didn't care at all and said, "It's okay. It may be because of the cold weather. I picked so many fruits but didn't see any bugs."
Shen Youyou was stunned. She looked carefully and indeed didn't see any insects. This was unscientific!
She had never seen real pine candy growing on a tree. She only knew about it because of a classmate of hers with whom she had a good relationship.
That classmate was a child from the mountains. She knew that only studying could change her destiny, so she studied hard and eventually got admitted to university. She was a very hardworking girl.
Shen Youyou knew about this thing because one year when that classmate went home for the winter break for the New Year, she came across a pine tree growing pine needles. After picking the needles, she boiled them into syrup and brought it to her school.
I heard from my classmates that many children in the mountains like to herd sheep and cattle in the mountains. When herding cattle, they look for pine trees with pine candy, and then put it in their mouths to eat. It is sweet and has the unique smell of pine trees.
Because small insects are often seen on pine candy, many people say that this is the excrement of insects on pine trees.
Although we felt disgusted after hearing it at the time, we still ate it and removed the bugs while eating.
However, the children in the mountains are very smart. Grasshoppers, wild grasses and wild fruits are all edible snacks. As long as they taste good, everyone will like them.
Out of curiosity, Shen Youyou checked and found out that it was not insect excrement at all. How many insects would it take to excrete so much frosting?
And that insect is quite strange. It will only excrete when it has been dry for a long time. Normally, it just eats and doesn't excrete?
Besides, even if it is insect excrement, so what? How did the cat poop coffee that is so popular in later generations come about?
And cat poop coffee is very expensive, with a cup costing up to $100 or more.
We are all fleeing from famine, why bother with so many things?
Shen Youyou's divergent thinking did not stop her from working. She also learned from Brother Erhu, picking and eating at the same time. She ate the ones that could not be picked, but she still checked carefully to make sure there were no bugs before eating.
Looking back at the other brothers and sisters, they are really learning from each other. They work and eat candies at the same time, and they can replenish their lost energy. Not bad!
Shen Youyou also collected the pine resin from the trees and told everyone to help him pick some pine resin as well.
It is the yellow crystals on the pine tree. In fact, it is the oil that oozes out of the pine tree. After extraction, it is mostly made into translucent irregular block solids, mostly yellow-brown colloids, with a strong pine scent.
It can be used as medicine, and has the effects of relieving pain and itching, reducing swelling and detoxifying, astringing and stopping bleeding, and dispelling wind and dampness.
In fact, the pine tree can also be harvested like rubber, by cutting a hole to collect the resin, but it is usually collected in April and November, because if the weather is too cold, collecting the resin may affect the yield next year.
But Shen Youyou will not come to collect pine resin next year, so she plans to bring more bamboo tubes tomorrow. When they make pine candy, they can also collect pine resin.
Because it can also be used to make candles, perfume, glue, soap, etc. It can also be used to make torches and fire starters.
It just so happened that the fire starter made by Shen Youyou was almost used up.