At dawn the next day, the Wanglou Brigade organized the strong laborers to process flour, and it was bustling with activity.
Since the noodle factory was built by the riverside in the northwest direction of the brigade, not far from the Lu Family, as Feng Qingxue returned from taking the kids to school, she took a look at the lively scene along the way home.
The so-called flour processing involves smashing the selected and cleaned sweet potatoes, using a grinding machine powered by a tractor's engine. During the process, you have to add water; the finer the sweet potatoes are crushed with skin and flesh, the better. Then, they're placed in a cloth filter for beating, needing to be filtered twice. The filtered solution flows slowly into the pool below.
