Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 160 Chapter 150 Chapter [-]: Chili Red

Song Qiu took the time to look at it twice, and felt relieved, so he went to work on his own.

In the past two days, Song Qiu took the old Yuan family and Zhang Lihua together, and collected all the red peppers from every household in the village for a penny a catty, and then went to Yuan's house to buy all the red peppers for a penny a catty. Get up, and there are several tubs full of them.

It is estimated that there are about [-] catties.

But the ones from my own family and Zhang's family were kept first, anyway, they were convenient, they could be picked at any time, and they could be hung on trees for further raising.

Originally, the red peppers were planted to rot and harvested. How could they be sold for a penny a catty like the green peppers? When Song Qiu went to pick them, everyone didn't need money.

But Song Qiu knew that this thing was to be eaten, and it would be her exclusive secret recipe at that time. If this raw material was not sold for money, it would be rare to talk about it in the future, but it was only a penny a catty, and she gave it safely.

The people in the village were all curious, why did she insist on giving money to buy the red peppers that were not eaten but waited to be rotten and reaped.

Old Yuan Shi and Zhang Lihua were also very curious, but they already had blind confidence in Song Qiu, knowing that she would not mess around and would definitely do something good.

On this day, Song Qiu took back the chopping knife with a long handle that he ordered earlier from the blacksmith shop in the town, and invited Mrs. Deng and Mrs. Miao to come together, and started to get busy.

Four chopping knives and four large wooden basins were all washed clean and free from oil.

Waking up early, I picked the peppers that had been cleaned by the stalks and let them dry for half a morning to dry the water on the surface. I poured half of them into a wooden basin. Song Qiu took a chopping knife and demonstrated it to several people.

This newly made chopping knife is very sharp, with one chop, the chili peppers that fell fell into two pieces.

With the continuous chopping of clang clang clang, soon, the peppers were all gone.

Just use this knife, which is different from the usual kitchen knife, to chop the peppers. This seems simple, but soon, everyone will understand.

Of the four knives, Song Qiu took one, and the other three were distributed among the old Yuan family, the old Deng family and the Miao family.

Four people, four tubs, began to get busy.

Song Qiu's pot was the first one. She poured the crushed chili peppers into the big clean wooden pot, and handed the chopping knife to Zhang Lihua to chop the next pot.

She went to the yard to look at the two large pottery jars that were cleaned and dried. She bought them at the pottery kiln behind the town for a few dollars. Hundred catties of bean paste, convenient.

After looking at the big pottery vat, the inside was dried and could be filled at any time, so Song Qiu went into the room where he slept.

There were too many people in the kitchen, and she couldn't do it. Besides, she had to hide the bean paste, so she did the most important process in her own room, which was just right.

Old Deng and the others only helped chop the peppers, and didn't even think about coming to find out what happened, so Song Qiu was relieved.

After entering the house, Song Qiu took out the mildewed watercress prepared a few days ago, estimated the amount of hot peppers, and calculated the amount of six catties of hot peppers for one catty of moldy beans, and poured out about [-] catties of moldy beans.

After three hundred catties of soybeans were made into moldy bean paste, less than half of them were lost, and there were only about two hundred catties left.

Song Qiu thought that the bean paste for this trip was ready, so he might have to go to the nearby villages to collect some red peppers and buy some peas.

It won't be a problem to keep this bean paste for a few years, she should make more, or wait until this time next year, it will be a year, and her inn will open, so this bean paste can't be stopped.

Thinking in his mind, Song Qiu poured the moldy bean paste into the wooden basin, then poured in the white wine he bought a long time ago, and stirred it to let the wine fully soak the moldy bean paste.

After doing this well, Song Qiu went back to the stove house, and saw that the three pots that Mrs. Yuan and the others had chopped were almost the same. After waiting for a while, they poured them into the big wooden basin together, and Song Qiu asked Zhang Lihua to help them carry them into his house. inside.

At this moment, the moldy Douban had been soaked in wine for more than a quarter of an hour, Song Qiu then poured the beaten soy sauce into it, beating quite a bit, now pouring it in, the moldy Douban would be completely covered, Just right.

Soak the mildewed watercress again, and Song Qiu continued to go back to the kitchen to watch everyone chop peppers, while changing hands, letting everyone take turns to rest.

Soon, it was time to eat lunch, eat lunch first, and then continue to work.

Another two hours passed before all 480 jin of peppers were minced.

Song Qiu saw that it was still dark, and there were people in any village at this point, so he simply let her take a rest and then took Zhang Lihua to other villages to collect red peppers.

Zhang Lihua is now able to drive mule carts, so she just drives the nearest road, and she is not afraid of failing.

Old Deng and Miao were tired after chopping chili for so long, and they didn't need their help in the subsequent process, so Song Qiu asked them to go back and rest.

After Ming Lihua helped move all the chopped peppers into the house, Song Qiulai started to work on his own.

Start with the first large pot of crushed chili peppers, put enough salt on it, then throw in a pack of peppercorns, then throw in the minced ginger and minced garlic, and finally chop the soaked moldy bean sprouts a little. Too broken, pour the same amount into a large tub.

Then use a shovel to stir evenly in a wooden basin, and finally pour in rapeseed oil.

Although soybean oil was a few pennies cheaper, rapeseed oil was more fragrant, so Song Qiu spent a few pennies a catty extra to buy rapeseed oil.

Six catties of peppers use almost two catties of rapeseed oil, and she spent a full four taels of silver on this rapeseed oil!
At that time, he was so "wealthy and rich", and the shopkeeper Wu was shocked. I'm afraid he was thinking in his heart, this little girl is so popular with everyone that she is willing to eat rapeseed oil.

So this crock of bean paste is all done, which cost a lot of money.

The rapeseed oil was soaked in and stirred evenly, and Song Qiu took a lot of effort to move the two large pottery vats that were drying outside into the house.

Put all the mixed bean paste in the first pot, and then follow the same method to make the remaining chili peppers, so that there is no moldy bean paste and rapeseed oil left, and these two large pots Grandpa is almost full.

Song Qiu poked at the mouth of the jar and smelled the inside, and the fragrant smell rushed out, causing her to grin the corners of her mouth.

Her bean paste!

Finally got it.

Song Qiu nodded, and then sealed the mouths of the two pottery vats with greased paper, and waited for ten days and a half months, when the flavor was ready, they would turn them out and cook.

At that time, the inn should not have been built anyway.

Song Qiu was busy with work, and it was getting dark. At this moment, the old Yuan Shi and Zhang Lihua, who had only gone to the opposite village of Dazao Village, also came back.

If it wasn't dark, they still planned to go to Shitou Village, but they said that they picked it up, and they also confiscated it from a village. Wait, they just pull it.

Song Qiu looked at the three baskets full of red peppers, guessing that there were two to three hundred catties, and nodded.

(End of this chapter)