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Chapter 413 412. Shall I accept it or not?

When Xiang Jin and the others came back from picking vegetables in the vegetable field in the greenhouse, they saw that Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo had helped them build the tin shed for smoking bacon in their yard.

This tin shed is about two meters high and more than two square meters in size. Not only is it surrounded on all sides, but it is also covered with a piece of iron sheet on the top.

"Wow, Grandpa Zeng, Grandma Mo, isn't your speed too fast? It was built so quickly," Xiang Jin ran over and looked around the iron shed twice.

Both Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng had smiles all over their faces, and Grandma Mo said, "You guys have taken care of all the work of picking vegetables, and we have nothing to do, so your Grandpa Zeng will go to your Aunt Liao's house to pick up the vegetables." I borrowed this iron sheet, and then piled it up to surround it first."

Grandpa Zeng took away the front sheet of tin and let them look inside, "Look, is it enough to smoke your bacon?"

When Xiang Jin and the others saw that Grandpa Zeng had tied two layers of wires at equal intervals in the iron shed, and each layer was lined with three wires, Xiang Jin nodded sharply.

"That's enough, that's enough, this row can hang meat of all ages, let alone the sixth row, I originally thought of borrowing the silkworm rack from Aunt Liao's house to use it, but I didn't expect you, Grandpa Zeng, to directly It’s easier and more trouble-free to tie the wire!”

Grandpa Zeng said, "This space is not very big, and it is not very convenient to put the silkworm stand."

Xiang Jin nodded again, his eyes filled with excitement, and then said, "Then I'll go and wash out those bacon first, then dry it for two hours to absorb the moisture on it, and then we'll Just put it in there to smoke."

Grandma Mo smiled and said, "I've already washed it all out, so I'll put it in the empty room next to the kitchen to dry, and wait for the water to drip for a while before I can take it out."

Hearing this, the smile on Xiang Jin's face became even brighter, "Grandma Mo, you are so kind," and then she raised her wrist to look at the time and said, "It's eleven o'clock, let's start at twelve o'clock." Start to smoke, until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, we will take back the house, and then continue to smoke for another day tomorrow."

Ouyang Bo said, "Why don't you keep it in there to smoke, and take it back at night?"

Xiang Jin said, "Let's just say that you have never lived in the country. First, it is very dangerous if there is no one to watch and watch at night. What if the oil drips into the basin and causes a fire? There are hundreds of catties of meat in it, Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng’s, Aunt Liao’s, Yan Chen and I prepared a New Year’s gift for the staff, a whole pig, and dozens of catties of meat in our house, arrived Sometimes one might turn into black charcoal.

The second is that there are a lot of thieves in the countryside, especially around the time of the new year. In the past two years, some people in our side threw bacon during the Chinese New Year. The kind that steals all the bacon from your pig. "

After hearing this, Ouyang Bo had an expression of astonishment beyond belief, "So scary?!"

"Isn't it? Some people who have nothing to do at home and can't afford meat during the Chinese New Year, don't they just go to steal other people's homes. For example, some people's homes have weak locks, so they take advantage of people sleeping in the middle of the night. When it was ripe, I went to pick the lock on the door of the house, and then stole all the bacon from the roof of the house, so, do you think our bacon can be thrown in the yard so casually?"

Ouyang Bo said, "Aren't there a few dogs at home?"

Xiang Jin said, "The dog is going to guard the vegetable field in the greenhouse at night, otherwise how do you think Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng can sleep peacefully at night?"

"Oh, it turns out that the dogs in the house are for such a purpose?" Ouyang Bo nodded, as if he understood.

Xiang Jin said, "Yes, don't people in rural areas raise dogs just to look after their homes? Not only the dogs of Grandpa Zeng's family have such a mission, but also the dogs of Aunt Liao's family. such a mission.

They stay at home during the day and eat delicious food, and then sleep with their heads covered. At night, they will go to the vegetable field in the greenhouse to watch. Did you not see the corner of the vegetable field in the greenhouse and return it to them? Has a kennel been installed? "

Ouyang Bo said with some embarrassment, "I didn't notice much."

Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, there are usually some baskets and baskets piled up in the corner."

Ouyang Bo then approached Xiang Jin and asked in a low voice, "Aren't Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo afraid of being poisoned by others, for example, if someone throws poisonous meat buns or meat bones to them?"

Xiang Jin said, "No, they have been trained in these aspects since they were young. They don't know how to eat things that are not thrown to them by people in their own family. They are also rich and powerful, okay?"

"Really?" Ouyang Bo didn't quite believe it.

Xiang Jin said, "If you don't believe me, you can try it later and see if they will dump you?"

Ouyang Bo said, "Just try it!"

An hour later, after seeing off two or two vegetable merchants, Xiang Jin ran to the empty room next to the kitchen to have a look, and found that the meat was not dripping much, so he greeted Yan Chen and Ouyang Bo helped move the meat to the tin box in the yard outside to hang it.

But the two of them didn't know how to put the meat on those wires, because those wires were fixed on the iron wall. In the end, it was Grandpa Zeng who held a small wooden stick and taught them how to hang the meat.

After the two of them figured it out and hung up the meat, Grandpa Zeng brought over the big iron pot used for roasting the fire at home, and Grandma Mo also brought most of the baskets such as peanut shells and orange peels. , and that grapefruit peel, and that sawdust, and that corn cob, etc.

Ouyang Bo looked very curious, and then asked, "Do you still need to use these for smoked bacon? Isn't it just cypress branches?"

Grandma Mo said, "The cypress branches are used, but the orange peel and pomelo peel have a delicate fragrance. The sawdust is mainly cypress foam and some fruit tree foam. They are mixed together to smoke The smoked bacon will be more fragrant, and it will not be as greasy as the naturally air-dried bacon."

"Oh, is that so?" Ouyang Bo finally understood, and then asked, "Then what about the peanut shells and the corncobs? What role do they play?"

"Oh, this one, they are mainly used to light fire, otherwise just like these cypress branches, grapefruit peels, orange peels and sawdust are easy to extinguish, because the cypress branches are alive, then The latter ones are very easy to block the air, so there must be some big fires at the beginning, and then spread these things on top."

"Oh, I see!" Ouyang Bo nodded again. He felt that he had learned a lot in the countryside this time, especially in terms of life skills. It seems that life in the countryside is not too bad. No wonder he My sister Xiangjin looked down on him so much before, looking at him as if she was looking at a waste with well-developed limbs and no distinction between grains and grains.

Xiang Jin knelt down and was about to start a fire to smoke the meat, but Grandma Mo suddenly asked, "Oh, it seems that you haven't brought the meat from Aunt Liao's house yet?"

Suddenly, Xiang Jin suddenly realized, "Oh, it's really true," so she quickly stood up, then turned around and walked out of the yard, "I'll tell her to bring the meat here!"

Then Xiang Jin heard Grandma Mo say again, "Do you know if the bacon from Aunt Liao's house has been cleaned? Don't you still marinate it in that vat?"

Grandpa Zeng nodded, "It's washed out. It is said that she washed it out last night. It's better than the steamed meat in our house."

Grandma Mo said, "Hey, then put her meat on the top layer to smoke, and ours on the bottom, so that her meat won't drip oil when the time comes."

So they moved some meat down again, leaving a large space for Aunt Liao's meat.

After a while, Aunt Liao came over with a basket on her back, and Xiang Jin also carried a large iron pot in her hand.

When Yan Chen saw it, he rushed up to meet her and took the big iron pot from her hand.

Xiang Jin said, "Put two pots in it, so that the smoked meat can be smoked in front and back, so that the smell of the smoked meat is more even, and it also saves us the trouble of flipping the meat every few hours."

Everyone felt that this was feasible, and then Grandma Mo and Xiang Jin stopped to raise a fire in a pot.

Aunt Liao put the basket on the ground, and with everyone's help, hung up the meat in a few strokes. Grandpa Zeng pointed to the meat hanging on the top wires and said, "Look clearly. Ha, yours is this red hemp rope, with a total of 15 yuan of meat and five strips of ribs."

Aunt Liao said, "Uncle Mingyao, look at what you said, am I still afraid that you will swallow my meat?"

Both Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng laughed, and Grandma Mo explained to her, "That's not what it means, it means that we all remember the signs of each meat well, so as to save time from being confused after the smoking is over. who is whose.

You see, there are all of them. This white hemp rope is worn by girls Jin and Chenchen for their employees. The meat worn by these ropes twisted from palm leaves is girls Jin and Xiaobo’s grandpas. Grandma used to marinate the meat and put it here. This rope made of soft thin strips is wrapped with the meat of our family. "

Everyone nodded, and after Xiang Jin and Grandma Mo raised the fire in the pot, they let the corn cob burn for a while, and then put a thin layer of sawdust on it first, followed by Just put a pile of cypress branches on it, then sprinkle some sawdust on it, then put another pile of cypress branches, and finally put grapefruit shells and orange peels on the cypress branches Those, after the thick white smoke came out of the two pots, they pushed the two pots into the iron shed, and then took the previous piece of iron to cover it again.

Ouyang Bo said, "The inside is so tightly sealed that no air can flow in, so the fire in the pot inside won't go out in time, right?"

Grandpa Zeng said, "No, there are many small holes near the ground at the bottom of the tin shed, so the air inside still circulates with the air outside. Look, here, here, and here, Isn’t there white smoke overflowing?”

Ouyang Bo saw it, and it was true.

Following Grandpa Zeng, he shouted and shouted to go into the house, saying that he would add cypress branches later if the smoke in the house was less.

Because the snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, Xiang Jin and the others decided to stop today's smoking at ten o'clock in the evening, so everyone went to take the meat back to the house, and just as they opened the tin shed In an instant, they found that the hanging strips of meat had been evenly dyed a layer of attractive honey yellow.

Ouyang Bo couldn't help exclaiming, "Wow, the color is really beautiful, and it's obvious that the meat has become smaller."

Xiang Jin said, "That's because some of the water on their bodies has been evaporated. If they are smoked for another day tomorrow, the color of their bodies will become darker and thicker. After drying for a few days, they can be put into bags directly. It's in the fridge."

Ouyang Bo said, "Do you need to dry it again after smoking it tomorrow?"

Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, because strictly speaking, the process of smoking bacon is to pick up and clean the pork after marinating it in the tank for five to seven days, and then hang it in the sun or in a ventilated and dry place to dry." For three to five days, let the moisture on them evaporate before smoking.

After 24 to 48 hours of continuous smoking in this way, it can be directly put into the refrigerator, and the taste of the bacon will not be too waxy in the coming year, but it still maintains a little taste of fresh meat.

But since we don’t have so much time to operate, we smoke them after cleaning them, so that there is still a lot of moisture locked in the meat, so even after smoking, they still need to be left open for a while. of. "

At this point, he looked at Yan Chen, "So when Uncle Tao comes, we should also remind him, and ask him to tell the employees when he distributes it to them, otherwise the taste will be bad." a lot of."

"Yeah," Yan Chen nodded.

The next morning, when Xiang Jin and the other three young men were picking vegetables in the field, Grandma Mo suddenly came in and told them that Manager Xiao was here, telling them to stop busy and go out to rest for a while.

"Xiao Bo, you also go out to rest for a while. The vegetables you picked are enough for several customers to collect in the morning, and there is still time to pick the rest later."

Several people nodded, so they went out together.

When they went outside the shed, they saw a black Santana sedan and a [-]-ton pickup truck parked on the side of the road.

When they got home, they saw Grandpa Zeng chatting and drinking tea with two people in the living room. Those two people weren't Manager Xiao or his brother-in-law?
Seeing them coming in, Manager Xiao immediately put down the teacup in his hand, then stood up from the sofa and greeted Xiang Jin and Yan Chen warmly, "Student Yan, classmate Xiang, long time no see , how are you?"

Yan Chen nodded slightly to him, and greeted Jin Hui, "Hello, Manager Xiao!"

"Ah ah ah, okay, okay," Manager Xiao kept nodding his head, and then said to Xiang Jin, "Oh, by the way, it's okay for me to call you classmate Xiang just now, right?"

Xiang Jin suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, "No problem, you can call me that way as always, but Manager Xiao is quite well informed?"

Manager Xiao smiled and waved his hands modestly, "Oh, it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist," followed him and sighed, "Oh, I didn't expect that you are the daughter of a high-ranking official in our city! ? But when we first saw you, we felt that you were not a child from an ordinary family, but we didn’t expect you to be!”

Xiang Jin also said briefly, "Oh, it's just an oolong incident, and I didn't think of it."

Manager Xiao glanced at Ouyang Bo who was at the side, and after seeing his appearance, he turned to Jin and asked, "Who is this?"

Xiang Jin said, "My brother, Ouyang Bo!"

Manager Xiao nodded his head, "I mean, he looks a bit like you," and then he nodded to Ouyang Bo with a smile on his face and said, "Oh, hello, hello!"

Ouyang Bo also nodded slightly to him, "Hello!"

After greeting each other, Yan Chen said to Manager Xiao, "Sit down!"

"Ah, ah, good, good!"

Manager Xiao sat down, and Xiang Jin and the others also sat down, and then Grandpa Zeng got up and said, "Okay, then you chat, Xiao Zhang and I will go and move those vegetables to the car first?"

Manager Xiao's brother-in-law also got up.

"Oh, okay, you're busy, you're busy!" Manager Xiao kept nodding.

After they all left, Xiang Jin and the others exchanged greetings with Manager Xiao. After chatting with them for a while, Manager Xiao explained to them, "Oh, Manager Huang was going to come with me today too. , but because I really couldn’t get away, so I had to come alone, and he told me to bring this apology to you, saying that I’m really sorry, I’m sorry!”

Yan Chen said, "There's no need to be so polite!"

Xiang Jin also said, "Yes, yes, we never mind those things."

Manager Xiao nodded, and then went straight to the point. He first walked to the corner not far away and brought a few gift bags over, and then handed two to Xiang Jin and Yan Chen.

"The red bag is our Manager Huang's personal love for the two students, and the yellow bag is my personal love for the two students. I hope the two students will not be disgusted."

"Why are you so polite?" Xiang Jin joked with a smile.

Then Manager Xiao said, "To be honest, the factory I worked with our boss has still made some money in the past two years. This is all thanks to the help of two classmates. Although my old Xiao has a thick brain and hasn't read much, But I still understand the truth of being a human being.”

Xiang Jin sighed, "Oh, you are just like your boss, Manager Huang, you are too polite! But we saw that black Santana car parked on the side of the road, is it your private car?"

"Oh, yes, yes," Manager Xiao nodded sincerely.

Xiang Jin said, "It seems that you have indeed made some money," but Xiang Jin and Yan Chen did not reach out to pick up the two bags in their hands, but looked at the several exquisite bags inside. Asked in the small box, "What are you all giving away? First of all, let's say yes, we dare not accept things that are too expensive!"

Manager Xiao said, "It's not expensive, it's not expensive. Aren't the two students going to take the college entrance examination next year? So our boss made a small object for the two students, and wished the two students success in the college entrance examination next year." The flag is won, the Toad Palace is won, and then the rest are still the same as in previous years, they are all local specialties of their hometown."

After hearing this, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I saw that manager Xiao said again, "As for me, you also know that we are all local people, and we don't have any local specialties that can be sold here, so I prepared a pair for each of the two students. Pens, and then a few cordyceps and a few taels of bird's nest for each person.

The two students are also at the time when they are overusing their brains, so let your family make soup for you during your winter vacation.

According to the current strength of the two students, these are nothing, so I hope the two students don't give up! "

Indeed, according to their current net worth, eating a few cordyceps and a few taels of bird's nest is really nothing, so the two didn't make any further excuses, and then generously reached out and took them away.

"Thank you!"

"Yes, Manager Xiao will help us to tell Manager Huang when we go back, thank you!"

"Oh, no thanks, no thanks!" Manager Xiao waved his hand.

After several people chatted for a few more words, Manager Xiao got up and proposed to leave. He said that he still had something to do, so there would be no delay, and the two of them would not keep him. Then he nodded and sent him out of the gate of the courtyard directly. outside.

After his car drove away from the road, Ouyang Bo couldn't help but approached Xiang Jin and the others and asked, "Oh, what's your relationship with them? It feels like they're trying to curry favor with you ?”

Xiang Jin said, "It's nothing, it's just that we drew a few costume designs for them before, and let them make some money."

"Costume design drawings? Do you still know how to draw costume design drawings?!" Ouyang Bo was immediately surprised.

Yan Chen said, "It's a random drawing, and then they fell in love with it."

Ouyang Bo said, "Everyone who draws indiscriminately can be admired, you are so lucky, aren't you?"

Xiang Jin said, "Yeah, isn't it just luck? Even we were surprised."

Then Ouyang Bo asked again, "What kind of picture did you draw, did they take a fancy to it?"

Xiang Jin said, "School uniforms, they have been cooperating with our school to order school uniforms, so later many people took a fancy to the two school uniforms we drew, and then asked them to order them according to that style. system."

Ouyang Bo nodded knowingly, "Oh, so that's the case, no wonder!"

Followed a few people to clean up the door, and then went back to the field to continue picking vegetables.

In the afternoon, after all the vegetable vendors had taken the vegetables away, everyone had nothing to do, and then Xiang Jin asked Yan Chen, "Oh, what do you think Manager Huang gave us? A toad?"

Yan Chen directly pulled the red gift bag, and found a beautifully packaged box inside, and opened it, "Don't you know after reading it?"

So Xiang Jin also found his own one and took it apart. After a while, Yan Chen was the first to take out a little golden toad from his box.

After seeing it, Xiang Jin asked, "Is this real gold or gold-plated?"

And other people in the family were full of the same doubts after seeing it.

Yan Chen turned the little golden toad one by one, and after seeing the 999.9999% mark on it, he showed it to Xiang Jin, who was immediately surprised when he saw it, "It's pure gold? "

Yan Chen nodded, "It should be!" Then he picked up a receipt in the box and opened it to look at it, and then saw that it was a product from a century-old brand gold store, so he turned towards Jin nodded, "Pure gold!"

Xiang Jin stopped what she was unpacking, then took the receipt from him and looked at it, "66 grams," and then she took the receipt from him again The little golden toad weighed it, and indeed it was still a little heavy.

"It will cost several thousand?" Although I don't know what the current price of gold is, it should still cost several thousand dollars.

Yan Chen nodded, "It should be about the same!"

"This year's gift is a bit heavy, so should I accept it?" Xiang Jin became a little entangled, mainly because her status as this year's son had changed.

Yan Chen immediately understood the root of her entanglement, "Are you afraid of causing unnecessary trouble to your parents?"

Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, if they refuse to ask them for help when the time comes, and then the other party says that they accepted bribes, and the things were collected by their daughter, wouldn't it be impossible to wash them by jumping into the Yellow River?" Qing? Oh, I should have unpacked the packing box in front of Manager Xiao at that moment."

Then Yan Chen took the little golden toad and the bill back from her hand, and put them back into the box again, "If that's the case, then take some time to give them back!"

Ouyang Bo was taken aback when he heard that, and his heart beat faster. To be honest, he just lamented at the ability of his sister and Yan Chen just now, and he felt sorry for them for receiving such a valuable gift from a client. He was happy, but he didn't consider this relationship. His parents are not ordinary people, and they are both extremely sensitive people.

Both Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng felt that the two of them considered the issue more comprehensively and thoughtfully, so they both nodded and suggested that it would be better to go back. , the heart of defense is indispensable, we may have the heart of a villain, but it is not ruled out that some people with ulterior motives will play tricks on this, so let's be careful, after all, the elders in both of your families are not Ordinary people."

Xiang Jin and Yan Chen nodded, and then Xiang Jin stopped opening her box, and put it back into the gift bag again.

Yan Chen said, "After Uncle Tao comes, we can just drop by and return it when we go to Miyun Reservoir and pass by there."

"Well," Xiang Jin nodded, and then Grandma Mo asked them to take them upstairs and put them away. Be careful not to lose them when they are placed downstairs. After all, people often come and go in their house.

So the two of them went upstairs with their two bags.

(End of this chapter)