Nongmen Fu girl group’s daily favorites

With peanut oil, the first thing Shen Jia did was to make delicious food.

The first thing was pan-fried small fish. Early in the morning, he took Xiao Yichen to the river to fish for fish. He brought two buckets of fish back and asked the cook to kill them and clean them.

Shen Jia was frying fish, Xiao Yichen kicked the cook out, and he made the fire himself.

The small fish fried slowly over slow fire are delicious.

"A Chen, lower the fire a little."

"Okay!"

"A Chen, put a piece of firewood in."

"Ok."

The largest of these small fish are only two fingers in size. They are cooked when fried until golden brown on both sides.

Shen Jia put the small fish on the plate and twisted a small fish between his thumb and index finger on his right hand: "Here, let's have a taste. How does it taste?"

Xiao Yichen opened his mouth wide and bit Shen Jia's finger, and then said seriously: "Yes! It's delicious. The fish meat is very tender, and even the fish bones are very fragrant."

Shen Jia glared at him. She suspected that Xiao Yichen bit her hand intentionally just now, but she had no evidence.

Xiao Yichen's eyes were full of smiles, but he didn't dare to do it again because he was afraid that Shen Jia would be outraged.

Shen Jia was a carefree person. After glaring at Xiao Yichen, he didn't take it seriously and continued to talk and laugh with him.

In late June, following the bumper harvest of peanuts and corn, there was also a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes.

Shen Jia was worried that some villagers were unwilling to change grain types, so he and Xiao Yichen rode to all the villages in the three counties.

Sure enough, the two heard noises while passing through a village.

There are really some short-sighted villagers making trouble.

"Why can I only exchange 40 pounds of sweet potatoes for five pounds of peanuts? That's not fair. I won't exchange it." A short old woman with triangular eyes shouted with her hands on her hips.

"That's right, exchange forty pounds for five pounds. It's too little, so I won't exchange it either."

"It would be a big loss to exchange 40 pounds of sweet potatoes for 20 pounds of corn. I won't even replace the corn. I will just plant sweet potatoes instead. What else can I plant like corn and peanuts?"

Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen listened outside for a while and laughed angrily.

The village elders of those three villages are also at a loss. The villagers are unwilling to change, so they can't force them to change!

There was a sharp-eyed villager who saw Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen dismounting from their horses. He quickly ran over and shouted excitedly: "Master Shen, Master Xiao!"

The villagers immediately became quiet when they saw them.

When they started planting, Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen basically visited every village. Later, they also came from time to time to watch the growth of the crops, so most of the villagers in the three counties knew them.

The old woman who screamed the loudest just huddled quietly behind the crowd.

Shen Jia did not want to let her go, and said coldly: "Whoever was unwilling to change grains just now, please stand up for me immediately."

The shouting people lowered their heads and did not dare to speak. After a while, they slowly moved out. Seeing that the others had come forward, the old woman did not dare to disobey Shen Jia's order and held her mouth shut. Walked out.

Shen Jia asked the old woman directly: "Tell me what I told you when we planted high-yield grain seeds."

The old woman's face turned red and she muttered: "Keep 40% for yourself and exchange 60% for the other two kinds of grain."

Shen Jia coldly snorted: "It's too quiet, please speak louder." The woman was so embarrassed that her head almost dropped to her chest, then she broke the jar and said loudly: "Keep 40% for yourself, and exchange 60% for the other two kinds of food." kind."

Shen Jia then asked her to step back and said loudly: "Folks, is the princess treating you well?"

Everyone present shouted at the top of their lungs: "Okay!"

The sound resounded throughout the village, and the echo from the surrounding mountains did not stop for a long time.

The princess helped them build roads, gave them high-yield grain, and let their children study for free. If anyone dares to say anything bad about such a good princess, he will be drowned in spittle.

Shen Jia nodded: "That's it. The princess must have her intentions in asking you to exchange high-yielding grains. Do you think the princess will harm you?"

Everyone shook their heads in unison: "No."

Those people who were clamoring not to change grains walked up to Shen Jia and bowed deeply: "Sir, please go back and tell the princess that this time we are ignorant and can't change our minds. From now on, I will definitely listen to the princess without any hesitation."

Shen Jia smiled slowly: "That's right. If you listen to the princess, you will have meat to eat. If you don't listen to the princess, you won't even be able to drink the broth."

The crowd all laughed, and even those who didn't want to change grains smiled awkwardly.

Shen Jia waited for them to stop laughing and cleared his throat again: "Sweet potatoes have a high yield, but it is not advisable to eat too much. Eating too much will easily cause bloating. The yield of corn is slightly lower than that of sweet potatoes, but corn can be cooked and eaten, or it can be ground. Eat flour pancakes. Peanuts can be boiled or fried. The most important thing is that peanuts can be squeezed for oil. One pound of peanuts can squeeze four taels of oil! Yixian County has squeezed out peanut oil a few days ago."

Crowd, you look at me, I look at you, so why are they making a fuss? Each of these three high-yielding grain varieties has its own advantages, and nothing will work without any one of them.

Those smart people quickly took their own grain and exchanged it with others.

Shen Jia, Xiao Yichen and the three village elders nodded and rode away.

On the way back, Xiao Yichen said with emotion: "Jiajia, do you think they are a little greedy?"

"How do you want me to answer this? This is human nature! As long as it involves their own interests, some people like to care about everything. They work hard every day with their backs to the earth, just hoping to have more food so that their family can It’s not surprising that this happens when you’re full. But what makes me happy is that most people take the initiative to exchange grain types.”

"Yeah! I think the main reason is that they trust you and think it's not wrong to follow you. Also, these people are more generous and don't want to worry about it."

"Haha! If you have meat to eat with me, of course you have to trust me!" Shen Jia said proudly.

"Girl, please take care of me! This young man is so polite!" Xiao Yichen pretended to hold up his hands.

"Okay! From now on, you will be my sister's person. I will protect you and follow you to enjoy the good life..."

"Hahaha……"

It took three days for all grains in the three counties to be successfully exchanged.

The seventh uncle recommended Lu Yang to open a chili sauce workshop. Shen Jia gave him some chili sauce at home and told him how to make chili sauce and some things to pay attention to. When Lu Yang went back, he bought chili peppers from Beili Village to make chili sauce.

Shen Jia took some pepper seeds to the magistrates of three counties and asked them to distribute them to the villagers for planting.

The three servants who went to Bozhou, Yuzhou, and Wucheng came back, and they were accompanied by Xu Shaoyu, Liao Chuyao, and Qi Xuan.

Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen chatted with them in the study all afternoon, and brought them a lot of pepper seeds back the next day.

The institute's first attempt at hybrid rice was ripe. Shen Jia counted it and found that each plant had seven or eight more grains of rice than other rice plants, proving that their research was in the right direction.

Xiao Yichen waved his hand and rewarded each of them with ten taels of silver and asked them to continue researching in this direction.

Spies from the capital came to Yixian one after another. After being caught by Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen and asking for useful information, they killed the people.