60s: I have a store

Chapter 225: Shangshui Village Copying Homework
Zhou Yimin could see that Village Chief Wang was hesitant to speak, so he asked, "Village Chief Wang, if you have anything to say, just tell me and see if I can help you."

If it's too difficult, he won't be able to do anything.

I'm sorry.

Village Chief Wang asked cautiously, "Yimin, I would like to ask you to help our village purchase 100 yuan worth of eggs and exchange the remaining 390 yuan for food. Is that possible?"

He knew that the chicken hatchery in Zhoujiazhuang purchased 500 eggs at one time. It was estimated that they were almost hatched now, and there would be at least 300 to 400 chickens by then.

As long as they are raised, there will be hundreds of chickens. Even if they cost one or two yuan each, that would be an extra income of four or five hundred yuan.

Their Shangshui Village is definitely not as good as Zhoujiazhuang, but for the future of Shangshui Village, he still shamelessly hopes that the relationship with Zhou Yimin can be more closely tied.

Having experienced a period of food shortage, any extra money in the village will now be exchanged for food first. After all, if they have surplus food, they won’t be worried and will never want to experience the feeling of being hungry again.

Besides, their village doesn’t have outstanding young people like Zhou Yimin, but it doesn’t matter, there will always be someone who can copy homework, right?
At present, they in Shangshui Village are actually copying homework.

They follow whatever Zhoujiazhuang does.

Of course, some things cannot be learned without such strong capital and connections.

Zhou Yimin didn't expect that Village Chief Wang had such a long-term vision, but he couldn't agree so easily.

He said: "If we exchange all 390 yuan for food, the amount is a bit too much. If we exchange 200 yuan for sweet potatoes, etc. according to the previous ratio.

As for the eggs, I need to take a look. I can’t guarantee anything, I can only say I’ll try my best.”

Although I can exchange it with any amount of money, I understand that taking out too much food at one time will cause unnecessary trouble.

After hearing what Zhou Yimin said, Village Chief Wang was a little disappointed, but he also understood the difficulty.

Nearly 400 yuan, if all of it were converted into coarse grains like sweet potatoes, it would cost tens of thousands of kilograms. Even a steel plant wouldn't be able to come up with this amount so easily.

"Thank you for your help," said Village Chief Wang.

Village Chief Wang added: "I accidentally picked a few extra beans and shepherd's purse here. I hope you don't mind, Yimin!"

In order to maintain a good relationship with Zhou Yimin, she went to great lengths. Just to name a few, shepherd's purse put a lot of thought into it.

Shepherd's purse is divided into two types: "fragrant shepherd's purse" and "water shepherd's purse". The leaves of "fragrant shepherd's purse" are slender, while the leaves of "water shepherd's purse" are fat. Although the two types of shepherd's purse mostly grow together and are both edible, their taste is different.

"Shepherd's Purse" gives a light fragrance when eaten, but "Water Shepherd's Purse" does not have this feeling, it just has a refreshing taste when eaten.

Shepherd's purse has a wide range of uses. It can be added to mixed noodles to increase the deliciousness of noodles, or it can be added to dumpling fillings. When shepherd's purse is added to dumpling fillings, the taste is not only delicious, but also superior in taste. To this day, shepherd's purse dumplings are still sold in gourmet restaurants.

Zhou Yimin did not refuse this time: "Thank you very much, Village Chief Wang."

"I have something else to do later and I'm ready to leave," Zhou Yimin added.

Village chief Wang did not try to persuade him to stay, but asked someone to help tie the beans and shepherd's purse to the back seat of Zhou Yimin's bicycle.

Zhou Yimin rode his bicycle to Zhoujiazhuang. As the two villages were not far apart, he arrived at Zhoujiazhuang in a short while.

First, he went back home. The old man was lying at the door, smoking a cigarette. After seeing Zhou Yimin, he hurriedly got down from the recliner, walked over to help, and said, "Grandson, why are you bringing beans home? We have a lot of beans at home." You know, there are a lot of beans at home, and if you add these, you won’t be able to finish them.

It seems that I can only ask Xuqiang to come and take some back, otherwise I can only dry it in the sun.

Doujiao became the nightmare of Shandong children in later generations. They met Doujiao at least five times a week, and three times a day was not impossible. Even girlfriends and boyfriends didn't see him that often.

Why do we eat beans for every meal? Shandong parents have the best say.

In the past, the variety of fruits and vegetables in the north in summer was far less abundant than it is now, so every family’s skillful parents put their best efforts to cook unlimited possibilities with limited ingredients.

Zhou Yimin explained, "These beans were sent by Village Chief Wang. Today we went to Shangshui Village to collect them."

"So that's how it is. It seems that Village Chief Wang is quite a good person," said the old man.

As they chatted, the two moved the beans into the house and found some good stuff inside.

The old man was pleasantly surprised and said, "I didn't expect there would be shepherd's purse. It looks like we can have dumplings for lunch."

Shepherd's purse is very popular. Often, it is picked by others not long after it grows out. Since it is not cultivated, it is like a wild vegetable. Whoever picks it first gets it.

"That's right, there is still meat at home, right?" Zhou Yimin said.

The old man responded: "Also, ask your grandma to knead the dough. I'll go deal with the shepherd's purse and make the dumpling filling."

"Grandpa, I have to go see the old branch secretary later. If I come back late, you don't have to wait for me to eat." Zhou Yimin said.

The old man said, "Okay, go ahead and do your work! I'll take care of this."

After saying that, the old man took the shepherd's purse into the kitchen. First, he blanched the shepherd's purse in water, and then added salt and oil to the pot. This would keep the shepherd's purse green and lock in nutrients. After blanching, he must rinse it with cold water.

Later, you can squeeze out the water from the shepherd's purse, chop it and set it aside. The pork needs to be cut into small pieces first, add minced ginger, salt, light soy sauce, mix well, and marinate for a while to increase the flavor of the meat filling.

When preparing shepherd's purse and pork filling, first chop the green onion, mix it with the shepherd's purse, pour in oil and mix well to lock the moisture of the shepherd's purse. Then add the marinated pork. The shepherd's purse and pork filling prepared in this way not only retains the fragrance of shepherd's purse, but also makes the pork more delicious and juicy.

Zhou Yimin quickly arrived at the old branch secretary's home, but found that he was not at home.

Zhou Yimin wondered, could it be in the chick hatchery?
Thinking of this, Zhou Yimin walked towards the hatchery, and soon arrived at the chick hatchery. As expected, he saw the old branch secretary staring from a distance, fearing that something unexpected might happen in the chick hatchery.

The old Party Secretary also saw Zhou Yimin and asked, "Yimin, are you back? Are you here to see how the chicks are hatching?"

"Yes! Old branch secretary, how many eggs have been hatched in the past two days?" Zhou Yimin said.

Having said that, the old branch secretary is no longer sleepy.

He said excitedly: "Yimin, your chick hatchery is really good. It has hatched more than 300 chicks now, and the success rate is about %.

If we can continue like this, 500 eggs will probably produce 475 chicks."

(End of this chapter)