Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 386 Kiln Chicken
After leaving Daliang's house, Qin Dahe drove the boat to the flower-making factory, as he still had money to take.

I had a glass of wine at noon, and two hours later the drunkenness had long gone, so it didn't affect the boat at this time.

Sitting on the big boat, what meets the eye is the vitality on both sides of the river, as if spring has arrived early.

Although this is not a stone town in the misty Jiangnan region, it also has its own lush scenery.

It seems that the river surrounds the farmland, but it is more accurate to say that the farmland surrounds the rivers and lakes, creating a big land of fish and rice.

Water plants, reeds, willow trees on the shore, farmland and birds flying in the sky from time to time, this is roughly the real scene of rural areas in southern Anhui.

I got the payment for the goods smoothly and chatted with Director Li for a while.

This year, the cotton-making factory in Xinba has become an instant hit, and now it has more than 100,000 kilograms of cotton in stock.

"The accounts will be closed after January's collection. The next collection will be in March. Let's have a good rest during the New Year." Director Li said with a smile.

"Now that we have made money, it's time to have a good New Year."

It is now January 10th, and there are only twenty-one days left in this month.

It’s just enough to harvest three more rounds, 60,000 kilograms of cotton.

I heard that the restrictions at Cangtou are so severe that drivers can't make any money, so many of them have turned to freight transport.

The Yuxi River Sand Station has been closed, and you can make a lot of money by transporting sand from other places.

The dividend distribution date is set for February 5th, which is just the right time to pay off the loan. He and his father-in-law will both come over at that time.

I don’t know how much money the flower-making factory has in its account, but I guess it’s a lot.

The two production lines can generate considerable profits at the end of the day, even with rough processing.

It was only four o'clock when I got home. I gave the money to my mother. She paid for all the cotton harvesting today.

The old couple didn't know how much money they had saved, but he estimated that it was at least 60,000 or 70,000 yuan.

I sold more than 7,000 yuan worth of cotton, and also made a lot of money by selling river shrimps and collecting fish in the summer.

We harvested a lot of cotton in winter, and my mother didn't say much when she got the money. She was used to it.

"Waer sent a lot of crucian carp seeds today, as well as a few other fish. They are all in the transport box. Go and take a look."

He nodded and went to take a look at the back.

The kid is really amazing. He goes fishing and works as a carpenter regardless of the weather. He deserves whatever he earns in a year.

There were three small flat fish, dozens of thumb-sized ang, and a lot of crucian carp seeds in the transfer box.

Throw the bream and carp into the big lake. You don't have to worry about the number of these miscellaneous fish in the mixed fish pond. The pond of more than 90 acres will balance the ecology by itself.

Crucian carp seeds come in different sizes, and some are placed in all three crucian carp ponds.

Then it’s time to feed the fish. At least for the next month, you need to feed them in small amounts multiple times every day.

I went in and took a look at the kids. The two little ones were sleeping soundly in the air-conditioned room with rosy cheeks.

"Yan'er, why don't you turn off the air conditioner? I think the baby is a little hot."

"No, we are covered with a thin blanket and are very comfortable." She was listening to MP3 and reading a romance novel in her hand.

Taking care of two children, with the help of my mother-in-law, is quite easy at the moment.

But my elder sister told me that once the baby can crawl, it becomes difficult to take care of him and you have to keep an eye on him all the time.

After wandering around for a while, Yanyan thought he was an eyesore and drove him out again.

Unable to have sex, the two of them felt uncomfortable being together and slept far apart.

I went out feeling depressed. I just wanted to rub it a few times, but I was found out.

At the kiln next door, Erhu was using an excavator to level the land and dig out some foundations.

The other workers were also busy and working hard.

I don't know when Qin's father came back and was helping with the work inside.

This is how the new factory is. Everyone is working together to make the factory better.

Qin Dahe didn't go over either. He took a bag of black pine and went to Limin Supermarket to play.

It's only half past four now, the sun is setting, and it feels warm on my body.

The first half of this winter was freezing cold, but it actually started to get warmer in the second half.

When we got to the supermarket, there were still people playing mahjong.

"Master Huang."

"Dahe, you're here." He pulled a bench over and said, "Sit down."

After taking the cigarettes, the two of them sat happily at the door and lit them.

"Why don't they go 'ganbao' (gamble)?" The people playing mahjong are all old gamblers and are quite famous in the area.

"The place in Xu Village was shut down last night, and all four people who ran it were arrested." Mr. Huang said gloatingly.

"Fuck, so awesome! Those guys are good at choosing places, so they are rarely caught." Qin Dahe was surprised.

Over the years, at most gamblers have been caught twice, but it is difficult to catch the owners of the venue.

They are the organizers of gambling and will be sentenced if they go to jail, so they must be extremely careful.

"Who knew? A divine soldier descended from the sky, and I was fined two hundred." Someone at the mahjong table turned his head and said.

"Isn't it five hundred?"

"I had a discount last night, and I got scolded by the old secretary."

When it comes to this, the four people at the mahjong table can't stop talking and start complaining.

After the personnel at the township office near Fenghuang Bridge were replaced, they were very aggressive and caught the person in no time. They collected 200,000 yuan in gambling money alone.

The kiln factory has four exits. People entered from three directions and blocked the door directly. The last exit was blocked by someone using a motorcycle tricycle.

Qin Dahe was worried that someone was colluding with him from both inside and outside. He also had to be familiar with the terrain and understand the rules of operation of the treasure bureau.

This style of behavior seemed familiar, but I didn't think much about it.

Qin's father mentioned it at the dinner table last time, but he didn't take it to heart. After smoking a cigarette with Grandpa Huang, he asked again about who had a lamb.

It’s Chinese New Year, so I have to kill a sheep and roast it. It makes my mouth taste so bland.

Mr. Huang introduced it to me last time, but I really don’t know it now, so I turned around and asked other people.

I didn't get any clear answer.

"Lambs are born in spring or summer, and they are busy fattening up in autumn. It's hard for lambs to survive in winter."

"Yeah, never mind. Let's go to the other side tomorrow and see if there are any big sheep."

Big lamb can be eaten roasted, but only the ribs are suitable. The rest of the meat is better stewed in soup.

Qin Dahe was a little disappointed that there was no roast lamb. Roast lamb is really tender and delicious. The four mahjong players over there were still cursing, saying that those who colluded with them were not human.

Playing mahjong is not as fun as playing 'Gan Bao'. I was so angry that I just stopped playing and went to find someone to play Pai Gow with.

This is what gamblers are like at the end of the year. These people can even be considered semi-professionals, and they hang out everywhere.

Some new places will call them if they want to attract popularity, and just ask them for some hard work fee.

But it is definitely impossible to get rich. After taking a few dozen dollars, you may have to lose hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and the family's life will be a mess.

When he returned home and had dinner, Qin Dahe told the story about the casino again.

The old couple casually exchanged a few words and were thinking about buying chickens.

I stewed two old hens for Yanyan to nourish her body. They were the last ones in the house.

"Mom, there's no need to buy more. Yanyan can't eat any more right now." Speaking of chicken, I suddenly remembered that chicken can also be roasted.

"I'll roast the chicks later. They'll taste better than the old hens."

Half of the chickens in the house are New Year chickens, and the other half are a little smaller because they are used to compensate others.

But they are all in the right age for baking, so they must be delicious.

"Can a chicken be used? Pregnant women usually stew old hens."

"Our family has good nutrition, Yanyan has no shortage of oil and water, it's settled."

He got to work right away.

Qin's mother is going to replace Yanyan to take care of the child, so she definitely can't help him.

It's only six o'clock now. I went to the kitchen to get the rice, boiled a large pot of water and put it here, then went directly to the chicken coop to catch the chickens.

There were chicks weighing about two pounds each, one in each hand.

He was very steady in pulling the hair off the neck and letting blood.

In order to make a living, he did show some skills and worked very efficiently.

Then they start scalding, plucking and cleaning the internal organs.

Yanyan had just come out after dinner and saw him killing a chicken and was watching.

"Brother, how do you kill two?"

"What the hell?" Qin's mother was shocked and came out of the room. "You spendthrift, just roast a chicken."

What a fat little chick! I raised it for a year and it was eaten like this.

If you raise it for another two years, it will become an old hen.

"I'm going to bake two to try, let's eat together at home." He didn't stop working. He would accept the scolding, but he couldn't let his mouth go uneaten.

"Get out, you little thing Cenima." There were two grandchildren in the room. She cursed them a few times and went back to see her grandchildren.

Yanyan came over with a smile and watched Qin Dahe pack the chickens.

"Yan'er, go pick some green onions for me. Bring some more so I can pickle them."

"Yeah, I haven't tried the kiln chicken yet."

The family’s vegetable garden was just behind the third crucian carp pond. The girl went straight across the bank of the pond and soon grabbed a handful of green onions.

Put the green onion, ginger and salt together and rub them vigorously to quickly squeeze out the juice. Then add MSG, thirteen-spice powder and five-spice powder to coat the chicken and put it in a bowl.

After looking around, he realized the mud around was too wet to use, so he grabbed a basket and went out to the kiln.

The soil here is relatively hard, so I picked up some hard mud blocks that were dug up.

"Brother, do you want to use mud kiln chicken?"

"Well, we need to burn the soil first." He thought about it and thought that it should be like this.

Others seem to build a kiln door facing the wind first, then build a circle with mud blocks, stacking them layer by layer before firing.

There was little wind in the yard, so we piled up the firewood and burned it by the lake.

It collapsed once in the middle, and I had to adjust the shape of a few pieces of soil before I could stack it up again.

Then we started to pile up firewood. There was a pile of cotton stalks in the yard, so we could just use them.

Cut it into the length of your forearm, carefully place it inside, and add a few pieces of firewood on top.

First, light the straw at the bottom of the seat. As the lake breeze blows, flames will immediately rise from below.

After a while, tongues of fire began to emerge from the cracks in the rocks.

The grandchildren were hungry, and Qin's mother waited and waited, but when her daughter-in-law didn't come out, she went out to look for her.

Seeing the two of them playing with fire, he glared at his son in annoyance.

"Yan'er, feed Qingci and the others."

"Oh, here I come." The girl went back to the house reluctantly. It was so interesting to watch the fire burning.

"You're such a grown-up, and you're still playing with fire?"

Qin Dahe curled his lips and said, "I'm not afraid of wetting the bed. The chicken that comes out of the kiln will definitely be delicious."

He went into the house to process the chicken, stuffing the pickled onions and ginger into the chicken's stomach, then spreading the juice evenly, wrapping it with lotus leaves, and covering it with a thin layer of mud, and the job was done.

More than half an hour passed and the earthen kiln was burning red.

I thought it was almost done, so I started digging out some charcoal with a shovel and put the chicken in.

The mud layer on the surface of the lotus leaf was very thin. He was afraid that the chicken would be burnt, so he didn't dare to add too much charcoal and just collapsed the kiln to cover the chicken.

He also broke up the large mud clods on the outermost part and covered it tightly to suffocate the chicken inside.

Yan'er came out after feeding and couldn't stay in the house at all.

"Brother, how long will it take?"

"About an hour and a half. Mud is a bit heat-insulating." Unfortunately, there is no tin foil at home, otherwise it would be much faster to just wrap it with tin foil.

Qin Dahe finally remembered his baby and went into the house to take care of him.

It's quite funny to see the two little guys looking up at the same time, they are almost like old turtles.

Qin's father was also teasing his grandson inside. Now the two little guys are carrying the enthusiasm for life of the whole family.

"Dahe, have you contacted that Huangmei Opera troupe?" he asked, looking up.

After the Chinese New Year, I will hold a full-moon banquet for my two grandchildren, and just have a meal with the relatives.

But it is still necessary to invite a troupe of actors over. They are twins, a boy and a girl. How can we not have some fun? It’s such a festive occasion.

(End of this chapter)