Madam, go home and farm

Chapter 139
Now that we no longer make dried fish, the deal with Lin Shaodong's family will naturally have to be renegotiated. We found a husband and wife with good weather and went to the county town together. It is impossible to sell the recipe, but they can sell the prepared one. finished product.

As for the price, it has dropped a bit, after all, manpower is not counted here.This time, Hong Hao'an brought several packs of formula for grinding into powder, and stirred those powders into a liquid suitable for making dried fish, but he was also particular about it, which was taught by Puhuang, and Lin Shaodong's family paid additional money.

Although Lin Shaodong's family did not achieve their goal, they were still quite happy. He always believed that one day, Hong Hao'an and the others would sell him the formula.

Grinding it into powder, even if you can find out what herbs and spices are in it, but if you don’t know the amount and processing method, the taste will be several times worse. The first time I made it is a bright comparison, and I can only make ordinary dried fish up.

After re-signing the contract for half a year, Hong Haoan chatted aimlessly with Lin Shaodong's family and got along pretty well.The half-year contract was proposed by Puhuang, and the one-time signing is too long. If there is any accident or something, the loss of breaching the contract will not be small, and it is better than a short-term contract.

After handing over the main points of the stirring to the people found by Lin Shaodong's family, and confirming that they were successful, Pu Huang and Hong Hao'an left with the warm money they had just received in their arms, and the two went hand in hand. Lo mei shop.

The store has already hired two young men, and the place of lo mei is no longer separated from home, but a clean yard has been rented again, and a trustworthy person has been hired to do lo mei and do some division work.

There are also other shops in the county. The taste is naturally not as good as our own, but the price is low. One of them specializes in blood sausage, and the business is very good.With the lo mei shop, the demand for chickens and ducks has increased, so more people are raising chickens and ducks. In Heping Village, because Puhuang was known early, there are bold ones, so they raise a lot at once. A castrated rooster tastes much better than an uncastrated rooster and has more meat.

Capon is not something everyone can do. Mrs. Xu can be said to be omnipotent and can do everything, but she is not good, and no one dares to ask her to help, but there are many men who can do this job. Chickens were worth more than roosters, so it didn't take long for people doing this job to go around several villages.

Mrs. Wang said she wanted to raise rabbits, and she really raised them. Rabbits can give birth and have many litters, but it is difficult to take care of them. Only hardworking people like Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xu have the patience to raise them.Rabbits have always been used as wild game on the dining table of a few people, and there are too few domestic ones. Therefore, when Anyuan Braised Meat Shop was launched, the taste was different from that of braised chicken and duck, and the price was lower than that of wild rabbits. It became popular immediately.

When Mrs. Xu sold the first batch of chickens raised to Puhuang, the villagers were envious. One or two chickens were fine, but dozens of chickens cost more than one tael of silver.The acquisition was mainly registered by Hong Haoan, but he remembered that those who scolded Puhuang and spread rumors would not accept the chickens and ducks from those households until the male owners of those households apologized and apologized , before accepting it with difficulty.

Of course, there were also those who refused to apologize. They sold the chickens and ducks to other buyers, and naturally they did not make as much money as Hong Haoan's side.

Most of the time, Hong Hao'an and the others didn't care about the lo-mei shop. Occasionally they would send some goods over. Even though the other half of the store's original plan to sell other things didn't work out, it wasn't that it was taken up by other things, but that the lo-mei business had grown.

Now it seems that the relationship between my family and Chu Fen's family is still very good, but this way of sitting and collecting money without doing work will always cause dissatisfaction, even if I have a secret recipe for braised meat.

Puhuang had mentioned this matter to Hong Haoan a long time ago, and Hong Haoan knew it well, and promised to sell the secret recipe to Chufen once the lo mei shop stabilized.The most important thing about braised meat is the old soup. As for the medicinal materials and spices that need to be added every once in a while, it is not the most important thing. It is only necessary to teach Chu Fen how to deal with a few of them.

Brothers would even become enemies for the sake of money, not to mention that this kind of friends are in partnership, quit early, and they can say goodbye to each other for a few drinks when they meet in the future.

As soon as these things are delayed, the Dragon Boat Festival will arrive. Every household is soaking glutinous rice and zongzi leaves. Every time you pass by a house, you can smell the fragrance of zongzi. Puhuang is so greedy that she drools. , did not buy glutinous rice and zongzi leaves, she was wondering if she went to the county to buy a few catties of ready-made ones.

"My lady, I will make it." Hong Hao'an said weakly. He didn't know what preparations he had to make, but he still knew how to make zongzi.

Pu Huang stared, why didn't he say it earlier, now that he is in the third grade of junior high school, he doesn't know if it's too late, "I'll go to the town to buy glutinous rice and zongzi leaves, and then buy some other ingredients. You soak dried shiitake mushrooms at home, chestnuts Also stripped."

After finishing speaking, Puhuang left in a gust of wind, because she remembered that this Dragon Boat Festival had to cook rice and vegetables to go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors. If she didn't do it, other elders would definitely say it.

"Hey, Puhuang, where are you going in such a hurry?" Widow Qiu was carrying a basket of freshly boiled zongzi leaves to be cleaned, and seeing Puhuang leaving in a hurry, she hurriedly asked.

"Hey, auntie, you haven't wrapped your zongzi yet. Didn't I forget about the Dragon Boat Festival? I'm in a hurry to go shopping." Pu Huang looked back and said immediately.

"Fortunately, I'm only in the third grade of junior high school, so I have time. When you come back, bring me some red dates. The family doesn't have enough, so the money will be counted."

"Hey, where is Hao'an's wife, I saw her coming from a distance, and I want her to take these zongzi back. Where is she?" Xu saw Puhuang coming, and went into the house to get the zongzi. When she came out, there was no one there. And ask Yang.

"Mother, you didn't say anything, or I would have stopped her. She walked so fast that she might have left the village." Yang said in surprise as she skillfully changed the child's diaper.

"Forget it, let Jiaping send it over later." Mrs. Xu shook her head, not knowing why Puhuang was leaving in such a hurry.

When Puhuang came back with two big sacks, he saw several strings of zongzi hanging under the beam of the kitchen, more than twenty by count.When I asked Hong Haoan, I realized that they were all from neighbors, or that they had different tastes.

This is great, you have to wrap the zongzi if you don’t want to make it, it’s better if there is a reciprocity, otherwise no one will walk with you next time.

He took a large bucket, and Puhuang didn't know how many zongzi to make, so he poured half of the [-] catties of glutinous rice he bought into the bucket to soak, and then put a few bundles of zongzi leaves in the pot to cook, and put some rapeseed oil on it. .Then the two husbands and wives divided the work, one cut the meat and the other cut the shiitake mushrooms with scissors, and the boiled eggs, anyway, they were too busy.

On the fourth day of the lunar new year, the two woke up early in the morning. Hong Hao'an couldn't wrap up so much rice by himself. Puhuang must be learned.This bag of zongzi is very skillful. If it is not wrapped properly, it will fall apart, and if it is tied too tightly, it will burst when it is boiled. It is not easy.

After spending half an hour, Puhuang finally learned it, so he used his mental power to transform into a few hands wrapped. For a while, Hong Haoan was dumbfounded, just watching Puhuang perform.

"Sister Puhuang, what are you doing?" Jiao's soft voice came from outside the door, startling Puhuang, and with a flick of energy, a few rice dumplings that hadn't been wrapped fell into the basin.

Turning around, I saw Mrs. Jiao listening to her six-month-old belly outside the door, holding a bunch of zongzi, "Sister-in-law Chen, you are so polite, come here with zongzi."

"It's okay, the doctor said I need to walk more, it's better for my health." Jiao said with a smile, slowly stroking her stomach with one hand, her face full of maternal love.

"Sister-in-law Chen, come in and sit down, I'll make tea for you." Pu Huang took the zongzi from Jiao's hand, hung it under the beam, and said with a smile.

Mrs. Jiao glanced at the large pots on the ground, and said in surprise, "Sister Puhuang, how many catties of glutinous rice did you pack, and how much is left?"

"25 catties, I'm afraid it's not enough." With my own big appetite, 25 catties is not too much, and if you give it away, there won't be much left. In fact, Puhuang doesn't know how much a catty can pack. coming.

Jiao suddenly broke into a cold sweat, "25 catties? I only pack five catties, girl Puhuang, you are busy, I will go back first, and I will sit down when I have time."

Sending Jiao away, after a while, Qin Zhilian, the widow of Wangqiu, all came and washed their hands. They all came to help make zongzi. Although they couldn't use their mental power, they could only wrap them slowly with their hands, but the Puhuang people said Just kidding, it was still very lively.

Several women gathered together, so Hong Haoan couldn't help feeling uncomfortable, so he turned on all three stoves, and then cooked rice dumplings. Cooking in a pot should also be divided into several pots.

In the end, more than 200 zongzi were wrapped, big and small, all salty, with various ingredients, and several other housewives shouted Puhuang for ideas.

By the time all the rice dumplings are cooked, it’s already late at night. I’ve been busy all day, and I’m so tired that Puhuang will never do this kind of thing again. Although the rice dumplings are delicious, they are too troublesome. Fortunately, they should be given away The zongzi were all given away, and each family gave away two or three of each material, and a lot of them were also given away.

The next morning was also busy, but this time it was Puhuang's turn to help Hong Haoan, and he mainly cooked the meals.

After worshiping the ancestors and having lunch, the whole afternoon is full of excitement. Men gather together to drink realgar wine and play activities such as throwing pots and stabbing five poisons. Women and children light realgar, tie colorful threads, throw pots and stab five poisons. Yes, but separate from men.

I heard that there was a dragon boat race in the county seat, some organized people to participate in the town, and some young people went to watch the fun, but most of them stayed in the village.

This is the first time for Puhuang to participate in a village activity, and I find it very interesting. In the end, everyone holds two or three wormwood trees in their hands, and puts them on the door after returning home, so as to protect their health and disease-free for the rest of the time. .

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather became hot. There was no refrigerator, and the rice dumplings were not durable. Although they could be put in well water, the rice dumplings were greasy, and it was not easy to hang them in the well. Everyone eats zongzi as their staple food, and by the end of the meal, it hurts their stomachs, which is depressing.

(End of this chapter)