happy event

Chapter 196 Hawthorn cake, made
Every house is paved with bluestone. In some rooms, there are many stoves and large pots. In some rooms, there are many long chopping boards. Even in the yard, there are many long wooden poles. shelf.Not to mention outsiders, but the handymen who do the work are all confused, don't know what new business the boss is thinking about, and occasionally sit together during breaks and always have to guess a few words.

Liu Ergou relied on his respectability in front of his boss, and was teased by the handymen that day, so he took advantage of lunch time to come up to Zhang Yang and asked with a smile, "Boss, what is our work?" It seems that the work is about to end, but everyone still doesn't know what new business the boss is thinking about. Take a look, old man, if you don't delay the big business of the boss, can you tell us a few words?"

Ever since Zhang Yang married Second Sister Cao, although he was not an old man and young wife, there was still a difference of more than ten years.So these days, he has changed the color of his clothes and shaved his beard in the past, wishing he could immediately turn back into a teenager.At this moment, Liu Ergou suddenly heard Liu Ergou calling him an old man, and immediately scolded him with widened eyes, "You ask what you are doing, just work hard!"

Liu Ergou didn't know where he had offended the big housekeeper, so he quickly shrank his neck and ran back, causing all the handymen to laugh non-stop.Zhao Qingshan watched coldly from the side, and slowly ate the last piece of lean meat in the bowl, then got up and walked to Guanshi Zhang, and said with a smile, "Boss, everyone has been working with the boss for more than a year. Looking forward, I hope our orchard will be more prosperous. Seeing that the owner has built so many houses, I can’t hold back my curiosity. When you have free time, please tell everyone. Everyone I know it in my heart, so I naturally do this work more carefully. Do you think this is the reason?"

Zhang Yang heard this pleasing to his ears, so he let Zhao Qingshan sit beside him, and finally said to everyone, "Everyone asked this here today, and I also bear the responsibility of my boss's punishment, so I will tell everyone first. Get to the bottom of it. The yard we built will be a workshop for making canned fruits in the future. Our boss said that the canned fruits taste good, and we will definitely earn a lot of money in the future."

All the handymen's eyes lit up when they heard it, and they didn't care about continuing to eat. They rushed to the front and asked, "Master, is our workshop still recruiting workers? My brother is very strong..."

"My uncle is also clamoring to come. The housekeeper must help me to leave a name."

Zhang Yang got a headache from the noise, waved his hand to signal everyone to shut up, and finally smiled, "It's useless even if you argue, our boss said that the canned fruit to be made this time is very expensive, as long as the recruitment is clean and diligent My little girl, who is just fourteen or fifteen years old, is not accepted even if she is just married. If you have a girl of the right age in your family, please discuss it with your parents. Don’t say that I have good things and don’t take care of my own people first. .”

The handymen looked at each other in surprise when they heard this.Although the farmers are poor, their unmarried daughters are still very much loved, and they are reluctant to let them do heavy work on weekdays, let alone come out to work.Not to mention tired or not, if some bastard stopped her and made a few words of teasing, she would never be able to find a good husband's family in the future.

Zhang Yang is a fine individual, wishing that his eyelashes were hollow, how could he fail to see everyone's hesitation.He sneered, and mocked, "Throw away all the messy things in your mind, it's no good for you to be our boss. Since the boss intends to recruit young girls to work, naturally everything that should be thought of is arranged properly Yes. The orchard ordered five more large carriages a few days ago. The little girl who came to do work will have a carriage to pick her up at the door of the house in the morning and evening, regardless of the distance. When she arrives at the workshop, she directly locks the yard door. Even I don’t want to come in easily. glance.

Most importantly, the wages paid by the boss are twice as high as yours!Whose daughter came to the workshop to work for a year, which is enough to buy a generous dowry for herself. If the news is released, how many people will break their heads and send their daughter here.On the contrary, you are still hesitating, you really don’t know what’s good and what’s wrong! "

Zhang Yang seemed to be getting more and more annoyed when he was talking, he stood up and was about to leave.The handymen are now calculating in their minds. Their monthly salary is [-] Wen, how much is it doubled, one tael six?No, it should be two two four!Everyone's eyes get redder the more they count, and it's more than ten taels of silver in a year, which is really enough for my sister to get married.

Everyone hurried forward and bowed to keep Zhang Yang here. One clamored to send the girl, and the other said to sign up for his aunt's cousin. Unfortunately, Zhang Yang seemed really annoyed, and said loudly, "It's time to bring someone here. Just stay, if it's not suitable, don't even try to find favors to send in!"

After that, he turned and walked away.It's a pity to leave a group of handymen, the great opportunity was pushed away by them.So, everyone planned to talk to their parents when they went back at night, and sent the girl here as soon as the orchard recruited workers.

Dong Rong was taking Zizhu and Cao Erjie to try out canned food in the kitchen at the moment, and she didn't know that the workshop was so lively.Of course, even if she knew about it, she would not interject indiscriminately.She is only responsible for explaining things down, she doesn't care how others behave, otherwise she has to worry about every detail, isn't she exhausted, how can she have time to accompany her three lovely children who are growing up.

It is only the end of April in the lunar calendar, and even the cherries are not yet ripe, and there are no fresh fruits to experiment with.But Dong Rong still thought of a good fruit for canning, that is hawthorn.

When she was a child, she often followed her mother, watching how her mother made canned hawthorn and put it in the cellar. In summer, she threw it into the well water to freeze it. The sweet and sour taste, every time I think of it, She couldn't help swallowing.

And hawthorn is not a precious thing in this time and space, especially here in Qing County, almost every family has a few.In autumn, children often ride and shake on the tree, and the red fruits will fall all over the ground.There are more than a dozen baskets stored in the cellar at the back of the orchard. Yunrui and his sons and daughters heard that the master was going to make new food, Le Diandian ran to carry a basket to the kitchen, and finally gathered outside the second door Practicing martial arts and fighting, the euphemistic name is to guard the door for the master, so as not to be stolen by others. In fact, everyone knows that they are just waiting to taste new food.

Zizhu is careful, and Cao's second sister is greedy and handy, and the two teamed up to help Dong Rong a lot.The three of them specially picked those big hawthorns without insect eye scars from the baskets, filled a basin full, washed them, put them on the bamboo plaques, and sent them to the yard to dry. The small copper tube carefully removes the seeds and stems.

On the other side, Zizhu has already boiled two large pots of hot water, one for glass bottles, and the other for soaking the seeded hawthorns after a little cooling.After a quarter of an hour, the bottle was fished out and dried outside the house, and the hawthorn was also fished out and thrown into cold water to continue soaking.

Finally, when the bottles were dry and the hawthorns were soaked, the bottles were filled with hawthorns and placed in steamers in rows.

Dong Rong brushed a new pot alone and boiled hot water. When the water temperature was slightly lower, she added rock sugar to it. At the end, it tasted a bit bland, so she added some icing sugar and honey. After stirring evenly, she poured the sugar water into it A glass bottle filled with more than half of the hawthorn, leaving a little distance from the mouth of the bottle.

Zizhu covered the pot and started to cook on high heat for less than a quarter of an hour, then lifted the lid, Dong Rong took advantage of the steam before dissipating, quickly screwed the lids on each bottle, and steamed for another 5 minutes.Finally, open the pot to let it cool, and then carefully take out the bottle and put it in a cool place in the corner of the room.

Second Sister Cao was sweating profusely. She took out her handkerchief to wipe off her sweat while fiddled with the glass bottle, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, I didn't expect this hawthorn fruit to look so good when steamed, but I don't know if it tastes good or not?"

Dong Rong patted her hand as a gesture, and finally carefully covered the glass bottle with a bamboo cage, and then responded, "You gluttonous girl, you can eat it in the future, and I will call you when the time comes."

Second Sister Cao hugged her sister-in-law's arm with a smile, and said coquettishly, "If sister-in-law won't give it to me, I will tell others the secret recipe!"

Dong Rong glared at her fiercely, and said angrily, "You little white-eyed wolf, I plan to give you two members of this workshop as a private house. Since you eat inside and out like this, forget it."

"Oh, sister-in-law, I was wrong, please forgive me." The second sister Cao pulled her sleeves and cried in a strange voice, which made Dong Rong and Zi Zhu laugh.The laughter was carried by the spring breeze and flew out of the yard, scattered all over the orchard, and the fruits seemed to be infected by this pure joy, and grew more and more happily...

The three days passed quickly, and it so happened that Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Cao also went up the mountain to visit the children, plus Mrs. Cao and Zhang Yang, as well as Mrs. It was bustling and full of people.

Wen Niang walked in with Zi Zhu and Yi Ba carrying two stacks of small white porcelain bowls and spoons, as well as seven or eight canned hawthorns.Dong Rong took a wet cloth towel and put it on the wooden lid of the can. After a while, she pried it a few times with a hairpin, and the lid was unscrewed.

Three or five hawthorns were divided into each small white porcelain bowl, plus half a bowl of sugar water. Everyone held them in their hands. Is that what the agate looks like?"

"That's right, it tastes delicious just by looking at it!"

The second sister Cao has been thinking about the taste of this hawthorn for the past few days, and now she doesn't care about anything, just scooped one into her mouth, and finally shouted in surprise, "Sister-in-law, it's so delicious! It's sour and sweet, I want another bowl!"

Dong Rong was amused to hear it, and scooped up another bowl for her, while scolding, "You silly girl, if outsiders heard this, they would think you gnawed me."

Everyone laughed, and finally bowed their heads and tasted it.Old man Cao and Zhang Yang are fine, most men don't like sweet and sour taste, but all the young and old girls eat with relish and praise non-stop.

After Chu Silian finished eating a bowl, she hesitated to serve it again, but Zizhu stopped her, she thought she was rude by being greedy, and she blushed and wanted to find a crack in the ground.

(End of this chapter)