Reborn Nongmen Merchant Concubine

Chapter 250 Meng's Tempeh
After breakfast, Mengyuan took Li Pozi to the east kitchen. "Grandma Li, I bought all three of you back, but I think you seem to be much smarter than the other two. I'm going to make a meal that I haven't tried here today, and I need your help!"

"Girl, just tell me what you need me to do! As long as my mother-in-law Li can do it, I will definitely do it for you!"

"Don't be so serious, I just asked you to come over and help me light the fire. I'm not very skilled in making fire and controlling the heat, so I wanted to find someone to help. Cooking this food, fire control is the key. If not, not only will the beans be ruined , our efforts are in vain."

"Girl, if you want to talk about something else, my wife, I may not be sure if I can do it, but when it comes to lighting a fire, we are all farmers, not to mention turning the fire into flowers, at least we can master it Temperament!"

"That's good. Now I have to trouble Granny Li to heat up this big pot. The beans must be fried first before they can be cooked. When cooking, the beans should be boiled until they can be crushed with your fingers!"

Douchi, although Meng Yuan was born as a village girl in her previous life, she really has never touched this thing.

Scooped a few tablespoons of the picked beans and put them in the hot cauldron. With a shovel in his hand, he kept stirring the soybeans in the pot, and at the same time asked Mrs. Li to control the fire to a minimum.

"Grandma Li, please go and get the dustpan at the door, this pot is ready for cooking."

Soybeans that have been stir-fried at high temperature have a high body temperature. The time of stir-frying in the pot should not be cut off, and after taking them out, they should not be stacked together. They must be spread out to avoid mutual The temperature effect scorched the beans.

"Girl, is it time to put the second pot now?"

"No need for now, wait and see if the first pot is successful, and if not, start the second pot." Opening the second pot before the heat from the first pot has dissipated, she was worried that it would not work.

Meals have to be eaten bite by bite, and things have to be done step by step.Fortunately, the weather is cooler now, and the temperature dissipates heat quickly. After Meng Yuan spread out the fried beans, she only waited for a quarter of an hour.

Pick up a fried bean and put it in your mouth, and bite it lightly, it is crunchy.

"Girl, how are you doing? Can it be done?" Mrs. Li asked nervously beside her.

"It should be ok, come on, start the second pot, and start cooking after the two pots are finished."

The first pot was fried with experience, and the heat was well controlled, and soon, the second pot was also out.After shoveling out all the beans, Mengyuan asked Li Pozi to quickly fill the pot with water.

"Grandma Li, hurry up, I'll pour this in, and you pour in the first pot."

Hearing this, Mrs. Li cooperated very well and poured the remaining beans into the tumbling boiling water following Meng Yuan's rhythm.

"Grandma Li, you just have to worry about what's going on next, I'll go out and have a rest." There weren't many fried beans, and it's unbearable to be bored in it for a long time.

"Girl, aren't you...?"

"Well, I've finished the first part, and now Granny Li is watching the latter part, so I'll come out for a while. By the way, Uncle Liu, you can tell Uncle Yu and the others to come over! I have something to tell They talk."

If you want to launch stone pot fish in Yue Fu Lou, fish is the key. Now freshwater fish, Qiushui Village cannot supply so many chain stores. For now, you can only rely on seafood for a period of time, and that can only be limited. in the case of supply.Wait until spring, when the cold is not so cold, the fish can easily grow and replace sea fish.

After all, there are too few freshwater fish, and there are few ponds, let alone rivers, because people can't do it, and the smell of fish makes people discouraged.

"Girl, Master Yu is here."

"Girl Meng, Uncle Liu said you were looking for me? I'm sorry, I didn't know you had returned to the fishing village. Coincidentally, I also have something to talk to you about."

"Oh? Uncle Yu, what do you want to talk to me about? About going to sea? If so, then we have all our ideas together today. I came to you today to ask Uncle Yu if you would like to Go fishing?"

Yu San patted his thigh with a "snap" and said: "Think about it, how can you not think about it? Fishing is originally what fishermen do. If you don't go out to sea, you can't just sit and eat the mountains and sky? Tell me, Miss Meng, Yu San, I came here today just to make sure if you still want to take the fish? If so, I’ll tell the village chief later, and then I’ll call my brothers and go to sea tomorrow.”

"Uncle Yu, since you've let your words out, I'll let you know. My seafood factory was built for things in the sea. If there were no fishermen to go fishing, then there would be no fish in my factory." Existence is necessary. I still say that, as much as you want, one price for classified, one price for unclassified. It’s up to you to decide.”

"Okay, with your words, I'll go tell the village chief now and call the brothers to prepare things and go to sea tomorrow."

"Of course that's good. Uncle Yu has something to do, so I won't keep you. Uncle Liu, see off!"

Mengyuan thought that because of those fishermen's wives, the fishermen were no longer willing to go fishing. Now it seems that they are also anxious for a few days after she left.

In other words, Yu San, who left the factory, went straight to the village chief's house as soon as he left the door.In fishing villages, if you want to go fishing, you must get the consent of the village head, and then go to the ancestral hall to burn incense and worship before you can go to sea.The purpose of doing this is to tell the ancestors of the fishing village that their descendants will go to sea, and let them be blessed by the spirit of heaven.

"Yusan, have you figured it out? Once you go out to sea to fish, you have to stick to it in the future. This is the handicraft work that our ancestors left us to eat. I see that this girl Meng can only rely on the fishermen in our fishing village. Besides, people who don’t know the route don’t dare to act rashly if they want to go to sea. If it’s possible, let’s see if you can raise the price of fish.”

"Village Chief, I have made it clear. I was born in a fishing village, which means that I have been a fisherman all my life, a fisherman and a fisherman, and I was born to fish. As for the price of fish... I believe that as long as the fish I catch are good enough, it doesn't matter. Said Meng girl will also increase the price."

After listening to Yu San's words, Village Chief Lao wanted to reach out and beat him, but this child was no longer the troublemaker he was when he was a child. "Okay, tonight I will open a ancestral hall for you to worship. Anyone who goes to sea must go to offer incense to the ancestors to seek their blessings."

Yu San scratched his head and said, "Village chief, don't worry, I'll go tell them right away, and wait in front of the ancestral hall in our village this afternoon."

After sending Yu San away, Mengyuan returned to the kitchen of the east courtyard, where Mrs. Li was putting the boiled beans on the dustpan to drain.

"Grandma Li, how's it going? Are the beans crushable with your fingers?"

Mengyuan's sudden sound startled Li Pozi who was concentrating on picking up beans, and she spilled the beans on the ground with a shake of her hand. "Oh, girl, why didn't you make a sound when you came here? I was so scared, the beans all fell."

Mengyuan felt like doing something wrong and hurried away, touched the tip of her nose unnaturally 'hehe' and said with a smile: "Oh, Granny Li, you are already old, who knew you would be scared by my little girl Huh? But it doesn’t matter, there aren’t many beans dropped, and the ground is clean, so it’s still usable to pick it up and wash it.”

Her original intention was to say that she would throw it away, but after thinking about it, she was wrong. They are all from peasant households, and she is just making a little money now. If she said such a thing, I don’t know what the servants would think of herself. .

"Grandma Li, the beans you pick up should be placed on a dustpan covered with gauze. The dustpan is made of bamboo strips. No matter what you say, there will be barbs. Spreading gauze can reduce the chance of being stabbed by barbs. I I remember I bought two sheets of gauze, where did I throw it?"

"I don't know, I didn't see it. Alas, it's fine without gauze. This dustpan is very smooth. Just pay attention when turning it over."

Mengyuan looked at the dustpan, it was quite old, and some edges and corners were smoothed out, just like Granny Li said, just pay attention and you'll be fine.

"Okay, then you just watch here, and I'll come over and add other seasonings after the water is drained."

There are various flavors of tempeh, she wants to try it, original flavor, spicy flavor, onion flavor, ginger flavor, etc... However, as far as she has the ingredients in hand, she can only make Original and spicy.After this batch is finished, we will consider making other flavors. When the time comes, what to cook depends on what ingredients are put in.

It can be said that Mengyuan did not do a little bit of hard work in advance for the future sales of salted fish this time.Sun-dried seafood is easy to store, but tempeh is different, its shelf life is relatively short, and the requirements for the environment are also very high.If it is stored in a vacuum for a year, there is no problem, but this technology does not work here, so the most common storage method is to put it in clay pots.

Thinking of this crop, before the water from the beans was drained, Meng Yuan called Liu Tian and asked him to find a pot shop to order some medium-sized pots.

"Uncle Liu, we want as many as they can make. This thing will be sold all over the country in the future, just a little more."

"Understood, girl, I'm going to town right away."

Thinking of the possibility that "Mengjia Douqi" could be sold all over the country and even exported, she seemed to see the silver bills flying towards her.

"Now that I think about it, there's nothing wrong with passing through. As long as the idea of ​​making money before works, you don't have to worry about losing money. The most important thing is that the risk factor of things now has been reduced. All of them It is a pure natural organic substance with no additives. No matter what it is made of, there is no need to worry about signs of poisoning in customers who eat it due to pesticide residues in the dynasties with backward technology.”

(End of this chapter)