Sister Han is good at farming

At Zaoziling, after everyone finished harvesting sorghum, they carefully cut the sorghum stalks and took them home to dry. Then they harvested sweet potatoes, and time slipped to the end of October.

The Lord Zhou that everyone had been looking forward to day and night did not come back, but a Lord Zhao came to Qingshui County to take over Lord Zhou's job.

The people didn't care much about who would be the county magistrate. What they cared about more was when would the county magistrate take back the ducks they had raised for them? They had helped raise the ducks for a long time, and if they continued to raise them, they would not earn anything.

Zhao Siming, who had escaped death, never expected that he would encounter such a difficult situation as soon as he took office in Qingshui County, which everyone admired. There were nearly 80,000 ducks in the county, and he was asked to recycle them. The warehouse was cleaner than his pockets, and he had a ghost money to recycle.

So he gathered all the officials, big and small, to work together.

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"His father is back? What did Lord Zhao say? When will we start collecting the ducks?" When Wang saw Ruan Wantie coming back, she hurried forward to ask.

"Lord Zhao is helpless. It's better to rely on Daya than on Lord Zhao now. By the way, how is Daya's recipe research going?" Ruan Wantie prepared to go to the kitchen.

"Don't mention it. We've already eaten forty ducks. When will this end?" Wang was not only heartbroken, but her heart, liver, and lungs were all in pain.

Originally, she was hoping that Lord Zhao would take the ducks away as soon as possible so that Daya would have to eat less ducks.

who knows……

She'd better continue to feel the pain!

"Sister, I poked several beehives again today." Ruan Shiping rushed into the yard and shouted, holding a beehive with a few bees flying on it.

"Where is it? This is what I need right now!"

Ruan Qingqing, who was in the kitchen, rushed out immediately after hearing the sound.

"Sister, how's the roast duck today?"

"It's almost done, but I already have a direction. Do you want to try what I just made? It tastes much better than before!" Ruan Qingqing asked him as she took the honeycomb from Ruan Shiping's hand.

Ruan Shiping's face fell at first, then he rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Okay! Big sister, give me all your experimental products! I will taste them slowly."

Ruan Qingqing looked at him suspiciously, "Can you really finish them all? There are three ducks."

"No problem, no problem. Although the roast ducks you roasted don't look very good, they taste quite good. Give them all to me!" Ruan Shiping nodded hurriedly.

"Are you planning to feed it to your little brothers?" Ruan Qingqing glanced at him.

"Hey, why do you care so much? I just don't waste anything."

"Okay!" Ruan Qingqing packed the three roasted ducks for Ruan Shiping, and then she went on to get the honey.

After experiencing many failures, Ruan Qingqing understood some tricks.

First of all, the scalding step is not enough, you have to use boiling water to scald it three times, and every corner must be drenched. Secondly, if you want the skin to be crispy, it is not enough to just brush it with honey, you also have to add wine and rice vinegar for a better effect. That is to say, you first need to prepare crispy skin water, honey water with wine and vinegar.

Wine and vinegar are both volatile, and this is why they are added. After applying the crispy water, the volatilization will remove moisture from the skin, accelerate the air-drying speed and coloring efficiency, and make the skin tighter. In addition, the acidic environment created by vinegar can accelerate the dehydration reaction of sugar in honey when exposed to heat, thereby achieving the best crispy and bright skin effect.

Also, ducks that have been scalded cannot be immediately coated with crispy skin water, because the duck's skin will release water, and it is difficult to coat it evenly if you coat it directly with crispy skin water. A better solution is to let the duck dry slightly before coating it with crispy skin water, so that it can be evenly coated and will not fall off, and then hang it in a cool and ventilated place to air dry.

Finally, you need to add the crispy water several times.

When making the 40th duck, Ruan Qingqing was more confident.

"Daya, if you don't succeed this time, just give up! We have a lot of ducks, but they can't stand you destroying them like this!" During dinner, Wang couldn't help but chattering again.

"What do you know, a woman? If Daya can make roast duck, all the ducks in the whole county will have a market. This is a great thing! Who wants to accomplish something without failing a hundred or eighty times?"

Wang's eyes widened as if she had been struck by lightning. "What? You're going to ruin another hundred or eighty ducks!"

"Mom, don't worry! I won't fail a hundred or eighty times." Ruan Qingqing comforted.

It would have been fine if she didn't say anything, but once she spoke, Wang's reaction became even more intense.

"Daya, you said you would try, but you have already tried forty ducks. According to the previous price, a duck weighing three catties can be sold for thirty coins. You have already tried forty ducks, and one tael and two coins of silver have been thrown into the water, and we didn't even hear a sound of the water."

"Mom, don't be angry!"

"How can I not be angry? You said you would try one or two ducks, but you already have forty ducks! They say that a family's meat consumption and alcohol consumption are determined by their family's capacity. Are we a family that can just waste ducks like this?"

"That's enough! The worst-case scenario is that we can just pretend that we never raised these ducks. How can you only focus on this little thing every day? Without Daya, can our family live in this big brick and tile house? Without Daya, can we all have enough to eat every day? So what if she used dozens of ducks? It's not like she wasted them on purpose. Do you have to nag about it every day?"

Ruan Wantie couldn't stand it anymore and scolded Wang.

"I am just feeling sorry for the money. We don't know when it will rain, and everyone is tightening their belts. We have to throw away several ducks a day. And that doesn't even include oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and firewood."

Wang's heart was bleeding.

"Mom, I've tried almost everything and have figured out a lot of tricks. I'll use at most ten ducks. If I still don't succeed after ten ducks, I won't try again. Is that okay?"

"Ten more ducks to try?"

"Ten at most."

"Fine!"

Wang finally compromised. After all, losing ten more was better than losing all of them. She had been nagging for so many days, and Daya was finally willing to give her a promise. She was satisfied.

The next day, after Ruan Qingqing carefully roasted the 40th one, she took it out and screamed in surprise.

"Success!"

It was almost evening and everyone was at home.

Hearing the noise, they all ran to the kitchen to see.

"Thank God, I don't have to waste ducks anymore!" Wang patted her chest.

"The ducks for the entire county have finally been found!" Ruan Wantie was so excited that his eyes were filled with tears.

"I can finally eat some normal duck meat!" Ruan Shiping breathed a sigh of relief.

"The family's money is finally saved!" Ruan Lanlan bit her lip.

"There's delicious food again!" Ruan Shian and the two little twins cheered heartily.