Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

"You think you're the one, you're always so careless and say whatever you want. If the second brother said it, then it must be true."

Sun Zhang was talking about Wu Erping.

"Okay, okay, I'll go this afternoon."

If it wasn't for the free meal, she would want to go now.

"Sister-in-law, be sure to check the mushrooms carefully. Don't bring any poisonous mushrooms."

Zhao Yuanzhen gave some instructions.

"Oh, don't worry, it won't happen. I will keep a close eye on it."

A few women were chatting about family matters, while the men were in another room.

At around 11 o'clock, the kitchen prepared the food and we started eating.

There was a large table sitting there, including Qian's father and mother, Zhang Sandao, Sun Zhang, Xi Sanpo, Wu Erping, Zhang Qingshan, the three brothers Zhang Xinbai and Zhao Yuanzhen.

Qian Xiaohui and Li Zhijuan both ate the confinement meals in the room.

Zhao Yuanzhen specially made a confinement meal recipe and asked the cook to prepare five meals a day for them according to the confinement meal recipe.

For fear that they would be hungry, I prepared several extra meals, including a combination of meat, vegetables, and fruits, all of which were easy to digest and nutritious.

The luncheon banquet for the third day of the lunar year was also the one ordered by Zhao Yuanzhen, with 12 dishes.

Four cold dishes: cold braised food, braised beef in soy sauce, hot pot with preserved vegetables, and roast duck.

Four dishes: boiled lamb, beef in sour soup, chicken stewed with mushrooms, and carp with sauce.

Four stir-fried dishes: braised pork, sweet and sour pork, stir-fried pork, and pork with preserved vegetables.

They are basically meat dishes.

The villagers like meat dishes, so Zhao Yuanzhen prepared meat dishes.

There was also wine and juice.

The portions were generous, allowing everyone to eat as much as they wanted.

Wu Erping was not polite and felt that each one was delicious and ate a lot of each.

This is all meat. I usually can't afford to eat it. I can only eat some occasionally during the Chinese New Year and other festivals or when my brothers and sisters-in-law send me some. Now I'm at the banquet and can eat as much as I want.

Why are you being so polite? The chopsticks are leaving afterimages.

Sun Zhang glared at her secretly, but Wu Erping only had eyes for the chopsticks and didn't see it.

The grandmother who was having her third meal also enjoyed the meal very much.

I've known for a long time that the Qinghe family is a capable person, running both a workshop and a shop, but I didn't expect them to be so capable.

Look at this huge table full of dishes. Not only are they all rare meat dishes, but each dish is also very filling. Even the cooking methods of many of them are new to me.

I'm really here to enjoy myself today.

Zhao Yuanzhen invited everyone to eat and drink and not to be polite.

Wu Erping finished her meal and left like a gust of wind.

I took Zhang Qingshan to various villages to advertise mushrooms. My sister-in-law said that if the amount was over 100 jin, 1 wen would be added for each jin. So even if I only collected 100 jin, that would be 100 wen.

This is not collecting mushrooms, this is picking up money. If you don't hurry up, you'll be like having money but not picking it up.

That's not okay.

Although Zhao Yuanzhen has been collecting mushrooms in the village, she has been too busy to advertise much, so some people don't know about it. Wu Erping went to every household to ask.

"Fuck, do you have mushrooms at home? Have you picked mushrooms recently? I'm collecting mushrooms. A pound of wet and clean ones is 5 cents, and a pound of dried ones is 25 cents. Do you want to go pick mushrooms?"

"What? 5 cents per pound? You're not kidding, are you?"

The woman was very confused?

Another good thing is that there are a lot of mushrooms on the mountains in autumn. You can pick them with ease. One person can pick at least 20 kilograms a day.

Isn't that just 100 coins?

! ! ! 100 coins.

Oh my god, mushrooms are so valuable now.

"How can I cheat you? If you have any, come to my house and sell them. I'll buy them. I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go ask other people. You should go pick them up quickly, otherwise they will be picked up by others."

Seeing that she was attracted, Wu Erping went to the next store.

As for her own family, daughter-in-law, and son, she had already sent them to the mountains to pick mushrooms.

If the grandchildren weren't in school, they would have to go picking mushrooms with them.

After notifying the village, she and Zhang Qingshan drove a ox cart to the next village.

You still need to notify more villages. The more villages you know, the more money you can make.

Several villages were notified, and when she returned in the evening, someone was already waiting at home to sell mushrooms.

She checked the mushrooms and fortunately she told them when she told them not to discard if they were not clean, so everyone picked out the clean ones.

Zhang Qingshan weighed the items, and asked his grandson and granddaughter who had just finished school to keep the accounts. The three of them calculated the accounts together so that there would be no mistakes.

On the first day, everyone was unsure whether the fruits were real or fake, so they picked some and returned as the sky darkened.

People from this village and the neighboring village all came to sell mushrooms, and it was already past 8 o'clock in the evening when they finished harvesting.

We harvested more than 320 kilograms.

Wu Erping was afraid that the mushrooms would lose weight if they were kept at home at night, so she asked Zhang Qingshan to harness the cart and deliver them to Zhao Yuanzhen.

Zhao Yuanzhen weighed the mushrooms and paid for them. They were all wet mushrooms. No one was selling dried mushrooms today. 6 wen per pound, a total of 1920.

I earned a total of 320 Wen.

Oh my God, this is my son’s salary for 10 days.

I used to think that 9 cents a month was a lot of silver, but I didn't expect that I could earn 320 cents a day.

This is only half a day. There will be more mushrooms tomorrow. Everyone has tasted the sweetness today.

At around four o'clock in the morning, Wu Erping sent her son and daughter-in-law to pick mushrooms.

The daughters-in-law had no complaints. This was a good way to make money. If they picked up the trash carefully, they could earn more than 100 coins a day. And the mother-in-law said that the money would be their own.

Then why don’t you try your best to pick them up?

It's rare for my mother-in-law to be so generous.

It wasn't that Wu Erping suddenly became generous. It was mainly because she saw Qian Xiaohui and Li Zhijuan wearing gold and silver, while her own daughter-in-law didn't even have a wooden hairpin, which made her feel ashamed. But she couldn't bear to buy them, so she let them earn money to buy them.

Wu Erping's mushroom harvesting business is proceeding vigorously.

Zhao Yuanzhen cleaned the collected mushrooms and made mushroom sauce.

She didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Zhao Yuanzhen felt that the sauce made from the mushrooms she collected was much more fragrant than the ones she bought in the mall.

Probably the difference between wild and artificial.

The ones sold in the mall are more expensive than what you buy yourself, so it’s better to collect wild mushrooms yourself.

The peppers have been harvested recently. Some of them were kept in the vegetable cellar, and some were cut into pepper skins and dried in the sun to become dried peppers.

All the remaining ones were washed clean, dried in the sun for a few days, and then prepared to be made into chili sauce.

At this time, the ripe fruits have basically been harvested and canned.

Let's bring together these canning people and this workshop to start making chili sauce.

Zhao Yuanzhen taught them how to make chili sauce.

In fact, the main reason is that there are too many materials.

Various seasonings, sesame seeds, soybeans, crushed peanuts, beef cubes, soybean paste, mushrooms, etc.

Add oil and stir-fry according to a certain proportion.

When it is fried, the aroma really fills the entire workshop area. It is so fragrant that it whets people's appetite.

Zhao Yuanzhen chose peppers that were fragrant but not too spicy, as she was afraid that they would be too spicy and others would not be able to accept them.

After it came out of the pot, she tasted it.

Ah!

This is the taste, even better than Lao Mou’s godmother’s.

The hot sauce is served in a small ceramic jar, weighing two pounds. Because it uses plenty of ingredients, seasonings, and meat pieces, its texture and taste are both unique.

One pound uses 3 taels of chili peppers, 3 taels of beef, tael of salt, tael of peanuts, taels of soybeans, and half a tael of seasoning.

According to the prices in the Daliang Dynasty, the most expensive thing was seasoning, but it was used in small quantities, so the cost was about 50 wen.

The second is beef, which costs about 60 cents per pound.

Chili peppers are our own specialty and are not available anywhere else. When harvesting, we monitor very strictly to ensure that the seeds are not leaked.

Including oil, the cost per pound is about 100 wen.

The price is 1600 Wen per jar, and one jar weighs 2 Jin. At this price, only rich people can afford it. Ordinary people will not buy it.

There weren’t a lot of chili peppers, otherwise she was planning to launch two types of chili sauce, one without beef and one with beef.

We will wait until next year when we expand the scale of planting and then update the new flavors.

It's already September and it's been busy. During this period, Wu Erping was very helpful and harvested a large number of mushrooms, enough to provide chili sauce and instant noodle seasoning.

And there were still a lot left, so Zhao Yuanzhen ordered the remaining ones to be dried and made into dried mushrooms.

For subsequent use.

I don’t know if it’s because there hasn’t been continuous heavy rain this year, but it’s not as cold as last year. However, the temperature has also dropped, only around 10 degrees Celsius.

There are still cherries and hawthorns in the orchard that have not been harvested. The cherries can be harvested soon, but the hawthorns will only taste good after being frozen in cold weather.

Zhao Yuanzhen planted a lot of cherries, about 100 trees. She picked a batch before they were fully ripe and stored them in the cellar, ready to be eaten during the winter.

He kept 1000 kilograms of the remaining food for himself, sent 3000 kilograms to the shop, and gave some to Zhao Yuanlan and the Queen.

Every time there was new food at home, Zhao Yuanzhen would share some with the servants. This time, each person got 2 kilograms of cherries.

Zhao Yuanzhen sent a large bucket of beef chili sauce to the canteen, which can be provided free of charge once during breakfast.

The canteen serves food three times a month.

The servants' happiness index has improved a lot. The canteen not only provides free meals of three dishes and one soup every day, but they can also buy some meat dishes if they are hungry and have a drink of wine.

The minimum monthly salary was 3 cents of silver, and the work was not tiring. From time to time, the employer would share some delicious food with them, especially fruit. There were all kinds of fruit, and they had basically never run out of fruit from spring to now.

Where can I find such a good boss?

Swear to serve the boss until death!

I noticed that the nearest flower arrangement in the room had become chrysanthemums, and suddenly I remembered that chrysanthemums are the king of September.

Go to the garden and take a look. You will see that there were a lot of chrysanthemums planted there, with all kinds of varieties.

Zhao Yuanzhen picked out some chrysanthemums with good appearance and beautiful colors, and prepared to see how much they could be sold for.

A total of 25 pots were picked.

I went to the flower shop I went to before.

"Boss, do you accept flowers?"

"What flower?"

It was still the boss who didn't talk much to others. He saw her come in and ignored her.

"chrysanthemum."

"Yes, but only if they are in good condition."

The boss himself grows flowers and plants. He has plenty of ordinary and normal ones, but he only wants the best ones.