His predecessor failed

Su Zhuzhu said she had misjudged him. She didn't expect He Qiaojin to be so clingy in private. His cold and aloof demeanor was completely a deception.

After Lin Wu reported to the 624th Army, he also wrote a letter to He Qiaojin. He first boasted about the delicious food he had eaten in the Red Star Brigade during those days, and then showed off what delicious food Sister Zhuzhu had prepared for him. Finally, he said that he had discovered a small path in the back mountain that led directly from the Red Star Brigade to the army. According to his walking speed, it would take him an hour to walk from the army to the Youth League Institute. Whenever he had time to rest, he could go to Sister Zhuzhu to eat delicious food to improve his life, because Lin Wu found that the food in the army cafeteria was just enough to fill him up. The big pot dishes were so bland, not to mention oil and water, there was not much salt. If he didn't cook for himself often, his life would be miserable. Anyway, he chose to come here just to be closer to Zhuzhu.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the revival of nature is refreshing. Su Zhuzhu often goes out for a walk when the weather is good. The lakeside, grass, and fields are full of new green buds. This is a beauty that she has never felt in her previous life. Mainly because her mood was different at that time, the beautiful scenery also became gray. Fortunately, Su Zhuzhu is now reborn, and she feels that she has fallen in love with the simple life here.

Su Zhuzhu not only goes out to feel the beauty of nature, but also picks some wild vegetables when she comes back. The wild vegetables in spring are extremely fresh and tender. For those who have eaten radishes and cabbages for a winter, they are the ultimate delicacy.

H Province has many lakes and rivers and extremely rich natural resources. There are wild vegetables everywhere, including purslane, dandelion, shepherd's purse, bracken, water celery, toon, wild onion, as well as edible and medicinal Houttuynia cordata and plantain. These two are traditional Chinese medicines that the Red Star Brigade plans to plant on a large scale this year.

When there is a thunderstorm, you can also go to the grass to pick ground fungi, a kind of fungus that emerges from the grass after a spring rain. It looks quite disgusting, but it is very good to cook it occasionally and eat it for a few meals to improve the taste.

After the rain, you can go into the mountains with the team members to pick mushrooms. There are many kinds of mushrooms in the back mountain. Su Zhuzhu can't name them all. Common ones include wood ear, chicken mushroom, red mushroom, etc. Su Zhuzhu has already planned to pick more after entering the mountains, dry them and keep them for eating slowly. These are all pure wild good things.

Lin Wu has been enjoying a great meal recently. Whenever he has time, he goes to the Red Star Brigade. He simply can't get enough of all the wild vegetables, whether they are served cold, made into soups, or stir-fried. He also has some wild mushrooms, stewed with pheasant, which is something he would not trade for anything else.

Su Zhuzhu would often prepare some delicious food for Lin Wu to take back to the army for his comrades to taste. Soon, all his comrades knew that Lin Wu had a sister who was working in the village on the other side of the mountain and who was a good cook.

Unable to resist the enthusiastic self-recommendations of his comrades, Lin Wu had to say that Su Zhuzhu was already engaged. The man was his brother, who was in the special forces, and they had already filed a marriage report.

The comrades whose hopes were dashed could only change their goals and began to persuade Lin Wu to go to the Red Star Brigade with him during their rest time to improve their lives. They also assured Lin Wu that they would bring enough money and tickets with them.

Lin Wu thought to himself, do you think I don’t know what you little bastards are thinking? Zhuzhu is engaged, and there are other female educated youth in the educated youth institute. Their eyes are all shining, so who can’t see it?

He didn't agree to everyone directly, but just said that he would discuss it with his sisters first, and only take them there after they agreed.

After Su Zhuzhu found out, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It would be fine for Lin Wu to bring a few comrades over, but it would have a bad impact. If the People's Liberation Army came every few days, the brigade would definitely ask about it, so she didn't agree.

However, Su Zhuzhu prepared a lot of chili sauce, mushroom sauce, fermented tofu, and some cold spring bamboo shoots, cold wild vegetables, smoked fish, spicy small fish and shrimp for Lin Wu to take back to satisfy everyone's cravings. She also promised that if the soldiers caught any game, Lin Wu could bring it over, and Su Zhuzhu would prepare it and take it back to the barracks.

Although Lin Wu did not bring back good news, the delicious food filled up his entire marching bag, and he also carried two baskets, both of which were full.

Lin Wu first gave two bottles to each of the leaders, and except for his own portion, he took the rest to the cafeteria for everyone to eat.

My goodness, the dining scene in the army canteen during those days was comparable to the rush to buy supplies at the supply and marketing cooperatives during the Chinese New Year. Chopsticks and spoons were dancing around, and everyone just wanted an extra spoonful of chili sauce.

The cafeteria chef watched for several days and felt deeply insulted. Why did everyone look down on the food he cooked?

Master Liu endured the humiliation and joined the crowd to grab food. He had to try how delicious the dishes that Lin Wu brought were.

After tasting Su Zhuzhu's rice dishes, Chef Liu, who was originally full of resentment, was no longer angry and was completely conquered by Su Zhuzhu's cooking skills.

From then on, Master Liu joined the ranks of those chasing after Lin Wu. Not for any reason, just because he couldn't make such delicious hot sauce for him. He had tried it and experimented in the cafeteria many times, but still couldn't reach Su Zhuzhu's level.

Later, he heard that the leader also liked the chili sauce made by Su Zhuzhu, so Chef Liu kept pestering Lin Wu, wanting Lin Wu to take him to meet Su Zhuzhu and learn from her so as to improve the taste of the canteen. After all, the dishes cooked with this chili sauce were particularly popular.

Su Zhuzhu didn't expect that the chili sauce she made was so popular in the army. After Lin Wu told her about Master Liu's request, he did not agree immediately. Instead, he considered whether he should build a chili sauce factory to produce chili sauce and sell it to the army. Besides, if it is so popular in the army, there is no reason why it would not be popular outside!

After asking Lin Wu about it, he learned that the army also purchased food from outside, so he decided to get this done.

Su Zhuzhu planned to make several varieties of sauces and let Lin Wu take them back to the army canteen first to see what the troops would say. If they were really interested in purchasing, she would dare to build a hot sauce factory.

With the help of Liu Yuanyuan and Duan Xiaoling, the three of them spent half a day making several varieties of hot sauce, some of which can be eaten directly with rice, and some can be used for cooking. Su Zhuzhu also gave a recipe for cooking with hot sauce.

The chili sauces that can be eaten directly include pure chili sauce, mushroom chili sauce, spring bamboo shoot chili sauce, and dishes made with shredded pickled mustard tubers, shredded black fungus, and shredded bamboo shoots, and they are divided into high-spicy and low-spicy varieties.

Chili sauce for cooking When Su Zhuzhu thought of Sichuan cuisine, she went to the space tablet to look up the recipe of Pixian bean paste. It happened that H Province was a major pepper-growing province, with a wide variety of chili powder and erjingtiao. The three of them were busy. They added fried broad beans, peanuts, peas and so on, and mixed them with cooked oil. Su Zhuzhu tasted the taste. Although it was a little different from the ready-made Pixian bean paste in the space, it was also very good.

Su Zhuzhu packed five kilograms of this hot sauce that can be used for cooking, along with other side dishes, and asked Lin Wu to take them back to the army.

Chef Liu happily took the hot sauce and changed a few dishes in the canteen according to the instructions given by Su Zhuzhu.

H Province is located in the central and western part of the country, where the climate is cold and damp all year round. Soldiers here love to eat chili peppers the most, so the new dishes served in the canteen in the past few days have been well received by officers and soldiers. No one complained about it, and they all went straight to the canteen to eat when the time came.

Chef Liu took the opportunity to put the side dishes on plates and brought them to the leaders. After tasting them, the leaders were amazed and praised the canteen for its recent good food work. Although there was still not much meat, the taste was improved by several levels.

Lin Wu had mentioned to Master Liu that the Red Star Brigade was planning to build a hot sauce factory, so the master knew that there was no hope for him to learn this skill to make a living. However, the army also had to purchase ingredients anyway, so as long as the hot sauce was well made, he could still purchase it.

Chef Liu listened to Lin Wu's suggestion and cooked dishes with hot sauce for several days. Every meal was different and the soldiers were very satisfied.

By the time everyone got used to eating dishes cooked with hot sauce every day, the five kilograms of hot sauce sent by Su Zhuzhu had been used up, so the army canteen returned to the taste of clear soup.

The gap is too obvious. Not to mention the soldiers had many opinions, the leaders also asked several times, saying that the cooking seasoning was used up, and that it was sponsored by the soldiers' families.

The leaders all asked the logistics department to solve the canteen seasoning problem as soon as possible. They were so angry that their mouths were almost watering.

The leader of the logistics department was quite nice. The canteen had become quite popular recently and everyone had become addicted to the food. But when the supply was suddenly out of stock, people started complaining about it. It was the first time that so many military leaders questioned him. He felt very stressed and quickly went to ask Chef Liu about the seasoning.

I heard that the hot sauce was made by Lin Wu's relatives and was going to be sold. The price was not expensive, so the leader of the logistics department waved his hand and asked Chef Liu to contact Lin Wu and let Lin Wu tell his relatives that the logistics department was going to purchase a batch.

However, there are definitely requirements for being a supplier to the military, especially regarding food hygiene. There must be no accidents. If the soldiers all get sick from eating, how can they defend their country? So the logistics department leader asked Chef Liu to communicate. The military needs to purchase condiments such as hot sauce on a long-term basis, and they plan to send two people to visit the hot sauce production site to confirm that there are no problems before they can start cooperation.

Su Zhuzhu was very happy when she received the news. At the same time, she also knew that the troops were coming to inspect. Time was tight and the task was heavy. The first thing to do was to build the hot sauce factory. She couldn't let them come and not even see a place where hot sauce was produced.

Su Zhuzhu quickly went to find the captain and explained the whole thing briefly.

When the captain heard Su Zhuzhu say that the troops wanted to purchase hot sauce from the Red Star Brigade, he was dumbfounded. The Red Star Brigade has been blessed with good fortune since the arrival of Su Zhuzhu and her group of educated youth! The medicinal materials processing factory has been making continuous profits, and this hot sauce factory has already received business before it has even been established, and it is a long-term business.

But no matter what, the Red Star Brigade must seize this opportunity!

After the two of them discussed it, they decided on the matter.

The team leader immediately went to the township to apply for a license for the Red Star Chili Sauce Factory to get the chili sauce factory off the ground.

As soon as the team leader proposed to build a hot sauce factory to the township leaders, the township leaders thought that the Red Star Brigade had too big an appetite. They had just set up a medicinal material processing factory and now they were going to set up a hot sauce factory. Is it so easy to set up a factory? So they did ideological work on the team leader in a serious manner, saying that it was too greedy to bite off more than one bite. You, the Red Star Brigade, should first set up the medicinal material processing factory before talking about other things. Besides, you won’t be as lucky as last time if you set up a hot sauce factory, and you won’t get government support.

The team leader did not refute, but took out a few cans of hot sauce from his bag and asked the leader to taste it first.

After the leader was amazed by Su Zhuzhu's hot sauce, he told the army that the Red Star Brigade had already contacted the army and would supply the army with hot sauce and condiments on a long-term basis. Cooperation with the army was a big deal and the procedures had to be completed according to the process.

When the leader heard this, he was surprised. The Red Star Brigade had done another big thing without saying anything. They actually established a relationship with the army. They had to support this. Others wanted to establish a relationship but couldn't find a way!

So the Red Star Chili Sauce Factory’s license application went through an expedited review process, and the township leaders guaranteed that it would be completed within three days, and that someone would be arranged to deliver it directly to the Red Star Brigade.

The team leader got a satisfactory answer, thanked his leader happily, and hurried back.

The preparation of hot sauce is not difficult, so the factory does not need to be too big. The team leader decided to build two factories next to the medicinal materials processing factory.

Not long after, the Red Star Brigade held another general meeting. This time, the brigade leader did not keep anyone in suspense and went straight to the point of building a hot sauce factory. Because the troops were coming to visit, time was very tight, so he assigned tasks on the spot.

Uncle Li was appointed to be in charge of the factory. All the labor force in the brigade fully cooperated with Uncle Li. The two factories must be built and put into use within three days; Liu Yuanyuan and Duan Xiaoling were responsible for purchasing tools and hot sauce ingredients; Aunt Chunxiu and Aunt Wang were specifically responsible for purchasing Erjingtiao peppers; Su Zhuzhu was responsible for selecting two daughters-in-law in the brigade who were particular about hygiene and had excellent kitchen skills to learn how to make hot sauce; Peng Aiguo was responsible for coordinating various transportation needs.

This time the hot sauce factory is really recruiting workers. Many positions do not require any education. The most important thing is that the hot sauce factory is run by the brigade, so it will benefit all members!

For a time, the Red Star Brigade was full of enthusiasm. From the elderly in their seventies to the children in their fives and sixes, all went to help build the factory. They worked enthusiastically and even asked Zheng Qiwen to pull some people out from the medicinal materials processing factory. After installing the light bulbs, they continued to work at night. Even if God wanted to strike back, the factory had to be built within three days.

Aunt Chunxiu and Aunt Wang have already collected all the Erjingtiao in the brigade. Su Zhuzhu said that the quantity was not enough and they could collect more. Aunt Chunxiu slapped her thigh and had no choice but to set her sights on the surrounding brigades and spread the news of purchasing Erjingtiao. In an instant, several brigades were in a rush and ran to the Red Star Brigade with their own peppers on their backs.

There were many wives who signed up to be hot sauce workers at Su Zhuzhu's place, but she organized a round of interviews and asked some questions about making hot sauce or cooking. During the interview, she carefully observed the hygiene of the applicants. Finally, based on Aunt Chunxiu's advice, she chose Jiawang's wife and Widow Liu from the team. Although Aunt Liu was a widow, she took good care of her children and sent them all to school. The only problem was that there were so many children in the family and the conditions were too poor.