A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

"Yes, today's dishes are much more delicious than what my wife cooks."

When Grandma Zhang heard that everyone was satisfied with today's meal, she couldn't be happier: "Oh, today's meal was not made by the three of us, but by my Yueyue. The three of us just helped out, haha."

"Ah, these dishes are all made by Yueyue. Oh, Yueyue, when did your cooking skills become so good? It's amazing."

"Yueyue, next time I will ask Xiaohua and Xiaohe to come and learn cooking from you. Your dishes are so delicious." Zhang Yi said while eating.

"What kind of dish is this? It's fried minced meat, and it's a little spicy."

Zhang Yunyue heard Li the hunter from the village asking, "Uncle Hunter, this is the pickled cowpeas we made at home. We used pickled cowpeas and fried minced meat with some pickled peppers. You can eat it with steamed buns."

When Li the Hunter heard what Zhang Yunyue said, he took a steamed bun and broke some minced cowpea and meat into it.

"Hey, this is delicious when put in steamed buns. You should all try it. The soaked cowpeas taste quite special. Yueyue, how did you soak them? I'll ask your aunt to come to your house to learn. Otherwise, if you can't finish eating the cowpeas, they will all become old, and cowpeas will not taste good when they are old."

"It's like this, Yueyue, are you still taking a bath at home? Otherwise, I will let you learn from your aunt." Zhang Yi also asked.

The other workers also tasted it and thought it was delicious, sour and crispy. It just so happened that they had too much cowpeas in the family garden to eat during this period, so they could make this to eat. They all looked at Zhang Yunyue.

Zhang Yunyue nodded: "Uncles and aunts, if you want to learn, you can ask your sisters-in-law, aunts, and grandmas to come over and learn in the afternoon. It just so happens that my grandmas also need to soak cowpeas in the afternoon, so it's just right."

"Okay, I'll go back after dinner and talk to your aunt and ask her to come and learn how to make it." Zhang Yi was very happy when he thought that his family would be able to eat the delicious pickled cowpeas in the future.

The others also said that they would ask their family members to learn from them when they go back.

The Zhang family's dinner was not only rich in food, but also included several dishes that they had never eaten before, and they tasted surprisingly good.

In the afternoon, family members who worked at Old Zhang's house came. It happened that Grandma Zhang and her family had just picked the cowpeas and were sorting them one by one in the yard to see if there were any worm holes on them.

Everyone came and helped to pick the cowpeas and chatted at the same time. With so many people, the picked cowpeas were finished in no time.

Last time, Zhang's mother was watching Zhang Yunyue's operation from the side. Today, there were too many people, so Zhang Yunyue asked Zhang's mother to do it. Fortunately, Zhang's mother was someone who worked in the kitchen all year round, so she remembered it after watching it once last time.

Then she followed what Zhang Yunyue said last time and repeated it to the people who came to learn what needed to be added and the steps to follow. Then they cooperated with Zhang's mother in soaking the cowpeas, and everyone understood it more or less.

Before Zhang's mother put the fresh cowpeas into the jar, she first picked out all the remaining cowpeas in the original jar.

Finally, Zhang's mother moved the jar of soaked cowpeas into the kitchen and placed it in a cool corner of the kitchen.

Zhang's mother cut the soaked cowpeas into pieces and brought them to the yard for everyone to taste.

"Oh, this is so easy to make, but we never knew it. Just now when I got home, I heard his father say how delicious the pickled cowpeas were. I didn't expect that I would be eating them right now. They are really delicious."

"I also heard from my boss how delicious the pickled cowpeas are and how fragrant they are when sandwiched with steamed buns. I wanted to beat my boss up at that time. You ate it, so you ate it. Why did you come to show off in front of me? I was so angry. Humph, I didn't expect that I ate it in the afternoon."

"Hahahahaha, oh, that's too funny."

"Ha ha ha ha"

"Hahahahaha"

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"Oh, I learned a new way to cook cowpeas this afternoon and ate soaked cowpeas. I'm satisfied. Thank you! We'll leave first."

"Yes, we should go back as we have things to do at home. Thank you!"

"Have a good time! Come and visit us again if you have time." Zhang's mother sent out the people who came to learn how to grow cowpea.

In the next few days, in the morning, some of the Zhang family members still went to the town to set up stalls to sell mung bean jelly, cold noodles and chili oil, while some of them ground mung bean milk at home. Grandpa Zhang was responsible for supervising the work in the wasteland.

A total of five rooms were built on the wasteland. Two warehouses were used to store peppers and prepared chili oil, one was a kitchen, one was used to pound chili powder, and the remaining one was temporarily vacant for use.

In the past few days, the workshop has been covered with tiles, and the doors and windows have been installed. In order to prevent an increase in orders in the future, the Zhang family built ten stoves at one time for boiling chili oil. Five of them will be used in the early stage, so that even if the number of orders increases later, there will be no need to build a temporary stove.

The floor of the workshop is paved with blue bricks, and 20 mortars are specially made for pounding chili powder. The pot is also installed on the stove, and a shelf is built on one side of the wall of the warehouse where the chili oil is stored to place pottery jars.

Yesterday, the three families of Old Zhang, Great Grandfather, and Second Grandfather spent the whole afternoon cleaning the workshop.

Grandpa Zhang looked at the auspicious day and found that the day after tomorrow is the auspicious day for the start of work, so the family decided yesterday to recruit people today. They also notified the villagers yesterday and asked them to come and sign up this afternoon.

Grandpa Zhang also asked the village carpenter to carve a plaque in advance to be hung in front of the workshop.

I'll ask the pottery workshop in Qiaojia Village to deliver pottery jars tomorrow, and also ask for peppers and peanuts to be delivered to my grandfather's house and Zhu's grandfather's house tomorrow.

In the afternoon, a group of people gathered in front of Lao Zhang's house, including men, women, young and old. Except for those who wanted to sign up to work in the workshop, the rest of the villagers came to watch the excitement.

Zhang Yunyue took the work contract that had been written a few days in advance in his hand, and then asked his eldest brother Zhang Xingyun and second brother Zhang Xinghao to move a table to the door of the house and put the written contract and the prepared writing brush, ink and inkstone on the table.

Zhang Yunyue: "Dear uncles, sisters-in-law, as you all know, today we are recruiting workers for our Zhangjia Chili Oil Workshop, but let me say in advance that we are not recruiting just anyone.

Cleanliness is the most important thing. After all, we are in the business of making food. If the food is not clean and people get sick after eating it, then this workshop probably won’t be able to operate, right?

Furthermore, people who enter the workshop must be honest and not gossip about others all day long.

Then the workshop cannot recruit too many people for the time being, so the maximum number of people who can sign up now is one person per family. Give more families a chance. Everyone in the village is not in a good situation, and there are still people who can come.

There must be extra labor at home. I can't let coming here make me too busy to handle the housework. That would be putting the cart before the horse. I hope everyone can understand this.