Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

He also dried the bottom of the wine glass at him, indicating that he had drank it all.

This is the culture of the wine table.

Xu Yan nodded secretly.

Yes, he is a polite person.

Xu Yan also drank it all in one gulp.

Ding Tieniu hurriedly grabbed the wine bottle and filled it first for Xu Yan and then for himself.

Xu Yan brought the topic back to the oil workshop itself:

"Shopkeeper Ding, I bought your oil last time. I tasted it after I went back and found that it tasted very good.

Thinking about it privately, your family must have been engaged in this business for generations, right? "

Ding Tieniu said hurriedly:

"To be honest, the Ding family is from Dengzhou City and has been engaged in the oil extraction industry for more than 200 years.

I can’t say how delicious the oil coming out of Ding Kee Oil Shop will be.

However, the Ding family also has its own tricks.

For example, our fried seeds must be neither light nor heavy. If they are overcooked, although there will be a lot of oil, the tips will be bitter.

If you fry lightly, there will be less oil!

When people see that the oil output is not high, they stop coming!

We have to control this heat accurately.

Therefore, before the Ding family presses oil, the fried raw materials must be tasted.

Whether it’s sesame seeds or soybeans, or the new peanuts or rapeseeds.

Even if you can't eat cotton seeds, you still have to chew them in your mouth!

Think about it, the fried ingredients are delicious, how can the squeezed oil be unpalatable? "

Ding Tieniu laughed.

Every walk of life has its own unique know-how.

even……

Most of the so-called exclusive tips are actually private axioms in the industry.

Although everyone is hiding it, everyone understands the truth.

Xu Yan laughed:

"This is what you deserve. As the saying goes, earthen pots will inevitably be broken at the edge of the well, and generals will often die in battle.

When it comes to getting water, it is difficult to compare with the common people; when it comes to killing people, it is not as good as a general!

No matter how familiar your hands are, they will sometimes fail.

Only by trying it first will you never miss it! "

Ding Tieniu smiled.

"Master Xu is right.

That's the truth.

We at Dingji Oil Shop have an unbreakable rule:

In order to prevent those like us who are getting older, our taste will become heavier and we will not be able to taste the good food.

At Ding Kee Youfang, children usually do the food tasting.

Young people have a bad taste. If they don't think it tastes good, the oil will not taste good. "

……

(Testing oil before pressing it, even in later generations, is a necessary operation in traditional oil mills and small workshops.

Rural people know this.

After frying, grab a handful and taste it.

Of course, due to breakthroughs in cold rolling technology in later generations, oil mills that adopted cold rolling mills no longer tried it.

Note: Although I consider myself to have a relatively broad knowledge, basically all walks of life can have a restoration, which can basically describe real life.

In real life, it may even seem unbelievable, but it is indeed a necessary operation.

However, after all, everyone's knowledge is limited. As the old saying goes, does a good artist have expertise? There will naturally be some errors and omissions in the book. Please forgive me for this. After all, everyone is not a god or almighty. .

If there are any obvious errors in the book, please forgive me and point them out. Thank you! )

Xu Yan nodded secretly.

Although his family is considered an official figure, he is no stranger to the livelihood of these ordinary people.

All walks of life in Ming Dynasty were very developed.

Even the first line of the Great Wall where he was born and grew up is a military town. Everything is mainly military, but there are also various workshops.

Xu Yan naturally knew that what Ding Tieniu said was true.

It is a normal operation to taste the oil in the oil shop.

It is also a must have!

He raised his glass:

"When I come this time, I still want to say happy things to Shopkeeper Ding."

Ding Tieniu's eyes lit up, could it be...

He thought to himself:

The last time Xu Yan came, he saw his daughter.

Could it be that Xu Yan came here to act as a matchmaker for his family?

Although my family is considered to be an upper-class person in Dengzhou, in the capital where there are many high-ranking officials, I am not in the upper class.

And Xu Yan is an official, so from this point of view, his family is not a prominent figure.

Marriage between official figures and local families is also a common operation in the officialdom.

If he infers this, he is afraid that he will marry either his own family or the officials in his line.

My family is just a local gentry, so it would be a great thing for the Ding family to marry into such an official figure.

However, you still have to see what the man is saying first.

At the very least, you need to find out the other person's character first.

If he didn't like it, let alone an official's family, he would reject it even if it was an official's family.

I can't have children anymore, so I just have a son and a daughter.

He couldn't bear to throw his daughter into the fire pit for the sake of family business.

Ding Tieniu is guessing that Xu Yan is here for marriage...

Who knew, Xu Yan smiled lightly and said:

"Your oil is pretty good, so I discussed it with my colleagues and decided to order another [-] kilograms of oil.

Of course, you must ensure the same quality as last time. "

Ding Tieniu's eyes widened in confusion and he said in disbelief:

"What?"

Xu Yan came here specifically for this matter?

Isn't it what you guessed?

"how?"

Xu Yan laughed:

"Shopkeeper Ding is so happy?

Isn't this a great joy? "

"Oh oh oh oh~"

Ding Tieniu said incoherently:

"Yes, yes, it's a great joy, it's a great joy."

Xu Yan raised his glass:

"Then...please cooperate!"

"Well, it's a pleasure to cooperate, a pleasure to cooperate..."

Ding Tieniu's mind was confused, and he watched Xu Yan finish the wine first, and then he finished the glass of wine in a daze.

When Xu Yan saw Ding Tieniu being rude, he thought he was very happy.

Did not delve into it.

Xu Yan ate for a while before Ding Tieniu reacted.

He hurriedly confessed:

"Master Xu, look at me, I am so happy that I have neglected Master Xu. Please forgive me, Master Xu!"

Ding Tieniu hurriedly poured wine for Xu Yan and then for himself, stood up, held the wine glass in both hands and apologized.

"It's okay.

It’s a trivial matter!

If I were in Shopkeeper Ding's shoes, I would be extremely happy! "

Xu Yan bumped into him and the two had another drink.

Xu Yan smiled and said:

"Sit down, why are you standing?"

Ding Tieniu chuckled and then sat down.

The two talked about the matter, and the rest of the time became much more harmonious.

Ding Tieniu wanted to thank Xu Yan wholeheartedly, so whenever Xu Yan asked, he would tell him everything he knew.

And Xu Yan wanted to seize the opportunity and hitch a ride with Eunuch Qin in the inner court. The most important thing was to make the emperor change his view of him.

Therefore, there is no airs.

The two went back and forth, and with both parties deliberately making friends, they became brothers.

……

The very next morning, Ding Kee Garment Shop received another order.

Zhang Shutang, who runs a textile factory with the royal family, sent a note to order a batch of clothes worth a hundred silver dollars.