The Culinary Tycoon

When he got home, Chang Hao fell asleep after being tired all day.In the main room, Grandpa Chang was weaving mats and Chang Le was mending clothes. The two were busy while waiting for Yu Qingze.

Seeing him coming back, Chang Le gestured and asked him if he wanted to take a bath now, and he helped him carry the water to the bathroom.Grandpa Chang translated it.

Yu Qingze shook his head, called Grandpa Chang and Chang Le to sit down at the table, and then discussed with them solemnly: "Grandpa, Brother Le, I'm new here, fortunately Brother Le saved me, and thanks to you I am really grateful for taking care of you. As you know, I have no family or reason here, and I have nowhere to go for the time being, so I want to discuss with you, no, it is a request, I want to ask you one thing."

The grandfather and grandson looked at each other, and both saw seriousness in Yu Qingze's eyes.

Grandpa Chang said, "Tell me."

Yu Qingze said to the two very seriously: "I want to borrow to live at home for a while, I will pay the rent on a monthly basis, and I will move out when I find a suitable place when I have enough money."

Unexpectedly, Yu Qingze was talking about this.

Grandpa Chang waved his hand and said, "You just live here, it's just a matter of a bed, no need for rent or not."

Chang Le also nodded.

Yu Qingze naturally refused to live in vain, he said helplessly: "Grandpa, Brother Le, if you are like this, I dare not live at home."

Grandpa Chang stared, "Why dare you? Didn't you teach Xiao Le and Xiao Hao how to write? Didn't you also say that you want to teach Xiao Hao how to learn Kung Fu? Let's be Shu Xiu. Speaking of it, we still took advantage of it."

Yu Qingze laughed, "Speaking of which, Brother Le saved my life, Grandpa."

"That's not the same thing, you can't talk about it together."

Yu Qingze was very persistent, while Grandpa Chang was even tougher.

The two sides exchanged several rounds, but to no avail.

Chang Le watched the two of them fight back and forth, pursing their lips and laughing.

Seeing that he couldn't talk to the old man, Yu Qingze could only say: "Grandpa, I'm serious. I can't eat and live for free. I hope you can understand."

Grandpa Chang looked at him for a while, then sighed, and said, "That's all, just give it to you if you like."

Yu Qingze smiled, and said again: "I don't know the rent here. Look, is one tael of silver a month enough?"

Both the grandpa and grandson were surprised by his generosity.

Grandpa Chang said dryly: "Our family doesn't have the conditions for an inn."

Yu Qingze said: "I've included the food as well."

Grandpa Chang waved his hand, "Those things in the field are not worth a lot of money. Everyone grows them and sells them on the street, but they can't sell them."

Yu Qingze pretended not to hear it, and made a final decision, "Then it's settled, one tael of silver a month. I'll pay it for three months first."

Yu Qingze took out the cloth bag, not knowing how much three taels of silver was, so he simply took three copper coins and handed them to Grandpa Chang, "Grandpa, here you are."

Grandpa Chang reluctantly took it, and handed it to Chang Le casually.

Yu Qingze could tell that Chang Le was in charge of the money in the family.So, he said to Chang Le again: "Brother Le, can you please keep these money for me? I don't have a place to put it. After a few days, the double robbing is over, and I will take it back. Then I want to go to the city to do it." Little business."

Chang Le is a little embarrassed, so much money, if lost...

Chang Le looked at Grandpa Chang, who nodded and said, "Put it away for him."

Chang Le then took the cloth bag and entered the room cautiously.

Grandpa Chang looked at Yu Qingze and asked, "Do you want to do business in the city?"

Yu Qingze nodded: "I want to get some snacks to sell. I have to find a living."

Grandpa Chang frowned and said, "Didn't you lose your household registration certificate? You need it to do business in the city."

Yu Qingze let out an 'ah' and said, "I forgot about it. Grandpa, if you want to get your household registration here, what do you need to do?"

Grandpa Chang frowned and thought for a while, then said: "There seems to be a special department in the yamen that is in charge of this area. You can ask the village chief, he should know."

"Okay, let me ask."

"You want to be naturalized with us? Niutou Village?"

"Yes, this place is very good, if possible, I would like to join here."

"Have a vision! At that time, a dozen or so households in our village also thought this place was good, so they settled here. In a flash, more than ten years have passed." Grandpa Chang couldn't help feeling a little emotional when he thought of the past.

Yu Qingze asked curiously: "I heard that you moved here during the war?"

Grandpa Chang nodded, took a puff of dry smoke, and looked a little far away, "We were originally in Qingzhou on the north bank of the Qinghe River, where it was severely damaged by the war, and everyone couldn't make it through. I heard that the war in the south was not so serious, so I tried every means to cross the river together. Here we are."

The Dasheng Dynasty established the country after the wars of the previous dynasty ended. It was only 15 years after the founding of the country, and Yu Qingze had heard about it.

"That's right, the common people are the ones who suffer the most during the war." Yu Qingze hadn't experienced the specifics, so he could only sigh with emotion.

Grandpa Chang spit out eye circles, sighed again, and said distressedly: "Xiao Le's injury was caused at that time, alas..."

Yu Qingze really wanted to ask what was going on, but when he saw Chang Le came out, he stopped in time, then went back to the room to take out a change of clothes, and said to Chang Le: "Brother Le, please mention it to me. It's water."

Chang Le smiled and nodded.

The next morning, Yu Qingze saw Chang Le picking up beans from a big dung bin, so he asked him about it during breakfast.

Chang Le expressed a little worriedly that there were too many growths in the field, and I didn't have time to sell them recently, so I picked them back to dry, otherwise they would all be old.

Yu Qingze asked how most of the beans here are eaten, and learned that they are usually boiled and eaten, and if they can't finish eating and can't sell, they dry them into dried beans.

The beans in the excrement dustpan are very tender, Yu Qingze thought for a while, and asked, "Brother Le, do you have any empty jars at home? The ones with edges."

Chang Le nodded, looked at him curiously, and asked him what he was going to do.

Yu Qingze said, "Pickled capers."

"Sour beans?" Chang Hao asked curiously, "Is it delicious?"

Yu Qingze nodded and said, "It's very appetizing, very suitable for summer and winter."

"Is it better than dried beans?" Chang Hao is a little disgusted by the fact that dried beans are often eaten in winter.

Yu Qingze smiled and said, "It's a different taste, I'll marinate some for you to try, if you think it's delicious, we can also marinate it in a vat and eat it in winter."

Hearing that it was delicious, Chang Hao was happy, and raised his hands in approval: "Jin!"

Brother Yu said it was delicious, it must be super delicious!He now has a kind of blind worship for Yu Qingze, especially in terms of food.

So after breakfast, Chang Le, his grandfather and grandson went to plant the fields, and Yu Qingze made sour beans at home.

Wash the jar and let it dry naturally, then select the fresh and tender beans, remove the heads and tails, wash them and dry them in water, boil a small pot of boiling water and let them cool.

After all the preparatory work is completed, pour a small half jar of cold boiled water directly into the jar, put in the beans, all submerged in the water, add a little more salt, and it's done.

Yu Qingze thought for a while, and put a few more green peppers in.In fact, if there are radishes, sour radishes are also delicious, but it is summer, Le Geer and the others don't grow summer radishes, but they can pick some bitter melons and soak them.

Finally, cover the lid, pour water on the edge of the jar to prevent air from entering, put it in a cool place, and eat it after two or three days.

Now that the pickled beans have been made, Yu Qingze made a simple pickled cucumber from those cucumbers.

At noon, Grandpa Chang said that he cooked the fish that the village chief sent yesterday. Yu Qingze remembered the first meal he ate here, the taste of that fish...

"Let them enjoy the deliciousness of real fish." Yu Qingze said to himself.

There is no ginger at home, and the only thing that can remove the smell is rice wine. Putting some vinegar can also remove the smell, but it is not enough.Yu Qingze was worrying, when he suddenly remembered that he saw a small piece of perilla on the side of the road in the village, his eyes lit up, and he planned to go out and pick some back instead of ginger to remove the smell.

While picking it, I met the village chief.

"Aze, what are you doing picking this?" the village chief was curious.The smell of perilla is rather strange. People in the village regard it as a weed, and the cows don't like to eat it very much, but doctors sometimes use it as medicine.

Yu Qingze replied: "I don't have any ginger at home, so I'll pick it up and make ingredients. Village chief, did you find me, did you think about it?"

"Yes. We discussed it yesterday, and we will do as you said." The village head and Da Jian Dayong discussed until early in the morning, and finally made a decision.

One more thing happened during this period.The village head, Fu Lang, found that 30 taels of silver had suddenly disappeared from his home, and he hurriedly looked for them, thinking that his home had been burglarized.Later, I learned that they bought a wooden plank with the money, and they had a fuss for a while. The village chief and the three men finally persuaded him after a lot of talking.It was also a toss.

Yu Qingze said happily: "I knew you would agree."

The village head smiled, and then asked again: "However, Aze, I just want to discuss with you, can we start making the threshing machine and the wind valley car later?"

Yu Qingze thought for a while, and probably knew what the village chief and the others were thinking. They just wanted to make rice beds with all their strength before the autumn harvest.He asked, "How many people in your family can do carpentry?"

The village head replied: "I, Dajian and Dayong are all familiar with it. My third son can only help me now, and my husband can also do some."

Yu Qingze feigned embarrassment and thought for a long time, and then said: "Well, that's fine, the threshing machine and the wind valley car will not start until after the autumn harvest. After the autumn harvest, you arrange a person to work with me to research and produce the threshing machine. Valley machine and wind valley car, other people make other simple products."

What Yu Qingze pursued was long-term cooperation. Let the village head and the others see the benefits first, and then the cooperation will be smoother in the future. It is okay to come up with projects one by one. Anyway, no one knows what is in his mind.

What's more, he also wanted to ask the village chief to help him settle the household registration.

When the village head heard it, he smiled happily and said, "This arrangement is very good."

The two agreed to go to the village chief's house at night to discuss the terms of the cooperation contract.

After returning home, Yu Qingze cooked the rice first, set the fire up, and then started to process the fish after estimating the time.

What the village chief sent was a silver carp, which was quite big, weighing more than two catties and nearly three catties.

Using perilla instead of ginger, Yu Qingze made a fish head with chopped pepper according to the taste of Chang Le's family. He marinated the remaining fish body and put it in a bowl for cooking braised fish at night.Make another loofah egg soup with green vegetables, which is also a very hearty lunch.

The food was ready, and the grandparents of the Chang family also came back.

As soon as Chang Hao entered the courtyard, he smelled the fragrance in the air. He rushed into the room and asked excitedly, "Brother Yu, you're cooking delicious food again!"

Chang Le's eyes lit up, another new dish!Still a fish!

It's a pity that I didn't see how to do it, which is a little regretful.

The greatest happiness of a foodie is meeting a good cook!

And the greatest happiness for a culinary scum who aspires to be a good cook is undoubtedly meeting a good chef!

The author has something to say: Yu Qingze: Leave the money to Fu Lang, there is nothing wrong with it!

By the way, I forgot to mention that the time in the article is calculated according to the lunar calendar.The current timeline is the rice harvest season in late June of the lunar calendar.