Take the space to flirt with the daughter-in-law

Xu Zhengrong's guess is absolutely correct. Within three days, there will be several more vendors selling spicy fried snails on the pier of Laojie. Some non-spicy fried snails are specially for children and adults who can't take spicy food.

Although there were a lot of people who stopped and went at the pier, there were far fewer customers who specifically patronized Xu Zhengrong's stall if they were diverted.

For this, Ah Shui clenched his fists angrily and made all kinds of gestures to the vendors who imitated Brother Xu, and complained for Brother Xu unwillingly: "Obviously this is the idea that Brother Xu came up with, they just copied it and took it." Grabbing business is really too much!"

Taking advantage of his height, Xu Zhengrong patted Ah Shui's head, comforting like a kitten: "It's okay, let them learn it, we have a secret weapon here!"

As soon as Ah Shui heard it, her beautiful eyes immediately looked over, and her eyes were full of trust and admiration: "Really? Could it be that Brother Xu has figured out something delicious again?!"

It is indeed delicious, but Xu Zhengrong didn't figure it out.

Most of the spring planting days have passed, and the vegetation on the mountain has long been green and green. Many fruit trees are trembling and giving birth to small green fruits, which are not delicious when stuffed into the mouth.

The fruit on the tree is not tasty, but the bamboo shoots that have occasionally been drenched in a few spring rains are growing out at a very fast speed.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of going up the mountain, Xu Zhengrong picked up several bamboo shoots and returned home. When he got home, he heard from Xu Yao that the villagers in Qingxi Township didn't know that the tender bamboo shoots were edible.

How is there an idiom used?

Ruthless things!

Isn't it wasteful to let the crispy and tender bamboo shoots grow old in the mountains?

Xu Zhengrong repeated his old trick, and used a small amount of copper coins to buy Zidou'er, and asked him to call his companions to go up the mountain to help dig bamboo shoots.

In just half an afternoon, the bamboo baskets that Xu Zhengrong brought to hold the bamboo shoots were all filled. There was a large space in front of Ah Shui’s yard, and there was also a small pond for raising fish. , Xu Zhengrong asked the children to pile up the bamboo shoots beside the small pond, such a pile was as high as a hill.

Ah Shui was originally curious about what the so-called secret weapon that Brother Xu was talking about, but now that he brought back these strange-looking bamboo shoots with hard shells from the mountain, he was taken aback. He pointed at the bamboo shoots and asked in a daze: "Brother Xu, could this be your secret weapon?!"

"This thing is sharp and hard, no one has ever eaten it!"

Xu Zhengrong looked at the pile of bamboo shoots with his hips crossed, let out a long breath, and sighed with a smile: "It feels really good to sit on a mountain!"

"Ah Shui, don't worry, these bamboo shoots look weird and are not easy to eat, but the bamboo shoots inside are perfect for stir-fried pork shreds or pickled pepper bamboo shoots. If these bamboo shoots They are dried in the sun and made into dried bamboo shoots, as long as they are well preserved, they can be eaten even in winter!"

"Especially the pickled pepper bamboo shoots, spicy and crunchy, the taste is superb!"

Ah Shui was a little greedy by what he said, so he ran home and brought two stools over, sat on one with Xu Zhengrong, and peeled the outer skin of the bamboo shoots carefully.

Xu Guo’s bamboo shoots are no different from the bamboo shoots in Xu Zhengrong’s impression in appearance, but they are more slender and have some thorny thorns on the outside. Ah Shui was hit by a burr without paying attention. Straight away.

Xu Zhengrong felt sorry for him, carefully shaved the burrs for him, and then blew gently: "Why don't you leave these bamboo shoots to me to deal with, anyway, I have rough skin and thick flesh, so if these burrs don't get in, you can How about being in charge of cleaning?"

Ah Shui was really afraid of the sharp thorns: "That's why everyone said that the bamboo shoots on the mountain are not edible, they are reserved for growing bamboo!"

After Xu Zhengrong finished processing all the shells of the bamboo shoots, he deliberately picked two of the best-looking bamboo shoots and brought them into the kitchen.

Here, I have to thank the people of Xu State for their extreme use of chili peppers. They not only cultivate chili peppers artificially, but also differentiate many flavors like the present world.

Sure enough, the love for chili is regardless of time and space.

Every family in Xu country has the habit of pickling side dishes, and pickled peppers are one of them. People like Ah Shui, who are saving all the year round, have specially prepared several jars of pickled peppers, and now they are all requisitioned by Xu Zhengrong. Bamboo shoots with pickled peppers.

When Xu Zhengrong asked Mammy for pickled peppers, Mammy was still full of displeasure, thinking it was a waste of Xu Zhengrong, after the fresh fragrance of pickled peppers and bamboo shoots wafted out of the kitchen, not only It was Ah Shui, and even Nanny couldn't help feeling a little bit of anticipation in her heart.

Because of the short time and the simple ingredients, Xu Zhengrong was still a little dissatisfied with the pickled pepper and bamboo shoots he made, but in the eyes of A Shuiniang, who lacked ingredients and had never eaten anything good, it was so simple and a single plate of pickled bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots with peppers smell sour and refreshing, and they are crunchy and spicy in the mouth. They are fresh and fragrant, making people want to swallow their tongues.

If it weren't for the severe shortage of white rice at home, it would be best to cook a large pot of white rice on the stove and eat it with fresh soup with pickled peppers and bamboo shoots. Just thinking about it will improve your appetite several notches.

Ah Shui and Mama didn't stop sticking their chopsticks into the bowl until the last piece of bamboo shoots was wiped out before they put down their chopsticks.

Ah Shui pinched the newly grown flesh on her belly, and sighed contentedly: "Brother Xu is indeed the most powerful person in the world, and you can make tricks with anything you want It’s delicious! If we take this bamboo shoot with pickled peppers to the town, we won’t have to worry about no business, maybe it will be even more popular than fried snails!”

"It's just some snacks for people to pass the time. Let's use some of them to make bamboo shoots with pickled peppers, and cut the other part directly into slices and put them in the sun to dry. After drying, they can be stored well. Even in winter, we can take them." Come out and eat."

Ah Shui happily responded, but soon became frowning again: "However, if we sell pickled peppers and bamboo shoots in the town, there will definitely be people with malicious intentions staring at us, trying to steal our handicrafts." Learn from the past...how can this be done!"

The spicy fried escargot sold last time was not easy to preserve, but this time the bamboo shoots are different.

Xu Zhengrong showed a calm and confident look.

The most important thing about bamboo shoots is seasonality. After a few spring rains, several knots can be grown in one night, and then you can't eat them.

"We'll stay in the mountains to dig bamboo shoots during this time. Before the next spring rain comes, dig as many as possible. Put them back and pickle them in the vegetable jar and keep them until the spring rains pass. The bamboo shoots on the mountain will be too old to eat. , let’s take out the bamboo shoots stored in the jar and buy them. There are no fresh bamboo shoots, so what if we learn how to make kimchi bamboo shoots? Why don’t we just wait for the bamboo shoots to be dug next year?”

In the next year, once the medicinal wine and fruit wine are ready, Xu Zhengrong will not care about the scattered money for selling pickled peppers and bamboo shoots.

Ah Shui seems to understand, but he often goes to the mountains and knows a little about the bamboo shoots in the mountains. Knowing that bamboo shoots grow quickly and tend to grow old, his bright eyes bent happily: "The matter of digging bamboo shoots is just a matter of understanding." Leave it to me and Kidou'er, make sure to dig a lot of bamboo shoots, and let Brother Xu earn a lot of money!"

Xu Zhengrong nodded pretending to be deep, and said with a slow smile: "The relationship is good, as long as Brother Xu can make a lot of money, he can marry you well!"

The little brother is thin-skinned, he was bluffed by his words, and angrily ignored him.

It was Xu Zhengrong who coaxed the little brother back by licking his face and coaxing him slowly.

In the next few days, just as Xu Zhengrong planned, they made a lot of bamboo shoots with pickled peppers, and by the way, they were lucky enough to get a fat rabbit that accidentally fell into the trap.

The stalls on the old street are still open, but Xu Zhengrong has been preparing for the brewing for the past few days, so the heavy responsibility of guarding the stalls falls to Xu Yaoshi and Ah Shui.

Xu Yaoshi was quite unhappy at the beginning. After all, there are so many chores at home, how can we do without her, but after Xu Zhengrong took out the money he got from setting up a stall on the street, he had nothing to say. It's easy to say.

The snails and bamboo shoots were sold very well on the old street. Xu Yao was careful and didn't tell the villagers, for fear of being entangled with pink eye disease.

The master driving the ox cart saw Ah Shui and Xu Yaoshi carrying buckets to the town every day, and he didn't know what they were selling. He just smelled the aroma through the bucket and thought it was food. It was a bit unruly for my brother to come out and show his face, but he didn't say much.

After two or three spring rains, the weather in Qingxi Township is getting hotter day by day. The first batch of spring seeds have been sown. Under the careful maintenance of the farmers, they have taken root and sprouted, and they are growing very vigorously.

The rare agricultural slack for the villagers comes slowly in the midst of the chirping of cicadas in late spring and early summer.

Although Li Xiaoyong's workmanship was not very good, he was quite honest, and he quickly told his father about Xu Zhengrong's desire to order a wooden barrel.

Carpenter Li is also on the verge of getting moldy at home recently. Unlike farmers, he relies on handicrafts for food. Villagers in Qingxi Township usually don’t need carpenters to make furniture or repairs, unless it’s for marriage or There will be big business coming only when the house is relocated, but the spring planting season is busy, so there is no such big business at all.

Seeing that the savings saved years ago were slowly running out, Carpenter Li began to worry about his own and his son's livelihood. Unexpectedly, at this time, Xu Zhengrong actually sent a big order.

The thick wooden barrels used to hold the wine...

Carpenter Li had never done it for others before. He studied Xu Zhengrong's sketches on paper for several days before he figured out some tricks.

As soon as the agreed day arrived, Carpenter Li took his son to show the newly made template to Xu Zhengrong.

After all, it is an ancient craft. Xu Zhengrong originally thought that as long as the wooden barrel can be used, he did not expect that Carpenter Li's craftsmanship is really good, and the wine barrel he made is not much different from what he imagined.

Carpenter Li did a good job, and Xu Zhengrong was very happy to give the money. He handed over several taels of silver in a row.

Xu Zhengrong watched the fruits in the mountain grow from green to ripe. He went to the mountain to look around a few times, and finally chose wild mulberries and wild green plums. These two kinds of fruits taste very good.

The mulberry wine brewed from wild mulberries is very suitable for men. Xu Zhengrong still remembers the sign displayed in the fruit shop he once visited: "Mulberry - a gas station for men! You deserve it!"

Well, tonifying the kidney, I believe that even if dynasties change, tonifying the kidney is still a topic that men pay more attention to.

After happily deciding to brew mulberry wine, Xu Zhengrong shifted his eyes to green plums with watery greens. The beauty and whitening effects of green plums have been widely publicized by merchants before the end of the world. The green plum wine, its target audience must be the most beautiful women and boys.

Transporting the wild fruits down from the mountains is quite a big project, except for the three Xu family brothers who went up the mountain to pick them together, the Zheng brothers, Xia Yan and Zhou Dazhuang all rushed over to help.

Not only that, they also mobilized the women and children in the family to work together to transport the wild fruits from the mountains one by one, which attracted the attention of many villagers.

Most of the villagers didn't know about Xu Zhengrong's plan to make wine, and mistakenly thought that Xu's family was so poor that they went crazy, and they didn't even let go of the wild fruits that no one wanted in the mountains, and there were many comments behind their backs.

Because of Xu Zhengrong's relationship, the originally introverted Kidou'er has established a good relationship with the nearby children. The children are enthusiastic and innocent, and they are mobilized by Kidou'er to run around in the mountains with small wooden baskets. , can be regarded as a lot of help.

Although it takes a long time to wait for the wild fruits to grow, the process of brewing fruit wine is actually quite simple, and it doesn't take long.

The women in the family were already used to doing housework. According to Xu Zhengrong's instructions, they squatted by the well and cleaned the picked mulberries and green plums, and stuffed them into large wooden barrels one after another.

Xu Zhengrong added some special materials to it, and in order to ensure the success rate of brewing, he also grinded the spirit water he used to drink from the ginseng doll.

Quickly seal and cover them one by one, and move the barrels to a cool storage place together with strong men.

"Okay, we just need to wait another five or six days for it to complete the fermentation. At that time, we will uncover the lid and filter it, and taste the taste to know whether the brewing is successful or not! It's been hard work for everyone these days, and the follow-up Leave the matter to me to deal with, and I will personally deliver the helper's money to your home later!"

After Xu Zhengrong made the announcement, everyone felt a little unbelievable. The craft of brewing wine should be a rather complicated craft in their minds. Now it seems that the process is so simple, and even the time required is so short. .

Dubious in their hearts, everyone looked at Xu Zhengrong and the barrel with scrutiny. However, they didn't say much on the surface. After all, Xu Zhengrong also said that it would only take five or six days, so wait slowly. Well, let's see what happens after five or six days!