Twenty-six, Lotus Bodhi

The time slowly entered October, and after waiting for more than two months, Li Sanbao finally returned to Shangyuan County with his two sons. www.biquge.info Because before departure, Eleven Niang explained that the bitter bezoar was to be used to make wine, and how many to bring back, so Li Sanbao took his two sons to pick all the bitter bezoars on the entire hillside, and brought back a whole five cars, and the hire fee alone cost ten taels of silver. He first asked the coachman to store the bitter dates in the backyard of the tavern, and after a rest, he came over to say goodbye to Eleven Niang.

Eleven Niang looked at the bitter flower dates sent by Li Sanbao, signaled Mama Li to remove the meat outside, saw the core inside, and found that it was indeed the lotus Bodhi of the later generations, she took out two cores and put them in the palm of her hand and played with it for a while, feeling that the bone is indeed very hard, the lines are also beautiful, the shape is like a lotus, at this moment her heart is also blooming like a flower, you know, this lotus Bodhi is also very precious in the previous life, many times money may not be able to buy the real thing, now she holds it in her hand, but it is all silver!

After playing for a while, Eleven Niang put down the jujube core, took a piece of jujube meat and prepared to put it in her mouth, Mama Li and Shopkeeper Li immediately stopped: "Miss, no!"

"Miss, this date is bitter and astringent!"

Eleven Niang looked at their nervous looks, thought about it, and just stretched out the tip of her tongue and licked the flesh, but a burst of astringency came to her, and it was really unpalatable.

Mama Zhou next to her rushed to deliver a cup of tea and rinsed her mouth for Eleven Niang.

Eleven Niang grinned, looked at the jujube, and thought, although this jujube is unpalatable, but the taste is strange enough, China has always had some people like special and strange flavors, such as stinky tofu and stinky mandarin fish, the disgusting person is extremely disgusted, but the lover loves it very much, maybe this jujube meat can really make a special wine.

After trying the bitter bezoar, Eleven Niang asked Li Sanbao to go back and rest for a day, and then send the bitter jujube to Luer Lane the next day, planning to find something to do for the two brothers Jishun and Jixiang.

Since Jishun Jixiang was bought, he has been idle in Luer Lane, and Eleven Niang has not arranged for them, but the two brothers are diligent people, even if only the two of them live in such a big house, but there is no need for the master to say, every room in the Luer Lane house is cleaned.

Eleven Niang has not been taught by his father's words and deeds in his last life, his father once said that a good employee is not necessarily from the important performance to stand out, every day can do the simplest work to the extreme, but also can bring very large invisible benefits to the enterprise, just like the Japanese home appliance companies, why their products are of good quality, low repair rate, not because of high technology content, but because every employee does their best work, virtually let the quality of the product to a higher level.

Therefore, through the observation of these two months, Eleven Niang is very satisfied with the two brothers Jishun and Jixiang.

On this day, Eleven Niang asked Mr. Qin for leave early in the morning, and took Mama Li to Lu'er Lane, Li Sanbao and her two sons had already sent Kuhua Jujube over, waiting for her instructions on the side.

Eleven Niang asked the two brothers Jishun and Jixiang to work together with Li Gou'er to separate the meat and core of the bitter flower jujube, and the jujube meat was kept for wine, and the jujube core was left to dry in the shade.

"Hey, what is this?" The bitter flower jujube brought back by Li Sanbao is estimated to have more than 500 catties in a car, and each car has three major bags, when Li Cheng poured out a bag of bitter bezoar, Eleven Niang saw a bunch of green jujubes mixed with a few apricot-colored things, so she asked.

Li Gou'er scratched his head and said shyly: "That's the ground fruit, when we picked dates, my father dug it for me to eat, and it was delicious when I first dug it out." ”

Mama Li, who was standing on the side, saw it, and hurriedly picked up a peeled shell, handed the kernel inside to Shi Niang and said, "Miss, this is a wild fruit from our hometown, because it grows in the ground, so we all call it a ground fruit, do you want to taste it?"

Wild fruit? Eleven Niang looked at the nuts in Mama Li's hands, isn't this a peanut?

Shi Niang pinched one, put it in her mouth and ate it, and after eating, she asked: "Well, it does taste good, how many of these wild fruits are there, can you grow them?"

Mama Li asked puzzledly: "Miss, what is this wild fruit for? This kind of thing can only be eaten as a snack, and cannot be used as dry food, isn't it a waste of land to plant it?"

Because it can't be used as dry food, everyone doesn't grow it?

"But it's delicious!" Eleven Niang pretended to be simple and said: "Mama, why don't you grow something so delicious, whether you eat it yourself or take it out to sell, it's pretty good!"

After speaking, she snuggled up to Mama Li's shoulder like a coquette.

"You glutton," Mama Li nodded her forehead, and then asked Li Chengdao, "Dacheng, how many fruits did you bring back this time?"

Li Cheng poured out the last handful of bitter dates and said, "I brought thirty catties, or the dog insisted on eating, so we dug it, but they are all at home, do you want me to go back and get it?"

Mama Li said to her son: "No need, let it go, dog, don't eat that fruit anymore, keep it for me as a seed, and wait for my mother to take it to the grange next year to plant, and then give it to you when it is ripe." ”

Li Gou'er looked at the old lady and responded obediently: "Okay-"

The three of Jishun auspicious dogs began to work hard to separate the bitter flower jujube core and jujube meat, and during this time, Li Sanbao took Li Chengze to brew wine in Luer Lane.

Li Sanbao's ability to make wine is taught by Xu Chen, only a few simple things such as glutinous rice wine, millet wine, and rice wine, and the first time Shi Niang saw Li Sanbao make wine, she remembered what was wrong: there are more than 40 kinds of wine-making methods introduced in "Qi Min's Technique", and there are eight kinds of koji-making methods, but there are only four kinds of wine sold in their own taverns, and the sales are not good.

Eleven Niang asked Mama Li suspiciously, Mama Li thought for a long time before she carefully responded: "Perhaps, it's because my wife doesn't know much-readβ€”β€”"

Eleven Niang was dumbfounded.

Mama Li continued: "Actually, I've been with my wife for so long, and I've never seen my wife read this book, I thought it was just a relic of an ancestor, not that Miss said, we didn't know that there was such a big article in it-"

Well, Eleven Niang is helpless.

Taking bitter jujube to make wine, is an excuse for Eleven Niang to find Lotus Bodhi, for this new wine, Eleven Niang herself is not sure, therefore, in order to reduce the cost of failure, Eleven Niang decided not to use a large vat that can hold fifty catties of wine to make new wine, but to use a small vat containing twenty catties of wine to brew.

Anyway, there is so much pulp, Eleven Niang decided to brew ten jars of wine first, and only put 1-3 pieces of bitter dates in each jar, and then see how the effect is.

Half a month later, Mama Li came to tell her that the jujube kernels had been all done, and Eleven Niang immediately went to Luer Lane, picked out the best 300 or so, treasured them herself, and then picked out more than 200 pieces, and asked Li Cheng to take them to the jewelry store to punch holes, and string them into a string of 108 Buddha beads and a few strings of 27 bracelets.