Chapter 53: Buying Honey
"Honey, are there different kinds?" Lin Zeng ate the rose steamed bun in one bite, felt that he was indeed very hungry, and reached out to take a small golden steamed bun, the folds of the bun were neat and beautiful, and when he took a bite, it was the stuffing of dried pork with bamboo shoots, and the fragrance of pork and dried bamboo shoots mixed together made people appetite.
"Yes, although I raise Chinese bees, also known as earth bees, the quality of the honey harvested is different in different seasons. Jiang Hua explained seriously, "Generally, if the season is good, honey can be harvested twice in Qinghe City, once when lychee and longan are blooming, you can shake honey about two or three times, this year when longan blooms, there are too many rainy days, and only two lychee honey is harvested." The smell of lychee honey has the aroma of lychee fruit, the texture is thin and the color is light, because the main nectar source comes from the lychee tree, so it is generally called lychee honey. There is also in the approach to winter, the bee mainly harvests a kind of goose paw wood nectar, however, at this time honey is called winter honey, winter honey color is light amber, easy to crystallize, the public generally believes that winter honey clear heat and detoxify, moisturize and nourish. â
Jiang Hua ate steamed buns and talked about the different varieties of honey, Lin Zeng listened, and had some knowledge of honey that he didn't know before. He didn't interject and continued to listen.
"Of course, the most special thing about honey is that there is never a lot of the same honey in the world. The same place, different time, different place, the same time, will make different honey. Even the same batch of honey, stored in different containers, changes differently over a period of several months. For example, last winter, I was lucky enough to harvest honey with loquat flowers as the main flower source, the color is bright and transparent, in autumn, crystal clear, in winter, in glass jars, solidified into crystals, forming extremely beautiful flower crystals, and stored in zĂ i clay jars, it becomes a paste like mutton fat white jade. Jiang Hua picked up the transparent glass kettle and added a glass of water to Lin Zeng.
"So special?" Lin Zeng was surprised. In his previous impression, he only thought that honey was a good thing, and there were not many other concepts. Now listening to Jiang Hua's explanation, I feel that honey is a very interesting food.
"Can I buy some of every honey then?" Lin Zeng asked.
"Yes," Jiang Hua smiled and said, "My honey is stored in the zĂ i cellar, because real pure honey will not spoil, so I have stored honey for years from five years ago to the present. Five years ago, when I started beekeeping, it was a pity that the year was not good, and I only harvested more than 100 catties of winter honey, so I didn't sell it. In the following years, it was the season of honey harvesting, and the climate was very good. I still have a lot of stock in my cellar, how many catties do you want to buy in total?"
"Probably, about ten pounds. Lin Zeng thought about it for a while and said, "Can you take two catties of lychee honey, four catties of loquat honey you said, and four catties of goose paw wood nectar, that is, winter honey." â
Jiang Hua nodded, the two of them, speaking kung fu, had already eaten all the pots of fancy steamed buns on the wooden low table, and a pot of honey and green tea had also bottomed out. It's just that what made Lin Zeng a little stunned was that the steamed buns in the basin, three-quarters of the weight, were unconsciously entering the mouth of the girl who looked handsome on the other side.
"Okay, however, I want to remind you in advance that my honey is naturally matured in the beehive, and it is about 300 catties per year, and it is by no means the so-called commercial honey mixed with other unknown objects on the market. So the price is also different from the one on the market. Jiang Hua took the last bite of the bun and said, "Winter honey is 90 yuan per catty, and lychee honey is 100 yuan per catty." Loquat honey is 110 yuan per catty. â
"It's exactly a thousand dollars. Lin Zeng calculated the price. Lin Zeng, who worked in a supermarket a few months ago, would never spend this money, which was close to half a month's salary. However, now this 1,000 yuan is just a day's income of the online store a while ago. After the vine leafy greens were put on the shelves, the online store was more profitable. Lin Zeng spent 1,000 yuan to buy ten catties of honey to taste, and he didn't feel distressed.
At this time, he did not carry that much cash with him. Lin Zeng said bluntly: "I didn't bring so much cash, can I pay online?"
Jiang Hua nodded briskly and replied, "Yes, I will give you the payment account number, or you can add me as a friend." â
Lin Zeng has a lot of balance on his online payment account, which is the income of the online store, and has not yet been transferred to the bank card.
Lin Zeng transferred the money to Jiang Hua, who cleaned up the desktop and got up and took out his mobile phone from his clothes pocket. She accepted the transfer, rolled up the sleeves of her dress, and said, "My honey is hidden in the cellar, and I will weigh you." â
"Cellar?" Lin Zeng didn't expect that there was a cellar in this house, and he was a little curious.
Jiang Hua seemed to see his curiosity, thought for a while, and asked, "Do you want to go and have a look together, and help me by the way?"
Lin Zengzheng thought it was interesting and hurriedly nodded in agreement.
Jiang Hua took Lin Zeng and left the guest room. When I walked through the back, I realized that behind the hospitality room was a large kitchen.
The cabinets and tables of the whole kitchen are all made of wood, varnished and coated, and it looks simple and simple, but if you look closely, you will find that the corners of those cabinet doors are carved with smooth flower decorations, which makes the temperament of this kitchen look very different.
There are a lot of tools in the kitchen, the most conspicuous are the two double-door refrigerators. In addition to this, there is a large oven, rice cooker, soy milk maker, juicer......
There are other tools that Lin Zeng doesn't know what to use for.
The pots and pans in the kitchen, some hanging from the wall, some neatly arranged on the countertop.
In the middle of the kitchen is a spacious countertop with two pots of mixed trappings. Lin Zeng walked past the cooking table and saw that one was filled with pork and leeks, and the other was filled with pork with bamboo shoots. There is also a stainless steel basin in which the dough is waking.
It seems that this is the rhythm of preparing dumplings!
Lin Zeng was in a trance, remembering that more than ten years ago, when his parents were alive, the family was warm, and the family sat around the table, grinding the skin and chopping the stuffing, what a happy time.
He hadn't eaten home-made dumplings in years.
Lin Zeng was moved and decided to take the time to make himself a dumpling to eat.
Jiang Hua took Lin Zeng through this somewhat extravagant kitchen and came behind a wooden staircase.
The staircase leads to the second floor, but behind the staircase, there is a one-meter-square wooden manhole cover, which is probably the entrance to the cellar as described by Jiang Hua.
However, how do you open such a heavy wooden cover?
Before Lin Zeng could think about it, Jiang Hua squatted down, grabbed the handle on the wooden lid covering the entrance of the cellar with his white and tender hands, and lifted the wooden lid in the air.
"I'll help you. Lin Zeng was so surprised that he almost didn't react, he was stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold the heavy lid.
The wooden cover was at least ten centimeters thick, and Lin Zeng couldn't figure out how Jiang Hua, a girl who seemed to be powerless, could lift it up alone. And, it seems, she didn't seem to be struggling.
His face did not change and his heart did not beat, and he politely pursed his lips and smiled at Lin Zeng.
The two lifted the wooden lid to the side and placed it on the ground.
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