Chapter 198: Smugness
There are too many wild vegetables in the mountains, and after finishing this stubble, another stubble will grow in two days, and sometimes Li Qin can't even hate to divide the day into two halves. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info days of crazy wild vegetables, almost more than half a month before it slowed down a little.
The weather began to get hotter, and the growth rate of wild vegetables also increased significantly, and it took four or five days to grow a second crop, but then it was three or two days, and it was really impossible to pick them, so I could only watch them let go into the wind. However, when the wild vegetables are out of season, they can basically no longer be eaten in May.
With this year's lesson, Li Qin naturally still adheres to the principle of putting everything in front of him. Like monkey legs and the like, she dug them up and put them in the woods by the stream to pick them. Fortunately, the vitality of this thing is extremely tenacious, and if you water it more, you will be very energetic. So Li Qin also took the trouble to dig and plant, and by the time the Dragon Boat Festival was reached, he had dug more than 200 piers and came back.
Although the stems are still brownish-red, the leaves are open emerald green, so from a distance, the ground of the entire forest is green one by one, which is very beautiful!
And what warmed Li Qin's heart was that Yu Fei probably found out that she liked to eat sour ginger very much, and would bring her a bundle almost every day, and Li Qin couldn't finish it, so she put it in a clay pot and pickled it in sugar. But day by day, it was getting warmer, and Li Qin was really worried about it outside, so he dug a pit behind the house and buried the clay pot inside. The soil has the effect of preserving, and when the dew on the lotus flowers and the snow water on the plum blossoms were collected in Beijing to make tea, they were all buried in the ground, and if they were stored properly, it was not a problem to store them for about a year.
Of course, Li Qincun's jar is not only this, pickled willow artemisia, thorn fruit sticks, monkey legs, bracken and other wild vegetables, Li Qin buried them in different categories. She didn't put a lot of salt, and when the time came, she would transport it out of the mountains in winter, thinking that she would not only be able to eat it herself, but also sell it to make some money.
Yu Fei was not idle during this time, and he was able to bring back some stalks with thorny shoots for her almost every day, but Rao was wrapped in skin, and he was still pricked many times by the thorns on it. The thorns on the stalks of the thorny shoots are slightly poisonous, and after they are pricked to people, a small red and swollen pimple will soon appear, which looks inconspicuous, but it is itchy and painful. It's just that he was afraid that Li Qin would know, so he refused to squeak.
However, Li Qin later found out that it was already a large piece, and Li Qin was distressed, so he had to apply some soap horns to the affected area to detoxify it when he took a shower, so that it would be better.
But as a result, Li Qin planted a large number of thorny shoots near the house, and planted them as he dug them, but he also got three or four hundred trees.
However, what makes Li Qin most proud is the mountain vegetables she picked these days. Aunt Ge always laughed at her, when picking wild vegetables, they had to be neatly stacked in the basket, and when they were blanched in the pot, they would not let them scatter everywhere, and when they were finally dried, they had to keep the formation, how could this be? But when the wild vegetables became dried vegetables, they found that even if the wild vegetables were dry, Li Qin had made them neatly into bundles, tied with elm bark, and a bundle was half a catty, which made people feel comfortable when they saw it. To tell the truth, the same dried wild vegetables are more than twenty or thirty wen for half a catty, and Li Qin's will definitely sell better than theirs! The most important thing is that Li Qin, whether it is picking, blanching, or drying, does not take much longer than them, and the total number of catties he gets in the end is about the same as theirs, but on the whole, Li Qin's these things will be at least one-third more than theirs!
Li Qin naturally has his own ideas. Dried wild vegetables are not a good thing in the eyes of the mountain people, even if they are brought to the town, such as dried monkey legs, one pound can only be sold for 200 yuan. Of course, Li Qin was also aiming at this time! But the target was not the common people, but the upper class nobles. The upper class nobles inevitably eat wild vegetables in winter, and there are many places to give gifts at that time. In any case, if you do it more exquisitely, it will look better than that messy mess, and it will be very face-saving to send it out in this way, so it is not impossible to increase the price a little more! Qin Xun's mountain goods shop is mostly faced with upper-class aristocratic people, she is very confident, and when the time comes, she will definitely let the boss fall in love with her wild vegetables at a glance!
Seeing that the time is coming to Duanyang. Two days earlier, Li Qin soaked glutinous rice and rhubarb rice, boiled red bean paste, and prepared to wrap zongzi to eat.
Catching up with a heavy rain the day before Duanyang, after the rain and the sky was clear, Yu Fei took Li Qin to catch fish below. Li Qin didn't keep staring at the fishing nets this time, but kept pulling the reed leaves at the water's edge. It is equivalent to Fiji fishing fish, and she has also made two or three hundred leaves.
Two days ago, when Qi Lao was having dinner, Li Qin said that he wanted to make zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and as soon as everyone discussed, they felt that they had to save the matter of going out of the mountain to buy zongzi, so they all booked it in Li Qin. There are less than 100 people in the mountains, but the average family is one, and this is not a small project. In addition, there are all kinds of stuffings they want, and Li Qin can only remember them carefully, preparing to do a big job this night.
Aunt Ge and Aunt Yao knew that Li Qin was going to make zongzi, and they both came over to help. They will also do this, but it is really not worth it to make their own bags, so they all order them here, of course, the most important thing is to see what is different from Li Qinbao's zongzi.
Li Qin prepared a total of several fillings, including bean paste, peanuts, red dates, kidney beans, sesame seeds, and the most surprising thing is that she even made bacon. Since the northerners eat zongzi, they are all sweet, but it is the first time I have heard that they can be salty!
Everyone in Duanyang celebrates the festival in the mountains, and they all make an appointment to go to Qi's house to be lively, so Aunt Ge and Aunt Yao simply made zongzi in Li Qin's place the first night, plus Yu Fei, and several people wrapped it until the second half of the night, and they all finished wrapping.
"It's not cheap to lose this zongzi, or we're really tired in vain!" Aunt Ge sighed.
Indeed, japonica rice is not produced in the north, Li Qin still uses glutinous rice, and such a zongzi will be sold for four yuan outside, they don't have to go out of the mountain, they don't have to work, so sister-in-law Qi took the initiative to help Li Qin raise the price to Wuwen, and everyone is willing to order. During these days, everyone also knows that Li Qin's craftsmanship in making things is good, so spend a little more money, and everyone doesn't care much about the festival, as long as it's delicious.
Li Qin boiled four pots the next morning to cook all the zongzi, and then let them cool, which was really a big project. When I got to Qi's house in the evening, I had to take two trips from Fei Li Qin, Uncle Ge, and Aunt Ge to get it.