Chapter 121: The Hearth
The day after looking for mushrooms, Wen Xu devoted himself to the great cause of making furnaces. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The furnace type is easy to get, Wen Xu has drawings, Guangsheng and Guang'an spent two days to build the furnace according to Wen Xu's requirements, and all the refractory bricks are filled with putty of marl, and the brick gray stove is very plain and not fancy.
However, more than a month after the oven was built, the stove had not yet been officially lit, so what was the difficulty? When Wen Xu was in college, he used to work in a western restaurant in Mingzhu, where the old European man who was a baker liked to find Wen Xu, a small chef who can speak English, as a pastry chef, had more than once boasted of his bread making skills, this old man built a stove to bake bread in the restaurant, many foreigners came to the store, all for his bread, and according to him, a large part of the secret of the unique flavor of the bread baked by the oven is in this stove mud.
Wen Xu knew a little bit of content, and remembered what the old man had said about what kind of bore mud could be called a good bore mud, so he went to match it himself according to the old man's request! This sounds simple, but it will be troublesome to get it.
But fortunately, Wen Xu is patient, and he is attentive enough to do things, and his brain is enough, and there is space for this plug-in, so it is also very convenient to make and dry mud. So far, I've tried almost hundreds of 'recipes', and I've gradually figured out what to do, and things are progressing very quickly after I have a clue.
Holding the white cow, there are two buckets of mud on the body of the white cow, this is Wen Xu's 'new formula' mud, using the mud in the space pond mixed with the dry grass stalks of the space repeatedly beating, while beating and adding the crushed space wheat oranges, until the wheat oranges and grass stems are broken to the point of being called fibrous, if the old man in Europe is not lying, these two buckets of mud are estimated to exceed the old man's dead hidden mud formula.
In a word: space is a cow!
Humming a little song softly, Wen Xu led the cow out of his small yard, walked about ten meters, walked to the newly built stove, unloaded the mud Wen Xu picked up the mud knife, picked up a ball of mud with the head of the knife and put it on his hand, and then bent his waist, and the whole upper body stretched into the hearth and began to hit the mud with his hand and smear it on the hearth.
After wiping the body for a while, because he had to adapt to the space in the chamber, he became lying on the hearth, and the joy of success urged Wen Xu's good mood, although the matter of stirring the mud was not understood by many people, and even the second brother Wen Shigui came to see and taught Wen Xu two sentences, so that Wen Xue could spend his time on 'business', but Wen Xu thought that this was his business: to concentrate on doing something that he thought was interesting!
“…… Little sister's flower pocket......" Wen Xu sang an unknown tune on TV while wiping mud.
"Hey, hey!"
At this time, Wen Xu suddenly felt that someone slapped his thigh exposed outside the hearth, and stretched his head out to take a look, and suddenly the big face of the harsh winter appeared in his eyes.
"Why are you here?"
After asking, Wen Xu retracted his body and continued to carefully wipe his mud.
Yan Dong bent down and leaned his head to Wen Xu's waist to observe the situation in the furnace made by Wen Xu: "Yo, this thing of yours is really like what the people in the village say, it looks like a tomb from a distance and looks more like a tomb from a distance! Everyone builds a boxy stove, how can you build such a thing, but it's quite big inside, you won't be going to roast someone in it!"
"When the first one is built, roast you!" Wen Xu said angrily: "If you have something to say, let it go!
Yan Dong directly ignored Wen Xu's swear words, picked up the trowel by the bucket and played with it in his hand: "I came this time to ask the teacher for sin!"
"Looking for whom?"
"Of course I'm looking for you, who I'll ask for someone else!" put down the trowel in his hand, Yan Dong reached out and beat Bai Niu's brain, Bai Niu was an honest cow who was very cooperative and motionless, just fanning his two ears.
"There was such a big thing, you didn't tell me, fortunately Biaozi was smart, I heard that there was a new mushroom in the village, and the stewed chickens were delicious and abnormal, so I got a few back, if it wasn't for you, you caused irreparable losses to the company!"
The harsh winter tune is sung quite high, but it's a pity that Wen Xu doesn't like him at all.
Seeing that Wen Xu didn't pay attention to himself at all, Yan Dong asked: "What do you say, you can also give a reaction to such a big string of me! The company sent you here to let you monitor the people and things here." You're good, you didn't give me a message about such a big thing as mushrooms, what use do you say you are the chairman of the board of directors!"
"Then I'll be the chairman of the Bureau of Ignorance! There are a few people who are still the chairman and president, isn't there a shame!" Wen Xu wiped his own mud and replied.
"Professor Chi Jiaqiang and Second Brother Wen Shigui have been on the cover of the electronic version of academic journals because they discovered this mushroom, do you know?" asked Yan Dong.
Wen Xu said, "I know!"
Originally, Old Man Chi wanted to share the name of discovery with himself and Wen Shigui, but Wen Xu was not interested at all, wishing that everyone didn't know him, where would he risk this. At that time, the second brother Wen Shigui showed off well, and directly took the cover of the journal to the county town to find someone to put it into the size of a New Year's picture, and directly framed it and hung it in the middle hall of the house.
To say that the hottest thing these days is the mushroom, every adult and child carry a basket up the mountain to pick after the rain, it only took a day or two to bring the mountain rented by Wen Xu's family to the mountain rented by Wen Shigui's family, plus the mushrooms in the neighboring wild mountains to find out.
Whether it is a vegetarian dish or a stewed or fried meat dish, this mushroom is very fresh, especially with fatty pork, and it is a must-have Wenjia Village Every roast meat is inseparable from it. Although one disadvantage is that this Ru will not rot for a few days when it grows on the grass, it will rot after a night after picking it, and after it is rotten, it will not be able to eat again, and it will emit a foul smell.
Lao Bai is also experienced, and soon someone came up with a local solution, roasting the mushrooms in a slightly hot pot! Although most of the umami will be lost, it is better than rotten. What's more, the taste of dried mushrooms when they are soaked in water is several grades better than other mushrooms.
Because it was delicious, every household went to pick and eat it, and those that couldn't be eaten were directly roasted in a pot, and when they wanted to eat it, they ate it with water. Gradually, this newly grown mountain treasure has also expanded to the relatives and friends of these families in Wenjia Village, and in the past two days, there have been some vendors who have come to collect the dried mushrooms stored in the hands of each family.
Thinking of this, Wen Xu moved his body so that he could see the goods of the harsh winter people, and then asked: "You are coming to collect mushrooms? What price are you going to give? You must know that someone has come to collect them in the past two days, and now the price of dried mushrooms has increased from seven yuan per catty to twelve yuan per catty, and the money is given depending on the quality of the mushrooms."
"These people! hum!" Yan Dong snorted twice when he said this: "I have twenty pounds here!"
"You are out of twenty, who doesn't want someone else to sell twenty-five or thirty? You just want to monopolize the mushrooms here? The idea is a little too naïve, this mushroom is not a vegetable, you are here to control the channel, and others are not willing to compete with you for real money! This thing is unique in the country, and the quantity is not large, it is not easy for you to monopolize, in case you meet someone who is not bad for money, you will play" Wen Xu guessed a little bit of what he wanted to do in the harsh winter when he heard that he had turned the price up so high.
Yan Dong said with a smile: "The mountain people have their own tricks, others buy dried mushrooms, but I can sell dried mushrooms that are still fresh mushrooms after soaking to the market!"
"Oh!" Wen Xu asked in surprise, "What method do you use?"
Yan Dong said: "This method can not be said by others, but you and I can tell it, it is also a coincidence, I unintentionally sprayed a mushroom with the kind of atomized kettle that watered the vegetables, and the next day only it was fresh, once a day, the small mushroom actually kept fresh for eight or nine days, and then dried in the sun and then soaked in water, and the umami can be completely retained."
"......" Wen Xu didn't expect that this cargo was so good, although he could find this thing by accident.
"I am ready to fund your village 500,000 yuan in the name of the company, if it is suitable, it can be fixed at 500,000 yuan a year, as long as the greenhouse area comes together, I am not afraid of others competing with me" Yan Dong stretched out a slap and waved proudly in front of Wen Xu.
Wen Xu was a little surprised when he heard that he would give 500,000 yuan a year because of the mushroom matter? Immediately looked at the harsh winter and was a little surprised: "Say, what kind of little Jiujiu is hidden in your heart! A weasel greets the chickens for the New Year, and he has no good intentions! Collect some mushrooms and give 500,000 yuan, and he still has the preservation technology, I don't believe it!"
"Listen to what you say, I want to support the construction of your Wenjia Village, and I am like a reactionary!" Yan Dong said with a smile, saying so, but the smug expression on his face betrayed his careful thinking, obviously Yan Dong still has his own little abacus.
Wen Xu said, "Whatever you want, then you can talk!"
Anyway, the company earns more and earns less, and Wen Xu doesn't care too much, he has already eaten and drunk with the things he has now, and this money is just a matter of more and less gold bricks in his own space, and it has little to do with the standard of living, and the requirements for Qian Wenxu have not been too high.
"If you, the chairman, agree, then we'll pass!" Yan Ran said with a smile.
After hearing Yan Dong say this, Wen Xu continued to wipe his own mud: "Bring me another piece of mud, just pick a little with a trowel, no more!"
When the mud on his hands ran out, Wen Xu began to evoke the harsh winter, and the chairman of the board of directors and the CEO of the company wiped the mud on their hands.
When he was about to finish wiping, Wen Xu waved his hand twice, but the harsh winter did not hand the mud in, and Wen Xu couldn't help but stretch his body out of the furnace.
Seeing the harsh winter, he was stunned, and couldn't help asking, "What are you looking at?"
"Scum, is this playing with monkeys?" Yan Dong turned his head and asked, "Is it my eyes that are spent, and you still have monkeys here?"
"How strange, what's so strange about this monkey! It's not a rare species, it's just an ordinary macaque," Wen Xu said.
To say that the biggest progress these days is this monkey, before people did not dare to take the head, now after these days can be mixed in the trees near the village during the day, from time to time can also get some delicious food from the hands of the children in the village, of course, the main food source is through the scum, eating the melons and fruits in the warm and warm light greenhouse.
"I don't want that dog, you give me the monkey, I look pretty good at this monkey!" said Yan Dong.
As soon as Wen Xu heard this, he understood that this kid thought that the monkey was raised by himself like the scum, so he joked with him: "I don't have that ability, you can go and talk to the monkey yourself, but you remind you, if it knows what you mean, you have to be careful not to be scratched to death by it." You are also a person who is not afraid of death, you dare to ask for such a strong male monkey, this monkey with the heart of robbing the king, you still raise it, I can't scratch you!"
After speaking, Wen Xu snorted in his mouth.
Yan Dong said: "Now many people start to stop raising dogs and raise monkeys, you can help me catch a small one, I heard that people who catch monkeys are living with monkeys, often bring things to the monkeys to eat, during which they will take special care of a little monkey, over time the monkey mother will give the little monkey to this person, let the little monkey go with this person, because the monkey mother thinks that this person can make her child live a good life, do you say this is true?"
Wen Xu glanced at the goods, picked up a ball of mud with a trowel and put it in his hand: "I really don't know about this, as for eating and sleeping with the monkeys, I don't do it, if you want monkeys, you can go!"
If you want to say anything else, Wen Xu doesn't necessarily know, but when it comes to raising monkeys, Wen Xu really knows a little bit about it, when I was a child, my grandfather had an old friend who raised monkeys, not playing monkeys, but specializing in breeding monkeys and selling them to monkey people, I know a little: "I don't know what you said, but I know that the monkeys of monkey people are specially bred, those monkeys are artificially fed since childhood, and they eat and sleep with people, as for what you said about raising them as pets now, then I really don't know"
Speaking of which, a few little babies stood on the road and shouted at this side.
"Uncle, is the stove ready?" Da Linzi asked loudly to Wen Xu, holding a ham sausage worn with a skewer.
"A bunch of gluttonous cats!" Wen Xu stuck his head out of the hearth, wiped the itchy spots on his face with his cuffs with a smile and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll start burning the bore right away, and I'll eat the bread tomorrow night!"
A group of small families have come to ask every day since their stoves were built, even if Wen Xu said to wait a while, but the temptation of eating still makes these little babies not divide into batches every day, as long as they see Wen Xu, they will ask such a sentence. The adults in the village have been busy for two days, and they don't care about Wen Xu and Wen Xu's stove, only these little babies still have their uncle's bread hanging on their mouths.