56. Chapter 56
Early this morning, the people in the village were busy. The place to be entertained is outside the main ancestral hall in the village, where the ancestors of the various families in the village are enshrined. If there is anything important on weekdays, the village also chooses to hold meetings here. Today, in addition to the banquet for those bosses who came to the village, it is also a gathering of the villagers.
The older generation of several families brought incense, wax, paper candles and tributes early in the morning to worship their ancestors. Although there is no festival today, today's events are a major event for each family in the village, so I also have to come to pay tribute to the ancestors. The old man respectfully placed the offerings, lit incense and candles, burned yellow paper, and bowed respectfully.
Many people say that this is a feudal custom and is not worth advocating. In fact, if you think about it again, isn't this a kind of sustenance in the heart and moral restraint? Treat the gods with three feet above your head with awe, remember the family motto of your ancestors, be rigorous, be kind to others, and be innocent. Moreover, it is more of a kind of family cohesion, a spirit that brings together scattered family members.
The so-called abandonment of dross is undesirable and unworthy of remembrance. However, the family spirit, the legacy of the ancestors, is often worth carrying forward. In many places, worship today is just a formality, a form that forgets the most fundamental meaning.
"Your ingredients here are good, but the ingredients are far from yours. The chef Xue Jing invited was surnamed Cao, and like most chefs, he was a fat man in his forties. It makes people look kind at a glance, and it's very affinity.
"Uncle Cao, Uncle Cao!" Several children ran over, biting their fingers and blinking at Chef Cao.
"Come, Uncle Cao will fill you with another bowl of snacks, how about this lotus cake?" Chef Cao likes this group of children. Since he came yesterday, he has started to prepare all kinds of materials, and when he saw some children playing nearby, he sent a lot of food.
Anyway, this child is from the village, and Chef Cao was specially invited by Xue Jing to help, so the people in the village have no problem with him giving food to the child like this. It's just this move that makes the children in the village like him very much, and they come to him after a while.
"The lotus flowers and lotus leaves in your house are good, the fragrance is sweet, and even the bitterness is gone. Ouch, as soon as I smelled this morning this morning, it was amazing, and the fatigue from yesterday's busy work in the car was gone. Chef Cao himself is eating a lotus cake.
This lotus cake was originally dyed with flour and fried into lotus shapes. But the lotus crisp made by Chef Cao today is really made of lotus flowers. Wrap the egg whites in the petals of the royal lotus, dip them in breadcrumbs, and fry them in hot oil. After frying, sprinkle with the spice powder stir-fried with salt, and finally, crush the dried mint leaves and sprinkle them on top.
The taste of the whole lotus crisp is layered, crispy on the outside, burnt and fragrant, with a strong flavor, and the inside is fragrant and soft, and the aroma and refreshing of mint can be said to have many layers of taste. These kids love to eat.
Yesterday, Feng Junhui sent some fresh fish, shrimp and crabs from the small lake on the side of Baicao Garden, among which lotus leaves were used to pad baskets. When Chef Cao came to see the goods, he liked these fresh fish, shrimp and crabs very much, and at the same time, he also fell in love with the lotus leaves of the basket.
No, let Feng Junhui pick some lotus leaves and lotus flowers early in the morning to cook. There are a lot of lotus leaves, after all, such a big lake, even if it is squeezed by Wang Lian, there are a lot. The lotus flower is a super-large royal lotus.
Feng Junhui took a group of children over to help, so that they wouldn't make a mess around around the oil pot. The lotuses with the size of the basin were picked off, and these children were carefully held and taken back, and it was amazing to walk all the way back.
Zhao Wei and the others saw the flowers of the Wang Lotus on the way, and they also kept taking pictures with clicks. However, for the fact that they wanted to go to the small lake, they were rejected by Feng Junhui. The village chief invited Zhao Wei and them to come to the village for a party, and Zhao Wei felt that he couldn't go, so he told the students, and everyone agreed to give money. The people in the village contribute ingredients and efforts, and they pay for them without ingredients and labor.
As guests, Zhao Wei and they have some privileges, and they also got a small snack for these children, which was brought to them by the villagers. Girls are particularly fond of this beautiful food, taking pictures before eating them.
"It's delicious!"
"I think there must be countless King Lotus blooming behind me!"
"I still feel guilty about eating such a beautiful thing, but after eating it in my mouth, I just want to say, another petal!"
A few girls licked their fingers, and a large plate of lotus crisp had been eaten, but there was still the aroma of the lotus crisp that had just been pinched on their fingers, which could not be wasted!
At ten o'clock, the bosses came to the village one after another. The village chief took the village cadres and Feng Junhui to greet them at the entrance of the village. Feng Junhui is now regarded as the mascot of the village, and if there is anything in the village, the old village chief is eager to bring him with him.
These bosses are quite accommodating, including many purchasing staff. They all often run to the countryside, and they spend a lot of time with their fellow villagers, so that they are not arrogant. And it's very talkative, and the atmosphere is very good.
It's too late to go to the fields to see the vegetables and livestock, but it's still okay to look at the ingredients on the side of the board. The eyes of these purchasing personnel were sharp, and they looked at these ingredients, and immediately pointed out the things brought by Feng Junhui's family: "These fish and shrimp are good? Can they be supplied for a long time? This lotus and lotus leaves are good, this is Wang Lianhua......, right?"
The village chief was embarrassed for a while, this originally used these ingredients from Feng Junhui's family just to make today's meal icing on the cake, but he didn't expect that now he has the eyes of these bosses. He hurriedly looked at Feng Junhui, not because he was afraid that Feng Junhui would steal the business of the people in the village, but because he was afraid that these bosses would be dissatisfied if they looked at the good ones and then looked at the others.
"These fish and shrimp can't be provided, I keep them for myself to eat, and there is nothing superfluous. Ladies and gentlemen, can you take a look at other dishes and are suitable? These are all produced in our village, and there are more of them in quantity, which can keep up with your needs. Feng Junhui explained beside him.
"The quality of the dishes is good, but we need to taste them again, and in the afternoon they bother to take us out into the fields. "Some purchasers said it. These dishes are no worse than the green vegetables sold outside, they just have to make sure that the taste of the dishes is not different, and whether there is any difference between what is in the field and what they see now.
"That's, that's, we'll go out into the field in the afternoon. The village chief took the people to sit at the table first, and let the people pour tea and bring snacks.
"The environment here in your village is good, and I found that there are a lot of birds. "These buyers are not in a hurry to talk about contracts, but to buy these things, but to talk about it.
The village chief was still a little anxious, and Xue Jing, who was accompanying him, secretly gave the village chief a look and asked him not to be busy yet. You are in a hurry to speak, and you are in the hands of others, which is not conducive to the later negotiations on prices and conditions. Xue Jing also said happily: "The people in our village have a strong sense of environmental protection. There are many birds in the village, and they are also relatives. ”
"Xiao Huang, Xiao Hong, come here. Feng Junhui beckoned, and a yellow bird of bliss and a red-billed jade came over. flew into Feng Junhui's arms, and rubbed Feng Junhui with his head.
"You raised this?" the man asked Feng Junhui, and then looked at Xue Jing differently, this person has a mouthful of Beijing films, and his accent is not a local at all.
"I can't talk about raising them, their nests are set up next to my yard, and they are naturally ripe. Thanks to the help of these birds, the vegetables in our village do not use pesticides, and there are many insects, which are all caught by these birds. Feng Junhui touched the two birds and let them fly away.
"We're going to have a feast today, and it's just right to get some food for these birds, and to entertain them. Our village can produce this dish, and they are all heroes!" said the old village chief suddenly, and really ordered a few women to fry the barley grains, and bring the millet, which the birds love to eat.
"To be able to adopt these birds, I really want to kidnap two of them. Chef Cao, who was busy over there, took the time to say to Feng Junhui.
"This bird, it's better to live with us, free. Feng Junhui smiled. Although the waves of people who came to the village loved these birds, and they brought them back to keep them well. But Feng Junhui thinks that these birds are still better in the village, and the surrounding environment is more suitable for birds to live.
"Also, it's really hard to live in a cage for them. Chef Cao sighed that he had the idea of staying here for a while.
Lunch was served on time, the table was full of dishes, layered layer after layer, and the wine was baked by the villagers themselves, which was sweet and mellow. Chef Cao personally checked the dishes, and the dishes were not only beautifully furnished, but also delicious and fragrant, so that these bosses who came to try the dishes had nowhere to choose.
Adults and children are eating at the dam here, and birds are also gathered at the side of the dam to eat the food prepared for them by the villagers. The scene is very harmonious, and between the cups and cups, the voices of people and birds are resounding.
"Teacher, I know what I'm going to draw this time?" a student suddenly whispered to Zhao Wei when he saw this scene.
"When you go back, you pick up your pen and start drawing, and whatever you think, you can put it on paper. Zhao Wei was quite pleased.
The beauty of nature can be seen in many places, and there are also many cute animals. But in this way, there is very little harmony between man and nature, and there is very little intimacy between man and animal. This is also a kind of humanities, and they also need this kind of silent language in their paintings.
In the afternoon, the village chief took the people of the village and led the bosses to the field. The villagers are very confident, and they are definitely not afraid of people going to the fields to see, they don't use pesticides or fertilizers, it doesn't matter who goes to see it or when they see it. All the bosses who came were quite satisfied with what they saw in the field.
Adhering to the principle of eating people with short mouths, in the afternoon, these birds consciously and spontaneously flew to the fields to help catch insects! Therefore, these bosses did not find any traces of the use of pesticides and fertilizers in the fields, but saw the picture of birds helping to catch insects, and invisibly, raised the grade of these vegetables to a higher level.
"This bird doesn't eat vegetables?" asked the boss, wondering if they were negligent and didn't find the crookedness in these vegetables, and these birds didn't eat them, could it be that there was a problem with the vegetables?
"Why don't they eat the vegetables? It's just that they don't pick the vegetables for them, and they don't steal them by themselves, and they are very disciplined. The old village chief explained. Then he picked up a small green vegetable and put it in his hand, stretched out his hand and sent it to the nearest bird, who immediately understood the meaning and flew over to peck at it. The birds next to them also flew over to fight for food.
"These birds are really amazing!" the boss just now was also full of incredulity.
"The birds here are used to catching insects in the greenhouse, and they are used to this. The first time you see it, you naturally think it's rare. Xue Jing said, how strange the birds here are, he knows very well, it is so strange that it is out of common sense!
After visiting the vegetable planting field, I looked at the free-grazing sheep, yaks, poultry and other domestic animals. These bosses are quite satisfied. After returning to the village, some purchasers began to talk about cooperation, and he saw that if this topic was not great, the people in the village could really keep silent today.
Moreover, there are many people who come to buy vegetables, but there are not many of the first batch of vegetables in this village, and whoever takes the lead when the time comes, may not be able to get more vegetables. Others are not stupid, they immediately came back to it, and began to talk about cooperation and signing contracts. The village chief was happy and gave the right to speak to Feng Junhui and Xue Jing, who were afraid that they would not be able to negotiate because they would ask for the wrong price.
Many villagers were present, and the negotiation was very smooth, considering the long-term cooperation, the sincerity of both parties was full. In addition, Xue Jing had already asked people to do market research, and when they talked about the price, they were also within the psychological acceptance range of both parties.
"Today, this important matter is finally resolved!" After sending those bosses away, the village chief's heart finally relaxed. They have preliminarily negotiated the cooperation, and the people in the village are very satisfied, so they will wait for two days to sign the contract. The things produced in the village can be regarded as marketable.
"Our village will be better in the future. Feng Junhui said.
"This is all brought by you back to the village, and this carp in our village has finally crossed the dragon gate!" "The carp ridge, that is, the overall topography of their village resembles the back of a carp.