No matter how unsatisfactory life is, life still has to go on.

Before I knew it, it was Jichun, and early in the morning, a villager wearing a coarse cloth coat led his daughter-in-law to the entrance of Jiangjiatan Village.

I saw one after another full of trucks driving out of the village and rushing to the docks. The couple was surprised to find that this once barren land was now thriving.

It turned out that day was the day of delivery of the workshop in Jiangjiatan Village. The delivery date, which was originally scheduled to be once every five days, has now been changed to once every three days due to the good sales of the goods. In other words, such a scene can be seen every two days.

In fact, there is really no technical content in this kind of thing. Although Jiangjiatan is strictly guarded, in order to prevent the leakage of the recipe, there are still smart people who have figured out how to make the fans by themselves.

However, fortunately, Jiangjiatan workshop has been on the right track, even if the delivery volume is increased from 10,000 catties each time to 30,000 catties each time, it can ensure timely delivery, and ensure quality and quantity, and never shoddy. The high-quality and stable supply, coupled with the fact that the fans of Jiangjiatan have long been famous, even if other fans have poured into the market, it has not had much impact on the workshop for a while.

The workshop is booming, and the income is naturally rich, and Zhao Siniang's family also made a profit. However, Zhao Siniang, who is a little greedy for money, is most pleased that her family has gained an excellent reputation this time, and she doesn't care much about how much money she makes. After all, her family only accounts for 20% of the dry shares of the village-run workshop, and no matter how prosperous the business is, it will eventually make limited profits.

However, although Zhao Siniang, who was keen to make a fortune, failed to make a lot of money in the fan workshop, she thought of a way to make up for it from other places - to open a food processing workshop, and tentatively set the products as pickles, spices and soy products. Zhao's shop, which has been in operation, the duck farm that has just opened, the workshop that is in preparation, and the shop managed in the town, etc., Zhao Siniang's family is busy every day in order to run this family business.

Rao is like this, Zhao Yongzhong and other sincere people still do not forget their neighbors in their busy schedules, and eagerly pay attention to the growth of the village-run workshop.

"If the product is too simple, even if it doesn't go out of business today, it will have to close sooner or later." These are the words that Zhao Siniang often puts on her lips. It is used to motivate the family to use their imagination to develop new products.

It's a pity that Zhao Siniang's hard work has had little effect, and I haven't seen anyone in the family come up with a decent idea when I encourage him, and the only result is probably to arouse the family's sense of crisis. However, what made Zhao Siniang speechless was that the first thing the family was worried about was not the survival of their own shop.

It turned out that Zhao Siniang's family members were worried. If the fan workshop only produces fans, the future is worrying, so they strongly asked Zhao Siniang to come up with an idea for the workshop to help the villagers tide over possible difficulties.

How good is the idea? Don't say I can't think of it, even if I have, how can I give away the golden idea of making money to others? For the family, this extremely "loser" idea. Of course, Zhao Siniang, who was busy holding silver, would not pay attention to it.

However, the others just paid back, but it was always bad to save my grandfather's face. In the end, because Old Man Jiang also opened his mouth, Zhao Siniang had to grit his teeth and come up with a new idea.

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water. There are really no specialties growing in the barren land of Jiangjiatan, if you must find one, then there are only fish in the water. So this time, Zhao Siniang decided to let the workshop produce fish noodles and fish rot.

Fish noodles and fish curd, as the name suggests, are noodles and tofu mixed with fish. However, these two products are made after molding. One is dried, and the other is fried. After this treatment, it can be stored for a long time, and it can be sold far away like fans.

For Zhao Siniang's idea, all the villagers in Jiangjiatan of course raised their hands in favor, and Zhou Zhangshi immediately decided to order a large number of dishes after tasting various dishes made from fish noodles and fish curd.

As expected, the fish noodles and fish curd have been a huge success in the market, even overshadowing the limelight of fans.

It is worth mentioning that fish noodles are indeed a new idea. And fish rot can only be regarded as an old idea, or an idea whose ownership is not in Zhao Siniang's hands.

It turned out that on the same day, Zhao Siniang had already sold the recipe for fish curd to the shopkeeper Wang along with the fish balls, and said that Zhao's shop would no longer sell fish curd within three years. Now Zhao Siniang wants to produce it on a large scale, of course, she must obtain the consent of the shopkeeper Wang in advance.

Zhao Siniang has long heard that the dish "Sixi Balls", which uses fish curd, has become one of the signature dishes of Qingfeng Building. Now that the main ingredient in the signature dish is about to be reduced from a secret recipe to a street product, Zhao Siniang is really worried that the shopkeeper Wang will not agree, so she thinks of changing it with another unique recipe. However, Shopkeeper Wang was too kind and listened to Zhao Sanniang's request. Without saying a word, I agreed.

The only thing that worries people is that whether it is vermicelli or fish noodles and fish curd, sweet potatoes are used in large quantities. And because they didn't know in advance that sweet potatoes could be used for a lot of purposes, Jiangjiatan and even other villages did not store too many sweet potatoes. Even if Jiangjiatan has specially arranged for people to buy from afar, it is foreseeable that the recovered sweet potatoes will soon be unable to keep up with production.

The first half of the year is coming to an end.

Even so, the people of Jiangjiatan are very satisfied. The workshop has been thriving for months, and the profits it makes are enough to feed and clothe the whole village, and no one will starve to death this year. What's more, the workshop will be opened again, and the sweet potatoes will be harvested in the second half of the year, and they can continue to produce again, how good!

"We are from Zhaojia Village, and we want to find Zhao Yongzhong's brother who moved from our village......" The couple standing at the entrance of the village finally waited until the traffic dispersed, and then asked a villager for directions.

"Big brother, I feel like I've heard a duck cry. Hey? There must be hundreds, right? How many ducks this family has to raise! The villagers of Zhaojia Village pointed to the endless wall next to the official road and asked curiously.

"Hundreds? Hehe, there are thousands of them! This is the duck farm of the Yongzhong brothers. Isn't this coming to the Dragon Boat Festival? Yesterday, his family specially sent a basket of salted duck eggs to every family in our village, which was fragrant. The villagers of Jiangjiatan said with a smile on their faces: "How embarrassing is this!" Our village has received so many favors from his family, and before we have time to give a gift to his family, we have accepted the gift first! ”

The villagers were fast, and they arrived at Zhao's shop while talking. Hearing that the villagers of Zhaojia Village were coming, Zhao Yongzhong hurriedly greeted him from the shop, and when he saw it, it turned out to be Zhao An and his daughter-in-law Zhao. After asking, I found out that the couple was going to Jiangbei today to visit their daughter who married there. After Mr. Zhao learned about it, he asked the couple to carry a letter for him.

Speaking of Zhao An's family, although his family is also surnamed Zhao, he is not from the Zhao family, but an outsider who moved in more than 20 years ago. However, this does not affect the friendship between Zhao An and Zhao Yongzhong, the two have also gone up the mountain to chop firewood together, and have also gone into the water to catch fish together, and they are good friends who talk about everything. It wasn't until they became relatives and were busy supporting their families that they gradually faded away.

Seeing an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time, Zhao Yongzhong was overjoyed. He knew that Zhao An's family was extremely poor and he couldn't make up a decent dowry at all, so he had to marry his eldest daughter to Jiangbei. So, even though the couple repeatedly said that they had had breakfast when they went out, Zhao Yongzhong still pulled them into the shop and entertained them well. Before leaving, he also stuffed a basket of red oil salted eggs and two large strings of spiced meat dumplings, and then he was willing to let them go.

In fact, the couple's daughter is about to give birth, and this time she specially went to her in-laws' house to send a birth gift. It's just that his family is not well-off, barely enough to have food and clothing, and there are two and a half children in the family, so he really can't get any decent gifts. tightened his belt to save two catties of brown sugar money from his mouth, and scraped together most of the basket of eggs, so he was embarrassed to go to the door of his in-laws' house. Now that he has received the gift from Zhao Yongzhong, he can finally go to his relatives decently.

The joyful couple thanked them again and again and walked all the way to the pier, worried that the crowd would break the fresh eggs in the basket, so they held the heavy basket and refused to let go, eagerly waiting for the arrival of the ferry.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the ferry boat to slowly move from across the river with a full boatload of people.

Zhao An's daughter-in-law had sharp eyes, and when the boat was still in the middle of the river, she saw a familiar young lady among the passengers, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

Zhao's mother's family is poor, and her mother-in-law's family is even poorer, but no matter how poor you are, you won't starve to death -- Zhaojia Village has fertile land and is surrounded by mountains and rivers, as long as you are diligent with your hands and feet, you will always have something to eat. But those fishing villages in Jiangbei are different, since the imperial court issued a ban on the sea, life has become more and more difficult day by day, and many families have fallen into a desperate situation. When the girl came back to pay New Year's greetings, she sighed that the sister and brother family who were related to her mother-in-law's family were on the eve of the end of the cooking, and the adults in the family were so sick that they couldn't get up. The in-laws also wanted to reach out to help, but it was difficult to protect themselves......

When the sister and brother got off the boat, Zhao noticed that there were three people in their group, and a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl was clinging to the sister and brother. What surprised Zhao was that although they were wearing coarse cloth clothes, they were well-dressed, and the sister and brother were even more full of vitality. Doesn't that look like it's going to be unbearable? (To be continued.) )