Chapter 9 Collaboration continues
When we arrived at the Drunken Immortal Residence, there were already a lot of people inside, and we felt a chill when we entered the door.
"Why are you here, rare guest!"
"Han Jun, what's the matter, we're not welcome!"
"How dare you, Miss Zhou is here, it's too late for us to welcome!"
"Hmph, I don't bother with you. Wanwan, let's find a place to sit. ”
As soon as he sat down, Zhou Yunyun couldn't wait to ask, "Wanwan, what kind of food is it!" Hurry up and do it! I can't wait. ”
I looked at her like that, smiled and said, "You know, you're a little gluttonous cat." ”
turned around and went to find Han Jun, and saw that he was talking to the shopkeeper, so he didn't bother and waited aside. Han Jun saw me, so he didn't continue with the shopkeeper, "Miss Wang, is there something wrong?" ”
"The weather is hot, I see that Yunyun is so hot that I have no energy, I want to make a meal to cool off, and I know that you have edible ice here, so I came over."
"Did Miss Wang think of anything to eat again? That's really good, so can this food continue to cooperate with our Drunken Immortal Residence? ”
"Of course. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to you, Young Master Han! ”
"Don't call me Young Master Han, you and Yunyun are friends, I'm older than you, or you call me Brother Han, I'll call you Wan'er!"
"Okay!" I thought to myself for another person who asked me to call my brother!
"I don't know, what materials are needed for Wan'er to make this kind of food, I'll ask people to prepare"
"I need some ice, fruits, and milk."
"Okay, Huzi, go get things ready."
"Hey, young master."
"That Wan'er, how much does this recipe cost?"
"It's only 50 taels, this food is only eaten in summer, and you can't be charged more."
"It's okay, as long as it's a recipe you come up with, we'll take it."
Strange, what does this sentence mean, what is the recipe I come up with, accept it all? Even if I'm Yunyun's friend, it's not like this! Could it be that my two recipes made them a lot of money?
"Young master, everything is ready."
"Okay, Wan'er, the things are ready, you can go and eat."
"Okay, then you and Yunyun will wait a minute."
When I came to the kitchen, I asked people to chisel the ice cubes into ice slags, and on the other hand, let people cut the fruits into small pieces, watermelons, strawberries, and peaches, and peeled and removed the cores of lychees and grapes, and then I took out a lemon from my sleeve, poured a bowl of milk on the ice slag, and then put fruit on it, and a bowl of white sugar was ground into powdered sugar and sprinkled on the ice slag, and the lemon juice was squeezed and the fruit was put on it. In addition, I have made some taro balls, first boil the taro with the skin and water until the chopsticks can easily poke through, peel it out and then press the taro into a puree with a spoon, and then pour a part of the tapioca cornstarch into a large pot, slowly transfer it into boiling water, and keep stirring it into a ball with chopsticks, after the temperature is slightly lower, mix the starch dough and taro paste together, knead evenly with the addition of powdered sugar, slowly knead while adding starch, the kneaded dough is moderately soft and hard, not sticky and not hard, transfer the taro dough to the board, knead it into long strips, and cut it into small pieces with a knife, Use some starch to prevent sticking, cook it like rice balls until it floats, chill it with ice after cooking, scoop it up and put it in a bowl for a while, and when it's over, bring the two bowls to them.
Yunyun directly brought a bowl and wanted to eat, and I asked Huzi to bring them the bowl and spoon they had brought to them and let them scoop it into the bowl to eat. And the two should not be mixed together because the milk and lemon will spoil when mixed together. So choose one after eating, after rinsing your mouth, the other one tastes less.
Yunyun chose the bowl of milk, while Han Jun chose the bowl of lemon. It's good enough to eat some cold fruit in the summer, and rich people will mix some crushed ice with fruit, but they have never made it with milk, and they have never eaten lemon and taro balls, which will definitely appeal to them.
Yunyun couldn't stop eating it and said it was delicious, I was busy persuading me not to eat too much, after all, I ate too much ice, and people's stomachs couldn't stand it, so she had to stop the spoon. Han Jun was already surprised when he ate the bowl of lemon, what could have such a sour taste, although the taste was sour, it was not vinegar, and there was a fragrance permeating, and he was taken aback when he ate taro balls, the taste of taro balls was very chewy, making people want to eat them one after another.
When he came back to his senses, he hurriedly asked Huzi to prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and asked me to write down the specific recipe, and he was writing the contract of the buyer, and after I wrote it, he handed the recipe to him, and he said excitedly, "I have never seen this lemon, I wonder if you can let me see what kind of grinding it is?" ”
I nodded, took out a lemon from my sleeve, actually from the space, handed it to him, and said, "I bought this from a merchant from the south, you can have people go to the south to find it." ”
He nodded excitedly and handed me a silver ticket, I saw that it was 100 taels, and hurriedly said, "No need for so much, 50 taels is enough." ”
He shook his head and said, "No, no, no, this recipe is worth this amount, although the ice is only eaten in summer, but your taro balls can be eaten all year round, you take it." ”
I had to accept it with a smile, thinking that he was worthy of being the young master of the Drunken Immortal Residence, and he still had a business mind, knowing that taro balls could be eaten in all seasons, and looking at his appearance, he should use taro balls for other snacks, drawing inferences. The number of 100 taels is still OK, the difference is 5 taels and one acre, the middle field is 10 taels and one acre, and the fertile field is 20 taels, and now I have 300 taels in my hand, and I can buy 15 acres of fertile land, which is still good.
After sitting for a while, I said goodbye to them and went home. I didn't know how money should be calculated in this era, and this body did not have this memory, but after understanding, I knew that a penny is equivalent to a modern 1 cent, and the money has always been 1000 wen can be exchanged for one tael of silver, and ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold. We don't know about our family's cash deposits, but there are more than 7,000 taels of land and real estate, which is also a small rich family, and ordinary people's living expenses only cost two taels of silver a month, and our family's field rent and rent can have an income of several hundred taels a year, so we don't have to worry about food and clothing. But that's all my parents', I'm a modern person, I still have a portable space, I don't make money, I'm so sorry for myself.
However, 300 taels is still too little, and I need more funds to make my own money. But before I can start my own money-making plan, there is one place I have to go, and that is the Temple of Mercy and Grace, and I have to go to see Master Yuanwu once. The last time we met, I felt that there was something to say, I felt that he didn't know about my parents, and he also knew that I had a sense of personal space, and I felt the need to meet him once, and besides, last time Master Yuanwu himself said that I could go to see him at any time.
When I went home, I discussed with my mother about going to the temple of mercy and grace, but my mother was worried that I would go alone, so she said that she would go with me. The next day, when I was about to go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace with my mother, I just got into the carriage when I heard someone say, "Look, it's the carriage of Wang Shan's family, go over quickly." ”
"Master Wang."
"Wang Shanren."
"Qinghe is going to see what's going on!" Mother said.
"Yes, ma'am."
"What's going on, you're panicking."
Someone recognized Qinghe and said, "Miss Qinghe, is Master Wang here?" Woo~"
"What's wrong, what's wrong?"
"Our fields, our grain, woo~ all gone!"
"What the hell is going on?"
At this time, a person hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Qinghe girl, the locusts are coming, the men are chasing the locusts, we come to beg the king, please help us, we rent and plant all the fields of the king, if all the locusts eat this grain, I am afraid that there will be no money to pay the rent!" ”
"I'll ask Madame."
"Qinghe went to inform the master, I heard it."
"Yes, ma'am." Qinghe hurriedly went to find his father.
Locusts, in this era, if the locusts pass through, there is basically no harvest, these farmers who live by farming, they count on farming for a year's living expenses, and now the locusts are coming, let alone paying rent, even if my father does not collect their rent, what will they do to live in the months before they plant new crops and harvest. Some families have surplus food, but some families have no surplus.
While I was thinking, my father had already come out and said to them: "Don't worry, now you go back quickly, save as much as you can, and I will also take my family to help, and you don't have to pay rent for the disaster-stricken fields this year." ”
"Thank you, Master Wang, thank you, Wang Shanren."
"Sure enough, Master Yuanwu is right!"
"Master Yuanwu?"
"Oh, Master Wang, that's right, some time ago, when we went to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to pray for blessings, Master Yuanwu dragged Xiao Shami to pass on a sentence to us, saying that if there is a difficulty that cannot be solved, we must come to Master Wang's house to beg you, saying that you will definitely help us."
Master Yuanwu, hmph, that old man must have come at me, although in the name of my father, my father was able to waive their rent, but he must have wanted to see what I could do. Since he wants to see it, then I won't hide it, because I won't hide it either, so many families, I won't sit idly by.
"Father, I have something to say, I don't know, I shouldn't say it or not."
"But it doesn't hurt to say it."
"I read a lot of books during this time, and I remember reading a book that said that chickens, ducks, geese, and birds like to eat locusts, so they can let them put their poultry in the field, and they can catch some frogs and put them in the field, and the frogs will also eat locusts. Let people get some mugwort leaves and smoke them in the field. While people were asked to dig ditches at the edge of the fields to drive locusts into the ditches and kill them, there were also people who used everything that made a noise and colored cloth and clothing to drive away locusts. In the evening, if there are locusts, light some bonfires, and the locusts like light, and we can lure them into the net. ”
"Okay, you've heard it too, go ahead!"
"Oh, oh, oh, yes, we'll go right away."
"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up and save the food." The villagers had just gone back to prepare food and food.
"Madam, I'll go back as soon as I go."
"Let's go!"
"Okay."
"Father, I'll go with you."
My father saw that I agreed, and my mother acquiesced to it, although she didn't want me to go.