It turned out that Chen Xiucai had already arrived at Weishan Lake, and he still asked his former acquaintance Lao Wu to buy a batch of duck eggs, which were escorted back by Li Yuntian, and he followed the merchant ship to the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Chen Xiucai had earlier followed merchant ships across Jiangsu and Zhejiang in order to make a living, and he was extremely familiar with the people and customs there. He was not the one who waited to die, he used to walk around with the merchant ships, and although he was not familiar with the rules of the business scriptures, he also knew a little about them. He is now taking the merchant ship to Weishan Lake from Shandong to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to sell tea and silk, so when he was on the boat, he also did not ask for friendship with the guys who ran the boat, got off the boat and took out money in the teahouse wine shop to invite people to eat and drink, and called two plates of pig's ears and large pieces of white cut meat.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich in scenery, relying on water and mountains, producing tea and silk, and transporting them to the north, the price will double.

This merchant ship arrived in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which happened to be the Qingming season when the grass grew and the warbler flew. At that time, the first wave of tea in each mountain just came out, and the tea was followed by the silkworm boiling, and it happened that the tea was sold to get the capital to sell silk, and it was more profitable than the tea eggs.

The shopkeeper of the merchant ship and Chen Xiucai had a few times of wine, and then agreed to come down and take him to Jiangnan to see the world. How much space can he occupy alone, just a bunk to eat and add a pair of chopsticks, more than one of him, no more than him, a lot less than him, received a few bottles of wine from Chen Xiucai, specially instructed Chen Xiucai a few words, taught him to distinguish the quality of tea, and was willing to introduce the middleman to him. And in business, the business only has to collect some profits, Chen Xiucai understands this rule, even if he doesn't mention it, he will share the profits with the shopkeeper.

This ship is not the shopkeeper's, it is a boat built by several shops. It is light and fast to take the waterway, and rush the new tea to the market after the Qingming Festival, and send the tea sellers of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north.

Qi An told Li his faith, and Li knew that Chen Xiucai had already followed the merchant ship to the south at this time. I was apprehensive for a while. She has never been out of Baitu Town since she was so old, and even the Xuzhou Mansion has only heard that she has never been there. Suddenly, when he heard that Chen Xiucai had gone to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which were thousands of miles away, it was difficult to protect the loss of his backbone. The mountains and rivers outside are high, and he doesn't know when he will come back when he goes out like this.

In front of Zheng Huozi, Li couldn't say anything. As soon as Zheng Huozi left, Li said to his children like a crab without legs: "Jiangsu and Zhejiang are eight miles away from us. I don't know if your father has enough clothes. As he spoke, he was about to open the box, and he shook off his clothes and looked at it. I don't know which one to pick.

was persuaded by Xue Jiao: "Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the south, and the south at this time is already spring, and the flowers are blooming and the grass is green." The clothes that my mother turned over were all in winter, and my father couldn't wear them. Merchant ships travel dozens of miles a day in the water. If you don't get to the shore, you won't stop, even if your mother wraps your father's clothes, she may not be able to ask someone to give it to him. ”

Li thought about it. She was thinking about it at home and didn't know what was going on outside, so she could only wait for Li Yuntian to come back and be calculating. I still don't feel sure. Chen Xiucai is a scholar, and he blushes when he hears a fierce woman scolding him in the village on weekdays, and he runs so far away without Li Yuntian's help, so he doesn't know if he will be deceived. Ordinary businessmen are very shrewd, and Chen Xiucai is not such a shrewd person, if he is shrewd, he will not be crushed to death by everyone in the upper room all these years.

At night, Chen Xuejiao and Li slept together, and the mother and daughter talked for half the night.

Since Chen Xiucai asked Li Yuntian to send the duck eggs first, then they had to prepare pickled salted duck eggs at home, Chen Xuejiao gave Li Shi a plan to take advantage of the good sun to clean, disinfect and dry the previous jar first, otherwise it would be too late to prepare when the duck eggs arrived home, and it would be even worse if it was catching up with a rain at that time.

After the beginning of spring, the town's liquor shops have opened, and many restaurant shopkeepers and peddlers often come to Chen's house to ask about salted duck eggs. With the fame of the last time, this time the business can only be more prosperous than the first.

Chen Xuejiao was thinking about the various wine shops, tea shops, breakfast restaurants in the town, the consumption of these shops alone was amazing, this business was done, needless to say, a lot of money was enough for the family's daily expenses.

On the second day, Chen Xuejiao opened the box, took out a few hundred dollars, and asked her uncle to pull a cart of pickle jars in the town to come to the house. Pickled duck eggs are inseparable from wine and salt, she is afraid that this business will be taken away, and when pickling, special ingredients are put in it, and she thinks in her heart that she wants to turn salted duck eggs into the unique signature of the Chen family. In addition to the jars, I bought a few jars of salt and a few catties of fine bamboo leaves.

The preparation of salted duck eggs is very simple, but it is not easy to marinate them.

Since beating the Chen family's salted duck eggs, it has made a name for itself in the town, and some people have followed the trend, but the taste is far inferior to Chen Xuejiao's, so it is impossible to eat it at home and sell it. Chen Xuejiao knows all these situations, otherwise it would be impossible for someone to come to the house to buy salted duck eggs as soon as the New Year passes.

A few days later, Li Yuntian returned in the dust, and this time he brought 2,000 duck eggs. Following the waterway of the cargo ship, I hired four big carts to pull it home when I arrived at Xuzhou Mansion, but because the bandaging was strong, there was no broken one.

The jar has already been cleaned, disinfected and dried, just waiting to be cleaned and marinated.

The Li family, the Han family, the Zhao family, the Zheng family and other good relatives came to help, and the division of labor was cleaned and pickled, because with the experience of the last time, this time the pickling was relatively fast, and within two days, two thousand duck eggs entered the jar. Seal the mouth and stack it all in a straw shed next to the vegetable garden in the northwest corner.

Pickled salted duck eggs are individual lì work, Li prepared the meal early, and the butcher shop cut five catties of pork belly, a fan of pork ribs, and a fat rooster. The remaining salted duck eggs last time were cut in half, the cabbage heart was fried with white sugar sesame oil, the lotus root slices mixed with vinegar and the pickled cucumbers, these four are considered fresh snacks, pork and chicken are cooked on the first day, steamed in the pot and placed on the plate, even if it is two big dishes, boil the pot and chop the pork ribs and stew the red heart radish and count it as a big dish, and then a stir-fried pork liver, a large bowl of fried peanuts, and a large pot of hot steamed buns are full.

Qingyu carried the food box into the door: "It's so lively, fortunately, it's not too late." She told herself that her life experience was getting closer and closer to the Li family, and she came to help early in the morning.

In the food box is a crispy elbow stewed with ham. You can smell the fragrance from afar. Jing Hao took out the sea bowl from the food box and put the elbow on the stove, and said with a hot smile: "This elbow tastes good at a glance, and grandpa loves to drink with this." ”

The grandfather in her mouth is not Old Man Chen, it is indeed Old Man Li, Old Man Li has fainted since the last time, and he has never eaten a bite of big fish and meat, and he seems to be hungry. Li was afraid that he wouldn't be able to stand up, when he was arranging. The meat and vegetables are far away from him. There were only a few plates of vegetarian dishes in front of him, because Lang Zhong said that he could eat white meat, and put a plate of white-cut chicken in front of him.

Old Man Li looked at the elbow far away from him, blew his beard, and glared. These days, Mrs. Li has been staring at him with two eyes, lest he get fat and meaty, I thought that I could eat with my daughter's heart open, but I didn't expect that there were some green dishes in front of me. A plate of white-cut chicken is not very tasteful, how can the sauce of the elbow be tempting. As soon as the temper came up, he had to clamp an elbow, and after eating one piece, he wanted to eat a second piece. was blocked by Chen Xuejiao with a chopstick and shredded cabbage: "Grandpa, your body is better, it doesn't hurt to eat every day, but now it's better to eat more vegetables." Grandpa will live a long life in the future, and see the son of the eldest brother marrying a daughter-in-law. ”

The old man Li opened his mouth, and ate the plate of cabbage in front of him with the stick porridge.

Mrs. Chen looked at the busy room and the fragrance coming from the upper room. It's not a taste in my heart. Xue Yao's marriage day is coming, although Ding Fu doesn't care about the woman's dowry. But the villagers all know that Xue Yao married into Fugui Township, and if she doesn't set a few tables of wine, she is afraid that she will fall into her mouth. Mrs. Chen was calculating how many dishes to buy, how many people to invite, and how much wine to order these days, but Old Man Chen left Xue Yao's family affairs behind, and Baba ran over to help the big house. She had a lot of trouble with him for this, but Old Man Chen was now full of heart for the big house, and before she could say a word here, the cow's temper came up, and her eldest son protected her liver. Knowing that Chen Xiucai followed the boat to the south, he scolded behind the old man Chen: "Don't die in the water sooner." ”

When the upper room was busy, Mrs. Chen, the second room, and the fourth room did not show their faces, and only the third room Chen Zifu and Xuewa came to help, and they were caught and scolded by Mrs. Chen. Xuewa thought that her mother was desperate to give birth to her sister, and her milk didn't look at it, her stubborn temper came up, standing in the yard and shouting in front of everyone to break up, the angry old lady Chen picked up a stone and threw it at Xuewa, Xuewa flashed, the stone hit a tree and fell and smashed a jar full of duck eggs out of a big hole, and the salted duck eggs in it rolled out like dominoes, one by one broken, and a pool of yellow and bright egg yolks gathered on the ground.

When Xuewa saw that the duck egg was broken, she cried with a wow.

Li took three steps and two steps up to block the hole, and only a few duck eggs were left in a jar of duck eggs. She was naturally distressed, but it was just that her mother-in-law was not good at seizures.

Chen Xuejiao also walked over and helped Li pour out the remaining duck eggs, she was also distressed, a jar of duck protein was wasted.

Zhang, who has always been cheeky, came over with a bowl: "It's a pity that this duck egg is broken, I'm not dirty, it's all mine." As he spoke, he put the broken duck eggs on the ground into a bowl.

Old Mrs. Chen glanced at Li and Chen Xuejiao, and scolded Xuewa in her mouth, she didn't think it was her fault at all.

Li is not good at talking about her, but Li's mother, Mrs. Li, quit doing it, bullying her daughter like this in front of her mother's family, and she may not be able to spoil it every day.

Mrs. Li protected Xuewa in front of her and said to the room with a smile: "The loess is buried to half of the neck, and it is not humane at all, Xuewa is only a big doll, and you still can't deal with her." Xuejiao is not your own grandson, you scold, you scold, how can Xuewa be your own grandson, you also scold, if you don't feel sorry, I feel sorry. ”

The reason why Mrs. Chen walked sideways in the backyard of the Chen family was just that there was an elder standing in the same person, and Mrs. Li and her were equals and a guest. It just so happened that Zhang passed by her with a bowl of broken duck eggs, she was angry, and went over to knock over the duck eggs in Zhang's hand, pointing at her nose and scolding: "What kind of shallow-eyed thing, what kind of thing, carrying this bowl of things into the door of my house, you don't have to spoil my ground." (To be continued)