Chapter 11 22 Greenhouses

It's home. Both the carpenter and the blacksmith were waiting for me at home.

After I finished a noodle meal together, the carpenter pointed to the new furniture in the yard and asked me to comment.

Not bad! It's exactly the same furniture as in my photo, just unpainted. I was satisfied, and then asked the housekeeper to buy enough mahogany, and then handed it to the carpenter, who tried to make enough furniture before the restaurant was renovated.

After sending the carpenter away, the blacksmith also took out the stove and chimney for me to see, and what was even more amazing was that before I could take out the refractory cement, the blacksmith had already prepared the furnace chamber, and according to the drawings I had drawn, he made a mold for pressing honeycomb coal, and directly pressed out the honeycomb coal. I looked at the honeycomb coal, and without reminding me, the honeycomb coal made by the blacksmith was also mixed with loess, which happened to be resistant to burning and not easy to break. The wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated. After lighting the stove, the stove with bellows for cooking, and the stove for heating directly burning honeycomb coal were all very good, and after trying it, I was very satisfied.

It just so happened that the honeycomb coal stove was built, so that my greenhouse project could begin. Coincidentally, the coal seller also came to the door at this time, and I ordered a large pile of lump coal and pulverized coal. The businessman in these years is really honest, not saying that the coal dust is worthless, saying that he wants to give it to me for free, and saying that he will give me as much coal as he buys.

Seeing that the coal seller was so good, I couldn't bear to let him suffer, so I picked up the honeycomb coal and let him see it, and let him visit the honeycomb coal stove I was burning, and finally gave him a mold for pressing the honeycomb coal, and the coal seller was so happy that he bowed to me again and again and thanked me, and I was driven away by a thousand thanks for half a day.

Later, I asked the housekeeper to find a few farmers and help them build a two-meter-high fence out of loess and gravel in the outer house, spread the transparent plastic sheet I found on it, and then cover it with a rolled-up straw curtain that I bought from the villagers. When it snows or is cloudy, cover the straw curtain and roll it up when it is sunny. Then hang a thick curtain in the place of the door. The greenhouse is completed, and the rest is the heating problem in the greenhouse. I was going to have the blacksmith look at the size of the greenhouse and make a few more stoves. As a result, he was despised by the blacksmith! Then the blacksmith and the farmer worked together, and dug a pit in the greenhouse to make a hearth and a fire tunnel. After throwing in the firewood, it turned out to be warmer than burning the heater.

Finally got the greenhouse. In the end, the loess was laid in the greenhouse, the soil was loosened and fertilized, and there was definitely no chemical fertilizer, but according to the advice of the villagers, some plant ash and natural compost that had been pulled from the farmers were sprinkled as fertilizer. I found a thermohygrometer from the mall and installed it in the greenhouse, which was completely built.

After teaching them how to use the thermohygrometer and trying to keep the temperature of the greenhouse between 20 and 30 degrees, the servants took turns taking care of the greenhouse. Then I planted green pepper seeds, chili seeds, tomato seeds, eggplant seeds. Although there are other things that unfortunately I haven't had time to study yet, let's try to grow these first! Then soak the soybeans and mung beans, ready to try to see if the sprouts can be produced. After thinking about it, I found a big pot and planted garlic cloves, and the fresh garlic seedlings were also good.

All handed over to Ah San, Ah Si and the queen. I won't care anymore.

"Hmmm! It depends on the sky. ”

After a few more days of peace, I went to Chang'an City several times during this period, and finally no one stopped me anymore, and then called me a loser. It seems that these things have been stopped by Cheng Yanjin's help. Anyway, the housekeeper said that Cheng Fu did release the news, saying that the rest of the glass in our family was there for him. And the servants of Cheng's house also specially took a two-finger-wide strip written by Cheng Yanjin and came to me to get the glass. I picked out a few bottles of liquor in glass bottles and a few glasses and bowls and handed them to him. I estimate that the wine will definitely be left by Cheng Yanjin, and then the empty bottle will be sold.

After a few more days, the garlic sprouts in the greenhouse grew taller, and the soybean sprouts and mung bean sprouts were also sent out by the hard-working Ah San and Ah Si.

As a result, vinegared bean sprouts and stir-fried pork with garlic sprouts became family favorites. After another 2 or two days, the green peppers also sprouted. I finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that I will not smoke seasoning when I open a restaurant in the future. In this way, my chef training program can also be started.

Then, guided by my bad taste, I asked the housekeeper to buy a batch of female slaves from the traffickers, and then specially trained them in various service etiquette. After preparing for training, they were all pulled to the restaurant to work as waiters. I picked out the two smartest ones out of them, and then I started teaching them how to cook. Prepare to train them into suitable female chefs.

In fact, it is better to be a man to be a cook, after all, it is considered hard work, and if you have been a chef for a long time, people will gain weight. This can be seen from the cook in my house. In just half a month, the waist circumference of the cook has changed from an ordinary person to a swimming ring.

Even though I said that, the thought of me teaching a man how to cook made me resist from the bottom of my heart. So, for the sake of my physical and mental well-being, I still choose women to teach as chefs. However, after all, I am not a chef professional, and the dishes I can cook are all like cutting corners. Let's put it this way, even if I am asked to fry a plate of peanuts, I have to fry three or four pots to succeed in a pot, and the rest is either fried by a big fire, or eaten with a small fire. But fortunately, the two girls I picked who were going to be chefs were both smart children, and they had a good grasp of the heat, and after only teaching them a few times, the fried peanuts were already fragrant and crispy.

The only pity is that these new girls have not escaped the destruction of Xiaoling's name. As a result, everyone's names are either flowers and plants, or tables, chairs and benches. What small tables, big tables, small chairs and small stools, and even big stools. Even the one I picked out to be the chef was named a small pot and a small spoon. Sad~Ah!

I don't know why Xiaoling has a hobby of naming people.

The pot and spoon each brought a plate of food and put it in front of me. Let me taste it. I tasted it, and it's okay! This fish-flavored shredded pork is relatively simple, although it is absolutely impossible to make an authentic taste. After all, I heard that this dish is the most challenging dish for chefs, and I don't make it well, but it is more than enough to fool these Tang people who have never eaten stir-fried food. Try this plate of vinegared bean sprouts again, huh! The taste is good, and sure enough, the dishes with MSG are different.

I dug out a lot of boxes of MSG and chicken essence from the storeroom of the mall, although these are not healthy to eat, but the meals with these seasonings are indeed very popular. Anyway, the chef who has been stealing teachers is full of praise for MSG. Even every time I cooked, I put a lot of it, and finally under my severe criticism, I gave up and stopped being a demon in the dishes I ate. Of course, it's not that you don't put MSG, but in strict accordance with my requirements, only a little bit at a time.

After the small pot and spoon have learned to fry and fry, this day will come to the end of the year. The other girls who are ready to be waiters have also been trained by me to be almost competent.

The housekeeper said that the New Year is to rest, and even the emperor is no exception. That's why I'm stopping everyone from continuing their training. are starting to get ready for the New Year.

Then the housekeeper began to take over the command, directing the servants of the whole family, cleaning and hanging lanterns, and specially buying a red cloth to decorate the house, which was about to catch up with the appearance of marriage. A lot of chickens, ducks, geese and sheep were also bought, and a shed and sheepfold for chickens, ducks and geese were specially built in the front yard. Finally, at my strong request, I reluctantly bought another slaughtered pig. The housekeeper also kept complaining that pork is cheap meat and is not suitable for the Chinese New Year. But every time the small pot and spoon brought out the meat dishes fried with pork and the fried meatballs, the housekeeper and Xiaoling ate the most......

My family was busy, but I was idle. In the middle of the journey, I had a few meals, and when I saw the maids in my outer house who were standing and practicing their standing posture and smiling, they thought I was going to open a brothel, and then they abused me hard at the back of my head several times, and I explained the purpose of these people, so that the fastest and most beautiful ones were called 'big boards' and ' The two maids of Xiaoban's deliberately tried to follow the waiter in the private room of the hotel in the later generations, and after receiving Cheng Yanjin once, they satisfied the goods, knowing that I was just asking her to help pour the wine and serve the food, not to sell the hue.

Later, the cooking skills of the small pot and small spoon also conquered Cheng Yanjin, so Cheng Yanjin arranged for two maids from his family to come to me to learn cooking skills with the small pot and spoon. He also negotiated with me to buy a stake in my restaurant, and then split half of the staff, and then opened the same restaurant in Dongshi.

Such a good opportunity to hug my thighs, I absolutely can't miss it. I immediately agreed. As a result, the next day, Cheng Yanjin also bought a bunch of female slaves and sent them to me for training. In the end, all the future waiters under my command who had just finished their training and had not yet had time to practice became masters again, each with a new maid, and began to teach alone.

Then when everyone was busy, and I was idle, the New Year arrived.

"This is my first year here!" On Chinese New Year's Eve, looking at the lively and chaotic home. I suddenly started to miss my parents from my previous life.

"I don't know how sad they will be when I disappear in the future!" I let out a long sigh and suddenly remembered a poem: "Alone in a foreign land as a stranger." As soon as I finished reading this sentence, I saw the cook lady who had become almost diamond-shaped walking in front of me, so the latter sentence was recited by me: "Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, three pounds of weight every festival!" Then he looked at the jubilant housekeeper and Xiaoling who was hanging around with her new clothes. All of a sudden, my sorrow vanished.

"Huh! It seems that the melancholy image of a beautiful man is really not suitable for me! But seeing these people who have been so good to me makes me feel better. ”

Oh, yes! Seeing the happy Xiaoling and the housekeeper, I remembered the hunger when I just crossed over, and the wild vegetable dumplings with small tooth marks that Xiaoling timidly handed to me. I was suddenly hungry again. Then, the sound of 'cluck~' in the chicken coop in the front yard reached my ears again. I decided to steal a chicken from my house and make it into a flower chicken to eat!

"Hey, hey! Don't blame me for being ruthless! Blame you for making a noise when I'm hungry! I said with a wicked grin.