Chapter 388: The Power of Time (Part II)
The monk showed great interest in the greenhouse vegetables, but she was new to the greenhouse, and she was not familiar with the place, so she had to keep pestering Ke Xiaochuan to ask him to accompany her to take a look around the greenhouse. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ke Xiaochuan also came to Yang's Zhuangzi for the first time, and he didn't know so many people in Zhuangzi, so in order to please the monks, he pestered Xuanshen to help him have a good relationship with the people in Zhuangzi.
Most of the stewards in Zhuangzi were from the former Nanyang County Palace, and they all knew the importance of it, and they knew from Xuanlangzhong that this was the newly recognized brother of Hou Ye's hometown, and they were all very polite to him.
There is no problem with looking at the vegetable greenhouse, but it was explained in advance that these dishes are Hou Ye's treasures, as long as they do not damage these vegetables.
The monk's welfare is not only her own, but also the disciples of Mr. Lian from Lian Jiapo are also very interested in the vegetables that can grow in winter.
If in the past, they only regarded Yang Huairen, a young marquis who Lian Xizong admired very much, as a skilled cook, but now their views are completely different.
These technical controllers regard this groundbreaking innovation as a miracle, and at the same time, they also realize that the future of greenhouse vegetables is a great thing that benefits all the people in the world.
In the past, they learned a lot of novel knowledge from the Lian family father and son, but they had never practiced it, but now that they came to the Yang family Zhuangzi, they seemed to feel that what they had learned all their lives had just come into use.
Tianba's younger brother also had another important task, he found a shady house near the hot spring outlet in the mansion in Zhuangzi, and slightly transformed the house according to the way Yang Huairen taught him, and it became a dark secret room.
The tofu workshop also made a batch of tofu according to Yang Huairen's requirements, to be exact, it should not be called tofu, but a kind of dried tofu after squeezing out the water in the tofu as much as possible.
Because of the proximity to the hot spring outlet, the floor heat is abundant, and even in early spring, the temperature outside is still the temperature of the ice just thawed, but the closed room has a humid heat close to summer.
Several rows of ready-made wooden shelves for drying vegetables are neatly arranged, and large flat dustpans are placed on the wooden shelves, and dry straw stalks are spread on the dustpans, and then dried tofu cut into two inches square and half an inch thick.
Sprinkle a layer of salt on top of the dried tofu according to about one-tenth of the weight of the dried tofu, then cover it with a layer of dry straw stalks, and finally cover the whole dustpan with a cage cloth.
Xiaohua and Nao Teng have been making tofu for half a year, and now they are both experts in making tofu, but Brother Tianba is doing this, they really don't understand.
Xiaohua was afraid that she would spoil things, so she asked, "If you cover this fresh dried tofu like this, aren't you afraid that you will grow gray and blind?" ”
Tianba's younger brother smiled, "The Sprinkle family doesn't know, it's all taught by Brother Ren, hehe...... By the way, he said that after three days, let the two of you come to take a look, if the tofu grows an inch long fine hair, then it will be counted, if it doesn't, you will look at it every other day. ”
Xiaohua and Naoxing are a little confused, this tofu can't be eaten because it's hairy and sour and smelly, what is this for?
Brother Tianba looked at the two of them and spread their hands, "How do you know that Brother Ren said that this is called the taste of time, and I'm afraid that the tofu is not smelly enough." ”
Xiaohua and Nao Teng were speechless, but since this matter was ordered by the Hou Ye, they could only do it, of course, they also wanted to try what the taste of time was.
After all this, the sun gradually sank in the west, and the younger brother of Tianba had to rush back to the city, but when he left, he took a cart of freshly picked peppers with him.
The more than 20 internal guards who returned to the city to investigate became the guards of this cart of chili peppers by the way, and returned to Tokyo City together.
In Yang's mansion, Yang Huairen hastily ate dinner, and was about to clean up the cart of chili peppers brought back by Tianba's younger brother.
Yang Mansion and the people in Suiyuan were busy, He Zhiyun saw that everyone was busy, but he couldn't help much, and he was in a hurry.
Yang Huairen saw it in his eyes, although he went to the little wife, he couldn't snub the eldest wife, and let her help with these chili peppers.
What made Yang Huairen very fortunate was that the packet of dried chili peppers he brought to Da Song was not only one variety. In later generations, farmers' markets naturally sold dried chili peppers separately.
However, Yang Huairen's father has a habit of using dried chili peppers, that is, a variety of dried chili peppers are mixed, and the compound spicy taste is stronger than that of a simple dried chili pepper.
Therefore, the package of dried chili peppers purchased by Yang Huairen at the beginning contained at least four or five varieties, and they were all more common varieties with good reputation in the market.
Fourth, the Haitian pepper of Sichuan, the Qixing pepper of Guizhou and Zhou, the millet spicy of Lake and South, and the big plate pepper of Xinjiang are all here.
Different types of chili peppers have different spiciness, and the chili oil or hot sauce made according to different proportions can meet the requirements of different food pairings.
The first thing to do is to dry these peppers. Now the planting and breeding of peppers in Zhuangzi are very good, and now Yang Huairen is in a hurry to use peppers, so the way of natural air drying is too slow, since there is no requirement to keep seeds, then you can boldly dry.
Although the work of drying chili peppers is very simple, it is very tiring to do, Yang Huairen only demonstrated it once, and let it go to the apprentices and servants to do it, and became the supervisor himself.
He Zhiyun refused to let go, she practiced every batch, and seeing her wife working so hard, everyone had greater motivation. Yang Huairen's persuasion was useless, and he stopped talking.
He knew in his heart that although Yun'er could accept him as a concubine, but a woman, no matter how generous she was, could not be without a little anger when she watched her officials take concubines, and she couldn't help with Suiyuan's affairs, so she was even more restless.
Now that he can help Yang Huairen dry the chili peppers by himself, it can be regarded as venting his depression in disguise.
Yang Huairen felt that since they were two people, they didn't need to say too much to make her happy, time would prove their feelings, of course, the real men could not only speak, but also be able to do things.
When it was almost midnight, a cart of peppers was all dried. Yang Huairen felt that he had made all the preparations that should be made, and no matter what conspiracy Juyuan had in the future, he would have a way to deal with it.
While drying the chili peppers, the stove did not dry boil, Yang Huairen had already ordered everyone to boil a lot of hot water at the same time, and they were sweating after finishing their work, so they could take a hot bath to relieve fatigue.
As soon as He Zhiyun walked out of the door, Yang Huairen couldn't wait to hold her in his arms, sniffed the fragrant sweat on her body, and said something in her ear.
Yun'er said angrily, "Whoever wants you to accompany you, just wash the concubine herself......"