Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Cheers of the Big-Headed Soldiers

All the soldiers in the salt factory were fortunate to load the salt they had worked hard for a month onto the car, and just looking at the salt bags piled up on the wagon, a strong sense of accomplishment filled their hearts.

"This is 10,000 catties of salt, do you want someone to weigh it?" Since Zhang Daren humiliated Jia Yi last time, Jia Yi would show a mocking look every time he saw Zhang Daren.

"Call it a fart, the lord is still waiting in the city, how can I have the spare time to talk to you like this, I will bring you the money tomorrow, and the salt will have to be tested in the city."

"It's okay, don't worry, the money isn't mine anyway."

Hearing Jia Yi's words, the big-headed soldiers who were still full of happiness before all turned black, this money is not yours, but it is ours, you are not in a hurry, we are in a hurry.

"There is a possibility that the production of salt will be suspended next month." Zhang Daren pulled Jia Yi aside and whispered to Jia Yi about the above decision.

It's just from this point that Jia Yi can know a lot of news, that is, Li Er still believes that there will be a locust plague next year, and plans to use the food that will be used for war next year for disaster relief.

"Master, let me ask you a quasi-letter, how big will the locust plague be next year?"

This Jia Yi knows very well that the locust plague recorded in history is the most extensive one, including the entire Gyeonggi Province and a small part of the Inner Road, enough to have dozens of counties in four states affected by the disaster, and the matter of eating and starving all over the land will really happen, but although he knows, he can't say it directly, after all, he has only wandered around Duqu County, not to mention other states, even other counties He has not been to a few times, if there are dozens of counties with one mouth, everyone will listen to his words as a lie.

"Well, I don't know exactly how big the locust plague will be, but it is said that Yuan Tiangang and Yuan Daochang have calculated that the scope of the disaster will be very large, and the coverage area is likely to reach dozens of counties."

Yuan Tiangang's big fool is just right to use now, anyway, to curb the plague of the locust plague, we are already cultivating, so this matter of telling the scope of the locust plague will be handed over to you Yuan Tiangang.

Zhang Daren was taken aback, he never thought that the scope of the locust plague would be so large, although he had not really seen the locust plague, he had also seen a lot from the records, thousands of miles of red land, flying locusts covering the sky and the sun, and he shuddered to think about it.

didn't talk nonsense, Zhang Daren hugged Jia Yi and quickly marched in the direction of Chang'an City with more than a dozen truckloads of salt.

The reduction in salt production is not a bad thing for Jia Yi, because the salt production has decreased, but the manpower has not been transferred back, and he is also thinking that it is time to get the greenhouse out.

Early the next morning, the salt money was sent over, a full twenty yuan, pulled a cart, Jia Yi stood on the carriage full of copper coins, and encouraged the soldiers under the car, and then began to distribute copper coins, twenty yuan is not much, but this is extra money, everyone can get more than 300 yuan, which is already a good income, don't forget that they still have food and salary to take.

When taking the money, everyone had a satisfied smile on their faces, and when Jia Yi said: "All of them are resting today", everyone snorted several times and ran towards Chang'an City, as for what to do with the money, Jia Yi couldn't care.

The peanuts in the peanut field have grown a lot taller, and I believe that they should be able to bloom in another month. The growth cycle of peanuts is very long, from germination to flowering is only two months, but it takes four months from the flower into the soil to grow peanuts, which means that Jia Yi wants to harvest the first batch of peanuts, how can he have to late autumn before winter.

It's rare to take a day off, Jia Yi is also ready to go home to rest and rest, these days are either busy or frightened, and he hasn't slept a few well, just today is nothing, let's sleep beautifully.

Lin Ruyu also looks quite idle today, embroidering something at home, but whenever Jia Yi is about to come over to take a look, she will hide it, and Jia Yi's heart is as uncomfortable as a cat.

Lin Meiyu, who happened to come over, saw Jia Yi's appearance, and couldn't help but despise him fiercely: "Women's embroidered wedding dresses, what are you looking at." ”

Only then did I suddenly realize, but your embroidered wedding dress was not for us to see in the end, didn't you read it all after reading it early, what kind of strength to hide. Without the magical color, Jia Yi lost interest, turned around and prepared to go into his room to have a good night's sleep, but when you are idle, you always want to find something to do but can't find it, but when you want to take a break after a complicated busyness, things are always endless, this is not Shen Qingyun took Jia Er to stop Jia Yi who was about to enter the room from behind.

"Brother Jia."

"What's the matter?" With a helpless face, Jia Yiji reluctantly turned his body, now the two inns have accounted for sixty percent of the entire share of Duqu County, as long as they stick to the current results, nothing big will happen for a long time in the future, why do these two seem to be in such a hurry.

"Big brother, something happened."

"Speak slowly, don't worry, I'm not standing here ready to listen."

"Suddenly, four inns appeared in the east, west, north and south cities of Duqu County, with the same name, all called Tianxia Restaurant."

Good atmospheric name, can be called the restaurant is already on a certain scale, at least the inn is on the first floor of the hall can eat, and the restaurant is divided into two floors, and the room is not lacking, just from the area, the restaurant is much larger than the inn.

It's just that Duqu County is not a big county, and the oil and water here have basically been redivided.

"If it appears, it will appear, as long as they don't stir-fry, it's not who comes and who dies."

"The point is that they have stir-fried vegetables, and there are more styles of stir-fried dishes than we do."

If there is no Jia Yi's appearance, the form of cooking stir-fried vegetables will not appear until at least the Song Dynasty, this kind of thing that is a dynasty in advance, it stands to reason that there should be no record of existence, why this world restaurant can develop a lot of dishes in such a short period of time.

Under normal circumstances, the accumulation of dishes is a long process, and there is a small story behind each dish, and it is impossible for a chef to look at a dazzling array of vegetables, fruits and meats in the kitchen, and then come up with it casually.

There must be something in this that Jia Yi doesn't know.

"Did all of their dishes exceed the original county banquet?"

Jia Yi is very sure that stir-frying in the Tang Dynasty is definitely his own initiative, since it was not created by others, then it must be someone else's stealing teacher, Jia Yi once fried more than 20 dishes at the county banquet, until now the Sifang Inn and Qingyun Inn have not been able to lift the ban on all these dishes, and even a few dishes Jia Yi has not yet handed over to the cook.

"Not really, there are only a dozen kinds of dishes they offer, and a few of them are similar."

"Then lift the ban on some dishes, and then seize the time to research new dishes."

"Brother Jia, can you give a dish that can turn the tables in the shortest possible time, their world restaurant is now losing money and making money, and the flow of people in our several inns is basically attracted by them." Shen Qingyun had a rare anxious look on his face, he Qingyun Inn had just taken a breath in the confrontation of the Sifang Inn for a long time, and this was another world restaurant, when did the inn restaurant become so popular.

"Well, I just want to take a break, isn't it that hard?" Complaining about his miserable life, Jia Yi sat on the recliner in the courtyard with a golden knife, and then instructed Shen Qingyun and Jia Er to prepare according to what he said: "Jia Er, you go and thin mud, and mud with two-star wine, Qingyun, you go to find a chicken, lotus leaves and all kinds of spices, and I will show you a hand today." ”

Although they don't know why, the two of them began to prepare quickly, and after a while, Jia Yi took what he needed, first wiped the chicken from the inside to the outside with salt, and then filled the chicken belly with chives, star anise, pepper, cinnamon and other seasonings, wrapped the chicken with lotus leaves, and evenly smeared the lotus leaves with the yellow mud that Jia Er had reconciled, until a thick layer of yellow mud completely wrapped the lotus leaves, and then stopped.

Seeing that the sky was about to darken, a bonfire was just raised in the yard, and the mud lumps were buried at the bottom of the bonfire, waiting was a very painful thing, in order to avoid everyone feeling bored, Jia Yi also began to tell the story called Huaji.

"Once upon a time, there was a man named Hanako, who walked on the mainland for two days and two nights, was hungry, and just walked to a small village, and he saw that the grass chickens fed in the yard of a family were very fat, so he thought about stealing the idea of stealing a taste, and he didn't know whether the farmer had no one or what, this called Hanako stole the fattest grass chicken very smoothly, and he was afraid that the farmer would find that there were fewer chickens and would look for them everywhere, so he ran to a halfway mountainside not far from the village. However, halfway up the mountain, he found that he had no cooking utensils, and there was only a fat chicken but he couldn't start, so in desperation, he used yellow mud as a pot, wrapped the fat chicken in it, and threw it into the bonfire. After taking out the yellow mud pimple and crushing it, an even more charming fragrance came out of the pimple. Just when Hanako was about to enjoy the food alone, a homeless man passed by here, and also smelled the fragrance, so he came in and asked for some, the food was delicious, and since then, the reputation of calling Hanaji has begun to spread in the world. ”

"It's called Huaji, the name of the good soil, you said that this name has spread in the world, why have I never heard of it." Lin Ruyu didn't know when she came to Jia Yi's side, and after Jia Yi finished speaking, she explained her doubts, leaving Jia Yi speechless.

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