In the south of Xiyang City, on the wharf outside the river embankment, a ferry boat is berthing, the river is turbulent, so the boatmen are working hard to cooperate and maneuver, cautiously leaning to the shore, the boat is full of people, they dare not be careless. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The wharf in the south of Xiyang City is shared by the government and the people, and the official and military ships can berth, but the civilian people can only go to the passengers, that is, the "human ferry", which is to facilitate the people to travel to and from Xiyang in the north of the Yangtze River and Wuchang in the south of the Yangtze River, and to transport goods to the Bakou in the east, or the wharf on the lakeside in the north of the city.

The main reason is that the river here is turbulent, and it is easy for a fully loaded cargo ship to run aground or capsize if it is accidental, and if it becomes a port with many ships like Bakou Port, something big will happen sooner or later.

After tossing for a while, the ferry finally landed smoothly, and when the pedals were put away, the men, women and children in the cabin walked up to the pier, and the people who had been waiting for a long time rushed up and shouted at the top of their voices:

"Recruitment! Recruit male workers! Li's Paper Mill recruits workers, including food and housing, and the salary is 600 yuan per month! ”

"Zhou's Paper Mill is recruiting male workers! Food and shelter, salary 620 wen per month! ”

The shouts came and went, and the guys from various families were desperately competing with each other, and any man who had just landed on the shore, as long as he showed a slight gesture of interest, would be pulled by several people at the same time, and enthusiastically pulled to the side.

Laihu'er glared at him, frightened a few shop guys who were pulling his nephew back, and then pulled the stunned young man and hurriedly left: "Don't look at it, I'll really pull you away after seeing too much!" ”

He was stationed in Wuchang and returned to Jiangbei today, and he could have taken the official and military boats, but there was an emergency, so he took a civilian ferry to return north, and it was easy to separate the crowd, walk down the river embankment, and enter the city through the south gate of Xiyang City.

"Uncle, those people are not tigers, what are you afraid of him."

"Not a tiger? More powerful than a tiger! If you put your fingerprint on the contract in a daze, and you don't go to his workshop to do things in the end, you will have to pay liquidated damages! ”

"I don't want to, he can't force it!" The stunned boy was still unconvinced, "Even if you make trouble with the government, you have to be reasonable, right?" ”

"Do you have that time to reason? Hurry up, it's going to be sold out if it's late! ”

Lai Hu'er threw the accompanying package to the accompanying servant: "You two take it back to the house first, and talk to the old master's wife." ”

"Master Lang, let's let the little one buy it..."

"You don't know how to choose! Come on! ”

As the governor of the capital and the general of the government, after finally mixing up some fame, he did not forget the favor he received in the past, and tried to bring his relatives from his hometown, especially his aunt Wu, who single-handedly pulled him up, has come to settle in Xiyang.

There are also some descendants of the clan who also came to Xiyang together, and came to Hu'er to settle them one by one, and now this stunned young man in front of him is called Laibao, who is eighteen years old, and is his nephew, who is used to making knives and guns have a lot of strength, so he joined the army.

"Grinding, hurry up, it'll be too late in a while!"

"Uncle, isn't it still early?"

Laihu'er was too lazy to say so much, so he ran away with his stunned head and legs, ignoring the "official authority", and walked around the street like a naughty boy chasing, and finally turned in front of a store.

"So many people in line!"

Seeing the long human dragon, Lai Bao couldn't help but be amazed, Lai Hu'er didn't have time to pay attention to him, and began to count the number of people in the team silently, counting and counting until the end, his face became tangled.

'Looks like it's my turn to say that it's just sold out, or that there are a few left...'

Touching the heavy copper coin in his arms, Laihu'er decided to go down and fight for luck.

"Uncle, there are so many people, will we be sold out by the end of the line?"

"Probably not, each person is limited to one at most, look at how many they have in the store, they won't sell out."

Lai Hu'er can only say this, that is, to comfort his nephew, but also to comfort himself, if it weren't for the rules set by this store to buy things, he would really have to squeeze in.

"Uncle, is this store really that good?"

"Nonsense, many shops in Xiyang City do it, but this one has the best taste, and even Wuwei Zhai can't compare to it."

Ham, cured pork or pork leg, because its meat and legs are as red as fire, so it is named "ham", and the first time Laihu'er ate this thing, it was still in the Hulin Army.

The men tossed a lot of dishes, including this ham, in addition to the famous Dongpo pork and sauce elbow.

Of course, the ham at that time was not very good, after several years of improvement, today's ham is a must in Xiyang, first of all, there are many pig farms, and Shannan can also buy salt from the imperial court, so there is no shortage of pickling raw materials.

Ham is the first to be launched in the market by Wuwei Zhai, because its method is not secret, so many wine shops have also learned, of course, the details still have to be figured out by themselves, so more and more wine restaurants are launching ham as a dish.

Anyway, there is no shortage of pork legs, and there is no shortage of salt, the number of hams in Xiyang is good, and it is resistant to storage, and the wine shops in Shannan Prefecture County are swarming to Xiyang to purchase, plus the local demand is not small, and more and more people are curing ham.

After a competition, the best ham is not Wuwei Zhai, but a small shop opened by a guy from Hulinjun, who made ham and rented a shop in the city after "retiring from the army", specializing in making ham, and beat other liquor stores to make a reputation.

However, the store is small, the number of people is insufficient, the number of hams that can be sold every day is limited, and the customers who want to buy are lined up in a long line, but the monks may not be able to buy more porridge and less, in order to let as many people as possible to buy, the small shop limits each person to buy a maximum of one ham at a time.

After tossing for a long time, it was finally the turn of Lai Hu'er, seeing that there were only a few hams left in the store, he used his skills to quickly distinguish the quality of ham, which is the experience accumulated from eating ham for many years.

Although Di Guogong said that it is not advisable to eat too much ham, otherwise it is easy to get sick, but Laihuer feels that if you eat a few bites from time to time, you will not die on the spot.

Without further ado, there will be changes later, and Lai Hu'er quickly made a decision: "Lao Chen, you want to start the second from the left!" ”

"Okay, come to the governor, and buy it in person today?"

"No way, they won't choose."

"It doesn't matter if you don't choose, I'm all good ham, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to do it?" The shopkeeper smiled, "They are all old buddies of the Tiger Forest Army, and no one will be fooled by their own people!" ”

The shopkeeper wrapped the selected two hams in lotus leaves, and chatted with Laihu'er, they were all comrades from the Hulin Army, he naturally knew each other, and the old guys often patronized and helped, and the friendship could not be broken.

Seeing a young man following Laihu'er, the shopkeeper asked, "Lai Dudu, who is this?" ”

"Come to Bao, my nephew, just came to Xiyang not long ago, boy, come to see your shopkeeper Chen, don't see him inconvenient hands and feet, it is not a good thing, when he was not injured in the army, he was a good man, one person cut down five enemy soldiers!"

"Hey, what are you doing about that?"

"Lao Chen, I said that you have become a family and established a business, and now it's time to expand your staff, are the couple busy with it?"

"I'm busy, I can't make enough money anyway, what's the hurry? The pig farms of the United Army have a stable supply, and I just need to finish these pork legs. ”

The unified army, for the veterans of the Hulin Army, is a special reference, that is, the unified army Yuwen Wen of the year, not to mention other things, the soldiers who have been disabled in combat over the years, the Yuwen unified army will arrange the back road.

The shopkeeper's surname is Chen, he was a long sword soldier of the Hulin Army, he injured his hands and feet during the battle, and he couldn't kill the enemy with a weapon, so he first divided the money and food according to his military merits, and then turned into a firehead soldier and didn't have to go to the battlefield again.

Later, he figured out the special method of ham, and Yuwen Tongjun did not insist on the secret recipe, first Wuwei Zhai wanted to invite him to be a chef, Lao Chen felt that he was not the material to be a chef, and wanted to come up with his own special way to make ham, and Yuwen Tongjun arranged for someone to open a store for him.

Pork legs, is supplied in the Yuwen Tongjun pig farm, the price is cheap and the quality is good, the reputation did not rise when the store was not good, the business was not good, it was the five flavors of Zhai to his "purchase", to attract the attention of others, and finally everyone felt that the taste was good, and the ham business gradually became popular.

Lao Chen is now married to his mother-in-law, has children, and has a good life, as for the scale of the ham business, he does what he can, and he rests at home when he has free time on weekdays.

In the Mansion of the Duke of Yiguo, many disabled soldiers of the Hulin Army were hired to do things, do what they could, and if they had a skill, they were placed in the corresponding places, or opened shops, or worked in their mansions.

Seeing that the disabled comrades have been settled and properly resettled, the officers and men of the Hulin Army have no worries: the Yuwen Unified Army will not ignore us! (To be continued.) )