Chapter 8: Make a little braised plum water first
"What's that?" Li Zheng said curiously, "There are also plums in Shu, but I have never heard of this kind of food." ”
That means that no one in this era has invented the nine-system plum? Lin Huan'er was happy, "That will definitely sell for a good price." However, to make nine plum blossoms, you need to buy a lot of porcelain jars, and you also need to buy some medicinal materials, and this money is ......."
Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, and felt a flurry in his heart, it seems that this little girl is not stupid at all except that she can't lie, she is upright. He said generously, "How much does it cost?" I can give it to you if it's less than ten taels, and I'll have to ask Uncle Li for more. ”
Lin Huan'er was stunned for a moment, "I don't know," she thought for a while, "Why don't I write down the things I need and buy them for me when Grandpa Li rushes to the market?" ”
"Wait a minute, what is your name Uncle Li? Grandpa Li? Haha, then you're not going to call me uncle? ”
Lin Huan'er looked at Li Zheng, who laughed inexplicably, and sure enough, no matter how mature he was, he was a little child.
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Scolding and scolding, on the second day, Lin Huan'er received ten large vats and a large package of herbs from Li Yuan.
I don't know what Li Zheng said to Li Yuan, Li Yuan smiled and thanked Zeng's for a while, "My young master is busy studying, there are a lot of things that I don't have time to do, please trouble your Huan'er girl, this food and trade young master only has one idea, and the rest is handled by Huan'er, and when she makes money, she will take ninety percent, and the young master will take one percent, don't worry, we won't let the little girl work in vain." ”
The words filled Zeng's heart, not to mention whether she made money or not, she rushed to her neighbor to send ten large vat with refined salt and sugar, and she had to do it well. What's more, if you really make money, you can still get nine shares of your own ring.
That night, she helped Lin Huan'er wash the vat, and the ten vats were cleaned and dried in a row.
Early the next morning, Zeng didn't bother to clean up the house, but carried the bamboo basket up the mountain first.
When Lin Huan'er woke up, there were already two bamboo baskets of green plums in the house, and the house was full of plum fragrance.
"Grandma, why didn't you call me?" She reached out to reach for the basket, grabbed the still fluffy green plum and took a bite, "Sour, sour." "Immediately drool was secreted from the mouth.
"You can only carry more things as a villain, and you don't know where the plum trees in the back mountains grow, you play, I'll pick the plums back for you."
Lin Huan'er scratched her head, "Grandma, you need to use a little cooked plum to make nine-system plums, it's best to go up the mountain in a few days, don't be in a hurry to pick so many first." "The bamboo baskets woven by the village are large, one basket can have about 50 catties of plums, and two baskets can fit a cylinder.
"And what I picked up is useless?" Zeng looked at the bamboo basket in the room with some frustration.
"Useful, useful." Lin Huan'er turned over and got down from the bamboo couch.
If you are too lazy, Grandma will be really sad.
She poured a handful of green plums into the wooden barrel, "Grandma, come and wash the plums for me, I'm going to make something else." ”
It is very troublesome to make nine system words, it will take more than a month to produce the finished product, Lin Huan'er can't wait so long, she has been drinking brown rice gruel for the past few days, and she doesn't dare to eat too much food stored in the space, she is going to starve to death.
She can understand Zeng's mood of wanting to have more money in her hand and save money in terms of eating, so she can only make more money, and when Zeng's has a sense of security, at least ...... She'll be fed. Next, it is Ben Xiaokang.
After helping to fetch water and wash the plums, Zeng went to the paddy field to work, while Lin Huan'er dried the plums, and when the plums dried, she put the plums into the jar, a layer of plums, a layer of salt, and a layer of sugar.
Having filled the vat to the brim and compacted it, she found a plank to cover the vat.
She wants to make plum water.
The plum water is made quickly, easy to preserve, and can be taken out and drunk after about ten days, and the plum with salt and sugar added in a certain proportion is equivalent to the sports drink of later generations, and it is very suitable for people who travel long distances.
Lin Huan'er had read a book about the food of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was mentioned in the book that next to the temples and post stations at that time, there were often vendors carrying chilled braised plum water for sale.
She remembers that there is a three-way intersection about an hour from Xiaxi Village to the direction of the county seat, one of which leads to the Nanshan Guanyin Pavilion, the Guanyin Pavilion is very prosperous, and there is a temple fair on the fifteenth day of the first day of the new year every year, and even the people in the town and county will come to participate.
From now on, counting ten days to the temple fair, which happens to be April 15, she will be able to test whether the braised plum water is not selling well.
After doing this, it was already noon, she fed the chickens, cooked brown rice porridge and went to the paddy field to bring food to her grandmother, and came back to level a small plot of land behind her house.
She has some seeds stored in her space, and in the last days, seeds are extremely precious things, and if someone buys something from her, if there is no new currency, they will pay with seeds, and she will put all these bits and pieces of seeds in a metal shelf.
She took out the vanilla seeds, lemon seeds, and watermelon seeds yesterday and soaked them in water, and she planted the watermelon seeds and lemon seeds in the back of the house, and sprinkled the vanilla seeds in the open space where she found the duck plant.
Watermelon and lemon grow from the back of the house, and when the time comes, you only have to tell your grandmother that your family has produced two fruits, as for whether it is delicious? Just eat it and you'll know. Vanilla grows with a bunch of weeds, and most people don't notice it.
In the past few days, Lin Huan'er seems to have finally eased up, no longer looking at everything in ancient times as novel and stupid as she did at the beginning, but began to slowly adapt to the ancient environment, and with the support of the idea of making money, she was busy chattering like a little **.
Cooking, feeding the chickens, taking care of the vegetables in the dry land, but also taking time to observe the terrain of the back mountains, pulling ducks and plantar grass to dry and bundle.
During this period, she found some herbs such as astragalus and jade bamboo in the back mountain, but these medicines were relatively few, she picked a little sun-dried and put it in the space for retention, and tried to transplant some of them to her own house, but she didn't dare to transplant too much, and the herbs that grew on the mountain were not easy to survive in the environment.
Ten days passed soon, and the green plums in the vat gradually became shriveled, and the dark plums were wrapped in a thick amber juice, and as soon as the lid was opened, there was a fragrant sweet and sour smell.
The day before the fifteenth temple fair, Lin Huan'er picked out a small jar of green plums, smashed them into plum velvet, borrowed the Li family's well to chill it in the well, and early the next morning, Zeng used a cart to push two large wooden barrels to cool the boiled water, and went to Li's house to get plum velvet.
"Yo, Sister Zeng, get out of the car, I'll help you." As soon as Li Yuan opened the door, he was startled when he saw the two large wooden buckets of water on the trolley. He was a martial arts man pushing a car that he felt laborious, and the old lady pushed it so calmly.
"Don't don't, let me come, this transaction will share my family's money, I can't just look at it and don't work at all." I don't know what Li Zheng said to Li Yuan, since he promised to share Li Zheng's profits, Li Yuan's gaze at Lin Huan'er was always grateful.
Since there is a Li Yuan cart, Zeng took a basket of dried herbs with her, and this time she knew that this herb could make money, so she took care of it very carefully, cutting the grass roots, and tying the stems and leaves with hay one by one.
When they set out early in the morning and arrived at the bazaar of His Excellency Guanyin, there were already many vendors who had set up their stalls.
Li Yuan didn't raise his eyes, pushing the cart loaded with water all the way through the breakfast stalls, and only stopped at the place near the mountain road.
"Grandpa Li, why don't we set up a stall near the food stall?" Lin Huan'er said curiously.
Li Zheng unloaded the large wooden bucket filled with water, "I have only seen braised plum water in Yangzhou and Yingtian, and many people in our town don't know about it." Near the food stalls in front of the market, those people should hesitate, always thinking that when they are not thirsty, there is no need to spend money to taste this freshness, anyway, there is still a need to go ahead, but when they really finish the market, they want to drink water and are too lazy to turn back. ”
"Let's set up a stall at the exit of the market, one is that many people eat food, it should be when they are thirsty, pour a bag of water to quench their thirst when they leave, and climb the mountain, and then they have finished shopping in the market, knowing that this is a rare thing, and then go forward and can't meet it, if you want to try it, you will start."
Lin Huan'er blinked her eyes, isn't this the analysis of consumer psychology that Master talked about before?