The business of Luxiangfang has been very good, and the flow of customers and the beauty of the flavor have slowly reversed the public's perception of "difficult to get into the elegant hall" of the next goods.

In particular, the sauce elbow, the strange shredded chicken, and the spiced goose sausage are not only worthy of elegance, but also very popular with distinguished guests.

So after Hongfu Restaurant, a number of restaurants and restaurants have ordered lo-mei platters from Ji's Flavor Industry, and there are also certain types of orders.

Therefore, the things produced by the halo incense workshop today are not only for bulk sales in stores, but also for external supply, and the workload has increased several times.

Recently, Ji Yu has opened a wholesale business - that is, those small vendors are allowed to buy from Ji's Flavor Industry and then resell it.

In addition, in summer, the cold dishes of lo-mei are very popular, and the whole lo-mei fang is even more busy.

Not only busy, but also urgent.

The main lo-mei stuff it can't help but put. It's okay in winter, but in summer, it will be bad if you stay for half a day.

The ancients had a way to cool off the heat, cool down, keep food fresh, and make cold drinks, that is, to hide ice.

Every year, during the cold season, the ice of the frozen river is stored, because the ice at this time is the hardest and hardest to melt.

But it is not enough to have ice alone, and there is no space that can maintain sub-zero all year round, so there are ice artifacts - ice wells and ice cellars.

Ice cellars are mostly built in a shady place completely free from sunlight, go deep into the ground, lay the ice with fresh straw and reed mats, put the ice on it, cover it with insulating materials such as rice bran leaves, and then seal the cellar mouth to be enjoyed in the next year.

With this storage, about two-thirds of the ice will melt by the next year, and it is only necessary to increase the amount of ice stored in the first year to three times the amount of ice needed.

In winter, Ji Yu asked people to build several ice cellars, and ice was also stored in the ice cellars.

But this is a stupid method after all, the amount of ice storage is limited, it can be used for ordinary people to cool off, and it is used for the halogen incense workshops that have to be shipped every day and transported to various places, which is a drop in the bucket.

Unless you can make your own ice......

Ji Yu thought about it for a while, and the time and space where she was located, it seemed that there was an ice-making technique at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

It is said that the craftsmen who produced gunpowder accidentally discovered that the saltpeter they mined absorbed a lot of heat when dissolved in water, which in turn lowered the ambient temperature and formed ice, so some skilled craftsmen began to use saltpeter to make ice.

Ji Yu inquired about it, only to find out that Da Zhou also had it.

However, only those royal relatives and nobles in Beijing can understand, and outsiders can't peek into the door. Ordinary officials and wealthy families also use the old method of hiding ice.

Ji Yu asked the old Taoist priest to get saltpeter, and the two teamed up a few times, and they really got it out.

The method is as simple as placing a vessel filled with water, placing it in a larger container, then filling the container with water and adding saltpeter until the water in the intermediate vessel freezes.

Although saltpeter is not easy to obtain, after being dissolved in water, saltpeter can be raised for reuse by cooling crystallization or evaporation crystallization.

With this technology, there is no need to start hiding ice from the beginning of winter, and you can use it as you go, so your business has less worries and no longer needs to be limited by the season.

For this reason, Ji Yu specially customized a king-size container, and specially selected a group of people to be responsible for making ice, although it is a lot of investment, but it is worth the money.

After all, the lo-mei workshop is now producing more than just lo-mei.

In March, a pickle production line was added, and in early June, it was directly expanded into a pickle garden, which was temporarily combined with the Marinade Workshop, and was managed by Widow Xie first.

Ji Yu came out of the marinade house and went directly to the pickle garden.

However, the pottery urns of uniform size in the courtyard are exposed to the sun and some are placed in the shade of the chamber due to the different needs of the sunshine conditions.

In the urn, there are pickled melon, pickled garlic, pickled radish, sauced ginger, pickled pepper, pickled assorted vegetables, eight-treasure pickles, in addition to sauced soybeans and sauced tofu.

Black, white, green, verdant, brown and yellow, all look like mouthfuls.

In fact, when Ji Yu first proposed to make this thing, Widow Xie didn't agree - the farmer spent the winter, who didn't pickle a few jars of vegetables and put them there? It's not an unusual thing.

But Ji Yu has Ji Yu's considerations. There is not a shortage of manpower here in Luxiangfang, and they only concentrate on busy work from afternoon to evening, and generally have nothing to do in the morning. Even so, it is possible to develop more things to eat, and pickles are closely linked to other products in the house, which is just right.

Widow Xie was bored with the lawsuit, but she still chose to listen to Ji Yu.

What she didn't expect was that the pickles in Ji Yu's mouth were completely different from the ones she had seen before!

There are many processes and many materials, although it is distressing and troublesome, but the finished product is not to mention how gratifying.

Most of the farmers have eaten enough of the pickles in Heibulaji, but the pickles that come out of the pickle garden are different. This difference is not only reflected in the rich taste, but also in the beautiful appearance, but also in the variety of varieties.

Even the ceramic altar used for packaging was designed by Ji Yu herself, and then sent to the kiln to find someone to order.

However, this kind of ceramic altar, because of the high cost, does not do general sales, according to Ji Yu's words, it is to enter the "upper market".

At first glance, this sounds a bit of a fool's dream—those superior people eat these things?

Every time she heard this kind of questioning, Ji Yu laughed.

What happened to the superior people? The superior people also want to eat and drink Lasa, and the superior people are used to eating abalone and ginseng wings and belly, and they also want to change the porridge and side dishes.

It can be seen that there is no superiority or inferiority, as long as the appetite is right, the fans can also sell shark fin at a price.

Besides, the pickles of Liubiju can become tribute, and from a small shop specializing in firewood, rice, oil and salt, it has become a famous store that has been passed on to future generations.

Although she didn't dare to say that her pickles were necessarily better than Liubiju, she would definitely throw out the current simple and crude pickles.

It turns out that this is not a dream.

Once the products of the pickle garden were launched, they became popular in Yeyang in just half a month, and they were even more popular than fresh vegetables for a while!

The kitchen procurement of those big families has also become a frequent visitor to Ji's Flavor Industry, who makes the master of the family like it.

Especially in summer, people in the bitter summer have a bad appetite, but the things in the pickle garden can make people have a great appetite, sour, sweet, spicy, salty and fresh...... On a hot day, a bowl of thin porridge is much stronger than big fish and meat.

In addition to these target groups, ceramic jars filled with various pickles have also entered the tables of major restaurants along with lo-mei platters.

Of course, it is also targeted. Like Liuxian Building, it is mostly sweet and sour, and it has a more colorful appearance than the taste; Like Hongfu Restaurant, it is mostly spicy and salty, and it doesn't matter what it looks like, but it must be delicious.

The attitude of the people in the market towards the pickles of the Ji family has also undergone some changes, and at the beginning, no one wanted to spend money to buy what they had until after tasting it......

For such customers, after weighing the pickles, do not use the ceramic jar, directly use the lotus leaf packaging, which is environmentally friendly and fragrant, mainly cheap - they are more concerned about the price, and the price of pickles is fixed, so you can only start from the packaging.

Not to mention, this has become a symbol of the pickle garden.

"By the way, Aunt Xie, that batch of kimchi ......"

Widow Xie took Ji Yu to the next courtyard and pointed to the rows of wide-mouth jars to show her.

"This batch is coming soon, too."

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