Chapter 536: Buying Land
Just entered the summer, Ji Yu added kimchi in addition to pickles, saying that this is more suitable for summer.
Pickled sour and hot cabbage, pickled three-flavored cucumbers, pickled sweet and spicy mushrooms, pickled radish in garlic sauce, pickled lotus root in rock sugar, pickled ginger with red pepper, pickled eggplant in soy sauce, spicy pickled cowpea - these are vegetarian.
There are also meat dishes such as sour pepper soaked chicken gizzards, chopped pepper soaked duck feet, millet soaked duck intestines, three pepper chicken crispy bones, as well as mixed vegetables soaked pork ears, rice pepper soaked pork belly, and tender ginger soaked waist slices.
Not only are there more varieties than pickles, but they are also much easier to handle.
The key is according to the method given by Ji Yu, the shipment is very fast, and the shorter ones can be soaked in a day or two.
Ji Yu walked up to a few female workers who were soaking red peppers.
According to Ji Yu's requirements, they all wore the same headscarves in their hair, and they also wore the same masks on their faces, plus aprons and sleeves, in short, they looked extremely clean and neat.
Everyone lowered their heads and was busy with themselves, and they didn't stop when they saw Ji Yu coming, in addition to being afraid of missing the work in hand, but also because Ji Yu emphasized before that it was good to ignore her during working hours.
The process of pickling the top red pepper is only a few steps.
It is to cut off the stem of the fresh red pepper, wash it and dry it to remove the surface moisture, and at the same time fry the appropriate amount of pepper into dark brown with low heat, put it out and let it cool, and then sit in the pot and light the fire, pour water to boil, put salt to boil, extinguish and cool.
At this time, take out the washed and dried kimchi jar, first fill in the small red pepper, then pour in the cooled salt water, and finally add the fried pepper, star anise and liquor, cover the mouth of the jar, and ferment for seven or eight days.
"The chili stalk must not be completely subtracted, otherwise it will get water...... The salt must be put enough, and the salt water must be cool before it can be installed in the altar......"
After Ji Yu finished speaking, she went to the other side, and what she was doing here was rice pepper soaked pork belly.
Put the pork belly into a pot of water, add green onions, ginger, garlic and a little cooking wine, skim off the foam after boiling over high heat, and cook over low heat until cooked through. Remove the heat, soak the original soup to cool, remove and wash it with warm water, control the moisture and cut it into slender strips.
Remove the stems of the fresh millet pepper and wash it, chop half into a puree, and cut the other half into rings for later use. Put the garlic paste into a small basin, add water and stir, then add the chopped millet pepper, aged vinegar, soy sauce, salt, etc., and mix well into a millet pepper sauce.
Finally, soak the cut pork belly strips in the millet pepper sauce for an hour, and then remove them.
This dish is considered a fast food, and the process is more complicated than that of soaking red peppers, but it also takes a lot less time.
"Pork belly must be cooked over low heat, and you must remember not to add salt when cooking, otherwise it will be old......"
In fact, the female workers are very quick at hand, and the steps are also very skilled, the reason why Ji Yu told and told was just because this batch of goods was very important.
Following the face-to-face cooperation with Baiweifang, a subsidiary of Ji's Flavor Industry, and Sauce and Vinegar Fang, Liuxianlou Main Store intends to continue to cooperate in a new field, namely Ji's Flavor Industry's pickle series.
It's just that the second master has never come back since he left after the year, and he can't taste it himself, so even if he trusts the recommendation of the shopkeeper Liu, he still decides to buy a batch of Beijing first, and if the effect meets expectations, he will sign the deed of long-term order.
"You just have to put one hundred and twenty hearts, even if this batch is not sent to the capital, none of us dare to relax......"
Widow Xie is telling the truth, no matter who they work with, they treat them like this.
"But......" Widow Xie was a little worried, "we have almost harvested all the vegetables in Fangyuan, and now it is getting more and more difficult to buy this piece......
There are few farmers who have vegetable fields, especially those who have little land, and the fields are used to grow crops, who is willing to plant vegetables? Most of them set up a vegetable garden near the house, and they can afford to occupy a piece of land for the family to eat, and the surplus will be sold in the town.
If you still do the dehydrated vegetables in the previous two years, you can buy them for a month, but unfortunately the pickle garden is a long-term business, and the demand for vegetables has only increased, so it is best to have a continuous supply.
"Uncle Shi Yong and Uncle Gao went to Shoukang County in Linfu two days ago, wait for their news."
Shoukang County is known as a major vegetable province, and Ji Yu asked Shi Yong and Gao Guang to go directly to Lizheng in various villages to purchase their vegetables in a centralized procurement manner, which should not be difficult.
"That's good, that's good......"
Widow Xie has been so anxious about this matter that she has been burning several bubbles on her mouth recently, and she lies on the kang at night and complains about herself over and over again, why she didn't plant vegetables on her acres of land during spring ploughing.
Later, I thought about it again, it doesn't work, you can't grow spices if you plant vegetables, how can you grow vegetables if you plant spices?
Besides, her family's few acres of land are not enough to see......
Widow Xie glanced at Ji Yu, who was watching someone peel and split the oranges.
After watching it, he cleaned his hands, found a bench to sit down, and helped tear off the white tendons on the surface of the orange flesh.
There are already people on the other side who are sitting in the pot and lighting the fire.
After the water boils, add rock sugar until dissolved, pour it into a clay pot to cool, and then add honey and stir well. Finally, add the oranges, cover and seal.
This honey-soaked orange dish is one of the dishes that Shopkeeper Liu named to be sent to Beijing.
With his sophisticated vision, he must have expected that this kind of dessert would be liked by the ladies and ladies, the elderly and children of those noble families.
There are also fruit wine soaked fragrant pears, osmanthus soaked hawthorn, and rock sugar pickled crispy melon.
It's just that the capital is far away, and even the waterway will take more than 20 days, and in such a hot weather, if you want to send it to Beijing intact and not deteriorate, unless Cheng relies on ice to keep it fresh.
Ji Yu hesitated for a while at first, after all, she didn't have the wealth to get that share. In the end, it was the shopkeeper Liu who came forward and promised that the ice fee would be borne by Liuxianlou, and the matter was settled.
Although Liuxianlou doesn't care about this little money, it is not a big wrong, the reason why he is willing to take this step back, Ji Yu guessed and guessed, and could only guess that they wanted to make ice.
Otherwise, it really doesn't make sense. Businessman, no matter how good the friendship is, it is also the first word, although the second master of the virtuous has a smiling face, the shrewdness is engraved in his bones, and there is no reason to let people take advantage of it in vain.
If you want to make ice, it's easy to do, Ji Yu doesn't feel the need for any private collection. If it is shared with Liuxian Building, the ice fee for shipping goods will belong to them in the future, and it will also make the cooperative relationship between the two sides more solid.
"Aunt Xie, you keep an eye on these things, all of them will be sent to the dock the day after tomorrow, and then you will go to Baiweifang, and let your cousin assign you a delivery master and an ice master, they will follow the goods into Beijing, and everyone will give some subsidies."
Since the pickle garden was added to the Luxiangfang, the space has been limited, and the delivery team and ice-making team composed of the village lords are temporarily placed on the Xihegou side and managed by Ji Xuelan.
Ji Xuelan does not have the right to appoint and dismiss personnel, but she enjoys most of the right to transfer personnel, which is not only Ji Yu's trust in her, but also a recognition of her personal ability.
"Eh, I made a note of it."
Widow Xie replied and looked at her again.
Only then did Ji Yu realize that it was inconvenient for her to say something in public, so she untied her apron and walked with her to a secluded place.
Widow Xie was finally able to speak, "How did people ask you about buying land?" ”
Ji Yu had been planning to buy the land for a long time, but Widow Xie had never heard the follow-up, so she asked this question.
Ji Yu patted her forehead, she has been busy recently, and she really forgot to talk to Widow Xie about this.
"The Chinese people that Meng Li is looking for from the town have bought more than 40 acres at present."
"It's all in our area?"
"There are more than 20 acres in neighboring villages, and the rest are relatively scattered......"
This is also something that cannot be helped.
The land is the lifeblood of the croppers, and no one wants to sell it until they are cornered. Now that the war and chaos have passed, and it is not a year of disaster, there will be even fewer sales.
Most of the ones that Ji Yu bought were transferred from the landlords' families.
Some of them are because the land is poor and does not produce crops, but it is suitable for growing spices; Some are because of the decline of their families, such as Du Caizhu's maiden family.
I don't know if it was tortured, or if I really had no love, Du Caizhu's mother closed her eyes before she survived the New Year.
Cuizhi is really in charge of the house, and he is more and more reluctant to betray people, and he will give everything to the gambler's younger brother, and by the time Du Laocai realizes that the family is about to be emptied, it is too late.
Du Laocai was paralyzed in bed with anger, the Du family was completely ruined, and the few properties were sold by Cuizhi, and half of the title deeds went to Ji Yu's hands.
Recently, I heard that Cuizhi ran away with her youngest son in her arms, and I don't know if it's true or not, but Ji Yu only buys land and doesn't care about irrelevant things.
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