"A duck gets two liters of rice on credit, and it will be good to harvest the wheat, and when the duck grows to three or four pounds, I will buy it, and then I can use the duck to offset the account, and I can also return the wheat." Du Mei calculated according to the market price, although he suffered a small loss, but the villagers did not care too much.

"Meizi, you are really a living bodhisattva, I'll go and tell them quickly." Aunt Zhang dropped the shovel and left.

She went one by one and dragged out all the people who were working in her duck shed, and when she told Du Mei what he had said, everyone was so happy that they couldn't believe it was true, and they all ran over, and surrounded Du Mei uneasily, and repeated the words again.

In the end, Du Mei had to say that she asked them to come to the house at night, and when the time came, she wrote them a note, and went directly to the grain store to receive rice with the note~. Then they believed.

And in the evening after dinner, people came to Du Mei's house one after another, and the second courtyard was full of people, and the women praised Du Mei's benevolence and righteousness loudly in front of Xu, and said a lot of beautiful words, while Xu was busy pouring sugar water for them to drink, and took melon seeds and peanuts out for everyone to eat.

Zhang held a thin piece of paper in his hand, and carefully packed it in his purse, this is a stone of life-saving rice, and it must not be lost. She drank a stomach full of sugar water in the second room with satisfaction, and her pocket was full of melon seeds and peanuts, and then she came out of the courtyard.

There was a person standing in a trance in the shadow of the tree in front of the door, which frightened Zhang's family, and she looked at it, it was actually Dafang Zhou's.

"What are you doing in the middle of the night, and you're looking for something to steal!" For the matter of releasing ducks on the river beach, Zhang and Zhou had long been on discord, which would be frightened by her, and immediately scolded angrily.

"That stinky girl really gave you rice on credit?" Zhou didn't care about Zhang's mean words, and asked anxiously.

"The widow is kind-hearted, and he can't see the suffering of the villagers, where is a guy like you who picks at the rope, and refuses to lend a handful of rice to others. What are you doing here? Hey, people like you, who have more than a dozen acres of land at home, don't you want to take credit too? Zhang raised his voice and teased her.

"It's really unreasonable, our mountains and forests have been used by you in vain, and there are cheap rice to give you credit at this time, how can I not have my share?!" Zhou said annoyedly.

"Hey, hey, we're not ashamed to call this time! When I listened, I felt that my face had nowhere to rest, the Meizi family now has benefits, so you came in a hurry, who made the family break up in the first place? Whose relatives forced Du Meiniang to jump into the river, and who made the old man angry to death in the end? "Zhang's mouth has always been very poisonous, and when they quarrel, they will pick up the other party's sore spot and poke it violently.

"You are talking nonsense, it was the Xie family who broke up the family, and she was the one who made the old man angry to death." Zhou refused to carry this black cauldron and shouted loudly.

"She's dead now, of course you rely on her, but her son is angry, maybe he will be admitted to the master next year, I see that you dare to be so hard-mouthed when you arrive, it's all thanks to others!" Zhang didn't show weakness at all, and shot back with his hips and feet.

"What's going on?" The villagers in the courtyard of the second room who had not yet left were attracted by the sound of the quarrel outside, and they all ran out to watch.

"Hmph......" Zhou was robbed by Zhang's white, her face was pale, and when she saw everyone coming out to watch the excitement, no one helped her speak, and she was even more angry in her heart.

"What are you doing here, don't go home yet!" Dajin heard Zhou's loud voice at home, and he trotted to pull her.

"They all got the benefits for nothing, but we didn't have our share!" Zhou was so angry that he shook off Dajin's hand.

"Meizi is kind-hearted, and our family is not short of food, what are you making trouble!" Da Jin looked at the villagers looking at him with disdain, and suddenly his face was gloomy.

"You are stupid, they can give credit, you are her uncle, shouldn't you give it more!" It is useless for Zhou to hate Dajin.

"I'm confused, and I don't have to pay back the credit!" Dajin couldn't help but be very annoyed when he saw that he couldn't control a woman in front of everyone.

"It's not impossible for you to take credit, it's very profitable, if you agree, just come on credit, how much you have!" Du Mei stood at the door, looked at Zhou with cold eyes, and said lightly.

"Dead girl, you rob the money, your elbow turns out, very good? It's not so ruthless in the money bank! Are they all very good? When Zhou heard this, he jumped like thunder.

"yes, that's good." Everyone laughed, "Do you dare to come on credit?" ”

"Shameful thing, why don't you hurry up and go home and raise the corpse!" Dajin was so laughed by the villagers that his face burned like fire, and he dragged Zhou away.

The crowd laughed, and after a while they dispersed, and the next day, a dozen or so families had mixed the rice, and the village was suddenly quiet, and the sound of ducks could no longer be heard.

"Meizi, you have a good night's sleep for me, and you have lost a lot of rice in vain." In the evening, Xu Shi and Du Mei talked.

"Mother, it's nothing, I'm going to take it back in the future, most of the villagers are kind-hearted, and they won't deceive me." Du Mei patted Xu's hand and comforted.

"When do you leave, I'll prepare your luggage." Xu's heart was reluctant, but both Song Jiu and Ye Dan hoped that Du Mei would go to Jiangling City to break through, and they did their best to help her.

"The day after tomorrow, I'm bothering my mother again." Du Mei lowered her head, rubbed Xu's hand, tears were hidden in her eyes, no matter how ruthless her mother's words were, she was reluctant to give her up after all, she knew in her heart that she dared to go step by step to today.

"I see that Xiao Qi will serve the pigeons, you can take them, if there is something, you can also report to us, it is better than the cow and horse to run." Xu touched Du Mei's smooth hair and said softly.

After a lapse of more than half a month, Du Mei and Xiao Qi returned to Jiangling City with the spices and pigeons they had picked up on the mountain, and Murong Xi had built a new shop on the dock, and even the stove in the back kitchen had been built.

Du Mei began to buy large pots and other kitchen utensils, other spices and condiments were ordered, and began to be sent one after another, firewood and daily necessities were now available, and for a while, the originally empty shop was soon filled with all kinds of objects and guys.

Everything is available, Du Mei and Xiao Qi return to their positions one by one, Murong Xi will not do this, just stand and point, Du Mei thinks he is verbose, so he drives him back to the Wu family's courtyard.

Early in the morning of the second day, Du Mei took Xiao Qi, locked the door, and went straight to the villa, the ducks sent by Song Jiu last time have been raised for more than 20 days, all of them are fat and thick, oily and slippery.

Under Du Mei's guidance, Du Zhong caught ten fat ducks, Miao had already boiled a large pot of hot water, and the women slaughtered the ducks with their hands and feet to remove their feathers, cut off the tips of the wings and duck paws according to Du Mei's appearance, made a small opening at the root of the duck wings, cleaned out all the internal organs, and then floated them with clean water.

It was the first time for everyone to try, and it was inevitable that it would be slower, and it took Miao more than half an hour to clean up the ten ducks with the three concubines and Du Mei.

"I'll take these back and try them according to the ingredients, if it is successful, they will be slaughtered here in the future, and then sent to the shop for marinating." Du Mei found a bamboo basket, put the duck embryo in it, and covered it with a damp cloth. He also asked Du Zhong to chop a bundle of reeds by the water.

"I gave those two carriages a horse a while ago, and you can use it today." Du Zhong pointed to the stable, and sure enough, there were three horses standing there.

"These winged duck claws, hearts, livers, gizzards, and intestines are few today, and if there are more in the future, what can I do?" Miao said with a frown.

"Auntie, this can rest assured, next time if the duck kills a lot, the duck blood is caught in a basin, cooked, and even these cleaned hearts, livers, gizzards and intestines are sent to restaurants in Qinghe County, where you can make sought-after deliciousness, and it is not enough to sell every time." Du Mei smiled, duck blood vermicelli soup is the signature dish of Mei Ji Restaurant, and I don't know how many people are worried about it.

"What about the duck wings and claws?" Miao asked again.

"Of course, these should be made into lo-mei snacks, rest assured, no one will be wasted." Xiao Qi brought the carriage, Du Mei put the bamboo basket and reeds on it, and the two left in a hurry.

Back to the shop on the dock, Du Mei started to fry the marinade, star anise, pepper and salt at the same time, until the fragrance is fried, let it cool, evenly spread on the duck embryo, keep kneading, let the flavor penetrate faster, and finally the duck belly should be smeared.

Ten duck embryos are marinated in a large vat, and this kind of weather is enough for most of the day to absorb the flavor. Murong Xi had time to take a look, looking at the greasy and fat duck embryo in the vat, and he didn't have any appetite.

Du Mei is boiling brine, out of which soju and salt, but also add ginger, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, fennel, cardamom and other spice packets, boil over high heat, the aroma is very strong, after boiling for a period of time, all kinds of aromas begin to become soft, until they blend with each other, the fragrance is incomparable.

In the evening, Du Mei hung the duck embryo in the yard and drained it, and after dinner, the brine was cold, and the dried duck embryo was soaked in the brine and pickled, and each duck's belly was filled to the brine.

After a busy day, Du Mei was very tired, but very excited, and the delicious food in her dream had taken shape and was about to appear in front of her.

Du Mei made some simple food, ate with Xiao Qi, cleaned up the kitchen, before going to bed, it was already three watches, Du Mei fished out the duck, hung it on the shelf to dry, and then went to bed.

Du Mei squinted her eyes in a trance, thinking about the duck in her heart, and the sky was white, and she got up.

Set up firewood to burn the fire, put water in the pot, add salt and spice packets, stuff ginger star anise and onions into the duck's belly, cut a hollow reed pipe, insert it on the duck's buttocks, wait for the water to boil, put the duck head down and feet up in the pot, change the heat to simmer a stick of incense. When it is mostly ripe, pour out the water in the duck's belly, remove the fire from the stove, and simmer for another quarter of an hour before it comes out of the pot.

Du Mei was busy in the kitchen in an orderly manner, the cauldron was steaming, the water was steaming, the new fragrance of the condiments, and the saltiness of the duck were blending and condensing with each other, diffusing a fat but not greasy, fresh and attractive taste.

"It smells so good!" Xiao Qi was sleepy-eyed, and she rubbed her eyes and went into the kitchen.

"Go wash your face, and come and try my sister's craft later." The duck was held on a large plate and placed on the long table in front of the window, and Du Mei opened the window to let the cool breeze in the early morning, so that it could cool faster.

"Girl, are you selling this duck?" Du Mei has not yet opened, and the wind has spread her craft everywhere, and early risers have come to smell the fragrance.