"Let's first use the black sauce bought in Huluzhuang, put the salted vegetables into it, be even, make sure that there is sauce everywhere, and add a cover on it to prevent the sauce from becoming crispy. It should also be exposed to the sun and night dew, and covered when it rains to prevent rain. After marinating for fifteen days, it is then scooped up and washed out with soy sauce, which is the first step. Xie Xuan said, Xie Wang and Hui Niang began to operate.

"We ordinary people eat pickles, which is how pickled. Listen to what you say, there is a second step? Xie Wang put the pickles into a new jar, a layer of pickles and a layer of sauce, and when he heard Xie Xuan say that it was the first step, he couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"Not only the second step, but also the third step!" Xie Xuan replied with a smile: "The second step, after waiting for fifteen days, use sweet noodle sauce, soybean cake sauce, licorice powder and soy sauce, and boil with licorice coarse powder and water, which can force out the sweetness in the hay powder and add some unique licorice sweetness to the pickles." Mix these things into a thin sauce, submerge the first pickled vegetables, and do not expose the sauce surface, so that they should be mixed and checked frequently, exposed to the sun and night, and must be covered when it rains. Marinate for another 20 days. 100 catties of vegetables should use 16 catties of sweet noodle sauce, 8 catties of soybean cake sauce, two halves of licorice powder and nine catties of second-grade soy sauce. ”

Xie Wang's and Hui Niang's tongues smacked when they heard it, and Xie Wang's sighed a few times: "My good girl, add some things, it's sweet noodle sauce and licorice, isn't this delicious, won't you lose it?" ”

Hui Niang also sighed: "The pickles we eat, we all use the sauce to pickle casually, which is already much stronger than pickles." In this way, this is not eating pickles, which is more expensive and laborious than eating meat! ”

"Grandma, don't be too busy being surprised first, so that the pickled ones will be more delicious than usual, and they can be sold. But if you want to be more delicious and flavorful, there are two more steps ahead! Xie Xuan couldn't help but smile: "The third step is to add syrup." Add about three catties of white sugar to 100 catties of vegetables, dissolve them in licorice water, and submerge the previously pickled vegetables. On sunny days, you should use a pry tank to mix and bask in the sun, and on cloudy days or sunny and rainy weather, you can cover the cylinder and not move it to prevent rain, and then marinate for three days. In this way, the sweetness can penetrate into the pickles, the salty with the sauce aroma, the sauce fragrance with a slight sweetness, and the taste is unstoppable! ”

"What else, you just say it together, and hang your grandmother and mother's appetite!" Xie Wang couldn't help but say angrily.

Xie Xuan couldn't help but wonder: "In the end, the pickled pickles are fried and ground into powder with five coins of fennel, half a penny of peppercorns, and half a penny of kaempfera, and a layer of pickles and a layer of seasoning powder are put into the jar, sealed with oiled paper and mud, and cannot enter the air." That's it! ”

Xie Wang's and Hui Niang couldn't help but snort while pickling the pickles, and their faces were full of incredulity.

"Who would have thought that mile? I can't remember the steps clearly, who could have figured out that pickles can be pickled like this? Xie Wang said.

Hui Niang also said: "After some steps, I finally pickled it out, and I don't know what it tastes like?" ”

Xie Xuan said: "The pickles that are pickled in the end should be light brown-red in color, wrinkled on the outside, and crispy in taste. Take a bite, the center has to be brown and yellow, the first entrance is a rich sauce fragrance, the aftertaste should be sweet, and there is a long aftertaste, this is the success! The pickles pickled in this way must be better than the sweet pickled melon eggplant and sauce Datong ginger in Taihelou! ”

Xie Wang's surprise said: "The sweet pickled melon and eggplant and sauce Datong ginger in Taihelou are sold for four or five silver miles on a plate, if we make them more delicious than them, wouldn't we earn more?" ”

"Mother, people open restaurants, the cost is there, even ordinary dishes have to be asked for in the restaurant, where can our small business be compared with the restaurant?" Hui Niang was more sober at this time, "Our pickles can be sold for four cents a pound, and we will make a lot of money!" How much is radish and ginger, snow red, and mustard greens worth? I planted it and took it to the vegetable market to sell, and when the price was cheap, I bought a big basket for a few dollars! In the coming year, we will open a few acres of wasteland in the wasteland next to the courtyard, plant all vegetables, and don't even need to buy vegetables. Even the sauce, sugar, and seasonings cost money, but they are just ingredients, and if we make our own sauce in the coming year, the cost will be lower. When the time comes, you can earn a lot of miles! Xuanxuan, you calculate, how much can you earn by subtracting the cost from a hundred catties? ”

Xie Xuan lowered her head and calculated in her heart, and said with a smile: "What my mother said is that any dish that enters the restaurant has to cost several times the price, and the shopkeeper, the chef, the running hall, the vegetables and meat, and the building are all cost!" No matter how good our taste is, the price is not comparable to Taihe Lou, how many taels of pickles does it have? It costs four or five cents of silver! Then let's calculate it according to a pound of pickles fifty yuan, one hundred catties is five taels of silver, and then subtract the cost, you don't need money to grow your own vegetables, but seasonings, sugar, sauce, and jars also cost money, so let's subtract three layers, so that a hundred catties can be sold for three taels and five dollars. ”

Hui Niang smiled happily and hurriedly said: "Three two five silver is a lot of miles, not to mention that it is not necessary to use the cost of three layers, in the coming year, we will make our own sauce, and the beans used to make sauce are also grown by ourselves, only buy seasonings and sugar, salt, and jars, where are the three layers used?" In previous years, the whole family was tired and tired, and after half a year, there were no three or four miles left! ”

"What I'm saying is, besides, where can I only pickle a hundred catties, and then I can't pickle a few thousand catties? Over the course of a year, I have to earn one or two hundred taels of silver! Saying this, Xie Wang couldn't help but be happy, and he couldn't stop laughing.

Hui Niang also squinted her eyes with a smile, and her sallow face couldn't help but flush with excitement, and her expression was full of longing.

Xie Xuan looked at the joy in the eyes of the mother and daughter, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, happy in her heart.

Being able to change the lives of the people around you bit by bit through your own hands is not something that can be easily obtained by shopping and swiping your mobile phone.

There is a way to live in the future, there is a way to live in the present, Xie Xuan looked at Xie Wang's and Hui Niang's smiles full of longing, and felt that she had finally found the meaning of her existence in this era.

When it was almost dark, I finally marinated all the dishes in sauce.

Xie Wang and Hui Niang made dinner, although it was just porridge and multigrain steamed buns, everyone also ate sweet. In addition to fried radish, Hui Niang scrambled an egg with garlic, which was rushed to eat by Li Lian, and while eating, she also slanted Xie Xuan, and Xie Xuan was not as knowledgeable as her.

After dinner, everyone sat idle for a while, Xie Xuan brought a box of snacks sent by Fu Junzhi and a box of Muxi fragrant tea, and let Hui Niang make some bubbles, and everyone sat around the fire, eating snacks and drinking tea, gossiping, and discussing what to do in the next few months.

Xie Xuan counted with her father and mother on their fingers, how much dark sauce, sweet noodle sauce, salt, sugar, seasonings, soy sauce, pickles and jars to buy, and they were illiterate, so they could only let them silently remember in their minds, don't forget.

Xie Wang said that when he came, he brought them twenty taels of silver, and gave them the capital to make pickles, so that they could work hard.

Hui Niang and Li Changping were moved and didn't know what to do, Li Changping hurriedly said that he would definitely pay back the money when he earned the money.

The cold wind was howling outside the window, but the hearts of everyone in the room were hot.

When the residual temperature in the charcoal basin became cold, the moon rose in the middle of the sky, and everyone went back to sleep.

Because the two rooms in Hui Niang's house are pan kangs, the place is big, and the kang is burning again, and she sleeps peacefully at night.