The Song Haonian brothers went out to sell furs, and also brought a lot of mountain goods, air-dried game, mushrooms, etc., they were going to the provincial capital, and the people in that place liked these things and could sell them at a high price.

Lily was naturally worried, but she knew that they would rush back before the end of the year so that they could celebrate the New Year with their families, so she concentrated on preparing supplies for the New Year.

The weather is getting colder and colder, the only fruit that can be eaten in the mountains is sour jujube, sour jujube is moistened by the clouds and mist in the mountains all the year round, slowly ripens in autumn, and when it comes to late autumn and early winter, the green and astringent completely fade, and the taste is the best.

Different from jujubes with only sweet taste, sour jujubes are usually only the size of a fingernail, and the taste is sweet and sour in the mouth, and the flesh is slightly shriveled in early winter, and there is not much meat, but the skin is very tough, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it is.

All the vegetables in the field are harvested, or hidden in the cellar, or dried vegetables, or made into kimchi, the vegetable field no longer needs to be served, Lily takes the black tiger up the mountain, and can pick a large basket of sour dates in an hour, and sell them on the market for a few dollars.

Jujube is a small thing in the end, no matter how much you eat, you can't eat enough, the weather is cold in autumn and winter, people are often cold and hungry, the business of jujube is far less than the mountain fruit in spring and summer, and the sour jujube lily that can't be sold will be dried and made into tea.

The cold of last winter was deeply in her memory, and Lily specially instructed Lamei to save some fire every day when she lit the fire, and if it was cold again, she would have to rely on the fire to burn the brazier.

The texture of the fire is soft and not resistant to burning, Lily is worried about this, Lamei doesn't care and says: "Sister, when the time comes, the fire will be burned for you, and I am not afraid of the cold." ”

Lamei is used to the cold, and in winter, her hands and feet are full of frostbite, red, swollen and itchy, and she also said that she is not afraid of the cold. Lily was cold enough last winter, so be prepared anyway.

Every household in Aoyagi Town burns firewood, and only Old Man Liu's family can burn charcoal, and Lily made a special trip to Liufu to meet Aunt Sheng, and she saw charcoal in the kitchen.

Aunt Sheng said: "This thing has hard firepower, it is easy to use, it is easy to use, it is just the same, the smoke is too strong." The old man used silver frost charcoal bought from outside, this kind of charcoal is simple, there is burning on the Zhuangzi, if you want it, I will ask someone to send you some over. ”

Lily was overjoyed: "We can't compare to the house, and we are not a noble person, just this charcoal is very good." If it is convenient for the eldest mother, ask someone to send me four or five hundred catties, and I will pay according to the market price. ”

Aunt Sheng nodded, and said, "Can you figure out what is delicious about this sweet potato?" We have collected so many of them, except for steaming and boiling, we have not seen any other way to eat, and we are tired of eating." ”

There are a lot of dishes that sweet potatoes can make, and Lily thought about it and said a shredded sweet potato and a pumpkin sweet potato cake. Aunt Sheng was happy to hear this, and clapped her hands and shouted to the little girl: "Burn the fire, I'll make a sweet potato today and taste it." ”

Cut the sweet potato into hob pieces, wash off the surface paste with water, first fry it slowly to a yellowish color in sixty percent hot oil, take it out and wait for the oil to burn to ten percent hot, and quickly re-fry it again, so that the surface of the sweet potato presents an attractive golden yellow.

Leave a small amount of oil in the pot, add rock sugar and a little water to stir-fry constantly, the rock sugar is slowly fried, the bubbles first increase and then decrease, when the bubbles are almost all gone, the sugar juice also becomes golden brown, you can pour the sweet potato pieces into it and stir-fry evenly, and quickly put it out of the pot and put it on the plate.

There is a little girl's spirituality, a bowl of cold water has been prepared, Aunt Sheng picks up a piece of sweet potato with chopsticks, pulls out the old silk, dips it in the cold water, the sugar silk solidifies and breaks, and it can be easily fed to the mouth.

Take a bite, the sugar coating is hot and sweet, bite through the sugar coating, sweet potato is another completely different sweetness, with chewing, two different sweetness intertwined and fused delicious!

Aunt Sheng smiled, and decided to present this dish to Master Liu, and then there was pumpkin sweet potato cake, Lily said: "Sweet potatoes are full of stomachs, not easy to digest, but not easy to eat." Aunt Sheng decided to present it in two days.

"Danian's family, you have always been a little particular about eating, do you see that this dish can still be eye-catching?" The practice of pulling silk sweet potatoes is mentioned by Lily, and Aunt Sheng is skilled, but she still hopes to be affirmed by Lily.

Lily thought for a while and said, "If there are white sesame seeds, stir-fry them and sprinkle some on them, it will definitely be more fragrant." ”

Aunt Sheng couldn't help nodding: "I know, it's right to ask you." ”

Lily is modest: "I will have a few coarse grains and side dishes, if you want to talk about serious dishes, don't say give ideas to the eldest mother, even if I have never seen it, there are many miles." Coming out of Liufu, the tip of the lily's nose was still lingering with the sweet fragrance of sweet potatoes, and she suddenly remembered that when she was in college in her last life, it was a rainy or snowy day, and she came back from a part-time job outside, and the happiest thing was to buy a sweet and hot sweet potato at the school gate, and eat it while it was hot, the whole person

All satisfied and relieved.

If you eat it at home, bury it directly in the ashes of the stove, and use the residual heat of the stove to roast fragrant sweet potatoes, but if you want to do a small business, your own stove is definitely not enough.

Lily ordered two tin stoves from a blacksmith, one of which was only slightly higher than her knees, so that she could burn charcoal for warmth, and she could also heat rice in the kitchen, which was more convenient than starting a fire on the stove.

The other was more than one person tall, and when she described it, the blacksmith did not dare to take it: "It's too big, I'm afraid it won't be good." ”

Lily said: "You just have to let it go and try to do it, and if you don't change it if it's not good, I won't lose your salary." "The blacksmith should do it.

The charcoal fire on the Zhuangzi has not yet been delivered, and Lily is not in a hurry to do business, so she will eat two roasted sweet potatoes with Lamei when she goes home.

Choose the right size of sweet potatoes and wash them, remove the ashes, put the sweet potatoes in it, cover them with a thin layer of cold ash first, and then pile up the fire that is burning brightly, and when the hot water is boiled after the meal, the sweet potatoes are almost baked.

Pull one out of the ash heap, it's all cracked and sugary, press it with your hand, and feel that the whole thing is soft, and there are no hard lumps, that is, it is baked.

Shoot off the ashes, the sweet potatoes are so hot that they can't hold it, while they can't help blowing with their hands, they break it open, only to see the flesh is golden, hot, full of color and flavor, obviously not long after eating, the two sisters feel that the saliva is coming down again.

The two sisters each took half a sweet potato and ate it carefully, and Lamei liked the sweet and soft pulp, and ate happily. Lilies like the golden-red skin under the charred skin, which is tough and sweet to chew.

Lamei said hopefully: "Sister, sweet potatoes are so delicious, you will definitely make a lot of money by selling them!"

Other small businesses, others say that they will learn to leave, and most of the time Lily relies on taking the lead, plus she can earn more money by being clever, but this sweet potato, except for Master Liu's house, is only her family, and it is unique in the town.

Of course, no one in Mr. Liu's family will come out to do the sweet potato business, and if Lily sells roasted sweet potatoes, he will definitely make a lot of money.

Lily smiled and said: "Yo, we will settle accounts with Lamei!

Lamei wrinkled her face: "I'm just loose and relaxed"

Two days later, the tenants of the Liu family brought a cart of charcoal and said, "Uncle Sheng called to send it, five hundred catties, you weigh it." ”

Lily said: "I am confident in Uncle Sheng's character, and I don't need to be called." The central tenant piled bags of charcoal under the eaves of the back of the house for her, poured sugar water for a few people, and finally asked them to bring the charcoal money to Uncle Sheng.

Five hundred catties of charcoal were stacked high behind the house, and Lamei was speechless: "Is this burning?"

Lily thought to herself, with these charcoals, I won't be frozen this winter, plus the income from selling sweet potatoes, this year must be a fat year!

In the past few days, Lily has gone to the blacksmith shop every day to have a look, and discussed with Ye blacksmith how to make the stove, Ye blacksmith is a skilled craftsman, and he quickly builds the stove after he has a score in his heart.

I went to the carpenter Liu's father's house to order a wooden car, so that it would be convenient to load and unload the stove in the future, otherwise the stove would have one or two hundred pounds, and she would have thin arms and legs, where could she carry it?

A few days later, the stove was ready, and the blacksmith Ye called Lily to see it, a round iron stove, the fire channel is spacious, and the fire is not concentrated, as long as the fire is uniform and resistant to burning.

A thick layer of yellow mud is attached to the inside of the iron sheet, and when the yellow mud is dry, the furnace can be put into use after several fires.

Blacksmith Ye asked Lily: "If others see this stove as good and come to me to fight, will I fight or not?"

Lily said: "This thing is only used by me now, even if someone comes to ask you to make a stove, it has to be next year, and then you can call them if you want." ”

Lily didn't plan to sell sweet potatoes for a long time, who also planted sweet potatoes next year and wanted to bake sweet potatoes to sell, and she also wanted to sell her stove at a discount.

The car that Daddy Liu made for Lily is a two-wheeled frame car, with a leg near the handrail, and when you don't push the car, you just put the foot down, and the leg and the two wheels form a stable triangle, which firmly supports the plane in the car.

Such a car is easy to move and very stable, and can set up a small stall to do business anytime and anywhere. Lily pulled the car to the blacksmith shop, asked Blacksmith Ye to help her put the stove on the car, and tried to push it herself, but it was a little difficult, but she could push it completely.

Lily was very grateful to the two craftsmen, and in addition to giving them enough money, she also gave them a few after roasting the first batch of sweet potatoes. The next day, Lily put on a plum and pushed a cart to the market to sell sweet potatoes. There is a stove, a pile of charcoal, a basket of sweet potatoes, tongs for setting the fire, bamboo sticks for blowing the fire, and tongs for holding sweet potatoes

It feels clean and tidy.

Sweet potatoes have one benefit: they have a strong aroma and drift away.

Here the lily roasted a few sweet potatoes, after a while, the collection is full of fragrance, attracting many people to see, and many little dolls can no longer bear to beg adults to buy sweet potatoes for them to eat.

The first person was full of praise when he ate it, which caused several people to rush to buy it, and Lily said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, it's all there." ”

asked Lamei to collect money, she put on gloves to fetch sweet potatoes for people, and told from time to time: "Scald, eat slowly." "Sweet potatoes are sold by the head, two catties a penny, cheap and delicious, and they are popular in the town in a few days, everyone loves to eat, if they have never eaten sweet potatoes, people have to say that he is a village.