Chapter 39: Pulling the Merchant Business

"Okay." Tan Qingqing put the skewered hawthorn fruit into a roll of sugar juice, so that the surface of the hawthorn fruit was stained with a layer of sugar.

The finished rock sugar gourds are placed on the table in turn, waiting for the sugar water to cool and solidify.

After the chicken was cleaned, Tan Qingqing stuffed mushrooms, red dates, ginger, and green onions into the chicken's belly. Put it in a pot and cook.

As for the duck, Tan Qingqing chopped it into sections, put sesame oil, light soy sauce, rice wine, rock sugar, ginger and garlic to make three cups of duck.

There are also stir-fried grass carp, braised pork, and steamed prawns.

The big dish was done, and it was almost noon.

After placing all the dishes on the table in the courtyard, the people in the kitchen took their hands and waited for the men to come back and start the feast.

Tan Qingqing gave the finished rock sugar gourd to the children, and he also received a sugar gourd to gnaw there.

Although it was the first time to do it, the color of the candied stain was not translucent enough and was a little dull. But the taste is still okay.

The sweet and sour flavors are mixed and matched, and they are appetizing enough.

"Wow, how did you eat so much today?" When a fellow came back from shopping, he saw this big table in the courtyard and his face was happy.

The first one to come back was naturally Du Xiaohe. Du Xiaohe is the person who received the second uncle, and he is also the second uncle's right-hand man.

Therefore, Du Xiaohe has already been handed over to others to do the work of the general guys, and he mainly manages the guys.

He saw that the eldest and second uncles were not in the courtyard, so he put the account book in his hand close to his body and hid it in the placket.

and only looked at the dishes on the three or four tables, and sighed again and again.

"Chicken, duck, fish, shrimp, and braised pork. Color, flavor, and taste! ”

"Isn't it?"

He Niang hurriedly praised Tan Qingqing for her ability.

"Qingqing girl made a lot of effort. She was busy in the kitchen with me early in the morning. ”

As she spoke, He Niang looked out the door again, "Where is Uncle Mo?" Why don't you see Uncle Mo? ”

"Uncle Mo is still looking at the carriage."

Du Xiaohe responded.

"Last day, Fei Taishou gave us a new roadmap paper. It marks which roads have been occupied by the Tiele people, and which roads can still be passed. ”

"Last night, we studied it all night."

"I feel that most of the landing routes are no longer possible. You can only go by water. Therefore, in addition to grain, many of the things purchased today are waterway goods. ”

There is one more thing, Du Xiaohe didn't say.

That is, Tan Congwen, Tan Kaowen, and received several orders for delivery from Wuzhou City.

They are all merchants who want to go to Yuzhou City to buy and sell.

What is bought and sold is nothing more than silk, tea cakes, porcelain, spices and the like. Because of the large volume of goods, they found the Longmen Dart Bureau and wanted the dart team to escort them.

However, because the contract has not yet been signed, it is not sure whether these businessmen really want to go to Yuzhou with them.

So Du Xiaohe kept his mouth shut for the time being.

Just as He Niang was talking to Du Xiaohe, the dart board guys also returned one after another.

They looked at the food on this table, and all of them looked bright.

Especially the two little babies who just joined the dart game, Erdan and Wangcai, are also full of joy.

"What's the joy of our dart game? So many good dishes? "These days, Erdan, Wangcai, and the dog are getting acquainted with the Longmen Dart Bureau, which is good for eating and sleeping.

The spirit is also much better, and it is completely different from the skinny flesh and bones before.

I took a shower and changed into clean clothes, like a person.

"Didn't we replace the horses? In addition to helping us make up the difference in the price of the mule, Fei Taishou also gave us an extra ten taels. ”

"Oh, yes, the horses were brought by Wuya, Wuya, you remember to ask me to spend the money from the sale of horses and put it on your personal account." Du Xiaohe Road.

"Harm, don't worry." Tan Qingqing said, "I'll also take the silver, so let's put it on the account first." ”

Du Xiaohe, "It's okay." ”

Tan Qingqing took out the wooden bucket containing the rice and added rice to the big guy.

The eldest uncle and the second uncle also returned with the rest of the dart brothers.

Du Xiaohe saw the eldest uncle and the second uncle, and hurriedly handed over the account book hidden in the placket.

"It's morning, and the goods we bought are all in the account book."

Du Xiaohedao, "Dart eagles, dart dogs, we don't have the conditions to raise them yet." So I didn't look at it that way. But seasickness medicine has been prepared a lot. Grain, fire folds, gunpowder, fishing nets, materials and tools for repairing ships, Sinan compasses, and darts and pigeons were all available. Now that the weather is cold, let's go to the pharmacy and buy some to prevent wind chill in advance, just in case. ”

"It's just yesterday, and a few of our businessmen who are going to sign a contract."

Tan Kaowen nodded, "That's what I just went to do with my eldest brother." The merchants arrived this evening, and two of them had already paid the deposit. ”

It's easy to say that you paid a deposit.

This Wuzhou City is not close to Yuzhou City, in the past, the rules set by the ordinary dart bureau are that a person who goes to the trip brings eighty taels of silver.

Now there is a famine year, and there is war. Prices are only going to go up.

After all, this is a test of the team's connections, strength and ability.

Many dart games are on the verge of bankruptcy because they dare not accept orders from other counties.

Only the Tan family dares to gnaw on the cusp of this work of licking blood from the edge of the knife.

"You've eaten, and after a while, you'll go to these houses and walk around. Let's just say that no one will take their work except us. And they only have one night to think about it. ”

"If it's overtime, we won't take it."

"Okay." Du Xiaohe responded and took the ledger back.

And Tan Congwen Tan Kaowen finished talking about business, and asked everyone to hurry up to eat, "The dishes are almost cold, hurry up and eat." After eating, the 900 catties of rice grain and firewood in the afternoon had to be transported to the carriage as soon as possible. ”

Not only that, but boats across the river must also be booked in advance.

There are also some relatives in Wuzhou City, who have relatives in Yuzhou City, who also have to come to collect goods and letters.

A letter, five pieces of silver.

If you want to send something, it has to be weighted. One or two and a half cents.

Because the sending is too expensive, most of the people who find the dart board ask the dart board to help send the letter.

Receiving the letter, it was naturally a few little dolls of the Tan family.

Tan Rongbai took the lead, and then lowered his head to pick up the rice.

The main thing is that Tan Qingqing's cooking skills are too good, and Tan Rongbai has no time to deal with it at all, except for eating.

"This shrimp is good. Dip it in minced ginger vinegar juice and it's gone. ”

"And this chicken soup, tender but not woody."

"Pork belly, fat but not greasy."

"Three cups of duck are also delicious. I didn't expect Wuya's craftsmanship to get better and better. ”

"It's okay." Tan Qingqing said that she also played in general.

Cooking is such a thing, as long as you have a good grasp of the heat and ingredients, it is basically rarely messed up.

Modern people, as long as they are hands-on, can read recipes, and then be a little diligent, there is nothing that will not be.

The main thing is that I am busy with my studies and work, and I usually have no time to take care of it. Otherwise, it is still easy to make two or three dishes of ordinary home-cooked food.