Today is the thirtieth month of the thirteenth year of Yongle of Great Qi.

Early in the morning, the village was awakened by the sound of chopping vegetables and the sound of children laughing and playing.

Smoke wafted in the air in Shuiluo Village, and everyone began to prepare lunch, today is the New Year, and lunch must be prepared grandly.

This year, they survived natural disasters and escaped man-made disasters, climbing mountains and wading all the way from the north to the south, and this year was too difficult for them to forget.

Today is a good meal, forget the bitterness of this year, and start the sweetness of next year.

The Xu family, Guan Dongyue and Wu Xiuzhu were helping to wash the vegetables, originally wanting to let their children follow them for the New Year, but Guan Dongyue and the two disagreed, insisting that they could not disturb the Xu family.

I didn't think that Guan Dongyue had a fever two days before the Chinese New Year, and Wu Xiuzhu was startled at night, so he hurriedly came to Xu's house and called Xu Yunjin.

After Xu Yunjin took the pulse, she found that she was not only infected with the wind and cold, but also worried too much, and she should be worried about the future of several children.

Later, when Zhang and others found out, they forcibly asked the two to bring their children to Xu's house for the New Year, and the two came to help early in the morning.

"A-Niang, bring me millet pork ribs and plum cabbage button meat, and I will put them in the steamer and start steaming."

Xu Yunjin prepared ten dishes, which means that the new year is perfect.

They are braised pork, millet pork ribs, Buddha jumping over the wall, braised pig's head, braised pig's trotters, stewed pork ribs with radish, stir-fried bean sprouts, spicy chicken, sweet and sour pork ribs, and plum cabbage button meat.

Millet pork ribs and plum cabbage button meat are loved by the elderly and children, pig's head meat can be drunk, and a few old men can have a drink or two.

In the winter when there are no greenhouse vegetables, fried bean sprouts are simply a savior for people who want to eat vegetables, and finally eat the greasy, and then have a bowl of light pork rib soup, which is simply delicious.

At noon, after the village sacrificed to his ancestors, Xu Yunnan took the firecrackers bought by Xu Wen and went to the roadside to set off firecrackers.

He is the son of the Xu family, and he will be an adult next year, and his family will let him fire the first shot of the New Year.

"We have experienced a lot this year, and we almost didn't make it to the south alive, but fortunately, we are all safe and sound, and it is also a great blessing to settle in a prosperous city like Jiujiang Fucheng.

Come, we have done this cup, this year's suffering, with this cup of water belly, it will become a cloud of the past, next year we will work harder, build the house well, the field is rested, and then raise the children well, and the life will be better if we take root in the south. ”

Today is still Xu Dalei speaking on behalf of the Xu family today, everyone's bowl is filled with a bowl of tea, and water is used instead of wine, everyone raises the bowl and drinks the tea in the bowl in one gulp.

"Brother Chen, Brother Luo, you two don't stay in the past and can't get out, you have to plan well for your children in the future, Brother Zhuang, since you have nowhere to go for the time being, then stay in our Shuiluo Village, we are all very welcome for you to stay, you two girls too, usually don't be so stressed, if you can't make up your mind, come to your grandma and aunts, we will do our best to help you."

Old Man Xu comforted Chen Sihuai, Old Doctor Luo, Old Man Zhuang, and Guan Dongyue who were present.

Then he picked up the chopsticks and clamped the first chopsticks dish, signaling everyone to hurry up and eat the dishes, otherwise the food would be cold, the old man Zhuang couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks and start eating, and commented while eating:

"Well, the little girl's craftsmanship is really good, this bean sprouts are crisp and raw, this pig's head meat is really refreshing, this plum cabbage and millet pork ribs are too suitable for the old man with bad teeth, oily but not greasy, the most fragrant is this Buddha jumping over the wall, the fragrance is ten miles, no wonder it can be called the Buddha jumping over the wall, the monk wants to break the precept and taste the meat when he smells it."

A lively lunch was spent in the laughter of everyone, and after the meal, a few old people went for a walk to eat, and the children went out to play.

A few men and women of the Xu family went to clean up the mess, their family did not have the bad rules of a gentleman and a cook, even Xu Yunzhao would rush to work.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, only the Xu family ate in the tent by themselves, and Old Man Zhuang did not know where to go, so there was no separate table for men and women, but the family ate on a table lively, and at the dinner table, Old Man Xu looked at the neat and tidy family, and an old face smiled extraordinarily.

"Jin girl, you said before that you let your father and second brother continue to study and take the exam, you have your own way to make money, you tell your family about your arrangements for the coming year, and the family can contribute according to your arrangement."

The Xu family does not have the habit of eating and sleeping silently, and there is no need to find time to talk about some things, and you can come up with ideas at the dinner table.

"Grandpa, the farm rewarded me with recipes for making tofu and konjac before, and I bought some soy products myself, so I planned it."

Hearing his grandfather's words, Xu Yunjin put down the dishes and chopsticks and told Old Man Xu what he thought.

"I think that in the next year, after we build a house, we will build a tofu workshop in the village, and let the eldest aunt and aunt take care of it.

If the tofu business is good and we make money, we will recruit people in the village to make a large number of soy products.

In addition, I also want to use soybeans to make a kind of sauce, that is, the kind of black soy sauce I used to cook before, the soy sauce added to the cooking tastes very good, it takes a lot of effort to make soy sauce, and it takes a long time to see the benefits, so this soy sauce, I will hand over the recipe to the uncle, who first prepares the venue and the things to be used to make soy sauce, as for the ...... of the people who make soy sauce."

Xu Yunjin didn't want to spread his family's business too big from the beginning.

One is because of the manpower, and the other is because of the lack of family background, so now only soy products and soy sauce are made.

The soy sauce process will take at least a year and a half to make and successfully produce the sauce, and she may still be pressed to prevent the soy sauce from coming out so quickly.

The temptation of this thing is too great, and the wealth is moving, and it is not good for their family now, even if there is a Zhao family behind them.

Maybe after a year or two, her father will become an official and her brother will be successful in his studies, and she may consider letting soy sauce come out sooner.

Therefore, she doesn't want to use the people in the village, she wants to buy people, and for the dynasty where human trafficking is legal, it seems that this is the only way to protect her own interests.

"Grandpa, the matter of soy sauce is very important, I don't want to use the people in the village, I can teach them to make a lot of money-making things, and I can also recruit people to work in the workshop, so that they can buy goods from the workshop and sell them.

But soy sauce, once we really make it, then our family is in great danger, because this thing will be made with salt, so after making soy sauce, it will contain some salt, and when we put soy sauce when cooking, we can put less salt.

That is, ten catties of salt should be used a year, and with soy sauce, only seven catties of salt may be used, but it cannot be used instead of salt, this thing is too valuable, our family cannot afford this risk, what I want to do is to benefit the people, not let soy sauce become the money bag of the powerful. ”

Hearing Xu Yunjin say that soy sauce is so important, everyone in the Xu family subconsciously observed whether there was anyone around.

Xu Wen even stood up excitedly, salt, iron, gold and silver, the most strictly controlled things by the imperial court, the most important of which is the salt mine.

The imperial court did not allow the sale of salt without permission, although some people did so, but there was no evidence, and the emperor had no choice, and now the soy sauce he was making could replace salt to a certain extent, and the raw material was soybeans eaten by poor people.

In other words, as long as soybeans are planted, they will be inexhaustible, and if they spread the word, their family and even their village will be razed.

"Ah Jin, what you said is true, can soy sauce really replace salt to a certain extent? That's salt, the salt that is most strictly controlled by the imperial court. ”

Xu Wen suppressed his excited voice, the ghost knows how expensive and difficult the salt is now, every time he buys it, he has to limit it, and it is still coarse salt.

If you can buy an unlimited amount of soy sauce that tastes good instead of salt for less money, I don't know how many poor people can benefit from it.