Chapter 106: Jam

Fang Ce's injury was obviously much more serious than the injection in her abdomen that day, even with Lang Zhong's medicine, it had been burned for two days, and An Ruo once thought that Fang Ce would die directly here.

But time can't be wasted on Fang Ce, not to mention anything else, these two thatched huts alone can't live in.

Xiao Zhan looked at An Ruo with a resentful expression and asked, "Miss, do you want to leave me here alone to take care of my uncle?" ”

"No, it's the benefactor who saved you from the mouth of the boar. Xiao Zhan, do you think your life-saving benefactor, your young lady is suitable for me to take care of? ”

Xiao Zhan threw the handkerchief in his hand into the water and resisted: "Obviously, I am my uncle's life-saving benefactor!" ”

An Ruo picked up the handkerchief in the water and wrung it out, stuffed it into Xiao Zhan's hand, and agreed: "So save people to the end, send people to the west, pick them up yourself, and solve them yourself." ”

Watching An Ruoyang walk away, Xiao Zhan resigned himself to putting a handkerchief on Fang Ce's forehead, and sure enough, his mother was a capitalist, and she couldn't squeeze people anymore.

An Ruo came out of the thatched house, found Granny Mo, and said, "Mother-in-law, if you want to make jam, I have to ask you to do a favor, plus the money for the raw materials, how about you make the jam when the time comes?" ”

Granny Mo waved her hand and refused: "I can't help it, no one wants these fruits in the first place, where is it worth any money, and as for help, I can't say anything." ”

The two rejected each other, and under An Ruo's strong request, they finally made an agreement of five or five points, and Granny Mo praised An Ruo's kindness.

An Ruo smiled and said nothing, where is her kindness, if it weren't for Granny Mo to take her in, she and Xiao Zhan wouldn't know where the road ahead was, let alone rescue Fang Ce by chance, counting, Granny Mo is almost the lifesaver of their group.

An Ruo, Mo Po Po and Chunhua washed the berries three times, peeled and cored, and then put them in a pot, added sugar to marinate for two hours, and then lit a fire and slowly boiled them, crushing them while boiling until they became viscous and formed jam.

In fact, jam will look better and more valuable in glass bottles, but there are no such glassware here, so I have to settle for the next best thing and put it in clay pots.

"Mother-in-law, Chunhua, you come and taste the taste."

An Ruo invited the two to try it, and both Granny Mo and Chunhua praised it for being delicious after tasting it.

Granny Mo was a little worried: "This thing is indeed better than berries, but if this is only used as a snack, I'm afraid it won't be easy to sell." ”

An Ruo smiled: "This jam can be made into a filling of pastries, or poured on top of pastries to add flavor." As for the ordinary bulk sale, we can use white flour dumplings and dip some jam to eat, which is also good, and my mother-in-law can ask Chunhua if you don't believe it. ”

Chunhua nodded frantically beside her and said, "I'm willing to eat it too." ”

Chunhua's support was exchanged for An Ruo's jar of jam, which coaxed Chunhua to help Xiao Zhan go to see Fang Ce with a smile.

An Ruo begged: "Mother-in-law, do you know that it is inconvenient for me and Xiao Zhan to go to the county seat now, and we have to bother my mother-in-law to sell these jams." I made a few more ordinary snacks, and my mother-in-law cut them into small pieces, dipped them in these jams and tasted them for free, so that I didn't have to worry about not being able to sell them. If there is a shop or hotel that wants to buy this jam, the mother-in-law can also sell it, if those restaurants want to buy the process of making this jam, not less than five taels, not limited to one, the mother-in-law can make her own decisions. ”

Granny Mo rubbed her hands, obviously not very good at such things, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sell a cart full of berries, but she knew the current situation of An Ruo's master and servant, and knew that if there was no jam, it would be a matter of time before their ancestors and grandchildren would go hungry, so she agreed.

On the second day, Fang Ce was still unconscious, but fortunately, An Ruo asked Granny Mo to buy a new futon the day before, and An Ruo and Xiao Zhan could still squeeze in the room with An Ning to barely survive.

Granny Mo went to Qin County early in the morning with a basket of jam and a box of small pastries made by An Ruo, whether she can rely on jam to maintain a basic life, it depends on the sales of jam in the past two days.

"Miss, if you don't know, I'm afraid I'll think that Miss is letting her mother-in-law go to death!"

An Ruo looked at Xiao Zhan who turned out and wondered, "Fang Ce woke up?" Don't need care? ”

"Miss, don't worry, my uncle is blessed with a great life, and today's fever is obviously not as high as yesterday's, and it is estimated that he will wake up in the next two days."

An Ruo nodded and asked, "Are you sure to clean up the traces that day?" If that group of people is allowed to find here, not to mention the three of us, even Granny Mo's grandchildren will also be implicated. ”

Xiao Zhan patted his chest and promised, "Miss, don't worry, when did Xiao Zhan have anything wrong." What's more, that mountain range is so long, if I hadn't been greedy to drag back a wild boar that day, I wouldn't have gone deep into it and met my uncle. ”

An Ruo didn't breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, he always felt a little uneasy in his heart, but unfortunately he couldn't find a reason, so he had to give up.

An Ruo thought that Granny Mo would not come back until nightfall, but she didn't want to come back with a happy face at noon.

Granny Mo pulled An Ruo into the house, took out the innermost pocket of her clothes, and took out a lot of bits and pieces of money.

"According to the girl's price, each jar of jam sells for 500 Wen, and today I brought a total of twelve jars of jam, except for one jar for everyone to taste, all 11 jars were sold out, and a total of five and a half taels of silver were earned. Firewood and berries can be picked in the mountains, and there is no cost, except for one or two silver for the jar of sugar. That's it, we also earned four and a half taels of silver in one day. And if there is a restaurant to buy our recipe, otherwise this profitable business will have to be given to others. ”

An Ruo saw Granny Mo's happy smile, and couldn't help but tell the truth: "The craftsmanship of this thing is not complicated, I'm afraid that those masters can know it by tasting it, but it just takes some work." Now we can still sell at a high price, and when the big guy knows how to boil it in the future, he won't be able to sell it at such a high price, just to make a hard fee. Mother-in-law, there are very many people behind the restaurant in the county, we are just ordinary people, why bother to fight, as long as the price is reasonable, it is sold, and there is no need to feel distressed. ”

Only then did Granny Mo understand the key to it, and sighed: "Sure enough, rich and charming eyes, I actually forgot how dark the hearts of those high-ranking people are." That's it, the berries are just this season, and they can earn as much as they want. ”

An Ruo nodded, expressed her approval, and then said: "Mother-in-law, it is autumn now, and the weather will be cooler in the future. I wonder how many taels of silver will we need if we build two tiled houses? ”

Seeing An Ruo's sincerity, Granny Mo thought about it carefully and said, "If there are only two tiled houses, twenty taels of silver is enough." However, our grandparents are used to living in this thatched house, and the girl only needs to build her own one. ”

An Ruo shook his head and insisted on building two tiled houses, and said that the money earned from this jam was more than enough to build a house, even if he wanted to save a dowry for Chunhua, he had to live a good life before he could grow up healthily.

Granny Mo was persuaded by An Ruo's words, and sighed: "If this was before, I could only save one or two pieces of silver a year, but now because the girl's master and servant came, I dare to think about a good life for my wife." ”

An Ruo smiled: "It takes time to build a new house, and I also have some savings in my hand, if my mother-in-law is willing, why don't we let people start working now, and when the money from selling jam is earned, my mother-in-law will return the money in her own house to me." It's just that I'm new to the city now, and I don't know anything, but I'm afraid that my mother-in-law will have to help me contact these tasks alone. ”

The two refused for a long time, and Granny Mo finally agreed to An Ruo's method.

"It's just that the person who was picked up by Xiao Zhan doesn't know when he will wake up, and Miss Xiao Zhan takes care of her day and night, I'm afraid she has an idea. Mother-in-law said a big word, now our family does not have a man, if Miss Xiao Zhan is willing, this Orion has no family, maybe we can come over, we are not afraid of being bullied. ”

An Ruo was amused by Granny Mo's genius, and nodded yes, anyway, when Fang Ce woke up, he would never stay in this village, but An Ruo felt that she and Xiao Zhan could settle down here with peace.

Well, as Fang Ce said, like the former crown princess, stay away from strife.