Jiang Quan went to the town to buy ten catties of frosting and bought a few jars.

The second aunt said that the finished preserved fruit should be stored in the jar, so he took precautions to buy it back first.

After that, it is time to pick apricots.

Apricots are the kind of seven or eight ripe, and you can't want those that are ripe through the insects.

Then wash and remove the pits, marinate them in finely powdered icing, and add a little salt to the marinade.

After marinating for a few hours, the apricots ooze juice, so pour them directly into the pot and boil.

Do not cook for too long, otherwise the apricot meat will not be formed.

Put out the apricot flesh and soup in time, let it sit for an hour, then take the apricot petals out of the soup, place them in a bamboo plaque one by one, and then take them to the sun to dry.

After two or three days of drying, the apricot flesh becomes chewy like a persimmon, the color is yellow, sweet and sour, and it is very delicious.

The dried fruit is stored in a jar and sealed, which can be stored for a long time.

The rest of the soup is thick and sweet, and it is not only loved by children, but also praised by adults.

Sakura has little interest in dried apricots, but she likes the sweet and sour juice left over from boiling apricots.

If you add a little more ice, it's a refreshing sip on a hot day.

Sakura Po looked at the apricots in the tree and made up his mind.

"Second brother, let's pick all the apricots on the tree."

Yingbao said to Jiang Quan: "Give some to the people in the village if they are ripe, and we will make preserved apricots if they are half-ripe, and those apricot kernels cannot be lost, and we can grind almond flour in the future." ”

In her previous life, she had drunk almond tea, which was boiled with almond flour and rice milk and milk, and then put aside a little starch sugar, which was fragrant.

But there is one thing, almonds are poisonous, especially the epidermis of almonds is highly toxic, and if it is not handled well, it may be life-threatening, and children can't even touch it.

But she has a pupil spring, and when the time comes, soak almonds in spring water, and it is estimated that a lot of toxicity can be removed.

Jiang Quan's eyes widened, "Yingbao, there are several apricot trees, how many dried apricots should you make?" If you can't sell it, the money to buy sugar will be in vain. ”

"It'll sell." Sakura Po wasn't worried at all.

It's a big deal to make a little less money and give it to the vendors, and it's better than so many apricots rotting in vain.

Yan Ru said on the side: "It's better to exchange the dried apricots for the dried fruit candied fruit shop in the county, although the profit is small, it can also be an input." At least the frosting money can be taken up. ”

Her advice coincides with Sakura's.

"It's okay, second brother, when all the dried apricots are made, let's go to the county seat." Sakura is full of confidence.

It just so happened that Sakura Bao also wanted to go to the county seat to see his new house, see what the shortcomings were, and buy it himself.

"Second uncle, those peaches can also be made into preserved fruits, right?" Sakura asked.

Yanru: "Yes, the process of using peaches to make preserved fruits is similar to that of apricots, but you can make some." ”

"Then let's make some preserved peaches, and the peach pits can't be lost, peach kernels are a kind of medicinal herbs, and they will be sold to the pharmacy when the time comes." It is estimated that the price will not be high, but it can be more or less recouped.

Jiang Quan still didn't know the bottom of his heart: "How much sugar does it take?" ”

"Let's do this first, we buy a lot of sugar, we can talk to the store to negotiate, the price will definitely drop some."

In his previous life, Sakura Bao had done business, and he knew a little bit about the twists and turns here.

Yan Ru also nodded: "Go to the big shops in the county to buy sugar, you can really save a lot of money by buying more." ”

"Okay."

Jiang Quan scratched his head and asked, "When will you go to the county seat?" ”

The fruit on the tree waits for no one, and when it is ripe day by day, it hurts to look at it.

Sakura was speechless, frowning and thinking.

With so many fruit trees in their own house, seeing that the apples and grapes are about to ripen, they will definitely not be able to eat them all, and they will not be able to sell them in the township.

It's very sad.

The fruit trees I worked so hard to plant, I thought I could make some money, but I didn't expect it to become a burden.

Otherwise, let the second cousin go to the county seat to open a shop, specializing in selling preserved fruits.

I still have more than 300 taels of silver in my hand, so it shouldn't be a problem to buy a shop.

With the shop, these preserved fruits and fruits do not need to be exchanged for others at a low price, and the shop may become the focus of the county when rare grapes and apples are on the market in the future.

Even if the fruit is out of the market, there is still golden ear snow fungus, and no matter how bad the second uncle Yanru is, she will also make fragrant powder rouge, and sell it in the store when the time comes.

Ying Bao has sprinkled a lot of flower seeds on the brown land of Dongfu, such as what Yueji, Mu Dan, peony, peony, honeysuckle, impatiens, Su Fangmu, red and blue flowers, etc., she also sprinkled some lotus seeds by the pond, and now a small round lotus leaf has grown.

But the problem is, how to position your own shop?

Other people's shops are all single-minded, such as Shengde pastries, Fengrun grain shops, splendid cloth villages, Qian Ji gold, silver and jade shops, etc., and even the sliver shops are specialized in bamboo grates.

The goods sold in their own shop are complicated, but they cannot be called grocery stores.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind.

Or call it a local specialty.

Although Qinchuan County is a lower county, there are a lot of travelers, and they have a local specialty in their own name, presumably those who visit relatives and friends are willing to buy some to take away.

Because there are specialties in other places, such as what Langqiao wooden comb, Xiangyang pineapple, Qi persimmon, swallow chestnut, Wushan vermilion orange, Nanzhong tea, etc., the guest travels to the local area, and it is impossible to say that you don't buy some.

However, there doesn't seem to be any specialty in Kotogawa Prefecture.

There is no tea, no silk embroidery, no inkstone stones, no rare medicinal herbs.

It's a small, unremarkable county, and most of the people make a living from farming.

However, Qinchuan County is located in a hilly area, there is very little fertile land that can be planted, and the taxes are not small at all, so it is no wonder that people are not poor and destitute in this environment.

In the past, the imperial court stipulated that each ding could be divided into 100 acres of land, but when he arrived here, he could only get 60 acres.

These 60 acres are not all fertile land, but also some mountainous land.

Now even sixty acres cannot be divided, because there is no land in the countryside to divide.

My brother is seventeen years old this year, and he should have been assigned to the field a long time ago, but there has been no movement from Li Zheng so far.

It's not that Lizheng is inactive, but the land in the hometown is basically divided, and the rest is a rocky wasteland where some grass does not grow.

If these wastelands were given to the people, it would be tantamount to forcing the people to die.

Who can afford to pay taxes on a field that can't be grown with a single grain tree?

Therefore, Sakura Bao decided to go off the rails and create a way for the lobby brother and the second cousin to make money.

Isn't it a must for Qinchuan County that even the Wen family has sent people to wait for the acquisition, and it is not too much to make them into a specialty of Qinchuan County.

After that, it is logical to crown these dried apricots, peaches, and pears with the name of Qinchuan specialties.

By the way, we also have grapes and apples, which are not Kotogawa specialties, but they can be sold by the way.

With a decision in his heart, Ying Bao smiled and said to Jiang Quan: "I'll go to the county seat tomorrow." ”

Not only to buy sugar, but also to buy a storefront.

She has come up with the name of the store, which is called "Jiang Ji Specialty".

Although it is a specialty of Qinchuan County, the name of the store must not have the word Qinchuan, otherwise it will be arrested and sent to the county government to play the board.

Merchants are cheap, not only can the name of the county and township not be added to the name of the store, but even the word Murong cannot appear on the signboard.

Because the royal family of the dynasty was surnamed Murong, all the people had to avoid these two words.