The souvenirs brought by the new employees are not very many, about two catties per person. But they can't stand the number of them, and the sum of twelve people is twenty-four catties. Most of them are still dry goods, and the dry goods are light in weight, and one pound is a big bag.

With so many local specialties, Xu An eats them at home alone, and it is estimated that he will have to eat them in the Year of the Monkey.

Therefore, Xu An took out most of the mushrooms in it and packed them into one or two mushroom smorgasbord soup packets, and gave one to one of the store employees, and the remaining part was intended to be given to the villagers to try.

When Aunt He got this soup packet, she thought it was quite strange, but when she took a look at the mushrooms inside, not to mention the many types, they were all strange.

There are all kinds of long, flat, large and small branches, and none of them are common mushrooms, which makes He Gu feel worried.

Can you really eat this thing? Will it be a good meal?

In the past, if someone gave her such an unknown thing, she would definitely thank her and accept it and put it aside and ignore it.

But now, she works in a fast-food restaurant, where the chef used to work in a high-end restaurant and hotel, and is very familiar with all kinds of ingredients. Therefore, when she saw this strange-shaped mushroom now, her first reaction was to show it to Master Liu Daxi Liu.

There were many people who thought the same way as her, and when she went to find Master Liu, there was already a circle of people around Master Liu.

This is called porcini mushroom, which clears away heat and relieves annoyance, nourishes blood and medium, chases wind and dispels cold, relaxes tendons and blood, and replenishes deficiency and refreshes. This is a coral fungus, which supplements calcium, calms, prevents the loss of calcium from the human body, strengthens bones, nourishes blood and calms the nerves. This is a blue-headed mushroom."

After introducing the name of the mushroom and the effect of food supplement, Liu Daxi began to tell everyone about the cooking method of this mushroom.

The simplest is to make soup, boil chicken soup, simmer for a few hours, don't worry about anything, followed by stir-frying vegetables after soaking, stir-fried shredded meat, fried chicken, fried beef. You can also make mushroom sauce, noodles and rice with a spoonful, fragrant and delicious."

Aunt He, who was originally dismissive of this bag of soup, after listening to Liu Daxi's explanation, now looks at how pleasing to the eye.

Yo, I didn't expect these mushrooms to look crooked and cracked, I didn't expect them to be so nourishing, good thing! In the evening, my son's family came over for dinner, and after a while, I went to the vegetable market to buy an old hen, and stewed it until the evening!

At half past two, after He Gu greeted Xu An, she carried the bag of soup to the vegetable market and bought an old hen at the poultry stall she frequented.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, many people in the community gathered under the tree to chat, play cards, play chess and pass the time, and when they saw Aunt He coming back, everyone said hello, and some sharp-eyed people saw Aunt He buy chickens, and made fun of her.

When she returned home, Aunt He soaked the mushrooms in the order that Liu Daxi said, and then processed them, and finally put them in a stew pot with the blanched old hen, covered with a lid and simmered slowly.

The soup was stewed, and He Gu opened the doors and windows of the room to ventilate, and then sat on the sofa and watched TV.

As time passed, the fragrance of mushrooms seeped through the cracks between the stew pot and the iron pot, and the aroma wafted from the kitchen to the dining room, and from the dining room to every corner of the house. When the aroma of mushrooms fills the house, the fragrance slowly blends with the outside air through the doors and windows, and spreads quickly.

At first, the fragrance was very faint, like the fragrance of grass after rain, and most people who smelled it only thought that it was a flower; But gradually, gradually, the smell became more and more intense, too rich to ignore.

Coo-goo-goo————

A loud abdominal sound came from the stomach of an uncle who was playing chess, which immediately attracted the attention of several people around.

"Lao Liu, did you smell that fragrance and get hungry?" After a nearby person heard this voice, he came over to make fun of the uncle, and then sighed: "I don't know what I'm doing, how can it be so fragrant." ”

"It smells a bit like chicken stew with mushrooms."

"It's not quite like it, this tastes very fragrant, in my opinion, it is estimated to be Huaishan barley soup."

"No way, the taste of Huaishan barley soup is not so long-lasting."

“.”

A stomach scream triggered a quarrel, and the other onlookers joined the battlefield with a word, and the quarrel became one.

"In my opinion, none of us should guess. As soon as you smell this smell, you will know that it is coming from our community, let's just ask if you want to! ”

Just when everyone was arguing, one person gave feasible suggestions, and it was quickly recognized by everyone.

"This smell is so big, it should come from Building 2 or Building 3."

"Hey, those of us here definitely didn't stew soup, just see who isn't there."

"Yo, speaking of which, I remember, Sister He, she said two days ago that her son's family came back this week, isn't it today?"

"Not to mention, when she came back today, she carried an old hen, maybe it was her!"

A group of people locked up the suspect Aunt He in a few words, and quickly rushed to Aunt He's house.

When everyone walked to the door of Aunt He's house, the smell was so strong that it almost turned into substance, which made everyone wonder, what kind of soup was this boil, how could it be so fragrant!

Bang bang bang – bang————

The sudden knock on the door interrupted Aunt He's thoughts of carefully preparing the dishes, and turned her head to look at the time, it was only five o'clock, and her son and they had to come at six o'clock at the earliest, who was looking for him?

After wiping her hands with the rag on the side, Aunt He walked to the door and looked out through the cat's eye, and there was an old man outside the door.

"What's wrong? My son, they're coming over today, and I don't have time to accompany you."

"Sister He, are you stewing soup at home?" The most anxious person in the crowd didn't wait for He Gu to finish speaking, and then interrupted: "We all smell it over there, it's fragrant!" What kind of soup are you stewing here? ”

"No, right?"

Halfway through the words, Aunt He found that she suddenly smelled a fragrance, and the source of this fragrance was her own kitchen!

This taste is indeed a little too strong, there are a lot of mushroom stewed chickens, and there is no time that it is so fragrant, could it be the reason for the package of mushrooms given by the boss?

Then, He Gu walked into the kitchen with a group of people who were hulala, lifted the two layers of lids, and a stronger aroma exploded in the kitchen, and everyone took a deep breath in intoxication.

Fragrant!

"Are you stewing mushrooms? It doesn't look like it. An aunt saw the mushrooms floating in the soup with sharp eyes and asked with some confusion.

"It's mushrooms, miscellaneous mushrooms, and a lot of miscellaneous sand buns, red mushrooms, and porcini mushrooms." Saying that, He Gu also scooped up a few mushrooms with a soup spoon to show everyone, and then said: "This is a gift from my boss, all of them are mountain delicacies picked in the mountains, which are very rare and nourishing."

"Yo, this looks pretty good, does your boss have it, how much is a portion, this taste makes me hungry."

"This is also given to the boss by someone else, and my work is a fast food restaurant, how can this thing be sold!"

"Tsk, it's a pity, I don't know if there are any of these mushrooms in the market, I'll go to the market another day to have a look"

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When Li Yanfu walked out of Xu's fast food restaurant, his whole person was a little dazed.

62 yuan a pound, 62 yuan a pound!

Although this pepper is difficult to serve, but when it is planted, it grows one after another when it bears fruit, a pepper tree can grow a weight of ten catties and eight catties, and there are two catties when it is dried, and the few acres of land at home are planted, and it is not a problem to grow hundreds of trees.

One tree is two catties, hundreds of trees are thousands of catties, one catty is sixty-two yuan, and one thousand catties is sixty-two thousand yuan! I can catch up with the income for several years! That's not more than working in the store!

Li Yanfu is not the only one who has such thoughts, but the other eleven people are also thinking about this matter in their hearts.

Since Li Yanfu's family can grow it, his own family may not be able to grow it.

And there is not much in the mountains, but there is a lot of land, let the family try, if you can grow it, it will have a lot of income, why not do it!

So, everyone called home one after another.

"Hey, mother, you have a lot of ghosts at home, the boss here in Haishi has collected it and dried it for sixty-two yuan a catty!"

"Hey, mother, the boss here collects the spicy pockmarks in the mountain, the next time you go into the mountain and see it, dig a few and plant it at home, sixty-two yuan a catty!"

"Hey, the boss here collects spicy devils, you can plant some, sixty-two yuan a catty!"

“.”

Everyone has different names for shabu-shabu, but the message is very clear.

It's just that when the news reached their family's mouth, and when it spread again, it changed its taste.

'The boss over there in the sea market bought the devil pepper, sixty-two yuan a catty! ’

'There is a boss in the sea market who buys spicy pockmarks, and the wet ones are given sixty-two yuan a catty! ’

'The boss of the sea market buys chili peppers! Sixty-two dollars a pound! ’

The boss of the sea market said that our chili pepper is very good, sixty-two yuan a pound to buy! ’

‘.’

At the end, an ultimate rumor was born.

[There is a big boss in the catering industry in Haishi, who came to inspect us the day after tomorrow and asked us to plant chili peppers, and 62 yuan a pound of branches and leaves to buy! ] 】

The news soon spread throughout Hezibao, from ninety-year-olds to three-year-olds.

Li Sixin, as the village secretary of Hezibao and a young village official who graduated and returned to the village two years ago to help the poor, naturally heard the news.

Maybe there is really a boss who wants to buy chili peppers, but it is absolutely impossible to harvest them with branches and leaves, and it is impossible to buy them at a price of sixty-two yuan a catty, most likely it is six yuan and two cents a catty, and it has to be dried chili peppers to afford this price.

After some investigation, Li Sixin locked down the people who initially spread the news, and selected Li Yanfu's house with the highest level of education for a visit.

(End of chapter)