National teacher, your man ran away

Before you know it, another half month has passed. During this half month, Xiaoxuanhu has been cultivating with great concentration in the cave, resting for less than an hour a day, so geniuses are not to be feared, even if they work harder than you, Yao Yixin finally I understand the reason why people are obviously not much older than me, but my cultivation base has left me by several light years.

Fortunately, the digging speed of the pangolins comforted him. After half a month of tireless digging, a large hole about 15 meters deep, [-] meters wide, and more than three meters high has been created at the place selected by Yao Yixin. Another person needs to be brought in, and the nearby rocks have been mined to strengthen the cave.

The three pangolins have been busy for half a month, but they are not tired at all. It is their nature to dig holes. The pangolins feel uncomfortable if they don’t dig holes for a day. Now they can dig holes every day. The food in Yao’s family is also very good. There are three meals a day, and two of them have meat. A few times, the guards went a little farther, and even caught a black bear that came out of hibernation. It was the first time they ate bear meat, and it tasted really good. .

Because of this, they have already agreed with Yao Yixin that they will not go to the wharf to find work in the future, and will stay at Yao's house. They are strong, and even if they don't need to dig caves in the future, they can still go to the village to help, plowing land and so on. Yes, Yao Yixin also likes these three hard-working pangolin monsters very much, because strictly speaking they are considered "special talents". The pangolin was overjoyed, and worked harder to dig the cave.

Yao Yixin thought silently, with their hard-working attitude, they might be able to dig out all the three caves he wanted this year.

But that's fine, he's done the math, every year when the grain is harvested, he buys [-] catties of various rice grains and stores them in this mountain. If nothing happens throughout the year, the grains can still be taken out and sent to Zhuangzi the next year. In addition, it is used as feed to feed pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc. at home, and it will not be wasted at all.

However, as the saying goes, if you have food in your hands, don’t panic in your heart. In case of war or famine, the food can be used to save lives. Therefore, Yao Yixin doesn’t feel at all about buying [-] catties at a time as reserve food There's nothing wrong with it. Anyway, with their family's current annual income, let alone [-] catties of grain, even if it's [-] catties, he can still get money.

The main reason is that the food in this time and space is really cheap, especially during the harvest season every year, when all kinds of food are on the market on a large scale. The imperial court here does not have any protective prices for food. The rice was sold for two cents per catty.

However, Yao Yixin will not use price wars to harm the local people. He still wants to continue to win the favor of the county magistrate. How can he disrupt the local food prices just to stockpile food for his family?Therefore, he plans to send people to the main grain producing area in the south to buy a batch of grain and come back. The quality of the grain in the south is good, and the price is also cheaper than the local one. After purchasing, he will keep a part of it as a reserve grain, and the rest can be supplied to food shops. and home use.

Boss Yao's abacus was crackling, and the movements in his hands didn't stop. The spring menu prepared before was almost done, and today he planned to make two more solid meat dishes to support the scene at the banquet.

Although the seasoning can be taken a step further, but this is the general environment of this time and space. When entertaining guests, many people still like to serve a few extra dishes of fish and meat to make the banquet appear grand. The taste of Yao’s restaurant is undeniable. Even the county magistrate would order a banquet from Yao's restaurant for banquets for his superiors, and the people below naturally followed suit.

However, in terms of ingredients, Yao Yixin decided to add more meat dishes or expensive ingredients, not for attention, but only for the high-quality banquets served at his own restaurant to be high-end.

Fortunately, after the beginning of spring, the prey in the mountains is much easier to hunt. Yao Yixin asked Bai Shisan to ask, and said that among the prey that local hunters often go into the mountains, wild boars, hares and pheasants are the most, and the others are It is very difficult to hunt, and some have little meat. In the eyes of ordinary people, prey without meat is worthless, so they are rarely hunted.

After confirming the ingredients, Yao Yixin helped hunt down a wild boar when he asked the Su family's hidden guards to patrol, and made a braised hoof, a crispy wild pork, and a sauced elbow.

Strictly speaking, wild pork is not as tender as domestic pork. If it is not cooked well, it is easy to burn. Therefore, when choosing ingredients, Yao Yixin put aside those lean meats that were a little bit tough, and chose two meats with strong meat quality. Dao's hind hoof, two pieces of fat and thin pork belly, and two pork front knuckles.

The hoof is treated in the same way as the front of the elbow. First, wash the hoof and dry the surface, then hold it with iron tongs and burn it on the fire to remove the fine hair on the pig skin.Then put the prepared hoof and elbow in a large pot, add water to boil, take it out and clean it, wash off the dirt inside the pork, rub it with the prepared seasoning and marinate for an hour.

Cut the hooves into pieces with a bone cutter, then heat the oil pan, add onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry them, then put them into the hooves, then add bean paste, chili powder, etc., stir-fry until fragrant, then add water, because there is no white sugar, there is no way to fry the sugar color, Yao Yixin You can only melt the honey in the water and add it together, so that it will be simmered for about two hours on a low heat, and a braised hoof with a rich sauce and aroma is ready.

The method of sauced elbow is actually similar to that of braised pork knuckle. However, for the sake of appearance, Yao Yixin cooked it whole. He also stewed some soybeans with the remaining thick soup of braised pork knuckle, and spread it under the sauced pork knuckle. I don’t have a particular preference, but I really like to eat soybeans stewed in soup. They are soft and glutinous with a strong meaty aroma. Yao Yixin didn’t have the nerve to remind him that soybeans should not be eaten too much. ...cough cough!

Originally, Yao Yixin wanted to make crispy pork, but when it was time to make it, he realized that he didn't have any white sugar that could be fried in sugar color, and he didn't even bring brown sugar.Fortunately, there are many ways to cook pork belly. Yao Yixin simply cut the pork belly into half-palm-sized chunks, and then braised it with deep-fried fried tofu. The taste was actually quite good.

After eating, Yao Yixin carefully wrote down "planting sugarcane" in her plan. What sweetness is there in a life without sugar?Especially for a single hedgehog like him, without the sweetness of love, the only thing that can make him feel sweet is sugar?In fact, he wants to eat chocolate more, but it's a pity that he can't find the ingredients to make chocolate in this time and space... and the most important thing is that he doesn't know how chocolate is made, so he can only regret it.

It's just that he has traveled so long and has never seen a person who grows sugar cane. Although he has eaten brown sugar, this thing is different from the brown sugar sold in the supermarket for a few dollars a bag in his previous life. It is actually a tribute. If they can't afford it, it means that their family and the Su family have been friends for generations. The few brown sugar that the Su family gives every year is basically kept by the fathers for Yao Yixin to eat. He really didn't know brown sugar before. It is so precious, and was raised in Yaojia Village since childhood. It was only after the death of his parents that he saw the cruelty of the outside world, and realized that brown sugar is not something everyone can afford in this world.

Although I don’t know whether it’s because sugarcane is difficult to grow or the sugar-making technology is underdeveloped, but in order to promote fried sugar and various sweet dishes in his restaurant, Yao Yixin decided: Let Huang Yun go and talk to the boat bosses who go to and from the wharf. The family wants to buy a batch of sugarcane seedlings!

Sugarcane is actually a good plant to grow. Although the humid and mild climate in the south is more suitable for the growth of sugarcane, there are many warm weather in the north, so sugarcane can also be grown.

Yao Yixin remembered that their family had grown sugar cane before.

At that time, the per capita land area in rural areas was really small, so ordinary people tried their best to use every piece of land to increase production.The grandmother of the Yao family is a diligent person. Every year, she pokes some holes around the dry land where she grows soybeans and mung beans and on the field ridges, fills them with farmyard manure, and buys some sugarcane seedlings. The growth cycle of sugarcane does not conflict with mung beans and soybeans. When the beans start to be harvested, the sugar cane grows.

When Yao Yixin was a child, what Yao Yixin looked forward to most was the harvest of sugar cane every autumn. The big purple sugar cane was cut down and brought home. Grandma would save part of it and store it in the cellar for him and his sister as snacks. Use it to make brown sugar.

This is not the same as the brown sugar made by the machine. What they make is the traditional farmhouse brown sugar. They use the wooden old-fashioned sugar press to squeeze the cut sugar cane into sugarcane juice, and then put it in a large earthen stove. , Cooking, boiling sugar is a very hard job, and it also requires a lot of patience, because the whole cooking process, the fire in the big stove can't be stopped, and the heat is also very particular. In Yao Yixin's time, people who knew this Only his grandma's generation is the only ones who are old craftsmen. Fortunately, Yao Yixin used to follow her grandma to eat sweets because of her greedy mouth.

Boil the sugar first, then filter out the impurities and dregs in the sugar juice, then pour the filtered cane juice into the "sugar pot", and keep stirring with a large shovel to let the water in the sugar juice slowly Evaporate slowly, and after boiling, you can see the sugar juice slowly condense and turn amber, exuding a unique sweet taste of sucrose.

Finally, extinguish the fire in the soil stove, scoop the unsolidified brown sugar juice into the prepared shallow wooden trough while it is hot, wait until it cools, and cut it into pieces with a clean wooden knife while it is still completely hardened, which is the farmhouse soil Brown sugar can’t be made. In the past, there were people who sold brown sugar. They would directly use two or two small bowls to fill the sugar juice. After the sugar juice solidified, pour it out. The sugar cubes looked like small bowls, so Also known as "bowl of sugar".

Yao Yixin doesn't know if he can buy sugarcane seedlings this year, but if he just pokes a hole in the ridge of the field, it will grow well as long as there is plenty of fat and water. They have so many fields, and most of them are for growing vegetables. When the sugarcane seedlings arrive, there is no need to arrange additional land for sugarcane planting, and they can be interplanted directly in the vegetable field.

"I don't know if the big ship that Shisan ordered has started to be built?" Yao Yixin was thinking, and drew the drawings of the tools needed for sugar production, planning to find a chance for the carpenter at home to make them.

With a spring menu, how could there not be a great wine to go with the menu?

In order to be worthy of the "luxury top banquet" of 50 taels of silver at her own restaurant, Yao Yixin started preparing drinks to match the banquet very early on.

In terms of brewing technology, he is not even as good as the small workers in the brewing workshop, but when it comes to opportunism, these ancients are not as good as him.

Especially after discovering such a large bamboo forest in the mountains, Yao Yixin instantly thought of what wine she should use to match her luxurious banquet set meal: fresh bamboo wine!

This fresh bamboo wine is not a wine brewed from bamboo, but the brewed high-quality rice wine is directly poured into fresh bamboo, and after growing together with the bamboo for a year, the bamboo tube that hides the rice wine is sawed off from the bamboo. You can drink it directly.

The brewed fresh bamboo wine is amber in color, rich in fragrance, full of bamboo fragrance, mellow and sweet, with a long aftertaste.More importantly, no one has ever used this method of brewing wine in this time and space. The method is rare, and the taste of the wine is also very unique.

Moreover, in the eyes of literati, bamboo has always represented integrity, loftiness, open-mindedness, and integrity. Together with plum, orchid, and chrysanthemum, they are also known as the "Four Gentlemen". Fresh bamboo wine brewed with such ingenious methods is inevitable. Will it be welcomed by scholars all over the world?

The trial batch of Yao Yixin's fresh bamboo wine has only been made for less than two months. It is reasonable to say that it is not ready for "harvesting". However, in order to speed up the progress and launch the spring menu together, Yao Yixin used a tricky method : Use fresh bamboo leaves to fumigate the rice wine poured into the bamboo tube in advance, so that the rice wine is immersed in the fragrance of the bamboo leaves, and also has a light amber color. After brewing and waiting, although the taste is not as mellow as that brewed for a long time, it also has a different kind of fresh taste.

The moso bamboo in this mountain is very thick, and almost every moso bamboo can find about ten bamboo tubes to use as wine-making vessels. Worrying about chopping too much and wasting it, Yao Yixin asked a dark guard who is very good at lightness to help, and chose the top one. The knots are cut directly, and after sawing, the fresh bamboo wine poured out is really fragrant!

The dark guards were not allowed to drink alcohol when they were performing their missions, so although they were greedy, none of the people present dared to break the precept easily, so Yao Yixin could only taste it by himself, and he didn't have much interest in wine, but in this time and space The alcohol content is not high, especially the rice wine that has not been steamed repeatedly. It tastes like a drink, but it is just a drink with a faint bamboo fragrance.

"That's it! Let's cut out [-] servings of fresh bamboo wine first, let Shisan send invitations, and say that spring is coming. Our Yao family invites the county magistrate, several masters from the county government, and several masters from the town. Drink our new wine!"

It is normal for Yao Yixin to choose this time to treat guests. In March in spring, the dignitaries who have been sealed in the house by ice and snow for the whole winter jumped up like black bears after hibernation, impatiently wanting to stretch their fists. Therefore, After the beginning of spring, there will be various banquets every now and then. As a new local rich man, Yao Yixin naturally received a lot of such posts. It's just that he didn't want to leave frequently because of the presence of Master Guoshi, and he only talked about himself I am ill in the cold spring, and I will invite you all after I recover from the illness.

In fact, he was just waiting for the opening time of his own fresh bamboo wine, and after a period of intensive banquets, he was already tired of eating new dishes and new wines, and this is the right time for a light drink Delicious fresh bamboo wine.

Let Uncle Mu Chai go out in person and set up a few tables of high-standard banquets, and Yao Yixin came out of the mountain with his freshly baked fresh bamboo wine.

He walked in a hurry, so he didn't notice that this time when he went down the mountain, Xiaoxuanhu was not unhappy as usual, but lay down on the mattress very obediently, with a look of tranquility.

When Yao Yixin's figure disappeared on the mountain path, the little black fox immediately jumped up, and with a few light leaps, he reached the bamboo forest in the back mountain.Xiaoxuanhu floated lightly over the bamboo forest, and came straight to the bamboo forest where Yao Yixin brewed fresh bamboo wine. He picked out a moso bamboo that looked quite eye-catching, and poked it lightly with his sharp claws, and the light amber The colored bamboo wine sprayed out from the small hole, and the little fox immediately opened his mouth, and the wine with a faint fragrance of bamboo leaves fell into his mouth...

After drinking ten bamboo tubes of bamboo wine in one breath, the hidden guards who were silently following behind finally couldn't hold back, and stepped forward to persuade him: "Master, although this bamboo wine is light, it has great stamina. Body, don’t drink too much.”

"Full stamina? How do you know?" Xiaoxuanhu looked at his subordinates.

"Eh~" The hidden guard broke out in a cold sweat and didn't know how to reply. Could it be that he wanted to say that because he was greedy, he secretly tasted it while changing shifts?

After all, when Yao Yixin was trying to make bamboo wine, he made more than 100 bamboo tubes of bamboo wine. He drank a few cans secretly, but he couldn't find it at all. According to the rules, they can't drink alcohol when they are on duty, but they can drink during their shift breaks, and they are told to drink whatever they want during their breaks.

The young master of the Yao family is really a monster!

Fortunately, the master of the state was just trying to scare them. After thinking about it, with Yao Yixin's generous personality, it is impossible for him to eat alone. The bamboo wine must have been distributed to the guards who protect them. He is not angry These dark guards drank the wine that should have belonged to him (are you sure?), and instead got angry why these guys tasted the bamboo wine before he did!

He didn't even think about it, with his current cub's appearance, it's impossible for any normal person to give a cub a drink, okay?

So, Master Guoshi, are you drinking or drinking vinegar?

Not mentioning Yu Zu, the master of the national teacher, but Yao Yixin, who finally got home, and just ordered people to put down the bamboo wine, and a bunch of things came up——

As the current housekeeper of the Yao family's old house, Uncle Song Ming brought his new apprentice, Mao Xiaowu, to deliver clothes, shoes and socks to his master for the banquet, all made by Uncle Song Ming himself.

Mao Xiaowu was also excited when he saw his young master, but he is no longer the Chinese pastoral cat who didn't understand anything. Uncle Song Ming said that he will be the boss of the Yao family in the future!Therefore, at such a young age, Mao Xiaowu now habitually puts on a serious face, and has learned all kinds of etiquette in dealing with people well. This kind of cute contrast almost made Yao Yixin want to masturbate.

Fortunately, he finally remembered that he sent Xiao Wu out so cruelly that he could train him. Now it seems that Uncle Song Ming taught Xiao Wu very well.

After Uncle Song Ming and Mao Xiaowu left, Song Ye hurried over again.

It was rare for Yao Yixin to see Song Ye in such a panic. Seeing him running out of breath, he hurriedly stood up and poured him a cup of warm tea in person. Song Ye hurriedly thanked him and drank the cup of tea in one go. Big Eyes complained to Yao Yixin——

"Master, the kilns in the town are all clamoring for price increases, saying that the big sauce jars we ordered are too big and take more time than ordinary vegetable jars. They say that starting this year, each big sauce jar will be priced 30 more than last year's price." Money!"

Fuck!Has he encountered the monopoly class?

Yao Yixin suddenly felt a little bad. Where did this brain damage come from? Knowing that he and the county magistrate have a good relationship, they dare to raise the price for him?

Also, where did he get the confidence to think that their family can only buy sauce jars in the town?Can't buy this stuff anywhere else?

Chaos is chaos, others are bullying her, and Yao Yixin is not a monster without backing, so naturally she can't be cowardly at this moment.

"No problem! Planting vegetables in spring will take at least two months to harvest the first batch of vegetables. You can go to Huang Yun and ask him to contact the merchant who runs the boat immediately and ask someone to buy a batch of sauce jars for use first. "

"But in this way, wouldn't the cost of buying sauce jars be higher than those bought locally?" Song Ye said anxiously.

In fact, he also knows the reason why the two kilns are raising prices. It is nothing more than the fact that the cost of transportation is very high now. Things like clay pots that are not very profitable and difficult to transport are usually purchased locally and rarely go to It is not cost-effective to buy it from other places, plus the shipping fee. Even if they increase the price of each sauce jar by 30 yuan, it is still cheaper than buying from outside.

"That's not how the account is calculated," Yao Yixin shook her head firmly, "This time they said to raise 30 Wen, we easily nodded, and next time they dare to raise 50 Wen, as long as the price is lower than the transportation cost, they have nothing to fear. "

"So, we have to let them understand a truth: They are not the only ones who sell sauce jars in this world. Without them, the price of our pickles will be raised, and it will be worth a lot of selling points; but, without our Yao family's large number Order, let's see how long they can last!"

I am used to the comfortable life of waiting for orders at home and earning a lot of money without going out to sell things by myself. Can I still look for buyers everywhere like before?What's more, although buying in bulk by the Yao family is cheaper than retailing, Yao Yixin also generously allowed the kiln factory to use the drawings of the pottery pots they designed for free. Yao Yixin didn't even ask for patent fees!

So, in this world, there will never be a shortage of shameless people who forget righteousness for profit. They don't have enough hearts to swallow elephants. They think that others can't live without him, bah!In this world, who can't live without him?Do you really think of yourself as the heroine of Mary Su?

Yao Yixin sneered, even if he suffered a little this time and spent a lot of money to buy clay pots from outside, he must not let these people step on his head!Besides, isn't it just a kiln for making rough clay pots?

Their family's business is getting bigger and bigger now. Thinking about it now, it's time to enrich the upstream and downstream industrial chains, so that when some people eat his food, they turn their heads and want to bite him. It's a small loss. , nausea is the main thing.