Seed dealers in ancient times

It is very convenient to have kimchi at home. You don’t need to make another brine, just wash the peppers, put salt and some auxiliary spices into the jar, and put them in the old brine.

Zou Yun had eaten the rice flower fish that Zheng Jiang stopped cooking with chili before. It tasted spicy, but it was addictive, especially when he ate light or sweet food for a long time, he would think about the taste.

"I don't know what the taste of the pepper you mentioned will be after soaking."

Zheng Jiang paused and said, "Anyway, it's not bad. The main reason is that it's easy to preserve. It's the same as the ginger pickles you soaked. You can eat it if you want to eat it after the season."

"It's also true."

Zou Yun poured the chili peppers into the kimchi jar, and then put garlic, fresh peppers and ginger in it, she said: "You can't just soak chili peppers, you have to soak some other ingredients, so that the brine will be fragrant. , pickled kimchi tastes better."

Chu Xian listened with gusto, and wanted to join in the fun, but was arrested by Zheng Jiangting to wash the rice.

There are a lot of people, and the work is fast, and the kimchi can be cooked.

Everyone went to the table to eat together. They didn't cook too many dishes at night. Zheng Jiang stopped to stir-fry sweet pepper twice-cooked pork, and boiled white water and vegetable soup, fearing that the twice-cooked pork would make him tired.

Zou Yun joked: "I used to want to eat meat and didn't have to eat it, but now I have a mouthful, and I'm afraid I will get tired of eating too much meat."

Chu Xian doesn't like to eat twice-cooked pork. Although the fried pork is very fragrant, it is really greasy. He will feel uncomfortable if he eats a little bit. Put a chopstick of sweet pepper into Chu Xian's bowl: "Eat it, this is sweet."

"It's not that I haven't eaten it before, and you lied to me that it was sweet."

"When did I lie to you?"

Chu Xian was afraid of being spicy, so she took a mouthful of rice and ate it with the sweet pepper. Unexpectedly, the pepper was not spicy when she bit into it. Don't have a taste: "It's really sweet."

"It's strange, it's really sweet."

Zheng Jiang stopped laughing.

He always brought some strange things home. As time passed, Zou Yun and Chu Xian had already seen the strange things, but Brother Hui was quite shocked. It was the first time he ate such strange and delicious things, and he was not at home today. After eating, he would be questioned by the family again when he went back. At that time, the mother would say that it would be great if the family could marry a sister and brother to the Zheng family.

In the days that followed, Zheng Jiangting made chili sauce at home, and the sauce was not difficult to make, but it was trivial and labor-intensive.

He went to buy some garlic, pepper, ginger, and some spices. Chu Xian peeled the garlic for him, and he chopped the chili into fine pieces. When two people stay together, they can still chat a few words from time to time, but they don't find it too boring.

After Chu Xian finished peeling the garlic, seeing that Zheng Jiang was too busy to survive, she thought about helping him chop the garlic into fine pieces, but thinking that her knife skills would only cause trouble for others, so she called Sha Kui and cut the ginger into pieces. Throw the garlic into the Shaquille and crush it. The garlic is brittle, but it is easy to grind, but the ginger is not easy to handle, and it has shreds when crushed.

He had no choice but to leave the ginger to Zheng Jiang to stop cutting.

"Throw the prickly ash into it and grind it with the garlic, it doesn't matter if it's crushed or not."

The two worked together for a long time, and the room was filled with a spicy smell, which was very mouth-watering.

Zheng Jiangting mixed the ginger and garlic spices into the chili sauce and stirred it, and it immediately became more fragrant: "After a few days of fermentation, the taste will be even better. I found that the garlic crushed by Shakui is more fragrant than the minced garlic. "

Chu Xian watched Zheng Jiangting pour the prepared chili sauce into the jar and seal it, and licked the corner of his lips.

Zheng Jiang stopped laughing and said, "The two vitex peppers are not so spicy. I specially made the two kinds of peppers separately. When the time comes, you can eat the jar that is not so spicy. You can use a spoonful of stir-fried vegetables or bibimbap on weekdays. delicious."

"Then when can I eat it?"

"If you really want to eat, you can eat tonight."

"I'm not so greedy."

After more than ten days of wandering, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Zheng Jiang sleeps in the narrow back room, which is extremely hot and stuffy. For many days, he sleeps on the floor. There is almost no market for peppers in this kind of weather. The market was opened only when the weather turned cold, but in June, although it was difficult to open up the market for peppers, the crops were about to mature, and now he was waiting to sit and harvest the grain.

Two days later, he went to the house to check and accept the carriage shed. The strength of the carriage dealer is that he can build a decent horse peng according to the terrain and a person's family property. Satisfied, after making the balance, he ordered the carriage and was ready to take it when he entered the new house.

Carpenter Ma also kept his word, saying that he would speed up the process to make furniture for him. His hands and feet were really fast. He had already arranged the furniture for the east and west rooms in half a month. The bed in the main room was brought over.

After the parts were brought in and then assembled, Zheng Jiangting saw that the [-]m bed was really good, and the workmanship and carvings were exquisite. After the bed was assembled, he pressed the bed board and shook the bed: "It's quite strong."

Carpenter Ma joked: "You can do whatever you want, this bed is well-kept."

Zheng Jiangting gave a dry cough, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I have spent a lot of effort on this bed. I did all the carvings, and I didn't let my apprentices get started. The rest of your furniture will be ready soon, and in another half a month, you will be able to keep everything properly, and you can move in at that time." gone."

"Half a month." Zheng Jiangting murmured, "Okay!"

The heat wave is rolling, and in June, the corn is dry and the rice is golden, and it is the harvest season of the year.

This year's weather is good, the sun is hot, and the crops are harvested very early. The villagers in the villages and fields have poured out of their nests, lingering in the cornfield with their backs on their backs, laughing and laughing, and no one cares about the sweat on their foreheads. Lively, the villagers can't wait to take the newly harvested grain to the city to sell it for money, or to buy more household oil and salt, or to pay off the debt, and some villagers who borrowed grain took the grain to the landlord's house to pay the debt.

Some landlords were kind enough to send someone to the village to take back the loaned grain, and Zheng Jiangting was one of them.

Sitting in the carriage, Huang Jingyi felt that time passed so quickly. When he came back to the village, he still sent grain. This time, the village was collecting grain. He asked Zheng Jiangting in fear, "How should the grain be resettled after it is returned?"

Zheng Jiang stopped to stare at the running horse. This is his own carriage. The horse was brought out from the carriage and horse dealer. Today is a good time to try the horse. If it is not good, it will be returned. Come down, it's a fine horse.

"I haven't had time to tell you that I bought a new house in the north of the city. You quit your job there after collecting the grain and going back. When the time comes, you will take care of the house first, and the grain will be transported there. go."

Huang Jingyi was taken aback, but he recovered after a while. He had long felt that Zheng Jiangting was not something in the pool. Sure enough, he bought a new house in a few months. While secretly sighing that his master is capable, he felt happy at the same time , Now that he has a new house, he can go back to the house to do errands, and everything is convenient and decent.

"Yes, it's all up to the master to arrange."

When the two arrived at the village, many enthusiastic villagers were already waiting at the entrance of the village. Not only did people come, but they also brought food to the entrance of the village.

The villagers saw that Huang Jingyi had changed his suspicious expression from a few months ago, and his face was full of gratitude and conviction. They wanted to approach him but dared not, so they had to stop with Zheng Jiang: "Master Zheng, we have brought all the food here." , ready for inspection."

When Zheng Jiang stopped, he didn't bring anyone to support the scene, thinking that if he asked the villagers to help, everyone would be happy after all, so he said: "Line in line, come one by one."

Still Cai Lin presided over the measurement of millet and corn, while Zheng Jiangting calculated how much grain each household should pay back.

In fact, it is very troublesome to calculate. After all, it is necessary to count all the food of a family, and then calculate the amount that should be paid back. It will take an incense stick of time for a family.

Cai Lin said: "Don't worry, I have checked the total output of each household and verified it in advance. The villagers want to borrow grain next year. They are very honest, and the reported total output will not be wrong."

Zheng Jiangting nodded. It really depends on honesty to return according to the total output, but how many seeds he lent, and then estimate the yield per mu, he can probably get the figure, although it is not accurate, but it will not be too much difference. In this way, although some people can take advantage of some tricks, they can't take advantage of it. If the water is clear, there will be no fish, so that's good.

Everyone was anxious after queuing for a long time, and someone said: "Master Zheng, there is a new boy in our village who is very proficient in accounting. Our village often asks him to help. If you can trust him, we will ask him to come to you. How about a hand?"

Zheng Jiangting was indeed annoyed, and said: "Success, and you can find someone who can do the calculation."

"Okay!" The villagers rushed to call for someone, but they went quickly. After a while, three people came, one white-faced boy and two middle-aged men.

Zheng Jiang stopped teaching the three of them how to do calculations. Xiao Tongsheng looked thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in tatters, but his brains were very bright, and he quickly got started, but the two elderly The man couldn't figure it out for a long time, and it took him a lot of effort to learn it. He was slow, he had calculated three and they hadn't calculated one, but the little boy was faster than him, and he could calculate one more than him.

"It's a planner."

Xiao Tongsheng said very politely: "Master Zheng praised me a lot, I hope you don't dislike the clumsy one."

Zheng Jiangting gave a chuckle, and calculated quickly on the left and right sides. He sneaked around and asked for a bowl of water from the villagers. While resting, he grabbed a handful of millet in the basket and looked at it. The grains were long and slender. The grains are full and heavy in the hand, and there are few empty shells or some sundries. It is a batch of good grain.

The villagers seemed to see what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Master Zheng, this food is really good. I have planted crops for so many years and have never received such good food like this year."

"In previous years, when the landlord came to collect the grain, the villagers were afraid that there would not be enough grain. Baba'er hid at home and could delay it every day. This year is the first year that the villagers can't wait to pay back the grain."

Zheng Jiang stopped laughing: "Isn't it? The landlord originally wanted to wait to collect the food and give the villagers a little more time. Unexpectedly, the villagers urged to pay back the food."

The villagers said: "After all, it is due to this year's harvest. The landlord's grain is good, even if it is sold at the cheapest time, it can be sold at a good price."

Zheng Jiang stopped talking, which was a tacit agreement.

During the harvest season, there are many villagers selling grain. There are grain farms and grain shops everywhere in the city, and there are also private grain collectors. Although there are many grain collectors, the supply is also large, and the price of grain is kept low. , The millet that cost [-] to [-] cents a liter in the past two months is now only sold for [-] to [-] cents. This is an annual practice, which is nothing unusual, but the harvest in previous years is not as large as this year, and the price is not as low as this year.

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