Lucky husband

After spring plowing, when the grass grows and the warbler flies, Li Mingjin has a dream, which has something to do with Li Mingxia and the rabbit she raises.

Last winter, Li Mingjin reminded that the rabbits raised by Li Mingxia in Zheng's family survived the winter smoothly, but the winter was too cold, and the female rabbits hardly had cubs.

But in spring, when the weather got warmer and the grass grew more on the mountain, the group of female rabbits who had been holding back for a whole winter began to conceive one after another.

In February and March, the number of rabbits suddenly increased when the pregnant female rabbit gave birth to her cubs.

The Zheng family already had experience in raising rabbits, and they didn't rush to deal with the increasing number of small rabbits. They didn't have time to go to the mountain to cut rabbit grass, so they hired villagers to help.

Because of raising rabbits, the Zheng family gradually became acquainted with the villagers of Shanghe Village. Zheng Orion and Zheng Shan walked in the village covered in blood after not hunting for a long time. The fear has been reduced a lot.

Shi Fulang has scars on his face and has always been reluctant to see people. After Li Mingxia married into the Zheng family, he made him a veil that would not block his line of sight and cover most of the scars, which made him feel much better psychologically when he went out. .

Everything in the Zheng family is developing in a good way. The problem is that in May, the batch of rabbits born in spring grow up around this time. There are too many and concentrated. Zheng Shan took the rabbit meat and rabbit skin to the county. The price of selling here was undercut.

It’s okay to lower the price, but it makes less money. The fatal blow is that the guests of the restaurant have something wrong with eating rabbit meat.

The weather in May is already relatively hot, and the meat can’t help but be spoiled easily. The Zheng’s family gives a lot of rabbit meat. The restaurant bought too much the day before and put it in the store, and made it into dishes for the guests the next day. Something went wrong.

The guests who ate rabbit meat may have heard some remarks from the restaurant, and they insisted that the rabbit meat sold by the Zheng family to the restaurant was dead rabbit meat, otherwise why the rabbit meat was so cheap, it made them eat badly.

When a scholar meets a soldier, there is no reason to explain it.

Although the Zheng family is not a scholar, and the guests of those restaurants are not soldiers, but they just recognized that there is something wrong with the Zheng family's rabbit, and they want to pay for it.

Regardless of compensation or not, the Zheng family's reputation is ruined.

Li Mingjin woke up when those customers who were sick from eating rabbit meat came to ask for money, and this matter was difficult to solve, because the problem was with the restaurant, not the Zheng family.

Meat is really easy to spoil in summer, unless it is hung in a well to freeze. The restaurant probably has no well, so the meat is put outside, and it spoils like this.

Li Mingjin thought for a long time after waking up, and came up with a solution—since there was a problem with the restaurant, he should not sell more fresh meat to the restaurant and smoke the rabbit meat dry.

Worried that he wasn't thinking thoroughly, Li Mingjin told his mother about it, and also put forward his own opinion.

"Brother Jin, you have a good idea. Xia Yatou learned the method of bacon from your aunt. If the smoked rabbit meat tastes good and can make a difference, why don't you sell fresh rabbit meat in the future and only sell smoked rabbit meat." Jiang Zhiyun With a good housekeeping, Li Mingjin perfected Li Mingjin's idea with a quick thought, "I remember Shi Fulang is also good at making bacon."

"Specializing smoked rabbits..." Li Mingjin repeated the word over and over again.

Selling fresh rabbit meat costs more than ten yuan a catty, and bacon costs at least thirty yuan, and you can even buy forty yuan if it tastes good.

This principle is the same as the value of fresh medicinal herbs that have just been picked from the mountains and those that have not been processed.

Not all people can cook medicinal materials, and not all people can make bacon delicious, not to mention that there are not a lot of domestic rabbits now.

Before, Li Mingjin was worried that other people would catch rabbits to make money by watching them raise rabbits. In this way, it would be difficult for Fourth Sister and the others to sell their rabbits. If they changed the way of earning money from raising rabbits to making smoked If you eat rabbit meat, you don’t have to worry about other people raising rabbits to compete with them for business.

Another point is that they have a wharf in Changping County. The smoked rabbit meat can be stored for a long time. If a lot of smoked rabbit meat is made, it can be transported to other places for sale by passing merchant ships. There is no need to worry about not selling it.

Not only can the rabbit meat be smoked and shipped to other places for sale, but the rabbit skin can also be sent to other places, especially in the colder north in winter, where the warm rabbit skin can be used to make cloaks, scarves, hats, Gloves, shoes, etc., cheap and practical.

The more she thought about it, the more excited she became. Li Mingjin wished she could go back to the village immediately and tell Li Mingxia what she thought of.

However, Jiang Zhiyun poured cold water on his head: "Brother Jin, it's only the middle of March, and the newborn rabbit is only the size of a palm. What can such a small one do? We'll go back when your father rests at the end of the month."

At this time, the earlier bunnies were as big as a palm, and the later ones might have just opened their eyes. Li Mingjin hurried back and couldn't do anything.

Li Mingjin waited patiently at home for half a month, and finally at the end of the month, he urged his father to leave the office early so that he could go back earlier.

However, Li Chengshi could come back earlier from the yamen. The old man Li and the old lady Li didn't move so fast. When they returned to the village, it was dark, so they had a simple dinner at Erbo Li Chengli's and went home to wash up. sleep.

Early the next morning, Li Mingjin got up early and ran out after breakfast.

Jiang Zhiyun detained him for more than ten days. After returning to the village, she didn't say anything about him. She only reminded him to come back early at noon and not to stay with others for lunch.

For a little brother who has reached the age of marriage, it is shameful to go to his sister's in-law's house for dinner. Although the Zheng family is not the kind of people who care about it, it is better to pay attention.

Li Mingjin held back his words for a long time as if it had become a habit, and when he arrived at Zheng's house and looked at these half-grown little rabbits, he lost the impatience he had before.

Li Mingxia accompanied Li Mingjin in the newly expanded rabbit shed this year, and said with emotion: "Brother Jin, raising rabbits is much faster than raising pigs. A female rabbit can give birth to several litters a year. There are about ten litters per litter. It can be raised in three months, why didn’t anyone raise rabbits before.”

Not only is it faster to raise, but it also earns more money than pigs because of the furry rabbit skin.

"That's right, don't look at who proposed raising rabbits." Li Mingjin and You Rong Yan, thanks to him.

Not only did he think of raising rabbits, but he also reminded the fourth sister once to let the rabbits spend the autumn and winter safely. This time he will talk about a new way to make money from rabbits.

The great hero is so boastful, Li Mingxia echoed: "Yes, yes, Brother Jin has been smart since he was a child, and he is the best."

Speaking, Li Mingxia thought of Li Mingjin going up the mountain with her to catch pheasants and eggs, and sharing pastries and candies with her when she was a child. Brother Jin has always taken care of her since she was a child.

Although the two are not siblings, in Li Mingxia's heart, Li Mingjin is her real brother.

After chatting off-topic for a while, Li Mingjin finally turned the topic back to the rabbit: "Fourth sister, so many rabbits have been born this time, will they all be sold at once when they grow up?"

Li Mingxia had thought about it: "It's probably not easy to sell it all at once. I will discuss with your brother-in-law whether we should sell it in several batches."

"This year I have so many births at once due to my inexperience. Next year we plan to house the female rabbits and male rabbits separately, and only let some of the female rabbits conceive each time."

She not only thought about this year, but also learned a lesson and thought about what to do next year.

"Well, it should be like this. Rabbits are too capable of giving birth, so we need to limit them." Li Mingjin nodded in agreement, "But there is still a problem, when this batch of rabbits grows up in May, when the weather is warmer, rabbit meat is not good. Put it, I think you sell fresh rabbit meat to restaurants, it is better to make bacon and sell it to dry goods stores and ship merchants."

"Bacon?" Li Mingxia listened to Li Mingjin's words thoughtfully, which is a good idea.

Li Mingxia learned how to cook bacon from her aunt Bai Xiuhe. She marinated the meat with several seasonings and then smoked it. It tastes delicious on the lips and teeth.

And her mother-in-law, Shi Shi, also has the skill of bacon. Shi Shi is because he married a hunter, and the family has a lot of meat and cooks a lot, so he figured out a way by himself. The bacon he makes relies on wood with a special fragrance. There is no extra spice, and the meat itself is fragrant and the wood is special in the mouth.

Although the taste is different, they are all delicious. If you combine the two methods of bacon, the bacon will be even better!

Li Mingxia looked at the little rabbits that kept chewing their mouths, their eyes were glistening, and Li Mingjin seemed to see silver ingots inside.

"Brother Jin, I'll let your brother-in-law kill a rabbit to smoke it up, and give it to you to taste when it's ready. If it's okay, sister will send you a box of smoked rabbit to add makeup to you!"

Add makeup?A case of smoked rabbit?Li Mingjin's eyes widened, could he refuse?He didn't want his dowry to smell like bacon.

Li Mingxia also did it when she thought of it. Seeing Li Mingjin standing in front of the rabbit cage and ignoring him, she found two rabbits that were about the same size and brought up the rabbit cage and went to Zheng Shan.

After standing still for a while, Li Mingjin, who finally convinced himself to accept a box of smoked rabbit meat as a dowry, walked back step by step with difficulty.

Li Mingxia acted very quickly. One month later, the first batch of smoked rabbit meat she made was ready. She and Mrs. Shi spent a lot of effort to come up with several different flavors. The recipe for each flavor was different. Because of the different proportions and the different woods of the bacon, more than a dozen smoked rabbits with different flavors were finally made.

In order to choose smoked rabbits with better taste, Li Mingxia cut each one into small pieces and gave them to everyone in the Li family to taste.

In the end, after listening to the opinion of Bai Xiuhe, who cooks the best food, there are three kinds that everyone likes.

Then, Li Mingxia and Shi's devoted themselves to the smoked rabbit meat, and the work of raising rabbits was handed over to the Zheng family and his son.

Li Mingxia is shrewd, smoked rabbit meat can be put away, she and Shi Shi did not sell the smoked rabbit meat after making it, and waited until it was almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, then she took out the smoked rabbit meat at once, imitating Li's family The shape of the rice noodle got the name of Zheng Jiaxun Rabbit, and I bought it at a high price during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and made a name for myself.

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