The next day, because yesterday's fish balls were too delicious, neither Li Qiao nor Tao Zhu were satisfied, so Li Qiao went to the river to catch more than ten fish and planned to make fish balls again.
This time, while Li Dashan was stirring the fish with a meat grinder, he made another handle and attached it to the meat grinder made of pottery bamboo. Thus, the second meat grinder in the world was ready.
With the second meat grinder, the process of making fish balls is greatly accelerated.
Lunch was noodles again, but today it was noodles. The noodles were rolled out very thinly and cooked in cold water. The side dishes were diced eggplant, scrambled eggs, beans, and fish balls.
Li Qiao filled a pot full of it in a clay pot, and added a few spoonfuls of chili oil. After one sip, it was fragrant, spicy and strong, satisfying every pore in his body.
Tao Zhu couldn't help but praise Li Chuntao: "Chuntao's craftsmanship is getting better and better."
Li Dashan ate without raising his head, and nodded when he heard this. With his sister-in-law's cooking skills, she would definitely have no problem setting up a stall!
Li Chuntao smiled when she heard this, and prepared to go home with a bowl of fish balls. There were many things at home, and her mother's illness was not cured yet.
It's not a serious illness, it's mainly about sadness. Zhao Erniu was punished by God for slandering her. Now many people believe that she is innocent.
But believe it or not, no one came to propose marriage, so her mother's old illness relapsed, and her heart began to hurt again.
well.
Li Chuntao went home, and after Li Qiao had lunch, he asked Li Dashan to send the newly made meat grinder to Zheng's house, along with a bowl of fish balls.
Li Dashan took the order and held a meat grinder with a bowl of fish balls in his hands. However, he did not go directly to Zheng's house, but returned to his own house.
Last night, his parents happened to be selling candy, so he pinched a little duck himself. It was exactly the same as the one his uncle gave him. It was plump, cute and delicious.
He was going to give this little duck to Brother Qian.
When he arrived at Zheng's house, he was warmly welcomed by the Zheng family, but when Zheng Qianqian saw him coming, she snorted and turned to go back to his room.
"Hey, Brother Qian, I have something for you." Li Dashan quickly took out the maltose duck wrapped in oil paper from the meat grinder.
Hearing this, Zheng Qianqian stopped and turned around to look at him, but there was disgust on her beautiful face.
Seeing this, Li Dashan was encouraged and quickly stepped forward to open the oil paper: "I pinched it myself, you can try it."
Zheng Qianqian lowered his eyes and stared at the little duck for a few seconds, then raised his eyelids and looked at Li Dashan.
Li Dashan stared at him with a silly smile on his face, his eyes bright.
He snorted: "Is Brother Zhu at home?"
"at home!"
"Then I'll go talk to Brother Zhu." After saying this, he took the oil paper and turned back to the house.
When he came out again, he was holding an oil paper bag in his hand and said coldly to Li Dashan, "Let's go."
"Hey!" Li Dashan quickly followed.
So, the two people left Zheng's house one after another.
The Zheng family looked a little stunned. Butcher Zheng asked Zhao Ting with some uncertainty: "Is this marriage consummated?"
Zhao Ting couldn't help laughing: "Brother Qian is still angry, but 99% of the time it will be done."
"Oh, that's great!" Butcher Zheng clapped his hands with joy. He did a good job of bringing them together!
Li Qiao didn't expect that Li Dashan would bring Zheng Qianqian back. He was a little surprised. This silly boy still had some abilities in him.
When Zheng Qianqian saw Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, the coldness in his sullen face immediately disappeared. He opened the oil paper bag in his hand and said, "Here, let's eat some melon seeds."
After Li Qiao and Tao Zhu both grabbed a handful of melon seeds, he put the oil paper bag on the table without looking at Li Dashan, but smiled and gossiped with Tao Zhu.
"Brother Zhu and Brother Qiao, you don't know yet, but Han Xiaoyan is back."
"Huh?" Tao Zhu really didn't know about this, he looked surprised: "When did you come back?"
Li Qiao didn't know about this either. He asked Li Dashan to bring the iced sour plum soup while looking at Zheng Qianqian: "Brother Dazhong went to invite him back, right?"
"Of course not! It was sent back by her natal brother last night, and it happened to be seen by the villagers, and then the news came out."
The incident of Zhao Erniu's divine punishment aroused great concern in the village. Now that Han Xiaoyan, who also coveted Li Qiao Fangzi, was back, the villagers were naturally also very concerned.
Zheng Qianqian was well-informed and knew it early in the morning. Even if Li Dashan didn't go to Zheng's house, he would come to Tao Zhu to talk about it.
"Come back as soon as you come back. After all, you and Brother Dazhong have two children." Tao Zhu stopped being surprised. As for the two children, it was normal for them to come back.
Li Qiao also felt that it was normal. It was not Li Dazhong who took the initiative to invite him back, but she came back in despair. I hope she can remember this lesson and not be a monster in the future.
"It's a good thing that she can calm down and live a good life with Brother Dazhong."
"I hope so." For Li Dazhong's sake, Zheng Qianqian didn't laugh too much.
At this time, Li Dashan put a bowl of sour plum soup in front of him. He took it and took a sip to moisten his throat. He didn't give Li Dashan any look, but said to Tao Zhu with some annoyance: "Today, my eldest brother went to buy pig intestines from that hunter." , he actually didn’t sell it.”
"...Why not sell it?" Tao Zhu was puzzled.
Li Dashan didn't understand either. He brought a small stool over and sat opposite Zheng Qianqian. He held his chin in his hand and looked at Zheng Qianqian with concern.
"Then Orion couldn't guess why we bought pig intestines, so he refused to sell them to us. Alas, there are not enough pig intestines now."
Zheng Qianqian said as she stared at Li Dashan expressionlessly, annoyed to death.
Li Dashan: "..."
He scratched his head: "How about letting Grandpa Zheng kill a few more pigs?"
"I'm too busy." Zheng Qianqian still glared at him, wasn't he talking nonsense?
"This is indeed a problem." Li Qiao frowned slightly.
Even though Butcher Zheng asked Zheng Qianqian's uncle's family for help, his manpower was still limited. Slaughtering three pigs a day was enough.
Moreover, following this trend, not only are there not enough people to kill pigs, but there are also probably not enough pigs.
Every household raises a large number of pigs, and pigs cannot be raised in one day. Moreover, many people raise pigs to be eaten during the New Year, and would not be willing to slaughter them until the New Year.
Now the number of pigs slaughtered by Zheng butcher every day has doubled, and with the competition from the hunter, there may be no pigs left to slaughter before winter comes.
what to do?
Call on the whole village to raise pigs together?
But pigs are not raised in a day. What if something happens to the business and the pigs raised by the villagers cannot be eaten by the butcher?
When Li Qiao mentioned this concern, Zheng Qianqian immediately became even more annoyed. Yes, pig sources are a big problem. What should we do?
This problem was really serious. Zheng Qianqian had never thought about whether there were pigs to slaughter before. He couldn't sit still. He had to go home and discuss this matter with his family!
"It's not easy to make money." Li Dashan sighed as he looked at Zheng Qianqian's back.
I thought that the Zheng family's business must be getting more and more prosperous, but it turned out that there was still such a hidden danger.
"No." Li Qiao nodded.
Yesterday, the Zheng family bought the Orion's pig intestines and made more sausages, so they gave him more than 700 yuan.
Now it seems that this number cannot be maintained and must go down.
"Actually, I really wanted to raise pigs before." Tao Zhu said.
Such a big pig, when it is killed for meat during the Chinese New Year, he can always get a piece of meat.
But raising pigs requires cutting pig grass every day to make pig food. He has to be busy with farm work and is really unable to raise pigs anymore, so he only raised chickens at home before.
When he mentioned raising pigs at this time, he couldn't help but think of this little wish he had in the past.
When Li Qiao heard this, he immediately said: "We will raise it when we build a new house."
"We are making snacks. If we raise pigs, the house will smell bad." Tao Zhu immediately shook his head.
There is no shortage of meat now, so there is no need to raise this pig.
“You can build a yard specifically for raising livestock.”
"...Isn't that too exaggerated?" Tao Zhu opened his eyes wide.
Li Dashan was also shocked. Can he build a yard specifically to raise livestock?
Li Qiao nodded: "As long as you have money, it's not just a matter of talking."
Now that Li Dashan has joined, the number of youth groups he and Tao Zhu provide to Wangyue Tower every day has increased to 300.
A youth league earns 11 cash, and three hundred earns 3,300 cash.
On the other side, the Zheng family business hired people from Zheng Qianqian's uncle's family to help kill pigs and chop meat, so they braised more meat, cooked sausages, and meatballs every day.
As a result, not only did the Zheng family earn more money, but also more money was given to him and Tao Zhu, with the minimum being more than 500 yuan a day.
Add in the five taels of silver from Shaqima and Damahua, and now he and Tao Zhu can earn almost nine taels of silver a day.
Of course, daily food, drink, and other daily expenses must also be excluded.
For example, ask Xiao Wu to build two large iron boxes to use as an oven in the blacksmith shop, such as buying farm tools or a pallet truck——
He and Tao Zhu gritted their teeth and finally decided to buy a truck of their own instead of renting Li Liang's truck for a long time.
These expenses were not small. Yuan Shen had sold everything he could at home, but now he and Tao Zhu had to buy them back one by one.
But even so, you can earn at least several taels of silver every day.
This income is not small even in the county town, let alone in the countryside.
According to this income level, it is not difficult at all to build a courtyard to raise livestock.
"Forget it, let's work and pay back the money first. And we have to go to Zhujia Village to have a look."
Tao Zhu saw that Li Qiao had gone too far, so he pulled his thoughts back.
The sweet potato seedlings and corn will be planted this afternoon, and they want to go take a look again.
There was really a lot of work, so Li Qiao nodded, indeed, let’s work first.
In the evening, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went to Zhujiacun and saw that the sweet potato seedlings and corn had been planted. They were quite satisfied with the speed of Chen Tiezhu and Wang Xiuying.
After paying the bill, it was already dark when we got home.
Tao Zhu did not wash up with Li Qiao like before, but opened the money box and took out the field deed inside to take a look.
This is his new habit. He has to read the land deeds at least three times a day.
Get up in the morning, open the money box and look through it.
When you put the money into the cash box when you check out with Xiao Wu, take it out and look at it again.
