"Shisi Guo, please eat vegetables. I have to talk to His Highness the Crown Prince this afternoon, so I won't drink with you." The head of the village advised Guo Shisi to eat vegetables.
Guo Shisi was trembling. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was gone. His Royal Highness King Qin was here, sitting next to Hanhan at a table alone, drinking.
"Okay, eat." Guo Shisi tremblingly stretched out his chopsticks, and his six subordinates did the same.
"You are afraid of this and that when you are eating. You are not as good as the people from Xiaqiu Village. When my father invited them to dinner alone, I didn't hear anyone trembling."
Zhu Xi took one look and frowned, "Let's have a good meal, what are you doing there?" Let me go? snort! How can it be.
"Your Highness, please forgive me. Your Highness, please forgive me." Guo Shisi left his position and knelt down.
"Hurry up and eat, or I'll chop off your head if you try too hard. Come on, Hanhan, let's have a drink." Zhu Chen glared at him, then turned back to hold up the wine cup.
"Hey! Drink! Hey hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian also took the wine cup, took a sip, and exhaled the alcohol: "Ah~~Yeah!"
Guo Shisi was frightened once, but he calmed down, his hands stopped shaking, and he picked up vegetables to eat.
The children finished eating first and ran out to buy and find things to prepare for the afternoon.
The seven people from Guo Shisi ate quickly, and were arranged by the chief to rest in an empty tent to calm down.
At the wrong time, Prince Zhu Biao came, and it was not important to discuss things with Xiaqiu Village during class.
Zhu Xi and Han Han were still drinking. Each of them drank a tael of white wine to warm themselves up, and then started drinking beer. There were salt water edamame here.
The headmaster brought out some tea to make and put some dried fruits on the table for everyone to drink outside to cool off.
"Your Highness, let me first tell you about greenhouse cultivation in winter. You can send people to build greenhouses in other places where there are no fresh vegetables in winter, and do a good job of accounting and supervision."
The head of the village told this in advance to avoid forgetting it later.
"It's a good idea. You won't be afraid of someone being greedy for ink." Zhu Biao nodded slightly when he heard this. He could indeed make more money.
"Another thing is that the war in Sichuan has stopped..." The chief repeated what he told Guo Shisi.
Zhu Biao was slightly surprised after hearing this: "Why not let Xuancheng County of Ningguo Prefecture come to try it?"
"Your Highness, we are familiar with them in Xiaqiu Village, and we will send a large number of things for the New Year tomorrow.
However, the commerce of that place is not comparable to that of Dangtu County. Dangtu County is on the bank of the Yangtze River. It is precisely because of the end of the Sichuan War that there are more business transactions.
Ningguo Mansion has to wait until more people know that a new canal is open to navigation and the number of merchants passing through Ningguo Mansion increases before it can be implemented. "
The head of the village explained that he understood what the prince meant. Whatever was done in Ningguo Mansion, Xiaqiu Village could handle it directly.
I am not very familiar with Taiping Mansion, and sometimes the cooperation is not tacit.
The prince nodded again: "That's right. Give it a try. If it's good, promote it more. Let's try it together in Nanjing. Xuancheng should do it first! It doesn't matter how many others there are!"
"There is no problem with Xuancheng and Nanjing. The market in Dangtu County is under the control of Guo Ju and Guo Shisi. In order to prevent anyone from intervening at will and giving random directions, it is necessary to stabilize the position of Guo Shisi."
The head of the district came to Guo City through the prince to protect his official position, and no one would touch him.
Zhu Biao glanced at Guo Ju, who was sitting there very reservedly: "Since Zhu Lichang said it, then Director Guo must do his best."
"Xiaoguan will definitely do a good job in this matter. If anything goes wrong, Xiaguan... Xianguan will raise his head to see you." Guo Shisi was very excited.
"Your Highness, Xiaqiu Village suddenly thought of a simple way to make food, which can be used to sell money. There are chestnuts in Sichuan, and the chestnuts in Ningguofu are better. Make sugar-fried chestnuts. Silly! Go and fry them."
The head of the village began to introduce snacks. Ningguo Mansion has always had chestnuts, Xuanzhou chestnuts.
"Yeah! Here we go! Fried." Zhu Wentian got up and went to the tent to change clothes. He couldn't bear to ruin his silk clothes.
His friends have already changed their clothes, and the chestnuts, pebbles, and sugar are ready and placed on the big iron pot stand.
After changing his clothes, Zhu Wentian stood in front of the big pot with a shovel. He threw the pebbles in first and stir-fried them to feel the sensation before pouring the chestnuts in.
Then there is the vigorous work of stir-frying, pouring some sugar water into it, and continuing to stir-fry.
"Your Highnesses, the sugar used is not much, just a little is enough. The stones are used to increase the heating area of the chestnuts. If you fry the chestnuts directly without adding stones, they will be burnt.
Generally, it takes more than a quarter of an hour to fry. Take out a chestnut to see if it is ripe. When it is ripe, use an iron sieve to sift out the stones.
Due to the sugar water, the chestnuts and stones will stick together, so you need thick gloves to help separate them.
You must be quick at this time, otherwise the residual heat of the stones will burn black spots inside the chestnuts.
The ancients said that when roasting chestnuts, if the small ones are cooked, the big ones will be raw; if the big ones are cooked, the small ones will be burnt. When the size is evenly cooked, it will be perfect.
It is to separate the sizes for frying. We don’t use this unless it is extremely large and extremely small. "
The manager explained beside him that he had never been fired before, so Hanhan just said whatever he said.
Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Guo Shisi and others watched. It was the first time they heard that Li Zi was fried with stones.
"The main reason is that white sugar is now cheap. When fried with brown sugar water, the sugar taste is very mixed. After the imperial court sent people to Fujian and other places to plant a large amount of sugar cane, the people of the Ming Dynasty can also taste sweetness."
The director also talked about the problem of sugar. Brown sugar is not as good as white sugar for frying.
"Who would have thought that you could use pebbles? When sugar is expensive, I really don't want to use it for frying."
Zhu Biao only felt that the master had many ideas, and even if he speculated on chestnuts, he was better than others.
Everyone talked for a while, and the time was almost up. The little girl put on a pair of gloves and picked up two chestnuts from the shovel handed over by Brother Hanhan.
She huffed and puffed, took off her gloves and poured her hands over each other. When it was no longer hot, she used her nails to slide and pinch again to separate the chestnut shells. She tasted: "Brother Hanhan is ready."
Zhu Wentian put down the shovel, grabbed one ear of the iron pot with each hand, lifted the pot directly to the iron sieve next to it, fell it with a clatter, and then bumped it again. The friend next to him used a shovel to pull out the chestnuts stuck to the bottom of the pot. Come down.
Others wore gloves and rubbed chestnuts and pebbles on the sieve. The pebbles fell down and the chestnuts stayed on top.
Put the chestnuts in a dustpan, leave part of them, and cover the rest with a quilt to keep them warm and moisturized.
There is a bamboo plate of chestnuts on the inside, and small bamboo slices for peeling chestnut skins. One side has teeth and can be used as a spoon, but this kind of chestnuts only need to be cut open and pinched.
The child next to him held a piece of bamboo to demonstrate, and then Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang and Guo Shisi followed suit.
"It's delicious. I'll go back and find someone to practice it and sell it at convenience stores, plus other things."
Guo Shisi tasted one and agreed that the texture and taste were better than the boiled chestnuts he ate.
Zhu Biao looked at the small bamboo slices and shook his head slightly. There was so much thought in eating.
The director followed suit and ate one: "If it's cold, it's best to heat it in the oven."
"When it's cold, I'll bring it over and let you heat it up. I'll take less at a time."
Zhu Jingcai didn't plan to heat the chestnuts himself, so he went here to get them while the people in Xiaqiu Village were around.
"In this case, His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness the King of Qin, I will resign and go back to take care of this matter."
When Guo Shisi saw that there was nothing else to do, he didn't want to have dinner here and left quickly.
(End of chapter)
