After explaining the relevant oyster sauce shipment and ordering matters, Chen Nianguan thought that now is the season when river prawns and sea fish are abundant, and Uncle Liu's family's farm work has been busy for the first time.

The main grains grown in Liujia Village are rice and bracts, and the official grains handed over are mainly rice, supplemented by bracts.

The corn has been planted around April, and the rice is planted at the same time, one rice with two crops.

Because of the warm climate, early rice is usually sown at the end of March and transplanted in early April. It can be harvested in early or mid-July, and then the second crop of late rice is planted. The late rice takes a short time to mature and can be harvested at the end of September or early October.

So today, both corn and rice are waiting to mature, and the work in the field is not so busy.

Now that the refining of oyster sauce is suspended, and there are river and sea fish and shrimp, why not just teach my aunt and them how to make shrimp sauce and fish sauce?

First, to open up an additional source of income, second, to add an additional product to the store, and third, to increase the income of the uncle's family, which is also a good thing that serves multiple purposes.

Besides, after successfully making the sauce, she can use it to make more food choices, such as noodles with fish sauce, grilled meat with fish sauce, stewed dishes with fish sauce, for example, fried eggs with shrimp paste, tofu with shrimp paste, shrimp pastePork chops, for example, baked lotus root with scallop sauce, fried fish with scallop sauce, roasted bone with scallop sauce, etc., etc.

Chen Nianguan thought about it, and couldn't help wiping the corners of his mouth, feeling greedy.

You can also add ingredients to the rice noodles. Perhaps, after filling them in cans, they can be directly supplied to various branches for sale. Anyway, there is no shortage of ice cubes in Uncle Liu’s house. If they dig a few more cellars, there will be more in good condition.sauce storage bin.

This is tantamount to making Uncle Liu’s family the sauce maker of Chen’s Pho Shop, and allowing his family’s workshop to add several new varieties.

So at dinner that day, Chen Nianguan directly told the people in Uncle Liu's family about his plans, and both the eldest cousin and the fourth uncle rubbed their hands with smiles on their faces.

"Wan Wan, if you think we can do it, just teach us!"

"That's right, there are so many people in this village now that if our family is too busy, we can still hire people." Fourth Aunt also hurriedly said, "Wan Wan, we can do it, you trust Auntie."

Chen Nianguan smiled, "Okay, then I will leave all the methods of making these sauces to you in the next few days."

In fact, the raw materials of shrimp paste and fish sauce are small fish and shrimp, which are not worth a few dollars.

When she was selling pho at the wharf, she saw fishermen selling these fish and shrimp, which were very cheap, but in the end, many of them were not bought. At that time, she felt that it was just right to use it as a sauce.

The trouble was the scallop sauce.

For authentic scallop sauce, scallops should be made from fresh sea shellfish, and only the adductor muscle that is the center of the scallop should be selected. Fishermen from the sea should catch a large number of sea shells, and then all meat should only be usedSuch a small amount is too extravagant and troublesome, so Chen Nianguan plans to make an improved version of scallop sauce.

It just so happens that still have leftover spices from making oyster sauce at home, so can make it right away when buy fish, shrimp and shellfish.

The cooking method is naturally handed over to the eldest aunt and the fourth aunt.

So Chen Nianguan didn't do anything else these days, so he taught them how to make these three kinds of sauces.

The production cycle of fish sauce is the longest and the most cumbersome, and it can only be done step by step. So now, Chen Nianguan first asks the eldest aunt and fourth aunt to find the carpenter in the village to make four special wooden barrels.A hole was opened, and a plug was specially made to seal it.

Then asked someone to buy four baskets full of small sea fish, remove the viscera, wash them, put them layer by layer into wooden barrels, sprinkle with an appropriate amount of salt, and then expose them to the sun.

When exposed to the sun, it needs to be turned once or twice a day. In this way, the salt is evenly distributed and the marinated fish is easy to break down the juice. This operation must last for one to three months until the fish in the wooden barrel and the fish juice are dried.Fragrance.

At this time, you can cut off a small piece of bamboo, pass through the middle bamboo joint, connect it to the mouth of the wooden barrel, pour the marinated fish juice into another wooden barrel, empty the fish juice, and then put the collectedAll the fish juice is poured into the original barrel, and after repeated operations several times, what flows out is the original fish sauce with a high concentration.

Put the raw fish sauce into the urn, seal it and continue to expose it to the sun for about 20 days before it is considered to be truly mature. With different qualities of crude oil, it becomes fish sauce with different freshness.

The raw materials of shrimp paste are cheap shrimps sold by fishermen on the seashore. All kinds of shrimps are fine, but the fresh ones should be used. After cleaning the impurities and sediment, drain the water.

Also mix well with salt, put it into a wooden barrel, and then use a wooden mallet to mash and stir evenly. The foam should be compacted layer by layer, then close the lid, and place it in the sun. This kind of stirring and fermentation must be carried out continuously.At least one month is considered preliminary completion.

After that, pepper, licorice, orange peel and other spices are added, mixed and stirred, and a little rice wine is added to promote fermentation, and then covered and left to stand. After two or three days, the fermentation matures, and the shrimp paste with unique flavor is obtained.

As for the scallop sauce, the method is simpler than fish sauce and shrimp paste. It is more convenient to follow Chen Nianguan's improved version.

Take out all the seashells you bought, clean them after processing, then chop them up, add garlic, scallions and ginger slices to stir-fry, then add seashells, some minced meat, sugar, salt, oyster sauceAnd other spices, fried fragrant, when all the minced meat and ingredients are blended together, it can be put into a jar after cooling down.

As mentioned above, except that the preparation method of scallop paste is relatively simple and does not take long, it takes time to make shrimp paste and fish sauce.

Shrimp paste needs at least one month, while fish sauce takes longer, three to six months.

Therefore, after Chen Nianguan taught them how to make the three kinds of sauces, he successfully harvested six jars of improved scallop sauce. As for fish sauce and shrimp sauce, we will wait a while to see if the eldest aunt and fourth aunt can make themIt worked.

In the near noon, ate noodles with scallop sauce.

The noodles are thick noodles from ordinary farmers' homes. They are cooked and placed in large porcelain bowls, and put into a basin through ice water. After cooling down, pour out the scallop sauce and mix them.The sauce made from the oven, the fresh and rich taste of pollution-free seashells spread to the taste buds along with the noodles, so delicious that almost didn't eat it with tongue.

As for those who want spicy food, there are also two jars with chili oil added, which fully meet the requirements of spicy people.

Chen Nianguan was very satisfied with the meal. When he planned to leave Liujia Village, he moved Sitan back to the rice noodle shop in the city. He also ordered rice noodles mixed with scallop sauce.

Now I haven’t tried the diner’s response, so naturally I don’t dare to make a lot of it. First, launch a new product to see the effect. If it is popular, let the fourth aunt make a special jar according to the jar pattern she left behind and divide the scallop sauce., Send them to the store in batches and put them on the shelves for sale.

very nice!

Another way to make money has been opened up by himself.

Chen Nianguan is proud.

After eating, everyone enjoyed the coolness under the peach tree in Uncle Liu's yard.

It was long past the peach blossom season, but it was the time when the peaches were ripe. Chen Nianguan leaned leisurely on the bamboo and rattan chair under the tree, and he could see the fruit when he looked up.

At the corner of the wall, there are beans on the pole frame led by vines, hanging down on the roots of the vines one by one. Under the bamboo frame is a ridge of land, planted with onions, garlic, ginger, etc., growing in intervals..

The two new dogs of my aunt's house were lying lazily at the door—since the big pillar came in and burglarized, my uncle bought two dogs from nowhere to guard the house.

On the stone table at the side are freshly picked peaches, loquats and plums, as well as broad beans fried by aunt. Grabbing a handful, ate them crunchily, listening to the two little girls, Xuan Xuan and Liu Ye, whispering, and occasionally lowered their heads.The voice is laughing.

Chen Nianguan narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the swaying sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves. The cool breeze was blowing, and he felt very comfortable.

Mrs. Liu and Uncle Liu were also chatting on the sidelines. Seeing that the sun was getting hotter, the eldest cousin went to the ice cellar to cut some pieces of ice, and froze a few glasses of ice water for everyone who was talking.

"Is there enough ice?" Chen Nianguan asked when he was about to leave the cellar.

"Enough." The eldest cousin nodded, "With the method you taught me, Wan Wan, we kept freezing a lot of ice one after another. Every time we transported oyster sauce to the county, we would send it frozen."

"Ice is freezing again. There are large blocks of ice in the back of the cellar. There are so many of them. If there is less, we will freeze them again. When we find it too hot, we dig them up and use them!" Uncle Liu touched his head with a smile, "IceIt’s a good thing! There’s ice, we can drink ice water to quench our thirst when we’re doing farm work, Liu Shui said, when it’s hot, we’ll put ice in the main room, it’ll be cool to sit and sleep soundly.”

Uncle Liu's words touched Chen Nianguan's heart.

"That's right, there's ice in the cellar at my house, and I plan to use it when it's hot."

Unfortunately, she thought of a problem.

Uncle Liu's house now has ice, and there is also ice in the Chenjia Pho shop in Funing County.

But there is no ice in the west store of Prefecture City!

She didn't dare to dig a cellar in the yard rented by the second aunt. After all, it was a rented house, and remodeling was not allowed.

So, when the weather is completely hot, what should do?

Chen Nianguan was a little anxious when he came to this serious problem.

The siu mei is fine, but the rice noodles are fried and the other is hot soup. When the weather gets hotter, the sales will definitely decrease, which means it is off-season.

For the catering industry, controlling the dining environment is one of the keys to increasing sales. Modern electricity, refrigerators, and air-conditioning are naturally not a big deal, but here, the issue of ice storage is an extremely important issue.

The hot climate will inevitably affect the appetite of customers, which cannot be eliminated, but if diners enter the shop and cool off, it may be different.

Otherwise, why is the air conditioner in the hotel teahouse turned on so fiercely in modern summer?Just to keep diners and increase their appetite.

Not only do we need to improve the environment in the shop in summer, but we also have to think about what to sell in the pho shop in summer to cool off the heat?

Herbal tea?Tortoise jelly?syrup?Juice?

The basis of all this is to use ice.

Chen Nianguan thought about it, and thought of the two thousand taels in his hand.

Or, she went to Prefecture City to buy a store, and dug the cellar to store ice. When the weather got hot, she would supply ice to the West Store and sell ice to wealthy families in Prefecture City?

Chen Nianguan is the type to do what she says, thinking about going to Prefecture City to buy a shop, and then chatting with relatives in Uncle Liu's family, she was distracted from time to time until Uncle Liu handed her a stack of land deeds.

"Wan Wan, the money you left last time entrusted me to buy the land, and the land you entrusted me to see, my sister. I bought them for you. The title deed is here. Take a look, is it right?"

That's right, she almost forgot that she asked Uncle Liu to buy land.

But when did Auntie give money to Uncle Liu to buy the land?Chen Nianguan glanced at Liu Shi curiously.

Mrs. Liu glanced back at her: "Why, you are allowed to entrust your uncle to buy the land, can't I?"

"Yes, yes." Chen Nianguan nodded repeatedly.

"I, not only want to buy land here, but also build a house here, a big house, something very grand." Liu looked up at her eldest daughter and said.

Now she is someone who has money in her hand. Just talking about the large sum of income, there are dividends from the main store and the west store, as well as the profit from Chen's sauce, and two apportioned incomes—except for those who are in charge of selling the stalls.The monthly salaries of the four people, and the rest of the money belonged to her.

So she was full of confidence, and the aura of the only daughter of the Liu family who had been bullied and had to swallow her breath in the past was back.

"It's good to build a house, sister, buy land and build a house here, and live with your brother and me soon, and we will take care of you then." Uncle Liu said with a smile.

"That's right, I'll build my own house here, and when your two sisters get married, I'll move back to this Liujia Village to live and take care of myself." Liu looked at her brother coquettishly, "Brother, comeDon't dislike me then."

"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it." Uncle Liu shook his head repeatedly.

Uncle Liu and Auntie both laughed, "Auntie, if you really move back, it's just a matter of adding an extra pair of chopsticks. How could you despise you?"

Liu Shi also laughed, hugged Xuan Xuan, and bowed her head in embarrassment.

Chen Nianguan didn't expect that Mrs. Liu had already considered such a long-term future, and she hasn't even married yet!

Even if she is married, isn't there still Xuan Xuan?

Xuan Xuan is only seven years old. It will take eight years for her to talk about marriage. It's still early!

However, the environment in Liujia Village is good. It is quite good to build a house here and come back occasionally as a vacation.

Anyway, it is cheaper to build a house in Liujia Village, and they are not short of money.

Uh huh, that's right, it's just such a local tyrant, the three of them, mother and daughter, are no longer short of money.

So Chen Nianguan said to Mrs. Liu: "Auntie, if you are willing to build a house here, of course I support it. Not only do I support it, but I can also design a house for you, which will make you feel grand when you see it, okay?"

Liu nodded.

Looking at the kitchen and cabinets at home, as well as the renovations in the shop, Mrs. Liu can trust her daughter's handwriting.

If you can really design a beautiful house, how comfortable it would be to live in.

Therefore, the Liu family asked Uncle Liu to find a homestead for herself, but Uncle Liu immediately pointed to a pile of broken bricks and tiles next to him.

"Your second aunt who lives here was taken to the city by her daughter to enjoy the blessings after the New Year's Eve. She asked me to sell the house, and then I was renovating the house, including her old house and the surrounding land.I bought it all, and I plan to tear it down and rebuild it! If you like to live next to the eldest brother’s family, my brother will give you this land, sister, do you think it’s okay?”

Liu's probe took a look and nodded, so the matter of building a house in Liujia Village was decided.

During the few days when Liu's mother and daughter lived in Liujia Village, Chen Nianguan took out the charcoal pencil he brought with him to write and draw, and finally drew a house that was not much different from the tile-roofed houses in the village.

After all, it should be integrated into the buildings in the village, and it should not be too out of the ordinary. Now that Uncle Liu’s family is the richest man, it is enough to attract people’s attention, so Chen Nianguan will not be special, and it will be consistent with the tile-roofed houses in the village.

But the appearance can’t be different, and the inside of the house can still be creative, so Chen Nianguan made the courtyard beams in the house according to his own preferences, and every arrangement is written in detail.The parameters depend on whether Uncle Liu finds the person who built the house or not.

"Aniang, when we go back to Liujia Village, we can live in our own room." Chen Nian smiled.

Well, they look like this, in modern times, it is equivalent to having a villa in the country, and it will be super cool on vacation.

Liu Shi also smiled, happily.

When her husband was still alive, the Chen family lived in a cramped Qingzhi Lane, and she thought that it would be great if the whole family could live in Liujia Village and build a big house.

Unexpectedly, after her husband passed away, her wish came true.

It seems that the husband is not as reliable as the daughter.