The first thing Shen Ruolan did when she returned to Kaoshantun was to go to the mountains to see Chunyuzhen's new house.
Chunyuzhen's new house was built in the mountains north of Shen Ruolan's house, only a mile away from Shen Ruolan's house, and its area was four or five times the size of Shen Ruolan's house. There are a total of more than one hundred wing rooms in the palace, and the ground dragon and warm walls need to be repaired.
Such a huge project requires a lot of workers to complete. Therefore, most of the villagers in the backing village and several surrounding villages were hired to work. Each person paid 50 Wen per day, and the bill was settled in cash, one settlement per day.
It is a surprise for the villagers to get this job. It is already November, and the autumn harvest is over. Everyone has nothing to do at home, so they can eat and eat the family's old book. Son, now that I can find such a lucrative job, I don’t have to worry about running out of money for the New Year.
So, men from the four villages of Guashan Village, Sijia Wazi Village, Xiushui Village and Taohua Village all came to work. Hundreds of people built this big house together, and the scene was very spectacular.
When Shen Ruolan went to visit, most of the house had already been built, several main houses were about to be built, and the surrounding wing rooms were also built to be more than one meter high, and it would be completed in seven or eight days, because of the ground dragon and the fire wall, This house does not need to be aired, it only needs to burn the fire wall and earth dragon for a few days, and the house can be dried, and then people can live in it......
Shen Ruolan went to watch it pretending to be watching the fun, and didn't tell anyone about her relationship with the owner of the house, not even her parents.
When Chun Yuzhen ordered people to build this house, he did not reveal his true identity. He only asked people to reveal that it was a young man from the city who was going to the countryside to recuperate. Because the air in the mountains was suitable for his body, he built this house. house.
As for the name of this son? He didn't reveal anything about the background, he only revealed that bit of information to let people know that he is not a bad person and that he has no bad purpose in coming here, so as not to disturb his life with suspicion.
Shen Ruolan originally planned to open the vermicelli processing factory and dried tofu processing factory immediately after returning, but because the workers were all hired by Chun Yuzheng, her plan had to be postponed, but the factory had to be planned.
She doesn't plan to produce at home, and the noise will affect the quality of life of the family members, so she plans to find two other houses in the village to set up a vermicelli processing factory and a dried tofu processing factory respectively.
There are actually two empty houses in the village, one belongs to Shen Dachui's family and the other belongs to You's family, but neither of these two houses can be used.
The house in Youshi's house is too small, similar to the original two small rooms in Shen Ruolan's house, except for a big kang, there is no place to turn around, let alone a dozen old men working in it.
Shen Dachui's house is big enough, but it's too dilapidated. I don't know which generation it was passed down from the ancestors. The rafters on the roof are rotten, and the doors and windows are all broken. Maybe it will collapse at any time. She doesn't care. Dare to open her processing factory in a dilapidated building, if something happens to her, she will have a hard time in her life.
So, I had to find two other big, solid houses.
Soon, Shen Ruolan thought of where to find it.
Didn't his eldest and younger uncles deliberately learn her pastry skills? It just so happened that she taught them the technique of baking dim sum, but the premise was that they had to sell the house to her. In this way, she had a factory building, and she could get two people she hated to leave the village. It was like killing two birds with one stone!
That night, she asked Shouya to find her eldest uncle and younger uncle, and discussed the matter with them.
Wang Wanfu is short-sighted and narrow-minded, his eyes can only see the one inch in front of him, Shen Ruolan asked them to customize the oven, he was very reluctant, now when Shen Ruolan said that he wanted to buy their house, he immediately disagreed.
He has a deep obsession with home, and feels that if the house is sold, this person will have no home. If he has no home, what does it mean that this person is still alive
He didn't expect that after making a lot of money, he could rebuild a better home. He only saw the things in front of him. Can it make money? If he can't make money and his family is gone, wouldn't he be in a panic
So, I flatly refused.
Qi Laishun was smarter than Wang Wanfu, Wang Wanfu refused, but he didn't refuse, not only didn't he refuse, he even put forward a suggestion that was beneficial to him.
"Hey, Lan'er, uncle thinks so..." He said his plan with a smile on his face.
"Don't you still have the craft of making crystal jelly? Why don't you pass on that craft to me? I don't need any money for this house. I can exchange the secret recipe for making crystal jelly with you. Do you think it's okay?"
Fearing that Shen Ruolan would disagree, he hurriedly added: "Don't worry, even if I learn everything, it won't affect your family's business. When I learn it, I plan to go to the south and go far away. Walking, at least seven or eight hundred miles, will definitely not affect you!"
Qi Laishun's house in Kaoshantun was worth five or eight taels at most, but he still remembered that Zhang Xingwang once said that Erfang's crystal jelly recipe was worth two hundred taels of silver, and Erfang also relied on crystal jelly recipes. Having made a fortune, he wanted to replicate Erfang's success, so he came up with this idea.
"Yes!" Shen Ruolan readily agreed.
If Qi Laishun learned how to make crystal jelly, he would definitely have more opportunities outside, and the chance of returning to Gushantun would be even smaller.
As long as their family can leave the backing village and don't come back to hang around their house again, even Shen Ruolan is willing to give him the prescription of crystal jelly. Not to mention getting a house for nothing.
Seeing that Shen Ruolan agreed, Qi Laishun opened his mouth with joy, and said with a smile: "Then I'll go to the town to buy pork rinds, so that I can learn all the skills..."
After the two parties made an agreement, Qi Lai walked away happily. On the way, he met his brother-in-law Shen Degui.
He also wants to go out and see and see. Although he is doing well in teaching in the village school and can earn two taels of silver a month for Shu Xiu, the current life is far from his ideal life. He doesn't want to live with a group of wild children all day long, he wants to make a fortune like the second brother, build a big house, have a group of servants at home, and live a life that is envied and envied by others.
Therefore, he also wants to learn those skills, and go outside for a while, maybe he can not only make a fortune, but also find red cotton!
Thinking of this, he hurried home to discuss the matter with his old mother.
When Mrs. Liu heard that her youngest son gave up teaching and went out to do business, she immediately shook her head like a rattle.
"No, no, no, what are you doing for business? You should teach at home honestly, and you can earn a lot of money from teaching. You can earn two or two taels of silver every month. You don't know how many people are jealous of your position; Besides, let's sell the house to them, and if we don't earn change by then, we will lose money to the old man, what will our mothers eat and drink? Can we live there?"
Shen Degui squinted his small eyes, and said flatteringly: "Mother, what you said, it seems that your son is so incompetent. My second brother, a country rough man who has never been educated, has grown up because of his skill in making jelly. I am rich, your son, I have read poetry and books since I was a child, and my brain is not much more flexible than my second brother, so how can I lose it? Maybe I will earn more than him by then. , you are an old lady who wears gold and silver, don't you want to live a good life where you can stretch out your hands to eat and open your mouth... "
"Besides, take a hundred steps back, even if I really don't make any money, even if we lose money, are you still afraid that we will have no place to live? Don't forget, you are my second brother's biological mother. Maybe he can see you Go to sleep on the street?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Liu lowered her head and stopped talking.
What Degui said is indeed quite reasonable. If he really loses, she doesn't have to worry about the two of them having no house to live in. The second child is her own son after all. If there is such a day, she will cry in front of him. Crying or begging, the second child will definitely return the house to her, so what else does she have to worry about
It's just that he has lived his whole life in the backing village, and he never thought of leaving here to make a living elsewhere. He didn't leave when he was young. Now that he is old, he has to leave his hometown to seek a living. She has no idea. !
However, she also very much hopes to live the kind of life that her youngest son talked about, living a lifetime and enjoying the grass and trees. If she has to live like that for a few days, her life will not be in vain!
"Mother, what's more, if my son stays in this backing village, he will only be able to marry a few vulgar and ugly village girls as daughter-in-laws in the future, but if he goes out and makes a name for himself, he might be able to marry an official." Is the lady from the family coming back to serve you? Think about it, if your son can marry a lady from the official family, it will be so majestic...
Finally, under Shen Degui's persuasive persuasion, Liu reluctantly nodded in agreement!
Shen Degui was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so as soon as his mother agreed, she hurried to find Shen Ruolan to finalize the matter.
Shen Ruolan didn't expect my uncle to have such ambitions, but since he has, of course she will be happy, and it would be better if all these relatives are gone, so as not to stay in the village to plot against them.
Although it is not her wish to teach them these skills, compared to letting them stay in the village, she is more willing to teach them to get them out of here, lest she watch them make trouble!
So, Shen Ruolan made an agreement with Shen Degui that she would teach him how to make dim sum and crystal jelly, and in return, Shen Degui had to give Shen Ruolan the old house!
Shen Degui and Qi Laishun's characters are not very good, Shen Ruolan was afraid that they would renege on their debts, so the day before teaching them their skills, she specially prepared a table of food and wine, and invited Master Lizheng and Butou Lei from the town yamen to have dinner together, by the way Let them act as intermediaries to verify that their contracts are valid.
After signing the contract, Qi Laishun and Shen Degui gave Shen Ruolan their respective house deeds, and said that they both learned the craft before leaving the backer.
Shen Ruolan couldn't wait to teach them the next day.
She taught them how to make egg tarts, sandwiches, and crystal jelly. These things are not difficult, but they are not easy. Shen Ruolan taught them for several days before they finally learned it.
After learning it, Qi Laishun and Shen Degui couldn't wait to pack up their things and pack, and headed south full of ambition.
Of course, Shen Xiuying, several children in the family and the old lady Liu also followed, Shen Ruolan was very happy to dismiss so many people that Shen Ruolan hated at once.
Now, their family can live a peaceful life in the village... ..
Afterwards, Shen Ruolan asked the Shouya sisters to tidy up Qi Laishun'er's house and the old house. After cleaning up, she brought back all the equipment she had previously ordered. In the tofu workshop, one of the two guys in the family lives in the vermicelli workshop and is responsible for the affairs of the noodle house; the other lives in the dried tofu workshop and is in charge of the affairs of the dried tofu workshop, which is just right.
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The project on the mountain is coming to an end, Chunyu Yu said that this year, only the house will be built, and the remaining pavilions and gardens will be built in the next year, and Shen Ruolan waits patiently.
During this period, after she recalled her previous life and practiced many times, she finally made qualified vermicelli and dried tofu. When Chunyuxuan's house is completely completed, her powder house and dried tofu workshop can also start.
When the people in the village heard that Shen Ruolan wanted to open a workshop and hire people, they all scrambled to come to Shen Ruolan's house to sign up, fearing that they would not be able to catch up if they arrived too late.
While Shen Ruolan was selecting the right people, she said that as long as everyone can work hard, no matter how many people come, she will hire them. When the workshop becomes bigger and stronger in the future, all the people in the village will come to her to work. It's not enough!
These words, like the Lunyin of the Buddha's language, instantly made the villagers in the backing village elated and overjoyed.
What is the concept of always hiring everyone? It means that everyone has something to do and earn money all year round. From now on, no one will go hungry!
As soon as the good news came out, the villagers in the backing village raised their quotas with their hands, as if celebrating the new year. People in other villages were envious when they heard it, and they all hoped that the Shen family's workshop would be able to speed up. If they grow bigger and stronger, they will be able to have jobs.
The workshop has just started, Shen Ruolan, as the boss and technical backbone, the first thing to do is not to produce many products, but to teach them how to make vermicelli and dry tofu.
In fact, it is very simple to make vermicelli. It is to first choose potatoes with no green heads and moderate size to wash. After washing, crush the potatoes in time, and add water while beating. The finer the beating, the better. After taking out the surface layer of oil powder, take out the lower layer of starch and hang it into a powder mound, and put it in the sun for exposure. When half of the water in the powder mound evaporates, cut the powder mound into several parts and expose it to the sun. It is best placed in a leeward and sunny place to prevent dust pollution.
Then, pour the beaten cornstarch into the large basin, and two or three men work together, grabbing the basin with one hand, and pounding the dough mixed with the batter with clenched fists with the other hand.
When draining the silk, prepare a pot of boiling water, and only drain the silk when the water in the pot boils. One person holds the colander in his left hand, and the other person is responsible for adding dough into the colander. The action should be brisk. The back of the right hand of the person holding the ladle keeps hitting the vermicelli in the ladle, slowly letting the strands sink into the bottom of the pot and then float out. water surface. Throw the vermicelli out of the pot into the prepared cold water, then put the vermicelli in the water into another cold water tank, and keep shaking in the cold water tank until the vermicelli is loose.
Finally, hang the vermicelli on the bamboo pole in a ventilated outdoor place to freeze until the vermicelli freezes into one piece. When the sun comes out, hang the vermicelli that is frozen together in a place that faces the sun in the leeward direction. Beat until dry, bundles of handmade vermicelli will be ready.
The finished vermicelli is boiled, frozen, ventilated and dried, and beaten several times. Finally, the smooth, soft, smooth vermicelli and wide vermicelli become delicacies on people's tables.
This process is simple to say, but it is not so easy to do. Many places need to strictly follow the requirements, otherwise the success will fall short.
For example, the temperature of the flour balls should not be 30-42 degrees Celsius. When the flour is leaking, the dough should not be too hard or soft. Become a pot of paste.
In order for everyone to master the technique proficiently, Shen Ruolan wasted hundreds of catties of potatoes to train dozens of elders in the Fen House.
After the training, Shen Ruolan invited all the young women in the village to her home and taught them how to make vermicelli.
There are many ways to eat vermicelli, stewing, boiling, frying, cooking, all of them are delicious. Shen Ruolan personally demonstrated that she made a big pot of stewed vermicelli with chicken, a hot and sour vermicelli, and a stir-fried pork and cabbage vermicelli. Please invite everyone after cooking Taste and eat as you please.
Of course, she didn't invite them to eat for nothing. She has a purpose.
His purpose is to teach them how to make vermicelli, and then let the women who have nothing to do at home go to various places to help her sell vermicelli.
Because the vermicelli at home needs to be vigorously promoted in an all-round way, it is far from enough to rely on her to sell it alone, so Shen Ruolan fixed her eyes on those old women who are doing nothing.
She is familiar with all the old women in the backing village, and some of them are smart and eloquent. As long as she gives a little training, she will be able to train them into talents in the sales market, but she can't just look for those few people. I did it because I was afraid that other villagers would think that she favored one person than another, so she treated everyone equally, called everyone in, showed them how to sell, and taught them how to sell. Everyone had equal opportunities, so whoever made money could not blame her. Now, she doesn't have to worry about anyone dissatisfied with her.
After the vermicelli was ready, she asked the thin girl Zhaodi to serve up all the vermicelli, and greeted everyone to eat. While greeting everyone, she told them that she wanted them to go out to sell.
This group of women who were "bald, bald" eating vermicelli were enjoying their meal. When Shen Ruolan asked them to show their faces to sell things, they were so frightened that they hurriedly put down their bowls, shaking their hands repeatedly and saying that they couldn't do it.
Seeing this, Shen Ruolan didn't force herself, she smiled and said, "We sell these vermicelli for ten cents. If you sell them for one catty, I will give you a penny commission. If you sell them for ten catties, you will get ten cents. If you can sell them for one One hundred catties, you can mention one hundred Wen. Think about it, if you can earn a hundred Wen, can you spend money casually in the future? Anyway, the opportunity lies here, whether to sell or not to sell is up to you I will never force you!"
Potatoes are cheap, you can buy two catties for one penny, and three or four catties of potatoes can produce one catty of vermicelli. Leaving aside the cost and labor costs, the cost price of one catty of vermicelli is between three and four pennies.
Shen Ruolan set the price for vermicelli at ten cents, even though it was a bit expensive, but she believed that her vermicelli was a unique product in the whole country, and she would never fail to sell it because of the high price. On the contrary, vermicelli The market will be very hot, and she will definitely make a lot of money.
When they heard that they could make money, the women who had waved their hands repeatedly stopped rejecting them. They looked at each other with excitement in their eyes.
"Lan'er, do you think we can do it?"
It was Gui Shengzi's daughter-in-law who was speaking, and she said hesitantly, "We are just a bunch of old women from the countryside, can we go to the restaurants and inns in the city to buy things?"
"Why not? Last year I sold crystal jelly in the county by myself. I also sold dim sum in Jizhou this year. As long as our products are good, I'm not afraid that I won't be able to sell them or make money!" Shen Ruolan was full of confidence. answer.
A few simple words gave everyone great encouragement. Gui Shengzi's daughter-in-law took the lead and said: "Okay, I will listen to you, count me in, and I will go out and try tomorrow!"
"Count me in, I'll give it a try, maybe it will work? If it works, won't I be able to make money too?" Wish Lai's daughter-in-law also mustered up the courage to sign up.
With the first and the second, there will be the third and the fourth soon, "Then count me in, I will try it tomorrow, and it will be the best, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter? Rare Lan You gave us this opportunity to make money, if we miss it, we may not know when we will have such a good opportunity next time...."
"That's exactly what we said. If we can make money ourselves, it will be convenient for us to spend it ourselves, right? To save money from asking mother-in-law for a penny, we still have to look at her face!"
"Yes, then let's try it out, I don't care about you, anyway, I can appoint to go, maybe I can really make money..."
Everyone said something to each other, and the discussion was very heated.
Shen Ruolan looked at the excited people and was speechless!
Sure enough, money can turn ghosts around. When the money was not mentioned just now, they were all unwilling in one voice. Now that they can make money, they all become warriors who charge forward. She guessed that now she It won't work if you don't let them go, and everyone will have to fight to get out tomorrow.
"When you go out to sell, you have to use some tactics. If you don't know how to talk, it's best to go with a few people, so as to save the real chapter from being speechless. Together, you can give each other courage. If anyone If you have any ideas, you can mention them. Also, it’s best not to go to one place. For example, if you go to Qisong Town, then you can go to Nong’an County, or go to Halahai Town. All of a sudden they crowded into one place to sell them, otherwise people wouldn't consider our vermicelli as a rare thing... "
Shen Ruolan taught everyone her experience for a while, and then gave them targeted training for over an hour before letting everyone disperse.
The next day, these women took their vermicelli and left home one after another. Some went to the county seat by car, some went to Qisong Town on foot, and some of them partnered up to charter a car for Dachun'er's family and went to Halahai Town .
Shen Ruolan stayed at home and began to train the workers of the dry tofu workshop again.
Compared with making vermicelli, making dried tofu is much easier, because the method of making dried tofu is very similar to that of tofu.
It is said that first soak the soybeans and grind them into soy milk, put the ground raw soy milk in a pot and boil until the soy milk boils, add the freshly ground soy milk after boiling, and keep stirring to avoid sticking to the pot. Then, use a clean roving white cloth to wrap the soy milk and filter it. The purpose is to separate the soy milk from the bean curd residue, and then slowly pour the brine into the filtered soy milk, stirring constantly, put a little brine and stir for a while, put a little Just stir for a while, this step is very important to be patient. After a period of time, a thin layer of skin will appear on the surface, which is the tofu skin, which can be eaten. When the bottom becomes a piece of tofu nao, this tofu nao is also delicious.
Take out the tofu brain and mash it evenly, then gently and evenly put the crushed tofu brain on the tofu bag with a spoon, it must be thin, put a layer of gauze, and put a layer of crushed tofu brain , and then cover with a layer of cloth, and then put a layer of tofu brain, this step is to put it into a rectangular mold, because the dried tofu is rectangular, so Shen Ruolan specially made a extrusion tool with a wooden board.
After the gauze and bean curd are all put in place, put the lid on the mold and squeeze it down a little bit until the water is pressed out. After pressing, remove the rectangular mold layer by layer, and then put layers of dried tofu and Separate the tofu package, stack the dried tofu and set aside, then the dried tofu is ready.
There are more ways to eat dried tofu than vermicelli. It can be eaten raw, fried, stewed, or processed into spiced dried tofu. No matter which way you eat it, the taste is absolutely awesome!
Shen Ruolan patiently taught these elders how to make dried tofu, from morning to night, and finally made a piece of uneven dried tofu.
Although it is ugly, Shen Ruolan is very satisfied. Since the first one has been made, the second and third ones are not far away...
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