Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 349, Braised Pork Gift Box

"Your yard is quite interesting and united." Jiang Sirui said to Jiang Yan on the way back.

"Interesting." Jiang Yan burst out laughing when he heard this word.

"Why are you laughing? Is what I said wrong?" Jiang Sirui looked at Jiang Yan with some confusion.

"There is a saying that there are a hundred people, all kinds of people. You will know it when you move in."

"Bah! You are acting like a gangster, who wants to marry you!" Jiang Sirui said to Jiang Yan with a slightly red face.

During the meal, Jiang Sirui still sat next to her grandma. The food in the bowl was almost full, but she still showed no fear and played the role of a good cook.

"Zhuzi, can you come to my house to cook a meal at noon on New Year's Eve?" While chatting after the meal, Jiang Sirui suddenly spoke to He Yuzhu.

"No problem, sister-in-law, just give me an address and I'll go directly there." He Yuzhu put down the tea cup in his hand, smiled and quickly patted his chest in assurance. Why did Jiang Yan think that this guy's smile seemed a bit flattering.

"Sister-in-law, where are these people eating here from? Can you tell me in advance so that I can be better prepared?"

Hearing He Yuzhu ask this, Jiang Sirui was a little strange, and she asked a little confused.

"Zhuzi, do you want to know where you are from when we are eating?"

Seeing that Jiang Sirui had a misunderstanding, He Yuzhu quickly explained. "Sister-in-law is like this. People from different regions have slightly different tastes. For example, we often say that the south is sweet, the north is salty, the west is spicy, and the east is sour. Knowing where the guests are from, I can adjust the taste."

Before Jiang Sirui could speak, Jiang Yan said: "The difference in taste is also due to some natural factors such as climate and geography. It also determines that the south eats sweet food and the north eats salty food. There are three factors.

First, the south is very humid, and the evaporation of the human body is relatively small, so there is no need to add too much salt.In the north, summer is hot and dry, and the human body evaporates a lot and sweats a lot, so you need to eat more salty food to replenish the salt lost through sweat.

Second, the south has low latitude, heavy rainfall, and good light and heat conditions, so vegetables in the south can grow several times a year, and you can eat fresh vegetables no matter what season.In the north, winters are cold and dry, and there was no such technology as vegetable greenhouses in the past. There are basically no fresh vegetables in winter.In order to preserve vegetables for the winter and ensure that the vegetables will not spoil, northerners can only pickle the vegetables and eat them slowly.Pickled food has become a daily routine, so northerners have developed a habit of eating salty.

Third, the climate in the south is more suitable for sugarcane growth.Sugar cane is an important sugar crop, and the efficiency of sugar production is very high. Southerners have the right time and place, and it is very convenient to obtain sugar, so they naturally formed the habit of eating sugar.However, when sugar is transported from the south to the north, the price will increase, so for the north at that time, sweets and pastries were only eaten during holidays.

Of course, there is no shortage of sugar in the north now, and there are also vegetables in winter, so there is no need to rely on pickles.But once a taste is formed, it is difficult to change.So much so that it has formed what is now commonly referred to as sweet in the south and salty in the north.

Hearing Jiang Yan's explanation, Jiang Sirui nodded, but the admiration in his eyes could not be concealed.After a while, she said to He Yuzhu: "My uncles all like spicy food, so just make Sichuan food."

"No problem, sister-in-law, I will definitely work hard."

The weather gets cold as soon as winter comes, and every household in Sijiu City begins to store Chinese cabbage for the winter, and also prepare briquettes or briquettes.You have to buy enough Chinese cabbage. From November of the lunar calendar until March of next year, for nearly half a year, ordinary people live on Chinese cabbage. Almost every household needs hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of stored cabbage. Fortunately, cabbage is cheap nowadays. It costs one penny per catty and only costs ten yuan per thousand catties.

Nowadays, the government organizes the purchase of cabbage in winter. The purchase and sale of cabbage is unified, and the cabbage is treated the same as grain.After winter, the institute's cafeteria also began to purchase large amounts of cabbage, radishes, potatoes and green onions. Although the institute has less than a thousand cadres and a thousand employees, if the vegetable reserves are not enough, big problems will arise.In order to store vegetables, the factory also built a warehouse specially, and the workload of storing vegetables was huge.

Jiang Yan's family actually has no shortage of food, so even in winter, the family's living standard is not bad, which makes the neighbors in the courtyard a little envious.

In winter, everything is desolate, Sijiu City is covered in gray, and the biting cold wind hurts my face like a knife.When he got home from work, he sat in a heated room and had a cup of jasmine tea after dinner. When it snowed, he watched the snowflakes falling outside the window or the Peking opera crosstalk on the radio. Jiang Yan felt that his current life was really Not bad, he gradually stopped thinking about the things before time travel and felt that he had integrated into this era.

Life is not rich now. The living standards of ordinary people are very poor. They usually live frugally and live frugally. Only during the Spring Festival every year will they be as rich as possible.It’s the New Year, make new clothes for the children, buy as much chicken, duck, and fish as possible at home, and have a luxurious New Year’s Eve dinner to bring some comfort to yourself and your family after a hard year.

Unknowingly, the footsteps of the 60th Spring Festival were approaching, and Jiang Yan and his research institute entered the twelfth lunar month gate and he also started to get busy.The task of producing engines and some alloy steel is in Jiang Yan's research institute, so overtime work is also arranged as the Spring Festival approaches. Although there is a three-day holiday during the Spring Festival, the Chinese tradition is that before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people rarely work seriously.Therefore, after Jiang Yan discussed with the director and the others, they simply moved the production plan forward as much as possible. If they work more before the year, it will be easier after the year.

The Chinese New Year is coming, and the leaders welcome and send more entertainment.Since the research institute is a newly established unit this year, the welcome and sending are indispensable. Jiang Yan has also been recruited as a young man, but the chef He Yuzhu of the research institute is in charge, and the situation has improved a lot. Anyone who comes here to visit Many people are full of praise for He Yuzhu's craftsmanship.

Our country is a society based on relationships. Regardless of the unit or individual, everyone pays attention to courtesy and reciprocity.Especially during the two important festivals of Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, all kinds of relationships, superiors, subordinates, customers and friends, no matter how many or how small, have to move around.This form is not just for giving gifts, it is mainly a way of etiquette and emotional communication.Reciprocity shows that you are in my heart, respects you, and values ​​you. If you really don't move around, it means that there may be problems in the relationship between you.

The research institute is a newly established unit, and it will need to deal with various departments in the future, so it needs to pay homage to the temple in advance. However, gift-giving is a big question, and a book can be written on who to give it to and what to give it to.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the social atmosphere was still very upright and no nonsense could be tolerated.Materials are not that abundant now, so giving gifts and visiting during the New Year is a headache for the leaders.

Therefore, Jiang Yan and the three of them even held a small meeting. After all, these three cobblers were no match for Zhuge Liang.

But after much deliberation, the three of them didn't know what to do. If you don't prepare things like souvenirs in advance, you don't even think about it. As for beef and mutton, it is estimated that the leader's family does not lack this.It's really not easy to make something impressive.

The three people were so worried that they kept smoking there, and the director's office suddenly became a large-scale crime scene.

While he was worrying, Jiang Yan suddenly thought of the gift boxes of later generations, but most of the gift boxes of later generations were dried fruits and specialties, but there were also some braised meat gift boxes.

Jiang Yan's eyes lit up when he thought of this. Braised pork, you can make a braised pork gift box yourself. This thing will not lose your share when brought to the leader's house, and you can also add a snack to the leader.

Then Jiang Yan told the two directors his thoughts. After hearing Jiang Yan's words, the director's eyes lit up.

"You young people's brains are still good, but can we do it?" Director Wang asked.

"No problem, He Yuzhu of our back kitchen is an imperial chef. He knows a lot of secret recipes for stewed pork. There is absolutely no problem in entrusting this stuff to him. Let him make some today. You can taste it. If not, we can change it. "

"That's fine, you arrange it. Let's taste Master Xiao He's craftsmanship tonight."

After receiving the instructions from the factory director, Jiang Yan quickly arranged for his secretary to notify He Yuzhu to make braised pork.

(End of this chapter)