After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Jiang Quan went to the town to buy ten catties of icing sugar and several jars.

The second aunt said that the finished preserved fruit should be stored in a jar, so he bought it back in advance.

After that is picking apricots.

Choose the kind of apricots that are half-ripe, and those that are too ripe and full of worms are not acceptable.

Then wash and remove the core, marinate with icing sugar pounded into fine powder, and put a little salt when marinating.

After being marinated for a few hours, the apricots ooze juice, and at this time, pour them directly into the pot and boil.

Do not cook for too long, otherwise the apricot meat will not form.

Fill out the apricot meat and soup in time, and after putting it aside for an hour, take the apricot petals out of the soup, place them one by one in a bamboo plaque, and then expose them to the sun.

After two or three days in the sun, the apricot flesh becomes as elastic and chewy as persimmons, with a bright yellow color, sweet and sour, and very delicious.

The sun-dried preserved fruit is sealed in a jar and can be stored for a long time.

The remaining soup is thick and sweet, not only loved by children, but also by adults.

Yingbao is not interested in preserved apricots, but he likes the sweet and sour juice left over from cooking apricots.

If you add some ice cubes, it will be refreshing to drink in hot weather.

Yingbao looked at the apricots that were full of trees, and made up her mind.

"Second brother, let's pick all the apricots on the tree."

Yingbao said to Jiang Quan: "Give some of the overripe apricots to the villagers, and let's make preserved apricots for the half-ripe apricots. Don't throw away those apricot pits. You can grind almond powder in the future."

In her previous life, she had drank almond tea, which was boiled with ground almonds, rice milk and milk, and then some caramel, which gave it a strong aroma.

But there is one thing, almonds are poisonous, especially the epidermis of almonds is very poisonous, if not handled properly, it may be life-threatening, and children should not even touch them.

But she has a pupil spring. When the time comes, soaking almonds in the spring water will probably remove a lot of toxicity.

Jiang Quan opened his eyes wide, "Yingbao, there are quite a few apricot trees, how many dried apricots do you want to make? If you can't sell them, the money to buy candy will be lost."

"It will be sold." Ying Bao was not worried at all.

At worst, it would be better to make less money and exchange it with traders, than to have so many apricots rotted in vain.

Yanru said from the side: "It's better to exchange the preserved apricots to the dried fruit and candied fruit shop in the county. Although the profit is small, it can still be an income. At least the frosting money can be used."

Her suggestion coincided with Yingbao's.

"Alright, second brother, when all the preserved apricots are ready, let's go to the county town." Yingbao was full of confidence.

It just so happened that Yingbao wanted to go to the county seat to have a look at her new house, to see what the shortcomings were, so that she could buy something better for herself.

"Second uncle, can those peaches be made into preserved fruit?" Yingbao asked.

Yanru: "That's right, the process of making preserved fruit from peaches is similar to that of apricots, but you can make some."

"Then let's make some preserved peaches. Don't throw away the peach pits. Peach kernels are a kind of medicinal material, and they will be sold to pharmacies." The price is not expected to be high, but it can be more or less paid back.

Jiang Quan still had no idea: "How much sugar would that cost?"

"Let's do this first. We bought a lot of candy. We can talk to the store. The price will definitely drop."

In her previous life, Ying Bao had done business, so she knows more or less the twists and turns here.

Yanru also nodded: "Go to the big shops in the county town to buy sugar, and you can save a lot of money if you buy more."

"Ok."

Jiang Quan scratched his head and asked, "Then when will you go to the county?"

The fruit on the tree doesn't wait for anyone, and it hurts to see it ripening day by day.

Ying Bao was speechless, frowning and thinking.

There are so many fruit trees in my house, seeing that the apples and grapes are about to ripen, I can't eat them all, and I can't sell them in the village, so I don't want to give them all away.

It's very sad.

The fruit trees I worked so hard to plant, I thought I could make some money, but I didn't expect it to become a burden.

Otherwise, let the second cousin go to the county to open a shop, specializing in the sale of preserved fruits.

I still have more than 300 taels of silver in my hand, so it shouldn't be a problem to buy a shop.

With a shop, these preserved fruits and fruits do not need to be exchanged to others at a low price. In the future, when rare grapes and apples are on the market, the shop may become the focus of the county.

Even if the fruit is out of the market, there are still golden fungus and snow fungus, and the second aunt Yanru will still make powder and rouge, and they will be sold in the shop at that time.

Yingbao has already sprinkled a lot of flower seeds on the brown land of Dongfu, such as rose, tree peony, peony, peony, honeysuckle, impatiens, Su Fangmu, red and blue flowers, etc. She also sprinkled some lotus seeds by the pool water , Now small round lotus leaves have grown.

But the problem is, how to position your own shop?

The shops of other people's houses are all dedicated to management, such as Shengde Pastry, Fengrun Grain Shop, Jinxiu Cloth Shop, Qianji Gold, Silver and Jade Ware Shop, etc., even the Bamboo Ware Shop specializes in bamboo bamboo wares.

My own shop sells a variety of goods, but it cannot be called a grocery store.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind.

Or call it a local specialty.

Although Qinchuan County is a lower county, there are a lot of tourists coming and going, and the family is known as a local specialty, presumably those who visit relatives and friends are willing to buy some to take away.

Because there are special products in other places, such as Langqiao wooden comb, Yaoyang pineapple, Qi persimmon, Yan chestnut, Wushan red orange, Nanzhong tea and so on.

However, Qinchuan County does not seem to have any special products.

There is no tea, no silk embroidery, no inkstones and strange stones, and no rare medicinal materials.

This is an unremarkable small county, and most of the people live on farming.

However, Qinchuan County is located in a hilly area, and there are few fertile fields that can be planted, and the tax is not low at all. It is no wonder that people are not poor in this environment.

In the past, the imperial court stipulated that every Ding could be allocated [-] mu of land, but here it can only be allocated [-] mu.

These sixty acres are not all fertile land, there is also a part of mountainous land.

Now even [-] mu cannot be divided, because there is no land in the countryside to divide.

My big brother is 17 years old this year, and he should have been assigned to the field, but there has been no movement from Lizheng so far.

It's not that Lizheng didn't do anything, but that the land in the township was basically divided, and the rest were some rocky wastelands where no grass grew.

If these wastelands were distributed to the people, it would be tantamount to forcing the people to die.

May I ask, who can afford the tax on the land that cannot grow a single grain?
Therefore, Yingbao decided to take a slanted sword and create a way to make money for the big brother and the second cousin.

Aren't those golden-eared white fungus in Qinchuan County unique? Even Wen's family sent people to wait for them to be purchased. It's not too much to turn them into a special product of Qinchuan County.

Afterwards, it will be logical to name preserved apricots, preserved peaches and preserved pears as Qinchuan specialties.

By the way, there are grapes and apples at home. Although these are not special products of Qinchuan, they can be sold by the way.

Having made up her mind, Yingbao smiled and said to Jiang Quan, "I'll go to the county seat tomorrow."

Not only to buy sugar, but also to buy a shop.

She has already figured out the name of the store, which is called "Jiangji Specialties".

Although it is a special product of Qinchuan County, the name of the store must not have the word Qinchuan, otherwise it will be arrested and banned by the county government.

Businessmen are cheap, not only can't add the name of the county and township on the name of the store, even the word Murong can't appear on the signboard.

Because the royal family's surname was Murong, all the common people had to avoid these two characters.