Villager of Daming

Chapter 1057: Farmers eat meat because they are kind

The person in charge of the local department store called Wang Yi and assigned him a small table. He always stood next to the table.

Upon hearing the inquiry, he stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, there are many goose and duck eggs, and the people are reluctant to eat them. Ducks and geese lay few eggs."

"Where are the collected eggs transported?"

Zhu Xi continued to ask. He hadn't checked the accounts yet. People from Xiaqiu Village checked the accounts yesterday afternoon.

“Part of it is pickled and sold locally, and part of it is pickled and sent through the canal to department stores in the south.

Those harvested after autumn are planned to be pickled into rotten eggs and transported by sea to the capital of Dingliao.

The Jurchens like to eat rotten eggs, which are salty and smelly. They don’t know how to make them themselves. We have a recipe provided by Xiaqiu Village.

Your Highness, there are also some rotten eggs pickled in the store. Would you like to try them? "

Wang Yi simply said where to lay goose and duck eggs. The people were willing to eat the eggs and sell all the ducks and geese.

He was smart and did not carry the basket. Carrying a basket would not be conducive to running.

So he cut the goose eggs into four parts and the duck eggs into half and distributed them to others.

But there are few ways to eat duck and goose. If it is not cooked well, it will taste fishy, ​​including the eggs.

People who want to eat salted eggs buy or exchange them for duck eggs or goose eggs of about the same size. Three fresh ones are exchanged for two salty or salty eggs.

After tasting a little, he nodded with satisfaction: "It smells good, it's edible, huh huh!"

"It's not much different." The village chief tasted a chopstick and compared it with the pickled ones in the village: "People raise ducks and geese to save feed and let them find food in the water by themselves.

There is a special process for making rotten eggs. The smell that is specially pickled does not mean that they are not pickled properly and become smelly.

"Your Highness, forgive me!" Wang Yi suddenly realized that this was not a department store on a street in Xiaqiu Village, Nanjing, let alone Jubiqi. He was transferred from Jubiqi.

Crack open another duck egg and use chopsticks to remove the egg white first. If you look at the egg yolk, it is the same color as stinky tofu, which is good.

Because ordinary people can't pickle eggs well and can get sick if they eat smelly eggs, department stores have special methods. After pickling in batches, the price of selling them is lower than the cost of pickling the eggs by themselves.

"What do you think?" Zhu Ping asked.

"Just go!" Wang Yi turned around and ran away. He had to get it himself and didn't dare to pass it through other people's hands.

Zhu Wentian suddenly spoke out. He wanted to see, smell, and taste a little. He would not die if he ate it.

Fortunately, the department store is not far away. This one is across the road from Prince Yan's Mansion.

"Have a rest before eating. Brother Hanhan, you can try it." Zhu Ping ordered Wang Yi.

"Hey! Eat it and look at it." Zhu Wentian first looked at the appearance of the egg. There was nothing wrong with it. Then he smelled it through the shell. It was very good and not smelly. If it smells bad, it means he has leaked it.

The friends opened all the others, used a pair of chopsticks to look at them, and took another sip to make sure they were all fine.

"Go get it! Don't you know the village guard?" Zhu Fang urged Wang Yi to get the rotten egg.

You can eat whatever you want from Jubiqi, but what should you do if you have a problem eating something from Beipingfu Department Store?
"I want, eggs, smelly, eat, um! Hey hey hey hey..."

One is to provide more cooking seasonings and teach people how to make them, and the other is to encourage businessmen to open more shops selling duck and goose food.

After a while, he ran back out of breath, stood aside and slowly handed over the small bags containing ten stinky duck eggs and stinky goose eggs.

It is better to digest it within Beiping Prefecture than to sell it externally. Even if the people bring poultry or meat, the store will charge a processing fee and process it for the people.

Nowadays, the circulation of treasure banknotes in Beiping Prefecture is relatively good, and bartering only exists in the village market. "

"Then let's open one to try first, no, open eleven, one near each city gate, and the people can choose for themselves." After hearing what the chief said, Zhu Di knew that he should make a decision. There was someone in the government who could do it, or he could find someone else. Help from his brother's house.

After the matter was settled, everyone went out for a walk after dinner, mounted their horses, left the city, and took a look at the fields outside. When they came, they took the waterway, which seemed okay.

However, there are always areas that the main river cannot take care of, and farming is assisted by tributaries and creeks.

After more than 20 minutes, we went to a paddy field outside the city. There were people wearing bamboo hats sitting on the edge of the field eating.

It’s hot and you’re afraid of getting sunburned, so bring a hat to protect you from the sun. If there are big trees nearby, you can naturally run under the shade.

When the team arrives, regardless of whether it is hot or not, the hat must be taken off so that others can see their faces.

Someone went over and told the people who was coming, don't be afraid, and don't need to be polite. They should eat their own food normally. When asked, they must stand up and answer. They are not allowed to hide anything.

When you look at what the people eat, many men are shirtless, wearing a pair of linen cropped pants and bare feet.

They come to replenish the water in the fields, so naturally there will be water on their bodies, so the less they wear, the better.

"Life is indeed better." This was Zhu Fan's first impression.

It's almost one o'clock now, that is thirteen o'clock, and it will be midnight in a little while.

Normal people would go out to work hungry in the morning at dawn. By about ten o'clock, when the sun is too hot, they would look for a shady place to eat.

The mother-in-law or children at home will bring food. After eating, they will take a break and continue working. They will go home before dark, eat and sleep.

Now it is obviously not the case. If you eat at noon, it means you have eaten in the morning, so you have to eat at night, three meals a day.

Looking at the food, there are mung bean water served in bamboo tubes as containers, and also in small jars. This is obviously not cooked by ordinary people at home, so isn't it given away for free?
With mung bean water, you can eat pancakes, steamed buns, and rice as staple food, but if you don't eat rice with water, rice with water is a waste of food.

Some people have pickles, either pickled for a long time or made fresh from picked vegetables.

"Braised chicken nuggets?" Zhu Zhu saw three farmers sitting together to eat. There was a bowl in the middle. He knew what was in it: braised chicken nuggets.

The three of them were instantly nervous. They didn't understand what it meant. Couldn't they eat it?

"Where did it come from?" Zhu Ru asked.

"Return to... Your Highness? Your Highness, please ask Your Highness, it was not stolen." A farmer sweated out.

"Where did you come from? You did a good job!" Zhu Ru asked again.

“Someone at home learned how to make it from the store, selling boxed lunches at the gate of the government office.

The three of us belong to the same family, my father, my brother, my younger brother and his sister-in-law, our daughter-in-law, and my elder sister-in-law make lunch boxes.

There was a box lunch vendor at home, so he brought it to us. There was shredded cowpea and fried pork in that bowl. "

Another farmer explained that someone in his family was selling lunch boxes outside the government office, apparently to people in the government office.

Otherwise, ordinary people would not buy and eat these meat dishes. Look at the braised chicken nuggets, which are made with soy sauce, and soy sauce is quite expensive.

"Yes, we use the slack time to provide as much help as we can to the people working in the government offices. The people in our fiefdom are indeed kind, smart and hard-working."

Zhu Di determined that it is not farmers who go into business, but they are still farmers, otherwise there will be problems.

The officials who followed: "..."

Some people are relieved, you, King Yan, said so yourself! It's not our responsibility. His family actually has someone in the yamen. Otherwise, if his family sells, the people in the yamen will buy it?

(End of this chapter)