Villager of Daming

Chapter 232 Using Stones for Even Heating (Fourth)
"Guo Shisi, eat vegetables. I want to talk to His Royal Highness in the afternoon, so I won't drink with you." The head of the village persuaded Guo Shisi to eat vegetables.

Guo Shisi was trembling, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was gone, His Royal Highness King Qin was here, next to him, having a table alone with Han Han, drinking.

"Okay, eat." Guo Shisi stretched out his chopsticks tremblingly, and his six subordinates were the same as him.

"You are afraid of this and that when you have a meal. You are not as good as the people in Xiaqiu Village. Back then, the emperor invited them to dinner alone, and I didn't hear anyone trembling."

Zhu Xi took a look and frowned, everyone, have a good meal, what are you doing there?Let me go?snort!How can it be.

"Your Highness, forgive me, Your Highness forgive me." Guo Shisi wanted to leave his seat and kneel.

"Hurry up and eat, and we'll cut off your head if you're so troublesome. Come on, Hanhan, let's drink." Zhu Xi stared, turned around and came back to raise the wine cup.

"Hey! Drink! Hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian also held the wine cup, took a sip, and breathed out the alcohol: "Ah~~hmm!"

Guo Shisi was frightened once, but calmed down, his hands stopped shaking, and he picked up vegetables to eat.

The children finished eating first and ran out to buy and find things to prepare for the afternoon.

The seven of Guo Shisi also ate quickly, and were arranged by the head of the village to rest in an empty tent to ease their emotions.

At the right time, the prince Zhu Biao came, and it was not as important to discuss things with Xiaqiu Village in class.

Zhu Xi and Hanhan were still drinking, each of them drank a couple of baijiu to warm up their bodies, and then began to drink beer. There are salted edamame here.

The chief took out tea and made it, and placed some dried fruits, and everyone drank it outside to cool off.

"Your Highness, let me talk about the greenhouse planting in winter. You can send people to other places where there are no fresh vegetables in winter to build greenhouses, and do a good job of accounting and supervision."

The head of the village said this in advance to avoid forgetting it later.

"It's a good way. I'm not afraid that someone will be greedy for ink." Zhu Biao nodded slightly when he heard this, and he could indeed make more money.

"Another thing is the cessation of the war in Sichuan..." The head of the village repeated what he had said to Guo Shisi.

After hearing this, Zhu Biao was slightly surprised: "Why not let Xuancheng County of Ningguo Prefecture come to try?"

"Your Highness, Xiaqiu Village is familiar with them, and tomorrow they will send a large amount of things for the New Year.

However, the business in that place is not as good as that of Tu County. Dangtu County is on the banks of the Yangtze River. It is precisely because of the end of the Sichuan War that there are more businessmen.

Ningguo Mansion has to wait for more people to know that there is a new canal open to navigation, and the number of businessmen passing by Ningguo Mansion will increase before it can be implemented. "

The head of the village explained, he understood what the prince meant, and Xiaqiu Village could do anything in Ningguo Mansion directly.

I am not very familiar with Taiping Mansion, and sometimes the cooperation is not tacit enough.

The prince nodded again: "That's right, give it a try, if it's good, promote it more, Nanjing will try it together, Xuancheng will do it first! Don't care how many people there are!"

"Xuancheng and Nanjing are no problem. The market in Dangtu County is under the management of Guo Ju and Guo Shisi. In order to prevent people from intervening at will and commanding randomly, it is necessary to stabilize the position of Guo Shisi."

The head of the village used the crown prince to help Guoshi's official position, and no one would move.

Zhu Biao glanced at Guo Ju who was sitting there very stiffly: "Since Mr. Zhu said it, then Guo Shisi should do his best."

"Your official will definitely do a good job in this matter. If something goes wrong, my official... I will come to see you." Guo Shisi was very excited.

"Your Highness, Xiaqiu Village suddenly thought of a simple way to make food, which can be used to sell money. There are chestnuts in Sichuan, and chestnuts in Ningguo Mansion are better. Make fried chestnuts with sugar. Stupid! Go fry."

The head of the village began to introduce snacks. Ningguo Mansion has always had chestnuts, including Xuanzhou chestnuts.

"Well! Here we come! Stir-fry." Zhu Wentian got up and went into the tent to change clothes, but he was reluctant to ruin the silk clothes.

His little friends have finished changing their clothes, and the chestnuts, pebbles, and sugar are ready, and they are placed on the big iron pan.

Zhu Wentian, who had changed his clothes, stood in front of the cauldron with a shovel in his hand. He threw stones in and stir-fried for a while, to find out the feeling, and then poured the chestnuts in.

Then it's hard work, stir-fry, pour some sugar water in it, and continue to stir-fry.

"Your Highness, the sugar used is not much, a little is enough. The stones are used to increase the heating area of ​​the chestnuts, if the chestnuts are fried directly without stones, they will burn.

Generally fry for more than a quarter of an hour, take out a chestnut to see if it is cooked, and sieve the stones through an iron sieve when it is cooked.

Due to the sugar water, the chestnuts will stick to the stones, and thick gloves are needed to help them divide.

This time must be fast, otherwise the residual heat of the stone will burn black spots inside the chestnuts.

The ancients said that when the chestnuts are fried, if the small ones are cooked, the big ones will be born; if the big ones are cooked, the small ones will be burnt.Make the size evenly cooked, the beginning is perfect.

It is to separate the size for frying, we don’t use this, unless it is very large and very small. "

The village chief was explaining beside him, and he had never been fired, so Hanhan did whatever he said.

Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Guo Shisi and others watched. It was the first time they heard that chestnuts were fried with stones.

"The main reason is that white sugar is cheap now, and brown sugar water is used to fry it, and the taste of sugar is very mixed. After the imperial court sent people to Fujian and other places to plant a large amount of sugar cane, the people of Ming Dynasty can also taste the sweetness."

The head of the village also talked about the problem of sugar, brown sugar is not as good as white sugar for frying.

"Who would have thought that stones could be used? When sugar is expensive, you really don't want to use it for frying."

Zhu Biao only thinks that an expert has many ideas, even if he stirs up some chestnuts, he is better than others.

Everyone talked for a while, and the time was almost up. The little girl put on a glove and took two chestnuts from the shovel handed over by Brother Hanhan.

She whimpered, took off her gloves and poured her hands on each other. When it was too hot, she slid it with her fingernails and squeezed again. The chestnut shells were separated. She tasted it: "Brother Hanhan is ready."

Zhu Wentian put down the shovel, grasped one ear of the iron pot with both hands, directly lifted the iron pot to the position of the iron sieve next to it, fell down with a clatter, and then tossed upside down. down.

Others, wearing gloves, rubbed chestnuts and stones on the sieve, and the stones fell, leaving the chestnuts on top.

Put the chestnuts in the dustpan, leave some, and cover the rest with quilts to keep warm and moisturize.

There is a bamboo plate with chestnuts on the inner side, and small bamboo slices for peeling the chestnuts. One side has teeth and the other side can be used as a spoon, but this kind of chestnuts can be cut and pinched.

The children next to him demonstrated with bamboo slices, and Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi and Guo Shisi followed suit.

"It's delicious. I'll go back and find someone to practice. I'll sell it at a convenient place, plus other things."

Guo Shisi tasted one and recognized the texture and taste, which was better than the boiled chestnuts he ate.

Zhu Biao looked at the small bamboo slices and shook his head slightly, thinking so much about eating.

The chief followed suit and ate one: "If it's cold, it's best to heat it in the oven."

"When it's cold, I'll bring it here for you to heat up. I'll take less at a time."

Zhu Xi didn't intend to heat the chestnuts by himself, so he went here to get them while the people from Xiaqiu Village were around.

"In this way, His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness King Qin, the officials will resign and go back to deal with this matter."

Seeing that he had nothing else to do, Guo Shisi didn't want to have dinner here, so he left quickly.

(End of this chapter)