The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 175 Dried meat
The pine-hued eggs and pomegranates were handed over to the eldest family member. The salted duck eggs were easy to make. She thought about it and decided to make them herself.

After returning from the old house, Shiliu cleaned the duck eggs that she had specially set aside. She didn't have to make meals for the workshop workers at night, so Song and Li Xiangli also came to help.

Wash the duck eggs, then wash the earthen jar, and place them in a ventilated place to dry.

After finishing this, it was getting dark, so I got up early tomorrow to continue making salted duck eggs.

Mrs. Song lit the kitchen lamp and kneaded the dough quickly, planning to eat noodles tonight.

After the noodles were cooked, the family sat in the kitchen and ate dinner after a long day's exhaustion.

Everyone is busy during the day, and it is only during dinner that we can sit together and have a good conversation.

Of course, the least they can do is for Li Ji and the others to ask about Li Rongzhang's affairs in the school.

After attending school for a few days, Li Rongzhang's face and eyes were all radiant, and he said straightly: "Hello, sir, and my classmates! I can already memorize half of the Three Character Sutra!"

It can be seen that he has adapted well in school and really enjoys reading.

Li Jihe and Mrs. Song couldn't help but feel happy, and turned around to talk about the gifts they received today.

"Only after I took a closer look did I realize that there are so many pieces of jewelry on this set of hair, including bracelets, earrings and hairpins. How much money does it cost?" Ms. Song said in a stupefied tone.

Pomegranate said: "It's not expensive, it's only seven taels of silver. If I make more money tomorrow, I can buy you a gold-headed noodle. That set of glittering gold looks good on your head!"

When Mrs. Song heard that it was seven taels of silver, and then she counted the money for the cow, then the girls and the others all had to collect money, right? What else can you have in your hand?

When I thought about it, I couldn't help but say it.

Pomegranate immediately responded with a smile: "I don't have anything left in my hands. I thought that in order for us to be able to buy whatever we want at any time in the future, let's calculate our wages on a monthly basis! How about one or two ounces of money per person every month?" Sample?"

As he said that, he glanced at Li Rongzhang and said, "Of course, Brother Zhang doesn't have that much, so I'll give you two coins as pocket money!"

Li Rongzhang has no objection at all. He goes to school every day and doesn't help the family. Even giving him two dollars is too much.

Mrs. Song listened to her daughter's arrangement and had no objection. Her daughter had ideas. These businesses were all arranged by her daughter. To be honest, her daughter earned all the money. They just helped her. This money is her daughter's. She took it all and used it, but she didn't have anything to say.

Of course, a mother cannot watch her daughter waste her fortune and squander all the money, so she keeps the money and uses it however she wants. As long as there are no problems with the charter, she has no objection.

Therefore, it was decided that each person would be paid two ounces of wages a month. Pomegranate waved his hand and directly said that the calculation would start from the fifteenth day!
After getting up the next day, after breakfast, Pomegranate took Li Xiangli and continued working.

Arrange the dried duck eggs neatly in a clay jar, pour in white wine and marinate them.

Then fill the pot with water, add peppercorns, bring to a boil over high heat, pour the salt into the boiling water, stir with chopsticks until dissolved, discard the peppercorns, wait until the salt water has completely cooled, and pour it into the earth altar. , submerging all the duck eggs inside.

Finally, seal the mouth of the jar, place it in a ventilated place, and wait for it to marinate. It will marinate for about 20 days before looking at it.

At the end of the day, the two sisters of Pomegranate cooked all the washed duck eggs, making several large jars.

The next morning, Pomegranate went to the meat floss workshop again.

The meat floss workshop already has a process of frying meat inside and cooking meat outside. There are ten pots and twenty people working without taking a break. The meat floss is fried non-stop from the beginning of the day. One pot can cook at least one dish every day. Twelve packs of pork floss and ten pots are one hundred and twenty packs. To fry so much pork floss, it means that at least 1,500 kilograms of lean pork are needed every day.

Now in Dafengji and Luoshui City, there are already ten butchers who have been contacted by Ding Fuguang. Otherwise, they really wouldn't be able to supply them.

But next, I have to contact a few more butchers.

Because Pomegranate plans to make dried meat, salted duck eggs and preserved eggs will have to wait for a while. Now that specialty stores are opening first, they can't just sell meat floss and salted egg yolks.

No need to think about beef jerky, pork jerky is also quite flavorful.

Pomegranate looked around and planned to requisition the pot that was in charge of the third aunt Huang and Li Ronghuai's daughter-in-law Liu and then specialize in making dried meat. Liu was frying the meat floss, so she took the third aunt aside first. Cutting meat on a long table.

Cut the pork into long strips as thick as your fingers along the grain so that the meat does not fall apart.

Put the cut meat strips into water, wash them several times and drain the water.

Put it into a basin, add scallions, ginger, rice wine, salt, and spice powder ground from star anise, pepper, cinnamon, etc. Then add soy sauce, seasonings and meat strips, stir evenly, and allow to marinate for two hours.

After lunch, Pomegranate immediately went to the workshop, and a large pot of meat strips was marinated.

Boil water in a pot, put a steamer on it, boil the marinated meat strips in the pot and put them into the steamer. Steam them for a little over a quarter of an hour, which is twenty minutes. This step of steaming is to remove the meat inside. Moisture is completely controlled.

Then heat the oil in a pan until it is about 50% hot. Put the steamed meat strips into the oil, stir-fry once, then add the chili noodles and sesame seeds and stir-fry slightly, and then you can start the pan.

The fried meat strips were brought to the next door hut, which was originally a place where the meat floss was packaged. After inviting the sixth uncle and his son to build the earthen stove outside, Pomegranate then invited them to serve pomegranates against two walls in this room. A fire kang.

They were in the south, and families generally did not sleep on heated kang beds. But Pomegranate drew the drawings, and it was a good thing that when my uncle Liu was young, he went to work elsewhere. He had seen that medicinal materials were dried on such a kang bed. After thinking about it for a while, he also understood this. Two fire pits were laid out.

As for the packing of meat floss, it is more convenient to put it in the room where the meat floss is cooled.

At that moment, Shiliu taught the Huangs to heat up the fire pit. After it got hot, they spread the fried meat strips one by one on the bamboo mat spread on the fire pit for drying.

The meat strips need to be completely dried, which takes about two and a half hours. Pay attention to turning the meat strips once during the process.

This is a delicate job. When the meat is roasting on the fire, no one can stay away from the place. It doesn't work if the fire is too high or too low. In short, you have to pay attention to it at all times.

This was the first time I made it, so Pomegranate took Huang and Liu with me the whole time.

While the one on the fire kang was baking first, she let Mrs. Huang watch first, and then took Mrs. Liu to steam and fry the remaining meat strips. She divided them twice in total before frying all the marinated meat strips. Another kang was also lit, and the meat strips were spread on it.

At this time, the workshop was out of work, and the three of them were still guarding it.

Taking this opportunity, Pomegranate must tell the Huang family and the Liu family that they will be responsible for making the dried meat in the future. They all watched how every process was done just now. In the future, they will inevitably be unable to work on time like today. Yes, a batch of dried meat must be baked before they can finish work. Therefore, their monthly wages will be one hundred yuan more in the future.

After hearing this, Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Liu were naturally happy and repeatedly promised to do a good job.

After this, all the lights were lit in the house, and everyone had eaten the dinner sent by Mrs. Song. The batch of dried meat was finally baked. The three of them carefully picked up the dried meat and put them into a clean dustpan. , and then wrap it in oil paper for storage.

After checking that the fire was out, we closed the workshop and went home.