delicious little cook

Chapter 802 Growing a Spice

Gu Yun thought that something good would happen on his birthday, so he regained his energy. He was smiling every day, and he practiced with Gong Changji's team with great energy. Everyone else was exhausted. He could still play two more rounds. Ji often laughed and scolded him for taking aphrodisiacs, but their hard training also made other teams very nervous, and all the teams that were going to participate in the competition were holding back their energy and training hard every day.

Bai Kou took care of the factory's business step by step. The four-wheeled carriage received a lot of praise after the test drive, so he ordered nine more in one go, and formed a large fleet of the factory's own, specializing in the transportation of fragile products including glass and mirrors. .

The kitchen timer has become famous for some reason. This thing has not been advertised to the outside world, but it has been known by various merchants, and they have come to the factory to order orders. Only Lao Sha can make this, and they really can’t handle it. Demand, and you can't say that you can't cut off your business. We have to say that the production is limited and the craftsmanship needs to be improved. Please wait patiently until the second half of the year.

Lao Sha, who has freed up time, is currently working on improving his air extractor. After all, Bai Kou has come up with this idea. She is going to make a thermos bottle. Ning Peilan is already in the third trimester of pregnancy, and delivery is imminent , it's time to take out samples of the heat preservation products for storing hot water that I promised to give her during the Chinese New Year.

For the young seedlings grown in the greenhouse, Bai Kou divided several plants into flowerpots and took them to Yirenfang. He walked through the market with flowerpots on the street in the workshop, and the Yiren who recognized these plants did not finish walking the whole street. Surrounded by people, ignoring the obstruction of the guards around Bai Kou, some people were even willing to offer gold to buy the flowerpot in her hand.

Bai Kou was unmoved, and she walked into a Ufazaghi-style restaurant with a flower pot with a smile. Gathering around, looking at those flower pots, the eyes turned green, and some people were so excited that they wiped their eyes with handkerchiefs.

The shopkeeper greeted them warmly, and the clerk quickly cleared a table in the middle of the store for Bai Kou, who put the flowerpot on the table, and generously invited the people of his country to taste the taste of these seedlings.

Southern orange and northern trifoliate, this practical problem also needs to be considered. It was finally grown in a greenhouse environment, but if the taste is not right, it will be a new problem.

The shopkeeper and the cook carefully plucked a few young leaves, tore them open and tasted a little, then the cooks ran back to the back kitchen, and after a while brought out a pot of thick soup, several pieces of kitchen utensils, and a small charcoal At the stove, cheers erupted from the crowd around the audience, and they stepped aside to let the cooks do their work.

The small charcoal stove was placed on the table, the soup pot was sitting on the stove, the fan was turned on to boil the soup again, and then the chopping board and the knife were laid out, and a few young leaves and stems were picked off, washed and chopped directly. The soup pot started to bubbling, filled half a bowl for Bai Kou to taste, and then sprinkled the chopped leaves into the pot.

The moment it fell into the hot soup, the fragrance exploded like an explosion. The crowd standing at the table cheered intoxicated first. As the fragrance spread slowly, the people standing on the outermost layer smelled the fragrance from their hometown. The smell aroused a large number of people's homesickness, and some even couldn't help crying on the spot.

After stirring the soup for a while, the broken leaves were completely integrated into the soup. The shopkeeper rolled up his sleeves and filled another half bowl for Bai Kou to taste, comparing the differences between the two bowls of soup.

Surrounded by the crowd, Bai Kou was a little dizzy at first, but suddenly he was aroused by this strange and stimulating fragrance, and his mind cleared up a lot. After tasting the soup without spices, he felt that it was a good taste to keep it, but After tasting the soup with spices, she felt that it was more delicious with the addition of spices. She couldn't stop spoonful after spoonful, and the half bowl of soup just entered her stomach.

"Well, it really tastes good. I didn't come in vain today." Bai Kou took out a handkerchief and wiped her mouth contentedly.

"It's good that the girl likes it, so can we inquire about it?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile and saluted.

"Want to ask where this fresh spice comes from? Does the big factory in Ji Lefang know? It's grown in a greenhouse." Bai Kou answered happily.

"Really?!" The audience cheered excitedly.

"Well, really, a lot of exotic plants have been planted, some of which have sprouted, and some of which haven't. You can go and see and maybe you can get an idea."

"That big factory has such a tall wall that it's hard for outsiders to get in. Can we get in?"

"It's okay, tell the gatekeeper that you are here to visit the greenhouse, and I will let you in."

"Girl so sure?"

"Of course, my name is Bai Kou, and I have the final say."

The crowd was in an uproar again, and then cheered. Many people ran out to invite their friends to tell them the good news, and made an appointment to visit the greenhouse in Happy Square in the near future.

Bai Kou was also very happy. She got the first essential spice, and it tasted pure. Next, she hoped that the other ones would also sprout and grow smoothly, and her road to freedom would see the end.

Before leaving, Bai Kou gave the flower pot to the restaurant, and asked them about the more detailed planting method. This spice called Mang is to eat the newly grown young leaves and stems. It can grow all the time, and every household will plant a few pots of common spices, but without this, many dishes lose their fragrance, and if you want to get seeds, it’s easy to do, just let it grow on its own, and it will bloom and bear fruit when it grows to a certain height. Finally, it is necessary to pick it before the peel changes color, otherwise the seeds may erupt at any time.

Bai Kou thought that the seeds of the bursting awns were about the size of a sesame seed, and immediately wrote down the special precautions in the notebook. When the fruit bears fruit in the future, it must be picked in time, otherwise once it erupts, the seeds all over the ground will be impossible to pick. After a while, the greenhouse will be full of budding awns.

After getting useful information, this trip was not in vain, Bai Kou took the guards to another restaurant for a meal, and then went back home.

When Gu Yun learned that Bai Kou had brought spices to Yirenfang, he pretended not to know what she was there for, but only praised her for being able to handle affairs, knowing how to learn about strange plants from Yiren.

The next day, the large workshop of Xilefang was very lively. Not only businessmen from Ufazaghi came, but also many businessmen from other countries. Guests are directed to visit the greenhouse, avoiding the production and warehouse areas.

Naturally, the greenhouse cannot be entered, and you can only look outside through the glass, which still does not dampen the enthusiasm of the visitors. Looking around, there are densely packed people standing beside the glass outer wall, bluffing excitedly.

Bai Kou also came over early in the morning and made preparations. When the merchants from Ufazaghi came, she squeezed among them and took them to the small compartment dedicated to growing spices from their country to look at the planting boxes on the shelf. The awn is considered a success, and the taste has not changed, but the others are hard to say, and some have not germinated so far and are still round seeds.

The businessman used their not-so-fluent Beijing dialect to give Bai Kou advice, telling her that there is a burst of fire now, and if the cat's claw is successfully planted again, it can be made into a civilian version of meat sauce.

(End of this chapter)