Abandoned Daughter's Beautiful Pastoral

Chapter 293 Letting Go, Conditions (2)
He is not very interested in the officialdom, but now he has to move towards this goal. When the revenge is avenged and everything is settled, he can do whatever he wants!

Zhang Xiaocao could also hear the uncertainty in his words, she was a little happy in her heart, and quickly covered it up.

The two of them chatted one after another, feeling extremely relaxed, and even their mood improved a lot.

Back home, Zhang Xiaocao dumped the potatoes in the yard like a treasure, and checked them carefully one by one. If there was any damage, it would rot in winter!
Grandma Zhang saw her granddaughter picking up these stone-like things, and asked a few questions curiously. After hearing Zhang Xiaocao's explanation, she knew it was a good thing, and she hurriedly asked for help, but was persuaded by Zhang Xiaocao to leave.

Finally, I picked out a few that couldn't be stored and put them aside, and saw that the others were almost dry, so I didn't need to dry them again, so I put them in my pocket and put them in a cool and dry place. Put it in the plant ash in the kitchen to cover it, so you don't have to worry about it being damaged by freezing.

Looking at the broken ones on the ground, Zhang Xiaocao planned to use them to make a potato-roasted chicken at noon, so she told Mrs. Song to wash and peel them, and then ran to the stewed meat workshop, where chickens were killed every day, there should be some slaughtered Chicken!
The six women who were in charge of the stewed meat were still busy, and the weather had already cooled down, but they were all sweating profusely!

Aunt Liu had sharp eyes, and was the first to see her. While picking up the braised pork in the pot neatly, she asked with a smile, "When did you come back?"

Zhang Xiaocao greeted the others with a smile, walked to Aunt Liu, rolled up her sleeves and picked up the froth in the pot with a spatula, and said with a smile: "I just came back, I'm going to take a chicken back , is there nothing wrong with the workshop?"

Aunt Liu wiped the sweat from her forehead, leaned into Zhang Xiaocao's ear and whispered, "Okay, yesterday a person from Wangjianglou came to pick up the goods, and settled the money for the first half month. Guess how much it is?" ?”

Aunt Liu originally had a loud voice, although she suppressed her voice, the big guy still heard it, and a woman teased and said jokingly: "Oh, look at your embarrassment, how many times have you asked this question?" !"

Aunt Liu said cheerfully, "Isn't this making everyone happy?"

Zhang Xiaocao remembered that before going to the city, Shopkeeper Le added another amount, so she asked enthusiastically, "How much?"

"In the first half of the month, we sold 30 catties of stewed chicken, and got 50 taels of silver, 1000 catties of stewed duck, 34 taels, and less stewed goose, only sold 220 catties of 240 catties, and got 550 taels of silver. The stewed mutton was [-] catties each, totaling [-] taels, and the most sold was wild rabbit meat, which weighed [-] catties, and got [-] taels, so in this half month, there will be [-] taels!"

Aunt Liu has a good brain, even if she doesn't look at the ledger, she can write down the money sold for all kinds of stewed meat!

"There are so many?"

Zhang Xiaocao was taken aback. At the beginning, she thought that two to three hundred taels in half a month would be enough, and the cost and labor costs were enough, but she didn't expect that there would be more than 300 taels in just half a month. After all, the net profit was more than 500 taels. , There are about 200 taels of profit in a month, so there are 500 taels a year, which is very good!
Seeing the expected reaction from the other party, Aunt Liu smiled and said: "No!" Then she said worriedly: "I'm worried that there are not enough animals in the farm, especially wild rabbits, I'm afraid they won't be able to supply them next month! "

Zhang Xiaocao frowned and calculated, after one month, the stewed rabbit meat needs at least six thousand catties, and a four catty rabbit will weigh only two catties after being marinated. After this month, nearly three thousand rabbits will be needed. Although rabbits reproduce fast and grow fast, but if they are consumed like this, they still can't catch up!
"I'll go to Shopkeeper Le to discuss this, and see if I can limit it!"

The farm has only been built for a year, and the market conditions were unclear at the beginning, and the scale of the breeding was not too large. Now it seems that the breeding needs to be expanded first.

Thinking that the six of them are still busy at this hour, I can't help but feel a little embarrassed. They all have families, with seniors and children. Now they circle the stove all day long, and they can't take care of their families. So he said: "If you are too busy, I will ask someone to rebuild a few stoves, and get a few more people to do it together!"

These are all carefully selected by her. After all, the cooking and food must be clean, and she must not be swayed, so as not to reveal the secrets of the workshop. If she wants to rebuild the stove, she will have to buy a few more honest people.

When the six people who were still busy heard it, they all said: "It's too busy, it's not too much work, it's much lighter than the work in the field!"

"That's right, one person looks at the two stoves, as long as the fire is well lit, you don't have to worry about the rest. If you hire another person, we will be free, and it's embarrassing to take the wages!"

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaocao had no choice but to give up, but still added benefits: "How about this, people won't be invited, you will be paid [-] Wen per day, and [-] Wen per month, just make up the whole, one tael a month! "

When the few people heard this, they were overjoyed. Originally, the wages of [-] Wen a day were higher than those of the middle-aged men during the busy farming season. Now they have added [-] Wen a month. Although it is not much, it is a tael of silver a month, and the work is not heavy. , where can I find such a good job?

Aunt Liu laughed and patted Zhang Xiaocao on the shoulder: "Just say that you are generous, and you won't treat these people badly. Look, this month is one or two silver coins. If you say it, you don't envy those people to death!"

When everyone heard this, they all burst into laughter!

Because of growing cotton, every family in the village has a lot of money now, but no one thinks there is too much money, and the cotton can not be planted for how long, it is not as stable as this workshop, even if someone else does this in the future, it will not be so bad!
Zhang Xiaocao brought a chicken home and was going to cook chicken with potatoes. Seeing that Mrs. Song had cleaned up the kitchen, she asked her to chop the chicken into small pieces first.

Roast chicken with potatoes is not difficult to make. The key is that it needs star anise to enhance the flavor. Now there are many star anise trees planted on the mountain, but the growth of star anise trees has a process, and it takes several years to bear fruit. Now the raw materials in the stew are all from Bought from the pharmacy, the age in the medicine field is too young, it hasn't matured yet, so it can't be used!
First of all, marinate the cut chicken with salt and cooking wine for half an hour to a quarter of an hour, then put oil in the pot and heat it until it is half mature, add green onion, ginger and star anise until it is fragrant, then add the marinated Stir-fry the chicken until it changes color, add soy sauce and sugar and stir-fry evenly, then add water to cover the chicken pieces, then add potatoes and shiitake mushrooms, cover and boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for half an hour, finally add salt, use The fire thickens the soup, and the roasted chicken with potatoes is ready!

After the pot was filled with an extremely strong fragrance, Grandma Zhang walked in, heard the gurgling sound in the pot, and said with a smile: "Here is the potato you brought back? It smells strange!"

(End of this chapter)