Nongmen Merchant Girl

Chapter 24
"Father, there is still a peanut field in the back mountain. You can collect it when you find time in the past two days. If our peanuts are good this year, I guess it is not enough to sell boiled peanuts and peanut beans. You should plan first. Which one in the village is suitable for you to buy?" She is not afraid of being imitated in the peanut business, after all, the method is not too complicated, and the key point is that the seasoning must be kept secret.

"This business is going to go out, and the most important thing is that this seasoning is special, so none of us can say it in the future. This is a secret recipe handed down in the family." Only by mobilizing everyone to unite can we keep the secret.

"This is the secret recipe of the fourth girl, we don't know about it." Mother Xu knew what she meant, and she was thinking of everyone.

Then everyone unified their thinking and said that the secret recipe of seasoning is the secret recipe passed down from mother's family.

"Father, I want to give myself a name so that I can call myself outside in the future." Looking at the shouts of the four girls every day, although they are close, it is better to use a formal name when doing business outside in the future.

"What name will the fourth girl change?" Xu Youtian felt a little ashamed. It was his own fault that his daughter didn't have a proper name after more than ten years.

Everyone discussed for a long time, and finally she said the name "Xu Ru" by herself.

At noon, Xu Ru made roasted pork with potatoes for the family, using homemade soybean paste, adding some cinnamon star anise, stewed until overcooked, then serving a bowl of yellow and white rice, and licking the bowl after eating.

Even Xu Ru didn't know about the rice Xu's father bought when he came back. When her mother took it out, she was happy for a while. The situation, so I didn't care too much, but I still like to eat rice from the bottom of my heart.The afternoon meal is yellow and white rice mixed with rice and corn, and the whole family is in a particularly good mood today.

After eating, the family began to focus on peeling peanuts. Xu Ru also specially asked her father to find a few well-crafted new baskets in the village, and found a few clean earthen jars.Used to hold boiled peanuts and peanuts.Xu Ru dried the peppercorns, star anise, cloves, cinnamon bark and Xiaohuaixiang seeds separately, and then ground them into powder on a stone mill. After mixing them, they put them in a large clay pot and put them in their room.

When Xu Ru woke up the next day, she was busy frying a large bowl of peanuts and peeling them.Add a little water to the pot, boil it, put sugar, boil it into a syrup, put the peanuts in the syrup, then mix the flour, sugar, chili powder, five-spice powder, and salt, and wrap the peanuts in the flour One layer, put the hot oil in the pan and start frying until the appearance is golden, and then start the pan. This is how the strange-flavored peanut beans are done.

The finished peanut beans were eaten by several women in the family before Xu's father tasted them. The sweet and salty taste has not been widely spread in this era, and everyone tastes very novel, but Xu Ru thinks that the skin of the peanut beans is still Not too crispy, the spicy taste is a bit heavy, and the salty taste is too light. Later, I tried it again and adjusted the recipe again. After the syrup is hung, coat it with a layer of flour, then coat it with egg wash, and finally coat it with a layer of flour.The peanut skin fried in this way is very crispy, and it looks bigger than the original, which is very beautiful.The taste is a little different from the first time.

The whole family has been assigned by Xu Ru all day long, with their own division of labor, the ones that burn the fire, the ones that fry the peanuts, and the ones that fry the peanuts. The family even found a large sieve with relatively fine holes to coat the peanuts with flour. The pots at home were not enough, so Xu Ru could only ask her father to set up a temporary stove in the yard, simply using stone slabs to set up a large pot, as long as there was a fire underneath, it would be enough to cook peanuts.

When the whole family was busy, an unexpected guest came to the house, Ling Ruofeng.

After Xu Ru left from Yumanlou yesterday, Ling Ruofeng, the young master of Yumanlou, came to the restaurant of his home after school to wait for his father Ling Tianfang to finish his shop tour, and went home with him, and unexpectedly met Master Sun Yuchu. Sun two.He is also familiar with Sun Xiaofu, before Sun Xiaowei often visited Ling's house with his grandfather, although he is a few years older than Xiaofu, this kid is not afraid of him at all, and loves to grab food from him.

"Brother Ling, brother Ling, it's delicious." Before Ling Ruofeng came to the table, Xiaofu showed him a peanut in his hand.He is only over three years old this year, and his speech is not yet complete.

"Grandpa Sun is good." He approached and saluted Grandpa Sun first, "What's so delicious, Xiaofu, what did you take?"

Xiao Fu took a peanut in his hand and stuffed it into Ling Ruofeng's mouth.

"Isn't it just peanuts? What's delicious? I think it's very ordinary." The servant waited for him to sit down and poured him a cup of tea, and brought him his favorite sweet-scented osmanthus cake. This was the first one opened this year. It is made from the pistils picked from the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.Put it in the mouth, it is soft, glutinous and fragrant, and the mouth is full of fragrance.

He saw Xiaofu finished eating a peanut, sucked his finger, and smacked his mouth a few times. "Grandpa, I still want to eat..." The soft voice was endearing.

He had already eaten half a pack of peanuts by himself and wanted to eat more. "It's gone, wait for girl Xu to prepare it in two days before eating. You can try the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, it's delicious." Grandpa Sun is very helpless, usually he likes to grab food from Ling Ruofeng, but today even the sweet-scented osmanthus cake Don't grab it.

"Grandpa Sun, is this boiled peanut really that delicious?" He took a peanut shell and smelled it, and there was a special smell.

"It's delicious, boiled peanuts, peanut beans." Xiaofu nodded quickly.

"Although what the girl said is common, it's the first time I've seen peanuts like this. What's more, what she said was made with family-owned five-spice powder. The taste is not ordinary. I saw that she was so business-minded at a young age. This woman will be extraordinary in the future." Grandpa Sun spoke highly of Xu Ru.

After hearing this, Ling Ruofeng was very curious about the girl who made peanuts, and also curious about the peanuts she made with a unique taste. "Sister Qin said two days ago that she was tired of eating all the delicious food in Qingshui Town and wanted to eat something fresh, so that's it." Xu Ru's five-spice peanuts became Ling Ruofeng's best weapon to please girls .

Ling Ruofeng asked people to inquire about the person who sold the spiced peanuts the day before, and found out where Xu Ru's family lived. After school the next day, he took a carriage to Xujia'ao.The first one is easy to find. Not far from the entrance of the village, I saw a big pot in the yard. Something was cooking in the pot and it was covered with a big pot lid. But the white smoke and special fragrance coming out of the pot, Let people know that something delicious must be cooked in this pot.

(End of this chapter)