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Chapter 196 Lotus Root Pork Rib Soup

When the flower seedlings are transported home, they have to rush to plant them. Lily has only planted two or three pots of roses in her previous life, and the varieties are different from those now. Faced with thousands of flower seedlings, it is really difficult.

Fortunately, Song Haonian inquired carefully, made it very clear what should be paid attention to when tending flower seedlings, and then took out the stack of writing paper asked to be written by someone to show Lily.

Lily looked at it carefully for a long time, and said to Song Haonian with crooked eyes: "Thanks to you thinking about writing this, my mind is much more open now, if I keep to the previous muddleheaded way, I'm afraid we will suffer a blood loss this year." .”

Only at this time did she realize her previous recklessness—planting flowers blindly if she doesn’t know anything. From loss to hemorrhage.

Song Haonian was not very happy for several days, seeing his daughter-in-law was finally feeling better, so he didn't ask her to come in and out to do some busy work, and dragged others to talk.

You can't hide important matters from your daughter-in-law. She can take half of the family affairs. If you keep it from her, if she doesn't know about something in the future and falls into danger, he won't be able to recover even if he cries to death.

Therefore, Song Haonian told in detail everything he knew from the meeting with Steward Lu until this afternoon, when Chen Bin's confidant never left the man who sent him away from the manor.

He was afraid that he would look like someone else's enemy, so his words would bring out a little bit, Lily jumped up in fear for a moment, grabbed his hand and said: "It's just that we look alike, even if we are someone's enemy, it has nothing to do with us, understand No one with any sense would take a knife against us."

The truth is that, if they are not allowed to be rich and powerful, if they are unhappy, they will take it out on them... So Chen Bin's confidants escorted them back together, and they were very close to Song Haonian. Song Haonian was also grateful for Chen Bin, and deliberately asked those people It turns out that he is from Chen Bin's side.

Chen Bin looked like a wealthy businessman, unremarkable, but he heard that there was a way in the capital, and he could easily get the rare silks and satins from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. The power behind him might not be much worse than that manor .

With Chen Bin behind him, Song Haonian felt more at ease, so he told Lily the same.

Lily had a faint premonition in her heart: earlier, she felt that Chen Bin's arrival was strange, but now she confirmed that Chen Bin didn't just come to open a silk shop, but wanted to plot something from Song Haonian.

She is used to being kind to others, but the few people she values ​​personally will never allow others to bully her, and she secretly makes up her mind: From now on, she must guard against Chen Bin, if he is uneasy and kind, she must pay more attention to Da Nian.

Then I thought, Guanshi Lu said that her husband looked like an old friend, and Chen Bin's reaction was also unusual. Could it be that her husband really has some remarkable background?
Yin asked Song Haonian: "Have you ever thought about it, if someone is not looking for revenge, it is really some noble person you look like, what should you do?"

Song Haonian laughed and said: "It's just that I look alike, and I'm not a noble person, so what else can I do? Let's just live our lives, and I don't dare to touch the affairs of noble people."

After all, he has a firm mind, and he is not a frivolous person who waits for nothing to fly. Lily also calmed down and said with a smile: "It should be like this! Whatever they do, let's just do it right, or make trouble." It is also reasonable for us to go to the Heavenly King and Lao Tzu."

No matter how strange it is to meet Guanshi Lu this time, life is always going to go, and rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea are indispensable. Lily invited Wang Yongxing and his wife and Song Ermei to dinner that day, and made it clear that the flower seedlings would be planted tomorrow.

Song Haonian talked about a lot of things to pay attention to when planting flowers, Lily followed the words on the paper, and added a few more sentences, Song Ermei said, "This flower is more painful than growing food!"

Lily smiled and said, "It's many times more expensive than food. If it's a good plant, wouldn't everyone want to plant it? Where can we get it?"

In the morning of the second day, before the sun came out, I opened the furrows one by one in the three acres of land set aside in advance next to the house, applied a layer of fertilizer first, and planted the flower seedlings with soil on the roots one by one. Plenty of water.

When the sun was high, it was difficult to work again, lest the flower seedlings would die from the sun. At noon, everyone went home to rest. Lily didn't care about rest, so she fetched water to wash her hands first, and then went to the kitchen to cook.

Song Haonian then washed himself clean, followed him in to help, saw that Lily had been steamed with mixed rice, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, it's not hot yet, so I can still eat rice at noon."

She thought that Song Haonian's qi was not going well these days, so she just cooked a pot of lotus root ribs soup for him to smooth his qi, rinsed the ribs, boiled them in water to remove the foam from the blood and water, took them out and put them in a special casserole for stewing soup. Add enough water at once, put a few slices of ginger and boil over high heat.

Then scrape off the skin of the lotus root, chop it into hob pieces, put it into the soup and cook over medium heat until the pork ribs are separated from the bone, and the lotus root turns from white to red, and the soup is ready. Sprinkle some salt into it to enhance the flavor .

When you want to drink soup, put a few scallions on the bottom of the bowl, pour the hot soup on top, and blanch the scallions until they are half-cooked, which adds extra umami.

The lotus root itself has a very light taste, and it is the most colorful when stewed with meat with a strong taste. The lotus root is stewed soft, waxy and sweet, and the long silk is pulled out. Just put a little salt in the soup, it is full of sweetness, and the meat is crispy and rotten Fragrant, no other dishes, just this soup can eat two bowls of mixed rice.

In addition, stir-fry cabbage or potato shreds to make it even more delicious.

When the sun gets weaker in the afternoon, we continue to plant flowers. There is still a relatively bright time after sunset, and we can still rush to do some work.

Most people at this time are not well nourished, and their eyesight is weak at night, so they can no longer work at dusk, so they go home to light the lamps and cook for everyone.

Because I ate well at noon, it was getting late at this time, so I only needed to have a noodle soup at night.When people are tired, everything tastes delicious. The noodle noodles in the water are smooth and chewy, and some lard residue is boiled in the water, which is very fragrant.

Planting flowers is delicate work, more troublesome than growing corn and potatoes. Even if there is only three acres of land, and Liu Ping'an is here to help, it still takes four or five days to plant it.

It's not like planting it and it's over. Flowers need a lot of water, and the sky alone can't do it.This flower field is on the terrace by the river, only one or two hundred steps away from the Baishui River, but it is more than ten feet higher, even if the Baishui River floods, it will not be able to flood here easily.

It's just that it is not very convenient to divert water like this. It is too difficult to build a waterwheel relying on the Song family alone. In the end, Lily had to ask Wang Yongxing and his wife to work harder and fetch water from the river to irrigate the fields every day.

Wang Yongxing's family also said: "Carrying water to irrigate the ground is a common thing, and there is nothing that can't be tolerated. Don't worry too much."

Lily is a person who has enjoyed the benefits of machinery, and knows that a suitable machine is better than dozens of people.She thought to herself, when she has more strength at hand, she will definitely build a waterwheel, so as to save people such labor.

The rose seedlings were inconspicuous when they were first planted, and within two days they were full of water, the leaves stretched out, and their height also increased a lot.

Lily always looks at the flower field full of longing, as if looking at the golden mountains and silver mountains in the whole place.

Farm affairs are busy all year round, and there is not much free time. It does not mean that everything will be fine after planting flowers, and there is still a vegetable field to be tended.All kinds of winter melons, pumpkins, courgettes, cabbage, radishes, and soybeans are all planted in the ground in the same way. Different varieties have different ways of handling them. Dip in pollen for pollination...

There are many things and busy, the young couple quickly put the accidents of the previous days to the back of their minds, and only worry about it when they think about it occasionally. After all, they should pay more attention to the things in front of them.

Roses are worthless, but the extracted essential oils and flower dew are valuable. Lily knows that flowers are difficult to preserve. If she sells flowers, she will not be able to sell them for much, so she deliberately made a set of extraction equipment.

It should be said that the Rose Manor is also very shrewd, the price for the flower seedlings is not high, and many people can afford it.But they keep the secret recipes for extracting essential oils and making toilet water tightly hidden, and it is difficult for them to let go without tens of thousands of taels of silver.

In this way, the lifeblood of all the people who buy rose seedlings is in their hands. Except for a few big businessmen who bought technology and equipment, the rest of the small businessmen have to obediently sell the flowers to their families.

At this time, the manor probably bought flowers at a low price, and when the essential oils and floral dew were produced, the price increased by dozens of times, and the money earned was more than a huge profit.

Even so, this situation is because the manor is merciful. If the businessman's treacherous methods are really used, I am afraid that none of the people who buy rose seedlings will get a good deal. Unlike today, they can always earn two or three times their capital. Price.

Song Haonian was reluctant to deal with the people in the manor because of the management of the landing, so Lily had to find a way to get a set of equipment.

Fortunately, she used to play with making toilet water. She bought a set of distillation equipment from a certain treasure and put it in the school science laboratory. She distilled shochu with a few colleagues. Sprinkle two drops of the extracted rose dew on the body. Everyone who smells it says it is good. Although it is not as long-lasting and rich in fragrance as the big-name perfumes, it is fun after all.

Now, Lily used charcoal sticks to draw the appearance of several important parts on the paper from memory, thinking about it.

At this time, glass is not uncommon. For example, Master Liu's study is said to be equipped with glass windows. Yingchun also said that there is a large full-length mirror in the house of the young lady of the Liu family. The most important one.

Not to mention that the utensils that Lily wants are all weird in shape, and they may not be able to be fired, but they can be burned. With the preciousness of glass, she is afraid that she will not be able to buy a catheter even if she loses her entire fortune.

But things are dead, but people are alive, and utensils without glass can always be replaced by other ones.Lily is worthy of being the daughter of a bamboo strip maker, and it didn't take long for her to think of using bamboo tubes instead of glass catheters.

The rest of the stills and coolers are more complicated, and only skilled porcelain workers can make them. As long as the texture is strong and a layer of dense glaze is applied, the effect will not be much worse than that of glass.

After that, Lily entrusted the tofu shop to Li Caifeng, and entrusted the vegetable field and flower fields to Song Ermei and Wang Yongxing. She and Song Haonian went around the county and Linxian to look for porcelain kilns, and wanted to burn two sets of kilns. The distillation equipment used comes out.

(End of this chapter)