farm concubine

Chapter 11 Longevity Fruit

When she got home, Li Wanqing poured all the small fruits in the basket into the wooden bucket, and the wooden bucket was almost full.

Lin Shuirou saw that Li Wanqing came back with a whole basket of wild fruits, and asked with some dissatisfaction: "Qing'er, what are you doing with so many wild fruits?" They are not edible, so they take up space.

"Mother, these are not wild fruits, but longevity fruits." Li Wanqing answered Lin Shuirou's question while scooping water into the bucket with a wooden ladle.

"Longevity fruit?" Li Rulin and the other three asked in unison.

"Yes." Li Wanqing didn't understand this time, don't people here know that this is called Longevity Fruit?
"Sister, how did you know that these small fruits are called Longevity Fruits?"

"Isn't that what everyone calls it?"

Li Rulin and Lin Shuirou quickly looked at each other, and exchanged a look that only the two of them could understand. Seeing that Li Wanqing was frowning at them, Lin Shuirou quickly smoothed things over: "It's okay, this is the longevity fruit."

Li Muchen wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Li Rulin's look.

Recalling what Li Wanqing said on the mountain that these longevity fruits could be turned into silver, Li Rulin was also very curious: "Qing'er, didn't you say that there is a way to sell these longevity fruits?"

"Well, but Dad, you still have to go and buy some more soy sauce." Li Wanqing's saliva almost didn't flow out when he remembered the delicious taste of cooking fish and meat with the sauce made from longevity fruit in his previous life.

"Soy sauce? How much do you want?" Li Rulin was taken aback, but soon came back to his senses.

"Father, let's buy five catties first." Thinking that the longevity fruit jam is only used as a condiment, and the sales volume can't reach the ideal target for a while, Li Wanqing decided to make less, and use all the remaining longevity fruit to make longevity fruit Preserved fruit, the sweet and sour taste, just thinking about it makes your mouth water.

After the Xiami incident, the family members were very convinced of Li Wanqing, plus soy sauce was not expensive, and longevity fruit didn't cost money to buy, so she let her fiddle with it.

Li Wanqing went into the room and took out a relatively large sieve, moved a small mat and sat down to wash the longevity fruit he picked up.

Seeing that Li Wanqing had to wash such a big bucket of longevity fruit by herself, and it was already past noon, I didn't know when Li Wanqing would finish washing.

Li Muchen couldn't help feeling distressed, and quickly said: "Sister, I will wash with you."

"Sister can do it by herself, you go and play." Li Muchen is only ten years old, in Li Wanqing's opinion, he is the age who likes to play, and he doesn't want to restrain him.

"Sister, it's the same for me to wash the longevity fruit with you before going out to play." It is said that the children of the poor are already in charge of the family. Seeing his younger brother is so sensible, Li Wanqing really feels sorry for him. In his previous life, Li Muchen was just playful at his age. when.

Looking at his younger brother's eager eyes, Li Wanqing smiled and agreed.

Li Muchen happily took a pony and came over to sit opposite Li Yuqing, washing the longevity fruit like Li Wanqing did, and putting the washed longevity fruit into the sieve.

It took the siblings an afternoon to wash the longevity fruit they picked up twice.

But when it was time to marinate, Li Wanqing realized that she didn't prepare a bottle, and the bottle for soy sauce was not big enough. In the end, Lin Shuirou borrowed a ten-jin bottle from Aunt Fu's house next door, and then put what Li Wanqing wanted. Half of the marinated longevity fruits are all filled.

"Qing'er, is this all right?" Lin Shuirou asked in disbelief as she saw that the whole washed longevity fruit was marinated in soy sauce.

"Mother, it can be eaten after 20 days of marinating." Li Wanqing said with a smile.

Fortunately, in these 20 days, there are still shrimps to cover, so that the family will not have no income at all.

"Then what about the rest?" Li Rulin asked, pointing to the remaining half of the longevity fruit.

"That can be made into candied fruit, but the process of making candied fruit is relatively cumbersome, so let's do it tomorrow." Li Wanqing said with a frown.

Sugar is used to make preserved fruit. Sugar is a very precious thing in this world. It’s okay to sell this food, but if you can’t sell it, you will lose a lot. She has to think about it.

After a night of tossing and turning, the only thing Li Wanqing could think of was to put less sugar, so that the longevity fruit would not be so sour. Fortunately, this world uses coarse salt, which is more salty than the refined salt in the previous life. Li Wanqing decided to put more salt. Put less sugar, although salt is also expensive, but it is cheaper than sugar, so this preserved fruit must be more expensive than jam.

I don't know what route that Ouyang Yuanhao's Huayuanju took, but judging by his appearance, Li Wanqing guessed that the probability of taking the high-end route is higher.

Li Wanqing decided to take a gamble. No matter what the outcome was, at least she had worked hard. Originally, doing business would make money and make money.

To make preserved fruit, the longevity fruit needs to be boiled. The process is more complicated than that of jam, which strengthens Li Wanqing's determination to take the high-end route.

After working all morning, I cooked the remaining long-bang fruits and put them into the jar that Li Rulin bought back. Because the preserved fruits had been boiled, they only needed to be marinated for three to five days before they could be taken out and dried in the sun.

Liantang Town has a market every three days, and it took Li Wanqing two days to make longevity fruit. Fortunately, Lin Shuirou dried the dried shrimp, which did not delay the sale of the dried shrimp.

However, because of the smell emanating from drying dried shrimps, it attracted the temptation of neighbors and the curiosity of passing villagers. Seeing Lin Shuirou sitting on the side chasing flies, they came forward and asked curiously. Lin Shuirou just smiled and said, There was no meat at home, and the children were hungry, so they dried some meat to make soup.

The villagers couldn't find any useful information, so they asked too much, so they stopped asking. Originally, the shrimp didn't have much meat, and everyone didn't like to eat it.

Seeing that Li Rulin's family didn't let go of such a small shrimp, they all lamented that Deng's eccentricity had no limits.

Of course, they only talked about these things in private, and they didn't dare to go to the village to talk nonsense.

Soon another day passed, and it was another market day. Li Rulin and his sons got up and washed at dawn, and went out early after breakfast.

Because of the sweetness of the first time, they made a cloth bag of dried shrimp this time. Li Rulin weighed it with his hands, and it was estimated to be ten catties, which was much heavier than last time. The last time it was only about one catty .

"Sister, shall we still sell it to that young master last time?" On the way, Mu Chen asked.

"I don't know yet, let's talk about it in the town first." Although she found out that Ouyang Yuanhao is going to open a restaurant in Liantang Town, it is not so easy to open a restaurant. It has only been three days, and she doesn't know if Huayuanju has opened. ?Did she come directly to the door, or did she go for a stroll first?
"Qing'er, didn't we find out that Mr. Ouyang lives in Huayuanju last time? Shall we go directly to find him?" Li Rulin also asked Li Wanqing.

"Father, when we get to town, let's see the situation before making a decision." She also wanted to sell it to Ouyang Yuanhao, but what if they couldn't find him?Don't they need to sell their dried shrimps?
Seeing Li Wanqing's insistence, Li Rulin stopped talking. Anyway, now that his daughter has more ideas than him, he just watched from the sidelines. The daughter has grown up. It's time to talk about her husband's family. Now let her learn how to be in charge of the family. , so as not to marry poorly in the future, and be rejected by the in-laws, saying that their parents can't teach their daughters.

The three of them stopped talking and quickened their pace, and soon they saw Liantang Town. Li Wanqing was both excited and a little apprehensive, wondering if that Ouyang Yuanhao still remembered her.

After entering Liantang Town, Li Wanqing still decided to go to Huayuanju to try his luck first, asked a passerby to find out where Huayuanju was, and then went straight there.

Li Wanqing hoped that Ouyang Yuanhao would still remember her.

Mr. Li Rulin was also a little apprehensive, hoping that Ouyang Yuanhao would buy their dried shrimps.

When the three of them came to Huayuanju, they were all dumbfounded, because the gate of Huayuanju was closed tightly at that time.

(End of this chapter)