By the time the seasoning workshop is built, the materials will be almost ready.

On the auspicious day chosen by Liu Daling, the seasoning workshop officially opened.

Changle County is originally a coastal city. When everyone heard that the Liu family in Fulai Village was buying large quantities of dried shrimp skins and dried shiitake mushrooms, some people sold their stored goods at home and kept the shrimps or shrimp skins they caught to dry.

Liu Yuhan saw that the dried mushrooms and dried shrimps selected by her family and the store were of decent quality.

In fact, it is best to control the market yourself and wash and dry the products yourself to achieve the best results. It is really difficult to control the quality in such a scattered manner.

Liu Yuhan and her mother first tried to make the seasoning powder at home. They washed the dried shrimps, drained them and fried them dry. They also washed the mushrooms, drained them and fried them dry. They ground the dried shrimps and mushrooms into fine powder, sieved them, and mixed them together.

The old lady used chicken powder to stir-fry dishes and make soup, and the dishes and soup did taste much more fragrant.

The sales of the seasoning powder depended on Liu Laizi and Xu Fugui.

Put the seasoning powder in a pre-customized porcelain bottle, set a price in advance, and sell it in major restaurants and grocery stores in the county.

When you go to a restaurant to sell your products, you can ask the restaurant staff to cook some dishes on the spot as an experiment. If they think the taste is good, you can then discuss further business.

In addition to sweet potato flour and potato flour, my aunt and uncle's noodle shop now has seasoning powder on its shelves. If regular customers ask about it, they'll sell it to them.

There are both men and women working in the seasoning workshop. The women are responsible for cleaning, frying, sieving, and bottling, while the men are responsible for grinding.

There were 30 female workers and 20 male workers, all selected from the people Jiang Hu brought in. Both boys and girls had to be over 13 years old. Hu Wa was the only one who met the requirements, so he was included.

Jiang Hu would temporarily be the team leader of the seasoning workshop. Just like the team leaders of the pharmaceutical workshop, Suzi Sumu, Baizhi Pinellia, Wuyou Honeysuckle, and others, their wages would be paid privately, and after this year, their wages would be increased to two taels of silver per month.

Before entering the spice workshop, they were required to maintain proper hygiene, wear clean clothes, work masks, and tie their hair up. They also had to wash their hands thoroughly with soap at the sink before each shift.

Orders are placed based on the quantity the workshop can accept. To ensure quality, the seasoning in each porcelain bottle is used up within a month.

There will be a uniform label on the porcelain bottle: Fulai Village Liujia Seasoning Powder.

The Liu family's chicken farm has grown considerably, now housing thousands of chickens. They harvest a large number of eggs daily, and Liu Yuhan has taught them how to harness the sun's light to hatch chicks. They've become so numerous that they sell them to the villagers.

They also had someone dig a large pit for earthworm farming, specifically to raise earthworms to feed the chickens. The chicken farm was short-handed, so the boys they brought with them went to help.

Everyone was amazed that earthworms could reproduce in this way. The little boss was really smart and could think of anything.

The amount of seasoning powder was too monotonous, so Liu Yuhan added another kind of chicken powder.

Kill the chicken, take out the chicken breast and cook it. After the chicken breast is cooked, tear it into pieces and fry it (dry it), then grind it and mix it with shrimp powder and mushroom powder in proportion. The proportion of chicken powder should be higher. Chicken powder with chicken added will make the dishes and soups taste more delicious.

The seasoning powder is packed in a small porcelain bottle, about half a pound, and sells for 100 wen. Chicken powder is more expensive, costing 200 wen for a small porcelain bottle.

The Huo family sold chicken powder in grocery stores in the capital city. The chicken powder soon became popular among wealthy families, and even if the price was doubled, it was still in short supply.

July came quietly amid the busyness.

The peppers planted in the fields are already bright red, which is very shocking and pleasing.

When the peppers were still green, Liu Yuhan used them to stir-fry pork belly, which received unanimous praise from everyone.

Liu Laizi and Xu Fugui are now responsible for running sales and delivering goods. They promoted green chili peppers, and once the restaurant launched a series of chili dishes, they immediately gained favor with customers, and the restaurant's business became even better.

Because it was the first batch, and because it was a rare crop, the green peppers alone sold for a lot of money. However, the quantity was limited, so if you wanted to eat them, you had to wait for the next batch.

After all, many peppers have to be saved for seeds or used to make pepper powder when they mature. Seeing the high pepper yield, the villagers regretted planting too few.

Liu Daling excitedly took a piece of pepper field to measure and estimated that there were 5,000 kilograms per acre. This number was really amazing!

The red peppers are kept for seeds and then planted again, and another batch can be harvested in late autumn. Autumn and winter are more suitable for eating peppers.

The dried red chili seeds are removed and the remaining chili is ground into chili powder and sold.

During the time when the seasoning workshop was making chili powder, the air in the workshop was filled with a pungent smell of chili.

The Huo family also planted two acres of chili peppers, leaving one acre for seeds and the other acre of green chili peppers specifically for their restaurant. In order to eat the chili peppers, many people specifically asked the servants to go to the restaurant in advance to reserve a table.

Because the Huo family also had chili powder, Liu Yuhan also copied a few recipes for the Huo family, such as scrambled eggs with chili peppers, boiled pork slices, stir-fried pork with farmers' food, stir-fried pork belly with chili peppers, spicy tofu, chopped pepper fish head, and boiled fish.

The Huo Family Restaurant is always packed every day because of these new home-cooked dishes.

At Huo Dong's instruction, Butler Huo gave Liu Yuhan a large red envelope to express his gratitude. Liu Yuhan happily accepted it. This young man was very good at dealing with people and was exactly what she wanted.

Recently, Liu Yuhan has been either in the workshop, going to Sha Tin, or discussing school matters with the two teachers to see if there are any deficiencies that need to be supplemented.

She was so busy every day that she almost forgot that her coming-of-age age was approaching.

In the military camp, at night.

Huo Dong was half lying on the bed, grinding a shiny black wooden hairpin with his hands. He had spent three months shaving and grinding this hairpin bit by bit, but he still felt it was not enough, so he kept grinding it with his rough hands.

Ever since Liu Yang told him that the girl had been proposed to, whenever the nights settled, that face would appear in his mind uncontrollably. In the past two years, in their interactions, would she develop even a little affection for him? Would she accept someone else's feelings? He felt a little bit obsessed, worried about everything.

He was not a timid person, so now that he had made up his mind, he would bravely confess his feelings. The little girl was about to reach marriage, and he was unwilling to wait any longer...