Chapter 183 Farewell, I will introduce two people to you
Her rhetorical question made Ge Tai fall into deep thought.
After thinking it over, he realized that the premise for fully realizing these three issues was not in line with the tone of the times.
"Will everything you say come true?" he asked.
The morning breeze was so sharp that people couldn't help but squint their faces.
Yu Zhile smiled and asked, "A year ago, I told you that Haiyu Village would become a wealthy village by relying on the sideline business group. Did you believe it?"
The other three understood the subtext of her words, and Zhang Wenxin and Yu Chuyue believed it without a doubt.
Ge Tai couldn't help but turn his head to look at her, and couldn't help but think of the statues he saw in the smoky scene of praying to the gods when he was a child.
There was a kind of magic about her. Although he thought her words were like fairy tales just a second ago, at this moment, he couldn't help but believe them and even began to imagine the future.
"What kind of business model can avoid the current problems?" Ge Tai was very interested.
Yu Zhile briefly listed several business models of modern express delivery companies, and then used simple words to guide them to think about specific measures.
The three of them looked at each other and talked, throwing out their wild ideas as if they were playing a quick-answer game, and surprisingly, 60 to 70 percent of them overlapped with modern industry norms.
When they reached the noisy processing yard, everyone tacitly changed the subject, and Zhang Wenxin asked about today's plans instead.
"As the year draws to a close, the demand will be higher. Make a few more flavors for Xiaoju and Zhang Ling to take." Yu Zhile answered her, "It just so happens that the temperature has dropped in the past few days, so it won't go bad if you keep it at room temperature."
When the people from the non-staple food processing team saw the few people, they rushed out to carry the shrimps into the yard, poured them into the pool that had been filled with water, rolled up their sleeves and began to wash them.
Yu Zhile walked over to the long table to check the other ingredients, and Zhang Haizhu followed her and reported the price of each one. She calculated the cost while listening, and after walking around, she determined the price of each can of shrimp.
Today, they plan to make five different flavors of shrimp products - cooked and drunken shrimp, spicy marinated shrimp, pepper and salt shrimp, shrimp in sauce and dried shrimp, among which the most important is dried shrimp.
Ge Tai will be going back to the provincial capital to work the day after tomorrow. He plans to take some with him when he travels long distances. Every time he arrives at a stop, he will take time to go to the local supply and marketing cooperative to promote the Haiyu brand, thereby increasing its popularity.
After the first batch of shrimps were washed, Zhang Wenxin and Ge Tai led a few people to start cutting shrimp claws and picking shrimp lines.
"I'll teach you how to make the sauce first." Yu Zhile gathered the people in charge of the food stall's stoves together, touched the cloud logo and turned on the live broadcast. "First, dry-fry the spices over low heat. When they are fragrant, add soy sauce and rock sugar."
She demonstrated the steps as she spoke.
After a while, the rock sugar was completely melted and the soy sauce was boiled. She directly poured in half a bucket of rice wine and added a small jar of green plum wine.
"Don't cook this step for too long. Add ginger slices, shallots and plums after turning off the heat. The plums must be added in the right proportion." Yu Zhile reminded the key points, "Add sour fruit slices to soak the shrimps after the sauce has cooled down. After the shrimps are cooked, rinse them with cold water."
As they spoke, the aroma of rice wine, green plum wine and the unique scent of spices fully blended to form a unique fragrance.
With the addition of plums, the sauce has a more sweet and sour flavor, and the layers are more complex and tempting.
The cooked marinated sauce was put aside to cool, and Yu Zhile picked up the pot again to teach them how to make the spicy marinade.
Soon, the air in the courtyard was filled with two overbearing aromas, causing everyone who was doing the pre-processing to swallow their saliva unconsciously.
Zhang Haizhu did not rest, and immediately led the team to start making the sauce. They were used to making this when they were at the stall, and it was ready in a short while.
"It smells so good! I want to have this dish for the New Year's Eve dinner!" Zhang Wenxin took a deep breath in ecstasy and praised, "Le Le's head is really an encyclopedia, with all kinds of recipes and new ideas."
Yu Zhile smiled and patted her aching waist, then said, "Team Leader Zhang, another batch of shrimps needs to be processed."
After saying that, she took the first batch of processed shrimps to be marinated.
Fresh shrimps do not have a strong fishy smell. Mix them evenly with green onion, ginger and salt and marinate for half an hour before putting them into the pot to simmer. After they are cooked, pick out the ingredients, spread them flat on a bamboo sieve to dry, and remove the moisture before packaging.
Zhang Wenxin listened to her words, turned around and saw two large basins of shrimps, and howled, "When our sideline group makes a lot of money, I will be the first to support Aunt Xin in researching shrimps without shrimp claws! It would be best if there is no shrimp thread at all!"
Her words made everyone laugh, and the atmosphere in the hospital became a little more relaxed.
After Yu Zhile finished marinating the shrimps, he turned around and blanched the shrimps in batches with Zhang Haizhu and others.
While waiting, she took the time to check the interface. The comments were pretty much the same, and the top of the gift list for this live broadcast was still filled with the same old viewers.
"Le Le, the shrimps are cooked." Zhang Haizhu brought her thoughts back to the present.
Yu Zhile came back to his senses and quickly scooped up the shrimps and rinsed them with cold water. Then he divided them equally according to the predetermined net weight and transferred them into sterilized glass jars.
On the other side, Yu Chuyue and others washed the remaining shrimps. Their hands were red from the cold, and they just drank a few sips of hot water and spontaneously formed a small assembly line again.
Fill with cooked wine juice, add half a lemon, seal the jar and wipe the jar.
Soon, a long table two meters long and one meter wide was filled with neatly arranged cans of various kinds, which looked quite pleasing to the eye.
After the canned drunken shrimps come the spicy braised shrimps, then the shrimps with sauce, and finally the salt and pepper shrimps which need to be fried until crispy.
After working for several hours in a row, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the different finished products placed together, and then fatigue and hunger came over them.
Fortunately, the working hours were about the same as Yu Zhile had expected. At this time, the smell of food came from the courtyard of the sideline group next door.
"The food is ready, everyone come and eat." Chen Zhao ran over to call people and helped take away the remaining cooked drunken shrimps and spicy braised shrimps.
Ge Xiaoju and Zhang Ling quickly finished their meal and returned to the processing yard. They picked up four bottles of each can and set off for the first location they had planned.
In the following days, they went out early and came back late as usual. The cans on the long table gradually decreased, and the lines on their cheeks gradually became clearer.
The weather was good for the first two days, but the sun was not strong enough in winter, so Yu Zhile finally chose to bake slowly over low heat and successfully completed the production before Ge Tai left.
After drying more than 20 kilograms of shrimp, it was exactly 5 kilograms, which were packaged into eight portions. Except for the two portions given to Master Ge Tai and the Fang family, the rest were packed in half-kilogram packages.
On the evening of the second day after he left, Zhang Hailan brought back good news from the state-owned hotel.
"Master said that he will still be in charge of the store from now on, and asked Chu Yue to sign a long-term contract when she is free." She smiled and said, "Also, we need to add new staff to the new window after the New Year, and he said to pick three people first."
Yu Zhile nodded and went to the sideline group's courtyard to tell Zhang Wenxin and Yu Chuyue about the matter. As soon as he finished speaking, the two of them competed to take her home for dinner.
She had been back in the village for half a week, and every time it was time for dinner, a friend would show up from nowhere and drag her and Lan Yuanyuan out to eat. So, the family had never cooked.
"Not today." Yu Zhile refused.
Zhang Wenxin curled her lips and said, "If Zhou Yuesheng is here, why can't we make an appointment when he's not here?"
Yu Zhile smiled and pushed her shoulder, explaining: "Second Aunt said that Grandpa is back from the county town, and asked me and Yuanyuan to go to her house for dinner tonight."
"Okay." Zhang Wenxin felt quite regretful.
The same went for Yu Chuyue, who could only watch her walk towards the direction of the clothing team.
When Yu Zhile arrived at the Zhang family's ancestral home, he happened to meet Lan Yuanyuan and Zhang Haiyan seeing Du Nanzhi off, and all three of them had happy looks on their faces.
"Le Le, you're here." Lan Yuanyuan waved at her. "Captain Du just said he wanted to visit you."
Du Nanzhi held a bunch of branches with full buds and said, "The red plums in the mountains are about to bloom. I thought of sending you some. Put them in water and they will bloom in two or three days."
Yu Zhile thanked her with a smile and invited her to his home for tea.
However, as it was getting dark, Du Nanzhi did not stay in Yu's courtyard for too long. Before leaving, he invited her to appreciate the plum blossoms after the New Year.
Yu Zhile agreed with a smile. After seeing her off, he went back to the courtyard to get water for the flowers. Then he took the specialties for Yu Chaochuan and went out with Lan Yuanyuan.
"Captain Du really likes flowers and always gives them to us. I heard that he will send us a batch of flower seedlings in the spring." Lan Yuanyuan sighed.
Yu Zhile couldn't help but think of the flower transaction that the two of them had only carried out once and ended in vain, and it seemed to continue in a different way.
Lan Yuanyuan just mentioned it casually and quickly changed the subject to talk about the clothing team.
"Le Le, what do you think about us sewing a brand logo on the clothes? Like the Haiyu brand?" she asked.
Yu Zhile smiled and said, "This is a great idea. This way, people will know at a glance that these are clothes made in our village. Do you have any specific ideas now?"
After receiving the affirmation, Lan Yuanyuan nodded excitedly and enthusiastically talked about her various ideas.
Currently, all the cloth in the village comes from Huaxi Village. She plans to name the brand Haixi, and the brand logo will use elements related to flowers and the sea.
"Why not use waves instead of flower leaves?" Yu Zhile suggested, "The label is not big, so the pattern should not be too complicated, otherwise it will take a lot of time to embroider it manually."
Lan Yuanyuan decided that her suggestion was very good, and said that she would write a letter to Yu Wanqin when she got home tonight to ask for her opinion, and also ask Xiaobao to help her draw the picture.
The two of them walked and talked, and unknowingly came to the vicinity of Yu Haizong's home, where they were attracted by a burst of crying.
"I don't want porridge, I want meat, I want braised pork." Yu Fu's voice stood out in the noisy village center, "I'm hungry, I want meat."
"Shut up, you little bastard. Believe it or not, I'm going to throw you into a ditch." Wu Haiyao's angry curse was accompanied by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Yu Fu burst into tears and shouted, "Grandpa, Second Uncle, Second Aunt, I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat."
Through the crack in the door, Yu Zhile saw the gray-haired Wu Lan hunched over to clean up the mess, while her beloved son and grandson turned a blind eye to it.
Wu Lan seemed to sense being watched, and looked out. When he met her gaze, his eyes suddenly became tainted with malice.
"Stop making so much noise. If you don't shut up I'm going to throw dirty water at you." The neighbor on the other side shouted angrily.
Hearing this, Wu Lan trembled and hurried to the wall to coax Yu Fu.
"Sister Le, Sister Yuanyuan, you are finally here! Come in and warm yourself by the fire." Yu Qi's shout made Yu Zhile look away.
The little kid Yu Lin followed him out and in a baby voice asked to help her carry things.
Yu Zhile rubbed his hair, took his hand, walked into the room, and put his arm around him as he sat next to Yu Chaochuan.
When Yu Chaochuan learned that Yu Wanqin and the other two were joining the army, he seemed very happy and asked about Xiaobao's plan to make a movie.
Yu Zhile briefly explained the process and added, "There are two university teachers in Jing City who want to take Xiao Yue as a student. He has been studying."
"Good, good." Yu Chaochuan clapped his hands and said, "Study hard. We have to study no matter what."
The grandfather and grandson chatted for a while before they started eating. The family was not affected by the farce next door, and the atmosphere at the table was warm and harmonious.
In the evening, Yu Zhile spread out the lists that Ge Xiaoju and Zhang Ling brought back in the past few days on the desk and arranged subsequent production tasks.
The next morning, she got up early, cooked some white porridge, ate a simple meal, and went to the shrimp pond.
Zhang Wenxin and Yu Chuyue have already arrived, and standing next to them are Yu Baiwei and her team members.
"Why are you here? We have to go out to sea soon, why don't you sleep a little longer?" Yu Zhile asked.
Yu Baiwei shook her head and responded, "I'm used to getting up early to exercise. I thought I'd come here to help catch shrimp today, and I'll treat it as training."
At that time, Qu Xin and Zhou Zheng took out the homemade scoop nets and reminded everyone of the important points to avoid improper operation that would damage the shrimp pond ecology and harm the remaining shrimps.
With the help of Yu Baiwei and others, the fishing team led by Yu Haizong made smooth progress and shortened the expected time by one third.
The people in the garment-making team put down their work and came to help, and the processing yard became bustling again.
There are less than ten days left before the money is distributed as in previous years. Although the village has not clearly announced this year's total income, everyone has learned from the pig-raising group that five big fat pigs will be kept as welfare this year, and everyone is very motivated.
"Now I look at these shrimps and they look like banknotes," Aunt Zhang joked. "My waist and legs don't hurt anymore."
The humorous tone made everyone laugh, but everyone's movements did not slow down, but became more active.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the first batch of canned cooked and drunken shrimps was completed, and Yu Yang and another young man loaded them into the truck to deliver them.
Yu Chuyue hitchhiked into the city. She was going to the state-owned hotel to re-sign an agreement and to the post office to help Lan Yuanyuan mail a letter.
Yu Zhile thought that she would be picked up by Yang, or go back to the village with Yu Hailan and others. Unexpectedly, when she woke up, she found herself sitting in Du Sheng's car at the gate of Yu's courtyard.
"Mr. Du said he wanted to see you for something, so he sent me back on the way." Yu Chuyue explained, and handed her two letters of different thicknesses, "From Beijing."
As she spoke, she glanced at the sturdy man behind Du Sheng and the sinister strong man, and asked softly, "Do you need me to call Yuanyuan back?"
"Then I'll trouble you, Comrade Yu." Du Sheng smiled in an approachable manner.
Yu Zhile welcomed him into the courtyard and was about to make tea for him, but was interrupted by him.
"Don't bother. I'm here to introduce two people to you." Du Sheng waved for the two to step forward. "I will be away from Hai County for several months. If you and Yuanyuan have any problems that cannot be solved, please go to them."
The two introduced themselves one by one and told Yu Zhile where to find them.
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