Tian An opened the remaining cocoa beans, and as expected, they were all rotten.
Xiao Chen's face was filled with pain when he saw this.
Tian An glanced at him with amusement, turned around and asked the maid to bring paper and pen.
Then he wrote, "It's unrealistic to send fresh cocoa nuts to the capital for processing. I've written down the methods for picking, fermenting, and roasting cocoa nuts. When the time comes, they can roast them into cocoa beans directly locally, then send them to the capital for processing into chocolate."
Tian An wrote two whole pages, densely packed with words, and his writing was very clear. After he finished, he threw them directly to Xiao Chen.
"Cocoa can be picked twice a year, and now is the season. Hurry and arrange for people to pick it, don't miss the opportunity."
Xiao Chen held the paper in a daze for a moment before finally coming to his senses. After saying hello to Tian An, he hurriedly pulled Gu Jinyan out of the general's mansion.
Tian An looked at the impetuous Xiao Chen and couldn't help shaking his head. He was already engaged, but he didn't know how to be steady at all. His Zhao Yiming was still the better one.
However, Zhao Yiming is getting busier and busier now, and it is difficult to meet him even at dinner time.
Granny Qin had already moved to their own house to help with the renovations and decorations, and the dining table became increasingly deserted. Fortunately, Tian Caihe's four siblings came over, otherwise only Madam Xiao would have had lunch with her.
Tian An returned to her yard and had nothing to do for a while. She was even a little bored. After thinking for a while, she took out the embroidery frame and started embroidering.
When she gets married with Zhao Yiming, she will have to embroider her own wedding dress. She feels that her skills are not up to the task of embroidering a wedding dress, but she can still embroider a round fan to be used on the wedding day.
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After Xiao Chen took Gu Jinyan out of the general's mansion, he went straight back to his Prince Chen's mansion.
In front of Gu Jinyan, he began to look for a trustworthy servant to instruct him on the cocoa berry baking.
The person who came was a middle-aged bearded man.
Xiao Chen handed him the baking secret recipe given by Tian An, "Find a few people to go back with Huang Pei and collect all the cocoa nuts from their home.
Then buy a house there, roast the cocoa nuts according to the recipe, and ship them to the capital."
After thinking for a moment, he continued, "The Huang Pei family alone cannot grow enough cocoa trees to meet market demand, and they are also easy to be exploited by others.
You can think of some ways to encourage local people to plant trees together. As long as the quality of the fruits is up to standard, we will harvest them. We will harvest as many as they plant.
Remember, the baking recipe cannot be leaked."
He also asked the bearded man to go to the accounting office to withdraw money and urged him to leave immediately so as not to miss the fruit harvest.
After they left, Gu Jinyan asked, "Did you really spend so much energy just to eat candy?"
Xiao Chen turned his head to look at Gu Jinyan, quietly stretched out his claws and wanted to pull Gu Jinyan's little hand, but Gu Jinyan rolled her eyes at him, so he withdrew his hand awkwardly, and awkwardly took a sip of the teacup on the table beside him.
“The chocolate is really delicious, but besides eating it yourself, you can also sell it.
Although the prince's salary is high, it is still not enough for me to spend all my money without earning any.
Besides, we will have children in the future, and Prince Chen’s Mansion must have its own property. You can’t let me go to my father and cry poor with my child in my arms! "
As he said that, he wanted to move closer to hold Gu Jinyan's hand, but Gu Jinyan turned away shyly and scolded, "Who wants to have a baby with you?"
Xiao Chen approached him servilely, "We're already engaged, it's no use for you to regret it now. It's only a matter of time before you give birth to my child."
After saying that, he successfully pulled up the little hand.
Just when Gu Jinyan was about to break free from him, he immediately changed the subject in an attempt to divert her attention.
"I am a prince now, and I can't just take the court's salary!
Guangfu is also a very poor and remote place, and the disaster relief supplies distributed there every year are a large sum of money.
I thought that if I could improve the lives of the local residents by planting cocoa trees and make the area prosperous, I would be helping my father and doing good for the people."
Listening to Xiao Chen jokingly talking about his ambitions, Gu Jinyan was indeed attracted. She let him hold her hand and even gave him serious advice.
Gu Jinyan has been doing business with Tian An for a long time and has learned a lot. She can talk about things very clearly now, and Xiao Chen wants to marry her home right away so that they can discuss things together all day long.
While talking to Gu Jinyan, I noticed that it was getting late outside, and I was thinking about what reason I could find to ask her out tomorrow.
Finally, Gu Jinyan, who was talking freely, also noticed the time. "Ah! It's already so late today. I should go home."
Having said that, he hurried out of the house.
Xiao Chen couldn't stop her, so he could only ask his servants to arrange a carriage, "I'll take you back."
Xiao Chen thought about it all the way, and finally thought of a reason to meet someone when he was about to reach Gu's house.
"Yan'er, it just occurred to me that if we only plant cocoa trees in the Linzhou area of Guangfu, it would be too monotonous.
How about we go ask Tian An tomorrow to see if she has any other good ideas?"
Then he looked at Gu Jinyan with anticipation.
It was rare for Gu Jinyan to see him so serious, and she didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm, so she thought about it and nodded in agreement.
I didn't notice the triumph in his eyes at all.
So, the next morning, Xiao Chen came to pick up Gu Jinyan early, took Gu Jinyan out to have breakfast, go shopping, buy things, and have lunch before going to find Tian An.
When Tian An saw the two of them again and heard the reasons why they came to see her, she felt embarrassed to expose Xiao Chen's little thoughts.
He wanted to date a beautiful woman, but he had to involve her. He went to find her today, and see who he would go to tomorrow.
However, since he has this intention, she will fulfill his wish!
Considering what Zhao Yiming had told her about the climate in Guangzhou when he was studying geology, Tian An thought for a moment and said,
"Guangfu has a warm climate with abundant heat, abundant rainfall, distinct dry and wet periods, and moderate sunshine, making it the most suitable place for light-loving plants to grow.
For example, zelkova can not only be eaten directly, but also used to make sugar. As we all know, sugar is not cheap, and many people can only barely see a little bit of it during the New Year and other festivals.
If we can grow mulberry trees in large quantities, we can lower the price of sugar and more people will be able to eat sugar."
After Tian An finished speaking, Xiao Chen said in disbelief: "Zhe can also make sugar, are you sure?"
Gu Jinyan, who was standing next to him, slapped the back of his hand and said seriously, "If An An says she can do it, then it's fine. You are not allowed to doubt her."
Then he asked Tian An a little embarrassedly: "An An, what is a zelkova?"
Xiao Chen, who had just been beaten, almost laughed out loud, but luckily he managed to hold it in just in time. How could his Yan'er be so adorable? He had just been talking about him! Turns out she didn't even know what a 柘 was.
Tian An was not surprised that Gu Jinyan didn't know.
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