Chapter 136 Buying a piece of land to build a pigpen
Old Lady Wen looked at Wen Zhenyi and said, "Yiyi, then you must be prepared to fail many times."
"I know, but I believe that my grandparents' experience will minimize this kind of failure."
Old Lady Wen smiled and shook her head: "In that case, we will go back to the village and ask the village chief to buy a piece of wasteland to build a pigpen, but I think it is best not to invest too much for the first time."
"I'll listen to grandma." Wen Zhenyi was thinking about where to make some quick money. After all, buying pigs and building pig pens would cost a lot of money.
After lunch, the old man Wen and his wife went back and prepared to go to the village chief to discuss buying a piece of wasteland.
Here, Butler Cheng brought his servants and brought all kinds of fresh fruits over and piled them in the yard at the backyard.
Wen Zhenyi saw that there were many more fruits in the backyard than before and asked: "Butler Cheng, have you picked all the fruits in the orchard?"
"No, these bayberries are almost gone, so I picked them all for you. See what you can do with them."
"There are also some newly ripe fruits, and I sent some to you as well."
"Wait a moment, I haven't written the menu for you yet."
"It's okay, I just want to rest here for a while."
Wen Zhenyi went to find Wen Yongnan: "Brother, help me write something."
Wen Yongnan looked at her in surprise: "Why don't you let Brother Shen write it for you?"
"He's busy settling accounts."
"Let me be clear, don't look down on my ugly handwriting."
"I don't mind, I don't mind."
Only after Wen Yongnan heard the answer he wanted did she pick up the pen and start writing what she wanted on the paper.
Wen Zhenyi looked at the words written on the paper and said: "Brother, your handwriting has improved a lot."
Wen Yongnan touched his nose embarrassedly: "Really?"
Wen Zhen nodded: "Yes, he is completely different from before."
When Wen Yongnan heard her say this, he felt very happy. At least the training during this period was not in vain.
Wen Zhenyi handed the list of ingredients to Butler Cheng: "Butler Cheng, these are the ingredients you need."
Butler Cheng took the ingredients and examined them. They were all common ingredients, nothing particularly expensive or custom-made. "Miss Wen, is there anything else you need?"
"No, that's all." Wen Zhen thought for a moment and said, "I'd like Butler Cheng to do me a favor."
"What's the matter?"
"Ask Master Cheng to help me ask who has a banquet recently. I want to make some money."
"Miss Wen is short of money?"
“It’s been a bit lacking lately.”
"Okay, I'll pass the message on for you."
Hu Zi's mother's husband's surname is You (she will be called Aunt You later): "Why are there so many fruits?"
Benben’s mother’s husband’s surname is Ding (she will be called Aunt Ding later): “Yeah! So much fruit, how long will it take to finish it all?”
Wen Zhenyi felt a headache just looking at these fruits. It seemed that today would be another day without rest.
"First, sort out the bayberries and separate the good ones from the bad ones."
Ma Yinghe was familiar with this procedure and could handle it quickly with them.
Wen Zhenyi looked at the fruit all over the yard and prepared to deal with the bayberries that were the hardest to keep. "Dad, is there any place in this town that sells honey?"
Wen Chengwen thought for a moment and said, "I'll go to the grain and oil shop and the grocery store to see if there are any. Sometimes people will bring their honey to these two places to sell."
"Okay, if you can help me buy some more."
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Wen Zhenyi asked them to clean the bayberries, and then found some small bamboo tubes and cut some bamboo sticks.
She added rock sugar to the rotten bayberries and boiled them into bayberry water, poured the water into a clean bamboo tube, and then inserted a bamboo stick into it.
She put it in saltpeter water to turn it into bayberry popsicles. She also peeled and juiced ripe mangoes to make mango popsicles.
As for other good bayberries, Wen Zhenyi plans to make them into dried bayberries, which are easier to preserve. If she makes them into candied bayberries, she doesn't know how long they can be preserved.
To be on the safe side, she chose to make dried bayberries.
Add sugar to the bayberry and marinate for a day, then steam it the next day.
Aunt You and the others were quite knowledgeable. They had no idea that these things could be handled this way: "Yi Yi, won't these things get damaged if we do this?"
"It's not that they won't go bad, it just means they can be kept for a longer time."
Shen Hanxing took a few children aside and taught them how to read.
This moved Aunt You and the others so much that they didn't know what to say.
Chen Hanxing didn't care: "We can't help now, so teaching them to read won't delay anything. Wen's sister also pays me." As he said that, he looked at Wen Zhenyi.
Wen Zhenyi raised an eyebrow and looked at him: "Brother Shen is unwilling to receive wages for nothing."
"I don't have much to do right now, so I can help teach literacy."
Ma Yinghe looked at the two of them and just smiled faintly, dealing with the fruit in her hands: "Yi Yi, what should we do with these lemons?"
"Mom, slice the lemons and dry them in the sun. Remove the seeds."
The mantou mother’s husband’s surname is Yin (later referred to as Aunt Yin): “I sent this to you. My knife skills are pretty good.”
"I can too." Gousheng's mother's husband's surname is Dou (later called Aunt Dou).
Zhu Tao would not miss any opportunity to practice her knife skills, so she joined the group cutting lemons.
Wen Zhenyi and Ma Yinghe dug out the passion fruit. If there was no honey, they could only use sugar water to mix it, and the passion fruit could not be preserved.
If there must be a way to preserve it, it would only be passion fruit jam, and passion fruit jam must be stored in the refrigerator, which they don't have here.
This is possible only if there is an ice cellar. However, she now knows that only Mr. Cheng's mansion has started to build an ice cellar. The shops they are renting now still belong to others, so it is not a good idea to mobilize a large number of people to build an ice cellar.
Wen Zhenyi plans to ask tomorrow if he can borrow their ice cellar.
Mangoes can be made into dried mangoes, and there is no problem as long as it doesn't rain.
Plums, apricots, watermelons and other fruits were also delivered today.
Most of these things cannot be kept. If they are not dealt with, they will probably go bad.
Apricots are the most difficult to handle, while plums and watermelons are easier to handle.
Fortunately, there are not many apricots, so they can be used to make porridge tomorrow.
The plums didn't look fully ripe yet and were green in color.
Wen Zhenyi decided to deal with the plums tomorrow and take care of the mangoes and bayberries that are easy to spoil today: "I don't know how much fruit Master Cheng has in his orchard. It would take me a long time to deliver it once."
Ma Yinghe said helplessly: "That's right. If we send it over once, it will keep us busy for a long time."
Wen Zhenyi went to check the popsicle and found it was already frozen. She took out the bamboo tube and placed it in clean water. She gently twisted the stick and a round popsicle came out of the bamboo tube.
She distributed popsicles to the people in the yard: "Try them."
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