Chapter 274 Is it so cheap?
When Old Man Wen heard this, he said, "Where's the white wine? Didn't you use it when you taught us how to make preserved eggs and salted duck eggs last time?"
Wen Zhenyi turned around and looked at the others: "Forget about this."
Wen Chengwen: "I'll go to town and buy some for you now."
"Dad, please buy me some dried chilies, Sichuan peppercorns, fennel seeds, and salt."
"Is there nothing left at home?"
“It’s a little bit insufficient.”
"Okay, I'll go buy it for you now."
Ma Yinghe came back and helped to process the beef, using the beef bones to make soup. They had cleaned the cow offal before and knew how to do it.
Wen Zhenyi plans to cook beef offal today, and the beef can be marinated later.
Before dinner, Wen Chengwen bought everything she wanted.
When Shen Hanxing came over to eat, he was holding the sleeping Cream in his arms.
Wen Zhenyi looked at the cream in his arms and asked, "Why is this guy with you?"
"It came to play at my place today, and fell asleep when it got tired. It wasn't awake when I came out."
Wen Zhen looked at the silly mink sleeping soundly in his arms, and thought he might have been cooked but didn't react: "Give it to me, wash your hands and go eat."
Shen Hanxing handed her the unconscious sleeping cream in her arms: “I’ll go wash my hands first.”
Wen Zhen nodded slightly, carried the cream back to the room and put it in the basket.
Shen Hanxing saw a lot of beef in the yard: "What are you going to do?"
"Prepare to make beef jerky."
"Beef jerky?"
"Well, this way you can eat in the exam room."
"Did it for me?" Shen Hanxing looked at her in surprise.
After more than six months of her treatment, his body is no longer as weak as before, and it is not a big problem for him to go to the examination hall.
"I guess so. There's another thing I need to research. You can bring it in once I'm done." Wen Zhenyi suddenly thought of something: "Will there be hot water in the exam room?"
"You can ask the invigilator for hot water."
"That'll do."
Ma Yinghe and the others put the food on the table: "Come over here and eat, we'll talk later."
"Here I come."
After dinner, Shen Hanxing was not in a hurry to go back, but stayed to help with things.
Wen Zhenyi looked at him and said, "Aren't you going back to review your lessons?"
"I've been reading all day, so I need to relax for a while."
"That's right, let's do some physical work."
"What are you going to do?"
Wen Zhenyi started to arrange the work as soon as he finished his meal. Pounding chili powder, pepper powder, and fennel seed powder were not easy things to make.
Aunt You also called Uncle You to come and help, and moved his stone mortar over as well.
For some difficult-to-process pepper powder, she tried grinding it with a stone mill, then pounding it in a stone mortar, and finally sifting it.
Aunt You felt a bit of a headache watching this process: "Yi Yi, this process is not easy at all."
"The process seems complicated now because we didn't prepare for it before. If we had, it would be much easier now."
Old Lady Wen pointed at something being pounded into powder and asked, "Are these the troublesome processes you mentioned?"
"Yes, it seems that we should ask someone to prepare more chili powder and the like in the future."
Ma Yinghe wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked, "What are you preparing these for? Are you going to use them often?"
“I might use it frequently in the future, so I can prepare in advance now.”
"You have a lot of work to do. You can't do it without hiring someone."
"Uncle You, Uncle Ding, they're all fine now, I'll pay for their employment, okay?"
Uncle You paused and asked, "You want to hire us to pound the chili powder?"
"Yeah, I don't know if you'd like that."
Uncle You and the others were all willing to do it: "Sure, we only have a handful of strength left."
Wen Zhenyi saw that Shen Hanxing's gown was soaked with sweat, so he took a handkerchief for each of them and said, "Wipe the sweat off."
Chen Hanxing took the handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Delicious food is really not that easy to get."
Wen Zhenyi took a look and thought it was almost enough for this time, so she asked them to do it once and take a rest, and she would do the rest herself.
A group of people sat aside to rest and watched her add various seasonings, salt, chili powder, pepper powder, fennel seeds powder and white wine into the bowl, and then stir the beef evenly with her hands.
Old Lady Wen watched her cover the basin with the colander again and asked, "Is that all?"
"Not that fast. It just needs to be marinated for a day, and there are some other processes tomorrow."
"I was saying that if it were just like this, then it really is just as you said, not complicated."
After everyone had rested for a while, they prepared to get up and go home, and come back tomorrow.
When Wen Zhenyi sent them away, he stopped Shen Hanxing and said, "Brother Shen, I need to take some time to go to Hougang Village. Do you want to go with me?"
"Well, it's nice to go for a walk."
"Then I'll call you then."
Shen Hanxing smiled and nodded, then turned around and went home.
Axiang helped move all the pots into the kitchen, as they couldn't leave them in the yard.
Wen Zhenyi felt a burning sensation in his hands, so he filled a basin with warm water and soaked his hands in it.
When she entered the water, the burning pain intensified. She endured the discomfort and soaked her hands in the water.
Mrs. Wen walked over to her and asked, "Does your hand hurt?"
“That’s what happens with chili peppers.”
"I'm not afraid of not sleeping well at night."
"It's okay, this can also dredge the meridians."
"Is this beef jerky prepared for Han Xing?"
"It's not just for him. I just plan to use the beef jerky to test the waters."
"Exploring the way?"
"Well, I want to expand the pig farm in the future. I definitely can't sell so many pigs in town, so I have to develop them somewhere farther away."
"One store isn't enough for you, and you're thinking of getting into breeding, and you're not afraid of losing everything."
"If there's no money, then make some money later. Someone has to do it first."
Mrs. Wen looked at her granddaughter with both pride and heartache: "Don't make yourself so tired, just make sure you have enough to eat and use."
"Grandma, then I'm really no different from a salted fish."
Old Lady Wen poked her forehead with her finger and said, "Your mouth is always busy."
Wen Zhenyi smiled brightly. She liked this busy life, which made her feel alive. She also wanted to give her family a better life so that they could have enough food and clothing.
"Grandma, how much do houses in the village usually cost?"
"Why do you think of asking this?"
Wen Zhenyi told the story about Lin Jie.
"Houses in the village are not expensive, and adobe houses are even cheaper. One mu of land costs one tael of silver. The adobe bricks are all made by ourselves, and there are some labor costs, but it only costs two taels of silver."
“Is it so cheap?”
"It's neither cheap nor expensive. The materials for the house are all trees we cut down in the mountains, and the walls are all made of adobe bricks we made ourselves. The only thing that is a bit expensive is the furniture."
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