Chapter 102 The ingredients for Immortal Mountain Farm are plentiful...
Xianshan Farm's ingredient gift pack has become a trending topic.
Two hundred thousand people who managed to snag the goods couldn't resist posting pictures and videos online to show off.
Since it was free, no one had high expectations at first.
When they received it, they were surprised to find that it contained a lot of food, and the portion was quite generous. Those who managed to grab it were immediately astonished.
The chili peppers are incredibly delicious—spicy and satisfying. I'd be willing to buy dozens of kilograms of them even if they were sold separately.
[Agreed! Chili peppers are so appetizing! I used them to make some spicy chicken wings. The leftover broth was also very fragrant and spicy, so I added water to blanch some cabbage, which was also delicious. Before I knew it, I had eaten four bowls of rice. I was so full that I could only sit in a chair and couldn't move at all.]
[The scallions and cilantro are very fragrant, and the onions are also delicious. When eaten raw in a cold salad, they're not too pungent or spicy, and they're even sweet when cooked.]
Watching you all discuss this, tears, which I couldn't hold back, streamed down my face.
[Oh my god, I'm so envious! @Li Chang'an, when will you plant more? Those who didn't get any are about to cry.]
On Li Chang'an's Weibo account, his latest post received a lot of likes and comments from people wanting the "ingredient gift pack," making it to the top of the list.
Li Chang'an had no choice but to reduce the area planted with chili peppers by a few acres and make room for other ingredients, planting another ten acres of long peppers.
Speaking of which, he planted quite a lot of chili peppers this time, and each chili pepper plant was very productive, so the chili pepper harvest was super plentiful.
These chili peppers include bird's eye chilies and small red chilies. He kept at least one-fifth for himself, then sold some to Qingfengpai, supplied some to Xiaopingan Supermarket, and the rest were small red chilies, which he used to put in the condiment gift packs.
After finishing the shipping, Li Chang'an slowed down his fruit tree planting. He only planted a little in the morning when the temperature was not high, and spent the afternoon drying chili peppers.
He took out all the bamboo sieves in his house, spread the chili peppers on them, and put them on Jiarong Mountain to dry.
Jiarong Mountain has a high temperature and good sunshine, making it ideal for drying chili peppers.
Those bamboo sieves weren't enough, so Li Chang'an cut some bamboo and would sit in the yard weaving bamboo sieves whenever he had free time.
That night, while Li Chang'an was weaving bamboo sieves, Tianxuan stood beside him, looking at the night sky and said softly, "It will rain tomorrow."
Ever since it started raining in Xuanling Immortal Mountain, Tianxuan would look at the stars every night to predict whether it would rain the next day.
If it rains tomorrow as he said, then it will be exactly twenty days since the rain occurred during the mountain god worship ceremony.
Li Chang'an nodded.
The next morning, when Li Chang'an got up, the sky over Xuanling Immortal Mountain was indeed gloomy.
The Blade Spirit waved his hand to clear the weeds from the terraced fields. The mandrills and mushroom spirits had just finished feeding the pigs, chickens, and ducks and returned to their houses when the rain began to fall.
At first it was just a light drizzle, which stopped after a short while. The sun peeked out from behind the clouds, and then soon a heavy rain began.
Since it was raining, Li Chang'an didn't want to go out to work, so he stayed at home with the other members.
Staying home, sleeping, and watching TV on rainy days is especially comfortable.
The rain stopped in the afternoon.
The Xuanling Immortal Mountain was even cooler after being washed by the rain.
Li Chang'an took out the barbecue grill, and after preparing the dishes with Jingjing, everyone had a barbecue together in the yard.
The night sky was even clearer, and everywhere you looked was filled with a refreshing feeling. The air was slightly cool, and soon it was filled with the aroma of barbecue.
The dried chilies that have been sun-dried these past few days have been ground into powder and sprinkled on the roasted meat and vegetables. Instantly, a fragrant aroma bursts forth.
Golden Beard and White Fox Spirit stood by the barbecue grill, drooling as they stared at the roasted chicken legs and wings on the grill.
Jingjing glanced at them, flipped the fish that was being grilled, and then took out two grilled chicken wings and put them in a bowl.
Li Chang'an was frying rice on the side.
Heat the wok over a fire, add a few tablespoons of oil, and once it's hot, add a handful of rice and stir quickly with a spatula.
A few seconds later, the rice grains in the pot rapidly expanded and burst open, turning into fluffy white rice pops.
Finally, sprinkle some salt on top to make it savory.
Both the squirrel spirit and the owl spirit loved this pot of rice puffs.
Li Chang'an stir-fried another pot of sweet mushrooms. The mushroom spirits smelled the aroma and slowly gathered around, staring curiously at the pot.
Li Chang'an gave them this pot of sweet rice puffs, and after the mushroom spirits tasted it, they had another favorite food.
Barbecues are eaten slowly, especially while having fun, and people only gradually stop eating in the evening.
After carefully drawing the talismans and tidying up, everyone, including the spirits, went back to their rooms to sleep.
The next morning, Li Chang'an took a stroll in the bamboo forest and found that many bamboo shoots had sprouted again.
He dug some out and put them in the yard as usual.
There were many bamboo shoots that grew this time, so Li Chang'an gave half of them to the Qingfeng Sect.
With so many members in the Qingfeng Sect, this half of the bamboo shoots is only enough for the disciples to have a taste; each person will finish it in a few bites.
Afterwards, Li Chang'an arrived at the Ningjing River.
Unable to see what species had appeared in the river, Li Chang'an walked along the riverbank. At the confluence of Jiarong Mountain and Ningjing River, he moved a stone and saw several small crab larvae underneath.
The baby crabs had large eyes and transparent, yellowish bodies. When Li Chang'an lifted the stone, they swam away quickly.
The basic manual says that these are the seedlings of Chinese mitten crabs.
The pond is used to raise river crabs, so these little crabs couldn't have come from the other side of the pond.
It is the result of abundant life.
Li Chang'an put the stone back on, seemingly lost in thought.
Apart from a few hairy crab seedlings, there are not many other species in Xuanling Immortal Mountain.
But this is not bad either.
Most of the chili peppers were dried, and Li Chang'an put them away, planning to add them to the condiment gift pack next time.
Remove the stems from the remaining chilies and chop them finely. Add some minced ginger, salt, and white wine, then put them in a jar, seal the jar with water, and let them marinate for a while to make pickled chilies. They are very fragrant when used for stir-frying vegetables or fried rice.
A few days before selling vegetables again, Li Chang'an dried some more chili peppers, keeping enough for his own family and putting the rest into a condiment gift pack.
This time, 100,000 more ingredient gift packs were given away free with each order of vegetables.
The number of spirit fields that have been developed is limited. Until the end of the year when we obtain the spiritual essence tree branch of tea essence, there will only be these 300,000 ingredient gift packs.
However, with an extra 100,000 servings, and each serving containing dried chili peppers, the fans were still very satisfied.
After selling vegetables via live stream, while chatting, some fans noticed a jar in another pavilion behind Li Chang'an.
Those are pickling jars, right? What are they pickling?
When Li Chang'an saw this comment, he took his phone and walked to the pavilion.
Here are four sturdy cabinets he made of wooden planks, with the jars stacked on top of them.
Li Chang'an pointed to the two rows on the left and said, "These are all pickled chili peppers."
Then he pointed to the right and said, "These are pickled bamboo shoots, with pickled pepper flavor."
Pickled bamboo shoots? Are they bamboo shoots from Xuanling Immortal Mountain?!
Li Chang'an smiled and said, "Yes."
[Ahhh! There are bamboo shoots in Xuanling Immortal Mountain! Why don't you sell them? I really want to try them!]
Li Chang'an scratched his face: "There aren't many, so we can't sell many."
He glanced back at the pickling jar and said, "How about I give you a prize in a raffle once the bamboo shoots are pickled?"
[Giveaway is great! How many prizes do you want?]
Li Chang'an calculated the food his family would need and said, "If each person gets a small bottle and the weight is one jin (500 grams), we can draw 200 people. We'll do a giveaway by forwarding this post on Weibo."
How many?! Two hundred people?
I glanced at your follower count on Weibo, and I was speechless. That's a one in 250,000 chance...
[You stingy bastard!]
Li Chang'an smiled helplessly, "Didn't we agree that you wouldn't call me that anymore?"
He thought for a moment and then said, "The odds of winning the lottery last time were one in 300,000, but this time it's only one in 250,000. Actually, it's an improvement."
The audience immediately flooded the screen with speechless ellipses, interspersed with a string of crying little yellow bean emojis.
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