Chapter 557 Chapter 558: Good value
Zhou Huaian packed up the bamboo basket, said goodbye to Wang Zhen, walked out of the alley, said hello to Yang Dongmei, and drove the tractor to Douhuazhuang.
Huang Yongcai had already helped to buy the things, and when he saw the two men coming, he helped to load the things onto the tractor.
Zhou Huaian thought about it and asked about how to cook the prawns. Huang Yongcai told him to pull out the black lines and stir-fry them with ginger, garlic and onions, or blanch them and dip them in vinegar.
"Yiding, have you bought the pork knuckles, beef, and other things? Do you want me to help you buy them?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Huang. If we buy these things today, we won't be able to store them. I have already made an appointment with the butcher in town, so I will go to town to get them tomorrow morning!"
Huang Yongcai thought about it and agreed. “Everything about your place is good, except that it’s too far from the county town, there’s no electricity, and I can’t even buy more meat and vegetables.”
Zhou Yiding smiled and nodded, "Yes! When electricity is available in the future, I will buy a freezer."
Huang Yongcai: "That's right, I can buy a freezer to store a lot of things."
Over there, Zhou Huaian had already started the tractor. After the three said goodbye, they drove back.
Before they reached Zhou Yiding's house, the two saw villagers carrying an eight-immortals table towards the yard.
When they arrived at the gate of the courtyard, they saw several tables already set up in Zhou Yiding's yard. In the main room, some people were sitting around the tables playing with money. At the door of the kitchen, there were three earthen stoves, two large and one small, with a long chopping board next to them.
On top of it were piled up like a hill, bamboo steamers soaked in oil and patinated in a burnt yellow patina, knives, cutting boards...
Cook Fang, wearing a shiny black cowhide apron, was applying yellow mud to the earthen stove while teaching his apprentice.
Zhou Huaian and the other man placed the items needed on the stove in front of the chopping board, "Chef Fang, everything you want is here."
"Okay!" Chef Fang turned his head and looked at the back of the bag. "Put it on the chopping board. I'll clean it up myself."
Zhou Yiding nodded, "Just let me know if you need anything else!"
Zhou Huaian helped move all the things in the tractor into the main room, said hello to him, and drove the tractor back.
When the tractor passed by Zhou Huairong's house, it saw Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang busy weighing herbs for the villagers who were selling them.
Thinking that he would go to pick up the bride tomorrow and his third brother would go to Ning'an to deliver vegetables, he drove the tractor into his yard.
Zhou Xiaoru ran out from the kitchen, "Dad, you're back?"
"You're back!" Zhou Huaian took out a handful of candy and gave it to her. "Where's Xiaolin?"
Zhou Xiaoru put the candy in her pocket and said, "I went to the old house with my grandma to pick vegetables." Without waiting for him to ask, she continued, "My husband is watering the herbs in the back hills, and I am at home cooking pig food."
Zhou Huaian remembered that Zhou Jiaming and his friends almost finished cooking all the bacon while cooking pig food, and said with a smile: "Have you cooked any bacon? Give some to Dad."
"Hehe!" Zhou Xiaoru smiled innocently, "It's still in the pot. I'll bring it to you when it's cooked!"
"Then Dad is waiting!" Zhou Huaian pulled her pigtails, turned around, picked up the bamboo basket and walked back.
Yang Chunyan, who was basking in the sun in the yard, heard footsteps and turned to see him coming in with a bamboo basket, smiling, "How's the price?"
"Twelve yuan per pound, including the Polygonum multiflorum, the total sold for more than 1,000 yuan, the Artemisia annua and honeysuckle sold for 210 yuan, and Brother Huang also gave me a bag of prawns, which I think weighed at least five or six pounds."
Yang Chunyan took a look and found that they were indeed large shrimps. "Put them on the top of the pool and chill them with water. Call the children over to taste them later."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian took the prawns and put them on the pool. He returned to the main room, took down the purse and put it on the table. He took the child from Yang Chunyan's arms. "Doctor Wang said there should be more next year."
Yang Chunyan picked up the purse and said, "You forgot to take the money."
"I just remembered it then." Zhou Huaian followed her into the room with a smile, "Wait until you put the money away and take a look at the small wine jar in the bamboo basket."
Yang Chunyan opened the cabinet, put the money away, closed the cabinet, and said with a smile: "How big is the one you bought? How much does one can hold?"
"You'll know if you go and take a look. I guarantee you'll be satisfied!" Zhou Huaian said as he walked outside. "It's in the cardboard box up there. Be careful not to break it."
"So mysterious." Yang Chunyan glared at him in annoyance. She opened the carton and saw a thin-waisted, big-bellied white porcelain bottle inside. She turned her head in surprise and said, "Such a good porcelain bottle costs one or two yuan, right?"
"I didn't spend a penny..." Zhou Huaian repeated Wang Zhen's words to her.
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought of the various health-preserving wines of later generations. "It seems that they want to make truffle wine."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian sat down on the rattan chair. "I'll go dig some yellow mud later and make a few kilograms of truffle wine. I'll send it to Third Brother Ning'an tomorrow."
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "You can open a tank with low-alcohol content and another with high-alcohol content, fill them halfway, and put a note at the bottom of the tank to indicate which one they prefer."
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about the strong liquor." Zhou Huaian said, remembering what Yang Weidong had said before, "Yan'er, Brother Weidong told me last time that we can dig a wine cellar in the alley behind our house to store wine.
If the truffle wine can be sold at a good price this time, I plan to ask a master to dig two wine cellars in the back mountain to make truffle wine and jujube wine. "
Yang Chunyan thought about the fact that truffle wine would cost hundreds of dollars a bottle in the future. "Don't worry, the taste of sorghum wine from Weidong's family is famous in Ning'an, and the price of making truffle wine will not be low."
After hearing what she said, Zhou Huaian thought of the price of the medicinal liquor in Huang Yongcai's restaurant, and he felt more confident, "I believe this, the liquor used to make the medicinal liquor in Huang's restaurant was also bought for Dong's family.
Last time, Brother Weidong’s family didn’t brew 45-degree sorghum wine. When my eldest brother’s family held the wine ceremony, I asked Brother Weidong to order 42-degree wine, and also ordered 50-degree and 60-degree wine in advance.”
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "Next time you go to Ning'an, tell my younger sister about digging a wine cellar. Ask her to tell Brother Weidong when she returns. He will be able to find a master to dig a wine cellar."
"Okay!" Seeing the sun getting brighter, Zhou Huaian moved the rattan chair inside and looked at his son who was sleeping soundly. "Xiao Jiuer, wake up. Come and have a chat with your old man when you wake up!"
Yang Chunyan slapped him and said, "Don't wake him up! He is growing while sleeping now."
"It's not fun!" Zhou Huaian put the child back in her arms, "Where's grandpa! I brought back the pills that Dr. Wang asked him to make last time, and I also got him two bottles of eye drops."
"He said that the honeysuckle flowers on the back hill had bloomed, so he went up the hill after dinner. I was worried that your two boxes of bees might sting him, so I asked him to put on his beehive."
The newly opened honeysuckle contains more nectar, and bees love to collect honeysuckle pollen the most.
"I'll go take a look and pick him up. I also need to run errands for Yiding later!"
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan stood up and put Xiao Jiuer in the cradle. "I'll go see if the chicken soup that mom cooked is ready. You take those wine jars, scald them with boiling water, dry them, and then fill them with wine."
"Hmm!" Speaking of stewing soup, Zhou Huaian remembered something else, "Doctor Wang said that people with weak spleen and stomach will easily have diarrhea after eating Dendrobium candidum. No wonder you said before that medicine should not be taken casually. If the body is not suitable for it, it will be bad!"
"When I was at home, I often heard my husband say that medicine is three-quarters poison. The vegetables and grains we eat can cure diseases. Don't think they are good things and stuff them into your stomach. You might end up getting sick."
"I also ask them to drink it frequently. It would be troublesome if they got sick from drinking it even if they were healthy."
"It's okay. Last time, my old man came to check the pulses of mom, old man, and grandpa. They were not sick. They can drink the water."
"That's good!" Zhou Huaian used a handkerchief to lift the lid of the sand pot. "Okay, the meat is cooked. I'll scoop a bowl for you to let it dry. You can come and get it later."
"More soup, less chicken!"
"No! You always leave some for me to eat. If you keep doing this, by the full moon day, you won't gain weight but I will."
Yang Chunyan looked at him with a smile, "Gaining five or six pounds is just right, and it will make you look younger."
Zhou Huaian looked at his wife, who had grown fairer and more tender during this period, touched his face, and looked at her with a worried look, "Do I look old?"
Yang Chunyan burst out laughing, "Not old, still a handsome guy!"
Zhou Huaian patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, "You scared me. I wore a straw hat in the big pit these two days, and today in Ning'an, there was a girl peeking at me!"
Yang Chunyan glanced at him sideways, "How do you know that she is looking at you? You must have seen that she is pretty and peeked at her!"
Zhou Huaian covered his chest and pretended to be distressed, "God and heaven are your conscience, if you wrongly accuse your man like this, it will snow in June!"
Yang Chunyan clapped his hands and said, "Alright! I believe you. Stop playing tricks and go up the mountain to see Grandpa."
"Yes, sir!" Zhou Huaian turned off the stove, poured boiling water to scald the wine jar and hung it up to dry, then he took the straw hat, put it on and walked towards the backyard door.
Lai Fu and Wang Cai eagerly sent him to the stairs, stood there wagging their tails and watched him walk further and further away. If they could speak, they would definitely say to him: Master, we want to go up the mountain too.
After Zhou Huaian went up the mountain, he felt even better when he saw the vibrant herbs in the medicine fields. He followed the fence to the woods above and saw from afar an old man wearing a beekeeper hat and carrying a basket picking honeysuckle.
"Grandpa, there are a lot of bees, right?"
The old man said unhappily, "There are two boxes of wild bees there. Do you think they are a lot?"
Zhou Huaian looked at the beehive not far away and touched his nose guiltily, "Don't be afraid, these little bees are very docile and generally won't sting you."
The old man glared at him and said, "Stop talking nonsense and help pick them when you are here."
Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle, double flower, silver flower, heron flower, etc. It is a perennial semi-evergreen woody vine. The old stems are brown, and the young branches are green and densely covered with soft hairs.
The medicinal herb honeysuckle is the plant Lonicera japonica of the genus Lonicera of the family Caprifoliaceae, as well as the dried buds or initially opened flowers of plants of the same genus.
The name "honeysuckle" comes from "Compendium of Materia Medica". It blooms in March, has five petals, a slight fragrance, and a red stem. The flowers are white when they first open, and turn yellow after one or two days, hence the name honeysuckle.
Because there are two flowers on one stalk, with two stamens sticking out, they are in pairs and inseparable, like a male and a female accompanying each other, or like mandarin ducks dancing, it is called Mandarin Duck Vine.
Honeysuckle: cold in nature, sweet in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, cooling and dispersing wind-heat.
Honeysuckle has been praised as a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxification since ancient times. It is sweet, cold and fragrant, and it can clear away heat without hurting the stomach. Its fragrance is penetrating and can dispel evil.
It can not only dispel wind-heat, but also clear away blood toxins. It is used for various febrile diseases, such as fever, rash, spots, heat-toxic sores, sore throat, etc., and the effect is significant.
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