When Jiang Wanyue returned to the brigade headquarters, Lu Chengyuan also returned.
There were three large iron pots on the cart. I originally wanted to buy five, but they were out of stock.
There are also two barrels of oil, and the rest are all various seasonings, including dried chili peppers, bean paste, ginger, garlic, star anise, cinnamon, peppercorns, starch, etc.
"It cost a total of sixty-three yuan and seventy-five cents." Lu Chengyuan handed over the bill. "Deputy Party Secretary, where should we put these goods?"
Jiang Wanyue said: "Let's leave it at Xiangbei's house for now."
Zhao Xiangbei's house is not only the warehouse of the fishery, but also the back kitchen is used by the fishery. The west room is where Mr. Lu and Mr. Li rest, and the children come here to study at night... Jiang Wanyue knew that it was very inappropriate.
Now that there are more and more things to do at the fishery, she is more and more eager to build her own office and warehouse for the fishery.
But there is too little money in the account now, and we have to wait until this batch of goods is sold before we can start making arrangements.
When she and Lu Chengyuan arrived at the door of Zhao Xiangbei's house, she immediately saw Aunt Zhao sitting at the door next door sewing clothes.
Although Aunt Zhao had never caused her any trouble, she had never taken the initiative to say hello either. She could still guess what Aunt Zhao was thinking to some extent.
"Aunt Zhao, I'm sewing clothes." Jiang Wanyue walked over with a smile, "I have something to talk to you about. Do you have time now?"
Aunt Zhao rubbed her hair with the needle and said calmly, "I'm busy. I don't have time."
"Then you are busy, I will tell you this." Jiang Wanyue squatted down and said, "It costs two dollars a month to rent such a large warehouse in the city, but our fishery also borrowed the back kitchen, and it is inconvenient to go back and forth frequently, so I thought of giving him three dollars a month in rent, but Xiangbei refused to take the money, so I gave it to you secretly. Don't tell him, just give him a wife when he gets married in the future."
She was very polite and spoke softly, and she stuffed the money into Aunt Zhao's pocket. No matter how arrogant a person was, he couldn't act pretentiously at this moment. Aunt Zhao said, "No wonder he can become the deputy branch secretary. He is really capable of doing things. I will accept the money on behalf of Xiangbei. Since the rent has been paid, you can use the front and back yards as you like. Don't feel embarrassed."
"Thank you, Auntie." Jiang Wanyue paused and said, "There is one more thing I would like to ask you for a favor."
Aunt Zhao suddenly became alert. She knew it was difficult to get the money. Look, trouble happened again.
She frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"
"We have a batch of fish in our fishery, so we plan to use it to develop a new product called Crispy Fish Slices." Jiang Wanyue said, "Because it is still in the research and development stage, it is difficult to control the taste, so we would like to ask Aunt Zhao to help be a taster."
"What is a food taster?"
"Just help taste it. If you think something is not tasty or needs improvement, you can point it out. As long as your opinion is reasonable, you will be rewarded 10 cents."
"Really?" Aunt Zhao's eyes lit up. "Of course I have to help with this little favor. When will it start?"
She could eat fish for free and get paid for giving suggestions. How could she refuse such a good job?
Jiang Wanyue smiled: "Don't worry."
She was about to set up an iron pan at Zhao Xiangbei's house to fry crispy fish fillets. Aunt Zhao's house was next door and she was bound to have objections, so she came up with this idea, which was simply killing two birds with one stone.
There was only one stove in Zhao Xiangbei's house, so Jiang Wanyue asked Lu Chengyuan to pick up some stones and built two large earthen stoves behind the house and put three pots on them.
At the same time, let everyone in the cowshed come over and start cutting the grass carp into slices.
It was winter, the temperature was low, and the grass carp was stored with salt, so it looked relatively fresh.
The cut fish fillets are placed in a large bowl, and Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Li pour in corn starch and stir thoroughly.
Li Yiliang and Wang Ting had already chopped a lot of dry firewood and started three large pots on fire.
Three big men were arranged, each of them took charge of an iron pot, the woman was responsible for burning firewood and controlling the fire, and Jiang Wanyue was responsible for the details of the steps, and the fish frying work began.
First, all the fish fillets must be fried, because if these fish are not processed, they will easily go bad, and then you will really lose all your money.
Seeing that the fish frying was on track, Jiang Wanyue called Duan Jing to help her prepare the ingredients.
Why Duan Jing? Because the other people in the cowshed are all intellectuals and they don't know how to cook. After so many years of being sent down to the countryside for reform, they only learned how to make dishes like glutinous rice balls. They have no idea how to prepare food with a lot of oil and salt.
Duan Jing is the eldest sister in the family. Before marrying Lu Chengyuan, she had to take care of her younger brothers and sisters and cooked almost every day, so she has some experience.
Jiang Wanyue prepared all the necessary ingredients: ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper, chili pepper, soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, aged vinegar, five-spice powder... That was about it, but she had no idea how to mix it or how much to put in each.
"Try the usual combination first." Jiang Wanyue put a little of each, smelled it, and it seemed okay.
She lit a small pot, added some oil, poured in some dry ingredients to sauté, then poured in the fried crispy fish fillets and stir-fried them together, then served them on a plate.
Jiang Wanyue took a bite and frowned slightly, but she didn't know what was wrong. She motioned everyone present to try it.
Duan Jing picked up a little with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. Her eyes lit up: "I didn't expect the spicy crispy fish fillet to taste so good."
Lu Chengyuan nodded as he ate: "It's spicy enough, so delicious."
"This crispy fish fillet goes really well with rice." Old Mrs. Lu quickly took a sip of water, "It's just too spicy."
"The seasoning is a bit strong." Elder Li said, "I feel like I can't taste the fish anymore. I don't know if my taste buds are weak."
"Yes, the fish flavor is gone." Jiang Wanyue said immediately, "There are too many seasonings and they are too mixed. When you eat it, it's all the flavor of the seasoning. It's not fully integrated with the ingredients. This is not good. We have to keep trying."
Duan Jing prepared a bowl of seasoning according to her own ideas and tried it out with fire.
For some reason, Jiang Wanyue always felt that the taste was a little off, but she was not good at cooking and could not tell what was wrong.
There is no other way but to try them one pot at a time.
For two days in a row, more than a dozen people in the fishery ate crispy fish fillets for every meal: in the morning, at noon, and at night. Even Aunt Zhao next door was about to vomit from eating so much.
However, after trying so many times, the taste has been getting closer and closer to the most delicious crispy fish fillets that Jiang Wanyue ate in her previous life. She believes that with Duan Jing's continuous attempts, she will definitely succeed.
So she put the matter aside for the time being.
Now she has something more important to do, which is to finalize the packaging of the crispy fish fillets, so that the product will not be ready but the packaging cannot keep up.
She took the design draft and hurried towards the commune, ready to take a ride to the plastic processing factory in the county.
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