No matter how many fresh vegetables were stored in Jia Dongsheng's homestay, he still had to follow Jia Zhang to the vegetable market.
After all, the fresh vegetables he stored could not be revealed or explained.
What's more, Jia Dongsheng also thought it through on the way and decided to dry some vegetables for storage and prepare some vegetables for winter.
For example, you can put dried potato slices when stewing geese or chickens, and they taste quite good.
Dried radish strips can be pickled and eaten with porridge in the morning, which is a perfect combination.
As for dried eggplant strips, it is even simpler. In the north, it is a big stew. The taste is slightly different from that of fresh eggplant, but it is just as delicious.
In the eyes of a chef, no dish will be wasted. As long as he wants, he can make it delicious.
Although today is Monday, there are still a lot of people in the vegetable market. They are all rushing towards the center of the market with anxious expressions on their faces. It is obvious that they are all here to grab potatoes.
At this time, Jia Zhang showed no sign of her usual laziness. She moved very quickly, squeezing left and right until she was at the front.
"How about potatoes?"
While asking, Jia Zhang checked the cart herself. The potatoes on the cart were scattered, large and small, piled together, and they looked good.
"How do you sell it?"
"How much is one pound?"
"I want 100 kilograms."
"I want 80 kilograms."
"I want 300 kilograms."
Everyone was asking about the price and expressing their needs. It was noisy and chaotic, but among them, Jia Zhang's voice stood out. The weight of 300 kilograms was also the largest amount purchased by the crowd.
In an instant, everyone's voice was silenced.
Jia Zhang held her head high and chest puffed out, feeling very pleased. Three hundred kilograms of potatoes would certainly have been a lot in previous years, and she would have been reluctant to spend so much money, but things were different now.
Now that her family was rich, she straightened her back. After glancing around proudly, she shouted to the potato seller, "Quick, fill it up for me first. I want 300 kilograms, and a little more is no problem."
"Okay, I'll put it on you first. I'll put it on you first."
The potato seller was also shocked by Jia Zhang's generosity. After he came to his senses, he immediately found a sack and packed the potatoes.
Three hundred kilograms of potatoes were packed in sacks, but in fact, they were not even full for two sacks.
The bags of this era are different from those in later generations. Although there were sacks in later generations, a sack that could hold 150 kilograms was considered a large sack.
However, in the 1960s, a sack could easily hold more than 200 kilograms of potatoes, which led to...
Seeing that the sacks were not full, Jia Zhang shouted, "Fill them up, fill them up, fill them up!"
Two sacks were filled with potatoes, and when they were weighed, they weighed 436 kilograms.
“Wow!”
Everyone around the vehicle exclaimed in surprise, and this exclamation made Jia Zhang even more satisfied. She laughed loudly and said, "Come on, make way, make way, let my son move the potatoes onto the vehicle."
This sentence also reached Jia Dongsheng's ears, and he immediately pushed the tricycle into the crowd.
There was a sack of potatoes weighing more than 200 kilograms. The potato seller was a young man. He was ready to lend a hand, but Jia Dongsheng waved his hand, indicating that he could do it himself.
Then, he grabbed one end of the sack with one hand and, with a little effort, lifted up the sack of potatoes weighing over 200 kilograms without showing any sign of effort.
"This guy is amazing!"
"Yeah, that's a lot of strength."
"He lifted a bag weighing over 200 kilograms so easily. It's amazing."
"I don't know if this guy is married. How about I find him a matchmaker?"
"Such a great guy, I wonder whose girl got him."
“…”
Well, seeing how capable Jia Dongsheng was, some enthusiastic aunties were ready to arrange a blind date for him. Jia Dongsheng just smiled, put another bag of potatoes in the car, paid the money, and left.
The load-bearing capacity of the tricycle is still trustworthy. Not only did it carry more than 400 pounds on the way up, but on the way back, it also had to pull Jia Zhang, who weighed more than 100 pounds, and still returned to the courtyard safely.
I have to say that the things made in this era are quite sturdy and durable.
Thinking of this, Jia Dongsheng suddenly remembered something. It seemed that in the 1960s, something called industrial volume appeared.
If you want to buy industrial products, you must use industrial coupons.
Things like three turns and one sound, iron pots, iron basins, iron water cups, as long as they are industrially manufactured, all require industrial coils.
But who in the future will care about the year in which the industrial volume was issued?
Jia Dongsheng had just heard this from the locals of the city while he was working. They said that the industrial voucher was linked to wages, and that one industrial voucher was given according to the salary.
However, when buying things, the consumption of industrial coupons is very expensive. It takes forty or fifty industrial coupons to buy a bicycle. A family has to save for several years to get enough industrial coupons to buy a bicycle.
Thinking of this, Jia Dongsheng pondered whether he should buy more things for his home before the industrial coupons were issued, so that when he wanted to buy something, the industrial coupons would not be enough.
When Jia Dongsheng returned to the courtyard, Jia Zhang immediately started to make arrangements: "Dongsheng, pour all the potatoes on the ground. I will pick out the big ones and put them in the potato cellar."
"Pick out the small potatoes and I'll harvest them this afternoon. We'll have them tonight and start drying them for slices tomorrow."
Unexpectedly, Jia Zhang had already arranged everything. Jia Dongsheng followed up with the words, "Mom, shall we dry some eggplants and beans?"
“Eggplant and beans?”
Jia Zhang's eyes lit up: "Sure, sure. While we're steaming the eggplants, we can make some garlic eggplants. Oh, how could I have forgotten about it so long ago?"
There is no doubt that Jia Zhangshi is very talented in eating, just like Jia Dongsheng is in cooking.
Once she gets started, she can come up with all kinds of ways to eat it.
However, it must be said that Jia Dongsheng also likes to eat garlic eggplant, but the taste is too strong.
"It seems like there's no chewing gum these days. How can I get rid of the garlic smell in my mouth?"
Jia Dongsheng thought about it. For a chef, this problem didn’t seem so difficult to solve. He could solve it perfectly by making some mouthwash.
Otherwise, after eating garlic eggplant in the evening, playing games with Qin Huairu, eh, just thinking about it, I have that picture and taste.
Fortunately, as a chef, making mouthwash soup is very simple and can be done with the water used to wash the pot.
However, with Jia Zhang's reminder, an idea came to Jia Dongsheng's mind. Since garlic eggplant can be cooked, can he make a spicy cabbage dish?
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