After living with Gu Yanzhang for several months, Chen Xuanxuan already understood his personality and various living habits.
Gu Yanzhang is quite gentle by nature. He is not rude, nor is he the violent type who likes to beat or scold his wife.
Moreover, Chen Xuanxuan has felt that he basically listens to what she says to him.
Especially when it comes to doing business.
Chen Xuanxuan now has a lot of various pickled cabbages stored at home. There are already 15 large jars.
If you squeeze out the water from all these pickled cabbages, it will be about 300 kilograms, or about 400 kilograms.
There were so many kimchi, pickled cabbage, and pickles that Chen Xuanxuan felt that the whole house was tainted with a smell.
She thought that if she ate this every day, she would become like the Koreans she had heard about in her previous life. It was easy to cause gastritis, or even gastric cancer. Chen Xuanxuan thought in her mind that she would only keep one or two jars at home.
The rest of the kimchi, pickled cabbage, and pickles would all be sold.
If they could be exchanged for money, they would be exchanged for money. If they could be exchanged for meat, they would be exchanged for meat.
Anyway, they had a big family, so they had to stock up on more food and meat.
After Gu Yanzhang knew her idea, he took his old father and his eldest son to the nearby towns from the third day.
The consumption level of rural people is not high, and they can't afford much money. Gu Yanzhang can only barter with them.
He is willing to exchange chickens and duck eggs.
Gu Yanzhang took his father and eldest son to run outside every day.
After half a month, they became darker. However, they still saved a lot of money.
"Wife, we are back."
On the evening of the seventh day of May, Gu Yanzhang carried the empty basket and went home happily with his old father and eldest son.
As soon as they got home, Gu Yanzhang and his friends took the bowl of boiled water from Chen Xuanxuan. Gu Yanzhang
picked up the big bowl and drank it all, then he handed her the money bag he had hidden.
"Wife, I went to Tongzhen today. I sold all the several dozen kilograms of pickled vegetables. I felt that I was lucky today. As soon as I arrived at the county town, I met a shopkeeper. He smelled the food and kept saying that he wanted to taste my craftsmanship. I saw that he was wearing silk and a round hat inlaid with jade on his head. I used the bamboo sticks I had learned to make and made him a piece of pickled cucumber. He ate it and said it was delicious. He bought all the several dozen kilograms of things by himself. The man was generous. After taking me to the tavern, he gave me two silver coins!"
Hearing this, Chen Xuanxuan also felt very happy.
"Two taels of silver?"
"Is this silver real?"
Gu Yanzhang nodded heavily after hearing this. "How can it be fake?"
"He is a big customer, a famous businessman in Tongzhen. A rich man like him can't cheat a small trader like me..."
Hearing this, Chen Xuanxuan suppressed the disbelief in her heart and carefully looked at the two taels of silver in her hand.
The silver in ancient times was not pure.
Moreover, they were not the kind of ingots she imagined.
A silver ingot in ancient times usually weighed ten taels. One tael of silver, two taels of silver, or even two taels of silver were all directly poked out by them using a tool like a scale.
Thinking that this was the first time she had seen such gray silver, Chen Xuanxuan put it in her wallet in front of the whole family.
"Okay. When my eldest brother comes, I'll let him take a look at it."
"By the way, you've been working hard all day, you must be hungry, right? I made fried tofu for you today. Mix it with a few spoons of eggplant and minced meat, and give you a bowl of noodles. It tastes delicious..."
Gu Yanzhang couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he heard what Chen Xuanxuan said about food.
He really thinks that the dishes cooked by his wife are delicious.
Especially the various kinds of tofu that his wife has figured out recently. He thinks those things are very delicious.
Seeing that they all ate with relish. Chen Xuanxuan was still very happy in her heart.
However, she was even happier because she had bought a lot of very practical products on the Qiongheihei app during this period.
The first one was a stone mill for grinding soybeans that she accidentally found on the Qiongheihei app.
It was a pity that this stone mill was a toy stone mill for children.
It was very small.
The stone mill was only as big as an A4 paper.
A child of three or four years old could shake the handle of the stone mill and turn it in circles easily. Chen Xuanxuan's young children played with this every day.
Moreover, they became addicted to it.
They got up before dawn in the morning. Then, without even thinking about breakfast, they began to put the soaked soybeans into the eye of the toy stone mill, and began to shake the wooden handle of the stone mill and play with it vigorously.
These children ground almost five or six large bowls of soybeans in a day.
Chen Xuanxuan had no choice but to cook all the soybeans they had ground.
After making tofu, she was worried that it would go bad, so she fried it in oil and left it there. In this way, their family had more and more fried tofu.
Thinking that these good things could not be sold at a high price outside, Chen Xuanxuan could only make fried tofu at home every day. It was good to mix with noodles.
However, thinking that the sorghum was also ground and made into smooth sorghum cakes by her, Chen Xuanxuan could not help but share this good news with him.
"Oh, I have something else to tell you."
"I've come up with a new food recently. It tastes good, with sweet and sour fillings and a delicate crust. I think it should be able to sell for a few bucks. When the time comes, help me sell them."
As she spoke, Chen Xuanxuan took out a few sorghum flour pancakes that she had prepared long ago.
Although this kind of sorghum flour pancakes don't have sugar in them, they taste especially fragrant.
The filling is made of sour fruits from the mountains. The sour fruits from the mountains are washed, dried, pitted, and thoroughly crushed before being sealed in a jar. After a period of fermentation, they have a pure taste and a strong aroma.
After being baked, the filling tastes excellent. After
Chen Xuanxuan made dozens of palm-sized sorghum flour pastries, she ate five in one go.
At this moment, seeing that Gu Yanzhang and his friends had finished eating with gusto, Chen Xuanxuan asked seriously, "Are the sugar cakes I made delicious?"
Gu Yanzhang nodded heavily, "Delicious! Extremely delicious!"