Nanny Lian thought for a moment and said, "They are all children, why not prepare some snacks? Small cakes and biscuits are suitable."
Yang Haiyan nodded and said, "Snacks are suitable, but I'm afraid they are tired of small cakes and biscuits. I plan to make some new food."
Nanny Lian was very curious when she heard it: "What new ideas do you have, Madam?"
Yang Haiyan said, "It's just an idea. I haven't tried it yet. I don't know if it tastes good. Go and ask Aunt Fan to prepare sweet potatoes and potatoes. Cut them into pieces."
Nanny Lian said, "I'll go right away."
An hour later, the sweet potato chips and potato chips made by Yang Haiyan came out. The sweet potato chips are sweet. After the sweet potatoes are cut into strips, they are coated with flour. Potato chips are salty, just like French fries in the real world. In fact, Yang Haiyan has also eaten sweet potato chips in a chain store called Burger Boy in the real world.
It must be said that making sweet potato chips and potato chips is much more convenient than making small cakes and small cookies. The only thing that is wasted is oil.
Yang Haiyan said to Nanny Lian and Aunt Fan: "Try it."
The two old servants were not polite and tried it readily.
Yang Haiyan asked: "How does it taste?"
Nanny Lian said: "This snack is good. Although it is not as fragrant as other snacks, it tastes special and very novel." There is no way, the milky flavor is incomparable to other flavors.
Aunt Fan said, "Should we sell it in the shop?"
Yang Haiyan said, "No, anyone can figure out how to make it after just looking at it and eating a few bites. You can't make money from selling it." This
was true. Even though they had never seen how it was made, Aunt Fan and Aunt Lian could figure it out.
In a blink of an eye, it was Qin Shoucheng's birthday. After breakfast, he said to Yang Haiyan, "Sister-in-law, I won't be back for lunch after school. I'll go to Wei Yanglin's house. After lunch, I may play at his house for a while. I'm afraid I'll have to postpone my martial arts class in the afternoon."
Yang Haiyan said, "It doesn't matter. I'll give you half a day off in the afternoon."
Qin Shoucheng: "Thank you, sister-in-law."
At noon, Qin Shoucheng and his classmates left school together.
Kun Daying: "Brother Cheng, is the birthday gift I prepared really okay?" He and Qin Shoucheng had discussed it, one prepared a pen and the other prepared ink, the prices were not expensive, both were moderate, and it was also their intention, they bought them with their pocket money.
Qin Shoucheng had a monthly allowance of 50 wen, and Kun Daying also had a monthly allowance of 50 wen. Giving the child a monthly allowance of 50 wen was a bit of a relief for the Kun family, so as long as conditions allowed, the parents did not want their child to embarrass themselves in front of their classmates.
Qin Shoucheng said, "No problem. You should give gifts within your means. If it's beyond our means, we can use our parents' money to buy a good gift. That will give us face, but it's money our parents have worked hard to earn. If one day we are able to earn money, then it doesn't matter how good the gift is, we can use our own money to buy it."
Kun Daying: "Yes."
Wei Yanglin: "Cheng Ge'er, Ying Ge'er, hurry up."
Qin Shoucheng: "Here she comes."
Walking out of the private school gate, Qin Shoucheng saw Aunt Fan, who was waiting at the door with a basket. At the same time, Aunt Fan also saw him: "Brother Cheng."
Qin Shoucheng: "Aunt Fan, why are you here?"
Aunt Fan said: "Madam asked the old servant to bring some snacks. This is for your classmates. Madam said that she hopes you have a good time today and wish your classmates a happy birthday."
Qin Shoucheng did not expect that his sister-in-law also prepared this. He took the basket and said: "Please thank my sister-in-law for me." Aunt Fan
completed the task and went back.
Qin Shoucheng carried the basket and went to Wei Yanglin's house with Kun Daying and Wei Yanglin.
The courtyard of the Wei family in the town is very large and beautiful. Grandma Wei knew that her grandson would bring his classmates back to celebrate her birthday, so she started working early in the morning with her daughter-in-law and servants. At noon, Grandma Wei was already waiting at the door. Seeing her grandson and his classmates coming back, she said happily, "My dear grandson, you are finally back. The food is ready. Please invite your classmates to have dinner."
Wei Yanglin said, "Grandma, you don't have to wait for us." She said to Qin Shoucheng and others, "Brother Cheng, this is my grandma."
Qin Shoucheng and others greeted Grandma Wei, and Qin Shoucheng handed the basket in his hand to Grandma Wei, "Hello, Grandma Wei, these are snacks prepared by my family. Let's eat together."
Grandma Wei "Thank you so much, little brother. Where is your family?"
Wei Yanglin said, "Cheng's family lives in the family house. His eldest brother is the master of the Qianfu. The small cake shop in our town belongs to them."
Grandma Wei said, "I see. Go and entertain your classmates. Grandma will prepare the snacks and bring them up to you later."
Wei Yanglin said, "Thank you, grandma."
Grandma Wei went to the kitchen and Wei's mother followed her, "I didn't expect that the master of the Qianfu's brother would become Yanglin's classmate."
Grandma Wei said, "That's right. Don't be nosy. Let the children maintain their friendship by themselves. Just give them some pointers from time to time."
Wei's mother said, "Yes."
Qin's House
In the afternoon, Qin Shoucheng came back and went to the main courtyard first. Yang Haiyan and Qin Siya were embroidering something. Seeing him coming, Yang Haiyan said, "You came back quite early. Is your classmate's birthday over?"
Qin Shoucheng bowed and said, "It's over. The Wei family prepared snacks for all the classmates. It is said that they were bought from the county. I also have a portion for my eldest sister-in-law and fourth sister to try." As he said that, he took out the oil paper, and there were six snacks inside.
Yang Haiyan did not refuse Qin Shoucheng's kindness, but said, "What a coincidence, I haven't eaten snacks from the county yet. Today I am taking advantage of you." She picked up a piece and took a bite.
Qin Siya said, "I haven't eaten snacks from the county either. Is it delicious?" She asked while taking it.
Qin Shoucheng said honestly: "The snacks made by my sister-in-law are not as delicious."
The snacks in the county town are famous. The reason why the Wei family did not prepare the snacks in Yang Haiyan's shop is because most of the children in the town have eaten small cakes and small cookies, so they bought snacks from the county town to make up for the occasion.
Yang Haiyan said: "But Shoucheng saved the snacks for my sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law was very touched. Thank you, Shoucheng, you are such a good child."
Qin Shoucheng blushed when he was praised: "Then I will go to review my homework."
Yang Haiyan smiled and shook her head.
By the end of June, the half-acre of potatoes in the manor was ready for harvest. In modern times, if potatoes were carefully managed, half an acre could yield about 3,000 kilograms, but the yield of crops in ancient times was not as high as it is today, and was even only half of that in modern times. After the harvest, the half-acre of potatoes only yielded 1,500 kilograms.
This 1,500 kilograms was directly placed in the manor, because those pigs, chickens and ducks could not just eat grass, and occasionally added some rice bran, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Even if they were mixed like this, they had to prepare about 10 kilograms of potatoes (sweet potatoes) a day, and 1,500 kilograms was only enough for half a year.
If potatoes were sold directly, they would cost one penny for two kilograms. Yang Haiyan calculated that if half an acre of land was used to grow potatoes, it would be better to buy potatoes directly as feed, and half an acre of land used for other purposes would also be more cost-effective than growing potatoes.
After the potato harvest, Niu Da prepared the land, and a few days later, he transplanted some fruit tree seedlings.
When half an acre of fruit tree seedlings were transplanted, it was mid-July.
On this day, Yang Haiyan was calculating the gross profit of the snack shop in June. It must be said that since Heping signed the contract, the gross profit of the snack shop has been twenty taels every month. Yang Haiyan felt that he was about to get tired of collecting money.
"Madam..." Kun Zhang came from the snack shop, "Mrs. Niu came to the shop with a basket of eggs. The chickens in our farm have laid eggs. She also brought back a basket of vegetables, the broccoli you mentioned. It looks like a green flower to me, so it's also appropriate to call it green cauliflower."
Yang Haiyan put down the account book and said, "Let's go and take a look." But it is indeed appropriate to call broccoli green cauliflower.
Mrs. Niu came with two baskets, one basket with about fifty eggs, and the other basket with several broccoli. Needless to say, the green broccoli is really beautiful.
When Yang Haiyan arrived, she saw Mrs. Niu sitting and drinking tea. When she saw Yang Haiyan coming, Mrs. Niu hurriedly said, "Hello, madam. The eggs have been delivered. My husband said that the broccoli looks like it will have a good harvest, so I picked two for you. Have a look."
There were about 1,300 broccoli plants planted in half an acre of land, but only about 800 survived. However, one broccoli plant can produce two or three heads, which is still a lot.
Yang Haiyan said, "Let me have a look." The green broccoli was growing very well. "Are there many bulbs this big?"
Mrs. Niu said, "Most of them have grown this big, and the rest are not this big."
Upon hearing this, Yang Haiyan said, "Harvest a hundred or so tomorrow."
Mrs. Niu said, "Yes."
Yang Haiyan said to Kun Zhang, "Captain Kun's family, go cut some pork, and then take the meat and broccoli to Qianfu's house, and tell Aunt Fan to slice the meat and stir-fry it with the broccoli... After it's done, bring it to the door of the shop and give it to passers-by, and then tell them that the newly grown vegetables here are ripe."
The old customers of the snack shop all knew that the tables and chairs had been removed and were going to be used to sell fruits and vegetables, so there was no need to do much promotion.
Kun Zhang: "Yes."
Yang Haiyan thought for a moment and said, "Also, take the fried pork slices and broccoli to the county town and see if the restaurant in the county town wants this dish. Take a horse-drawn carriage and bring some raw broccoli to the restaurant. If you don't dare to go to the restaurant, go to find the shopkeeper Ping."
Kun Zhang: "Yes."
Half an hour later, Aunt Fan came with two plates of broccoli fried pork slices, and Kun Zhang took a horse-drawn carriage to the county town.
Aunt Fan put the broccoli fried pork slices at the door of the shop and began to shout: "The delicious snack shop has a good harvest of fresh vegetables. Everyone who passes by can come and taste the taste..."
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