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Chapter 29 Making Income for the Family

The days that followed were busy and fulfilling, and May entered in the blink of an eye.

Since entering May, Huaiyuan County has become very lively. Chen Huiyin heard her uncle mention it more than once, and wanted to go to the county town, but she couldn't find the time.

If you want to talk about why Huaiyuan County has become particularly lively in May, it starts with the convenience of water conservancy.

The founding emperor of Daqi, Qi Taizu, after pacifying all parties, first sent ships to the sea to find high-yield corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes and returned to solve the problem of food and clothing for most of the people. East, all connected from south to north.

The convenience of transportation is gradually reflected in this way. Before the water route was opened, it would take six or seven days to drive from Lingwu to the capital without stopping, and it would take more than ten days to travel by horse-drawn carriage. Well, it only takes three days to travel from Lingwu area to the capital by water. As a result, the business affairs of the Great Qi Dynasty flourished like never before.

Beginning in April and May every year, the southern region, especially the region rich in various fruits, the fruit matures one after another and enters the full fruit period. It is transported to the north by water and stored at low temperature. The fruit is still fresh, so it is very popular among local people. Welcome.

As for the area around Lingwu County, because Great Liang dispatched troops four years ago and seized the Longyou Road, it not only cut off the Silk Road going west from the Daqi Dynasty, but also turned Lingwu County into a border town. Emperor Shun'an was furious , Closed the mutual market with Great Liang, increased troops to Lingwu County, resisted Beidi in the north, and also resisted Great Liang's eastward advance.

Although the mutual market outside the customs is closed, the inner market is not closed, so there are still many businessmen who come to Lingwu to do business.

On this day, Chen Boyu was invited by the county pharmacy to take over a patient with a complicated condition. After the consultation, he passed by the market when he was out of the city, and saw someone selling fresh apricots from the south. He thought his wife liked eating apricots very much. Children should also like fragrant and sweet fruits, so they bought a few catties and took them home.

Zhou Jinghao came to the study with the cleaned apricots, and greeted the uncle and the two children: "Kangnu, Dalang, Qiaojie, eat some fruit and rest!"

Chen Huiyin and Tang Yaoling were doing their homework. Hearing what Auntie said, she put down the pen in her hand, and her eyes fell on the porcelain plate in Aniang's hand. On the white porcelain plate, there was water Lingling, yellow-red leather, About smearing apricots that are slightly smaller than eggs, I can't help but think of the fruit yogurt I ate in my previous life.

Then he suggested: "Auntie, you can peel the apricots, cut them into small pieces, and add them to the yogurt. It will be delicious. Let's try it."

Recently, my daughter came up with a lot of ideas on food, and the final product tasted very good. Zhou Jing readily agreed and took her to the kitchen.

After a while, he made six bowls of apricot yogurt, Chen Huiyin brought four bowls back to the study, and Zhou Jinghao took the remaining two bowls to the pharmacy.

In the study room, after eating the yogurt, Chen Boyan leaned back in his chair, looked at the little niece who was wiping Brother Ming's mouth, and said, "Apricots are sweet, and when added to the yogurt, the fruit aroma adds flavor, and the fruit pieces make the taste richer." , It’s really delicious, it’s just this fresh fruit, it will be withdrawn from the market soon, and I won’t be able to eat such delicious yogurt in the future.”

Chen Huiyin said with a smile: "Although fresh fruit will be out of the market soon, we can reprocess fresh fruit, such as jam, and add it to yogurt when you want to eat it. It is also delicious. There are also sweet preserved fruits, which can also be cut Crushed and added to yogurt, it is another flavor."

After replying to my uncle's words, Chen Huiyin's eyes lit up, she put down her handkerchief and hurried to the pharmacy.

Chen Boyu and Zhou Jinghao had just finished eating yogurt, and they were talking about their daughter's ability to eat, when they saw her daughter trotting into the house, Chen Boyu smiled and said, "Sister Qiao, are you here to find me, or your mother?"

"Look for them all." After a pause, Chen Huiyin said with sparkling eyes: "Father, Aunt, let's make jam and yogurt and sell it in the county town. There should be many people who like it."

Zhou Jing didn't expect that just by eating yogurt, her daughter would have a new idea, so she said, "Yes, then do you know how to make jam?"

Chen Huiyin nodded: "I know, just now my uncle said that fresh fruit will be out of the market soon, so I thought of making jam, so that the flavor of the fruit can be preserved for a long time, but this thing is too expensive, and it is a luxury to eat at home, so let's eat it at home." Take it to the county town and sell it, so that we can eat some without too much psychological burden."

Zhou Jinghao was amused by her daughter's words. She raised her hand, pinched her daughter's pink and delicate face, and said with a smile: "Our family can still afford white sugar, but my mother knows how to make jam. It will be ready within two or three days after making it." You have to eat all of it, otherwise it will go bad, what can you do to keep the jam from going bad for a long time?"

Chen Huiyin rescued her little face from A Niang's hands before she said: "The shelf life of jam is not long. The biggest reason is that there is less sugar, so I said that the cost of making jam is too expensive. Eating at home is a luxury."

Zhou Jing thought for a while, then took her daughter's hand and said, "Let's go to the kitchen and try it out. We have to see how the jam tastes when we add it to yogurt. At least it can't taste worse than fresh fruit."

In fact, it is not difficult to make jam. Chen Huiyin explained the method and helped to peel and remove the core of the apricots. Watching Aniang dip the apricot meat with white sugar, she didn't stare at it after cooking, and turned back to the study , Continue to do homework.

So after dinner, the whole family ate a small bowl of yogurt with jam. The taste was different from the yogurt with fresh fruit, and the taste was sweeter. Everyone agreed that they preferred the yogurt with fruit.

Chen Huiyin frowned. For those who like sweets, they may be able to accept them, but for those who don't like sweets, they will feel tired. Unfortunately, there is no lemon, so they can only work on yogurt.

She said: "Mother, the barrel of yogurt we are fermenting will continue to ferment for another day tomorrow, so that the taste of the yogurt will become more sour. Then try adding jam."

"Okay." Zhou Jing replied readily, and then frowned, "If our experiment with jam and yogurt is successful, only the flavor of apricot jam is too single. Since I want to use this to generate income for my family, I want to have more varieties. Guests will have a lot more choices, what do you think!"

Chen Huiyin quickly gave an idea: "This is easy to handle. Because of the climate here, the peaches are late-ripening, but most of the peaches in the south are ripe and can be made into peach sauce, and there are quite a lot of varieties of peaches, including white peaches, rouge Red and yellow peaches, if you want to have a good color, carmine and yellow peaches can make jams of two colors.

In addition, the peach has a strong fruity aroma, the peach flesh tastes sweet, and the taste can be divided into crisp, sandy and soft. In this way, customers have more choices. There is also raspberry, which smells good and the fruit is delicious. It can also be used to make jam. When raspberries are out of the market and our strawberries enter the mature stage, they can also be used. Unfortunately, there are not many of them. "

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