The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 198 Tomato Sauce For Sale

After the corn was harvested, strings were hung to dry in the open space of Lin’s tofu house, and the corn was strung up to dry.

All the open spaces and the eaves are covered with golden corn, which looks pleasing.

In addition to sun-dried corn kernels, Lin uses fresh corn to grind it into a slurry, then adds flour, kneads it into a cake shape, and fry it in an oil pan. It has a sweet taste without adding sugar. Lin Xiazhi can eat two pieces at a time.

They also fried the cooked corn kernels with some oil and bacon. It has the salty bacon and the fragrance of corn. "Ah" and "ah" kept calling out.

Xiao Nian Gao is now five months old. Although he still mainly drinks milk, in Jingguo, babies of this month can already eat some complementary food.

Seeing that he was greedy for corn, Lin Xiazhi thought of a way: add the juice made from corn to the flour and boil it to make a very thin batter.

Even if it is very thin corn juice batter, it tastes different from milk, and the small rice cakes are very happy to eat.

Lin Xiazhi wanted to cool the corn juice batter a little and feed him. If the movement was a little slower, the little rice cake would open a pair of big eyes and look at Lin Xiazhi aggrievedly.

Ever since I tasted the cornmeal batter, the little rice cake must be eaten every day, and if I don't have it, I will cry.

Lin Xiazhi was still a little worried, whether it would be bad for his stomach to eat complementary food so early.

Seeing Lin Xiazhi thinking about this with a frowning face, Li Xiu comforted him: "You didn't have milk when you were young, let alone such good fine white noodles. It would be nice to have a bowl of white rice porridge a day, and you will grow up well, no need Worry."

After two more days of watching the little rice cakes eating happily and her health in good condition, Lin Xiazhi gradually let go of her worry.

The ketchup in Linjiacun has gradually started to be sold to takeaways. Those who came to the bean shop in Linjiacun to buy yuba and bean sticks were a little curious when they learned that Linjiacun had made a new kind of ketchup.

Tomatoes have been warming up in Jiangning County for a while this year. These merchants have heard of tomatoes to some extent, but they have never heard of tomato paste.

It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it, Li Zheng took out a small can of tomato sauce on the spot, and prepared to use the tomato sauce to make some food, and invited these merchants to taste it.

There is no pot and stove outside Doufang, so everyone built a temporary stove outside, and moved a table to make a chopping board, so they can cook.

The merchants stared straight at the temporary stove set up outside the Doufang in Lin Family Village.

They run outside all year round, and they are fine on the boat. Sometimes they can only eat and sleep outside when they don’t meet towns and cities on land. They can’t even drink hot soup, and they can only have cold water and dry food.

"Lizheng, Lin Family Village, how did you get this stove?" A merchant saw that Li was waiting to cook, and hurried over to ask.

The other merchants heard it, and they also pricked up their ears to listen.

Li Zheng likes people to ask him about these things: "Haha, it's not difficult to build a temporary stove, just read it twice and you'll be fine. First dig a small hole in the bottom, and then use bricks to build several layers on top. Remember to keep the bricks For some small holes, there must be a hole for firewood, it's very simple, you can try it when you go back and you will know."

"I understand the opening for firewood, but why do we need to leave small holes when breaking bricks?" The man didn't understand.

"If you don't leave holes, the fire is easy to extinguish. If you want the fire to burn vigorously, you need some kind of air to go in." Li Zheng didn't quite understand.

At that time, he also asked Lin Xiazhi why he had to leave small holes. Lin Xiazhi explained why the holes were left to allow air to circulate. I don't know where he saw these things.

Lizheng didn't quite understand, even if he couldn't explain it clearly, the merchant had no choice but to give up. Since Zhengzheng said it was simple here, he went back and tried it, and if he couldn't figure it out, he could just ask Lizheng of Lin's Village.

Afterwards, he was in no mood to care about the makeshift stove anymore, because he could already smell the ketchup cooking.

The cook is Niu Fulang, who is a good cook at the kitchen stove of Lin Family Village. He learned a lot when he helped make rice noodles at the Lin Family. After studying it for a while, the dishes he made were not bad. This time, he recommended himself to the merchant. They cook.

A simple dish of stewed fish with tomato sauce. The fresh aroma of the tomato covered up the fishy smell of the fish. With the rice, the group of businessmen seemed to have not eaten for three days, and they ate up all the tomato soup at the bottom of the pot.

A pot of fish was eaten by a dozen or so men quickly, so Li Zheng didn't need to say much, they ordered dozens to hundreds of cans according to their own situation.

A can of tomato sauce weighs half a catty. If you buy it at the Linjia Village Tomato Sauce Workshop, it costs ninety yuan a can. It is comparable to the bean curd that the Lin family made last year.

Fermented bean curd is sold directly in Jufulou, a can of [-] Wen, the Lin family gets [-] Wen, and Jufulou gets [-] Wen.

Once the first customer came to buy ketchup, more people would come later, and ketchup began to spread in Jiangning County at a neither fast nor slow speed.

Before that, tomatoes were only the food provided by the Lin family for Jufulou.

Although fresh tomatoes cannot be bought now, tomato sauce is a condiment that everyone can buy in Linjiacun.

The restaurants and restaurants in Jiangning County and even nearby counties send people to Linjia Village to buy tomato sauce and offer delicious tomato sauce.

Just like Tudou in the past, although other restaurants have taken away some customers, those who have been eating in Jufulou for a long time still prefer the dishes of Jufulou, and the business of Jufulou has not declined.

In addition to ketchup itself attracting everyone's attention, the packaging of ketchup has also attracted a lot of attention.

There are no various additives now, and the prepared sauce like tomato sauce can only be stored for about a month even if it is well preserved in September weather, and it will not work for a longer time.

When Lin Xiazhi gave Lizheng the recipe for ketchup, he also explained the expiration date to him.

So Li Zheng told the villagers that every time a customer comes to buy tomato sauce, he must explain this to the customer.

At the same time, they also indicate on the jar of tomato sauce which day the tomato sauce was made and how long it can be kept, so that the customers who bought the tomato sauce in the end can’t remember the time.

It was also Lin Xiazhi's idea to mark the date of manufacture and expiration date on the jar. If someone ate the spoiled ketchup and something went wrong, the Lin Family Village would not be sued.

Marking the date in this way can not only reduce the possibility of customers eating bad ketchup, but also provide evidence when encountering lawsuits in the future.

Realizing the benefits of this approach, other sauce workshops also began to follow Linjiacun's example and mark the dates on their own seasoning bottles.

No one knew about Lin Xiazhi, the person behind the idea, and he was happy and at ease, not letting Li Zheng speak out.

There is another important event in September, that is, the school registration in Linjia Village. The registration time is in the middle of September. If you miss this time, you can only wait until the end of spring plowing.

The children of the Lin family can enroll in the school at a very cheap price, and Shuxiu is only one-third of that of the outer village. The rest of the cost is provided by the ancestral hall to support the operation of the school.

Of course, those who contribute money and effort to build the school can study in the school for free for five years without paying a penny for their children.

Now the name of the Lin Family Village School has been changed to "Molin School", which was chosen by Uncle Lin after he returned from a banquet in the county town.

In addition to naming, at the request of Li Zheng, he gave a class to those children who signed up in Molin Academy.

Lin Xiazhi suddenly thought that when he bought the farm in April, he had promised the tenant farmers of the Qin family that the three children of the Qin family could study for free in the "Molin Academy".

Thinking of this, Lin Xiazhi asked Xiangbo to ask about the situation, to see if something went wrong with the Qin family.

When Xiang Bo went to collect this year's rent last month, he reminded the Qin family that the Lin family had been busy with things this month, and he hadn't had time to go to Beishan Village.

This year, Lin Xiazhi harvested the soybeans grown by the tenant farmers as rent food. The soybeans that the Qin family gave to the Lin family were all dried and not damaged. It can be seen that they put their heart into it and had no other thoughts.

Because of the high soybean production this year, there is still some left over after paying the rent with soybeans.

Lin Xiazhi asked Xiangbo to collect their remaining soybeans and convert them into cash for the Qin family. It stands to reason that the Qin family should happily share the money now.However, when Xiang Bo went to Qin's house this time, several of their tenant farmers were actually quarreling.

"Qin Sangou, don't favor your son. My money was still in the house yesterday, and it disappeared when I turned around. No one else entered my house except Qin Daniu."

"Don't spit shit out there. My son has always been honest. He just went to your house to find the next two pillars, and then he entered your house. You didn't know that you saw my son enter the house. You can explain it to me today. !"

"There is no one else but him, Erzhu, come here!"

"Father, fourth uncle?"

Xiangbo led a chauffeur into the room, saw the commotion in the room, and frowned: "What are you arguing about!"

The originally noisy room fell silent in an instant. The child named Er Zhu was pulled by his father and was about to confront Qin Sangou's husband. Qin Daniu's dark face was flushed with anger and sadness. .

"Xiangbo." Old Qin's face changed greatly when he saw Xiangbo, and he secretly complained in his heart, what should he do now that the people of the master's family saw such a mess.

Xiangbo walked in with big strides, and the few people who had been arguing red-faced just now quieted down and stepped aside: "Tell me, what's going on?"

"This..." Old Qin's wrinkled face wrinkled even more.

"Say something quickly, I don't have that much time to spend with you, the young master is still waiting for my reply." Xiangbo frowned, his thin body straightened, exuding a majesty.

After listening to Xiangbo's words, old Qintou started to sweat on his forehead, but Lin Xiazhi couldn't misunderstand the Qin family's children because of this: "Xiangbo, the main reason is that we haven't figured out the truth about this matter yet. It's not very good to trouble your old man."