66, Chapter 66

Aunt Lian thought for a while: "We are all children, why not prepare snacks, small cakes and biscuits are suitable."

Yang Haiyan nodded: "Snacks are indeed suitable, but I'm afraid they will get tired of eating small cakes and biscuits. I plan to make some new snacks."

When Aunt Lian heard this, she was very curious: "What new wife do you have?"

Yang Haiyan said: "It's just an idea. I haven't tried it yet. I don't know if it tastes good or not. Go and ask Aunt Fan to prepare the sweet potatoes and potatoes and cut them into cubes."

Aunt Lian: "Old slave, go now."

An hour later, the sweet potato chips and potato chips made by Yang Haiyan came out. Sweet potato fries are sweet. After the sweet potatoes are cut into strips, the outside is coated with flour. The potato chips are salty, just like the current French fries. In fact, Yang Haiyan also had sweet potato fries at a current chain store called Burger Boy.

I have to say that making sweet potato chips and potato chips is much more convenient than making cakes and biscuits. The only cost is oil.

Yang Haiyan said to Aunt Lian and Aunt Fan: "Try it."

The two old servants were not polite and gave it a try happily.

Yang Haiyan asked: "How does it taste?"

Aunt Lian said: "This snack is good. Although it is not as fragrant as other snacks, the taste is also special and very novel." This can't be helped, the milky flavor is incomparable to other flavors.

Aunt Fan said: "Are you going to sell this in a shop?"

Yang Haiyan said: "No, as long as you take a look at this thing and eat a few bites, anyone can figure out how to make it, but you can't sell it for money."

This is true, even if they have never seen how to do it, Aunt Fan and Aunt Lian can figure it out.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day when Qin Shoucheng's classmate came. After breakfast, he said to Yang Haiyan: "Sister-in-law, I won't come back for dinner after school at noon. I will eat at Wei Yanglin's house. After eating, I may play at his house for a while. , I’m afraid the martial arts class in the afternoon will have to be delayed.”

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.

Kun Daying: "Brother Cheng, are the gifts I prepared for Chen really okay?" He discussed with Qin Shoucheng, and one prepared pens and the other prepared ink. The prices are not expensive, and they are both moderate. It was considered a gift from them, and they all bought it with their pocket money.

Qin Shoucheng has a monthly allowance of fifty cents, and Kun Daying also has a monthly allowance of fifty cents. Giving his children fifty cents a month is quite easy for the Kun family, so if conditions permit, In this case, parents do not want their children to be embarrassed among their classmates.

Qin Shoucheng said: "It's no problem. We have to give gifts according to our ability. If it is more than we can afford, we will have face if we buy a gift with our parents' money, but it is the money our parents have worked hard to earn. If One day, when we are able to make money, it doesn’t matter how good the gifts are with the money we earn.”

Kun Daying: "Yeah."

Wei Yanglin: "Brother Cheng, Brother Ying, hurry up."

Qin Shoucheng: "Here we come."

Walking out of the door of the private school, Qin Shoucheng saw Aunt Fan 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 slave to bring some snacks. These are for your classmates. Madam said, I wish you a happy day today, and I also wish your classmates a happy birthday."

Qin Shoucheng didn't expect that his sister-in-law had prepared this. He took the basket and said, "Aunt Fan, could you please thank my sister-in-law for me?"

Aunt Fan completed her task and went back.

Qin Shoucheng carried the basket and went to Wei Yanglin's house with Kun Daying and Wei Yanglin.

The Wei family's yard in the town is large and beautiful. Mrs. Wei knew that her grandson would bring his classmates back to celebrate the birthday, so she got busy with her daughter-in-law and servants early in the morning. At noon, Mrs. Wei was already waiting at the door and saw her grandson coming back with his classmates. , she said happily: "My dear grandson, you are finally back. The food is ready. Please invite your classmates to dinner."

Wei Yanglin said, "Grandma, you don't have to wait for us." Then he said to Qin Shoucheng and others, "Brother Cheng, this is my grandma."

Qin Shoucheng and others presented gifts to Mrs. Wei, and Qin Shoucheng handed the basket in his hand to Mrs. Wei: "Hello, Grandma Wei, these are snacks prepared by my family for everyone to eat together."

Mrs. Wei took it and said, "Thank you so much, brother. I wonder where your family is?"

Wei Yanglin said: "Brother Cheng's family lives in a family room. His eldest brother is a thousand-year-old man. The small cake shop in our town belongs to their family."

Mrs. Wei said: "That's it. Go and entertain the classmates. Grandma will pack the snacks and bring them to you later."

Wei Yanglin: "Thank you, grandma."

Mrs. Wei went to the kitchen, and Mother Wei followed: "I didn't expect Master Qianfu's younger brother to become Yang Lin's classmate."

Mrs. Wei said: "No, don't be too troublesome. Let the children maintain their friendship by themselves. Just give them a few words of advice occasionally."

Mother Wei said: "Yes."

Qin family

In the afternoon, Qin Shoucheng came back and went to the main courtyard first. Yang Haiyan and Qin Siya were embroidering something. When they saw him coming, Yang Haiyan said, "You came back very early. Is your classmate's wedding over yet?"

Qin Shoucheng saluted: "It's over. The Wei family has prepared snacks for all the classmates. It is said that they were bought from the county. I also have one to give to my sister-in-law and my fourth sister to try." As he said that, he put on the oil paper Take it out, there are six snacks inside.

Yang Haiyan did not reject Qin Shoucheng's offer, but said, "What a coincidence, I haven't eaten the county's dim sum yet, and I've benefited from you today." She picked up a piece and took a bite.

Qin Siya said: "I have never eaten snacks from the county. Are they delicious?" She asked while taking them.

Elder Qin Shoucheng said: "It's not as delicious as the snacks made by my sister-in-law."

The snacks in the county town are famous. The reason why the Wei family did not prepare the snacks from Yang Haiyan's shop is because most of the children in the town have eaten cakes and biscuits, so they bought the snacks in the county town to fill the scene.

Yang Haiyan said: "But Shoucheng spared the snacks for my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law was very touched. Thank you Shoucheng, you are such a good boy."

Qin Shoucheng, who was praised, blushed: "Then I'm going to review my lessons."

Yang Haiyan smiled and shook her head.

By the end of June, half an acre of potatoes on the estate can be harvested. If we were in modern times, carefully managed potatoes could yield a harvest of about three thousand kilograms from half an acre. However, the yield of ancient crops was not as high as modern crops, or even only half of that of modern crops. After the harvest of half an acre of potatoes, there will only be 1,500 kilograms.

These 1,500 kilograms were placed directly in the manor, because the pigs, chickens and ducks could not just eat grass. Occasionally they had to add some rice bran, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Even with such a mixed diet, about ten kilograms of potatoes (sweet potatoes) need to be prepared a day, and one thousand five hundred kilograms is only enough to last half a year.

If potatoes are sold directly, they cost one penny or two pounds. Yang Haiyan calculated that if half an acre of land is used to grow potatoes, it is better to buy potatoes directly as feed. If half an acre of land is used for other purposes, it is more cost-effective than growing potatoes.

After the potato harvest, Niu Da tidied the land, and a few days later, he transplanted some fruit saplings.

Waiting for the fruit saplings in half an acre of land to be transplanted, it will also come in mid-July.

On this day, Yang Haiyan was calculating the gross profit of the dim sum shop in June. It must be said that since Shopkeeper Heping signed the contract, the gross profit of the dim sum shop has been twenty taels every month. Yang Haiyan felt that she was almost too weak to accept the money. .

"Madam..." Mrs. Kun Zhang came over from the dim sum shop. "Mrs. Niu came to the shop with a basket of eggs. The chickens in our manor laid eggs. She also brought back a basket of vegetables. Madam, what do you mean? The broccoli looks like a green flower to me, so it’s appropriate to call it green cauliflower.”

Yang Haiyan put down her account book: "Let's go and have a look." However, it is indeed appropriate to call broccoli green cauliflower.

Mrs. Niu came with two baskets. One basket held about fifty eggs, and the other basket held several broccoli. Not to mention, the green broccoli was beautiful.

When Yang Haiyan arrived, she saw Mrs. Niu sitting and drinking tea. As soon as she saw Yang Haiyan coming, Mrs. Niu hurriedly got up and said, "I've seen my wife, madam, the eggs have been delivered. My man said that this broccoli looks good." It’s been a good harvest, so I picked two of them for you to take a look at.”

A total of about 1,300 broccoli plants were planted in half an acre of land, but only about 800 plants survived. However, one broccoli plant can produce two or three balls, which is still a lot.

Yang Haiyan said: "Let me take a look." The green broccoli is growing very well, "Are there many such big balls?"

Niu's wife said: "Most of them have grown this big, and the other half are not that big."

Upon hearing this, Yang Haiyan said: "Collect a hundred or so tomorrow."

Niu Da’s wife: “Yes.”

Yang Haiyan said to Mrs. Kun and Zhang again: "Captain Kun's family, you go and cut some pork, then take the meat and broccoli to Qian Fu's Mansion, tell Aunt Fan to slice the meat and stir-fry it with the broccoli... Wait until it's done. After that, bring it to the door of the shop and give it to passers-by, and then tell them that the vegetables we have grown here are ripe. "

Regular customers of the dim sum shop all know that the tables and stools have been removed and used to sell fruits and vegetables, so there is no need to do more sales.

Kun Zhang: "Yes."

Yang Haiyan thought for a while and then said: "Also, take the fried meat slices and broccoli and go to the county town to see if the restaurants in the county town want this dish. Take a carriage and take the broccoli as well. Go over to the restaurant and check it out. If you don't dare to go to the restaurant, go to the shopkeeper Ping."

Kun Zhang: "Yes."

Half an hour later, Aunt Fan arrived with two plates of fried pork slices with broccoli, while Kun and Zhang took a carriage to the county seat.

Aunt Fan placed the fried pork slices with broccoli at the door of the shop and started shouting: "The delicious dim sum shop has a good harvest of fresh vegetables. Everyone who passes by should come and taste it..."