0p0 Chapter 432 Work Report
Chapter 432 Work Report
Several people were dumbfounded when they saw this. Zhong Ruiyu was in disbelief as if he was struck by lightning: "How could this happen?"
Zheng Sisi said: "There are bound to be some immature ones in a plant, so when picking, choose the old ones. Don't pick the ones like this one. And the white ones have seeds inside but are very tender. There is nothing to eat after cooking. It's just like a bag of water."
Several people were very depressed, and Zheng Sisi comforted them: "It's okay, just pick these out." Zheng Sisi was responsible for selecting them.
Everyone continued to pick the fruits. This time they had a choice and discarded the white ones. However, when picking them, they were still worried and pinched them again and again with their hands to make sure nothing was wasted.
Finally, some large white peanuts were kept, following the principle of not wasting anything. What if the seeds inside could be eaten? Zheng Sisi did not refute everyone.
Thanks to the help of several cooks brought by Zheng Sisi, the food was served. They taught Aunt Liu and the others how to cook dishes with the harvested winter melons, pumpkins, etc., making them feel like they had picked up some treasure.
Every household harvested these new vegetables. The farmers' houses were not big, but the winter melons and pumpkins were very big. After harvesting them, they were placed in each room. Some people who harvested so much were left with no room to step in their homes.
Uncle Ma and the guards in the mansion came to inform us that we could collect the food. They also taught us how to collect and store it, but they did not teach us how to eat it.
Everyone didn't know how to make it, and they were afraid of wasting it if they just did it casually. When they were worrying about how to solve the problem, the princess came and everything was solved.
After lunch, Zheng Sisi went to the kitchen to teach the cook how to cook five-spice peanuts. The five-spice peanuts are best cooked with new peanuts just pulled out of the ground. They are both soft, sticky and sweet.
Now it is very simple for the cook, just cook it with cinnamon, star anise, chili and other ingredients, and Zheng Sisi also adds some salt. After Zheng Sisi came, these precious medicinal herbs became the regular ingredients in her kitchen.
In the kitchen, several cooks were busy preparing spices and cooking peanuts, but they did not forget to report the situation in the farm to Zheng Sisi.
Aunt Liu said, "Princess, this year the farmers have harvested a lot of winter melons, pumpkins, and other vegetables, but we don't know what to do with them.
Now everyone just piles them up in the room where they sleep; there's really nowhere else to put them."
Another cook continued, "It's mainly because we were too poor before and didn't have money to build a house. Now we have food but no place to store it. The farmers haven't even started digging up the sweet potatoes yet, and when they are dug up, there will be no place to store them."
Zheng Sisi listened carefully to the cooks' work reports, thought for a moment and replied: "Well, I understand. These problems do need to be solved. I will go to Sun Zhuangtou to discuss it later and see if we can find a suitable solution." She decided to understand the specific situation first and then discuss countermeasures with Sun Zhuangtou.
Then he told the cooks to keep an eye on the fire, and Zheng Sisi went to find Sheng Zhen first.
When Sheng Zhen heard that they had to deal with winter melon and pumpkin, he immediately said that he would arrange for someone to come and pick up the goods.
Zheng Sisi added: "If we use them in our own shop, we must ask them to keep the seeds; if we sell them in the market, we can raise the price a little this year, after all, we are selling seeds this year. Also, when selling, we must remind customers to keep the seeds and explain in detail how to plant them next year."
After hearing this, Duke Zheng and his wife nodded in agreement. In this way, more people will grow these vegetables next year, and the people will have more delicious dishes on their tables. If there is not enough food, vegetables can also fill their stomachs.
Duke Zheng and his wife looked at each other and thought it was a great idea!
The sale has been discussed, and all Sun Zhuangtou needs to do is to send a message for the purchase.
When everyone eats the five-spice peanuts, they all say they are delicious, with a medicinal aroma, spicy and salty taste, and the peanuts are also very soft and sticky.
There was some white stuff inside that I couldn't bear to throw away, so after I broke it open, I found a shell wrapped in water, which made everyone laugh.
In the afternoon, Zheng Sisi let them move freely. Sun Zhuangtou, Uncle Li, and Xia Sicheng reported on their work, and Zheng Sisi took Sheng Zhen along.
Head Sun handed the account book to Zheng Sisi and said, "Princess, this is the account book for the current harvest. Only the sweet potatoes have not been processed yet. Manager Ma said that the sweet potatoes need to be stored in the cellar. Since we have not dug them out yet due to the short time, the others have been put into storage."
Zheng Sisi took a quick look at the account book and was very satisfied with the numbers on it.
She said, "Is the corn threshed, too?"
Sun Zhuangtou shook his head and said, "It was also very urgent when the news was delivered. We brought the corn back and put it in the threshing ground for several days, and we didn't have time to thresh it."