Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 42 Pork

"Buy it? Are you rich?"

Zhu Dan stared at Du Ruo with wide eyes. Although Du Ruo was the young master of the official family, his monthly pocket money was limited, so Zhu Dan asked this question.

"Don't worry about this, anyway, I have money now."

Du Ruo patted his chest and continued, "I don't want to come forward for the time being, so I asked you to do it. If you do it, I will not only give you errands money, but also give you 10% of the stocks in the restaurant."

"Tsk, what do I want you to do?"

Zhu Dan grabbed his butt and said, "It's okay to help you do things, but why do you want to open a restaurant? Your family is not short of money."

"I want to open a new restaurant, and you will know when the time comes. Here you pay the 800 guan, and you can pay the bills to pay the rest. The rest should be used as a deposit. If you go to negotiate the restaurant according to the market price, the maximum price cannot exceed 80,000 guan."

Du Ruo gave Zhu Dan a stack of cash exchanges. Jiaozi is currently only circulated in Sichuan. It is jointly issued by four major chambers of commerce in east, west, south, and north of Shu. There is a branch of the Sichuan West Chamber of commerce in Meizhou. Du Ruo took 800 taels of silver from the Tibetan silver dot in the morning to exchange for cash exchanges.

That Yipin Building is located in the bustling area of ​​Qianmen Street, Meizhou. Not far away is the tile house. It is a three-story street-facing restaurant with front and back yards, covering a wide area.

According to the market price, this product building can be worth almost 60,000 yuan, or 60 million yuan, which is a very high price in places like Meizhou.

But Du Ruo considered that Yipinlou's business was good and the boss might not necessarily sell it, so he set a limit of 80,000 yuan for Zhu Dan.

"God! You actually have so much money!"

Zhu Dan looked at Du Ruo in surprise. Du Ruo patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "This is just a side dish. When you buy the restaurant back, I will demolish the restaurant and build a large restaurant at least five floors high on the spot! You will have to do it at that time. You have to use snacks, don't let me down."

Yuan Du Ruo and Zhu Dan have known each other for many years. Du Ruo knew that he was generous and righteous, and had no bad habits except fighting crickets. Such friends are worthy of being together.

But Zhu Dan was used to being idle after all, and if he continued like this, he would inevitably become a useless person.

So, when Du Ruo planned to open a restaurant, he thought of Zhu Dan the first thing he wanted to do was not only rely on his help, but also the most important thing was to train him.

Zhu Dan is not stupid, sometimes he is even quite clever. Du Ruo believes that with a little experience, he should be able to accomplish things.

Even if Du Ruo admitted this process because he lost some money, as long as he could grow.

If you really can't help yourself, Du Ruo will consider finding someone else, but you will always give the opportunity to your brother first.

"Okay! Leave this to me, I guarantee that you can do it well!"

Zhu Dan patted his chest with a smile. Du Ruo was still a little worried, so he instructed again: "Buying a house, demolishing a house, and building a house, this is a big project, it is very complicated inside, so don't be careless."

Zhu Dan promised again, and then took Du Ruo to drink.

After not seeing each other for many days, I naturally had to hang out and buy a house without any haste. It happened that Du Ruo had no worries in his heart, so he happily started eating and drinking with Zhu Dan.

During the meal, Du Ruo and Zhu Dan talked about food, and only then did they know why they had hardly seen pork on the table after traveling through time. It turned out that the pork tasted strong and smelly in this era and was very unpalatable, so the price of pork was very low. Only poor families would buy pork to eat.

Compared to pork, people at this time would rather eat pigs into the water. The fatty intestines are one of the delicious dishes.

‘No wonder my brother-in-law later invented Dongpo Pork.’

Du Ruo laughed in his heart. The pork tasted stinky. Su Shi, who was demoted and down, could only cook it hard with rice wine and cook it all out before he could put it in his mouth!

"That boy Du Qing is thin and tender..."

On the dining table, Du Ruo murmured, and was heard by Zhu Dan, who was clamping his large intestine, and asked in confusion: "What did you mention him? Why didn't Du Qing follow you?"

"He went to help me with the business."

Du Ruo shook his head, did not answer his question, and instead said, "Large Intestine, do you know why your meat smells stinky?"

"It's yours, you are almost the same!" He glared at Du Ruo, and Zhu Dan smiled and said, "I have seen pigs raisers. This beast is the dirtiest. It sleeps in the feces and urine all year round. Sometimes it even eats your own feces and urine! Can the meat not smell bad? Suckling pork has no smell."

"wrong."

Du Ruo shook his head and said, "What you said is wrong. The reason why pork smells is because there are too many toxins in the meat."

Of course Du Ruo would not say anything about sex hormones to an ancient person, so he used to replace them with toxins.

In fact, the reason why pork is unpalatable is because of excessive secretion of sex hormones in the pig body. Anyone who has been to the breeding pig breeding station knows that you can smell the smell of the nose from afar.

Boars have this smell as long as they become adults, while sows are better, but the meat also has a strange smell and is extremely thick in skin.

"Toxin? There is still such a saying?" Zhu Dan scratched his head.

Du Ruo said: "Yes, but as long as the pig is castrated before it grows up, the pork tastes more fragrant than beef and mutton."

The pork in later generations became the common meat edible in the mouths of ordinary people since the Yuan Dynasty. Although the Yuan Dynasty invaded the Central Plains, it also brought their advanced cattle and sheep castration technology.

Pigs, regardless of male or female, will not only disappear completely after being castrated, but also have a gentle personality, so they will become fat even if they eat, sleep.

Among all meats, in terms of fragrance, no meat can compare to pork.

"Casting? That's that simple?" Zhu Dan looked curious.

"If you don't believe it, you'll know."

Du Ruo picked up a glass of wine and drank it. In fact, the distilled liquor technology was also introduced to the Central Plains by the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty. However, Du Ruo did not like to use the kind of liquor with a spicy voice. The rice wine was just right now, so he did not intend to disclose the liquor matter in this era.

Du Ruo continued: "It will take a long time to complete the restaurant. In the meantime, you go to the countryside to tell the pig farmers how to castrate underage pigs, and ask them to find a veterinarian in the village to do it. You can give them a deposit, including castration losses or order the full amount in advance."

Du Ruo mentioned Zhu Dan. Zhu Dan thought for a while and said, "Do you want to use castrated pork to cook directly when the restaurant opens?"

"Um."

"Okay, I'll do it! I also want to try how fragrant the castrated pork is, hehe!"

Zhu Dan was ready to rub his hands and even smashed his mouth. His energy was even more intense than when Du Ruo asked him to take the restaurant, and Du Ruo looked helpless.

After parting with Zhu Dan, Du Ruo returned to the mansion and happened to meet Madam Zhao who had already been waiting for him in the gatehouse.

"Young master, I've been looking for you so hard. The second wife's friend has arrived!"

Du Ruo was shocked: "I almost misled my mother!"

He was about to go to Xiyuan, but Madam Zhao stopped him and said, "I don't know where that lady knew that you have talent for lyrics and music, so she asked the second lady to ask for music. Master, please look..."

Du Ruo smiled relaxedly: "This is simple, I promise her that I will go to the study to pick it up, and then I will arrive."

Madam Zhao left happily.

Du Mansion West Garden, living room.

A woman wearing a brocade dress with a beautiful face, a flowing cloud bun, and a golden step, was sitting next to Zheng.

The woman is Madam Huang. When she sat with Zheng, she looked more gentle than Zheng, with richer makeup on her face, and a faint confident temperament all over her body.

At this time, the tea in front of her had changed three times, and her expression was inevitably a little disappointed.

The main master Du Ruo has not appeared, so Mrs. Huang is of course disappointed.

But seeing the embarrassment on Zheng's face, Madam Huang felt happy again. After she married Du Shouyi, she showed off her many things in Madam Huang.

This meeting with Zheng was not as good as she said. The "son of the post" didn't take her seriously at all, and Madam Huang was naturally relieved.

But after relieving his anger, he felt a little distressed to Zheng.

‘I knew that Du Shouyi’s wife was strong at the beginning, so I advised you not to marry as a concubine, but you thought I was jealous of you. Now you know that you are suffering?’

Looking at Zheng, Madam Huang sighed and stood up.

"Forget it, it's better if you don't ask for this song, I'll leave."

"elder sister……"

Zheng looked embarrassed and stood up, but he didn't know what to say.

"After all, it's not your own son, and he is the only son in the family. How could he take you seriously?" Huang Niangzi's words were a little harsh.

Zheng smiled bitterly. She had told Du Ruo the day before yesterday that Du Ruo also agreed to send songs before noon today. Unexpectedly, Du Ruo still forgot. She didn't blame Du Ruo, but just blamed herself for being a concubine.

"My sister is good at taking care of herself. If one day she leaves the Du family, she can come to Chengdu to find me. I have a lot of land in Chengdu..."

Shaking his head, Madam Huang wanted to leave.

The meaning in her words was very obvious. If Du Shouyi died in the future, the mistress or Du Ruo in the family would inevitably drive Zheng out of the house.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next