As soon as he got home, Chen Zhaozhao started working non-stop.
I had a good sleep last night and took a car back today. I didn’t feel tired after I rested for a while at home.
Anyway, I have nothing to do, so of course I have to get down to business.
It just so happens that Yu Jinggui is here today and has a car, so it is convenient to go out.
She was going to see Lin Xisi to discuss the chili pepper.
The main reason was that the peppers were almost out of season, so she had to hurry up and harvest them. She also had to check out the peppers that Lin Xisi had been storing.
I met Lin Xisi at the supply and marketing cooperative, exchanged a few words and then went to the warehouse to look at peppers.
"I checked it this morning. According to the method you said, the peppers are indeed preserved longer." Lin Xisi looked surprised.
"Is there anything special about the well water in your home?"
"I don't know either, I just discovered it by accident." Chen Zhaozhao said calmly.
Of course it's because their well water has been thoroughly optimized by her.
The ingredients of Lingquan have a good preservation effect.
She wrote to Lin Xisi in the provincial capital, saying that if everything goes well, she should keep the peppers longer, put them in baskets, and go to her house to get well water to freeze and hang them next to the peppers.
Nowadays, materials are scarce, and supplies from supply and marketing cooperatives are usually sold out within a few days after being shipped from the cooperative.
Especially Huixi County is backward, so there is no cold storage for vegetables and other things like in later generations.
Now it is a cooler warehouse for short-term storage of things.
The supply and marketing cooperative also has a mostly empty freezer, which is just in time for ice water.
First freeze the well water, then put it in cans and bottles without lids, and hang them by the radish basket. If the ice melts, it doesn't matter, as long as the water is still cold.
Wait until the water is completely cold before pouring it out and replacing it with ice.
This way of preserving freshness relies on cooling on the surface, but in fact it is the spiritual spring gas evaporated from the well water ice that locks the freshness of the peppers.
Of course, this method will not last long, up to ten days.
It is also troublesome, so it cannot be used on a large scale.
Lin Xisi has saved two thousand kilograms of red peppers.
"In addition to these, the vegetable cooperative can also pick three batches, and one batch can produce about 500 kilograms more."
"Okay." Chen Zhaozhao was very happy, "Our village wants these."
"I thought you had to buy it yourself and just process it in the village." Lin Xisi said with a smile.
"Since it is processed in the village, of course everyone should buy it together." Chen Zhaozhao smiled and spread his hands, "Besides, I don't have so much money now."
"You have no money?" Lin Xisi was shocked and couldn't believe it.
"It's all spent in the provincial capital." Chen Zhaozhao said with a smile.
"What did you buy for so much money?"
Others don't know how much money Chen Zhaozhao has, but Lin Xisi knows it very well.
"Okay." Yu Jinggui said. He didn't like to see the two of them chatting so familiarly. "Look at Chili Pepper, let's go back quickly."
Lin Xisi glanced at Yu Jinggui speechlessly. Is it necessary to be so guarded against him?
Chen Zhaozhao was speechless and amused when she saw Yu Jinggui like this, but she didn't chat with Lin Xisi anymore. After briefly chatting about cooperation, she left.
After getting in the car, Yu Jinggui looked at Chen Zhaozhao who was smiling, "So happy?"
"Yes." Chen Zhaozhao looked at him with a smile, "I am happy to make money, and I am also happy to see you jealous."
Yu Jinggui said funnyly: "I'm sore, why don't you give me some candy?"
"Okay." Chen Zhaozhao took out a toffee from his bag, quickly opened it and stuffed it into his mouth, "Isn't it fragrant and sweet now?"
Yu Jinggui, "..."
The two returned to the village and went directly to Zhao Youchang's house.
Zhao Youchang was busy writing account books at home. After the autumn harvest, the public grain was handed over, and the rest had to be paid out, and then the grain was distributed.
When the two of them entered, Zhao Youchang, the village party secretary, and the village accountant had finished their work for the day.
When I saw them coming in, I immediately greeted them warmly.
"Oh, you are here! Come in, come in!" Zhao Youchang laughed.
"Zhaozhao is back from the provincial capital. Your third sister will stay in the provincial capital, right?"
Ever since the last time Lin Xisi talked about chili peppers, he had been looking forward to Chen Zhaozhao's return.
Now I'm back.
"Yes, I'm back. My third sister is working at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts." Chen Zhaozhao said and handed over the things he was carrying.
"I brought some pastries from the provincial capital. You can try them."
Zhao Youchang took it and said, "You are always so polite, thank you."
He put the things on the table and said with a smile: "I knew your third sister would definitely pass the exam. From now on, she will be a native of the provincial capital. How great!"
Chen Zhaozhao smiled and nodded.
After a brief exchange of greetings, she first reported to Zhao Youchang that Wang Sanmei was going to live with her parents in the name of visiting relatives.
In the past two years, when people from other villages come to live, they no longer require a letter of introduction from the village as before, but reporting it can prevent unnecessary trouble.
Zhao Youchang had no opinion on this matter. He simply asked and said nothing more.
He asked why, but Chen Zhaozhao didn't say that she didn't want Wang Sanmei's story to spread to everyone in the village.
After talking about this, let’s focus on making chili sauce.
The initial costs include buying chili peppers, pickling jars, cutting knives, and added ingredients such as salt, garlic, and ginger.
"What I mean is that everyone pools their money to buy it, share the cost and share the profits. I calculated that each family can give ten yuan first."
"Ten yuan?" Zhao Youchang frowned and shook his head, "Ten yuan is a lot of money, and some people will definitely not be willing to pay it."
"If you don't want to do it, then we won't do it together. Anyway, whoever pays for it will make the money." Chen Zhaozhao said coldly.
What she wants is someone who won't go out and make money together, such as the separated Lao Chen family and Lao Wang family, and the stingy Lao Zhang family.
What she meant by doing this was to eliminate her enemies. Nowadays, those who make money from growing fungus and vegetables in the village, so giving out ten yuan is not a problem.
Only those people who are mean, lazy, stingy, and whom Chen Zhaozhao never took to play from the beginning will have no money.
"The chili sauce supply and marketing cooperative will only give us money if it is sold. If it fails to sell and it is lost, will we have no money?" asked the village accountant.
"Yeah." Chen Zhaozhao nodded.
When she wrote to Lin Xisi, she asked him to tell the village this, not saying that if the food factory in the provincial capital wanted it, it would be able to sell it.
As a result, her enemies are even less willing to play with her.
Anyway, the opportunity is here, but they didn't seize it because they didn't like it. In the future, everyone will make money selling chili sauce. They have no money, so they can't blame others.
Chen Zhaozhao had a good chat with the three village officials Zhao Youchang about making chili sauce, and of course he followed Chen Zhaozhao's instructions in the end.
After all, it’s up to her to make the chili sauce. What the supply and marketing cooperative wants is the chili sauce made from her recipe.
After discussing it, Chen Zhaozhao and Yu Jinggui went home.
As soon as they left the intersection, they saw Liu Guihua and Chen Simei walking from outside the village.
"Mom, Fourth Sister!" Chen Zhaozhao immediately smiled and waved to them.
"Zhaozhao!" Chen Simei ran over excitedly and hugged her, "You are back. How are you in the provincial capital?"
"Very good." Chen Zhaozhao held her arm and walked home together when Liu Guihua arrived.
She first briefly talked about what happened between herself and Chen Sanmei in the provincial capital, and then talked about Wang Sanmei's matter.
"Ah? Is it so miserable?" Chen Simei and Liu Guihua sighed.
"So, I asked her to live in our house and work for me. I was going to make more things to sell, but I just happened to be too busy.
Fourth sister, your room is empty alone, so I arranged for her to stay in your room."
"Yeah." Chen Simei nodded, "It's okay, let her live there. I'll sleep at the third sister's place, and I'll be with the second sister."
Chen Zhaozhao breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, and then talked to them about the provincial capital.
Not long after they returned home, Chen Dawang and Zhang Genshan also came back.
Chen Zhaozhao then told them about Wang Sanmei again.
They had no objection to her taking in Wang Sanmei, and Chen Zhaozhao was completely relieved.
The remaining topic was, of course, what happened between her and Chen Sanmei in the provincial capital.
The experience was wonderful, and I could talk about it for a long time. I left out the part about Jiang Yuzhi and buying antiques, and she talked about everything else.
The family members were stunned when they heard this.
It was not until after dinner that Zhao Youchang knocked on the gong to call for a meeting.
Now that we have decided to make chili sauce, we will have a meeting tonight to finalize the matter and start making it tomorrow.
The whole village gathered in the conference room. After Zhao Youchang finished explaining the situation, everyone started talking noisily.
"Ten yuan per family? Who has the money? If the chili sauce cannot be sold, we will lose money. If we don't do this, we won't do it."
"Just don't spend money and work in vain."
"That's really unfair."
"The chili sauce I make has always been very popular," Chen Zhaozhao said. "If you use my recipe, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it."
"If we make too little, how can we sell out all the peppers if we make too much? Now there are more than 3,000 kilograms of peppers in total."
People in the village don't know how many things Chen Zhaozhao sells to the supply and marketing cooperative now, because their family delivers all the extra things themselves. It is said that the chili sauce sells two to three kilograms a day.
"It's just that peppers can't be eaten as food. If you make so many, you won't be able to sell them all."
Everyone doesn't think favorably of anything you say to me.
The people who shouted the loudest were the people from the old Zhang family.