Zeng Qing and the others only took two exams, so they had finished the exam two days ago, so Xiang Jin and Yan Chen were the only two on the way back today.
"If you go back so late, will you be able to make it in time?" Xiang Jin asked.
Yan Chen said, "I should be able to make it in time. I called my aunt before and asked her to help me find out first."
"Have you told your aunt? She didn't object?" Xiang Jin was slightly shocked by his efficient attitude.
Yan Chen nodded slightly, "Well, I said it, I was a little opposed to it at first, but I didn't insist on my decision, and finally I agreed.
During my last vacation, I went back and talked to her on the phone again. She said that she helped me pay attention to three places. One was on the south gate, on the edge of the first ring road, and near the second ring road. There were
An open space, about twenty acres."
"Twenty acres? That much?" Xiang Jin calculated silently. Even if she added the 200,000 yuan in costume design royalties that she was about to receive, her total assets would still be less than 50.
Ten thousand yuan, so she could only buy a little over an acre of land.
I just don't know how much money Yan Chen has on hand, and whether the two of them can jointly win that piece of land.
Yan Chen continued, "Although the location of that land is good, it is within the first ring, but I am not optimistic about that land."
Xiang Jin looked at him, "Why?"
Yan Chen explained to her, "From a long-term perspective of investment, first of all, the land is within the ring road and very close to the city center, so the price is definitely not cheap.
Secondly, if the government plans urban construction at that time, the land will most likely be reacquired by the government. In that case, wouldn’t our work be in vain?”
Xiang Jin nodded frequently, "Yes, yes, what you said makes sense. I have forgotten about this. What about the other two pieces of land?"
Yan Chen then said, "The other two pieces of land are outside the Second Ring Road, one is on the east gate and the other is on the west gate, but I have to go back and check before I can be sure."
Then Xiang Jin nodded, and then suggested to him, "I think, according to the current momentum of the country's development, the future economy will definitely develop rapidly, and the provincial capital will definitely develop a second ring and a third ring.
From the Fourth Ring Road.
So when we buy land, we can buy it a little farther away and wait a little longer. Of course, we don’t want to go too far away from the city. By then we won’t be able to develop there in ten or twenty years. We will choose to buy land in the second half of the year.
The position of a point outside the ring and the second ring.
This location seems to be far away from the city at the moment. It can be said to be a barren land, so the land management office will not pay more attention to it. Not only will the price be slightly lower, but also the related
The procedures will be easier and smoother for you, what do you think?"
Yan Chen nodded, "Yeah!"
Xiang Jin then said, "When the time comes, we will buy that land as residential land. Well, when we buy the land, we can also hire some people to farm on it, such as growing greenhouse vegetables, food crops, or fruit trees.
, landscape trees and so on, we can make some more money in the process of increasing its value."
Yan Chen laughed, "It's exactly what I thought. My grandfather has some retired soldiers, and many of them are staying in his hometown now. I'll invite them over to help us manage them?"
Xiang Jin smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Oh, that's okay. People who come from the military should be more serious and responsible."
After the matter was settled, Xiang Jin changed the subject, "Will you drive back by yourself then, or will your family have a driver to pick you up?"
Yan Chen said, "Uncle Mingtao will come to pick me up. Every year at the end of the year, he will come over in person to give some New Year's gifts to my grandparents."
"Oh, I understand!" Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked, "Your uncle Ming Tao is also a soldier under your grandfather?"
"Well, he used to be my grandfather's full-time driver, but later his mother became seriously ill and no one took care of him. When my grandfather found out, he asked him to go back and take care of his mother. His mother fell ill and died six years ago. He was in his hometown.
I had no relatives left, and then I returned to the provincial capital.
Later, he called my grandpa and said that he wanted to come back and be his driver. However, my grandpa already had another driver at that time, and he was doing a good job. My grandpa couldn't just say that he didn't want him anymore.
Then my grandpa arranged for him to work as a driver for others, but he didn’t want it. He said he wanted to stay with my grandpa, even if it was as a sprinkler and sweeper. I was only eight or nine years old at the time. Later, my grandpa thought about it carefully.
, and then we just left him at our house and asked him to help take care of him.
I, by the way, will take care of things at home, and my grandfather also promised that if one day he has something of his own to do, he can leave at any time, but he said that he will stay with my grandfather in the military compound for the rest of his life.
I'm staying by my side, not going anywhere, and not having anything to do of my own."
"Oh, I understand. It seems that your Uncle Mingtao is still a sweetheart." Xiang Jin nodded again, and then asked, "Well, he still looks like he is in his thirties, right? He should be married.
You're married, so why don't you have any relatives?"
Yan Chen said, "Well, he was indeed married before, but he divorced within two years."
"Leaved? Why?"
"It seems that the woman disliked him for being away from home all year round. Later, she became a little resentful and was not very kind to his mother. She didn't care about her when her mother was sick, so he left immediately when he came back."
"Oh, I didn't expect that he would have such an experience?" Xiang Jin couldn't help sighing.
"Um!"
"Then he didn't look for her again?" Xiang Jin asked again.
Yan Chen shook his head, "No!"
"Oh," Xiang Jin thought to himself. Could it be that he was hurt badly by his ex-wife and had a psychological shadow?
Xiang Jin asked, "Then when you celebrate Chinese New Year every year, don't you have a room full of old men?"
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Where? There is my aunt and my cousin, and there is also an aunt who cooks."
"You have a cousin?" Xiang Jin was surprised.
"Well, I'm the same age as you, only two months younger than you. I just entered junior high school this year."
"Really?"
"Um!"
"So how is your relationship with her, okay?"
"Well, it's not bad! Her grades are also very good, but she mainly lives with her grandparents."
"Aren't you living with your aunt?"
"My aunt usually has to take care of business, so she is mostly taken care of by her grandparents. Her grandfather used to be a mechanic in the army, so she also learned the habit of taking apart things. One time my aunt took her to the store.
She secretly took two watches and dismantled them while my aunt was not paying attention, and then did not install them back again, so my aunt didn't want her to be near her."
Hearing this, Xiang Jin suddenly laughed out loud, "I think your cousin has the potential to be an engineering girl?"
Yan Chen said, "My ambition is to build a carrier-based aircraft!"
Xiang Jin gave him a thumbs up, "What a noble and great ambition!"
A slight smile appeared on the corner of Yan Chen's lips, "Indeed!"
Xiang Jin said, "I think your cousin's temperament should be the kind of person who is relatively straightforward."
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, she usually likes to play with her peers in the military compound."
The two of them chatted and arrived home. As soon as they got home and put down their backpacks, Xiang Jin ran to look at the sausages they had regurgitated at home. Well, they had all been dried. Xiang Jin asked her mothers if they had cooked some.
eat.
Her mother said, "It's not cooked yet. Didn't you say you wanted to give it away? We're afraid we won't have enough by then."
Xiang Jin said, "Hey, I only gave it to a few families. I have already planned it. I will give five or six kilograms to Yan Chen, five kilograms to Han Che, and Aunt Liao will give it to herself."
It's three kilograms, but there's almost a dozen kilograms left, so we can eat that by ourselves.
Besides, if it’s not enough by then, we’ll just pour some more. Don’t grandpa and the others still have half a pig?
Cut some and cook some, let's taste it."
Her mother thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll take some and cook some."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then went to check the row of chickens hanging on the other side. Well, they were all dried, but they were quite plump. The chickens raised by this family were meatier than those that grew up running in the wild.
A lot, look at it, it's dripping with oil, and it smells slightly of wax, which is quite fragrant!
One, two, three...there are really ten of them!
For dinner, Xiang Jin's mother made three dishes and one soup. The so-called three dishes were actually fried sweet potato tips, a braised pork, and a sliced sausage. The soup was a pea tip meatball soup.
"Yeah, yeah, this sausage is delicious, sister, this sausage is really delicious, not spicy, not numb, not salty, not dry," Xiang Lan said after eating several slices in a row.
After eating it, her mother and grandpa both said it was delicious. The sausage tasted much better than the ones they had made in previous years.
Xiang Jin thought to herself, of course this sausage is delicious. The recipe for this sausage was copied from the father of one of her colleagues in her previous life. That colleague's father was the executive chef of a five-star hotel.
Her cooking skills are at the level of a big shot in the industry. She has participated in many competitions at home and abroad and won many awards.
When she was given this formula, it was because she was her son's immediate boss, otherwise it would not be passed on to her, unless she was his direct disciple.
Xiang Jin picked up a piece and ate it in her mouth. Well, she missed the taste so much. Unfortunately, she was still taking medicine and couldn't take more.
Her mother said, "Xiang Jin, mom made dumplings for you. You can eat the dumplings. You also like to eat the sweet potato leaves."
Xiang Jin nodded, "I know!"
The next morning, Xiang Jin got up and had just washed up. Her eldest uncle, her eldest aunt, her second aunt, and four brothers, Yang Hui, Yang Zhao, Yang Xu, and Yang Xin, came with her grandmother.
There were several adults, and each of them was carrying a backpack on his back.
"What is this for?" Xiang Jin asked as he walked over.
Yang Zhao winked at her and said, "I'll give you the meat on your back!"
"Did you kill the pig?" Xiang Jin asked.
Yang Zhao nodded, "He was killed yesterday!"
"So all your meat is marinated?" Xiang Jin asked again.
Yang Zhao nodded again, "I marinated it last night. My grandmother said that I have to do business today and I also need to pick vegetables. And you are still taking medicine and it is not suitable to eat raw or cold food, so you brought us here to help you pickle it."
Xiang Jin felt that her grandmother was so considerate and thought about everything for their family.
"How many pounds of meat is this?"
Yang Hui shook his head, "I don't know! It's probably more than a hundred kilograms."
Yang Hui said, "One hundred and twenty pounds."
Xiang Jin said, "I think this is more than one hundred and twenty pounds."
Yang Hui said, "We also brought some of our own meat. We said that your sausages are very fragrant, so we brought them to you and filled them with you."
Xiang Jin said, "You have never tasted our sausages, how do you know they are delicious?"
"I told you, I don't know the recipe of the sausage you made before, but it smells delicious!"
Xiang Jin smiled proudly and said, "I'll cook some for you to try at noon today!"
"Okay, okay, you have to cook more, otherwise there won't be enough food for the number of people," Yang Zhao followed and climbed up the pole.
Xiang Jin curled his lips and said, "Tch, I gave the sausage to others as a gift. How can I give you enough to taste it at once? If you want to eat more, you can learn how to order it later, and then you can drink it yourself."
, you can eat as much as you want then!”
Yang Zhao curled his lips and said, "Stingy!"
Xiang Jin said, "Our family is even reluctant to eat it ourselves!"
"Okay!" Yang Zhao finally had no choice but to say.
Then Xiang Jin turned her head and asked her mother, "Mom, do we have enough salt at home?"
Her mother said, "That's enough. I bought it yesterday and put it in the kitchen."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked Yang Hui and Yang Zhao brothers, "Do you have a lot of small intestines?"
Yang Zhao obviously didn't know clearly, so he looked at his brother, and Yang Hui said, "There are two pairs, and I have brought two pig's ones."
Xiang Jin nodded, then walked over to see the meat her uncle and aunts were carrying in their baskets, and then asked her mother, "How many more sausages can we make at home?"
Her mother then discussed with her, "Why don't we make twenty pounds and use one hundred pounds for pickling?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay!"
She decided that she would make two flavors later, one salty and one sweet.
When Xiang Lan heard that their family was making sausage again, she hurriedly ran into the house to take out the scale and kitchen knife, and asked her uncle to weigh the twenty kilograms of meat for them first.
The adults in the family couldn't help laughing when they saw it.
When Xiang Jin saw it, he couldn't help but curl his lips. He is a good eater and is always the most positive in this regard.
Xiang Jin asked her uncle to divide the 20 kilograms of meat into two portions. One portion was about five or six kilograms, and the other was about fourteen or five kilograms. She said she planned to make two flavors of sausage later.
Her aunts asked her which two flavors she wanted to make, or if they could try it too? Xiang Jin said sweet and salty.
When her aunts heard about the sweet ones, they were a little unable to accept them, so they said they would just make salty ones.
It seems that the public's taste is still more salty, so Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked her two aunts how many kilograms of sausages they packed at home?
The two aunts said that the meat at their house was not weighed, so they would put it in whatever quantity it was.
Xiang Jin asked her uncle to weigh them all because she planned to use the ingredients.
Her uncle nodded, picked up the scale and started weighing the meat, and Xiang Jin ordered Xiang Lan to lead Yang Xu and Yang Xin to help her grandfather pick vegetables, while Yang Hui and Yang Zhao stayed to help her wait.
While the meat was being marinated, her grandmother took the initiative and asked her to clean the casings.
After making these arrangements, Xiang Jin asked brothers Yang Hui and Yang Zhao to follow her to the kitchen to stir-fry salt.
The two of them were surprised and said, "Fried salt? Do you still need to fry the salt?"
Her two aunts said that their salt was never fried, and every year they made bacon, they never fried it.
Xiang Jin said, "It needs to be fried for a while. Only fried salt-cured bacon is delicious."
"Really?" her aunt asked.
"Yeah," Xiang Jin nodded slightly.
Her eldest aunt said, "Then next year we will also make a profit."
When they got to the kitchen, Xiang Jin asked Yang Zhao to cook the pot while she fried the salt.
Yang Zhao asked, "What does my brother do?"
"Yes, what should I do?" Yang Hui asked.
Xiang Jin looked at him and hesitated for a moment, "Yeah, it still takes a while to fry the salt. So, why don't you go outside and bring in the meat that your family and my second uncle's family are going to fill with sausages?
Peel it, wash it, and cut it into pieces the size of your little finger?”
Yang Hui nodded, "Okay!"
Yang Zhao sat in front of the stove and cooked the pot. When the pot was hot, Xiang Jin poured the salt into the pot and began to stir-fry. After the salt was hot, she added some Sichuan peppercorns and continued to stir-fry.
Yang Zhao stood up after heating the pot for a while, "How long do you want to stir-fry the salt?"
Xiang Jin said, "Fry it until it turns slightly yellow."
Yang Zhao reached out and asked her for a spatula, "I'll do it!"
It's okay, he has done it himself, and next year when their family is marinating meat, he will know how to do it. Xiang Jin gave him the spatula directly, and then stood aside and instructed him, only occasionally
When the time comes, add a handful of firewood to the stove.
They fried it for about half an hour before the salt was done. Then Yang Zhao asked, "What should we do next? Start marinating the meat?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "No, we have to wait until it cools down."
"Ah? When will we go?" Yang Zhao asked in surprise.
Xiang Jin said, "It's quick to spread it in a dustpan." After that, she went to the small room next to her and took out a clean dustpan, and then asked Yang Zhao to scoop out the salt from the pot and pour it into the dustpan.
, and then she went to prepare the condiments for stuffing the sausages.
After a while, her grandmother finished processing the sausage casings, but seeing that the bacon would not be ready for a while, she picked up a kitchen knife and cut the meat stuffed with sausages together with Yang Hui.
After the salt had cooled down, Xiang Jin asked Yang Zhao to make bacon with her. Her grandmother and Yang Hui were about to put down their kitchen knives and join them. Xiang Jin refused, saying no, she and Yang Zhao were enough.
.
When they got there, Xiang Jin asked Yang Zhao to do it, and she was directing from the side.
Yang Zhao stopped, "No, sister, you asked me to do it alone, didn't you mean you were with me?"
Xiang Jin reminded, "I'm still taking medicine and I'm taboo on touching raw and cold meat. The meat is so cold, how can I touch it?"
Yang Zhao asked, "Then you didn't let my brother be with my grandma just now?"
Xiang Jin said, "They are cutting meat. Don't you want the sausage from your two families to be poured out early?"
Yang Zhao snorted, and Xiang Jin frowned, "I asked you to do some work and you are still mumbling. Do you want to eat the sausage for lunch today?"
"Yes!" Yang Zhao quickly replied.
Xiang Jin said, "If you want, work quickly! Don't wait any longer!"
Yang Zhao picked up a piece of meat and smeared salt on it. Xiang Jin reminded him, "Spread it evenly and carefully. Don't leave out every corner, otherwise I will ask you to pay for it if the meat becomes smelly after being marinated!"
"I know, I know, long-winded, if you don't believe me, then why don't you do it yourself?!"
Xiang Jin glared at him, "I am providing you with an opportunity to practice being serious and careful in your work. Don't understand my good intentions for you."
"It sounds great, I don't believe what you said," Yang Zhao raised his eyelids and glanced at her.
Xiang Jin reminded him, "Who once said that you must listen to me, my sister, in everything, and do whatever I tell you? How come it has only been so long, and you want to regret it?"
Yang Zhao asked, "Who regretted and denied it?"
Xiang Jin said, "Then hurry up! You're taking your time, boy, can you hurry up a little bit?"