Later, after picking fruits and vegetables in the afternoon, Xiang Jin and several other young people walked along the path to see the growth of their vineyard.
Seeing the lush vines in front of him, covering the entire grape trellis, Xiang Jin's eyes widened with a smile.
"In another year or two, they will bear fruit, Yan Chen, let's build a freezer by then, right?
Then we divide these grapes into two, sell one part as seasonal fruit, and store the other part until the new grapes mature and sell them, then we can sell them at a higher price."
Yan Chen nodded, "Yeah, sure!"
Ouyang Bo asked, "How much money will it cost to build a cold storage?"
Xiang Jin said, "It depends on how big the building is. A smaller one can be done for tens of thousands of yuan, and a larger one can cost several million."
Ouyang Bo then asked, "Then how big of a cold storage should we build if we want to hold 100,000 kilograms of grapes?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "I don't know!"
Yan Chen said, "At least five thousand square meters."
"Five, five thousand square meters?!" Ouyang Bo was immediately surprised, "How much does it cost?"
Xiang Jin was confused. Yes, how much does this cost?
Yan Chen said, "Probably several million."
Xiang Jin felt bad all of a sudden. How many millions? Then she couldn't bear it!
Yan Chen saw her little entanglement, so the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and then he comforted, "Don't worry, our cold storage doesn't need to be that big for the time being.
I have learned that the yield of grapes per mu is about 3,000 jins, which means that the total output of our 30-acre vineyard is about 90,000 jins. By then, we will have sold half of it, and there will be only
It weighs about 40,000 kilograms.
One cubic meter of volume can hold 230 kilograms of framed fruit, so 40,000 kilograms of fruit will require approximately 87 cubic meters. If divided by the cold storage coefficient of 0.6, the entire cold storage volume will be approximately 150 cubic meters.
The height of the cold storage is usually three meters, so its floor area is about fifty square meters, so the total cost is not too high, probably only tens of thousands of yuan, sixty or seventy thousand yuan.
Won’t arrive.”
"Really?!" If it was sixty or seventy thousand yuan, she would still be able to accept it.
Yan Chen nodded slightly, "Yes, I understand."
"That's good!"
Ouyang Bo's eyes twitched. His intuition was too different from theirs. In their eyes, sixty or seventy thousand yuan was nothing, but in his eyes, it was a huge amount of money.
!
Thinking about how many houses they had to buy in the provincial capital, and he only had 30,000 to 50,000 yuan in hand, he felt a little worried! He didn't know when he would be able to buy one in the provincial capital.
Suite? It seems like he has to work harder to make money!
After a few people walked around the entire grape grove, they went back along the way they came.
Then Xiang Jin made another suggestion to Yan Chen, "I think we should build an awning in an empty space so that customers who come to buy goods can have a sunshade no matter it's sunny or rainy, or in spring, summer, autumn and winter."
Isn’t it a covered place?
Even Grandpa Zeng and the others can have a shady place when they are being weighed. You see how hot and scorching the weather is right now. It’s so hot when you get up early in the morning. Grandpa Zeng and the others have been sweating all day long. We don’t want that either.
No matter how big you build it, just build one that can park four cars side by side at the same time.
And there is no need to surround it with walls. Just use a few wooden pillars or brick pillars to support it, and just use the iron sheet to build it. It takes a long time and saves trouble.
, as long as the iron sheet is ordered, it will be done in one day.”
Yan Chen said, "Okay, then let's talk to grandpa and them about it then?"
"good!"
After dinner, everyone sat down and chatted for a while, then they washed up and went upstairs to their rooms to go to bed. However, Yan Chen was stopped by his grandparents when he was returning to his room.
"Chenchen, would you like to come to our room for a while?"
"Okay!" Yan Chen turned around and entered his grandparents' room.
Then he saw his grandpa directly facing him and said, "I discussed it with your grandma, and then decided to adopt Jin Yatou's suggestion, which is to sell all the houses in our hometown and town, and follow you to
Go to the provincial capital to buy their house.
This one is relatively close to you, and the second one is your uncle, aunt, and it will be convenient for your brother to come back when the time comes."
"Yeah," Yan Chen nodded.
Then Grandma Mo handed him a bank passbook, their family's household registration book, and the couple's ID cards, "But, we have to pay for the house ourselves, and you have to hold it."
"
Yan Chen directly took the household registration book and their ID cards from her hand, but did not collect the bank book, "No, I have money there, you can just keep the bank book yourself!"
Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng insisted that he accept it, but Yan Chen refused, so Grandpa Zeng asked, "You are rich, how much money do you have?"
Yan Chen said, "Buying a few dozen houses is not a problem."
The two elders were speechless and at a loss for words. They didn't expect that he had so much money.
Yan Chen explained to them, "I have hot pot restaurants, braised meat restaurants, and the output of those vegetable fields, as well as the dividends from my aunt's watch shop, and several joint ventures with my aunt that I opened near my cousin."
I eat the dividends from the restaurant, and the fruit and vegetable farm here also pays regular dividends every month, so I am really not short of money. You have taken care of me for so many years, and I should be filial by buying you a house, so you just
Don't be polite to me."
The two old men lowered their heads and thought for a moment, and then his grandfather raised his head and nodded to him, "Okay, then grandpa and grandma will accept your filial piety," and then he continued
He said to his wife, "Then just put your bankbook away."
Grandma Mo nodded, "Oh!"
After settling the matter with his grandparents, Yan Chen immediately turned around and returned to his room.
The next morning, Xiang Jin no longer slept in as before, but got up when everyone else got up.
She said she would make toast for everyone this morning and she would never break her promise, so after washing up, she hurried to the kitchen to see if the oven she made yesterday was completely dry.
Well, the only good thing about this hot summer is that everything dries quickly. Just like her oven, which she just made at noon yesterday, she didn’t expect that it would be dry inside and out in just one night.
To be clear, this would take at least a week if left in the winter.
After confirming that it could be used, Xiang Jin first lit a fire in the stove hole under the oven to preheat the oven.
Then she washed her hands, peeled the small cantaloupe she picked from the field yesterday afternoon, then used its juice to knead the noodles, and then let the noodles ferment first, and then she went back
She processed the butter that her aunt brought back for her yesterday. After the dough had fermented for about twenty minutes, she added the processed butter to the dough, and then kneaded the dough again.
Form into a smooth dough and continue to ferment for about twenty minutes.
Then she picked up the baking sheets that she had specially asked her aunt to buy from the mall yesterday and cleaned them. Then she found a clean handkerchief to wipe off the water stains on them, and then brushed a layer of oil on them.
, to prevent the bread from sticking to the plate.
After doing this, the dough was almost fermented, and then she kneaded the dough smooth again, eliminated the air bubbles in the dough, and then divided the dough into dozens of small equal parts.
Then place them on several stainless steel baking pans.
At this time, the temperature of the oven had not reached her ideal temperature, so she waited for a while before sending two of the baking pans into the oven for baking. However, in order to prevent the temperature in the oven from being too high,
By that time, the bread was over-baked, so she put another bowl of water in the oven, so that when it evaporated, it would mainly evaporate the water in the bowl, without causing much substantial damage to the bread.
of damage.
While the bread was baking, Xiang Jin did not sit idle. Instead, he directly took out the two-sword pork that had been marinated last night from the refrigerator, and then laid it out piece by piece on the baking pan.
Then cover them with a cover.
When the cooking time was up, Xiang Jin opened the door of the oven, then carefully took out the two trays of toast inside, then brushed a layer of egg yolk on each bun, and then put it back in again to continue baking.
, when the second round of baking time was up, Xiang Jin took the two baking pans out of the oven and let them cool down naturally, and then the bread in the two baking pans was completely baked.
Then Xiang Jin baked the second batch of bread.
While the second batch of bread was baking, Xiang Jin picked up a baked loaf and broke it open to try. Well, it was golden in color on the outside and fluffy and soft on the inside. It also had a hint of milky aroma and a strong melon and fruit aroma.
, but the taste is not very sweet.
Well, it's delicious. I didn't expect that she hasn't made it in a few years, but her skills are still familiar. It seems that she is really talented in cooking! Xiang Jin is very satisfied with the first fruit of her labor today!
After repeating the operation several times at the right time, Xiang Jin finally baked dozens of breads perfectly, and then she sent several plates of bacon slices into the oven for baking.
The meat slices need to be turned over constantly, so the baking time should not be too long. You have to turn them over every one or two minutes, otherwise the meat will be very dry and woody after the water has evaporated, so Xiang Jin made twelve
Treat them with utmost vigor, not daring to be careless in the slightest.
Finally, after she finally baked all the bacon slices, just as she was baking eggs, Yan Chen walked in with a basket of fresh vegetables.
"Here's the lettuce you asked for!"
Xiang Jin trembled, "Oh my God, you scared me!"
Yan Chen said, "Sorry! I didn't know you were so involved."
Xiang Jin turned sideways and asked, "How many cucumbers are there?"
Yan Chen asked, "Two sticks, are they enough?"
Xiang Jin responded while flipping the eggs in the baking pan with a spatula, "That's enough, that's enough. Are you hungry? If you are, there are baked bread and meat there. You can get some for cushion first, but
Even the eggs haven't been fried yet, and the vegetables and cucumbers haven't been processed yet, so they can only be regarded as semi-finished products."
Yan Chen said, "No, wait until you've finished it before you taste it. I'll go to the fields first!"
"Oh, okay, but in about twenty minutes I should have everything ready, and then you can come back and eat!"
"good!"
Although Xiang Jin told Yan Chen that he could come back for breakfast in twenty minutes, it still took them almost an hour to come back.
As soon as he came back, Ouyang Bo asked Jin directly, "What delicious food did you prepare for us this morning?"
Xiang Jin said, "Wash your hands first and I will bring it to you right away."
"Okay!" Ouyang Bo quickly ran to the faucet in the courtyard to wash his hands!
After a while, everyone washed their hands and sat at the dining table. Xiang Jin brought two large plates of burgers in front of everyone, and then made a glass of milk for everyone.
Looking at the layer of bread, a layer of lettuce, and a layer of barbecue, followed by a thin layer of cucumber slices, followed by a layer of fried eggs, followed by another layer of lettuce and bread, Ouyang Bo suddenly
Face said in surprise, "So what you cooked for us was actually a hamburger?"
Grandpa Zeng joked, "Oh, our breakfast has finally changed."
Grandma Mo was very unhappy when she heard what he said, "Everyone is scrambling for time in the morning. It is already very good to make breakfast for you. You are still here to pick and choose whether it is salty or not."
Qianxi, if you mess with me, I will starve you in the morning."
Grandpa Zeng suddenly felt dumbfounded, "You said you old woman, okay, okay, okay, okay, it's my fault, I said the wrong thing, I'll be punished by eating one more later!"
There was a room full of people, and everyone burst out laughing.
Grandma Mo said angrily, "You have a bad idea, punish you? How can I punish you? You obviously want to be greedy!"
Grandpa Zeng then frowned and said with a smile, "Look at you, you've seen through my little thoughts."
Grandma Mo just groaned.
Xiang Jin smiled and said, "Yes, yes, I have prepared at least two for each of you. I will go to the kitchen to bring them to you later? But you should try it first to see what I made.
How exactly is it?"
So everyone picked up a burger and started eating it. After taking a bite, Grandpa Zeng said, "Well, it's still delicious as always. The layer of barbecue inside is still so fresh. Well, it's delicious!"
Others in the family also said it was delicious, so Xiang Jin said, "It's a pity that the meat here is not beef, but pork. The fat content of pork is a bit high. It would taste better if it were beef or chicken."
Her aunt said, "Then I will buy some beef when I go to town tomorrow. Which part do you want?"
Her grandfather said, "Didn't we buy two chickens yesterday? Then we will kill them and then break down the chicken breast meat before cooking it?"
Her grandma said, "I think I'm still very hungry after eating this. One day you can teach me how to cook it. If you go to college then, your grandpa and I will move here, and then we will give them this in the morning."
When the time comes, I will bring the soy milk machine from home and make salty soy milk in the morning."
Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng both smiled and nodded.
Xiang Jin said, "I think chicken breast is fine. It's too late for beef. We are leaving for the provincial capital tomorrow. When we get back, I will grill steak for everyone. Grandma, you too."
Ah, when we come back from the provincial capital, I will teach you how to make toasted bread and grilled steak."
Her grandma smiled and nodded and said, "Okay, okay!"
After breakfast, the others continued to go back to the fields to pick fruits and vegetables, but Grandpa Zeng stayed behind to slaughter the chickens, and his previous work was completely left to Yan Chen and Ouyang Bo.
The next day, Xiang Jin and the others did not immediately set off for the provincial capital after having breakfast. Instead, they helped them pick fruits and vegetables for a while, and then had breakfast and lunch before setting off.
It was almost seven o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived at the provincial capital.
After entering the city, Uncle Tao asked Yan Chen, "Should we go to eat first, or should we take them to where they live and put their things away first?"
Yan Chen asked Xiang Jin and the others, "Grandpa Ouyang, what do you think?"
Xiang Jin and her grandfather asked, "Is the place we live near that building?"
Yan Chen said, "No, you will stay at my house during this period, right?"
"Ah, living at your house? Isn't that bad?" Xiang Jin suddenly became a little confused.
Xiang Jin and her grandfather also said, "Yes, Xiaochen, I'm afraid this is not appropriate. How about this? Look at which restaurant has a hotel nearby that is convenient for us to stay. Let's stay in the hotel."
Xiang Jin brother and sister both nodded, and Xiang Jin said, "Well, I also think it would be more suitable for us to stay in a hotel."
Yan Chen said, "It doesn't matter whether it's suitable or not. The residence I'm talking about is not the military compound where my grandfather and I live, but my own house outside."
"You still have a separate apartment?" Ouyang Bo was surprised again.
Yan Chen nodded slightly and said, "Well, there is an apartment over there in the south section of the First Ring Road. It is usually unoccupied except for Aunt Jiang who comes over occasionally to clean up. Now that you are here, you can live there.
go."
Xiang Jin and his grandson hesitated a little, and Yan Chen continued, "There is our hot pot restaurant nearby, and Han Che's Chinese restaurant is not too far away. Whether you want to eat hot pot or Chinese food, you can
Very convenient.”
Uncle Tao then added, "And there is a breakfast snack street nearby, selling porridge, buns, steamed buns, soy milk, fried dough sticks and barbecued pork, rice noodles and noodles, etc. They are all sold next to each other.
There is a restaurant selling roast goose rice that tastes pretty good. You can go and try it then, and it’s not very far from the city center. It only takes about ten minutes by car in a straight line.”
Xiang Jin and his third son nodded, and then Ouyang Bo said, "How about we live there? There are no people living there anyway, so we don't have to worry about disturbing anyone in their family."
Xiang Jin didn't say anything. She wanted to see what her grandfather wanted. They would live wherever her grandfather said they would live.
Sure enough, her grandfather hesitated for a while and then said, "Okay, let's live there later."
The corner of Yan Chen's mouth curled up, and then he asked, "Then should we go home first and put away our things before going out to eat, or should we finish the meal and go straight back to rest?"
Xiang Jin said, "We don't have much stuff. My brother and I each have a backpack. How about we just eat it and go home to save the trouble of going back and forth? And you can go back early to rest."
Her grandfather and Ouyang Bo also nodded, and Yan Chen said, "Okay, let's go eat directly first. What do you want to eat, hot pot, Chinese food, or something else?"
Xiang Jin looked at her grandfather Ouyang Bo, "What do you think?"
Both my grandfather and my grandson said it was okay!
So Uncle Tao suggested, "Since we are all here in the provincial capital, we must first go to our own hotpot restaurant to try it?"
Xiang Jin and her grandfather didn't care, but Ouyang Bo's eyes suddenly lit up. When Xiang Jin saw it, he said, "Okay, then let's eat hot pot!"