Everyone did not dare to object to the host's request. Of course, they also wanted to know whether the mud lumps and mud eggs were edible.
Judging from the owner's operation, it is very simple to just clean it and boil it before eating.
In addition to the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted by the farmers, Shi Jiang and his subordinates also planted a lot of sweet potatoes and potatoes. Shi Jiang also rented the land as tenants and did not return all of it to Zhuangzi. Instead, he divided 40% of the grain among his subordinates.
Even after 40% was divided, Shi Jiang made a rough calculation and found that there were nearly 200,000 jins of sweet potatoes and 300,000 jins of potatoes in Zhuangzi's granary.
Because of the bumper harvest, Shi Jiang specially ordered people to slaughter two fat pigs. While the sweet potatoes and potatoes were being cooked here, the pigs were being shaved and slaughtered over there.
When the sweet potatoes and potatoes are cooked, the butchered vegetables are also ready.
The sweet potatoes and potatoes pulled out of the pot were put into large pots, enough for more than a dozen pots.
There are also the butchered pig vegetables, the offal and pickles stir-fried together, the bones stewed in soup, the pork belly cut into one centimeter thickness and fried in oil and braised in oil, the hoof and fork stewed with rich sauce, and the pig head is braised and cut into pieces.
Dip the cold cuts in that brine and eat them, the delicious taste can be swallowed by your tongue.
As for the bone-in ribs, Shi Jiang asked someone to peel off the skin of the potatoes, then cut them into pieces, and then fried them together with the ribs.
When it was served out, the soup was filled with thick potato starch.
Not to mention the farmers in Zhuangzi have never tasted these flavors, even the subordinates who came with Shi Jiang have never tasted them.
Many of the condiments were taken out by Shi Jiang from the bag, because they were all in powder form. After the cook added them, he only felt that after adding these condiments, the pork, which originally had a bit of fishy smell, became fragrant.
Delicious, even the fat meat is fat but not greasy.
Of course, for these farmers who can't taste the smell of meat all year round, they can still enjoy eating even boiled pork, and now, they are eating it with all their eyes.
In addition, the boiled sweet potatoes are sweet and soft, and the boiled potatoes are also fragrant, not to mention the braised potato cubes stewed with the ribs. If you bite into it, the potatoes will taste like meat because they are full of meat flavor.
Same, it’s so delicious that you can’t stop eating it.
When the big guys swept away everything and held their bulging bellies, they had only one thought in their minds: with these sweet potatoes and potatoes, they would never go hungry again!
The most important point is that these sweet potatoes and potatoes can be planted in spring, summer and autumn.
Sweet potato seedlings can be grown by inserting poles. One potato can be divided into many pieces. The investment is small and the income is large. This time, no matter what Jiang said, everyone began to seriously learn how to cultivate seedlings and divide them into pieces.
After Shi Jiang saw that everyone had learned it, he repeatedly told them that if the sweet potatoes and potatoes sprouted, they should not eat them to prevent poisoning after eating.
Seeing that they all nodded and promised to remember, Shi Jiang focused on the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the granary.
If there are so many sweet potatoes and potatoes stored in the warehouse and well preserved, they will naturally last until next year.
However, if one is not careful, these sweet potatoes and potatoes may sprout.
Therefore, the best way is to reprocess these sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Both sweet potatoes and potatoes can be processed into vermicelli and flour, and sweet potatoes can also be cooked into dried sweet potatoes.
Once these are made, they can be stored for a long time.
Although Shi Jiang never thought about letting farmers sell these sweet potatoes and potatoes, if they are made into vermicelli and powder, they can be sold over long distances.
Especially the vermicelli, you can make all kinds of delicious things.
After tasting the vermicelli made with Shi Jiang, Fang Lei immersed himself in eating it while not forgetting to give Shi Jiang a thumbs up. This hot and sour vermicelli is so delicious, isn’t it?
The original plan to transport those ceramics to Jiangnan was temporarily shelved due to the huge demand for ceramics from the mountain people.
Now Fang Lei directly replaced the ceramic with this vermicelli. Compared with porcelain, which is easily broken accidentally on the road, the vermicelli will not be damaged at all.
Even along the way, because of his demonstration on how to make these vermicelli, there were only a few carriages of vermicelli left when he arrived in Jiangnan. Fang Lei insisted on keeping these vermicelli and not selling them on the way.
Sure enough, after arriving in Jiangnan, the food made by these fans was amazing.
The remaining fans in this carriage with more fans were bought out at a high price.
At the same time, we also received large orders from several restaurants, each ordering several kilograms of vermicelli.
There are also those big families who each ordered hundreds of kilograms. After all, it takes Fang Lei almost a month to get from Shunan to Jiangnan.
Those who work as restaurant keepers and those who manage wealthy households are very shrewd.
Vermicelli is dried in the sun and can be stored for a long time as long as it is not exposed to water. Even if you buy more, it will not have any impact.
When Fang Lei once again purchased grain and some specialties from the south of the Yangtze River and was on his way back to southern Shu, he received a piece of news.
There was a war in the border town, and the scale this time was not small. Marquis Xuanping took all his sons in the mansion to fight against the enemy. It is said that the war situation is now very critical.
Fang Lei had his people rush back to Shunan and tell the news to Shi Jiang who was very busy in the fields.
After receiving the news, Shi Jiang let out a long breath, and the second boot that had been hanging in her heart finally fell to the ground.
Although her and Lao Ba's fate took a turn from the original route and survived.
But Xuanpinghou and his family members all met the same fate as before.
I just don’t know, this time, without Shi Jiang, the twin sister, in what capacity will Shi Ji survive?
Regarding the fall of Marquis Xuanping, Shi Jiang just felt depressed for one night. After all, this was his choice.
Then, Shi Jiang did whatever he needed to do.
On the other hand, Fang Lei and Cao Jian felt uncomfortable for a long time after learning what happened in the border town.
However, when they followed Shi Jiang to southern Shu, they had abandoned their original identities. No matter how uncomfortable they were, they could not go to the border town again.
When the first snow fell in southern Shu, Marquis Xuanping and several of his adult sons died in battle.
However, I don't know if it was because Shi Jiang had talked with Xuan Pinghou, but this time, he didn't fall into the trap of the other party, and the casualties among the soldiers were not that big.
There was no massacre of the city, because Marquis Xuanping held firm and waited until reinforcements arrived, keeping the incoming enemy outside the city.
However, although Xuanpinghou and his concubines died, the entire Xuanpinghou family was still escorted to Beijing.
Among them, including the time when he did not follow Xuanping Hou on his expedition.
This time, he didn't become a deserter, and naturally he didn't have to borrow the name of his twin sister and live in disguise as a woman.