A group of people picked peppers, carrying baskets full of peppers and carrying them back to the village. When the sun got higher and the heat became very hot, they had already picked half an acre of peppers.
The villagers in Baobao Valley in Huangjia Village also stopped working and rushed back to avoid the sun.
In this kind of weather, it is usually best to go to the fields around midnight in the afternoon.
Otherwise, it's not worth it to get sick due to the heat or something.
Song Qiu planned to make all the peppers harvested from the five acres of land to make bean paste, so he didn't care about the ones that were dark red but not yet red. They could also be chopped for sauce.
She plans to open two Doubanjiang workshops, one in Zhuangzi and one in Songshan Village.
This is left to Lin Desheng and his wife to look after. The last step of making doubanjiang is the most important. She has not earned enough money from this, so naturally she cannot reveal the recipe, so she plans to do it herself.
She wouldn't trust anyone to do a process alone.
The weather is so bad right now that we don’t go to the fields to pick peppers. Instead, we go to the shady place in the village to pick pepper stalks, wash the peppers, and dry them to dry. Dogs can do this even if they are young.
As for the older ones like Da Mao, they naturally chop chili peppers.
A dozen chopping knives had been ordered and delivered to Zhuangzi a long time ago. Each person had a wooden basin and a knife. Song Qiu showed them how to use it, and everyone started working on their own.
In addition, Song Qiu also arranged for Shunzi and Qingcao to help Ma in the kitchen. They were responsible for everyone's daily meals in Zhuangzi, so they were familiar with the work on the kitchen stove.
The chili peppers were chopping loudly in the village. Song Qiu took advantage of the break of everyone in the workshop to let them in and pay them their wages.
She knew she wouldn't be able to make it back in time for last month's wages, so she reserved it for Lin Desheng and asked him to pay it when the time came.
It is currently issued this month.
Lin Dayou, six people from Songshan Village, and Zhang Hugua initially agreed that their monthly wages would be a fixed six hundred cents.
The same goes for Yuan Cheng and his wife.
There is also Miao Xiang, she has always been paid five hundred cents.
Song Qiu distributed to everyone first, and finally to Zhang Hugua.
He had paid all his previous wages, and now he has only been working at Zhuangzi for half a month. It is not expected that he would be paid, but Song Qiu also paid him half a month's wages, just like everyone else.
Well, otherwise the salary will have to be staggered next month.
After the wages of all the workers were paid, it was the turn of Lin Desheng and his wife Wang Guizhuang to take charge of one tael, and Ma and Wang Guizhuang each had 600 taels.
Everyone received their wages and went about their business with a smile.
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I just started to get started, before noon, and then after dinner, I continued to chop, but I didn't chop out much at all.
At about midnight, everyone picked up their baskets and went out to pick peppers.
Song Qiu called Du Chuanfu for help and used the two pots of chopped chilies that he had chopped out for most of the day to make bean paste, otherwise it would spoil easily overnight.
When the moldy douban was brewing, Song Qiu soaked it in white wine and rapeseed oil.
Now let Du Chuanfu be responsible for chopping and breaking it into pieces.
She then began to add ingredients for the crushed chilies, adding enough salt, and then threw in a pack of Sichuan peppercorns, and then added minced ginger and garlic.
Then wait for Du Chuanfu to chop up the chopped moldy beans and pour them into the big wooden basin.
Then use a shovel to stir evenly in the wooden basin, and finally pour in the rapeseed oil.
After pouring the rapeseed oil, move the cleaned and dried jars back and forth to fill them.
Two large pots of crushed chili peppers were prepared with good ingredients and filled into two large jars.
All these processes are done in the east chamber of the inner courtyard. People outside are busy and no one will come in, so it is kept very secret.
Even though she knew that her bean paste was made with chopped red pepper, bean paste, white wine, rapeseed oil, etc., she still didn’t know how to put the ingredients and how to proceed.
As for outsiders, not only do they not know the ingredients, but also the complexity of making this moldy douban cannot be figured out by outsiders. Only a dozen or so people from Zhuangzi, including Mr. Yuan Cheng and his wife, know.
They are busy working in this village all year round and seldom see outsiders. Who can know what they are doing?
So it’s difficult to find out.
One by one, Song Qiu was not worried about the recipe for Doubanjiang being spread out.
Put the prepared bean paste into the jar, seal it, and store it in the east compartment, close to the corner, front and back, so that you can keep track of it.
After having dinner at Zhuangzi, Song Qiu left Zhuangzi with Huang Qi and about ten others.
Two mule carts were driven away, leaving three carts, which are still being kept at the village for the time being.
We stopped all the way to the inn, where we were also having dinner.
Song Qiu took Huang Qi and others in, introduced and negotiated the work with Tao Zheng and the others. Starting tomorrow, they would come to the inn to work. As for the accommodation issue, they also made simple arrangements.
There are four living rooms in total outside the kitchen. Tao Zheng and Li lived in one room, Tao Dongping and his brothers lived in one, Wang and Tao Xiuer lived in one room, and one room was empty.
There were about ten people like Huang Qi and they couldn't fit in even if they were crowded together, so Song Qiu had already made arrangements and planned to bring a few of them back to live in the village and get up early every day to work.
I have to live in Daozaoyuan, and it is convenient to go out to work.
Then it would be inconvenient for the little girl to go.
Song Qiu thought about it and made arrangements.
The empty room was for Huang Qiier and his wife to live with their daughter.
The two brothers Tao Dongping vacated their house and took Bench, Dazhong, Tian Gener, Dingzi and Xiaoma with them back to the village to live in. They got up early every day to go to work.
Mian Mian, Xiao Yi and Xiao Yinfangzi lived in the room vacated by Tao Dongping and others.
As for the two who are going to a shop in town, let's go back and rest tonight. If we get up early tomorrow, she will go to a dessert shop in town, so we can take them with us.
This room was arranged, Tao Zheng and the others had finished their meals, and others were left busy to clean up. Song Qiu sat at a table and called Tao Zheng to bring the account book and come over to reconcile the accounts.
She left the house at the end of April and had just settled ten days' worth of accounts before she left. Now, she was full of accounts and had fifty days' worth of accounts to settle.
Tao Zheng turned the account book back to the beginning of the last account settlement, showed it to Song Qiu, and reported the accounts at the same time.
"The weather has been hot this past month, and the business of the tea shed is more than half better than before. Every day, the iced watermelon jelly, cold shrimps and so on are sold out. The business of the inn is also pretty good. In addition to eating and lodging, we have received a total of
It’s almost twenty.”
If business is good, the income will naturally be very optimistic.
The inn's account contains one hundred and ninety-eight cents of silver for fifty days.
According to the account of the tea shed, the amount of silver in fifty days is one hundred and twenty-five taels.
The income from both compartments totaled two hundred and thirty-five taels per cent. After excluding the cost of purchasing ingredients and other costs, there was a surplus of one hundred and sixty-seven taels per cent.
Tao Zheng reported the account and presented the money box to Song Qiu.
Song Qiu opened it and looked at the pile of white coins and copper plates inside, which made people feel hot.
There is nothing more pleasant than making money.
"You have all worked hard these days. Come here, everyone, and give each of you a red envelope worth twenty cents."
The weather is hot, and whether you are busy in the kitchen or outside, you have to work hard with sweat. Song Qiu is used to doing this, and she knows whether she is tired or not.
Twenty pennies is neither much nor much, just have fun and make everyone happy.
At that moment, everyone in the Li family gathered around. Each person received twenty copper coins and thanked Song Qiu with a smile.