Chapter 120 The trouble with reorganizing the family (16)
Xu Yin also thought he was joking.
Unexpectedly, after she finished her work in the strawberry garden and went down the mountain with a small bamboo basket in her arms, a car stopped at the village road.
The village chief was leading a young man towards her home. When he saw her, he greeted her from a distance:
"Yinyin, this gentleman is here to buy strawberries. You are the only one growing this in our village. I will bring him up to ask."
Xu Yin: "..."
Well, you don’t need to ask to know that they must be the students of Professor Wang that the friend from “Promoting Agriculture through Science and Technology” mentioned.
Sure enough, the other party handed her a business card and said that she was here to buy organic strawberries for her teacher. It didn't matter if they were not ripe. She would order them today and they would be shipped after the year when they are ripe.
I didn't even ask about the price. After adding her as a friend, I directly transferred 5,000 to her.
The village chief was dumbfounded: "Are strawberries expensive this year?"
He thought the other party was here to buy a few kilograms to taste, but he didn't expect that the price was five thousand. This amount can almost wrap up the strawberries in the greenhouse, darling!
Liu Yan said, "It depends on the quality. Organic strawberries cost 100 yuan a pound, which is pretty cheap."
The village chief was puzzled: "What are organic strawberries? New varieties?"
Liu Yan: "..."
Xu Yin directly handed a strawberry in the basket to the village chief: "Uncle, this strawberry I grow is organic. It does not use pesticides, spray insecticides, chemical fertilizers, and does not contain hormones. You can try it with the ones bought outside."
What’s the difference?”
The village chief ate one and pursed his lips happily: "It tastes really good. I have eaten the strawberries sold on the street, but they are not as good as the ones you grow. They are not as big as this, and they don't taste as good as yours."
I added in my mind: The price is really expensive! One hundred yuan per catty, it feels like eating money.
Liu Yan also tasted a few and nodded repeatedly: "The teacher is right, you are really good at growing fruits. These strawberries are really good."
It is sweet, but still retains the unique acidity of strawberries. It can be said that there is sourness in the sweetness, and sweetness in the sourness.
When you bite into it, it's juicy and full, and your mouth is filled with the rich sour and sweet taste of strawberries, which makes you want to eat one more.
To be honest, before he came here, he didn't think much of it. If the teacher hadn't insisted on him buying it, he wouldn't have wanted to make this trip.
When it comes to organic fruits, which one can grow better than the fruit gardens of Science and Technology Xingnong?
Especially organic strawberries. Are the high-quality products from Kenong Base not enough for teachers?
But after eating the strawberries grown by Xu Yin, I realized that there are mountains beyond the mountains and there are people beyond the people.
With the expansion of capital in recent years, the strawberries from the Konong Base have lost their original quality. Of course they taste better than those bland ripening strawberries on the market, but compared with Xu Yin's, they tasted immediately.
High and low.
Liu Yan also wanted to go back to his relatives' house in the county to pay his last respects. He ate a few strawberries, acknowledged the door and left first.
The village chief followed Xu Yin to her house. He walked with his hands on his back and asked, "Yin Yin, if we build a greenhouse to grow strawberries like you next year, do you think anyone will come to buy it?"
Xu Yin: "..."
How did she know? She first built a greenhouse to grow strawberries, purely for her own consumption.
I can’t finish the fresh ones and I’m thinking about making strawberry wine. If I have more, I can make freeze-dried strawberries and strawberry jam.
If you store it in the system warehouse, it won't break down in the next small world, and you don't even think about selling it.
But since the village chief asked this, she thought carefully and said:
"Logistics is very convenient now. Fruits and vegetables that are not easy to preserve can be pre-sold in advance and shipped when the harvest period comes. It is still feasible."
The village chief nodded, but thought about it carefully: "Looking at how carefully you serve the strawberries, it's actually not easy to make money."
Then he shook his head. He was older. His two sons, one working in a public institution in the county and the other running a stall in an ancient town, would definitely not want to go back to the countryside to farm.
There was no one to help him, so how could he, a little old man, cope, and he didn't have the strength of Xu Yin.
Speaking of strength, he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. He really couldn't understand: How could Xu Yin be so strong? Obviously, Old Man Xu and his son were not so strong.
When Xu Yin got home, she brought out five yards of rice cakes and a jar of wine.
The wine was taken from the system warehouse, presumably sent by a classmate from Hengcheng.
The village chief liked this, and Xu Yin's gift could be said to be sent to his heart. He went back happily, and after a while he brought over a can of maltose.
"Have you made rice krispie treats at home? If not, these are enough to make two pots."
The village chief didn't mention it, but Xu Yin really didn't think of it. Rice Krispies Treats are a must-have during the Chinese New Year in the countryside.
So, I had something to do again that afternoon: making rice krispie treats live.
However, her family did not make any preparations in advance and did not have any frozen rice to dry. Fortunately, someone set up a popcorn box at the entrance of the town. She brought five kilograms of rice there and popped a few boxes of popcorn back.
Grandma Xu washed and dried the peanuts at home, and sauteed them with sesame seeds until fragrant. When her granddaughter came back from popping the popcorn, she could make rice krispie treats at any time.
Xu Yin was ready, set up her mobile phone and started live broadcasting.
Put maltose, rice krispies, and fried peanuts into a large pot one after another and stir well, then pour it into a mold and flatten it, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and roll it out with a rolling pin. Remove the mold and cut it into slices, and you have the traditional rice krispie treats.
Five kilograms of popcorn rice, plus bits and pieces of nuts and maltose, resulted in almost twenty kilograms of rice krispie treats.
While the pot was hot and the ingredients at home were all available, Xu Yin made two more pots of snowflake cake in one go.
The rice krispie treats are very crispy when cooled and break when touched, making them inconvenient for express delivery.
She plans to take out half of the snowflake cakes and give them to fans as a lucky draw during the New Year.
Unexpectedly, fans posted comments saying they wanted to eat rice krispie treats.
[I can also make snowflake cookies. I want to eat rice krispie treats made with maltose. I only ate this when I was a kid. Many of the rice krispie treats I buy now are made of red and white sugar pretending to be maltose, but in fact they don’t even have a drop of maltose.]
[Miss, just give us some rice krispie treats, we’re tired of eating snowflakes!]
[That’s right! Snowflake Crispy was popular last year. I made several pots of them and didn’t finish them until spring. They were all damp and I didn’t want to eat them anymore.]
Xu Yin: "...Okay, then I'll put ten pieces in a pack, and I'll draw fifty fans to give away rice krispie treats."
[Five pieces per pack, draw 100 fans! The chance of winning is higher.]
[Why don’t you take one piece per pack and draw five hundred? I’m afraid that even if I’m not a chief, I won’t be able to get one hundred.]
[For those of you who are non-chiefs, please don’t join in the fun.]
[I won a special prize at the company’s annual meeting that just ended, and I feel like the European emperor’s hand is still there. I hope that the lady will only draw one in a pack of 100 pieces! (dog head)]
[roll!]
[…]
The barrage was full of joy.
In the end, Xu Yin packed up 50 portions of Rice Krispies Treats and 100 portions of Snowflake Crisps. She drew a total of 150 fans and packed them up at the town courier station. She hoped that the lucky fans would receive them before New Year's Eve.
Handmade gifts.
There is really nothing we can do if we can't receive it from her.
During the Chinese New Year, express delivery time is unpredictable, everyone can understand.