Knowing that the things in his hands would make him rich, Xiao Wei San was particularly enthusiastic about what he did!
Not long after, a layer of gray-brown powder was ground out on the edge of the small stone mill.
Xiao Han, who was squatting next to him, saw this, stretched out his finger, dipped a little into his mouth, and immediately, a rich and delicious taste hit his taste buds!
It has to be said that the umami flavor of this purely natural MSG is purer than that of later industrially produced MSG!
Just a slight taste of this made Xiao Han, who was used to eating good food, feel a little intoxicated.
"Can this be eaten?"
Seeing the expression of enjoyment on Xiao Han's face, Xiao Wei San was greatly surprised and couldn't help but twist some powder and put it into his mouth.
However, he accidentally twisted it too much, and as a result, his nose and eyes were wrinkled together by the salt! Then he spit out several mouthfuls of saliva, and then he stuck out his tongue and looked at Xiao Han with an innocent face.
"Don't look at me, who told you to eat so much? This thing is just a seasoning, almost like salt!" Xiao Han glanced at Xiao Wei San, who was hanging his tongue, and shrugged.
"Ahem, will anyone really buy this thing?" Xiao Wei San coughed several times and finally regained his composure. He pointed at the small stone mill in front of him and asked Xiao Han suspiciously.
Seeing that he didn't believe him, Xiao Han snorted angrily: "Nonsense! How can the things I teach you be waste that no one wants? Don't worry, the caravan will definitely buy it from you when the time comes!"
"The caravan is coming to buy it?" Xiao Wei San's eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "Then, how much can it be sold for?"
"How much?" Xiao Han stretched out a finger, waved it in front of Xiao Wei San, and said, "About this number!"
"Ah? One penny!" Seeing Xiao Han's outstretched finger, Xiao Wei San immediately felt like a deflated rubber ball. He angrily stretched out his foot and kicked the small stone aside, gritting his teeth and said: "One penny is not enough for us.
Pick up some things from the beach and take them to the county restaurant!"
"Who told you it was a penny?" Xiao Han looked at Xiao Wei San who was squatting on the ground and sulking with a smile, and then shook his finger again: "I mean, it's always money, one tael!"
"What? A lot of money? One...one tael of this fan?"
At this time, Xiao Wei San couldn't squat down properly and fell to the ground!
But even so, he didn't bother to stand up again, but continued to sit on the ground, staring at Xiao Han with his eyes as wide as copper bells: "Xiao...Brother Xiao, you are not kidding me."
Come on! Who would use ordinary money to buy something like this that no one wants?"
"Don't worry about it!" Xiao Han stood up, lightly kicked Xiao Wei San's butt, and said: "Anyway, when the caravan comes over in the future, it will be collected at this price! Just remember, don't give up this method easily.
Just let others learn it!"
After hearing this, Xiao Wei San's face turned red with excitement, and he agreed hurriedly: "Okay! Okay! Except for my family, I will definitely not tell anyone else, not even Gou Shengzi and the others!"
Seeing Xiao Wei San's excited look, Xiao Han rolled his eyes.
In fact, he did not tell Xiao Wei: Even if people nearby learned this method, it would be useless! After all, the market for this thing is only in big cities like Chang'an where there is no shortage of rich people!
For example, in the poor fishing villages nearby that don't even have enough to eat, even if they are crazy, they will not spend money to buy this kind of ash powder that can only make the food taste better but is useless for the rest. With that kind of money,
Isn’t it good to buy two more kilograms of grain?
There was no one nearby to buy it, and the only one who knew about this powder and could transport it to big cities like Chang'an and Luoyang was his Xiao family caravan.
As for whether this powder should be sold for one tael for ten guan or one tael for fifty guan when it arrives in Luoyang, Chang'an, it depends on the mood of Mr. Xiao Dahou! If you don't make money in business, then that's not him, Mr. Xiao.
consistent style.
Xiao Han carefully taught Xiao Wei San how to make sea sausage powder and packed up the sea sausage noodles made this time. Xiao Han helped Xiao Wei San and returned the small stone mill back to the village.
In the village, Xiao Han happened to meet the busy village chief of Weijia Village.
After seeing him, Xiao Han felt moved and asked the village chief to gather all the people in the village. He wanted to teach these people how to make dried sea cucumbers.
Compared with sea cucumber powder, the production process of dried sea cucumber is undoubtedly much more complicated. From cleaning, to cooking, to pickling, and finally drying with plant ash, the whole process takes a month. It is not Xiaowei's at all.
A child like three can handle it.
In addition, compared to the sea sausage that can be dug up on the beach, sea cucumbers, which have been a good nutritional food since ancient times, still require some effort to catch.
Therefore, Xiao Han deliberately taught the villagers how to make dried sea cucumbers, which could be regarded as giving the villagers some extra income on top of selling salted fish.
After all, once the sea cucumber is ready, the price per kilogram is comparable to a cart full of salted fish!
What’s even better about this is that sea cucumbers only grow in Shandong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula.
Nowadays, the Liaodong Peninsula is still in the hands of Goguryeo. If the nobles in big cities want to have a bite of authentic sea cucumber, they can only ask the caravans to come here to buy it.
After guarding a group of people and gesticulating for a long time, Xiao Han taught the villagers how to dry sea cucumbers.
However, this method was also told by Wei Erluzi, a fisherman in his family for generations, in his previous life.
As for whether it is easy to use and whether improvements are needed, we can only know after the villagers have tried it out and actually made a batch.
"Two donkeys, two donkeys! I hope you are not lying to me, otherwise, I will be fine, but your ancestors will suffer misery from you..."
Seeing the excitement on the faces of the villagers, hurriedly running home to prepare various utensils, they wanted to get a few kilograms of sea cucumbers to pickle right away.
Xiao Han gave a bitter smile, and while everyone's thoughts were not on him, Shi Shiran walked towards the outside of the village.
"Xiao, Brother Xiao!"
Just when Xiao Han had just walked out of the village, Xiao Wei San's voice suddenly came from behind.
"Hmm?" Xiao Han heard the voice and turned around, only to see Xiao Wei San chasing him to the entrance of the village, looking at him with red eyes.
"Brother Xiao, are you leaving?" Xiao Wei San looked at Xiao Han's figure, his voice slowly choked up.
He is a very smart kid, maybe he didn't realize it before.
But today, Xiao Han suddenly taught him how to make sea sausage powder, and taught the villagers how to make sea cucumbers. He even told them what kind of salted fish would sell better. Xiao Wei San immediately noticed something was wrong.
Looking at Xiao Han's words, he was nostalgic for his surroundings from time to time, and finally when he left slightly lonely, Xiao Wei San finally confirmed that he, Brother Xiao, was leaving!
