Su Jia didn't come empty-handed. She brought a box with half a box of soil and a ginseng buried in it. This was a gift she gave to Sun Dahai.
According to her, the ginseng was grown from seeds planted by her family five years ago, and she dug it out with her own hands this time.
As soon as the summer vacation came this year, Su Jia went back to her hometown in Jilin with her parents. Her hometown is at the foot of Changbai Mountain, and her grandfather and uncle are both employees of the local forest farm.
After returning home, she followed her family into the mountains. Five years ago, her grandfather dug up a wild ginseng plant in the old forest. The wild ginseng was bearing fruit at that time, so her grandfather planted the wild ginseng seeds.
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Later, six or seven ginseng plants actually grew there. Her grandfather was not in a hurry to pick them, but went there every year to take good care of them.
The old forest was originally a wild forest, but this year it was included in the management scope of the forest farm, so they went into the mountain together to dig out the ginseng.
Su Jia looked amused, and under the guidance of her uncle, she dug out a ginseng stick herself.
This batch of ginseng had only been grown for five years and could not be sold at a good price locally. The local supply and marketing cooperative paid a few dozen yuan at most for each ginseng, so grandpa gave this ginseng to Su Jia.
Even though Su Jia is only a ten-year-old girl, she does have a very forthright personality. She usually eats and drinks at Sun Dahai's place at Sun Dahai's expense. Now that she has ginseng, her first thought is to give it to Sun Dahai.
Su Jia just returned to the capital from her hometown yesterday, and today she came to deliver gifts with ginseng. She was very lucky, just in time to catch up with Sun Dahai to pick up Zhang Guozheng from the hospital, otherwise she would have been in vain.
Sun Dahai thanked Su Jia and put away the ginseng. Zhang Yujie and Grandma Zhang also arrived. Sun Dahai ignored them and had to hurry up and cook.
Battelle went to the Tianhai Meat Factory early in the morning to bring back the pork ribs. The pigs were slaughtered and the meat was very fresh. Battelle not only brought back a whole fan of ribs, but also brought back four elbows.
When Sun Dahai was at home, he had stewed the pork ribs until they were eighty-done. Now just put them in the pot and do the final processing. He had already marinated the elbows and was going to stew them in the evening and eat spring cakes tomorrow.
There are many people eating at Sun Dahai's house, so many of his kitchen supplies are the kind of big pots, plates, and buckets used in restaurants.
Nowadays, the pork ribs are stored in a large bucket only used in restaurants.
Who among the employees of Tianhai Meat Factory doesn’t know Sun Dahai and Battelle? When they saw that it was Battelle who came to get the ribs, they naturally gave them the best ones. There was no meat on the ribs, so they were given to Battelle.
This whole fan of ribs, with thick meat, weighed more than thirty kilograms. The bucket was only half filled, and it weighed dozens of kilograms, including soup and water.
Sun Dahai used a strainer to take out the ribs and put them into two large basins respectively. While he was working, he asked the Gao sisters who were helping to choose vegetables: "Do you two have any dietary restrictions? You like to eat braised ribs.
, or sweet and sour?”
The Gao sisters were stunned for a moment, and Gao Yi replied: "We don't have any dietary restrictions. With so many ribs, are you going to make this meal?"
"Yes, there are a lot of people eating at lunch. We don't have enough time today. The main dish is pork ribs. You two, just let go and eat as much as you can."
Gao Yi asked Sun Dahai secretly: "Dahai, does your family know that you have taken out so much meat?"
"I know, this is what I brought over after I stewed it at home." Sun Dahai changed into a large pot, lit the fire and poured oil in, and answered Gao Yi's question smoothly.
Gao Zhizhi said: "What my sister means is that your family spent a lot of money and meat stamps to buy so many ribs. If you use them all for us to eat, your family should scold you."
"No, I left half of the ribs at home." Sun Dahai was used to eating and drinking like this and didn't understand what they meant.
Gao Yi is sixteen years old and has already begun to learn housekeeping from her mother. She estimates that these ribs cost at least ten yuan. The key is meat coupons. As a new housekeeper, she knows that each person can only get half a catty of meat coupons per month.
She didn't dare to calculate how many meat tickets the ribs in front of her would cost. Anyway, she had never seen so much pork except on the meat counter in a non-staple food store.
Now that she heard that Sun Dahai was going to cook and eat all the meat, she was very anxious, fearing that Sun Dahai would be scolded by his family for this.
"Xiao Gao, it's okay. There is no money or meat stamps for these meats." Buter, who was beating eggs, interrupted.
Indeed, the Sun family does not need to spend money to get meat from Tianhai Meat Factory. They only need to register it. At the end of each month, the cost of the meat will be recorded in the account of Shiweitian (Huaxia) Company.
For reception expenses.
There are too many people coming to Sun's house for dinner. Before the new office building was put into use, the daily communication between the company and its subordinate units' senior management mainly took place at No. 18 Xihuangchenggen. Therefore, all these expenses went to the company's account.
As for meat coupons, Sun Dahai has almost forgotten the concept in the past two years. In the past, the Sun family would always buy meat coupons from the black market. Now they have a pig farm and a meat factory. When they occasionally eat out, they usually go to foreign countries.
Hotels spend money to redeem coupons, so meat coupons have no effect.
While cooking, Sun Dahai briefly told the Gao sisters these things. Since he wants to treat them as friends, he must tell them some things.
Seeing the Gao sisters' expressions of astonishment and open mouths, Sun Dahai felt very satisfied. Is this the feeling of pretending?
Lunch was ready, consisting of four dishes and one soup. Sun Dahai found a small half of winter melon in the kitchen, probably bought by Xue Haitian and his wife in the past two days.
Ignore them, let's make winter melon and pork ribs soup first. If you are here to take charge, there is no need for them to cook.
Braised pork ribs, sweet and sour pork ribs, scrambled eggs with spinach, cucumbers, and winter melon pork ribs soup. Everyone set up the table under the shade of the trees in the courtyard and got ready to eat.
At this time, Chen Feng came back.
He went to No. 18 Xihuangchenggen yesterday and knew that Sun Dahai would be living here again from today on. So he went to the Guanyuan Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market stalls in the morning to inspect the work, and drove back for lunch at noon.
To say that he came back just to make money is a bit unscrupulous. He did have two things he wanted to tell Sun Dahai.
The first thing is official business.
The craze for Clivia has become more and more intense, and now it has swept across the country.
There are several merchants in the Guanyuan Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market. They found a company a month ago and wanted to work together to purchase a batch of Clivia from Zhuangdian Life and transport it to several cities in the south for sale.
Because they had insufficient capital, they wanted to pay half of the money upfront and use their house as a mortgage for the other half. However, because the price they offered was not high and the price was not paid in full, Huang Feifei refused.
This month, the price of Clivia has continued to rise, and many cities have sold out of the stock. At the entrance of the flower market, there are often people carrying bags full of cash, waiting to buy when the goods arrive.
Today, when Chen Feng arrived at the Guanyuan Market, they negotiated with Chen Feng again and raised the price. They also wanted to sell the two houses used as collateral to the company and buy the Clivia themselves in full.
Sun Dahai was very surprised and said: "You can discuss this matter with Huang Feifei. What do you want from me?"