After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

Chapter 355 Selection Activities

But when I thought about the fact that my home was close and I could go back and stay for a couple of days after a while, I felt happy again.

Ye Erlang did not keep Chen, so Zhou brought her a lot of vegetables and fruits grown at home and asked her to take them back for her family to try.

After seeing Chen off, Zheng Qin was no longer as cautious as before and helped with some chores at home.

She now likes going to the vegetable garden. There are many vegetables in the garden and she can pick a lot every day.

Zhou cleaned out all the pickle jars in her home and pickled the leftover vegetables to eat in the winter.

Ye Erlang was busy at the dock every day. Finally, he followed Ye Qing's advice and built an oven indoors.

We also built two barbecue ovens in the backyard, and they can be used when business picks up.

The fennel in the field can be harvested. These are the seeds that Ye Qing brought back from outside.

There are other spices grown on the mountain, and it is almost time to harvest them.

Ye Qing personally led people to harvest these spices. Since they had never been grown before, no one dared to start.

Ye Qing wore the hat that Old Man Ye had woven for her, wrapped a piece of gauze around her face, and went down to the field to demonstrate in person.

Shopkeeper Zhang hasn’t come this year, and the peppercorns are about to be harvested. It would be best to make the medium-spice version of Thirteen Spices before Shopkeeper Zhang comes.

With more cooperation in the past two years, Manager Zhang has noticed that other caravans are rarely willing to buy pepper, so he is trying to lower the price.

This was the case last year, with each pound costing twenty cents less than the year before.

Ye Qing and the villagers worked hard for several years, but failed to find other caravans collecting peppercorns.

This time, before the shopkeeper came, I worked out the recipe and tried it out in my second brother's dried meat shop, which gave me the confidence to negotiate the price with Shopkeeper Zhang.

Although it was past the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather was still hot and the sun was very strong at noon, so Ye Qing asked everyone to take a break before continuing to work.

"Qingya, can we sell peppercorns with the villagers this year?" Xu Laosan asked on behalf of his brothers.

In the past few years, as long-term workers of the Ye family, they have been able to benefit from any benefits. Many families envy them for being long-term workers of the Ye family.

None of Ye Lao Da's family are demanding people. As long as you work hard and steadily, you will not be kicked out.

Ye Qing looked at the people eating under the shade of the tree and said, "You can sell with the villagers, but you can't sell to the caravan privately. We have agreed on a price with the caravan and will not let the caravan lower the price."

The people eating around were listening attentively when Xu Laosan asked the question.

Hearing Ye Qing agree, he couldn't help but cheer.

Ye Qing was also infected by the local atmosphere and paid more attention to preparing the seasonings.

Xu Laosan was still pulling people to express his position, "Qingya, we know the rules and will definitely not disrupt the village's price negotiation."

Xu Laosan and his group knew that they were all retail investors and could not negotiate prices at all, so they might as well just follow Kaoshan Village.

After the hottest time, everyone went to harvest fennel with great enthusiasm.

They have made some money in the past few years and have a few acres of forest land at home. When they harvest peppercorns in a few days, they will be able to harvest at least a few dozen kilograms.

This is the first year that peppercorns are produced, and there will definitely be more and more in the future.

After Ye Qing finished collecting the first batch, he handed over the follow-up to Xu Laosan and asked him to lead others to continue collecting.

The sun was good these two days, so Ye Qing dried the spices he collected and then stir-fried several of them over low heat.

The family has always used a low-end version of Thirteen Spices for cooking, and Ye Qing also sells the seasoning to restaurants in the city.

The chefs in the restaurant all know good goods. After using it twice, they placed an order with Ye Qing.

Ye Qing did not have all the ingredients, so he only supplied them to a few restaurants with which he had good relations.

Queranlou and Fu'an Pavilion, the first company to start cooperation, used low-end seasonings, and their business is much better than before.

This time, when Shopkeeper Liu heard that Ye Qing was going to research a new formula, he contacted Ye Qing in advance and decided to supply the goods to Queranlou first.

With Ye Xi's face in mind, Ye Qing agreed readily and also promised to make it and let Queranlou try it out first.

To test the new seasoning, Ye Qing asked Zhou and Ye Erlang for help.

Ye Erlang is a professional chef. He can always taste the thirteen spices that Ye Qing prepares and can also help give suggestions.

Zhou helped her fry the spices and grind them into powder.

Ye Qing held a booklet and recorded the proportions of various ingredients.

The happiest people in the family are the two children. Ye Erlang cooks a lot of dishes for every meal.

Each dish is just the amount that one person can eat with chopsticks, and everyone helps to give suggestions on which ingredients taste good.

Everyone had a lot of fun experimenting in the first few days, but later we ate more and couldn’t tell the difference.

Ye Qing took the prepared seasonings and gave them to a few acquaintances, asking them to try adding some when cooking and then tell her which flavor they liked best.

Ye Qing mixed hundreds of different proportions and distributed them to the villagers.

Each restaurant provides about five kinds of seasonings, and each family chooses their favorite flavor.

Then put the ratios that everyone likes the most together and give them to other people, and everyone chooses the ratio that they like the most.

After rounds of screening, there are about ten seasonings with different proportions left.

No one could choose among these, so Ye Qing asked Ye Erlang to take the food to visit the chefs in the city and gave each of them one of the ten combinations of thirteen spices.

Let them help choose their favorite ratio. These chefs are industry elites and their choices are the most convincing.

Of course, Ye Qing didn’t completely believe them. He selected the three most popular combinations and sent them to Queran Tower.

Two kilograms of each of the three ratios were given to the chefs to use in cooking, and the diners were allowed to choose the best ratio.

The last three types actually taste very similar, and the proportions are not much different, but Ye Qing wants to choose the best proportion.

Queranlou was overjoyed when they received the three ratios of seasonings. They have used them several times and customers said the dishes tasted better.

Queranlou attaches great importance to this opportunity, and Ye Xi seized this opportunity to launch an activity.

They held an event to select my favorite dish. Participants wrote their favorite dish on a piece of paper and could exchange it for a chance to draw a lottery.

The prizes are dishes from Queranlou, including meat, vegetarian and signature dishes. Whoever you draw will get it for free next time you come to eat it.

Once this activity was launched, it attracted many people. Some people who wanted to choose other restaurants were also attracted by the activity and came to participate in the lucky draw after dinner.

Some people are smart and always order small portions. This is a new portion size introduced by Queranlou to allow everyone to make comparisons.

The portion size is small, so you can order more. For the same price, you can get more food and more chances to win prizes.

The lottery rules set by Queranlou are that ordering three dishes will give you one chance to enter the lottery.

Shopkeeper Liu has been very happy these two days. As soon as the store opened in the morning, people came to line up. Even after lunch time in the afternoon, there were still people lining up.

The guys in Queranlou were both happy and sad, as the boss paid them double wages this month.