vrcanaries Chapter 234 Acorn
Chapter 234 Acorn
"San Ya, tell me what you do for a living?"
When Liu heard that there was a good job, she immediately became interested.
"Let's make roast duck! I've noticed that people here don't like to eat duck meat, and the price of live ducks is not high. We can buy ducks and kill them. The duck feathers can be kept to make cotton-padded jackets and quilts, and the ducks can be made into roast duck and sold. We can definitely make some money, and the method is very simple. The more complicated part is killing the ducks. If we are too busy, we can hire someone..."
When Zhou Mingshu told Liu about the roast duck, her eyes lit up.
"Saya, how much money can we make from selling a duck?"
Zhou Mingshu calculated that the duck head, duck wings, duck feet and duck neck could be sold separately. This way, the profit margin would be greater, and he could make at least eight to ten cents from a roast duck.
When Liu heard that there would be so much profit, she smiled so hard that crow's feet appeared on her face.
"Okay, okay, then let's do this business. San Ya, we have never eaten roast duck before, and we don't know how to make it. You will need to teach us when the time comes."
"Okay, I'll take care of this."
Zhou Mingshu smiled. From time to time, a hot and crispy roast duck would be served on the table, sprinkled with some chili powder and cumin powder, which was very delicious.
"But I'm a little worried. What if people don't buy it? After all, no one has ever eaten this before."
Not only have I never eaten roast duck, I rarely eat duck at all...
"Don't worry, auntie. When I have time, I'll make the roast duck and you'll know."
Zhou Mingshu was not worried about this because the aroma of the hanging oven roast duck could spread far away.
The most urgent task now is to make a hanging furnace.
This thing is not easy to make. It will take my uncle and father two days to finish it.
"Oh, by the way, I have one more thing to tell you. Now that autumn has arrived, the acorns on those distant mountains must be ripe. We should go pick more."
"Why are you picking it up? Isn't that what squirrels eat?"
Zhou Mingqi on the side was puzzled.
"Haha, you don't know this, don't you? Squirrels can eat acorns, and we can eat them too. Acorns, like mung beans, can be used to make jelly. If we pick more, we can save money on buying mung beans next year."
"Oh, it's still possible. Then we have to pick up more."
Since you can save money on mung beans, what are you waiting for? You can go pick them up in the next few days.
After all the rapeseed was planted, Zhou Mingshu went back to the house and made the hanging oven for roast duck.
The space inside must be large enough to accommodate the number of ducks, and it must also be sufficiently warm.
After finishing the drawings, Zhou Mingshu found Zhou Lao Da and others and asked them to study and make the things.
Boss Zhou took a look and thought that if this oven could be made, it could be used for more than just roasting ducks!
Rabbit, chicken...what can’t be roasted!
"Okay, we'll take care of this."
There are often people making paste pots in the village. Although the two brothers have never made it, they have seen it.
After buying some clay, bricks and iron wire, the three brothers started working.
On the other side, Liu and Zhu took a few children and drove a donkey cart to the distant mountains.
In addition to the backpack and small basket, there were also several large sacks in the car for acorns.
"Hahaha, this little donkey is going to be terribly tired. Not only does it have to carry a few of us, but it will also have to carry acorns later. These sacks must weigh at least several hundred kilograms."
"It's okay, don't be afraid. If there are a lot of acorns, Arya will be the first one to come down and run."
Liu said, stroking her daughter's braid.
Zhou Mingqi rolled his eyes and said, "No, the heaviest person should come down. Let me see who is the heaviest. Oh, mother, you are the heaviest."
"You are a little girl, you won't take any bribes from others."
Liu and Zhu laughed heartily.
Today is a nice and cool autumn day, a good time to go out!
As soon as a few people entered the mountain with their things, they started picking up mushrooms and acorns.
A breeze blew by, and acorns fell from the trees from time to time.
Everything is intact and there are no pests.
The mushrooms are collected in a special basket to avoid being crushed by acorns.
Zhou Mingzhi and Zhou Mingjie slowly carried the full backpack down the mountain and poured it into a sack.
Zhou Mingshu and the others were picking acorns.
The system kept beeping, and when she got annoyed with it, she simply blocked the messages.
My head is buzzing from being called.
"Saya, come and see, there are so many chestnuts here!"
Zhou Mingqi's little head poked out from a clump of weeds, looking so silly and adorable.
"chestnut?"
Zhou Mingshu ran over with a small basket in his hand. No wonder there were chestnuts here. They didn't see such a big chestnut tree just now.
"Oh my god, there are so many, we can't finish them even if we eat them all winter!"
"Hahaha, that's right, let's pick up more and go back to ask grandma to make sugar-roasted chestnuts!"
"Okay, I'll call my eldest sister over."
Chestnuts and acorns are completely different. The surface of acorns is smooth and not prickly at all when you pick them up, but the outer skin of chestnuts is simply untouchable!
Just touch and you’ll get the needle right.
A few people tried to wrap it in a few layers of leaves and slowly picked up some.
But at this rate, it will take a long time to pick it up.
Liu and Zhu thought about it and asked them to stop.
"You better just pick up the acorns. These chestnuts won't run away just lying here. We can come back tomorrow when we get the traps."
"Row."
It's not easy to pour these chestnuts and acorns mixed together into a sack. I wonder how many people's hands will be pricked by them.
After picking up the items for an hour or so, the donkey cart could no longer hold them.
Several people packed up their things and prepared to go back.
Several sacks of acorns were dumped in the yard to dry, forming a huge pile.
These little things are so cute. Zhou Mingshu picked out a few shapely ones and brought them into the house to play with.
Because she picked some hazel mushrooms on the mountain, Mrs. Zhou planned to kill a chicken and make a chicken stew with mushrooms.
This hazel mushroom stewed chicken is delicious. Add some pumpkin in it and it tastes sticky. The more you eat it, the more addictive it becomes.
Because it was a hen that was laying eggs at home, after killing the chicken, he took out a bunch of small eggs from its stomach.
The orange-yellow color makes people's appetite increase just by looking at it.
There are also some internal organs such as chicken hearts, chicken livers, etc., all of which are put into the pot.
Soon, bursts of fragrance wafted from the kitchen.
"Mom, we found a lot of chestnuts on the mountain. We plan to pick more. Where is our trap? I just searched for it but couldn't find it."
"I left it in the straw shed. Go look for it."
Zhu walked around the straw hut and found the trap, but also discovered that the rabbits had laid another nest.
Good guy!
Zhu quickly moved the little rabbit to another rabbit pen.
After giving birth, the mother rabbit is likely to bite the baby rabbits to death, so they must be moved in time.
When they arrived at the front yard, Zhu announced the news, and Old Mrs. Zhou smiled and said.
"I figured the rabbit was pregnant, but I didn't expect it to give birth so soon."
Fortunately, we dealt with that batch of big rabbits in advance, otherwise we would have no place to put the little rabbits.