Chapter 175： specialty

Jiang Quan went to the town and bought ten pounds of icing sugar and several jars.

The second aunt said that the prepared preserved fruits should be stored in jars, so he bought them back for a rainy day.

Then it’s time to pick apricots.

  Choose apricots that are medium to medium-ripe, and avoid overripe apricots that are infested with worms.

Then wash and remove the core, then marinate it with icing sugar ground into fine powder, and add a little salt when marinating.

After marinating for a few hours, the apricots will ooze juice. At this time, pour them directly into the pot and bring to a boil.

Do not cook it for too long, otherwise the apricot flesh will not take shape.

Put out the apricot meat and soup in a timely manner. After leaving it for an hour, take the apricot petals out of the soup and place them one by one on a bamboo board, then put them out in the sun to dry.

After two or three days in the sun, the apricot flesh becomes as chewy and chewy as a persimmon, with a bright yellow color, sweet and sour taste and is very delicious.

Put the dried fruits into a jar and seal them, so they can be stored for a long time.

The remaining soup is thick and sweet and sour. Not only children love to drink it, but adults also praise it.

Yingbao is not interested in preserved apricots, but she likes the sweet and sour juice left over from boiled apricots.

If you add some ice cubes, it will be a refreshing drink on a hot day.

Ying Bao looked at the apricot trees and made up his mind.

“Second brother, let’s pick all the apricots on the tree.”

Ying Bao said to Jiang Quan: "Give some of the ripe ones to people in the village, and let's make apricots from the half-ripe ones. We can't throw away the apricot pits. We can grind almond powder in the future."

She once drank almond tea in her previous life, which was made by boiling almond powder, rice milk and milk, then adding some caramel, which gave it a strong aroma.

But one thing is that almonds are poisonous, especially the epidermis of almonds, which is highly toxic. If not handled properly, it may be life-threatening, and children should not even touch it.

But she has a pupil spring. When the almonds are soaked in the spring water, a lot of the poison will be removed.

Jiang Quan opened his eyes wide, "Yingbao, there are so many apricot trees. How many preserved apricots should we make? If we can't sell them, the money we spent on the candy will be wasted."

“It will sell.” Ying Bao was not worried at all.

At worst, it would be better to earn a little less and give it to the vendors instead of so many apricots rotting in vain.

Yan Ru said from the side: "Why don't you give the apricot preserves to the dried fruit preserve shop in the county? Although the profit is small, it can still be an income. At least you can get the money for the frosting."

Her suggestions coincided with Yingbao's.

“That’s okay, second brother, when all the apricot preserves are finished, let’s go to the county town.” Ying Bao was full of confidence.

It just so happened that Yingbao wanted to go to the county town to take a look at her new house and see what the shortcomings were so that she could buy something better.

“Er Auntie, can those peaches also be used as preserved fruit?” Ying Bao asked.

Yan Ru: "Yes, the process of making preserved fruit from peaches is similar to that of apricots, but you can make some."

“Then let’s make some more peach preserves. Don’t throw away the peach kernels. The peach kernels are a kind of medicinal material. We will sell them to the drugstore when the time comes.” I guess the price won’t be high, but I can get back some of the cost.

Jiang Quan was still unsure: "How much sugar will it cost?"

“Let’s do this first. We bought a lot of sugar. We can talk to the store and the price will definitely be lowered.”

Yingbao was a businessman in his last life, so he knows a lot about the twists and turns here.

Yan Ru also nodded: "Go to the big store in the county town to buy candy. If you buy more, you can really save a lot of money."

"All right."

Jiang Quan scratched his head and asked, "When will we go to the county seat?"

The fruits on the tree don’t wait for anyone. They are ripe and rotten day by day, which makes me feel sad just looking at them.

Ying Bao was speechless and was frowning in thought. There are so many fruit trees in our house. Seeing that the apples and grapes are about to ripen, we will definitely not be able to eat them all, and we can’t sell them in the countryside. I would give them all away but I would be reluctant to part with them.

It’s very sad.

The fruit trees I worked so hard to plant, I thought I could make some money, but unexpectedly they became a burden.

Otherwise, let your second cousin go to the county town to open a shop specializing in selling preserved fruits.

 I still have more than three hundred taels of silver in my hand, so buying a shop shouldn't be a problem.

 With the shop, you don’t have to sell your preserved fruits and fruits to others at low prices. In the future, when rare grapes and apples come on the market, the shop may become the focus of the county.

Even if the fruit is out of market, there are still golden fungus and snow fungus. If not, the second uncle Yanru will still make fragrant powder and rouge and sell it in the shop.

Yingbao has already sown many flower seeds on the brown soil of Dongfu, such as roses, wood dandelions, peonies, peonies, honeysuckle, impatiens, sorrel trees, red and blue flowers, etc. She also scattered some lotus seeds by the pond. , now small round lotus leaves have grown.

But the difficult question is, how to position your own shop?

Other shops are specialized in business, such as Shengde Pastries, Fengrun Liang Shop, Jinxiu Cloth Shop, Qianji Gold, Silver and Jade Shop, etc. Even the bamboo ware shop specializes in bamboo bamboo ware.

The goods sold in your own shop are various, but it cannot be called a grocery store.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind.

How about calling it a local specialty.

Although Qinchuan County is a lower county, there are many tourists coming and going. Since our home is known as a local specialty, those visiting relatives and friends must be willing to buy some to take away.

Because other places have specialties, such as Langqiao wooden comb, Luoyang pineapple, Qi persimmon, Yan chestnut, Wushan tangerine, Nanzhong tea seeds, etc., it is impossible for travelers not to buy some when they go to the local area.

However, Qinchuan County seems to have no specialties.

There is no tea, no silk embroidery, no inkstones, no rare medicinal materials.

This is an ordinary small county, and most people make a living by farming.

Qinchuan County is located in a hilly area, with very little fertile land for cultivation, and taxes are not low at all. In this environment, it is strange that people are not impoverished.

In the past, the court stipulated that each person could be allocated a hundred acres of land, but here he could only be allocated 60 acres.

These sixty acres are not all fertile farmland, there is also some mountainous land.

Now we can't even get sixty acres, because there is no land left to divide in the countryside.

My eldest cousin is seventeen years old this year and should have been allocated a field long ago, but there has been no movement in Lizheng.

It’s not that Li Zheng did nothing, but that the land in the hometown was basically divided, and the rest was a rocky wasteland with no grass growing.

If these wastelands are given to the people, it will be equivalent to forcing the people to die.

Which family can afford to pay taxes on a field that cannot grow even a single grain of grain?

So Yingbao decided to take a different approach and create a way for his first cousin and second cousin to make money.

Our golden and snow fungus are the best in Qinchuan County. Even the Wen family has sent people to wait for the purchase. It is not too much to make them a specialty of Qinchuan County.

After that, it would be logical to label the preserved apricots, peach preserves and pear preserves as Qinchuan specialties.

By the way, we also have grapes and apples. Although these are not Qinchuan’s specialties, they can be sold incidentally.

Having made up his mind, Ying Bao smiled and said to Jiang Quan, "I'll go to the county town tomorrow."

Not only buying candy, but also buying a shop.

She has already thought of a name for the store, and it’s called “Jiangji Specialty Products”.

Although what we are selling is a specialty product of Qinchuan County, the name of the store must not contain the word "Qinchuan", otherwise, you will be arrested and taken to the county government for retaliation.

The businessman is a humble businessman. Not only cannot the name of the county or town be added to the shop name banner, but the word "Murong" cannot even appear on the signboard.

Because the surname of the royal family at that time was Murong, all the people had to avoid these two words.