AWB Chapter 241 Rumors
Chapter 241 Rumors
I am willing to deal with people who do business honestly, make money clearly, without stealing, robbing, cheating or defrauding.
The most important thing is that I begged her more often. Don't think that I spent a lot of money this time, but I got more, and there are many things that you can't see.
For example, these methods are a huge wealth that cannot be estimated by money.
At that time I asked her, "You told me the method so easily, don't you feel that you are at a disadvantage? You can pretend a little bit, and I will not refuse if you ask for a few hundred taels of silver for each method." But, do you know what the girl said?
She said that she felt that every soldier guarding the territory was a respectable and lovely person, because it was the hard work of these soldiers that allowed her to have a safe home; it was because of such soldiers that she had the opportunity to earn money and live a good life.
She said that if she had the opportunity to help these soldiers, she would be very happy and would never use the soldiers' food and survival issues to control me in order to gain ill-gotten gains. You say, among so many people in the Dasheng Dynasty, how many people can have such vision and mind? Think about it, she is only fourteen years old, but she already has such a broad mind and temperament.
I am in my forties, and I have money. Why not sign a three-year contract? Why not give a deposit of five thousand taels? To be honest, I didn't suffer any loss at all. I even felt that I got the better deal."
Butler Bai Hou looked at Lord Bai who was talking eloquently and said, "Well, I don't understand the big principles. I only know that Lord Bai has been completely fooled by Miss Hua. It's not your fault. It's Miss Hua's fault for having a silver tongue."
"By the way, some time ago when I was drinking, I heard Feng Chenglin talking about the owner of Yuanying Manor. He said that the owner of Yuanying Manor was sarcastic and profit-driven? He was talking about Hua Yatou?" Lord Bai suddenly thought of what he heard not long ago.
"Well, it seems so. I heard that at the beginning of the year, Feng Chenglin's wife went to Miss Hua's house in Qingyun Lane, claiming that they were all relatives of the Dingbei Marquis's Mansion. She said that she wanted to open a cooked food shop and wanted Miss Hua to give her the recipes for roast duck and braised food, and also wanted Miss Hua to help her teach her how to make roast duck and braised food.
However, Miss Hua seemed to refuse, saying that the recipe was a secret recipe passed down from the Hua family and would not be leaked. As for helping the Feng family teach their servants how to make roast duck, Miss Hua also refused. So it is estimated that the Feng family was not very satisfied with Miss Hua. Not long after this incident, rumors spread about Miss Hua being sarcastic and profit-driven.
However, after the rumor spread for more than half a month, it was heard by Old Lady Pei of the Dingbei Marquis Mansion, who also took action. It was said that after Old Lady Pei sent Nanny Chen, who was by her side, to directly go to the house and beat Feng Chenglin's wife, the rumors were suppressed.
I don't know why, but this rumor seems to have appeared again recently. I guess Mrs. Pei hasn't noticed it yet. But I heard that Feng Chenglin later opened a delicatessen, selling roast duck and braised food, but the business has not been very good.
At the beginning of the month, because of the hot weather, the stewed food may have gone bad, and the person who bought it had diarrhea and fainted. We found his family and heard that he had to pay 50 taels of silver as compensation. A few days after this incident, the sarcastic rumors about Miss Hua started again. "
"Hmph, what a promising guy! Feng Chenglin's father didn't achieve much, but he did things conscientiously and in accordance with the rules. He wouldn't mess around. Feng Chenglin is outrageous. He's just a small official like a sesame seed, not even as powerful as his father, yet he dares to stretch his hands so far?" Lord Bai looked down on him.
"Well, send someone tomorrow. No, you should go by yourself. Go and give Feng Chenglin a good beating and make him keep his hands back. If he dares to talk nonsense and slander others outside again, let Licheng report this matter directly to the higher-ups and make him go home to farm. It's really annoying to see him like that."
So, without Hua Lei knowing, Lord Bai helped her solve a not-so-small problem.
In the following period, Hualei was very busy because the lotus roots on the farm could be dug. In the past, when farmers dug lotus roots, they often used high-pressure guns to flush the mud and water around the lotus roots along the thick stems, and the lotus roots would float up, and then they would just need to carefully pick them up.
However, there are no high-pressure water guns here, so digging lotus roots can only be done slowly and manually. Fortunately, the puddles in Yuanying Village are not deep, so digging is relatively safe.
The weather was not cold yet, so many people in the village went down to the lotus root pond shirtless, walked to the place where there were more lotus leaves, and used their feet to feel whether the mud at the bottom was loose. Then they poked their feet into the mud until they found signs of lotus roots. In shallow water, they slowly dug along the lotus roots with their hands, and slowly shook the lotus roots with their hands to loosen them. They tried not to break the lotus roots, and when they were almost done digging, they could directly lift them to the surface.
If the water is a little deeper and out of reach, you have to use a wooden rake to slowly dig along the lotus roots to loosen the surrounding mud, and then pick up the lotus roots. So the whole process is very time-consuming. It took 13 or 14 days to dig lotus roots in the village, and there were still a few ponds left to dig.
Hualei was in a hurry, so he thought of cooking the lotus roots first. Choose old lotus roots that are thick, dark in color, and have small holes, clean them, peel the lotus roots, slice them, and soak them in clean water to prevent oxidation and discoloration.
I bought a new grinding wheel and ground the lotus root and water into lotus root pulp. Then I poured the lotus root pulp into a clean gauze with coarse mesh, filtered out the residue, and poured the filtered lotus root pulp into a large wooden basin. I let the juice stand to let the starch settle. After the settling is complete, I carefully poured out the clear water on the top, leaving the starch at the bottom.
The separated starch is then spread out on a container and dried in the sun. In order to prevent the starch from being blown away by the strong wind and to prevent dirt from getting in, Hualei also covers the starch with a layer of gauze before drying. After the starch is completely dry, it is ground into fine powder with a rolling pin. However, Hualei does not pursue particularly fine powder, but only crushes the larger particles of starch.
In this way, the lotus root powder is basically ready. Wrap the lotus root powder with oil paper first, then put it into a small-mouthed pottery jar without oil or water, seal it with oil paper and clean white cloth, and place it in a cool and dry place. In this way, while digging lotus roots, making lotus root powder, the farm was busy for nearly a month before all the lotus roots on the farm were finished. In order to meet Lord Bo's request for more lotus root powder, the lotus roots this year were not put into the stew.
However, the lotus root powder produced was only about 2,000 kilograms. It seemed that it was indeed a little too little to divide it between Mobei and Xijiang. But there was no other way because all the lotus roots had been cooked.