selling chili peppers in chronology

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In the evening of the next day, the Chen family had dinner.

After finishing their homework, Zhou Ping'an and Chen Bei were mixing chicken food in the yard, while the other was picking up eggs.

The chickens that Liu Dongxue bought before have grown up now, because they were specially selected when they bought them, and they only bought one rooster, which crows every morning to tell the time.

There are more hens, and they are all grown up. If you are lucky, you can pick up a dozen eggs a day, and make egg drop soup every now and then, or make boiled eggs for Zhou Pingan and Chen Bei who can't come back for lunch every day. It is a good choice for them to take to school to eat, and to supplement some nutrition.

I just made new rice a few days ago, and the rice bran that comes out can be mixed into chicken food, they like it.

Chickens are cooing in the coop, and one or two crickets can be heard in the distance.

Chen Chen kept accounts in the room.

Yesterday he went to the county to sell bad peppers and then spent money to buy some things. This morning he went to the village to ask Uncle Tao to order several large jars of twenty catties. The ones he ordered were all the best ones, and Lin Lin always used a lot of them. Money, if you don't keep accounts, you will really feel dizzy.

Write the last stroke in the account book, the sun is setting outside, and the light coming in through the wooden window is dim.

Before Chen Chen packed up the ledger and pens, he heard Chen Qian's voice from outside, and Chen Bei was talking to him.

Chen Bei asked: "Brother Xiaoqian, what are you carrying in your hand?"

Chen Qian replied with two words, "Chili."

Chen Bei was surprised: "You bought it?"

Chen Qian: "I bought it."

Chen Bei: "Okay, what do you buy peppers for? Don't we grow so many peppers in our own fields? Why do you still pay for them?"

"Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles." Chen Qian has read books for several years, and he still knows some words. "Now I am understanding the enemy."

Chen Bei was taken aback by what he said.

Chen Qian asked, "Is fourth brother not at home?"

Just as Chen Bei was about to say that his brother was in the house, Chen Chen had already come out of the house, "At home."

Chen Qian immediately walked over, "Fourth brother, this is the chili I asked my friend to buy. Come and see, how is it different from the bad chili we sell?"

Chen Chen came to his senses, "Just the chili from that shop?"

"It's theirs." Chen Qiandao: "Although fourth brother, you said that anyone can compete in the market, but since they stole the name of our bad pepper, we can't even know what they are, right? Besides You can only know the weight of their chili peppers if you have tasted them yourself."

In fact, Chen Chen also wanted to taste the taste of this sweet and sour pepper that looked like sour pepper.

It's just that I met on a narrow road before, and I felt that it was not good to buy it by myself, so I didn't go.

Unexpectedly, Chen Qian got it first.

"Open it and have a look." Chen Chen said.

Chen Jianye, Liu Dongxue and Zhou Ping'an also gathered around when they heard the movement.

Although Chen Qian asked his friend to help him buy the chili peppers, Chen Qian paid for it himself. Whatever he bought from that stall is what he is now.

The peppers are wrapped in oiled paper, enough to be counted with two fingers.But the quantity is not important, it was bought to taste.

As soon as the oil paper was opened, Chen Chen saw some small white foams on the pepper.Although not too many, Chen Chen still saw it.It is actually the oil that has been put into the kimchi jar and then fermented.

It is impossible for a person to intentionally pour oil into a jar, obviously using oiled chopsticks.

It didn't get cleaned up, but it wasn't a big problem.

Chen Chen took a bite of the pepper, but didn't bite too much.

The moment I touched my mouth, I did taste a sweetness, but it only floated on the surface, because after I chewed it casually, I could only taste the slightly fermented sour and the strong spiciness of the two vitex.

Chew two Vitex twigs purely, the spiciness is absolutely amazing.

Chen Chen let out a breath, and before he could speak, he heard Chen Bei yell, "It tastes so weird!"

Chen Qian was speechless after tasting it, "Whether it's sour or sweet, it's not as delicious as fresh chili."

Liu Dongxue was concerned about one thing, "I remember you said yesterday that this pepper sold for [-] cents a catty?"

Chen Qian nodded, "Bamao, he also called it bad pepper."

"It's not worth the price." Liu Dongxue said: "This chili has a layer of sugar skin, and the acid is not obvious, but the spicy taste is a bit stronger, and it tastes not as good as fresh chili. The key is that fresh chili is only sold in the county. Mao, if it were me, I would rather go to weigh fresh peppers and eat them at home.”

In fact, Chen Jianye, who has been worried about the appearance of competitors since he came back yesterday, couldn't help but said: "No wonder the person said yesterday that the chili pepper is very strange, so it was not a lie."

Isn't it, the pepper taste is very strange.

Before Chen Chen guessed whether it was sour pepper, but now after tasting it himself, Chen Chen knew that it was sour pepper with sugar added.

The original method of sour pepper is to put the whole washed pepper into the jar, then add garlic and ginger, pour a small amount of wine, and then directly seal the jar for fermentation.

The sour peppers pickled in this way take a relatively long time, but because of the long time, they are fully fermented. After the jar is opened, there will be an obvious sour taste rushing out of the jar.Fully fermented peppers also have a refreshing sour taste, the spiciness will be diluted but will not disappear, the sour and spicy are ingeniously blended together, one bite will taste two completely different flavors, which is extremely stimulating to the taste buds.Therefore, it is named sour pepper.

Chen Chen suspects that there should be someone in that family who knows how to make sour chili, even if it is not the version he knows, the taste should be similar.

It’s just that I was influenced by the bad chili, and I felt that everyone loves the sweet and sour taste, or they just want to take advantage of their bad chili, so I added sugar to the jar according to my guess, maybe a lot, and then made a whole Such a version of sweet and sour peppers.

It's not that it doesn't look like the four, but it's weird.

No wonder the customer said that yesterday.

Anyway, after Chen Chen tasted it, he didn't want to take a second bite.

Others couldn't eat it either.

But even if you can't eat it, you spent money to buy it anyway, and you can't bear to throw it away.Chen Qian didn't want to bring such a strange chili back.

Seeing Chen Qian's expression of resistance, Liu Dongxue went into the kitchen and took out a bowl, and put the peppers in it.

She said: "I'm going to rinse it with water to see if I can wash away the sweetness on the surface."

Although the sweet taste is rare, but sweet and spicy are so strangely put together, people don't think the sweet taste is good, they just think that chewing sugar and chili together is challenging their limits, and they feel uncomfortable all over.

Today, Chen Qian saw that there are differences in the same thing, so he couldn't help asking: "Fourth brother, you said that the same taste is sweet, spicy and sour. Why is the bad chili you made so delicious? The chili they made is so delicious. Is it so unpalatable?"

Chen Bei nodded, "That's right, although they all smell like that, they are really incomparable."

"Because the raw materials are different." Chen Chen said: "Our bad chili is sweet rice wine added instead of sugar. Before sealing the altar, the sweet rice wine and chopped chili are mixed evenly. The rice wine itself is fermented, and the bad chili is later The fermentation of the sealed altar is the same, since it is the same method, the two flavors can naturally blend together very well."

Chen Chen really wasn't fooling them, the fermented sweet and sour has nothing to do with Lingquan.

Even if you don’t use Lingquan soaked rice and boiled rice to make rice wine, you can use ordinary rice wine to make it, and use ordinary chili and garlic, and the taste will be very harmonious.

——This is just a difference in the production method.

Hearing this, Chen Bei said, "Then we don't have to be afraid of them at all."

Zhou Ping'an said: "They will definitely not think of adding rice wine in a short time."

Liu Dongxue warned: "Remember not to leak your words outside."

Zhou Pingan nodded, "I know what to say and what not to say."

Chen Bei also said: "This is a secret that our family uses to make money. I definitely won't even mention it."

"Isn't that necessary?" Chen Qian said: "I don't know that some people have come to grab business from us for our secret recipe. If we let them know the secret of making our bad chili, then our chili business will really be in danger." I can't do it anymore."

Everyone has a tacit understanding of keeping secrets.

Chen Bei thought of the unpalatable taste, and suddenly murmured, "Isn't painting a tiger an anti-dog?"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then felt that this summary was correct.

Stealing their stuff, but didn't learn the essence, and the result was weird.

Chen Qian smiled with malicious intentions, "I was still worried yesterday that someone would rob us of business. The peppers grown in our fields could not be sold in Yongxing County, so I wanted to go to the provincial capital to try selling them. But now that I have tasted the chili flavor, I feel that there may be no need to go to the provincial capital, and by the time our bad chili is made and sold, they will probably lose their business."

Chen Qian didn't know that the stolen hot pepper turned yellow faster than he expected.

It turns out that their chili peppers are still in the market. After all, they stole the name of the bad chili peppers. Although some people who have bought or heard of Chen’s bad chili peppers are not convinced that their chili peppers look different from the genuine bad chili peppers, but that The two couples would say, plus the price is [-] cents cheaper than what Chen Chen and the others sell, so those who are not short of this little money can't help but buy some to try.

Just started business, and the name of Chen’s Pork Pepper is widely spread in Yongxing County. There are still many fans or curious people. Even if only one tenth of so many people try it, it is not a lot.

So in the first few days, their business was really good.

Just because the customers who rely on Chen's bad chili to buy it give them the illusion that "our chili is delicious and sells very well".

They were dazzled by the false prosperity in front of them. They didn't have the ability to see the essence through the phenomenon, but they were greedy and wanted to make a lot of money. They took the little money they earned from selling chili peppers a few days ago to the village to buy chili peppers and what they needed. The sugar was gone, and then I threw everything into the jar with a single brain, ready to do a big job.

But who would have thought that Chen Chen, who hadn't shown up for more than a month, suddenly went to the county to sell some bad peppers on his back.

Although there are only [-] cans this time, someone did buy it!

When the authentic taste is compared, there is a feeling that the pirated bad chili is "deadly unpalatable".

They've been thinking about the bad chili they've been waiting for for so long, but when they came to sell it, they sold it out without even hearing about it!If it weren't for the people who bought it after the fact, they probably didn't know it until now.

And can those who buy bad peppers be unhappy?

They are too tall!

This bad chili is really delicious, look, how many people are secretly envious of him!

The more envied others are, the more they want to show off; the more envious others are, the more proud they are that they bought it, and everyone in the county would like to use a loudspeaker to publicize it.

People who were dazzled: Get out!

Those who didn't buy it were disturbed like this, and their hearts became even more unbalanced. When chatting, it is inevitable that some people will mention the stolen hot peppers in the past. The displeasure of the chili pepper even made the stolen name worthless, how can I say it is unpalatable.

Everyone believed the genuine appearance and vivid description, and those who originally wanted to buy it to taste it directly gave up their purchase intentions, and then continued to sigh.

Yongxing County is not big, but it is definitely not small. If there is something lively to chat with neighbors, relatives and friends, it will spread throughout Yongxing County within a day.

For example, there are two kinds of bad peppers in the county, which is a hot topic. After the inevitable comparison between the two sides, Chen's bad peppers immediately wiped out the stolen bad peppers.

Everyone heard about it, lightning protection, and then their business...

But it has to turn yellow.

Poor them were dazzled by the false prosperity before, and then they had the courage to invest all their money in it, only to hear the crackling sound of sugar being poured into the altar, and finally got nothing.

With so many peppers, it would take them half a year to eat them at home.

It doesn't hurt to sell things with refined and expensive sugar, after all, it's eight cents a catty, and you can still make a profit, but if you eat it at home, you are a pure prodigal son.

For a family that is not rich at all, this is simply the prodigal son of prodigal sons!

It is a well-known fact that they can't sell half a catty after standing in the snack street for a day, and their voices are hoarse. The business is completely out of business.

Because the bottom line is lost, the family is noisy every day, you blame him, he blames her for the nonsense, you can't make it clear, but everyone has a big temper, I dare to lift the table if you smash the bowl, chicken fly The dog jumping and the chicken feathers all over the place taught the neighbors to listen to a lot of excitement, and then spread it to the outside world, and it became the talk of the whole Yongxing County after dinner.

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