Chapter 81: A female partner chooses farming (30)
Tin cans are not afraid of light, can be stored for a long time, and are more convenient to transport than glass cans. The disadvantages are high cost and easy to rust when exposed to water.
As long as you pay attention not to get exposed to rain or water during transportation or storage, the latter defect can be avoided, mainly due to cost.
In the age of peasant girls, there was no mine at home, so the first thing that came to mind was glass cans.
But at the moment, the Jinnan Palace she backs up owns a whole mine. With the iron ore reserves currently explored, there is no pressure to divide a few tons into making tin cans.
Such a simple question actually bothered her for several months.
In this way, people in Qinbei, a hilly area, can escape poverty and become well-off by planting lychees.
She had a brief chat with Yan Kejin and originally wanted him to come forward to contract several barren mountains in the surrounding area and hire local villagers to grow lychees.
Unexpectedly, he bought this place directly, and in an instant, hundreds of miles around became the territory of the royal palace.
This man is constantly buying land and hills, and Xu Yin can no longer complain.
Think about it, after the canned project is completed, he will not suffer any loss.
However, since we are going to make cans, it is best to have more varieties. Just a can of lychees will be monotonous after a long time.
She took Yan Kejin into the mountain for an inspection.
After reading it, I feel that the soil here is not only suitable for growing lychees, but also for growing tropical and subtropical fruits such as longans, oranges, and pineapples, and these fruits are also suitable for canning.
“Pineapple? What is this?”
Seeing that he didn’t know, Xu Yin drew some of the tropical fruits mentioned with charcoal so that people could look for fruit saplings later to have a reference.
Yan Kejin stared at the pineapple picture for a long time.
Xu Yin: “…”
Well, there are no pineapples in Lingnan at this time.
“How about sending someone to look for them in other continents across the border? This kind of fruit tree likes a hot and humid environment, so there might be some there.”
"Um."
Yan Kejin took the picture she drew and ordered a guard to hurry up and cross the border to other continents.
But to cross the border, you have to take a ferry to another continent. Even if there is no delay on the way, it will probably take several months to get back.
Xu Yin then told the guards that if there were any of the fruits she painted in other continents across the border, there was no need to come back to report them. Instead, they could directly find a batch of high-quality fruit saplings and bring them back with a carriage.
There are local mountain farmers who do the planting, and they know much more than she does. What she can do is teach them the new method of retting.
After finishing these things, it’s time to return.
Don’t even think about exploring the entire Baigui County at one time.
At this rate, it would be good to explore Baigui County within three years.
【Ding—A quarter of Nanman's Baigui County has been explored】
【Ding—cross the border and start exploring other continents, activate new maps, and be rewarded with 2000 energy points】
Unexpectedly, on this day, the system sent two mission messages in succession, which made Xu Yin quite puzzled.
Has Baigui County been explored for a quarter? no?
Have you crossed the border and started exploring other continents? But she didn't go across the border to other continents, not even to Qin County.
How is this going? The system is pumped?
Xu Yin was puzzled until Yan Kejin received a letter from Fei Ge telling her that Yan Jiu had bought the entire mountain forest where the rubber forest was located.
In the surrounding forests, rubber trees and rubber plantations can be planted at any time.
There are many precious old trees in the deep forest that are hundreds or thousands of years old. They are temporarily untouched and will be reserved for the marriage of their children in the future.
There was also a flying pigeon letter from another guard, who had already crossed the sea and arrived at the Cross-Border Continent. The fruits Xu Yin drew were indeed found in the Cross-Border Continent, but the pineapples were wild.
According to the description of the guard, the people there are not sensitive to pineapples, saying that they are poisonous, and their mouths will be numb and red and swollen after eating them.
Unless the person is hungry and has nothing to eat, most people are unwilling to touch it. So I wrote a letter to report: Do you want to take it back to Qinbei?
Of course!
“The way to eat pineapples is indeed a bit special, but that’s not a problem. Just ask him to buy fruit seedlings. If it’s convenient, hire a few local people who are good at growing this kind of fruit trees to go back to Qinbei and let them teach you how to grow them.”
In this way, the mission progress that suddenly appeared in the system gave Xu Yin a rough understanding: the exploration did not necessarily require her to go there in person, but also the people she sent.
As soon as I open my mind, I feel so happy.
“What good thing happened to the princess?”
Yan Kejin finished writing the handwriting and released the flying pigeons. When he came back, he saw her smiling and sometimes humming a little tune. He couldn't help but laugh and ask.
“I won’t tell you!” Xu Yin smiled playfully.
Yan Kejinping stepped back and stepped forward to hug her: "Let me guess, is it...?"
As he spoke, his big warm hands, with his unique refreshing breath, touched her belly.
Xu Yin was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "You are thinking too much."
Yan Kejin was just guessing, and he was not disappointed when she saw her refutation.
The accompanying physician checked the princess's pulse and said she was in good health.
There will always be children and heirs. It’s okay if you don’t come now, you can still enjoy the pleasure of London with her a few more times.
Thinking about it this way, I felt a little moved in my heart.
He lowered his head and saw the person in his arms with an almond-shaped face and a charming face. He didn’t let the maid come in to hold the lamp, so he carried her to the bed in the dark...
When I returned to Fucheng, it was already August when the fragrance of osmanthus was fragrant.
The housekeeper and his servants hung lanterns on the corridors and eaves of the mansion.
At night, candles were lit, and the red light illuminated the nine-curved corridor of the mansion.
In the kitchen, the carpenter shop was also asked to make a batch of brand new mooncake molds, a set of large and small, with dozens of patterns, in preparation for the Autumn Harvest Festival.
Perhaps the salty rice dumplings invented by Xu Yin were very popular in the house. No, when the prince and princess returned to the house, the imperial chef hurried over and asked the princess what kind of salty mooncakes she liked, so that the kitchen could prepare the fillings in advance.
Hearing this, Yan Kejin also looked at her expectantly.
Xu Yin: “…”
Savory mooncakes?
I haven’t really studied this yet.
“How about trying the golden sand custard filling and the salted egg yolk ham filling? These two salty flavors should be okay.”
The mooncakes popular here in Yanhua are similar to the Cantonese style, but they are a bit hard when cold and not as soft as the later Cantonese style mooncakes.
Xu Yin estimated that the syrup was too thin and too much flour needed to be added to adjust the hardness of the dough. As a result, the oil returned slowly or not at all after cooling, so it tasted hard and the texture was not good.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of sugar in the house this year. Xu Yin asked the waiter to move the white sugar that had been boiled before to the big kitchen for the cooks to make moon cakes.
In addition, she plans to bake a batch of Su-style pickled mustard meat and red bean paste mooncakes.
Let’s make the lychees brought back from Qinbei into canned lychees with sugar water and give them to the prince as a Mid-Autumn Festival gift.
She had a kiln built in the back garden of Xu Mansion.
The drawings of the kiln were prepared by the system, which was more sophisticated than she thought. The open fire on the lower floor can be used for barbecue; the upper floor can be used for baking mooncakes and other snacks.
By the time the kiln is built, the Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner.
Xu Yin led her grandmother and maids to start making Soviet-style mooncakes.
(End of this chapter)