Taking advantage of the five-day holiday, the Zhang family plans to welcome Qi Niang through the door as soon as possible.
When I told the Ke family about this, the Ke family didn't have any opinions, and they wished that Qi Niang would come over early.
Now Zhang Tiegun is a big man in Ba, the founding baron of Ningmin County, and the commander of the Qin Palace.
They are also worried that it will drag on for a long time, and the lord will not be able to look down on Qi Niang, a widow with two children.
It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, and the two families sit there to discuss, so let's do it tomorrow.
Tomorrow is a good day, and when you look at the clouds in the sky today, you know that tomorrow will definitely be a sunny day with a big sun.
It's the best time to get married on such a day In fact, if Zhang Chao hadn't insisted on doing a big job, the widows in the countryside would have remarried, and they would have been quietly touched.
Normal big girls go out, are dusk church to get married, and the widow will be in the middle of the night, will not blow, just get some people to help move the box and cage baggage, to the man's house, there is not so much pomp, the two relatives and friends, witness together, there is a main marriage, and then light the candle, paste two happy words, worship the hall toast, it is over.
Zhang Chao doesn't care about those, what about his father's wedding, even if it is a second marriage, it has to be grand.
Now he gives Qi Niang more pomp and circumstance, and Qi Niang will be grateful to him in the future, and it will be easier for the family to get along.
As for the opinion of others, anyway, the Zhang family is now a nobleman, and this is not out of the ordinary.
Marriage is a major life event, even if Dad and Qi Niang are both second marriages, it is also a major life event.
You have to write an invitation right away and invite friends and family.
Because Qi Niang is also from Zhangjiagou, Zhang Chao directly patted his chest and said to the Ke family, the Zhang family has all the banquet or something.
At that time, the two banquets will be held together, which will save trouble.
It's just that when the banquet is served, the banquet of the Zhang family is placed in the new cave courtyard, and the relatives of the Ke family eat the banquet at the Ke family's side, but the cost of materials and the cost of inviting people are all arranged by the Zhang family.
The Ke family is also happy about the arrogance of this matter.
"Let's use eight bowls and eight plates," Dad discussed the dishes of the banquet with Zhang Chao.
"Add a few more, I'll see twelve hot dishes and six cold dishes, so make eighteen plates, and then six dried fruits and hazelnuts or something, and make twenty-four."
"It's too much, let's not let us put on a show as soon as we talk about it, eight bowls and eight dishes are good."
"The dish is a little more hearty than the last time I went to the cellar, add a few lamb dishes."
Zhang Chao backed down.
The entire Zhangjia Village began to get busy, preparing for the marriage of Daddy and Qi Niang.
Bathing ditch.
Zhang Chao rode slowly downhill to the bottom of the ditch, the bathing ditch in winter was just a dry ditch, and only a few low-lying places still had some water.
In a bamboo forest on the slope, Zhao Siniang was digging winter bamboo shoots with a hoe.
Last time, Zhang Chao saw Zhao Siniang digging winter bamboo shoots. is really a peculiar girl, the Zhao family is also a local tyrant with thousands of acres of land, but Zhao Siniang can also dig bamboo shoots with a hoe.
"How much have you dug up?"
Zhang Chao asked with a smile on the horse.
"Today's harvest is good, just found a big one, at least two or three catties, come over and help dig."
Zhao Siniang stopped her hoe and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Zhang Chao dismounted, and Siniang's Yahuan Luliu hurriedly came over to take the reins of the horse, and then led the horse to the side.
Zhang Chao stepped on the bamboo leaves and came to Siniang's side, where there was indeed a yellow bamboo shoot tip showing a small half, and when he looked at the tip of the bamboo shoot, he knew that this bamboo shoot was definitely very big.
Winter bamboo shoots will die when they are green, as long as the bamboo whip is on those slopes, it will be buried deep, and the bamboo shoots can also grow very large without showing their heads.
The color of these long and deep winter bamboo shoots is also particularly yellow.
"Let me do it."
Zhang Chao also liked to dig winter bamboo shoots when he was a child, when his grandfather's house was in the countryside, and there was a bamboo forest behind the house.
There will be a lot of winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest every winter, but it requires technology, and people without skills can dig up a few winter bamboo shoots like wild boars plowing the ground.
However, experienced people only need to look at the leaves of the bamboo, as well as the direction of the bamboo tip, and the direction of the first bamboo branch, to find the direction of the bamboo whip and know the depth.
It is easy to find winter bamboo shoots, and one digging is accurate.
Zhang Chao's grandfather used to be a master of digging winter bamboo shoots, and every year during the winter vacation, Zhang Chao liked to follow his grandfather to dig winter bamboo shoots in the back.
My grandfather didn't dig too much every time, and he would go home if he dug enough to fry a plate.
When he digs winter bamboo shoots, he will never hurt the bamboo whip.
As long as it doesn't hurt the bamboo whip, then it doesn't matter if the winter bamboo shoots are dug up, it won't affect the bamboo.
Winter bamboo shoots don't grow big and will die as soon as they show up.
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Digging winter bamboo shoots is actually equivalent to loosening the soil for bamboo, which is conducive to the growth of spring shoots in the next year.
Stir-fried pork slices with winter bamboo shoots, fried ham with winter bamboo shoots, and fried bacon are all delicious.
Zhang Chao picked up Siniang's hoe, very skillfully planed the soil on the edge of the winter bamboo shoots, and when the bamboo whip below was exposed, he waved the hoe and hoeed down, just cutting off the place where the winter bamboo shoots were connected to the bamboo whip, and a intact winter bamboo shoot was harvested, and it did not hurt the bamboo whip at all.
Picking up the winter bamboo shoots, Zhang Chao took a hoe to re-cover the soil with the exposed bamboo whip.
"I didn't expect San Lang to be a master of digging bamboo shoots, the last time I heard you say, I just thought you were boasting."
Siniang picked up the big winter bamboo shoot and said with a smile while patting the soil on it.
"I haven't dug for a long time, and I think when I used to dig winter bamboo shoots when I was in the mountains with my master."
"This bamboo shoot is quite big, it is estimated to be three catties smaller, it is rare to see."
Three-pound winter bamboo shoots are indeed rare.
The two of them were very happy to dig up a big winter bamboo shoot, and they each held the bamboo shoots and thought about it for a long time.
I stopped digging bamboo shoots, put away the bamboo shoots, and the two sat in the bamboo forest and chatted.
"San Lang, this bamboo shoot is for you, you have to do me a favor."
Zhao Siniang looked at Zhang Chaodao.
Zhang Chao didn't have time to talk to Zhao Siniang in detail that day, and today Zhao Siniang took the initiative to ask Zhang Chao to meet here, but Zhang Chao didn't refuse after thinking about it.
It's not that he covets Zhao Siniang's beauty or anything, in fact, Zhao Siniang doesn't have any beauty, she looks like an ordinary girl, and she is a little heroic.
Zhang Chao just felt that he still owed a little bit to the Zhao family when he bought the Zhao family's land last time.
If he can help, he doesn't mind helping.
Sometimes, when you help others, you are also helping yourself.
"What is the current situation in your family, you can tell me carefully."
Zhao Siniang patted the mud on her hand and sighed helplessly.
Speaking of food, the grain hoarded by the Zhao family has always been a time bomb.
Last time, I sold a Zhuangzi and returned more than 5,000 donkeys to roll, which is considered to have untied the rope around my neck.
But the Zhao family is not stable, their family also found someone to turn over a lot of money to buy grain, although these turnover is much better, the interest rate of the loan is low, but if it is not due to be repaid, it is troublesome, they all take the grange shop as collateral, and if they don't pay the money, others have to collect the shop grange.
Zhao Siniang has always believed that the war in Hebei will be fought for a year or two, and the condition for judging is that the Tang army has been defeated in successive battles before, and Li Yi and Li Shiji, who are known as famous generals, have been defeated one after another.
It is precisely because of this that he asked Zhao Yuanwai not to rush to clear the grain warehouse, but to wait for the grain prices to rise and rebound.
But within two days of the rise in grain prices, King Qin captured Liu Heimin, although there was still a Gao Kaidao and Xu Yuanlang, but everyone knew that they would not last a few days.
If there is no war, there will be much less food consumption, and the most important thing is that if there is no major war, the grain market will be very stable.
"Many people say that there will be a big drop in food this year."
"You plan to clear the grain now, and now at this price, I'm afraid that the loss won't be small," Zhang Chao said.
"Even if you cut the meat, there's no way around it.
If I don't sell the grain and pay back, my family's Zhuangzi shop will become someone else's.
Zhao Siniang was helpless, but it was not so easy to clear the warehouse.
Unless Zhao Siniang comes to a real clearance price, it is not easy to realize all kinds of grain in Wanshi at once.
Now Zhao Siniang is eyeing Zhang Chao.
She got the news that Zhang Chao became a member of the Ministry of Labor, and was responsible for building two workshops, one was a medicine workshop and the other was a wine factory.
If Zhang Chao can help buy grain from the Zhao family and buy the grain stored by the Zhao family, then the Zhao family not only does not have to sell the grain at the clearance price, but can even quickly cash out to repay the money.
After Zhang Chao met Siniang yesterday, he was also thinking about this issue.
If the imperial court wants to make wine, of course, it will not directly use rice wine to distill, so the cost will be too high.
The distillery will collect grain for distillation under normal circumstances, of course, for cost reasons, if you just brew alcohol, you don't need any good grain at all.
One of the best grains for brewing is sorghum.
There was a kind of sorghum in the Tang Dynasty, but because of the taste of sorghum, it has always been used as feed, and only in the year of famine, sorghum will be eaten as grain.
The price of sorghum is not high, but it is very good to make distilled alcohol, and the sorghum wine of later generations is a good liquor in liquor.
In fact, if there are sweet potatoes, then it is actually more cost-effective to use sweet potatoes, but now that there are no sweet potatoes, it is more cost-effective to use sorghum.
It would be too extravagant to use rice and wheat to make medical alcohol.
However, Zhang Chao was also thinking that there was a distillation method, which was only used to make alcohol, which would be too wasteful.
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He believes that high-quality liquor such as Erguotou must still be very marketable, and Li Shimin's people who don't drink alcohol can say that they are good when they drink it.
Zhang Chao really wanted to get a wine shop by himself and then brew two pots to sell, and the wine tips could be sold to the wine shop of the imperial court to continue to be processed into alcohol.
It's a pity that it's stuck with Li Shimin now, if you want to brew Erguotou, you can only get through Li Shimin's checkpoint first, and even in the wine shop of the imperial court, you can also use Erguotou, so that the pot head and the wine tip are processed into alcohol, and there is no delay.
But Zhang Chao didn't want to do this, because no matter how good he was, he wouldn't share a penny from him, so what to do.
Sure enough, there is no motivation to eat a big pot of rice and work, if it is Zhang Chao's own wine shop, he will definitely do everything possible to save costs, improve efficiency, and tap potential.
Zhang Chao sighed.
"Do you have sorghum in your stockpile?"
"Yes, but not much, I haven't heard of sorghum for sake brewing?"
Sorghum is also known as Shu millet, used to make wine or in the Ming Dynasty, now in the Tang Dynasty, sorghum planting is not too much, many people directly grind sorghum into rice to cook rice or porridge to eat, there are also some people will grind sorghum into flour to make cakes, but sorghum contains tannins, the taste is very astringent, ordinary people are reluctant to eat sorghum, usually used as livestock feed, only in the year of famine to eat, so sorghum is also known as disaster relief grain.
Zhao Siniang's family sells grain, but I really haven't heard of anyone who uses sorghum to make wine.
Zhang Chao smiled and said nothing, of course sorghum made ordinary rice wine is not delicious, but it is an excellent material for brewing liquor, good sorghum wine is strong but not spicy, sweet and soft, with a unique aroma. t1706231537: