Chapter 153 Top ingredient Nanri abalone
During dinner time, there were not many customers in the Green Island Hotel.
Obviously, Xiamen's economic situation was not much better in 1959. The old man hadn't drawn a circle yet. Xiamen was at best a strategic location, not a special economic zone.
Lin Sanqi sat by the window, looking left and right, mentally assessing how much revenue this restaurant could make in a day, and whether it would lose money.
The business acumen of southerners will never be lost wherever they go, it is engraved in their bones.
In fact, what Lin Sanqi doesn't know is that the situation in the entire Hujian Province is even worse, because 90% of Hujian Province is mountainous and has very little arable land. Since ancient times, it has been thought that it is not a battleground for military strategists because it is too poor and has no strategic value. .
Coupled with the impact of natural disasters, the food supply in Hujian Province will never be enough, let alone 1959.
This is also the reason why Hu Jianren went overseas in large numbers to survive. Life was very hard, but it was really hard to make ends meet at home. Although they were close to the sea, they couldn't stop eating fish every day.
There are few customers, but there are probably a lot of chefs behind the scenes, so the food is served very quickly, especially the Buddha jumping over the wall is the fastest.
When the yellow earthen jar was placed on the table, Lin Sanqi opened it and smelled it. The fragrance instantly spread to the entire dining room, attracting many customers nearby to turn around.
Lin Sanqi was so happy that she took a spoon and stirred it a few times:
"Wow, such a big sea cucumber! Such a big abalone! Two-headed abalone, and this is isinglass, right? What is this?..."
Seeing the excitement on the face of the young diner in front of me, the customers next to me laughed, and the waiter was also proud:
"Comrade, if you want to eat the most authentic Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, you must come to our Hu Jian.
Our Buddha Jumping Over the Wall by Hu Jian uses the best abalone, sea cucumber, shark's fin, fish maw, scallops, hoof tips, scallops, fish lips, pigeon eggs, flower mushrooms, ribs, etc. There are dozens of ingredients alone. There are so many species, and you can find all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas.
And we also have very high requirements for side dishes. For example, this sea cucumber must use Liao cucumber, which has six rows of spines and two pointed ends; the abalone must have two abalones, and it must be our Nanri abalone from Hu Jian Putian... …”
Lin Sanqi listened to the waiter bragging, and suddenly his ears twitched:
"Wait a minute, comrade, is the Putian Nanri Baobao you are talking about the Nanri Island?"
"Yes, it is the Nanri abalone that is unique to Nanri Island. Let me tell you, comrade, the abalone produced in Nanri has a thick body and thick shell, and the meat is tender. The abalone will not shrink significantly after being cooked. There is nothing better than this in the world. Better abalone”
Who doesn’t praise their hometown? But the speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Lin Sanqi’s eyes were already spinning around at this time.
"Also, Nanri abalone not only has delicious meat, but its shell is also a treasure. When dried and ground into powder, it becomes the traditional Chinese medicine Shi Cassia. Do you think this Nanri abalone is full of treasures all over?"
Lin Sanqi made up his mind that he was going to Putian to buy Shi Jueming, and he was going to Nanri Island. Now he was right.
At the same time, I was secretly happy. It seemed that Hu Jian would not come back empty-handed this time and found another source of wealth.
The next day, Lin Sanqi went to the post and telecommunications office first.
Firstly, he sent a telegram to his work unit to report that he was safe and to report on his itinerary at any time; secondly, he also sent a postcard to Pan Ye, telling her that he was in beautiful Xiamen.
After coming out of the post and telecommunications office, Lin Sanqi got into the jeep and headed towards Putian quickly.
Putian is only more than 200 kilometers away from Xiamen. If we took the expressway a few decades later, it would only take less than 2 hours. But in 1959, Lin Sanqi drove for a full day and had lunch in Quanzhou.
Fortunately, the jeep has been modified. If it were an old jeep, I wouldn't have the left and right legs and hands today.
The next day, Nanri Island.
Li Weihua, director of Nanribao Economic Cooperative, felt happy when he saw the job and letter of introduction handed over by Lin Sanqi.
Before the Republic of China, there were no farmed abalone on Nanri Island. All abalone was wild and required artificial diving to the seabed to salvage it. This salvage right was in the hands of several landowners on the island.
After liberation, private individuals were not allowed to salvage abalone, so Nanri Island established a rural cooperative. The policy adopted was collective salvage, collective sales, and then collective distribution. Everyone was fair and no one exploited anyone.
"It turns out they are comrades from the capital. Oh, we really looked forward to the stars and the moon, but you are here."
Lin Sanqi was a little surprised. Why was Director Li so polite?
But if others are polite, you can’t pretend that people from the capital don’t have eyes on top of their heads:
"Director Li, you are so polite. I was entrusted by the hospital and traveled thousands of miles to get to Nanri Island. How about the Shi Jueming I want to acquire?"
What buyers fear most is that the locals say there is no goods, and then they are finished. They have to wait or return empty-handed.
"Yes, yes, we have stone cassia, you can have as many as you want, haha."
Lin Sanqi put down the big stone in her heart as soon as she heard this:
"That's good. I'm here to purchase 500 kilograms this time."
When Director Li heard this, the smile on his face immediately disappeared: "Ah, it's only 500 pounds?" Lin Sanqi said with a smile:
"500 kilograms is quite a lot. After all, Shijueming is a niche drug with a small clinical dosage. If the supply and marketing cooperatives hadn't been too lazy to buy it because of the small quantity, our hospital wouldn't have to travel so far to purchase it in person."
Jua Ming, in traditional Chinese medicine, has the functions of calming the liver, improving eyesight, and treating dizziness.
In fact, the raw materials are very simple, that is, you need to use Nanri abalone shells, remove the meat and clean it, dry the shells before baking them, and finally use a stone hammer to crush and filter them. The fine powder obtained after sifting is the stone cassia.
Medical stone cassia must use nine-hole abalone or panda abalone produced in Nanri Island, other abalone shells will not work.
As for why Nanri Jiukongbao must be used, you ask Lin Sanqi, Lin Sanqi asked who should go? How about sending a WeChat message to ask Li Shizhen?
Director Li smiled carefully and said carefully:
"Comrade Lin, look at this warehouse. There are so many cassias piled up that cannot be sold. As the director of the cooperative, I am worried. As you can see, we are just an island. We cannot grow rice or wheat on the island. There is no food. Shipped from the mainland
There are so many Cassia trees that cannot be sold, and we have no money to buy food. There are more than 2,000 villagers on the island, and they are really about to starve to death. Comrade Lin, your Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the largest hospital in the country. Can you please purchase more? ”
Lin Sanqi blinked and asked in confusion:
"Isn't it right? Apart from our Capital Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, don't other Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospitals in other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country come to purchase?"
Director Li asked Lin Sanqi to sit down, made a glass of boiled water himself, and then explained:
"I'm also dissatisfied with what you said. Shi Jueming's original usage was not large. It turned out that several firms in Fuzhou had been buying it for a long time and then selling it to all parts of the country. Now isn't it liberated? Private clinics can't open. This... ”
Lin Sanqi understood that if private Chinese medicine shops and Chinese medicine clinics were gone, downstream demand would be gone, and as an upstream raw material supplier, there would be no way to ship goods.
There are only a few traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in the country, and Shi Jue Ming is a niche medicine, so naturally no one buys it.
Even traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in many provinces have changed their prescriptions and abandoned the use of Shi Jue Ming. That is to say, the capital's traditional Chinese medicine hospital has "deep pockets" and specially sends staff to purchase it.
Lin Sanqi's eyes rolled and she decided to bring the topic to abalone.
"That's not right, Director Li. Shi Jueming has no sales, but your Nanri abalone is world-famous.
I used to eat Buddha Jumps Over the Wall at Xiamen Green Island Hotel. The staff there highly praised your Nanri Abalone and said that the authentic Buddha Jumps Over the Wall must use Nanri Abalone to be delicious.
Then your Nanri abalone sales must be very good? You have the unique abalone in the world, but you are still afraid that you cannot sell it and exchange it for food? ”
When Director Li heard this, the wry smile on his face deepened and he stood up:
"Comrade Lin, let's go, I'll take you to see our Nanri dried abalone."
Lin Sanqi followed Director Li to another warehouse nearby.
As soon as he opened the door, Lin Sanqi saw that the warehouse was filled with flat-bottomed round bamboo dustpans stacked up and down. Inside were placed individual abalones that had been dried and had a golden color.
Lin Sanqi took a whiff and said, "Ah, it smells so good. Wow, there are so many dried abalones."
Director Li was a little proud after hearing this:
"That's why our Nanri abalone is famous because our abalone is first-class in terms of color, smell, taste and shape. Look, it's so pink and tender, so tempting that people can't help but want to bite it. Take a bite. Only low-grade garbage abalone smells like the sea.”
(Lin Sanqi thought to himself, you bad old man had better say "abalone", otherwise your words will not pass the trial...)
After slandering Lin Sanqi, he took a dried abalone in his hand and was a little surprised:
"Wow, why is it so big? It's bigger than my hand, Director Li, is this a two-headed abalone?"
Director Li nodded and praised repeatedly:
"Comrade Lin is indeed from the capital and has a good sense. This is indeed a two-headed abalone. This one abalone weighs almost 300 grams."
"Hey, isn't the two-headed abalone just half a catty? It should be 250 grams."
"Comrade Lin, you don't know something. Our traditional abalone weighing is based on Sima Jin. One Jin is equal to about 605 grams. There used to be a jargon saying that it's hard to buy two abalones for a thousand gold, and that's what it means.
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Don’t look at the size of the two-headed abalone now. This is because fresh abalone loses 90% of its weight during the drying process. So if you think about it in reverse, when fresh shelled abalone is fished out of the sea, it weighs about 3,000 grams. , which is now 6 Jin. ”
Lin Sanqi was even more shocked: "Wow, an abalone weighs 6 pounds, so it's not that big. It's bigger than a plate."
Director Li chuckled:
"This is just a two-headed abalone. There is also an even rarer single-headed abalone, which is as big as a washbasin when taken out. Look, Comrade Lin, that's it. Is it big enough? This one used to be As a tribute to the emperor.”
Lin Sanqi took the single-headed abalone and was thinking: Are they all this big? ? ! ! How much can it be sold for in 2023? ? ! !
"Hey, Director Li, you have so many top-quality abalones, so there must be a lot of people rushing to buy them, right?"
Lin Sanqi is not stupid. The director of the cooperative flattered him so enthusiastically and even dragged him to the warehouse to see the dried abalone. Several warehouses were piled up like hills, which was obviously unsaleable.
(End of chapter)