On the way to the county seat, Zhou Ziwen also met several other production teams building roads.
Several production teams are each responsible for a section of the road, and the progress is about the same.
Walking and stopping, although it took a little time, Zhou Ziwen quickly arrived at the county seat.
When he arrived at the county town, Zhou Ziwen first went to the food station.
The food station is a place in the county that specializes in supplying meat and other foods. In this era, you can only buy meat here.
Of course, you can also go to the black market, but the meat in the black market is more expensive.
He pushed his bicycle and walked into the door of the food station.
The food station is bustling with people queuing up to buy meat.
Zhou Ziwen also joined the queue, observing the prices of various meats while waiting.
"Is there fresh pork today?" Zhou Ziwen asked the staff in front.
The staff glanced at him, nodded and said, "Yes, today's pork is very fresh. It was just slaughtered in the morning."
"Then give me three kilograms of pork belly and two kilograms of pork belly."
Zhou Ziwen handed over the money and tickets.
The pork belly can be made into braised pork, the pork belly can be made into the fish-flavored shredded pork that Chen Qiaoyi likes to eat, and the remaining pork belly can be fried into twice-cooked pork.
The staff glanced at Zhou Ziwen, quickly weighed the meat, and handed it to Zhou Ziwen.
Zhou Ziwen put the meat on the bicycle, and then pushed the bicycle to the county pharmacy.
There are two places to collect medicinal materials, one is the collection point of the supply and marketing cooperative, and the other is the pharmacy.
In fact, if Zhou Ziwen is willing, he can sell it to the county hospital.
However, the county hospital has its own purchasing channels, and if you want to sell to them, you will have to find someone to help.
Zhou Ziwen didn't want to spend any favors, so he planned to go to the pharmacy first.
He probably had some knowledge of the prices at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative's purchasing station, and the prices he gave were not high.
He wanted to compare and see which side has the higher price.
When Zhou Ziwen arrived at the pharmacy, there happened to be several villagers selling medicinal materials in the pharmacy.
This situation is still very common in pharmacies.
They were holding some dried herbs in their hands and were bargaining with the pharmacy staff.
Zhou Ziwen took a quick look and found that they were all common herbs, and the quality was not very good, far worse than what he brought.
"Hello, comrade, I have some medicinal materials that I want to sell."
When it was Zhou Ziwen's turn, he said to the staff.
The staff looked up at him, and then said: "Take out the medicinal materials, let me check the quality first."
Zhou Ziwen put the medicinal herbs on the counter, and the staff began to Upon inspection, he nodded from time to time, obviously satisfied with the quality of the herbs.
"These medicinal materials are of good quality. I'll give you one and a half yuan for astragalus, two and a half yuan for angelica root, two yuan and two for white peony root, one and eighty yuan for chuanxiong..."
The staff quoted the prices one by one.
Zhou Ziwen made some calculations in his mind and found that the price was quite good, at least much higher than the price at the supply and marketing cooperative purchasing station, so he nodded, "Okay, it will be the price you said."
"The total of your medicinal materials is 25 kilograms, astragalus is 3 kilograms and two taels, angelica is two kilograms and eighty taels, white peony root is one kilogram and eighty taels, Chuanxiong is three and a half kilograms..."
"According to what we just discussed Good price, the total is sixty-four yuan and eighty-two cents," the pharmacy staff said while taking out a wad of bills and giving out the details.
Zhou Ziwen took the money and counted it carefully. After confirming that it was correct, he nodded with satisfaction: "Thank you, your prices here are very fair."
The pharmacy staff responded with a smile: "Comrade, your medicinal materials The quality is good. If you still have medicinal materials in the future, you can come to us to sell them."
"Okay, no problem," Zhou Ziwen agreed with a smile. The price at the pharmacy is indeed good. If he really wants to sell it in the future, he will be ready to sell it here.
Coming out of the pharmacy, Zhou Ziwen put the money in his pocket and was in a very good mood.
Including the deer meat sold on the black market a few days ago, he made more than 100 yuan in just a few days.
In addition to the old turtle I sold last time and bought a sewing machine, I still have more than 100 left, which adds up to more than 200.
“It seems that making money is quite easy!”
Zhou Ziwen patted his trouser pockets and pushed his bicycle to go home.
He also has a lot of medicinal materials. What he sold today is only a small part, for testing the water.
According to the price of the pharmacy, his medicinal materials can be sold for six to seven hundred without any problem.
This is the result of him not counting those precious medicinal materials.
He plans to keep the precious medicinal materials, whether he uses them himself or sells them later, there is no need to worry.
As long as medicinal materials are handled well, it will not be a problem to store them for several years.
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All the way home, by the time he got home, it was almost noon.
Zhou Ziwen took the meat he bought to the kitchen and began to process it.
Zhou Ziwen placed the pork belly and pork belly on the chopping board, preparing to make several dishes as planned.
He plans to use the pork belly to make braised pork. This dish is bright red in color and has a mellow taste. He and his two sisters love to eat it.
He first cut the pork belly into medium-sized pieces, then heated the pot, poured in a small amount of oil, put the cut pieces of meat into the pot and stir-fried until the surface of the meat turned golden brown. .
Then, he added some white sugar and slowly stir-fried it over low heat until the sugar color came out. Then he added an appropriate amount of soy sauce, cooking wine, ginger slices, star anise and water, covered the pot and simmered over low heat.
Cut the lean meat in front of the meat to prepare fish-flavored shredded pork.
The key to this dish is to prepare the fish-flavored seasoning in advance. He chopped onions, ginger, and garlic, put them into a bowl with pickled peppers, then added soy sauce, sugar, vinegar and starch, and mixed Into fish sauce.
After the braised pork was ready, Zhou Ziwen started making fish-flavored shredded pork.
Pour an appropriate amount of oil into the pot. When the oil temperature rises, he pours the shredded meat into it, stir-fries it quickly until it changes color, and then takes it out and set aside.
Leave a little oil in the pot, add the prepared fish-flavor sauce, cook until thick, then pour the fried shredded pork back into the pot, stir-fry quickly to coat the shredded pork evenly with the fish-flavor sauce, and finally sprinkle with chopped green onion , take out of the pot and put on a plate.
As for the remaining meat, Zhou Ziwen plans to make a classic twice-cooked pork dish. Just now when he was making braised pork, the meat was already cooking in another pot.
He took out the cooked meat, cut it into thin slices, and marinated it with cooking wine, light soy sauce and a little starch. Then heat the pan, pour in oil, put the marinated meat slices into the pan and stir-fry until the meat slices are slightly curled and take on the shape of a "lamp nest".
Then, he added the chopped green peppers and garlic sprouts and stir-fried them together with the meat slices. Finally, he added the bean paste and sweet noodle sauce, stir-fried the red oil, then added a little soy sauce and sugar, stir-fried evenly and removed from the pan.
The kitchen was filled with aroma, and Zhou Ziwen brought the prepared dishes to the table one by one. The mellowness of the braised pork, the freshness of the fish-flavored shredded pork, and the mild spiciness of the twice-cooked pork make every dish mouth-watering.
Chen Shiying and Chen Qiaoyi returned home and were attracted by the fragrance as soon as they entered the door.
"Brother Ziwen, what delicious food did you cook?" Chen Qiaoyi couldn't wait to run into the kitchen and shouted in surprise when she saw the dishes on the table.
"Wow, braised pork, fish-flavored shredded pork, and twice-cooked pork! They are all my favorites. Brother Ziwen, you are so good!" Chen Qiaoyi jumped up excitedly.
Chen Shiying also smiled and praised: "Ziwen, your craftsmanship is getting better and better."
Zhou Ziwen took off his apron and responded with a smile: "As long as you like to eat, go quickly Wash your hands, we’re ready to eat.”
The three of them sat around the dining table, enjoying the lunch carefully prepared by Zhou Ziwen.
Today’s dishes were all meat dishes. The two sisters ate a lot, and the rest went into Zhou Ziwen’s stomach.
In the end, all three of them were exhausted. (End of this chapter)