Chapter 81 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (30)

  Tin cans are not afraid of light, have a long storage time, and are more convenient to transport than glass cans. The disadvantage is that the cost is high, and it is easy to rust when exposed to water.

  As long as it is transported or stored, be careful not to get wet in the rain. The latter defect can be avoided, and the main reason is the cost.

  In the era of peasant girls, there were no mines at home, so the first thing that came to mind was glass jars.

  But at this moment, the Jinnan Palace on which she is backing owns an entire mine. With the iron ore reserves that have been explored so far, there is no pressure to divide it into several tons to make tin cans.

  Such a simple question has troubled her for several months.

  In this way, Qinbei in the hilly area can get rid of poverty and become well-off by planting lychees.

  She and Yan Kejin briefly talked about it, and originally wanted him to come forward, contract out several barren hills around, 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 palace.

  This master buys land and hills at every turn, Xu Yin is already powerless to complain.

  Thinking about the completion of the canning project, he should not lose money.

  However, since it is to be canned, it is best to have more varieties. Just one canned lychee, it will be monotonous after a long time.

  She took Yan Kejin into the mountain for investigation.

  After reading it, I feel that the soil here is not only suitable for growing lychees, but also suitable for growing tropical and subtropical fruits such as longan, orange, and pineapple, and these fruits are also suitable for canning.

   "Pineapple? What is this?"

  Xu Yin saw that he didn't know, so she drew the mentioned tropical fruits with charcoal, so that it would be a reference for people to look for fruit saplings later.

  Yan Kejin stared at the pineapple picture for a long time.

  Xu Yin: "..."

   Well, there are no pineapples in Lingnan at this time.

   "Why don't you send someone to look for them on the outer continent? This kind of fruit trees like hot and humid environments, so there may be some there."

"Um."

  Yan Kejin took the picture she drew, and ordered a guard to go across the continent.

  However, it takes a ferry to go across the continent, and it will take a month to get back even if there is no delay on the road.

  Xu Yin then told the guards that if there are these fruits she painted on the other side of the continent, there is no need to come back and report back, just find a batch of high-quality fruit saplings and bring them back in a carriage.

   There are local mountain farmers who plant something. They know much more than her. What she can do is to teach them the new fertilization method.

   It's time to return after finishing these tasks.

   Don’t try to explore the entire Baigui County at one time.

  At this speed, it would be nice to be able to explore Baigui County within three years.

  【Ding—A quarter of Baigui County in Nanban has been explored】

  【Ding—Explore beyond the continent, activate the new map, reward energy points 2000】

   Unexpectedly, on this day, the system sent two mission messages in succession, which made Xu Yin quite puzzled.

  Have you explored a quarter of Baigui County? no?

  Have you crossed the continent and started exploring? But she didn't go to the Outer Continent, not even Qin County.

How is this going? The system pumped?

  Xu Yin was puzzled until Yan Kejin received a letter from Fei Ge, telling her that Yan Jiu had bought the entire forest where the rubber forest was located.

  In the surrounding forest, rubber trees can be planted and rubber gardens can be built at any time.

  In the deep forest, there are many hundreds or thousands of precious old wood, which will not move for the time being, and will be kept for the children to marry in the future.

  Of course, if she likes it, she can cut a few and let Yan Jiu bring it back.

   There is also a flying pigeon letter from another guard, who has crossed the sea and reached the Outer Continent. The fruits drawn by Xu Yin are indeed available in the Outer Continent, but the pineapples are wild.

  According to the description of the guards, the people there are not sensitive to pineapples, saying that they are poisonous, and their mouths become numb, red and swollen after eating them.

   Unless you are hungry and have nothing to eat, most people are reluctant to touch it.

  So I sent a special letter to report: Do you want to bring it back to Qinbei?

   Of course I want it!

   "The way to eat pineapples is indeed a little special, but that's not a problem. You let him buy fruit seedlings, and 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 teach them how to plant them."

  In this way, the task progress that popped up suddenly by the system made Xu Yin understand roughly: she doesn't necessarily have to go to the exploration in person, but the people she sends are also counted.

   Once the mind is opened, the mood is not to mention how happy.

   "What beautiful thing happened to the princess?"

  Yan Kejin finished writing the handbook and released the flying pigeons. When she came back, she saw a smile on her lips, humming a little song from time to time, so she couldn't help asking with a smile.

   "I won't tell you!" Xu Yin smiled playfully.

  Yan Kejin retreated from the screen, and stepped forward to hug her: "Let me guess, is it... yes?"

   While speaking, warm big hands, with his unique cool breath, caressed her lower abdomen.

  Xu Yin froze for a moment, then laughed: "You think too much."

  Yan Kejin was just guessing, but she was not disappointed when she saw her rebuttal.

  The accompanying imperial doctor took the pulse of the princess and said that she was in good health.

  Heirs, there will always be. It's fine if you don't come now, and you can still enjoy London with her a few more times.

  Thinking like this, my heart is a little moved.

  Looking down, he saw the person in his arms with apricot face and peach cheeks, and a charming face. He didn't let the maid come in to hold the lamp, and hugged her to the couch in the dark...

  When I returned to Fucheng, it was already August when the osmanthus was fragrant.

  The butler led the servants to hang lanterns on the corridors and corners of the mansion.

  When night fell, candles were lit, and the blushing light illuminated the Jiuqu corridor in the mansion.

  The kitchen also asked the carpenter to make a batch of brand new moon cake molds, large and small, with dozens of patterns in a set, in preparation for the autumn harvest festival.

   Xu Yin figured out that the salty rice dumplings are very popular in the mansion. No, seeing the prince and princess returning to the mansion, the imperial chef hurried over to ask the princess what kind of salty mooncakes she likes, so the kitchen can prepare the fillings in advance.

  Yan Kejin also looked at her expectantly after hearing the words.

  Xu Yin: "..."

  Salty mooncakes?

   I haven’t really studied this.

   "Why don't you try Jinsha milk yolk stuffing and salted egg yolk ham stuffing? 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, not as soft as the Cantonese style mooncakes of later generations.

  Xu Yin reckons that the syrup is too thin and too much flour needs to be added to adjust the softness of the dough, resulting in slow or no oil return after cooling, so it tastes hard and the taste is not good.

   Fortunately, there is no shortage of sugar in the mansion this year, so Xu Yin asked the servants to move the white sugar that had been boiled to the big kitchen for the cooks to make mooncakes.

  In addition, she plans to bake a batch of Soviet-style mustard fresh meat and red bean paste mooncakes.

   Then make the lychees brought back by Qinbei into canned lychees in syrup, and give them to the prince for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

  She asked someone to build a baking kiln in the back garden of Xu Mansion.

  The blueprint of the baking kiln was compiled by the system, which is more sophisticated than she thought. The lower layer can be used for barbecue; the upper layer can be used to bake mooncakes and other snacks.

  After the kiln is built, the Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner.

  Xu Yin led the mothers and maids to start making Soviet-style mooncakes.

  (end of this chapter)