Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Chapter 248: Biting off more than one can chew

Chen Gu ordered two cups of tea before he saw Lin Yinan and his men walk into the conference room, holding a small winnowing basket in his good hand.

Lin Yinan placed the small dustpan directly on the table in front of Chen Gu.

"Master Chen, I've been waiting for you for a long time. Here's something for you to try."

Chen Gu picked it up and took a closer look at this thing that looked very much like a gold ingot, then put it under his nose and smelled it.

"what is this?"

Lin Yiheng said with a smile, "You will know after you try it."

Chen Gu saw that they were playing dumb with him, so he carefully put it to his lips and licked it. Huh? Sweet?

He took a bite and tasted it carefully. It was sugar, but it didn't look like maltose. It tasted sweeter than maltose and had a faint fragrance.

"Did you make the candy?" Chen Gu asked Lin Yinan.

Lin Yinan pursed his lips, and a beautiful arc appeared at the corner of his mouth. "Yes, it tastes good, right?"

Chen Gu glanced at the fat ingots in the small winnowing basket, took a bite of the one in his hand, and looked at her with sparkling eyes.

"Can our Chen family sell this?"

Yun Mo considerately poured Lin Yinan a glass of water. Lin Yinan took the glass and drank half of it in big gulps. As she was still breastfeeding, she needed to drink a lot of water every day.

Lin Yinan thought for a moment, raised his eyes and said nonchalantly, "Master Chen, be careful not to bite off more than you can chew."

"After the low-priced salt is released after the New Year, you will be busy enough," Pan Qingfeng added.

Chen Gu was as thick-skinned as a copper wall and was not embarrassed at all by being rejected. He laughed and said, "Who wouldn't want such a good thing? By the way, what is this thing called?"

Lin Yiheng said, "Brown sugar ingots."

"What is it made of?" Chen Gu asked, only then did he realize that he had overstepped his bounds.

Who would easily tell others the secret recipe? So, he hurriedly explained, "Don't mind me, I'm just asking casually."

Lin Yinan turned the cup in her hand and met his gaze with a sharp look in her eyes. She spoke frankly without hiding anything.

“Brown sugar ingots are made of sugar cane.”

"Sugar cane?" What is that?

Chen Gu was completely confused, he had never heard of this thing before.

Lin Yinan waved to Ah Fu in the corner and took the sugar cane from him, "This is the sugar cane, do you think it looks familiar?"

"Zhu Sue!?"

Chen Gu looked at the thing in his hand and was full of surprise. This thing can actually be made into sugar?

Sugarcane was called "zhuzhe" in ancient times. According to historical records, Cao Pi once planted sugarcane himself and wrote a poem about it.

"Maybe we can cooperate." Lin Yinan said, ignoring the surprise in Chen Gu's eyes.

Chen Gu came back to his senses after hearing this, "How can we cooperate?"

Lin Yinan said, "We only started artificially planting sugarcane this year. The yield per mu is not high, and the sugar output is even less. If you can grow sugarcane in Yongqing City next year, I will harvest it no matter how much you plant."

"Does this thing need to be planted? It's all over the mountain!" Chen Gu was even more puzzled.

Lin Yinan looked at Liang Wen, "Manager Liang, please talk to Young Master Chen."

Liang Wen has experience in managing sugarcane fields. He smiled shyly, "All the sugarcane in our field is found in the mountains and forests and transplanted to wasteland. After planting the sugarcane, we need to weed and fertilize it regularly, and remove the leaves when it grows enough. In this way, one mu of sugarcane can grow 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms."

"This year we have kept healthy and high-quality sugarcane as seeds for next year. I believe the yield per mu will be even higher next year."

In fact, Chen Gu was already tempted when he heard that the yield per mu was so high.

Lin Shuo saw his hesitation and said with a smile, "If you don't know how to do it, you can send someone to learn, or we can send someone to teach you."

"Grow!" Chen Gu said, "But I have to tell the old man first when I get back."

Those who had previously studied rice transplanting techniques in Longtan conducted experiments on ten acres of land after returning. When they compared the harvests, they found that the harvest was more than fifty kilograms more than before.

So he was completely convinced by the new things that Longtan had come up with.

Lin Yinan, "Bring some brown sugar ingots for Patriarch Chen to try later."

"Lord City Lord, are you really not going to consider giving this candy to our Chen family as an agent?"

Chen Gu is a man who is very good at taking advantage of opportunities. As long as there is a chance, he will fight to the end.

"Master Chen, I really can't give you sugar, but I wonder if you are interested in another seasoning made by our sauce factory?"

Lin Yinan changed the subject, not wanting him to keep harping on the red sugar ingots.

"What is it?"

“Fermented black beans.”

Then, Lin Yinan asked the secret guard to go to the sauce factory and bring back a small can of fermented black beans.

After opening the jar, Chen Gu was almost vomited by the smell.

"This smells like shit, yue~" Chen Gu said as he fanned the air in front of him with his hands.

Lin Yinan ignored his feelings and put some food in the bowl with chopsticks.

She pinched one and put it in her mouth. It was salty and fragrant and very delicious.

"Try it, it tastes really good!" She handed the chopsticks to him regardless of Chen Gu's life or death.

Seeing her serious expression, Chen Gu picked up a piece of fermented black beans, pinched his nose and put it in his mouth.

It doesn't seem as stinky as it smells at first. Upon closer tasting, there is a unique aroma of fermented beans.

"Beans?" he asked doubtfully.

Hu Shao grabbed a handful and put it in his mouth to chew, then glanced at him with disgust. He actually called such delicious fermented black beans shit.

"Yes, it's made from fermented beans. It's delicious!"

Chen Gu swallowed one and picked up another with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. The more he ate, the more delicious the fermented black beans became.

"Just eat it like this?"

Lin Yinan said, "Fermented black beans are a seasoning. They can be used to stir-fry vegetables or stew meat. The most important thing is that they are not expensive."

It has a wide range of uses. Chen Gu was once again impressed and soon signed a supply agreement for fermented black beans with Longtan.

Longtan is developing in full swing under Lin Yinan's planning.

Wu Xingwang and his son, who were far away in Cangwu County, were also busy.

Although they have no connection with the top aristocratic families, the father and son are attending the wedding of the eldest son of Deng Kang, the third ranked businessman in Cangwu County.

The father and son were invited to the guest seats, where they drank the finest tea and listened to the guests around them gossiping about the newlyweds' marriage and the bride's family background.

"I heard from my wife that the bride is very beautiful. Young Master Deng is so lucky!"

"It is said that the bride is not from our Cangwu County?"

"Yes, I heard that she seems to be the granddaughter of the head of the Su family, a famous scholarly family in the north."

"That's right. If we hadn't come here to escape the disaster, we wouldn't have been able to marry such a good wife with the Deng family background."

“As the saying goes, a phoenix in trouble is no better than a chicken. Even if it is a scholarly family in the north, when they arrive in Cangwu, they still have to marry off their daughters to maintain the family’s honor.”

"That also requires that the men in the clan are promising. Otherwise, look at you. You have given birth to many sons, but none of them are any good."

"Speaking of me, how good can you be!"

"..."

Several people started laughing as they talked.

Wu Xingwang and his son looked at each other, pretended to go to the toilet and quietly left Deng's house. The streets were full of red firecracker paper.

According to etiquette, the father and son bought some gifts on the street.