157: Everything goes with the flow
Zhong Yuemin had no choice but to pick up the tea on the table and drink it, not caring that it was the water he had just poured for Ma Guiping.
Gulu Gulu drank half a cup and finally relieved his dry mouth and then continued.
"Uncle, I can't tell you clearly for a while, wait for me!"
After saying that, Zhong Yuemin pushed open the office door and ran out, leaving behind a somewhat inexplicable Ma Guiping.
After a while, Zhong Yuemin ran back cursing and holding half a piece of sesame cake in his hand.
"Uncle, the group of people below you are too unruly. I have more than a dozen baked cakes left. They have snatched it. There is still half left, which I have snatched from them."
As he said that, Zhong Yuemin tore off the spot where the teeth were printed, handed over the remaining half of the pancake, and said with a smile.
"Uncle, this taste is not as delicious as it just came out of the oven, but it is not bad either. I'll let you taste the taste. How about you try it?"
Despite some doubts, Ma Guiping took the half of the pancake, carefully bit off one piece, chewed it a few times, and then frowned, and stuffed the remaining half into his mouth, chewing it gently, and chewing it slower and slower. Finally, he raised his head, looked at Zhong Yuemin, and asked with a little unnatural expression.
“Is there chicken in it?”
Zhong Yuemin wanted to laugh a little, but he wanted to hold it back, but in the end he couldn't help it. The corners of his mouth slightly raised, nodded, then shook his head, and then said with a smile.
"Uncle, this is my secret recipe. The prepared chicken-flavored seasoning can be configured in large quantities. You said, if I use coarse grains to make chicken legs, then fry and bake, and make it into easy-to-preserve snacks, the name is Mizhisu chicken legs, which are made into specialties in our county and sold to all parts of the country. What do you think?"
After hearing Zhong Yuemin's words, Ma Guiping's eyes lit up, he thought for a while, and said in a deep voice.
"I dare not think that if this thing can really solve some difficulties in the county, it will be a bit of a problem. Yuemin, are you really sure to get that vegetarian chicken leg?"
Zhong Yuemin nodded confidently, saying that he could make it out with some time. Even if it couldn't be sold nationwide, it would definitely be no problem to make this thing into a local specialty food.
Maybe this thing can shine in this era, after all, it is really too short of meat these days.
Some people later commented on the four famous Chinese chickens, Daokou roast chicken, Dezhou roast chicken, Fuliji roast chicken, and Goubangzi roast chicken.
Zhong Yuemin was thinking, maybe his rice vegetarian chicken might become the fifth most famous chicken in China by then. Who said that people are too short of meat these days, and they have no meat and a bit meaty taste, which can make many people remember for their lifetime.
In fact, he had just come up with this idea. After the bakery business was unable to continue, Zhong Yuemin was also thinking about how to find a way out for everyone. It is only 69 years now, and many educated youth have to live here for seven or eight years, or even ten years. They can leave, but can't do anything for them?
This cooking skill in my own hands and this secret recipe for vegetarian chicken seasoning is better than making moldy in my mind.
As soon as this idea came out, Zhong Yuemin couldn't help it anymore. Uncle Ma was the director of the county's sports committee. I don't know what happened in the future, but in this small county, I can definitely experiment.
Ma Guiping was not very optimistic about this matter, but just after tasting the little chicken flavor, he always felt that something was missing in his mouth, and he felt that it was OK to give young people a chance.
His county is a famous poor county in northern Shaanxi. There is nothing in the area except for a little coal mine and a little mineral.
Zhong Yuemin knew that this county, not to mention this era, this place seemed to have been removed from its title as a poor county fifty years later, so it is conceivable that if this vegetarian chicken leg is really made up and become a local specialty, it can indeed benefit the local people.
With Uncle Ma as his backing, Zhong Yuemin turned around and sang. He asked Zheng Tong and others to take the grain to the Ishikawa Brigade and he first made the vegetarian chicken legs in the county food factory. After this, Zhong Yuemin asked Uncle Ma to find a way to transfer a few people to the food factory to work.
Let’s talk about the future, but we can’t keep them hungry in the past few years.
Zheng Tong, Ningbin and others had no idea. Now their idea was to have enough food. If they really had the opportunity to work in the food factory, they would definitely be willing.
The past month of rural labor has made them fully understand that if they stay in the countryside for a lifetime in the future and cannot have enough food, it is the norm. That kind of life is obviously not what they want.
But I don’t know if Zheng Tong and Jiang Biyun have changed their environment at that time. Will they continue to study hard like in the original work, and finally return to Yanjing as an intellectual.
If the two of them took another path because of Zhong Yuemin's changes in this world, then it would be no wonder that Zhong Yuemin would be.
With Uncle Ma's support, Zhong Yuemin naturally received strong support from the county food factory. After experimenting with more than a dozen coarse grain configurations, he finally achieved results.
In fact, vegetarian chicken legs made of flour were very popular in the 1900s. The taste was a little sweet and browned and crispy, which was a memory of a generation.
In many places, it is also called chicken leg crispy, which looks like a chicken leg. The upper part is crispy and sweet, while the lower part of the chicken leg feels a bit dry.
But what Zhong Yuemin wants to do is to use corn flour and some other coarse grain powder, and the proportion of flour added in the end is no more than one tenth, because wheat flour is really in short supply these days, so if you don’t have it, try to use it as little as possible.
Adding a little flour is also for the sake of a more delicate taste. After a week of experimenting, Zhong Yuemin finally got the first batch of vegetarian chicken legs. The shape is a bit different from the chicken legs due to the abrasive problems, but it can be modified later, mainly depending on the taste.
Zhong Yuemin experimented with this taste many times, but finally decided to use a salty taste, which was closer to the real roast chicken flavor.
Zhong Yuemin looked at the piece of vegetarian chicken leg that had been bitten in his hand. He chewed it a few times and frowned. The baked food did not have that unique chicken taste and tasted ok, and it looked like four or five points. It was definitely enough to sell it as a gimmick of vegetarian chicken leg.
The reason why it is made into fried baked food is naturally to make it easier to preserve. The black oil in the food factory has a bit of an impact on Zhong Yuemin's appetite, but I don't care so much these days.
Perhaps Zhong Yuemin was too excited, so he was a little disappointed. He didn't know how much response this thing would cause in the past few years.
As soon as the finished product came out, Ma Guiping took a plate of vegetarian chicken legs to the conference room and let the people below taste it. As a result, everyone responded strongly and said that this was the best chicken legs they had ever eaten in their lives.
The letter Zhou Xiaobai wrote to him was filled with the words between the lines of the little girl's words and longing for him.
Zhong Yuemin finally replied to her a letter. The letter was very long. In addition to encouraging words, he did not replies as timid as before in his description of his feelings. He was very direct and wrote down his thoughts.
He will also join the army in September this year. If Zhou Xiaobai feels that this relationship is worth continuing three years later, then they can try to date.
Zhong Yuemin also expressed his personality and attitude towards feelings in the letter. This is how he described one of the words.
"Xiaobai, my attitude towards feelings has never been dedicated. If one day in the future, you find that I have other women, it will not be surprising at all. So before you make a choice, don't say you love me easily. I will not be a good husband in the future. But if a woman really appears in my life, I will cherish her for the rest of my life, although I am not sure how many...!"
He believed that most girls would never accept Zhong Yuemin’s rogue description. After more than half a year in northern Shaanxi, he seemed to have understood some life insights.
Just follow your own thoughts. Why bother suppressing your true emotions? How can you have so many concerns? If you like a woman, just confess your thoughts to her directly. If the other party can still accept it, OK, that girl, if you win, you will win a unique boy's qualification to accompany you for the rest of your life!
Ma Guiping also arranged for Zhong Yuemin to join the army and joined the army in northern Shaanxi in September, which was a year earlier than in the original work.
With Ma Guiping's relationship, Zhong Yuemin has been living a comfortable life in the past few months. Although he is just a temporary worker, his treatment is better than any formal worker. He is even called Master Zhong in a food factory.
During this period, he also returned to Shichuan Village twice and brought some food to the brigade's fellow villagers.
Zheng Tong and his team used to work as temporary workers in the county food factory, so they would definitely not have to worry about food and drink. Now they have the opportunity to be converted into formal workers.
He also talked to Zheng Tong alone and encouraged him to continue studying hard. He would definitely have the opportunity to return to Yanjing in the future. In the future, there might be a chance to take the college entrance examination again and become a college student again.
Zheng Tong, Ningbin and others were also envious of Zhong Yuemin's participation in the army, but after envying, they could only accept reality. Who told them that there was no Uncle Ma?
It is already a great thing to arrange them into the food factory now.
Xiao Ningwei, in June, also arranged to return to Yanjing. The school would resume classes soon. At his age, there was no need to stay in the countryside.
Zhong Yuemin finally found a time and decided to find Li Kuiyong and give him a surprise. He has not been to see Li Kuiyong for more than half a year, mainly because he was too busy. There was another reason before, that was that he was afraid of seeing Qinling, the girl who made him fall in love with at first sight.
But now he has figured it out. A girl who doesn’t even know him now has been thinking about it like this!
Let everything go naturally, there is no need to pay too much attention to the memories in the original work. Now the world has long been completely renewed.
Chapter completed!