It was a factory indeed, a cannery to be precise. It just couldn’t produce anymore, and then, the factory had to be sold.
After Pei Yicheng spent the money to buy it, he first cleaned out a workshop, and then he could start making chili sauce.
The glass jars had also been bought back in the city by Ling Dong, a whole truckload of round glass jars.
When Xu Nian’an and Ling Dong brought these glass jars into the workshop, they were also seriously shocked.
How many chilies would it take to fill all these jars?
Xu Nian’an was very careful with his movements, afraid of breaking these glass jars.
"It’s fine, these jars are quite durable," Ling Dong said while carrying boxes of jars inside.
"Isn’t this a bit too much?"
When Xu Nianji came over to help and saw these jars, she was also deeply shocked.
"Not too much. If we didn’t buy them by the truckload, they would give us a higher price. Moreover, transporting these jars from South City, if we transported less, it wouldn’t be cost-effective, would it?" Ling Dong explained. He had put in a lot of effort going to buy these jars these past two days.
Previously, he didn’t know the prices, but he was good at asking around. He inquired everywhere, bought these jars, and found a vehicle to transport them back to the county.
Ling Dong also handed the bills to Xu Nian’an, saying, "This is the cost of the jars and the freight, all listed here."
"Okay, I’ve got it," Xu Nian’an replied as he received the bills and carefully put them in his pocket.
Doctor Du was overjoyed knowing that his granddaughter was going to start a factory in partnership with the Xu family. Taking advantage of his free time, he went to handle some related documents for the food factory.
"Ji Ying, you weren’t wrong, chilies can be sold for money?" Cai Feng’s mother asked excitedly, looking at Ji Ying.
In the village, every household would grow lots of chilies, and whatever they couldn’t eat, they’d dry and turn into dried chilies. But, every year, they still couldn’t eat all of them.
Now that they could be sold for money, how could Cai Feng’s mother not be thrilled?
Three mao per jin, that’s three yuan for ten jin!
"Yes, they can be sold for money," Ji Ying explained. "But we only want red chilies, not green ones."
Green chilies wouldn’t taste good in chili sauce.
Moreover, red chilies could be turned into dried red chilies when air-dried, but green chilies would turn into white chilies if dried.
White chilies fried taste good, but they don’t look appealing when made into chili sauce.
Since she had decided to do it, Ji Ying naturally wanted to do it well.
"Then I have ten jin," Cai Feng’s mother immediately said, "Wait for me, I’ll go get them."
Cai Feng’s mother was very quick, as though fearing that the chilies would no longer be salable if she was slow.
Ji Ying then went to find the Yao and Xu families.
Having the best relationship with these three families, she naturally started with their chilies first.
Soon, the Yao family, Cai family, and Xu family all started bringing chilies to Ji Ying. Bright red chilies that had been picked over, with not even a single bug-eaten one among them.
"Auntie Yao, Auntie Cai, Auntie Xu, I’ll do the weighing," Zhou He volunteered to take on the task of weighing the chilies.
Cai Feng’s mother inquired, "Ji Ying, why are you suddenly buying so many chilies?"
You should know that the canteens at the units in the county and the factory’s canteens, they want to sell vegetables but have no access. The extra vegetables at home can only be dried.
As for things like winter melons, if not eaten in time, they simply go bad.